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Smallest ultra-low power Android GPU solution targets wearables
Smallest ultra-low power Android GPU solution targets wearables
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Imagination Technologies has introduced a PowerVR graphics processor IP core that provides the industry’s smallest ultra-low power Android compatible GPU…
RFID ambient light sensor monitors tagged assets’ exposure to light
RFID ambient light sensor monitors tagged assets’ exposure to light
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The SHADOW from Farsens S.L. is a battery free RFID ambient light detector tag compatible with commercial EPC C1G2 readers.
Colour sensor tunes LED light colour through smartphone interface
Colour sensor tunes LED light colour through smartphone interface
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Through the use of its True Color sensor, MAZeT GmbH has demonstrated the accurate colour control of LEDs using a…
NTC thermistors enable accurate temperature measurement
NTC thermistors enable accurate temperature measurement
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Ametherm has introduced four NTC chip thermistor product families for temperature measurements requiring high accuracy as this is the case…

Mentor tackles heterogeneous multicore SoC embedded software development
Mentor tackles heterogeneous multicore SoC embedded software development
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EDA company Mentor Graphics has just released what it claims to be the embedded software industry's first comprehensive solution for heterogeneous multicore system-on-chip (SoC) development.
Tiny GPU targets IoT, Android wear
Tiny GPU targets IoT, Android wear
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Imagination Technologies announced a new Android-compatible graphics core for wearables and the Internet of Things.
Augmented reality facilitates field maintenance
Augmented reality facilitates field maintenance
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Sensors for temperature, rotational speed or vibrations generate valuable information as to the conditions of machines in intelligent factories, enabling users to replace worn parts on time. A software developed…
Partitioning tool eases multi-FPGA-based prototyping
Partitioning tool eases multi-FPGA-based prototyping
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Cadence Design Systems has added the Protium rapid prototyping platform to its System Development Suite, claiming a 4X increase in capacity versus the previous generation but more importantly, reducing prototype…
HiSilicon, MediaTek, Nvidia growing fastest in apps processor market
HiSilicon, MediaTek, Nvidia growing fastest in apps processor market
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The global smartphone applications processor market was worth $4.7 billion in 1Q14, up 25 percent year-on-year, according to Strategy Analytics.
Phosphorescent LEDs offer cheap way to increase light efficiency
Phosphorescent LEDs offer cheap way to increase light efficiency
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Researchers at the University of Michigan are claiming a discovery that takes a major stride toward perfectly efficient lighting that is also inexpensive and simple to make.
Reducing energy consumption for e-cars – in small increments
Reducing energy consumption for e-cars – in small increments
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During their final presentation in Vigo (Spain), the participants of the European research project OpEneR introduced driving strategies and driver assistant systems that are believed to significantly improve energy efficiency…
Camera-based system avoids blind spot for trucks
Camera-based system avoids blind spot for trucks
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Though driver assistance systems today are prevalent in commercial vehicles not much less than in passenger cars, the number of collisions during turning remains at an alarming level. Automotive supplier…
What you should know about HBLEDs – and nobody will tell you – Part 2
What you should know about HBLEDs – and nobody will tell you – Part 2
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Ed Rodriguez continues to examine some of the aspects of the HBLED lighting market that are not often evident.
Industry Profiles for VxWorks RTOS, from Wind River
Industry Profiles for VxWorks RTOS, from Wind River
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Industry-specific profiles for VxWorks 7 include networking, industrial, medical, and consumer; these features and capabilities address the new market opportunities created by the Internet of Things. A collection of middleware…
8 megapixel CCD image sensor boosts sensitivity, cuts noise
8 megapixel CCD image sensor boosts sensitivity, cuts noise
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Offering uprated performance for intelligent traffic, surveillance, medical imaging and industrial inspection, ON Semiconductor’s KAI-08051 image sensor includes technology acquired with Truesense Imaging…
Renesas’ IP for capacitive touch sensing improves HMI performance
Renesas’ IP for capacitive touch sensing improves HMI performance
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Renesas Electronics Europe has developed intellectual property (IP) that implements leading-performance capacitive touch sensing technology suitable for home appliances, and healthcare equipment, such as blood pressure and blood glucose meters.
Sub-GHz “Security MCU” integrates transceiver and wake-up transponder
Sub-GHz “Security MCU” integrates transceiver and wake-up transponder
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Texas Instruments’ latest RF430 security MCU offers a high level of RF integration and comes with a new evaluation module to jumpstarts designs; the RF430F5978 MCU integrates TI sub-1GHz RF…
Cost gap between AMOLEDs and LCDs still shrinking
Cost gap between AMOLEDs and LCDs still shrinking
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Improvements in production yields of AMOLED mobile phone panels is helping to close the manufacturing cost gap between AMOLED and TFT-LCD smartphone displays.
AMC format card targets wireless front-ends with Xilinx Virtex-7 FPGA
AMC format card targets wireless front-ends with Xilinx Virtex-7 FPGA
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CommAgility’s AMC-V7 is a high performance FPGA-based interface and processing card in the compact Advanced Mezzanine Card (AMC) form factor.
Secure MCU integrates transceiver and wake-up transponder
Secure MCU integrates transceiver and wake-up transponder
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Texas Instruments’ latest RF430 security MCU offers a high level of RF integration and comes with a new evaluation module to jumpstarts designs; the RF430F5978 MCU integrates TI sub-1GHz RF…
Bluetooth strikes back against Thread
Bluetooth strikes back against Thread
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If you thought the Thread group would bring harmony to the Internet of Things, think again.
Research alliance targets digital automation and emerging IoT
Research alliance targets digital automation and emerging IoT
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Siemens has launched its Automation and Digitalization research project in collaboration with the Technische Universität München (TUM), the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU), the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) and…
200 W CW L-band SMT limiter
200 W CW L-band SMT limiter
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M/A-COM Technology Solutions has announced a 200 W CW power L-Band limiter that boasts four times the power handling than the nearest competing alternative.
When do smartphones ads work?
When do smartphones ads work?
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Today advertising is ubiquitous and it is increasingly difficult to estimate the impact an advertisement. A billboard is one thing, but is an ad on a relatively tiny mobile screen…
On Semi outsources ADC design to Ridgetop
On Semi outsources ADC design to Ridgetop
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Ridgetop Group Inc. (Tucson, Arizona) has announced that it will design two analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) for On Semiconductor.
20W industrial high density dc-dc converters
20W industrial high density dc-dc converters
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Artesyn Embedded Technologies, formerly Emerson Network Power’s Embedded Computing & Power business, adds the AXA series of compact 20W high power density dc-dc converters.
Zero-drift instrumentation amplifier uses self-correcting architecture
Zero-drift instrumentation amplifier uses self-correcting architecture
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Microchip’s MCP6N16 amplifier maximises DC performance with ultra-low offset, low-offset drift, superior common-mode and power-supply rejection and zero 1/f noise…
‘Hats Off’ Challenge promotes head-worn electronic designs
‘Hats Off’ Challenge promotes head-worn electronic designs
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element14, along with partner Adafruit, has launched the “Hats Off” global design challenge, invinting participants to re-imagine the hat into new wearable technology solutions with real-world functionality.


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