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Multi-rate vocoder chip operates from 2.0 to 9.6 kbps
Multi-rate vocoder chip operates from 2.0 to 9.6 kbps
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Digital Voice Systems' AMBE-4020 vocoder chip targets half-duplex communication systems. The chip implements DVSI’s patented AMBE+2 voice compression algorithm that…
DLP LightCrafter evaluation module for video and data displays
DLP LightCrafter evaluation module for video and data displays
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Texas Instruments' DLP® LightCrafter Display 2010 evaluation module enables developers to quickly assess the company’s 5.29mm TRP WVGA display chipset.
Foldable AMOLED features interactive touch control
Foldable AMOLED features interactive touch control
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The first ever foldable AMOLED with on-cell touch has been unveiled by Taiwan's Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) at the…
Forget iPhone: 4 megatrends in China’s smartphone market
Forget iPhone: 4 megatrends in China’s smartphone market
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Touch Taiwan, an international touch-panel and optical film exhibition that opened here Wednesday, is exposing some of Asia’s techno-political tensions,…

Google glass: App measures facial expression
Google glass: App measures facial expression
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The Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits has demonstrated a software that analyses images of persons and identifies their mood in real-time. The software runs as an app on Google's Glass…
Wireless charging/NFC reference design
Wireless charging/NFC reference design
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Combining the automotive grade NFC (Near Field Communication) transceiver by Melexis with Freescale Semiconductor’s wireless charging technology enables a ready to use reference design solution that could free users from…
Dutch startup shrinks 60GHz radars, increases precision
Dutch startup shrinks 60GHz radars, increases precision
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Founded in 2011, Dutch startup Omniradar announced it has secured €2.6m of equity and debt financing to roll out its single-chip 60GHz radar solution.
Octal MSI logic to simplify data bus engineering
Octal MSI logic to simplify data bus engineering
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Diodes Inc. adds octal devices to its low-voltage CMOS logic family, in QFN and TSSOP 20-pin packages. Thirteen 8-channel logic parts have been introduced, suitable for data bus applications in…
Peregrine’s carrier-grade Wi-Fi switch handles more power in less space
Peregrine’s carrier-grade Wi-Fi switch handles more power in less space
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With a claimed 60% increase in power handling and a 75% smaller footprint, the UltraCMOS PE42424 RF switch enables 802.11ac Wi-Fi access points to deliver faster data rates in high-density,…
Altera to offer mil-temperature spec’d FPGAs in 20-nm generation
Altera to offer mil-temperature spec’d FPGAs in 20-nm generation
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Mil temp-qualified Arria 10 FPGAs and SoCs will allow military customers to make early specification decisions in designing avionics, radar and other high reliability applications, Altera says…
ARM Cortex-M0 core in small package targets motor control, interfacing functions
ARM Cortex-M0 core in small package targets motor control, interfacing functions
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Toshiba’s TX100 low-pin-count ARM-core MCU integrates interfacing functions and contributes to lower manufacturing costs.
16-bit ADC precision for industrial control with TI’s C2000 Delfino microcontrollers
16-bit ADC precision for industrial control with TI’s C2000 Delfino microcontrollers
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With these single-core MCUs, you can create scalable designs for variable speed drives, frequency inverters, power converters and renewable energy with pin and software compatibility with the prior dual-core C2000…
Entry-point development kit for MIPS runs Linux and Android
Entry-point development kit for MIPS runs Linux and Android
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Released by MIPS' licensor Imagination, MIPS Creator CI20 is a 90.2 x 95.3mm platform running Debian 7 and, soon, Android 4.4 KitKat.
White-chip solution delivers 80 percent packaging cost reduction
White-chip solution delivers 80 percent packaging cost reduction
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SemiLEDs Corporation has announced sampling and mass production availability of the company's white chip scale packages, the ReadyMount Enhanced CSP, or EC series.
