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High voltage battery stack monitor enhances HEV/EV battery management systems
High voltage battery stack monitor enhances HEV/EV battery management systems
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Linear Technology has introduced a second generation high voltage battery monitor for hybrid/electric vehicle (HEVs), electric vehicles (EVs) and other…
Accellera approves universal Verification Methodology (UVM) standard
Accellera approves universal Verification Methodology (UVM) standard
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Accellera, the electronics industry organization focused on the creation and adoption of electronic design automation (EDA) standards and intellectual property…
Toshiba redefines the flip-flop for lower power
Toshiba redefines the flip-flop for lower power
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Toshiba has developed a new flip-flop circuit using 40nm CMOS process that it claims will reduce power consumption in mobile…
National Semiconductor offers industry’s first analog design tool in Russian language
National Semiconductor offers industry’s first analog design tool in Russian language
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National Semiconductor Corp. is releasing the company’s WEBENCH Designer tools in the Russian language. National's WEBENCH environment features WEBENCH Visualiser,…

Researchers boost thermoelectric material efficiency by 25 percent
Researchers boost thermoelectric material efficiency by 25 percent
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A team of researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory have achieved a 25 percent improvement in the ability of a key material to convert heat into electrical…
Movea sells its Gyration business unit assets to SMK-Link to meet demand
Movea sells its Gyration business unit assets to SMK-Link to meet demand
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Developer of motion-sensing and motion-control technologies Movea has sold the assets of its Gyration business unit to SMK-Link whereby SMK-Link becomes a customer of Movea and will license Movea’s SmartMotion,…
Compact thermoelectric power generator outputs 3.3, 4.1 or 5.0Vdc
Compact thermoelectric power generator outputs 3.3, 4.1 or 5.0Vdc
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The Thermobility WPG-1 wireless power generator from Nextreme Thermal Solutions converts heat into electricity for low-power wireless applications. Thermobility uses innovative solid-state thin-film thermoelectric technology to convert heat into electricity…
NXP expands industrial control series to support energy-efficient controls and appliances
NXP expands industrial control series to support energy-efficient controls and appliances
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NXP Semiconductors N.V. has unveiled its LPC1200 Industrial Control Series featuring the ARM Cortex-M0 processor which extends NXP’s 32-bit ARM microcontroller continuum and targets a wide range of industrial applications…
Magillem Design Services and CEA join forces on unified hw/sw design platform
Magillem Design Services and CEA join forces on unified hw/sw design platform
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Magillem, a provider of platform solutions, announced the signing of a multi-year collaboration agreement with CEA, the French alternative energies and atomic energy commission. The project will focus on development…
‘Size 8’ slotless brushless DC motors are autoclavable for medical use
‘Size 8’ slotless brushless DC motors are autoclavable for medical use
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The Pittman “Size 8” high-performance slot-less brushless DC motors proposed by Ametek Technical & Industrial Products have been introduced in autoclavable versions to power medical instruments, dental drills, and other…
Researcher describes ‘smart’ orthodontics
Researcher describes ‘smart’ orthodontics
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A team of German researchers is developing "intelligent" orthodontic brackets with integrated stress sensors to enable orthodontists to measure the forces being exerted on individual teeth.
