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World’s smallest real-time clock with embedded crystal saves space and optimizes battery life
World’s smallest real-time clock with embedded crystal saves space and optimizes battery life
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STMicroelectronics has unveiled what the company claims is the world’s smallest combined crystal and real-time clock (RTC) IC for time,…
New booster amplifiers offer 2.0- to 2.8-GHz for CoFDM video and outside broadcast
New booster amplifiers offer 2.0- to 2.8-GHz for CoFDM video and outside broadcast
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Bristol-based amplifier design specialist, AmplifierTechnology Ltd has developed a new range of communications amplifiers for the broadcast market - the…
Cypress and UMC deliver ICs on new low-power 65-nm SONOS embedded flash technology
Cypress and UMC deliver ICs on new low-power 65-nm SONOS embedded flash technology
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Cypress Semiconductor Corp. and United Microelectronics Corporation have produced working silicon on a new, 65-nm SONOS (Silicon Oxide Nitride Oxide…
Infineon ships chips for Chromebook security
Infineon ships chips for Chromebook security
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Infineon Technologies AG has said it is shipping security chips for devices running Google's Chrome operating system.

Tektronix buys Optametra for coherent optical testing
Tektronix buys Optametra for coherent optical testing
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Tektronix, Inc., has acquired Optametra, LLC, a producer of test equipment for optical transmission products. The details of the transaction were not disclosed.
Real-time clock with embedded crystal targets portable electronics
Real-time clock with embedded crystal targets portable electronics
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STMicroelectronics has announced what is claims is the world’s smallest combined crystal and real-time clock (RTC) IC for time, calendar and alarm functions. The real-time clock die and a matched…
New generation of position sensors improves performance of automotive applications
New generation of position sensors improves performance of automotive applications
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NXP Semiconductors N. V. has release a new generation of automotive position sensors. The KMA210 incorporates NXP’s latest magnetoresistive sensor chip and a signal conditioning ASIC developed in NXP’s advanced…
Atmel targets M2M with latest SAM devices
Atmel targets M2M with latest SAM devices
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Five new additions to its ARM926-based MCU range offer an integrated soft modem to reduce BoM, as well as support for DDR2 memory. However, due to the technical restraints imposed…
RF4CE reference design for plug-and-play USB stick enables cost-efficient RF4CE implementation
RF4CE reference design for plug-and-play USB stick enables cost-efficient RF4CE implementation
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Fabless semiconductor company, Utrectht-based GreenPeak Technologies has unveiled the company’s first reference design for an RF4CE USB stick for the integration of RF4CE technology in PCs and home entertainment applications…
Ten mobile vendors license chip interconnect
Ten mobile vendors license chip interconnect
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Ten cellphone chip makers have licensed the Chip-to Chip Link (C2C) specification developed by Arteris Inc., and Texas Instruments. C2C is one of three low latency interconnects TI helped develop…
Grid integration spurs smart PV inverter shipments to grow to 27-GW by 2015
Grid integration spurs smart PV inverter shipments to grow to 27-GW by 2015
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‘Smart’ PV inverter shipments are forecast to grow to 27 GW in 2015, accounting for almost 60% of the market compared to just 20% in 2010 according to the latest…
3D modelling integrates flexible PCB design
3D modelling integrates flexible PCB design
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Over the last decade, electronic products have become increasingly complex and dense as they support more functions into dramatically reduced footprints. The need for flexible circuits has grown exponentially, since…
Power integrity engineering for interconnects
Power integrity engineering for interconnects
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The need for high-current interconnect solutions in increasingly smaller spaces continues to rise rapidly. As demand grows for more power in smaller packages, solving the power equation on new architectures…
New generation of offline LED fixtures demand more from LED Driver ICs
New generation of offline LED fixtures demand more from LED Driver ICs
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As the driving force behind LED lighting's adoption is the dramatic reduction of power required to deliver a specific quantity of light, it is imperative that the LED driver IC…
Haptics technology: picking up good vibrations
Haptics technology: picking up good vibrations
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Eric Siegel, Product Marketing Engineer, Texas Instruments explains why haptics technology is much more than picking up good vibrations.
