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Consumer acceptance for LED backlight in LCD screens lower than expected
Consumer acceptance for LED backlight in LCD screens lower than expected
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According to market researcher NPD DisplaySearch, the consumer adoption of LED-backlit LCD TVs was lower than estimated. For this reason,…
Small-footprint auto-focus auxiliary flash LEDs
Small-footprint auto-focus auxiliary flash LEDs
New Products |
Avago Technologies has announced two series of compact LEDs that reduce space requirements for designing auto-focus auxiliary flash functionality into…
Lightweight digital oscilloscopes offer up to 500MHz bandwidth
Lightweight digital oscilloscopes offer up to 500MHz bandwidth
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Rigol Technologies has introduced the DS4000 series digital oscilloscope, featuring up to 500 MHz bandwidth with a sample rate of…
E/E development tool covers hazard and risk analysis
E/E development tool covers hazard and risk analysis
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Automotive development tool vendor Vector Informatik has launched version 5.0 of its PREEvision automotive electronics development platform. The release addresses…

Infineon re-enters ARM market with motor control families
Infineon re-enters ARM market with motor control families
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Infineon Technologies has re-entered the market as an ARM licensee after the sale of its wireless division to Intel, this time with a focus on several families of motor controllers…
Intel, Samsung ‘smell blood in the water’
Intel, Samsung ‘smell blood in the water’
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Aggressive 2012 capital spending plans revealed this week by Intel Corp., and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., signal that the two largest chip firms see an opportunity to distance themselves from…
Texas Instruments shows off Pico HD projector that fits into a smartphone
Texas Instruments shows off Pico HD projector that fits into a smartphone
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Texas Instruments Inc. was keeping its eye on the big picture, through its littlest chipsets. The firm was literally beaming as it showed off its latest generation of DLP projector…
Link Microtek expands RF test capability with environmental chamber
Link Microtek expands RF test capability with environmental chamber
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Link Microtek has invested in a state-of-the-art environmental test chamber at its premises in the centre of Basingstoke. As well as enabling the company to offer diagnostic testing and burn-in…
2.5-V voltage reference IC targets power-sensitive applications
2.5-V voltage reference IC targets power-sensitive applications
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Touchstone Semiconductor has added the newest member of its voltage reference family, the TS6001A, a low-power, low-dropout precision SOT-23 voltage reference IC that reduces drift to a guaranteed 7 ppm/°C…
CoaXPress compliant frame grabbers acquire images 6x faster than GigE
CoaXPress compliant frame grabbers acquire images 6x faster than GigE
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The BitFlow Karbon-CXP line of frame grabbers incorporates the CoaXPress (CXP) standard for moving high-speed serial data from a camera to a frame grabber. The result is video acquisition at…
High voltage DC power supply delivers low ripple and fast transient response
High voltage DC power supply delivers low ripple and fast transient response
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UNIPOWER LLC has unveiled a high voltage DC power supply designed to provide 4 kW to 240 kW across a wide of range applications. Models in the general purpose DRC…
Voltage-level translator supports the Secure Digital 3.0 standard
Voltage-level translator supports the Secure Digital 3.0 standard
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STMicroelectronics has announced what the company claims to be the industry’s first voltage-level translator compliant with the latest SD (Secure Digital) 3.0 standard. The increase in storage capacity and access…
Micron buys storage virtualization startup
Micron buys storage virtualization startup
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Memory chip vendor Micron Technology announced the acquisition of Virtensys Ltd., a privately held provider of PCIe-sharing solutions based in Manchester, England, and Beaverton, Oregon. Financial terms of the deal…
Test solution and requirements for CDWM
Test solution and requirements for CDWM
Feature articles |
WDM is a technology that combines multiple wavelengths on a single mode fibre to increase bandwidth capacity in a network. It can be classified either as Coarse WDM or Dense…
SIGe low-noise transistor enhances reception and signal range of indoor digital TV antenna
SIGe low-noise transistor enhances reception and signal range of indoor digital TV antenna
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NXP Semiconductors is collaborating with NorthVu Systems Inc. to bring the smallest high-performance indoor digital TV antenna to market. The NorthVu NV20 Pro is 40% smaller than comparable products while…
EU Commission queries stakeholders on Solid-State Lighting
EU Commission queries stakeholders on Solid-State Lighting
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Under the title "Lighting the future - Accelerating the development of innovative lighting technologies", the EU Commission has published a Green Paper which discusses industrial, usage and deployment aspects of…
Semi-traction batteries focus on electric vehicle applications
Semi-traction batteries focus on electric vehicle applications
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Yuasa Battery Sales (UK) Ltd has launched the company’s Pro-Spec range of semi-traction batteries featuring advanced charge technology to deliver extra power, higher reliability and prolonged service life. The batteries…
CO2 balance sheet: aluminum versus alumina ceramics
CO2 balance sheet: aluminum versus alumina ceramics
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The rationale for replacing incandescent bulbs by LED light is energy efficiency and, by the same token, the reduction of global warming, right? In this equation, however, the selection of…
Design industrial systems on a chip that meet stringent global safety standards
Design industrial systems on a chip that meet stringent global safety standards
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Christoph Fritsch of Altera Corporation examines the design challenges facing design engineers looking to develop industrial systems on a chip that meet stringent global safety standards.
