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EPC releases development board featuring eGaN FETs
EPC releases development board featuring eGaN FETs
Technology News |
Efficient Power Conversion Corporation (EPC) has introduced the EPC9006 development board to make it easier for engineers to start designing…
New MCUs come with media middleware
New MCUs come with media middleware
New Products |
Six new 32-bit MCUs join Renesas’ SH726A and SH726B, designed to lower the system cost while reducing the mounting area.
ARM Cortex-M0 based 32-bit MCUs for cost-sensitive motor and LCD control
ARM Cortex-M0 based 32-bit MCUs for cost-sensitive motor and LCD control
New Products |
MSC now offers four new cost-effective ARM Cortex-M0 based 32-bit microcontrollers (MCUs) from Samsung Semiconductor. The S3FN429 MCU is provided…
Eight key best practices in supply chain outsourcing by Gartner
Eight key best practices in supply chain outsourcing by Gartner
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Surviving as a 21st-century supply chain requires operating as a demand-driven value network, according to Gartner. Orchestrating these value networks…

Enhanced search functionality on Future Electronics’ website
Enhanced search functionality on Future Electronics’ website
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Distributor Future Electronics announced a newly designed website which the company claims offers a significant increase in speed with search results, returning twice as fast as before. The addition of…
Sealed audible indicator light for washdown environments
Sealed audible indicator light for washdown environments
New Products |
Banner Engineering's K50L sealed audible EZ-Light is a rugged, cost-effective and easy-to-install indicator light with an audible alarm. This allows the indicator to be easily seen and heard from a…
New low-power op amps combine power and performance benefits for low-voltage, cost-sensitive applications
New low-power op amps combine power and performance benefits for low-voltage, cost-sensitive applications
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Texas Instruments Incorporated has expanded the company’s 1.8-V, rail-to-rail input and output, general purpose operational amplifier (op amp) portfolio with the first in a new line of op amps for…
CMOS DAC supports data conversion at 2Tbit/s for optical links
CMOS DAC supports data conversion at 2Tbit/s for optical links
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Fujitsu Semiconductor Europe announces its first- generation 8-bit, 4-channel DAC in 40nm CMOS technology. With a sampling rate range of 55 to 65 GSample/s per channel, a small footprint and…
6-channel incremental optical encoder IC for electronic motor commutation
6-channel incremental optical encoder IC for electronic motor commutation
New Products |
The iC-LTA/iC-PT series of monolithically integrated speed and commutation encoders has been designed to replace Hall encoders in brushless motors. The optical are based on a flat optoQFN that is…
Charge pump drives SAR ADCs to true zero on a single 5-V supply
Charge pump drives SAR ADCs to true zero on a single 5-V supply
New Products |
Linear Technology has introduced a low noise, high speed amplifier that can drive to 0 V while maintaining high linearity on a single +5 V supply. The LTC6360’s integrated ultralow…
Xilinx FPGA shows 3-D IC progress
Xilinx FPGA shows 3-D IC progress
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Xilinx will sample this fall an FPGA that packs two million logic cells thanks to use of an emerging stacked silicon interconnect. The chip shows progress in so-called 2.5-generation silicon…
Intel invests $24 million in software firms
Intel invests $24 million in software firms
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Intel Capital, the investment arm of the world's biggest semiconductor company, has announced that it invested over $24 million in seven firms that develop technology related to Intel's software strategy.