Touch-screen technologies enable greater user/device interaction
Touch-screen technologies enable greater user/device interaction
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Roland Sandfuchs, Field Applications Engineer, Maxim Integrated Products offers an overview of recent advances in touch-screen technology.
Cree rolls high efficacy 100mm LED downlight
Cree rolls high efficacy 100mm LED downlight
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Cree, Inc. has announced what it calls the industry's first system-level LED downlight for the international 80 to 100mm MR16 market. A direct replacement for the 50-watt MR16-based fixture, the…
Considerations on output capacitance for soft switching converters
Considerations on output capacitance for soft switching converters
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Sungmo Young of Fairchild Semicondcuctor discusses a new concept of output capacitance that gives equivalent stored energy at a working voltage of the power converter to help optimize a power…
Automotive grade 3-phase MOSFET pre-driver IC for brushless DC motor control
Automotive grade 3-phase MOSFET pre-driver IC for brushless DC motor control
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Allegro MicroSystems Europe's new A4933 is an automotive-grade 3-phase MOSFET pre-driver IC for the control of brushless DC motors in applications such as electronic power steering systems, engine cooling fans,…
150-mA supercapacitor charger with auto cell balancing offers short term backup power
150-mA supercapacitor charger with auto cell balancing offers short term backup power
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Linear Technology Corporation has introduced an inductorless supercapacitor charger with backup PowerPath controller for Li-ion or other low-voltage system rails in applications that require short term backup power. The LTC3226…
137-171 MHz VCO features extra modulation port for transmitter applications
137-171 MHz VCO features extra modulation port for transmitter applications
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Crystek has released the company’s CVCO55FLM-0137-0171 which operates from 137 MHz to 171 MHz with a control voltage range of 0.5 V to 4.5 V. The VCO (Voltage Controlled Oscillator)…
Cree rolls high efficacy 100 mm LED downlight
Cree rolls high efficacy 100 mm LED downlight
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Cree, Inc., has announced what it calls the industry's first system-level LED downlight for the international 80- to 100-mm MR16 market. A direct replacement for the 50-W MR16-based fixture, the…
Digi-Key has new stock of TE Connectivity’s NEVALO SSL system
Digi-Key has new stock of TE Connectivity’s NEVALO SSL system
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Electronic components distributor Digi-Key Corporation announced it has stock of TE's innovative Solid State Lighting (SSL) solution – the NEVALO SSL system – designed to accelerate lighting manufacturers' transition from…
TRW to highlight adaptable safety platforms at IAA motor show
TRW to highlight adaptable safety platforms at IAA motor show
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Automotive supplier TRW plans to highlight its commitment to 'the safety everyone deserves' at this year's Internationale Automobil-Ausstellung (IAA), International Motorshow, in Frankfurt, Germany, from 13 – 25 September. The…
Wide input range PoL programmable DC/DC converter targets industrial applications
Wide input range PoL programmable DC/DC converter targets industrial applications
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Murata Power Solutions has introduced the OKI-T/3-W32 series of surface mount point of load (PoL) DC/DC converters. Designed specifically to suit +12 or +24 VDC industrial applications where a wide…
IDT’s HyperGear solution reduces motherboard power consumption and boosts CPU performance
IDT’s HyperGear solution reduces motherboard power consumption and boosts CPU performance
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Integrated Device Technology, Inc., has developed a power savings and performance enhancement architecture for high frequency voltage regulator designs targeted at computing applications. The new patent pending “HyperGear” technology dynamically…
Six-channel AFE targets 3-Phase measurement
Six-channel AFE targets 3-Phase measurement
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Microchip Technology has announced its first high-accuracy, stand-alone six-channel analog front end (AFE) for three-phase energy metering. The MCP3903 AFE includes six 16-/24-bit Delta-Sigma analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) and offers a…
Transition to renewable energy looks to stimulate German economy
Transition to renewable energy looks to stimulate German economy
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Prof. Eicke Weber, spokesperson for the Fraunhofer Energy Alliance, says that the transition to renewable energy is set to deliver an economic pay off in the years to come and…


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