Power electronics for smart energy require innovative packaging technology
Power electronics for smart energy require innovative packaging technology
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Thomas Grasshoff, Head of International Product Management, Semikron explores how innovative packaging technology can overcome power management issues to support smart energy applications…
High performance AFE targets femtocells and SDR
High performance AFE targets femtocells and SDR
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Texas Instruments claims to have introduced the industry's fastest, highest-performance analog front end (AFE) for femtocell base stations and portable software-defined radio (SDR) applications. The low-power, 12-bit AFE7225 integrates a…
TI unveils fastest, highest-performance AFE for femtocells and portable SDR
TI unveils fastest, highest-performance AFE for femtocells and portable SDR
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Texas Instruments Incorporated has introduced what the company claims is the industry's fastest, highest-performance analog front end (AFE) for femtocell base stations and portable software-defined radio (SDR) applications. The low-power,…
SIGe low-noise transistor enhances reception and signal range of NorthVu’s smallest high-performance indoor digital TV antenna
SIGe low-noise transistor enhances reception and signal range of NorthVu’s smallest high-performance indoor digital TV antenna
Technology News |
NXP Semiconductors is collaborating with NorthVu Systems Inc. to bring the smallest high-performance indoor digital TV antenna to market. The NorthVu NV20 Pro is 40% smaller than comparable products while…
PLS’ universal multicore workbench simplifies multicore debugging at system level
PLS’ universal multicore workbench simplifies multicore debugging at system level
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PLS Programmierbare Logik & Systeme presents its Universal Debug Engine (UDE) 3.2 for the first time at embedded world 2012, Nuremberg in Hall 4, Booth 4-310 from February 28 to…
Mantracourt launches Blog for instrumentation engineers
Mantracourt launches Blog for instrumentation engineers
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Instrumentation equipment manufacturer Mantracourt has launched a 'Blog' about specialist electronic measurement devices for sensors, to assist engineers working in the field of measurement and instrumentation. The Blog will provide…
Cost savings with EMC sinewave output filters
Cost savings with EMC sinewave output filters
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Schurter‘s Fmac Sine and Fmac Sine DCL series of sinewave output filters convert the voltage waveforms from frequency converters into low-distortion sinewaves for motor drives and power-engineering applications.
USB-powered 60MHz oscilloscope and logic analyser samples at 200MSa/s
USB-powered 60MHz oscilloscope and logic analyser samples at 200MSa/s
New Products |
Saelig’s MSO-28 is a USB-powered, entry-level mixed-signal 60MHz oscilloscope adapter for PCs. This lightweight, economical scope adapter combines a two-channel oscilloscope with a synchronous 8 channel logic analyzer, sampling at…
Nokia’s Lumia 900 to lead Windows Phone resurgence
Nokia’s Lumia 900 to lead Windows Phone resurgence
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Nokia is set to regain some of its lost smartphone market share thanks to the introduction of its Lumia 900 last week—and, in the process, re-establish Microsoft's Windows Phone as…


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