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LED street lamps are solar powered
LED street lamps are solar powered
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Lighting technology company Hella KG has added two new products to its portfolio of EcoStreet powered stationary street lamps. The…
LG rolls retrofit LED light bulb
LG rolls retrofit LED light bulb
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LG Electronics has introduced an LED-based screw-in replacement for 60 W incandescent bulbs. The company claims a service life time…
TI continues NatSemi Simple Switcher product line with nano modules and nano regulators
TI continues NatSemi Simple Switcher product line with nano modules and nano regulators
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Texas Instruments (TI) has introduced four new Simple Switcher power management integrated circuits for space-constrained point-of-load designs in industrial, communications…
Compact power switch with encoder offers white goods benefits
Compact power switch with encoder offers white goods benefits
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ALPS ELECTRIC EUROPE GmbH has introduced the SDDE series of power switches with built-in encoder for comfortable one-switch program control…

Pluggable PSUs are optimized for cPCI systems
Pluggable PSUs are optimized for cPCI systems
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Verotec has extended the company’s range of modular pluggable power converters with the introduction of 11 new models specifically designed to be fully compliant with the PICMG 2.11 Power Interface…
Maxim platform evaluates smart grid security
Maxim platform evaluates smart grid security
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Maxim Integrated Products has integrated metrology, security, and powerline communications into a reference platform for utilities to evaluate smart grid technology.The Newport evaluation platform provides the flexibility to handle uncertainties…
Easing calibration management with graphical dashboard
Easing calibration management with graphical dashboard
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CALWEB, a free calibration management service for Tektronix customers which is currently used by 6,000 customers, has been upgraded to version 5.1.5 to increase the visibility of the calibration certification…
Freescale, Atheros demo Smart Energy
Freescale, Atheros demo Smart Energy
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Freescale Semiconductor and Qualcomm Atheros are collaborating to demonstrate home energy management using the Smart Energy Profile 2.0 over Wi-Fi, Ethernet and the HomePlug Green PHY (HomePlug GP) standard. The…
Synopsys acquires Extreme DA
Synopsys acquires Extreme DA
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Parametric analysis becomes more important as implementation geometries get smaller and variations-aware analysis is necessary to ensure yields remain in the area where you can make profits.
Analyst sees 1% chip market growth for 2011
Analyst sees 1% chip market growth for 2011
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Malcolm Penn, founder and principal analyst with market analysis company Future Horizons (Sevenoaks, England), now sees 2011 as essentially a flat year compared with 2010 for the global chip market.
Complexity of DUTs boosts modular instrumentation
Complexity of DUTs boosts modular instrumentation
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Greater product sophistication, along with the incorporation of radio frequency in an increasing number of devices, is compelling engineers to change their test strategy according to research from Frost &…
Qualcomm describes Snapdragon S4
Qualcomm describes Snapdragon S4
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Qualcomm released a white paper on its next-generation Snapdragon S4 mobile applications processor, giving a few additional details of the 28nm chip expected to ship before June 2012. The S4,…
Infineon produce first silicon using 300-mm thin wafer technology for power semiconductors
Infineon produce first silicon using 300-mm thin wafer technology for power semiconductors
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Infineon Technologies AG has produced the first chips on a 300-mm thin wafer for power semiconductors at the Villach site in Austria making Infineon the first company in the world…
CFast card kits meet latest standard for flash-based memory cards
CFast card kits meet latest standard for flash-based memory cards
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ITT Interconnect Solutions has launched a new line of ultrasonically welded two-piece cover sets and 24-pin surface mount connectors designed to meet the latest CFast standards issued by the Compact…
Push buttons with screw terminals, in IP65 to IP67 versions
Push buttons with screw terminals, in IP65 to IP67 versions
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CSI003, CSI004, pushbutton series, Engelking Elektronik…
Eliminating HDMI signal conditioning challenges
Eliminating HDMI signal conditioning challenges
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During the past few years, the HDMI interface has become entrenched as the primary connection for consumer digital video. As new capabilities have been added to TVs, such as enhanced…
Paving the way to the next efficiency level
Paving the way to the next efficiency level
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The convergence of different technologies and applications within car architectures has created new design challenges. Especially with the advent of hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) and electric vehicles (EVs) emerged an…
Wireless window contacts benefit from energy harvesting sensors
Wireless window contacts benefit from energy harvesting sensors
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Research scientists at the Fraunhofer Institute for Microelectronic Circuits and Systems IMS in Duisburg have now developed wireless window contacts which indicate when a house's windows are open or closed. …
Optical signal processing device satisfies power-hungry, high-speed networks
Optical signal processing device satisfies power-hungry, high-speed networks
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Researchers at the University of Southampton have developed a new all-optical signal processing device that meets the demands of high capacity optical networks and with a wide range of applications…
Intelligent next-generation LED street lighting
Intelligent next-generation LED street lighting
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More and more towns and cities are turning to LED street lighting. Working together with Osram Opto Semiconductors and Portuguese solid-state lighting (SSL) specialist Arquiled, Rutronik has developed the next…
Energy Harvesting for Autonomous Systems (Part 3 of 5)
Energy Harvesting for Autonomous Systems (Part 3 of 5)
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Steven Beeby and Neil White, University of Southampton, Hampshire, U.K. continues to provide a detailed understanding of the options for harvesting energy from localized, renewable sources to supply power to…
Are ac mains-dimmable LED lamps green?
Are ac mains-dimmable LED lamps green?
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Victor Zwanenberg, Sr. Application Engineer, NXP compares the 60 W incandescent lamp and two other mains dimmable LED lamps including the light output versus power consumption under different dimming situations…
Compact three-phase bridge driver IC delivers industry’s fastest rise and fall times
Compact three-phase bridge driver IC delivers industry’s fastest rise and fall times
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Intersil Corporation has introduced the HIP4086A, a low noise, 80 V, 0.5 A three-phase bridge driver IC. The HIP4086A features low EMI and claims the industry’s fastest rise and fall…
Consortium intends to break down the ‘memory wall’
Consortium intends to break down the ‘memory wall’
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Samsung Electronics and Micron Technology have formed a consortium for developing and implementing an open interface specification for a new memory technology called the Hybrid Memory Cube (HMC). Working closely…
Court rules computer simulations are patentable
Court rules computer simulations are patentable
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A High Court has overturned a decision of the UK Intellectual Property Office (UK-IPO), which effectively confirms that, despite the UK-IPO’s rejection of such applications, technical design methods are patentable…
3D imaging enters the human body with microlens-equipped endoscopes
3D imaging enters the human body with microlens-equipped endoscopes
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Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Microelectronic Circuits and Systems IMS in Duisburg and the project partners in the EU project "Minisurg", have developed an image sensor that transmits perfect…
Media tablets take 75% share of US ultra-mobile device shipments in 2011
Media tablets take 75% share of US ultra-mobile device shipments in 2011
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Led by media tablets and more specifically Apple's iPad 2, an estimated 37 million ultra-mobile devices (UMDs) will ship into the United States during 2011, says ABI Research. UMDs represent…
Fully integrated low noise 24-bit ADCs deliver maximum accuracy
Fully integrated low noise 24-bit ADCs deliver maximum accuracy
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Intersil Corporation has introduced the ISL26132 and ISL26134, 24-bit delta-sigma ADCs containing an ultra-low noise programmable gain amplifier (PGA) with gains of 1x, 2x, 64x and 128x. Designed for weigh…


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