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‘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…
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…
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…
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…

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…
Energy friendly microcontrollers are offered in space-saving QFP48 package
Energy friendly microcontrollers are offered in space-saving QFP48 package
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The QFP48 Gecko product offers the same range of low energy peripherals as its larger QFP100 packaged variant, including a multiple sensor interface, UARTs, LCD Controller, 12-bit ADC and AES…
UDE 3.0 optimizes the extended test and debug capabilities of the Cortex-M4 core
UDE 3.0 optimizes the extended test and debug capabilities of the Cortex-M4 core
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For example, new technologies such as Serial Wire Viewer (SWV), Instrumentation Trace Macrocell (ITM) and Data Watchpoint and Trace (DWT) allow an observation of systems while the application…
Synchronous rectification controller is compatible to flyback and forward topologies
Synchronous rectification controller is compatible to flyback and forward topologies
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Using a proprietary, innovative linear prediction timing-control technique, not limited to the RDS(ON) of the SR MOSFET, the FAN6204 is suitable for fixed frequency or quasi-resonant (QR) flyback converters and…
Data acquisition and control software suite for Windows 7 64- and 32-bit, Vista and XP
Data acquisition and control software suite for Windows 7 64- and 32-bit, Vista and XP
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The new software is offered at an introductory price of £50, a 65% discount on older versions of the software. Technical support for life is included in the…
Mixed-Signal = Analog + Digital, or is there more to it?
Mixed-Signal = Analog + Digital, or is there more to it?
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Mladen Nizic of Cadence Design Systems, shows that increasing the efficiency of mixed-signal design can be one of the key elements to boost design productivity and profitability.
Differential gain and phase: Why measure it, if we can’t see it?
Differential gain and phase: Why measure it, if we can’t see it?
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Bill Laumeister, Principal Member Technical Staff, Maxim Integrated Products takes a look at video differential gain and phase and explains why you need to measure it if though you cannot…
CSR announces merger with Zoran
CSR announces merger with Zoran
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CSR PLC and Zoran Corporation have entered into a merger agreement under which Zoran will merge with CSR for an equity value equivalent to approximately US$679 million.
Developing cost-effective USB-based battery chargers for automotive applications
Developing cost-effective USB-based battery chargers for automotive applications
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Abdullah Raouf, Sr., of Pericom examines how to develop cost-effective USB-based battery chargers for automotive applications.
Power Tip 32: Beware of circulating currents in a SEPIC coupled-inductor – Part 1
Power Tip 32: Beware of circulating currents in a SEPIC coupled-inductor – Part 1
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Robert Kollman of Texas Instruments explains how to establish the leakage inductance requirements for the coupled-inductor in a SEPIC topology.


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