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Fanless System-on-Module for extended industrial temperature
Fanless System-on-Module for extended industrial temperature
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MicroSys extends it´s Freescale QorIQTM based miriac System on Module (SoM) family with the MPX1013 and MPX1022 CPU modules. The…
Cadence expands verification IP portfolio to accelerate adoption of emerging mobile standards
Cadence expands verification IP portfolio to accelerate adoption of emerging mobile standards
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Cadence Design Systems, Inc., has unveiled new protocol and memory model verification IP (VIP) that will accelerate the adoption of…
Single-phase digital POL chipset offers rapid development of smart power management solutions
Single-phase digital POL chipset offers rapid development of smart power management solutions
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ZMD AG (ZMDI) is launching a configurable true-digital, high-performance PWM controller for non-isolated DC/DC POL supplies. The ZSPM1000 operates as…
Digital power module delivers 17-A and supports telemetry via the PMBus
Digital power module delivers 17-A and supports telemetry via the PMBus
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Intersil Corporation has introduced the ZL9117M, the latest member of Intersil's expanding power module family. The ZL9117M is a fully-encapsulated…

Diesel hybrids can reduce CO2 fleet average, market researcher says
Diesel hybrids can reduce CO2 fleet average, market researcher says
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Although the initial costs for Diesel hybrid vehicles are higher than for comparable HEVs with gasoline engine, diesel hybrids provide higher performance, lower CO2 emissions and better fuel efficiency. For…
GEM Services enters joint venture with Mitsubishi Electric to build power semiconductor modules in China
GEM Services enters joint venture with Mitsubishi Electric to build power semiconductor modules in China
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GEM Services is setting up a joint-venture company with Mitsubishi Electric Corporation to manufacture energy-saving power semiconductor modules in China.
Step by step… confidently through the AUTOSAR round trip
Step by step… confidently through the AUTOSAR round trip
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Electronic development in the automobile industry has always been an iterative process – even long before the implementation of AUTOSAR. In the course of a project, requirements are amended or…
Low cost surface mount rotary position sensors aim at consumer, automotive applications
Low cost surface mount rotary position sensors aim at consumer, automotive applications
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Murata announced the SV03 series of low profile surface mount rotary position sensors. Measuring just 11 x 12 x 2.1 mm and weighing only 0.4 g, these compact sensors are…
Production cutbacks will fail to prevent solar module inventory buildup
Production cutbacks will fail to prevent solar module inventory buildup
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The latest Solarbuzz Quarterly report concludes that the continued solar module overproduction will lead to sustained price pressure across global photovoltaic (PV) markets which are already reeling from factory gate…
TI gets serious about Stellaris
TI gets serious about Stellaris
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Around three years after development started, over a year after Freescale and just a few days later ST’s announcement, Texas Instruments has also introduced a Cortex-M4 based family of MCUs,…
Problems and pitfalls with signal integrity at 10 Gbits/sec and beyond
Problems and pitfalls with signal integrity at 10 Gbits/sec and beyond
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Kinana Hussain of Vitesse Semiconductor Corp., looks at how those initiating their first designs in the 10-Gbits/sec realm must confront signal-quality issues as backplanes and network interfaces move into that…
Energy Harvesting for Autonomous Systems (Part 1 of 5)
Energy Harvesting for Autonomous Systems (Part 1 of 5)
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Steven Beeby and Neil White, University of Southampton, Hampshire, U.K. provide a detailed understanding of the options for harvesting energy from localized, renewable sources to supply power to autonomous wireless…
Power Tip 39: You get more than just better efficiency by going synchronous
Power Tip 39: You get more than just better efficiency by going synchronous
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Robert Kollman of Texas Instruments explains why you can get more than just better efficiency by going synchronous.
Designing smarter: single-battery applications
Designing smarter: single-battery applications
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Jason Tollefson, Mikhail Voroniouk, and Adam Jakubiak, Microchip Technology Inc. and Energizer Battery Company examine how a smarter design strategy can improve single-battery applications.
