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Twin Creeks emerges with new solar cell manufacturing approach
Twin Creeks emerges with new solar cell manufacturing approach
Technology News |
Squeezing another penny out of the cost of conventional solar cell manufacturing is no longer a viable approach for cleantech…
The Challenges of Choosing Off-Line LED Driver Topologies
The Challenges of Choosing Off-Line LED Driver Topologies
Technology News |
When considering LED driver topologies to convert AC input voltage to a constant regulated current source for the LED loads,…
SIGNAL CHAIN BASICS #63: Using SPICE to design the PID control for a TEC temperature loop
SIGNAL CHAIN BASICS #63: Using SPICE to design the PID control for a TEC temperature loop
Technology News |
Mathew Hann, SAR Product Line Manager, Texas Instruments explains how to use SPICE to design the PID controller for a…
Single-chip line card device integrates dual DPLLs and NCOs
Single-chip line card device integrates dual DPLLs and NCOs
New Products |
Microsemi Corporation has expanded the industry's largest synchronous Ethernet (SynchE) product portfolio with the single-chip, ZL30150 line card device for…

OEMs increasingly equip commercial vehicles with fleet management systems
OEMs increasingly equip commercial vehicles with fleet management systems
Market news |
A study from Frost & Sullivan, titled "Strategic Update of European Medium and Heavy-duty Commercial Vehicle Telematics Market", finds that the market registered sales of 542 million in 2010 and…
Sevcon joins forces with Flextronics Automotive
Sevcon joins forces with Flextronics Automotive
Business news |
Automotive motor control unit (MCU) engineering company Sevcon has agreed with electronics manufacturer Flextronics to jointly develop drivetrain solutions for hybrid and pure electric vehicles. The companies also plan to…
New sine wave hot-swap inverter modules offer low distortion benefits
New sine wave hot-swap inverter modules offer low distortion benefits
New Products |
UNIPOWER LLC has unveiled the SABRE LITE series of sine wave, hot-swap inverter modules available in a variety of different but compatible two unit 19in shelves. SABRE LITE inverters incorporate…
Diodes unveils ultra-miniature diodes for use in lightweight portable products
Diodes unveils ultra-miniature diodes for use in lightweight portable products
New Products |
Diodes Incorporated has unveiled the company's first products to be housed in the ultra-miniature X3-DFN0603-2 package. The company's first 6.0 V Zener and switching diodes to be provided in the…
World’s first true single-chip wireless power transmitter provides highest-output-power single-chip receiver solution
World’s first true single-chip wireless power transmitter provides highest-output-power single-chip receiver solution
New Products |
Integrated Device Technology, Inc. has unveiled the world's first true single-chip wireless power transmitter accompanied by the industry's highest-output-power single-chip receiver solution. IDT's highly integrated multi-mode transmitter reduces board footprint…
ST, ST-Ericsson commit to SOI, says Soitec
ST, ST-Ericsson commit to SOI, says Soitec
Business news |
Soitec SA, a supplier of silicon-on-insulator (SOI) wafers, has announced that mobile chip joint venture ST-Ericsson NV has selected planar fully depleted SOI (FD-SOI) technology for use with future mobile…
Kontron launches industrial M2M controller
Kontron launches industrial M2M controller
New Products |
Kontron has developed a Machine-to-Machine (M2M) system that is easily deployable for industrial and extended temperature environments based around the COM Express format, an Intel Atom processor and Wind River's…
Low phase noise clock oscillator delivers high-performance frequency control for DAB
Low phase noise clock oscillator delivers high-performance frequency control for DAB
New Products |
Crystek Corporation has launched the CCHD-957, an ultra-low phase noise HCMOS clock oscillator with standby mode, featuring an extremely low close-in phase noise of -100 dBc/Hz at 10Hz offset and…
Tektronix joins MOST Cooperation
Tektronix joins MOST Cooperation
Business news |
Measurement equipment manufacturer Tektronix has announced that it has joined the MOST Cooperation. MOST is the de-facto standard for infotainment data networks in the automotive industry. Tektronix said through the…
RF Engines emulates TI’s Graychip direct downconverters in an FPGA
RF Engines emulates TI’s Graychip direct downconverters in an FPGA
New Products |
UK-based signal processing company RF Engines has developed specific IP to emulate the functions of TI's GrayChip direct down converters to provide an upgrade path to designs originally built upon…
LED products and industrial displays combined into multi-sense system
