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28 Gbit/sec silicon photonics active optics aim for long reach at up to 400 Gbps
28 Gbit/sec silicon photonics active optics aim for long reach at up to 400 Gbps
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Molex has introduced a line of QuatroScale active optic solutions designed for 100, 200 and 400 Gbps products, in response…
Set-top box reference design for emerging multi-channel ultra-HD services
Set-top box reference design for emerging multi-channel ultra-HD services
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MaxLinear Inc., provider of integrated RF and mixed-signal ICs for broadband communications applications, and STMicroelectronics have collaborated to produce a…
IP takes ‘legacy’ 68HC08 architecture to 100million instructions/sec
IP takes ‘legacy’ 68HC08 architecture to 100million instructions/sec
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DCD’s DF6808 IP Core is binary-compatible with the industry standard Motorola 68HC08 8-bit microcontroller, but with sophisticated on-chip peripheral capabilities,…
ARM-based Freescale Kinetis MCUs focus on motor control and digital power conversion
ARM-based Freescale Kinetis MCUs focus on motor control and digital power conversion
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Freescale Semiconductor’s lead families of the new Kinetis V series, based on ARM Cortex-M cores, are optimised for motor control…

Disturbance analysis added to Agilent’s EMI receiver
Disturbance analysis added to Agilent’s EMI receiver
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Agilent Technologies has added disturbance analyser capabilities as a standard feature of its N9038A MXE EMI receiver. For those who need to make discontinuous-disturbance, or click, measurements, the MXE simplifies…
Extended temperature range for ARM Cortex-M0+ based MCUs
Extended temperature range for ARM Cortex-M0+ based MCUs
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Giving you a wider choice for extreme industrial environments, NXP Semiconductors has added LPC microcontrollers rated for temperatures up to 105C. The LPC11E6x family is designed for harsh operating conditions…
Platform adresses graphics-rich embedded applications
Platform adresses graphics-rich embedded applications
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Targeting safety, security and reliability requirements for automotive, consumer and industrial designs, Green Hills Software and Crank Software, which works in embedded user interface (UI) solutions, jointly announced a 3D…
Zumtobel axes 600 jobs to boost profit margins
Zumtobel axes 600 jobs to boost profit margins
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Zumtobel is planning to axe 600 jobs, which is about eight percent of the company's workforce, in an attempt to double its operating profit margin by 2016/17.
Yet another efficiency record for thin-film CIS solar cells
Yet another efficiency record for thin-film CIS solar cells
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Solar Frontier, in joint research with Japan's New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO), is claiming a world record 20.9% conversion efficiency on a 0.5cm2 CIS (copper, indium, selenium)…
Electrodes charge transfer mechanism is measured for first time
Electrodes charge transfer mechanism is measured for first time
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A team of researchers at MIT claim to have discovered a way to directly measure the fundamental charge transfer rate of electrochemical reactions inside the porous electrodes of batteries and…
Saliva provides fuel source for microelectronic energy harvester
Saliva provides fuel source for microelectronic energy harvester
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An international team of engineers at Penn State have discovered a way of creating saliva-powered micro-sized microbial fuel cells that can produce minute amounts of energy sufficient to run on-chip…
Ambient conditions sensing widens wearables‘ potential
Ambient conditions sensing widens wearables‘ potential
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Wearables are attracting increasing attention in the market, miniature computers that are worn as clothes or accessories, and what make them smart are the integrated sensors. With environmental sensing, these…
Soraa targets international expansion with European focus
Soraa targets international expansion with European focus
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Soraa, a pioneer of LED lamps built from pure gallium nitride substrates, has appointed High Street Partners (HSP), an international business software and services company, to help expand the business…
Newswatch: European LED makers need to act smartly
Newswatch: European LED makers need to act smartly
Market news |
Market analysts agree that the traditional lighting market will start to decline from around 2017. By which time LED lighting technologies will account for more than half of the overall…
Traffic flow: Cooperative systems beat driver assistance