Emberlight connects ordinary light bulbs to a smartphone
Emberlight connects ordinary light bulbs to a smartphone
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With over a week to go in its KickStarter crowdfunding campaign, San Francisco startup Emberlight has collected nearly five times its initial $50,000 funding goal for commercializing what the company…
High-power surface-mount TVS diodes for exposed AC/DC PSUs
High-power surface-mount TVS diodes for exposed AC/DC PSUs
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These transient suppression diodes from Bourns claim lower clamping voltage under surge, greater performance stability for increased reliability, and come in SMD packages to simplify assembly…
Carrier-grade Wi-Fi switch cuts power and footprint
Carrier-grade Wi-Fi switch cuts power and footprint
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Peregrine Semiconductor has introduced the UltraCMOS® PE42424 high-isolation, SPDT switch optimized for 802.11ac carrier and enterprise Wi-Fi access points. Successor to last year's groundbreaking PE42423, the upgraded switch is 75…
Will 2D semiconductors threaten graphene’s PV dominance?
Will 2D semiconductors threaten graphene’s PV dominance?
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Graphene has a new high performance challenger for organic photovoltaics applications in the form of two-dimensional semiconductors known as MX2 materials.
Cree targets mid-power LEDs with USD83m Lextar investment
Cree targets mid-power LEDs with USD83m Lextar investment
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Cree, Inc. has entered into an agreement with Lextar Electronics Corp., a vertically-integrated LED company from Taiwan, which will see Cree invest $83 million in Lextar. The companies will also…
Emberlight connects ordinary light bulbs to your smartphone
Emberlight connects ordinary light bulbs to your smartphone
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With over a week to go in its KickStarter crowdfunding campaign, San Francisco startup Emberlight has collected nearly five times its initial $50,000 funding goal for commercializing what the company…
White-chip scale packages cut costs by 80 percent
White-chip scale packages cut costs by 80 percent
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SemiLEDs Corporation has announced sampling and mass production availability of the company's white chip scale packages, the ReadyMount Enhanced CSP, or EC series.
BAE Systems develops ‘smart skin’ for aircraft
BAE Systems develops ‘smart skin’ for aircraft
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Defense and aerospace company BAE Systems plc is working on a project to give aircraft a "skin" of sensors to enable detection of airflow, damage as well as the monitor…
Surface-mount TVS diodes simplify assembly and cut costs in AC/DC PSUs
Surface-mount TVS diodes simplify assembly and cut costs in AC/DC PSUs
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These transient suppression diodes from Bourns claim lower clamping voltage under surge, greater performance stability for increased reliability, and come in SMD packages to simplify assembly…
EMC feed through capacitors
EMC feed through capacitors
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Film capacitor manufacturer ICW has introduced the FT range of polypropylene capacitors developed specifically for EMC feed-through filtering applications.
Mil-temperature specified FPGAs in 20-nm
Mil-temperature specified FPGAs in 20-nm
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Mil temp-qualified Arria 10 FPGAs and SoCs will allow military customers to make early specification decisions in designing avionics, radar and other high reliability applications, Altera says…
FTDI Chip adds embedded USB host stack for FT900 MCU chips
FTDI Chip adds embedded USB host stack for FT900 MCU chips
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The result of a collaboration with MCCI, FTDI Chip now has available TrueTask USB - an embedded USB host stack designed for use with FTDI Chip’s FT900 product family.
Get your first run of Linux and Android with MIPS dev kit
Get your first run of Linux and Android with MIPS dev kit
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Released by MIPS' licensee Imagination, MIPS Creator CI20 is a 90.2x95.3mm platform running Debian 7 and soon Android 4.4 KitKat.
Wireless charging reference design targets smartphones in cars
Wireless charging reference design targets smartphones in cars
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Chipmakers Freescale and Melexis have jointly developed a reference design for wireless charging of in-vehicle consumer electronic devices such as smartphones or tablets. The reference design combines both Bluetooth communications…


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