LED products and industrial displays combined into multi-sense system
New Products |
The illumotion multi-sense system available from Rutronik offers a combination of animated images, high-definition displays and a multi-channel audio setup to achieve extraordinary effects. Visual experiences can be perfectly enhanced…
Gallium Nitride power semiconductor market to exceed $1 Billion by 2021
Gallium Nitride power semiconductor market to exceed $1 Billion by 2021
Market news |
The emerging market for Gallium Nitride (GaN) power semiconductors is forecast to grow from almost zero in 2011 to over $1 billion in 2021, according to a new report from…
European standards organisations make progress towards Smart Grid standards
European standards organisations make progress towards Smart Grid standards
Business news |
The three European Standards Organisations (ESOs) – CEN (European Committee for Standardization), CENELEC (European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization) and ETSI (European Telecommunications Standards Institute) – are working together to develop…
Farnell element14 stocks the Velve development kit for OLED designs
Farnell element14 stocks the Velve development kit for OLED designs
New Products |
Farnell element14 is the first distributor to stock Verbatim's Velve Organic Light Emitting Diode (OLED) development kit, adding to its already comprehensive range of solid state lighting products, technologies and…
Sine wave hot-swap inverter modules offer low distortion benefits
Sine wave hot-swap inverter modules offer low distortion benefits
New Products |
UNIPOWER LLC has unveiled the SABRE LITE series of sine wave, hot-swap inverter modules available in a variety of different but compatible two unit 19in shelves. SABRE LITE inverters incorporate…
60 V synchronous buck-boost LED driver delivers over 100 W of LED power
60 V synchronous buck-boost LED driver delivers over 100 W of LED power
New Products |
Linear Technology announces the LT3791, a synchronous buck-boost DC/DC LED driver and voltage controller, which can deliver over 100 W of LED power. Its 4.7 V to 60 V input…
Mixed-language verification tool takes FPGA and ASIC debugging to the next level
Mixed-language verification tool takes FPGA and ASIC debugging to the next level
New Products |
Aldec Europe has launched the latest version of its Riviera-PRO high-performance, mixed-language verification tool. Unveiled at the Design Automation and Test in Europe (DATE) conference, Riviera-PRO release version 2012.02 supports…
Heliatek opens production facility for the manufacture of organic solar films
Heliatek opens production facility for the manufacture of organic solar films
Business news |
Heliatek GmbH has inaugurated the company's first production facility for the manufacture of flexible organic solar panels in Dresden.
Ruggedized USB isolators provide Level 4 ESD protection for industrial environments
Ruggedized USB isolators provide Level 4 ESD protection for industrial environments
New Products |
B&B Electronics has expanded its family of USB isolators with the one-port Ulinx UHR401 and two-port Ulinx UHR402 USB isolators. Designed to isolate and protect connected equipment from surges, spikes…
Tackling resource contention in multi-threaded software for multi-core
Tackling resource contention in multi-threaded software for multi-core
Feature articles |
Multi-core CPUs hold out the promise of accelerating software, by enabling tasks to execute in parallel. Developers are understandably surprised when an application deployed on a multi-core CPU actually runs…
Freescale first with low cost ARM M0+ microcontrollers to push 8bit to 32bit transition
Freescale first with low cost ARM M0+ microcontrollers to push 8bit to 32bit transition
Technology News |
Freescale is aiming to be the first to ship the latest generation of ARM's 32bit Cortex-M0+ low cost, low power microcontrollers ahead of Energy Micro and NXP Semiconductors pushing the…
ARM targets low cost 8 and 16bit designs with new M0+ Flycatcher core
ARM targets low cost 8 and 16bit designs with new M0+ Flycatcher core
New Products |
ARM is aiming to encourage 8bit and 16bit microcontroller users to move to its architecture with a new core optimised for low cost devices that will cost from 30 to…
TI announces partnership to take OMAP into robotics
TI announces partnership to take OMAP into robotics
Technology News |
Texas Instruments Inc., (Dallas, Texas) has announced a partnership with iRobot Corp., to develop robotics technology based on the TI's OMAP application processors.
The changing face of Europe
The changing face of Europe
Interviews |
Nick Flaherty talks to Andreas Pabinger, vice president for EMEA for Wind River EE Times Europe: What are the up and coming areas of opportunity in the embedded market in…


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