Traffic flow: Cooperative systems beat driver assistance
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The average driver spends about an entire week per year caught up in traffic congestions. Increasingly the vehicles are equipped with electronic systems aiming at keeping the traffic flowing or…
CMOS silicon photonics gives 28Gbit/s a long reach
CMOS silicon photonics gives 28Gbit/s a long reach
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Designed for 100, 200 and 400 Gbps products, Molex’ QuatroScale active optic solutions are based on silicon photonics CMOS technology, claimed to achieve the longest reach and lowest bit error…
Set-top box reference design for multi-channel ultra-HD services
Set-top box reference design for multi-channel ultra-HD services
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MaxLinear Inc., provider of integrated RF and mixed-signal ICs for broadband communications applications, and STMicroelectronics have collaborated to produce a reference design aimed at accelerating the adoption of next-generation Ultra…
IP takes legacy 68HC08 architecture to 100million instructions/s
IP takes legacy 68HC08 architecture to 100million instructions/s
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DCD’s DF6808 IP Core is binary-compatible with the industry standard Motorola 68HC08 8-bit microcontroller, but with sophisticated on-chip peripheral capabilities, it performs 45-100 million instructions per second. The FAST architecture…
System-critical platform for graphics-rich embedded devices
System-critical platform for graphics-rich embedded devices
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Targeting safety, security and reliability requirements for automotive, consumer and industrial designs, Green Hills Software and Crank Software, which works in embedded user interface (UI) solutions, jointly announced a 3D…
MCUs target motor control and digital power conversion
MCUs target motor control and digital power conversion
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Freescale Semiconductor’s lead families of the new Kinetis V series, based on ARM Cortex-M cores, are optimised for motor control and digital power conversion applications. Freescale accompanies them with the…
EMI receiver adds disturbance analysis
EMI receiver adds disturbance analysis
New Products |
Agilent Technologies has added disturbance analyser capabilities as a standard feature of its N9038A MXE EMI receiver. For those who need to make discontinuous-disturbance, or click, measurements, the MXE simplifies…
ARM Cortex-M0+ based MCUs offer extended temperature range
ARM Cortex-M0+ based MCUs offer extended temperature range
New Products |
Giving you a wider choice for extreme industrial environments, NXP Semiconductors has added LPC microcontrollers rated for temperatures up to 105C. The LPC11E6x family is designed for harsh operating conditions…
Dual 4.5-A load switch in 1 x 3 mm outline
Dual 4.5-A load switch in 1 x 3 mm outline
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Silego’s CuFET technology enables high performance dual 16 mΩ GreenFET3 load switches in a 1.0 x 3.0 mm package, and 28 mΩ in 1 x 1mm.
RS and Fairchild co-design evaluation boards in RS’ DesignSpark PCB format
RS and Fairchild co-design evaluation boards in RS’ DesignSpark PCB format
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RS Components and Fairchild Semiconductor have collaborated to create a set of complete reference designs for seven of Fairchild's evaluation boards, using the Open Source hardware style.
USB driver software reduces power usage with selective suspend mechanism
USB driver software reduces power usage with selective suspend mechanism
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FTDI Chip has updated its USB driver portfolio to include a selective suspend feature. The revised drivers have passed Microsoft certification and are available to download free of charge from…
IoT Security Advisors Program from RTOS company Green Hills
IoT Security Advisors Program from RTOS company Green Hills
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Green Hills Software has a new services group, IoT Security Advisors, which brings together security experts from all of Green Hills Software’s business units to provide security services for organisations…
Infineon to lead European energy-efficiency project “eRamp”
Infineon to lead European energy-efficiency project “eRamp”
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A European research project focused on energy efficiency has been launched at Infineon Technologies in Dresden. The objective of the three-year project “eRamp” is to strengthen and expand Germany and…
MCU support chips help Freescale processors to System-Level Functional Safety
MCU support chips help Freescale processors to System-Level Functional Safety
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Optimised for 32-bit MCUs, Freescale’s next-generation aanlogue system basis chips deliver energy-efficient scalability…


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