UK Government launches strategic review of electronics community
UK Government launches strategic review of electronics community
Market news |
NMI, the trade association for semiconductor, microelectronics and Electronic Systems communities in the UK & Ireland, is to provide a strategic report on the UK Electronic Systems community and the…
Low power RF technology enables intelligent hand hygiene system to prevent hospital infections
Low power RF technology enables intelligent hand hygiene system to prevent hospital infections
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Low-power wireless chip technology from NXP Semiconductors N.V. is being used the HyGreen Hand Hygiene and Recording System, designed by HyGreen, to capture and transmit data on hand washing by…
Automotive multimedia concept embraces Android, tablet computer
Automotive multimedia concept embraces Android, tablet computer
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Ingredients such as cloud computing, tablet computer hardware and open-source operating systems today are ubiquitous in the consumer corner of the IT world. Now IT services provider Tieto is about…
A dimmable, high efficiency, high power factor, primary side regulated flyback for LED Lighting applications
A dimmable, high efficiency, high power factor, primary side regulated flyback for LED Lighting applications
Technology News |
In lighting applications high overall efficiency and power factor correction (PFC) are very important features, not only at higher power levels. Apart from that a ballast design should have good…
Novel architectures for EV power management: About distributed architectures
Novel architectures for EV power management: About distributed architectures
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Among technological challenges, the next generation of EV offers a unique opportunity to rethink its power management architecture. This paper will firstly analyze these architectural constraints from environmental, economical and…
AV front-end enables cinema-quality sound and picture in home theater designs
AV front-end enables cinema-quality sound and picture in home theater designs
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Analog Devices, Inc., has introduced a highly integrated AV (audio/video) front-end for home theater designs that depend on superior AV processing and HDMI (High-Definition Multimedia Interface) Specification version 1.4 support…
World’s highest performance Gen 3 PCI Express Switch targets SSD storage arrays and cloud computing applications
World’s highest performance Gen 3 PCI Express Switch targets SSD storage arrays and cloud computing applications
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Integrated Device Technology, Inc., has released what the company claims is the world’s highest performance family of Gen 3 PCI Express (PCIe) switches targeted at solid-state drive (SSD) storage arrays…
Kontron moves in to ARM architecture
Kontron moves in to ARM architecture
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Kontron has announced it is to make a strategic entry into providing single-board computers and modules based on the ARM architecture, with the first products planned for 2011. Also under…
New MCUs could ease IEC 61508 SIL 3 and ISO 26262 ASIL-D system certification
New MCUs could ease IEC 61508 SIL 3 and ISO 26262 ASIL-D system certification
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Designed to help developers obtain safety certifications, Texas Instruments has announced its new Hercules safety microcontroller platform for medical, industrial and transportation applications. The platform consists of three ARM Cortex-based…
Digital TV partnership to deliver better software solutions
Digital TV partnership to deliver better software solutions
Market news |
Access, a global provider of advanced software technologies to the mobile, beyond-PC and digital TV markets, and Ocean Blue Software, a digital TV software specialist delivering DVB and middleware products…
Wind River extends embedded virtualization support
Wind River extends embedded virtualization support
New Products |
The architectures supported by Wind River Hypervisor now include the ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore, targeting companies in the industrial and medical market segments looking to run real-time applications alongside human machine…
DC/DC converters deliver highly integrated solutions for consumer applications
DC/DC converters deliver highly integrated solutions for consumer applications
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Diodes Incorporated has introduced a pair of highly integrated synchronous DC/DC buck converters. The AP6502 and AP6503 are designed for use in consumer electronics systems such as digital TVs, LCD…
A19 LED bulbs: What’s under the frosting?
A19 LED bulbs: What’s under the frosting?
Technology News |
Standard A19 format light bulbs, found today in most lamps and luminaires, are now available in LED versions that retail between $20 and $40 per 40W- or 60W-equivalent bulb. Some…
90% of Passports to be e-Passports by 2016, says IMS Research
90% of Passports to be e-Passports by 2016, says IMS Research
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Within five years 90% of passport holders will be using e-passports that integrate a smart card IC chip. This is one of the conclusions drawn from IMS Research's recent report…
Qualcomm acquires IDT video IP, engineers
Qualcomm acquires IDT video IP, engineers
Business news |
Wireless chip and technology firm Qualcomm Inc., has agreed to take over the video IC design teams from Integrated Device Technology Inc., and related assets and to include chips from…
TSMC says equipment vendors late for 14 nm
TSMC says equipment vendors late for 14 nm
Technology News |
Time is running out to make critical decisions for how to make 14-nm chips expected to hit production in 2015, and capital equipment vendors are falling behind. That was the…


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