Panel debates keeping up with ‘Gene’s Law’
Panel debates keeping up with ‘Gene’s Law’
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After two decades of dramatic improvements in the energy efficiency of circuits, the semiconductor industry will need to explore new circuit structures, architectures, materials and other items to continue to…
Low loss RF combiner for high speed PXI measurements
Low loss RF combiner for high speed PXI measurements
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The Aeroflex 3065A RF combiner addresses the need of RF test system engineers working in cellular handset or RFIC and component manufacturing when making measurements of RF transceivers. The RF…
SMT board stacking connector with 0.8mm floating mechanism
SMT board stacking connector with 0.8mm floating mechanism
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Honda Connectors has introduced a 0.8mm pitch, 20 position SMT board stacking connector range that provides a generous 0.8mm mating misalignment both laterally and longitudinally. This novel floating mechanism, providing…
Industrial 2GB and 4GB DDR3 SODIMMs with heat spreader
Industrial 2GB and 4GB DDR3 SODIMMs with heat spreader
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Swissbit announced a variations of its industrial family of DDR3 SODIMMs. In order to increase the heat dissipation and to avoid thermal hot spots on the memory modules in systems…
Circuits and algorithms to keep your silicon cool
Circuits and algorithms to keep your silicon cool
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Energy efficiency in electronics is the paramount topic of the “Cool Silicon” research initiative that currently occupies more than 60 research institutes, universities and commercial companies in the “Silicon Saxony”…
Samsung takes DRAM 512-pins wide
Samsung takes DRAM 512-pins wide
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Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., has announced the development of a 1-Gbit DRAM with a 512-pin wide I/O interface intended for mobile applications such as smartphones and tablet computers.
Rutronik enables mass quotation through its distribution website
Rutronik enables mass quotation through its distribution website
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Rutronik’s Webg@te eCommerce platform is now even more user friendly with a simple ‘Mass Quotation’ tool that automatically generates an overview with parts numbers, availability, packing units and prices from…
Intel buys Dutch multimedia DSP firm
Intel buys Dutch multimedia DSP firm
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Intel has acquired Silicon Hive BV, a licensor of customized parallel processing DSP accelerators for various multimedia applications.
Delphi offers sound generator for e-cars
Delphi offers sound generator for e-cars
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With the advent of e-cars the problem arises that approaching electric cars are not noticed by other traffic participants such as pedestrians and cyclists. Automotive tier one Delphi has developed…
HSPA+ power amplifiers offer up to 51 percent peak efficiency
HSPA+ power amplifiers offer up to 51 percent peak efficiency
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RFMD’s RF724x power amplifiers support ultra-high peak efficiency of 48%-51%, significantly above current competitive offerings. Additionally, when combined with one of RFMD’s companion DC-DC converters or with chipsets featuring on-chip…
Designing a USB streaming video control system over WiFi
Designing a USB streaming video control system over WiFi
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Read the full article on page 34 of our February digital edition.
CSR announces merger with imaging and video solutions provider Zoran
CSR announces merger with imaging and video solutions provider Zoran
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Combining the two highly complementary technology portfolios is designed to uniquely position the merged company to deliver advanced platforms to capture and stream media-rich content.
High-gain linear amplifier module enables WiMAX to coexist with other radios in portable devices
High-gain linear amplifier module enables WiMAX to coexist with other radios in portable devices
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The MGA-22103 module features an aggressive gain shape that limits the noise injected into radio receivers co-located in the same device, enabling WiMAX to coexist with WiFi, GPS, PCS and…
Cornell Dubilier has sold its KVX mica product line to Custom Electronics
Cornell Dubilier has sold its KVX mica product line to Custom Electronics
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Established in 1964, Custom Electronics, Inc. has a 40-year-old reputation of outstanding workmanship and quality standards in manufacturing bus bars, high-voltage assemblies and mica-paper capacitors.  The company’s…
Laptop security microchip enables remote tracking of portable devices
Laptop security microchip enables remote tracking of portable devices
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The microchip can wipe out data, or it can physically destroy the mobile device so that it is completely inoperable. And if the user needs the…
Android-operated mobile phone recharges via its own photovoltaic cells
Android-operated mobile phone recharges via its own photovoltaic cells
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The mobile phone features a 3.2″ 320×480 display, 1GB of internal storage, it has a microSD card slot and comes with FM radio, Bluetooth 2.1 with A2DP,…
Intel packs eight cores into Itanium CPU
Intel packs eight cores into Itanium CPU
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Poulson doubles to eight the number of cores and to 12 the number of instructions in flight in its pipeline. Intel declined to give any cost, availability or performance information…


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