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Acal BFi expands Sierra Wireless distribution to Germany, Italy and UK
Acal BFi expands Sierra Wireless distribution to Germany, Italy and UK
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Acal BFi has extended its pan-European relationship with Sierra Wireless to include the additional territories of Germany, Italy and the…
AMP consortium reveals first standards for distributed power
AMP consortium reveals first standards for distributed power
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The Architects of Modern Power (AMP) consortium has revealed the organization's first standards aimed at establishing common mechanical and electrical…
Lithium battery is key to comet landing attempt
Lithium battery is key to comet landing attempt
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Saft is celebrating the achievement of the mission-critical primary lithium battery supplied to the CNES (Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales) for…
LED lighting solutions focus on individual needs
LED lighting solutions focus on individual needs
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A global user study conducted by Fraunhofer IAO and Zumtobel has shown that office users prefer colour temperatures in the…

AMS offers gesture-recognizing handset sensor
AMS offers gesture-recognizing handset sensor
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AMS AG (Unterpremstaetten, Austria) has launched a family of intelligent sensors that integrate multiple optical sensing and IR illumination functions in a single component. These include gesture detection and Mobeam…
LED control chips enable more efficient automotive lighting designs
LED control chips enable more efficient automotive lighting designs
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With two new chips ON Semiconductor joins the trend towards LED lighting in the car. At the electronica exhibition, the manufacturer of power devices introduced the NCV78763, a smart power…
LF transmitter chip enables innovative start / immobiliser functions
LF transmitter chip enables innovative start / immobiliser functions
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For communications applications in areas like automotive, safety and building automation where power-efficient operation has a high priority, Melexis has developed a low-frequency (LF) initiator chip. It consists of two…
Low profile and compact IDC terminal design from FCI
Low profile and compact IDC terminal design from FCI
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Connector and interconnect systems supplier FCI has created the Griplet miniature IDC connector for wire-to-board terminations.
Industrial Ethernet connectivity evaluation kit spans multiple standards
Industrial Ethernet connectivity evaluation kit spans multiple standards
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Continuing its series of releases of development kits with pre-packaged solutions, Renesas Electronics has announced the "Connect it! - Ethernet R-IN Solution Kit". The new kit is an evaluation tool…
Scalable PowerVR Series7 GPUs target applications from wearables to servers
Scalable PowerVR Series7 GPUs target applications from wearables to servers
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Silicon IP provider Imagination Technologies has announced the PowerVR Series7, the latest generation of the PowerVR Rogue GPU architecture and an entire line-up of GPUs which scale from 16 to…
Bluetooth Smart platform from CSR focusses on the connected car
Bluetooth Smart platform from CSR focusses on the connected car
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CSR's CSR1010 auto is the first AEC-Q100 Grade 2 Bluetooth Smart chipset for automotive applications qualified for mass production. The solution equips automotive manufacturers with the tools to add new…
Raspberry Pi Model A+; latest design for embedding – in distribution
Raspberry Pi Model A+; latest design for embedding – in distribution
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With a smaller, lower-power board and HAT-compatible 40-pin GPIO as featured on Model B+, this board is more expandable, more embeddable and more mobile…
“Lark” development board based on Altera’s Cyclone V SoC
“Lark” development board based on Altera’s Cyclone V SoC
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Distributor Farnell element14 has announced the Lark Board, a high-performance development board based on Altera's Cyclone V SoC and intended for the development of high-volume applications including automotive, medical equipment,…
Constant current LED lamp solves compatibility issues
Constant current LED lamp solves compatibility issues
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Soraa has introduced a constant current lamp that claims to be a perfectly compatible version of the company's award-winning MR16 LED lamp.
Demystifying ultra-low-power benchmarks for microcontrollers
Demystifying ultra-low-power benchmarks for microcontrollers
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Stefan Schauer of Texas Instruments examines some of the mysteries surrounding ultra-low-power benchmarks for microcontrollers.
Application processors target wearable devices
Application processors target wearable devices
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Toshiba has introduced further low-power ApPLite application processors for activity monitors and smart devices with the launch of the TZ1021MBG; applications include a number of wearable devices including activity monitors,…
Intelligent dual mode Bluetooth modules target industrial and medical applications
Intelligent dual mode Bluetooth modules target industrial and medical applications
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Laird has released the BT900 Series, intelligent dual-mode modules for classic Bluetooth and Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE).
Melexis shows software-defined 3D magnetometer
Melexis shows software-defined 3D magnetometer
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Melexis' fully programmable sensor IC is capable of accurately measuring changes in magnetic flux density along its X, Y and Z axes while drawing only 2.5µA of current when idle.
Freescale to offer OpenCL platform for ADAS and autonomous driving systems development
Freescale to offer OpenCL platform for ADAS and autonomous driving systems development
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Freescale Semiconductor has announced its intention to offer an OpenCL-based platform, which it says will be key to addressing automated driver assistance systems (ADAS) safety and quality with dedicated products…
Fairchild claims world’s first 1000-Volt integrated power switch
Fairchild claims world’s first 1000-Volt integrated power switch
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Fairchild has launched the world’s first 1000 V integrated power switch, which claims to offer the industry’s highest breakdown voltage in a single package for designing reliable switching mode power…
Application processors for wearable devices
Application processors for wearable devices
New Products |
Toshiba has introduced further low-power ApPLite application processors for activity monitors and smart devices with the launch of the TZ1021MBG; applications include a number of wearable devices including activity monitors,…
Freescale to offer OpenCL environment for ADAS and autonomous driving systems development
Freescale to offer OpenCL environment for ADAS and autonomous driving systems development
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Freescale Semiconductor has announced its intention to offer an OpenCL-based platform, which it says will be key to addressing automated driver assistance systems (ADAS) safety and quality with dedicated products…
Smaller Raspberry board adds more mobile and embedded capabilities
Smaller Raspberry board adds more mobile and embedded capabilities
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With a smaller, lower-power board and HAT-compatible 40-pin GPIO as featured on Model B+, this board is more expandable, more embeddable and more mobile…
Ambiq Micro raises USD15m to accelerate ultra-low power IC developments
Ambiq Micro raises USD15m to accelerate ultra-low power IC developments
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Ambiq Micro, a specialist in ultra-low power integrated circuits for power-sensitive applications, has closed a $15 million Series C funding round to accelerate the development and marketing of the company's…
Plessey focuses on chip scale application specific LEDs
Plessey focuses on chip scale application specific LEDs
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Plessey has expanded into chip scale packages and wafer level packaging solutions with the company's introduction of the AS-LED Application Specific LED.
Bluetooth Smart platform brings cars to the Internet of Things
Bluetooth Smart platform brings cars to the Internet of Things
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The CSR1010™ auto claims to be the first AEC-Q100 Grade 2 Bluetooth® Smart chipset for automotive applications qualified for mass production. It equips automotive manufacturers with the tools they need…
Tiny batteries from billions of nanopores
Tiny batteries from billions of nanopores
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Researchers at the University of Maryland have invented a single tiny structure that includes all the components of a battery that they say could bring about the ultimate miniaturization of…
Semiconducting polymers discovery claims record solar cell efficiency
Semiconducting polymers discovery claims record solar cell efficiency
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Researchers from North Carolina State University and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology have found that temperature-controlled aggregation in a family of new semiconducting polymers is the key to…


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