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Silicon Carbide start-up company gets £1m funding to further develop low-cost SiC power devices
Silicon Carbide start-up company gets £1m funding to further develop low-cost SiC power devices
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Led by founder Dr Peter Ward, Coventry-based Anvil Semiconductors has developed a ground-breaking technology that promises a step reduction in…
Single Board Computers address mission-critical avionics with VxWorks 653
Single Board Computers address mission-critical avionics with VxWorks 653
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GE Intelligent Platforms has announced availability of the Wind River VxWorks 653 Platform on two of its rugged 3U and…
Synchronizing handshaking between data converters and high speed digital data acquisition systems
Synchronizing handshaking between data converters and high speed digital data acquisition systems
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Sudhansu Mishra looks at data converters in SOCs using data acquisition systems (Logic analyzers or High speed digital input output…
Energy harvesting with miniature step-up transformers
Energy harvesting with miniature step-up transformers
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Coilcraft has released 6x6 mm LPR6235 Series coupled inductors for use as step-up or flyback transformers in DC-DC converters or…

Thermal analysis tool models packages to estimate interface temperature
Thermal analysis tool models packages to estimate interface temperature
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Custom MMIC has launched a free web-based thermal analysis tool which tackles the problem of estimating the rise in temperature between the ambient surrounding and the bottom of a packaged…
ABB and Bosch in plans to establish open Smart Home standard
ABB and Bosch in plans to establish open Smart Home standard
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Electrical engineering companies ABB and Bosch, networking giant Cisco and Korean consumer electronics provider LG have plans to develop an open software platform for Smart Home control applications, enabling users…
Linear current-sensor IC with thermal enhancement
Linear current-sensor IC with thermal enhancement
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ACS770 from Allegro MicroSystems Europe is a fully integrated Hall-effect based linear current sensor IC incorporating thermal enhancement for high precision.
Balanced-armature audio receivers for hearing-aid designs
Balanced-armature audio receivers for hearing-aid designs
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Providing audio OEMs with greatest space savings and superior acoustic performance, Molex says that its Balanced Armature Audio Receivers are ideal for hearing-aids market. [Editor's note; in hearing-aid-design parlance, the…
Automotive boost controller paired with step-down DC-DC converter
Automotive boost controller paired with step-down DC-DC converter
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Automotive grade power management ICs; non-synchronous boost controller with automatic wake up and shutdown functions supplies a minimum output voltage during start-stop conditions in order to counteract any sag in…
ARM cores for Altera’s Stratix 10 SoCs revealed as 4-core Cortex-A53
ARM cores for Altera’s Stratix 10 SoCs revealed as 4-core Cortex-A53
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Altera previously disclosed plans for its forthcoming Stratix 10 SoC devices, that will include “hard” processor cores in addition to programmable logic, but held back from confirming the exact cores…
Half-bridge power modules drive motors up to 300W
Half-bridge power modules drive motors up to 300W
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International Rectifier's highly integrated, ultra-compact, patent pending µIPM (micro-integrated-power-module) series now adds the IRSM808-105MH and IRSM807-105MH, for high efficiency appliance and light industrial applications with motor power up to 300W.
Autonomous communicating sensor networks developed to monitor aircraft structures
Autonomous communicating sensor networks developed to monitor aircraft structures
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The StrainWISE project, initiated by Airbus as part of the “Clean Sky” program, resulted in the development of a high-performance and ultra-low-power wireless sensor network platform able to monitor aircraft…
Multi-output power management ICs in infotainment systems
Multi-output power management ICs in infotainment systems
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With automotive infotainment systems being increasingly incorporating highly integrated and very powerful microprocessors and FPGAs, power management for these infotainment systems is growing more complex. A solution that helps to…
Thermal analysis tool estimates accurate MMIC “package bottom” temperature
Thermal analysis tool estimates accurate MMIC “package bottom” temperature
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Custom MMIC has launched a free, easy-to-use, web-based thermal analysis tool which tackles the problem of estimating the rise in temperature between the ambient surrounding and the bottom of a…
Nokia is back in the top 3 as smartphone shipments reach a record 250 m in Q3 2013
Nokia is back in the top 3 as smartphone shipments reach a record 250 m in Q3 2013
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The number of smartphone shipments exceeded a quarterly record of 250 million in Q3 2013, representing a year-on-year growth of almost 49% from Q3 2012, and quarter-on-quarter growth of 10%,…
Peregrine introduces UltraCMOS® 10 technology to solve challenges of RF front-end Integration
Peregrine introduces UltraCMOS® 10 technology to solve challenges of RF front-end Integration
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Peregrine Semiconductor announces the UltraCMOS 10 platform, the latest advancement in company’s UltraCMOS technology.