Rohde & Schwarz to offer wireless test certification
Rohde & Schwarz to offer wireless test certification
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Rohde & Schwarz has rolled out a training and certification program for the wireless communication infrastructure community.
Vishay capacitor series aims at better reliability
Vishay capacitor series aims at better reliability
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In a move to decrease capacitor failures related to board-flex cracking, Vishay Intertechnology has announced a new series of surface-mount multilayer ceramic chip capacitors (MLCCs), available with optional polymer terminations…
Multicell Battery Stack Monitor IC for High Voltage Applications
Multicell Battery Stack Monitor IC for High Voltage Applications
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Stacks of lithium ion cells are used in new hybrid electric vehicles and uninterruptible power supplies. Maximizing the life and the safety of these high voltage, high power battery packs…
Sixteenth-brick 30-W DC/DC converter targets embedded datacom applications
Sixteenth-brick 30-W DC/DC converter targets embedded datacom applications
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Murata Power Solutions has introduced the ULS series of open frame, PCB board mount 30 W isolated DC/DC converters. With a 2:1 input voltage range of 36 - 75 VDC…
Compact multi-axis MEMS vibration monitor provides low-noise performance and embedded analysis
Compact multi-axis MEMS vibration monitor provides low-noise performance and embedded analysis
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Aiming to help industrial equipment designers improve system performance and reduce maintenance costs through more efficient vibration detection and isolation Analog Devices, Inc., is introducing the MEMS-based ADIS16228 i Sensor…
Advanced Corona Ignition System improves gasoline combustion process
Advanced Corona Ignition System improves gasoline combustion process
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Automotive supplier Federal-Mogul Corporation has introduced an innovative ignition system that promises to significantly improve the overall efficiency of the combustion process in gasoline engines. Thus, the Advanced Corona Ignition…
New touchscreen controllers claim world’s best SNR performance
New touchscreen controllers claim world’s best SNR performance
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Cypress Semiconductor has introduced the company’s new Gen4 family of TrueTouch touchscreen controllers. Gen4 which is claimed to deliver industry-best performance in all categories, including the world’s best Signal-to-Noise Ratio…
IEDM: PCM research moves to 20-nm
IEDM: PCM research moves to 20-nm
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The full program of the International Electron Devices Meeting has been posted online and it reveals that there are continuing strands of research into phase-change memory at Samsung and a…
Wireless test training and certification program
Wireless test training and certification program
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Rhode & Schwarz has rolled out a training and certification program for the wireless communication infrastructure community.
Medical MEMS tackles knee replacement
Medical MEMS tackles knee replacement
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Currently, more than 30 percent of knee replacement surgeries suffer from misalignment problems caused by the "fog of surgery"–where the precise orientation of internal bones is difficult to determine. By…
Group will define 100G backplanes, cables
Group will define 100G backplanes, cables
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A new group aims to hammer out by March 2014 standards for running 100 Gbit/second Ethernet signals over backplanes and copper cables. The IEEE P802.3bj task force will plow a…
Microchip adds PLD to PIC
Microchip adds PLD to PIC
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At the Embedded Systems Conference in Boston, Microchip introduced several new 8-bit PIC microcontrollers (MCUs) that feature configurable logic and a higher level of peripheral integration in 6- to 20-pin…
Step-down DC-DC switching charger ICs target single cell Li-Ion batteries in mobile devices
Step-down DC-DC switching charger ICs target single cell Li-Ion batteries in mobile devices
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austriamicrosystems has released two new battery charger ICs for Li-Ion batteries in mobile devices. The AS3610/11 step-down DC-DCs offer fast and highly efficient charging of Li-Ion batteries in mobile devices…
Lightweight piezo-based autofocus lenses beat motorized versions
Lightweight piezo-based autofocus lenses beat motorized versions
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As everyone knows, the mobile phone market is huge and will represent this year more than 1.5 billion units sold. Most of the phones today are equipped with a camera…


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