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Low-power battery management for wearables/IoT
Low-power battery management for wearables/IoT
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Texas Instruments has added an integrated battery management IC, claiming the lowest-available quiescent current (Iq) at 700 nA with the…
Energy-monitoring hot swap controller safeguards 100A PCBs
Energy-monitoring hot swap controller safeguards 100A PCBs
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LTC4282 is an energy monitoring hot swap controller with dual MOSFET drive to enable 100A, and higher, current board designs.
NXP-Freescale: merger of ‘compatible’ giants on track
NXP-Freescale: merger of ‘compatible’ giants on track
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NXP’s pending acquisition of Freescale is “on track,” but awaiting regulatory approvals in both China and the United States, according…
BAIC launches R&D centre in Aachen
BAIC launches R&D centre in Aachen
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A couple of years ago, European and American carmakers opened R&D centres in China to better align their products to…

Cyber threats against cars are here to stay, experts say
Cyber threats against cars are here to stay, experts say
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The rise of the connected car definitively catapults our traditional set of wheels into the world of information technology. This arrival confronts carmakers with an unfamiliar challenge: The possibility of…
MEMS micro-spectrometer covers the 340 to 850nm spectral range
MEMS micro-spectrometer covers the 340 to 850nm spectral range
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Hamamatsu Photonics's latest MEMS spectrometer, the C12880MA, comes in a fingertip sized package with a spectral range of 340 to 850nm and a sensitivity two orders or magnitude higher than…
Heat helps rechargeable batteries extend lifetimes
Heat helps rechargeable batteries extend lifetimes
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Researchers from the California Institute of Technology have explored in detail how higher temperatures can break down the dendrites that grow within electrodes inside a rechargeable battery cell. The discovery…
Telematics processors make vehicles safer
Telematics processors make vehicles safer
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STMicroelectronics has introduced a family of application-specific processors for automotive telematics and connectivity applications, the Telemaco2, offering a set of scalable, small-footprint, automotive-grade, Linux-programmable microcontrollers dedicated to in-car systems.
LED lighting solutions focus on hazardous classified locations
LED lighting solutions focus on hazardous classified locations
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Leviton has expanded the company's portfolio of LED lighting fixtures with a range of industrial grade fixtures designed specifically for use in general industrial and hazardous classified locations.
Machine learning for every app
Machine learning for every app
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Startup company Dato wants to make a splash in the consumer market by making it easier for developers to integrate machine-learning capabilities to their apps. Creator of the machine learning…
Silicon Labs prevails in Cresta patent dispute
Silicon Labs prevails in Cresta patent dispute
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Silicon Labs has announced that the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) has found no patent violation by Silicon Labs or its customers in a Final Commission Determination of its Investigation…
Portobello mushrooms hold the key to improved Li-ion batteries
Portobello mushrooms hold the key to improved Li-ion batteries
Researchers at the University of California (Riverside, CA) have found that portobello mushrooms - as a biomass replacement for the synthetic graphite currently used in the anodes of lithium-ion batteries…
Battery-capacitor hybrid to power wearables
Battery-capacitor hybrid to power wearables
Addressing what it sees as a gap in the range of available energy storage solutions, Murata has developed the UMAC, a small, high-capacity cylinder-type energy device for use in wearable…
Quantum dots: eco-friendly version wanted
Quantum dots: eco-friendly version wanted
Quantum dots have caused a quantum leap (what else) in the colour reproduction of LC displays. However, due to their cadmium content, these nanocrystals turned out to be extremely harmful…
Nest Labs moves to dominate the smart home
Nest Labs moves to dominate the smart home
Google's Nest Labs - maker of the home "Nest Learning Thermostat" - is expanding its "Works with Nest" smart home platform by offering third-party manufacturers access to its Weave…
Tensilica DSP core targets 4k mobile imaging
Tensilica DSP core targets 4k mobile imaging
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From Cadence’s Tensilica IP operation, the Vision P5 digital signal processor is intended to enable 4k imaging on mobile devices, with claimed metrics of 13x increase in performance and a…
Semtech’s LoRa bound for IoT WAN deployment in France
Semtech’s LoRa bound for IoT WAN deployment in France
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Announcing an agreement for an IoT Network for smart commercial solutions using its LoRa RF technology, Semtech has disclosed its participation in a large low-power, wide-area network deployed by French…
A step towards verifiable V2X communications
A step towards verifiable V2X communications
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Rohde & Schwarz, Vector and Commsignia have demonstrate the first end-to-end tester for V2X (vehicle-to-infrastructure, ‘V2I’ plus vehicle-to-vehicle, ‘V2V’) applications.
ST designs processors specifically for vehicle telematics
ST designs processors specifically for vehicle telematics
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STMicroelectronics has introduced a new family of application-specific processors for automotive telematics and connectivity applications; the Telemaco2 new family offers a set of scalable, small-footprint, automotive-grade, Linux-programmable microcontrollers that are…
DuPont Displays scales up OLED materials facility for next-gen TVs
DuPont Displays scales up OLED materials facility for next-gen TVs
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DuPont Displays has opened a state-of-the-art, scale-up manufacturing facility designed to deliver production scale quantities of advanced materials that enable large-format, solution-based printed Organic Light Emitting Diode (OLED) displays.
Helsinki selects Greenled to light capital’s streets
Helsinki selects Greenled to light capital’s streets
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The City of Helsinki has awarded Greenled Oy, the Finnish manufacturer and supplier of all-inclusive LED lighting solutions, the contact to supply street lighting for the Finnish capital.
3D memory chips may beat hybrid memory cube
3D memory chips may beat hybrid memory cube
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A novel three-dimensional (3D) memory from the self-described "nanotechnology development center" with its own fab to boot will make an appearance next week at Semicon Europa 2015.
Energy storage device is neither battery nor capacitor
Energy storage device is neither battery nor capacitor
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To meet what the company sees as a gap in the available range of energy storage solutions, Murata has developed the UMAC, a small, high-capacity cylinder-type energy device for use…
Wideband, 18-bit SAR ADC betters pipelined-converter SNR
Wideband, 18-bit SAR ADC betters pipelined-converter SNR
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LTC2387-18 is an ultrafast 15 Msample/sec, 18-bit successive approximation register (SAR) analogue-to-digital converter (ADC) with no cycle latency and no pipeline delay. Applications that have used fast throughput pipelined ADCs…
Not a battery, not a cap: Murata’s small energy [storage] device
Not a battery, not a cap: Murata’s small energy [storage] device
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To meet what the company sees as a gap in the available range of energy storage solutions, Murata has developed the UMAC, a small, high-capacity cylinder-type energy device for use…
Open source USB oscilloscopes to grab: 3 units
Open source USB oscilloscopes to grab: 3 units
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This month, LabNation is giving away three of its SmartScope open source USB oscilloscopes, worth 229 Euros each, for EETimes Europe's readers to win.
Are mushrooms the answer to lithium-ion battery degradation?
Are mushrooms the answer to lithium-ion battery degradation?
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Researchers at the University of California, Riverside Bourns College of Engineering believe that portabella mushrooms can be used to stop cell phone batteries from degrading over time.
3D memory chips may beat 3D hybrid memory cube
3D memory chips may beat 3D hybrid memory cube
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A novel three-dimensional (3D) memory from the self-described "nanotechnology development center" with its own fab to boot will make an appearance next week at SEMICON Europa 2015.


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