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Taking analog circuits to lower voltages
Taking analog circuits to lower voltages
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Brandt Braswell, a distinguished member of the technical staff at NXP Semiconductor, discusses some of the trials and pitfalls of…
Electromobility in the luxury range at BMW
Electromobility in the luxury range at BMW
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A new electric luxury car model, a gradual move towards electric powertrains and more smart connectivity in mobility are the…
BMW throws the switch to smart and electric mobility
BMW throws the switch to smart and electric mobility
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A new electric luxury car model, a gradual move towards electric powertrains and more smart connectivity in mobility are the…
Rapid prototyping platforms for embedded developers
Rapid prototyping platforms for embedded developers
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Driven by the demands for ever faster design cycles and increasingly complex products, embedded developers feel compelled to back the…

What do InVisage and InvenSense have in common?
What do InVisage and InvenSense have in common?
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Has ten-year-old startup called InVisage Technologies Inc. been taking a leaf out of the business playbook of fabless inertial MEMS sensor vendor InvenSense, encouraged by manufacturing partner in common, TSMC?…
Hands-on training for advanced GUI’s
Hands-on training for advanced GUI’s
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Intelligent Display Solutions (IDS) and Altia have teamed up to host two workshops that will provide hands-on training in the development of advanced 'graphical user interfaces' (GUI's).
Pitching one AI solution against next
Pitching one AI solution against next
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According to Artificial Intelligence software solutions provider Dato, apps of the future will all run a form of machine learning or another to better serve their users.
Taking analog circuits to lower voltages
Taking analog circuits to lower voltages
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Brandt Braswell, a distinguished member of the technical staff at NXP Semiconductor, discusses some of the trials and pitfalls of shrinking voltage for analog circuit blocks.
Bandwidth demand drives connector design
Bandwidth demand drives connector design
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Meeting today's bandwidth needs is often defined in terms of performance requirements and what can or can't be achieved with current technology options. Many engineers are currently struggling to design…
Understanding your chip’s age
Understanding your chip’s age
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In this Q&A about in-chip monitoring, Moortec's CTO, Oliver King shares his insights on the relevance of understanding the mechanisms for chip ageing and how one can take this ageing…
Understanding your chip’s age
Understanding your chip’s age
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In this Q&A about in-chip monitoring, Moortec's CTO, Oliver King shares his insights on the relevance of understanding the mechanisms for chip ageing and how one can take this ageing…
Dynamic Envelope Tracking in a power supply for the automotive market
Dynamic Envelope Tracking in a power supply for the automotive market
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During a visit with Intersil recently, I met with Niall Lyne, Product Line Director for Automotive and Ed Kohler, Marketing Manager for Automotive-Grade Power Solutions. Once in a while, I…
Selecting heavy duty connectors for industrial applications
Selecting heavy duty connectors for industrial applications
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The process for selecting industrial multipole connectors, wherever connections are required to power, control, data and signal circuits has to take into consideration a variety of aspects as well the…
Startup with mixed-signal ASICs to boost 4G capacity
Startup with mixed-signal ASICs to boost 4G capacity
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No doubt 5G is coming to save a mobile world that’s struggling to keep up with the explosion in data traffic. But mobile network operators must find a solution —not…
Shoot-through suppression: the diodes make the difference
Shoot-through suppression: the diodes make the difference
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When two switching devices are placed in series to serve as a hi-low switching pair (think of half-bridge inverters, of full-bridge inverters and the like), one insidious phenomenon that must…
Stress management using sensors presents challenges
Stress management using sensors presents challenges
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Chip technology lets us improve existing measurement and diagnostic methods for conditions such as cardiac and neuro disorders by making medical equipment more compact, more economical, and more comfortable for…
High-integration system design simplified with Zynq-on-a-module
High-integration system design simplified with Zynq-on-a-module
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Trenz Electronic’s UltraSoM+ is a system-on-module that hosts the Xilinx Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC – the module maker is targeting in automotive, broadcast, communications, industrial, medical, mil/aero, and test & measurement…
Detecting and dealing with stress using sensors: quite a challenge
Detecting and dealing with stress using sensors: quite a challenge
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Chip technology enables us to improve existing measurement and diagnostic methods for conditions such as cardiac and neuro disorders. It makes the equipment more compact, more economical and more comfortable…
Are millimeter waves the key to easy Internet access?
Are millimeter waves the key to easy Internet access?
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Bill Schweber considers a startup's proposal to bring high-bandwidth Internet to the masses via difficult-to-engineer millimeter waves.
EMI test receiver expands dynamic range
EMI test receiver expands dynamic range
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Specifically configured for certification and R&D measurements required in the A&D (aerospace & defence) and automotive sectors, Rohde & Schwarz’ ESW EMI test receiver claims the widest dynamic range and…
Electrical test tool combines multimeter functions & IR imaging
Electrical test tool combines multimeter functions & IR imaging
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FLIR has designed a test tool, primarily for electrical and power-installation test and maintenance, that adds built-in thermal imaging to a high-current AC/DC clamp meter.
Making design-for-test a push-button process
Making design-for-test a push-button process
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Implementing a Design for Test approach when designing PCBs at the schematic capture stage can now be significantly assisted using an innovative and free software extension that adds design verification…
Do you have a back-up power supply?
Do you have a back-up power supply?
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Power is the lifeblood of a modern business. In the 21st century, almost everything we do requires a power source. But what do you do if that power source fails?…
Crowdfunding: the new marketing tactic for design-in
Crowdfunding: the new marketing tactic for design-in
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Opting for a ridiculously low and flexible goal, such as the $7,000 seeked for its CleO TFT display board on Indiegogo, FTDI is returning to crowdfunding.
CE+T Power wins Google’s “Little Box Challenge” for compact inverter
CE+T Power wins Google’s “Little Box Challenge” for compact inverter
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Power specialist CE+T Power (Wandre, Belgium) has won the Google and IEEE Little Box Challenge. The company was awarded the $1 million prize at the ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit in…
Secure communications for connected cars, infrastructure, & safety critical IoT
Secure communications for connected cars, infrastructure, & safety critical IoT
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An updated version of LynxSecure from Lynx Software Technologies adds secure bare-metal networking and advanced cloud-based threat detection capabilities. The system continues to use the principles of separation kernel, and…
ITU meeting reports progress in developing 5G standard
ITU meeting reports progress in developing 5G standard
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The ITU group engaged with developing International Mobile Telecommunication (IMT) systems – ITU-R Working Party 5D – is meeting in Beijing, China, to further develop IMT-2020, the standard for 5G…
HVGA display shield reduces work-load for Arduino cards
HVGA display shield reduces work-load for Arduino cards
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Following its previous crowdfunding project, NerO, FTDI Chip has announced an Arduino-related product for which it is using Indiegogo to promote to the global engineering fraternity; the company says that…


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