Anritsu gains standards body approval for LTE Advanced protocol conformance test cases
Anritsu gains standards body approval for LTE Advanced protocol conformance test cases
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Anritsu has announced that industry testing standards body the GCF has validated its Protocol Conformance Test system for Rel-10 carrier aggregation, a crucial function in LTE Advanced network operations.
Low loss 4×2 hybrid diplexer for low PIM head end DAS applications
Low loss 4×2 hybrid diplexer for low PIM head end DAS applications
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Microlab , a Wireless Telecom Group company, is adding a new hybrid diplexer to its popular hybrid combiner product line.
Quad SPST CMOS analog switches offer low on-resistance of 1.5-Ohms
Quad SPST CMOS analog switches offer low on-resistance of 1.5-Ohms
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Vishay Intertechnology, Inc. has introduced three new ±15 V precision monolithic quad single-pole single-throw (SPST) CMOS analog switches. Built on a new CMOS process, the Vishay Siliconix DG1411, DG1412, and…
Trio of video processors aim to revitalize next-generation of cameras
Trio of video processors aim to revitalize next-generation of cameras
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Texas Instruments Incorporated has introduced three new DaVinci video processors, the DM388, DMVA3 and DM383, for next-generation camera needs.
Consortia vie for Internet of Things
Consortia vie for Internet of Things
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Two separate consortia have been launched to provide end-to-end support for the Internet of Things.
Bad design and its consequences; US legal ruling on Toyota’s “killer firmware”
Bad design and its consequences; US legal ruling on Toyota’s “killer firmware”
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In the USA, certain Toyota car models have been alleged to have contained a fault that caused them to accelerate or continue to accelerate contrary to the driver's inputs. This…
Multicell battery gas gauge operates up to 20-V
Multicell battery gas gauge operates up to 20-V
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Linear Technology Corporation has introduced a multicell battery gas gauge which makes direct measurements of 3.6 V to 20 V battery stacks.
Miniature LDO offers low noise, small footprint and accuracy benefits
Miniature LDO offers low noise, small footprint and accuracy benefits
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Diodes Incorporated's AP7340 low-dropout regulator offers a PSRR of 75 dB at 1kHz and a low-noise performance of 60 µVrms across the 10 Hz to 100 kHz range for analog…
Low cost rugged stainless steel industrial accelerometers
Low cost rugged stainless steel industrial accelerometers
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DJB Instruments UK has launched the first few products in its low cost IEPE industrial accelerometer range.
Performance analysis and verification software tool specifically targets ARM-based SoCs
Performance analysis and verification software tool specifically targets ARM-based SoCs
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Cadence’s Interconnect Workbench is a software solution providing cycle-accurate performance analysis of interconnects throughout the system-on-chip (SoC) design process.
Video codec hardware IP supports latest HEVC/H.265 encoding standard
Video codec hardware IP supports latest HEVC/H.265 encoding standard
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Renesas Electronics has developed video codec intellectual property (IP) technology to support the latest video encoding standard, HEVC/H.265, which is expected to be adopted in a wide range of markets.
Panasonic to expand supply of automotive-grade battery cells to Tesla Motors
Panasonic to expand supply of automotive-grade battery cells to Tesla Motors
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Panasonic Corporation has reached an agreement with California-based Tesla Motors which will see Panasonic expand the company's supply of automotive-grade lithium-ion battery cells to Tesla.


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