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MIT, TI tip 28-nm applications processor
MIT, TI tip 28-nm applications processor
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At the 2011 International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), Texas Instruments and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) will outline what…
Android-operated mobile phone recharges via its own photovoltaic cells
Android-operated mobile phone recharges via its own photovoltaic cells
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At Mobile World Congress, Umeox launched the Apollo, a solar-powered Android phone. The Chinese manufacturer showcased two different models: one…
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…
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…

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,…
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.
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…
Collaboration targets basic virtualisation software
Collaboration targets basic virtualisation software
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Renesas Electronics and Green Hills Software are collaborating to jointly develop basic software for CPU virtualisation technology for real-time control, as well as a software development environment. Hardware support will…
BMW brings new HMI concept to Geneva Motor Show
BMW brings new HMI concept to Geneva Motor Show
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The increasing permeation of automotive and consumer electronics will become visible by a concept car BMW plans to exhibit at the upcoming Geneva Motor Show: The vehicle will feature a…
Continental, NXP to integrate NFC into cars
Continental, NXP to integrate NFC into cars
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Mobile phones will me more tightly integrated into vehicles – this has been the mantra in the industry already for several years. Now chip vendor NXP and automotive electronics supplier…
Continental, NXP to integrate NFC into cars
Continental, NXP to integrate NFC into cars
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The NFC technology is already on the verge to broad acceptance for cellphone-based payment system applications. At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, NXP and Continental showed how the technology…
BMW brings new HMI concept to Geneva Motor Show
BMW brings new HMI concept to Geneva Motor Show
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With the concept car, BMW intends to introduce something like the next level of mobile connectivity. The company has already an optional feature in place called ConnectedDrive – at the…
Audi, Alcatel-Lucent demo LTE-equipped car
Audi, Alcatel-Lucent demo LTE-equipped car
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At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Audi showed an A8 luxury sedan equipped with LTE broadband communications technology. Audi called the vehicle a “functional prototype”. The LTE equipment was…
Qualcomm tips quad-core Snapdragon plan
Qualcomm tips quad-core Snapdragon plan
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Fabless mobile chip company Qualcomm Inc. has announced that its next processor architecture is called Krait and will offer multi-core chips capable of running at a clock frequency of 2.5-GHz.
Graphene made from plain sugar at low process temperatures
Graphene made from plain sugar at low process temperatures
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The lab of Rice chemist James Tour reported in the online version of the journal Nature this week that large-area, high-quality graphene can be grown from a number of…
Cloud encryption software protects data itself rather than storage media
Cloud encryption software protects data itself rather than storage media
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The Credant cloud security platform approach enables granular encryption, access control and key management for enterprises including the cloud provider itself. It protects data itself rather than protecting specific…
Aquiba opts for low power microcontroller for next generation smart water meter
Aquiba opts for low power microcontroller for next generation smart water meter
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The EFM32G890F128 microcontroller handles the A200’s high accuracy flow measurement, data logging, secure communication and application firmware upgrades. Providing a complete platform for intelligent water networks, the Aquiba A200 smart…
Aquiba opts for low power microcontroller for next generation smart water meter
Aquiba opts for low power microcontroller for next generation smart water meter
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Aquiba, a joint venture between Sentec and Takahata Precision, has selected Energy Micro's energy friendly EFM32 Gecko microcontroller for use in its groundbreaking A200 smart water meter. The microcontroller was…
Cloud encryption software protects data itself rather than storage media
Cloud encryption software protects data itself rather than storage media
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Credant Technologies released its beta version of cloud encryption software for virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) and private cloud infrastructures. The cloud security platform provides enterprise customers with the ability to…
Graphene made from plain sugar at low process temperatures
Graphene made from plain sugar at low process temperatures
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Rice researchers have learned to make pristine sheets of graphene, the one-atom-thick form of carbon, from plain table sugar and other carbon-based substances. They do so in a one-step process…
Security goes multi-core
Security goes multi-core
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NetLogic Microsystems has introduced the XLP Multi-Core Security Processor with Integrated NETL7 Layer 7 knowledge-based processor for deep-packet inspection and network security applications. This highly integrated processor targets next-generation network…
LTE modem integrates 3D apps processor
LTE modem integrates 3D apps processor
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Renesas Electronics and its subsidiary, Renesas Mobile Corporation, have introduced a 3D mobile platform, the MP5225. The new mobile platform integrates Renesas Mobile's industry reference LTE triple-mode modem platform, the…
EMC – Synonym for Exasperating, Magic, Confusing? – Part 2
EMC – Synonym for Exasperating, Magic, Confusing? – Part 2
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With EMC being a serious matter if an ABS or airbag suffers a malfunction because a vehicle passes a TV tower too closely, mastering this phenomenon is a basic requirement…
Software is the new hardware
Software is the new hardware
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While the importance of embedded software is now well understood by most semiconductor manufacturers, and the increasing dominance of the ARM architecture is encouraging more of them to differentiate themselves…
Audi, Alacatel-Lucent demo LTE-equipped car
Audi, Alacatel-Lucent demo LTE-equipped car
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At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Audi showed an A8 luxury sedan equipped with LTE broadband communications technology. Audi called the vehicle a “functional prototype”. The LTE equipment was…
CEA-Leti and Edwards join forces on energy-efficient fabs
CEA-Leti and Edwards join forces on energy-efficient fabs
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The system was successfully tested for reliability and energy savings on two tools at CEA-Leti and showed a 75 percent reduction in fuel and water use when the…
Intel, AMD prep USB 3.0 chips for 2012
Intel, AMD prep USB 3.0 chips for 2012
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Both Advanced Micro Devices and Intel are expected to sample this year PC chip sets that integrate support for the new USB 3.0 interface. The chips are expected to be…
Agilent uses new ASIC in MSO market attack
Agilent uses new ASIC in MSO market attack
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The X-Series scopes use an Agilent-designed custom 90-nm CMOS ASIC with 6M gates and embedded memory. This MegaZoom IV single-chip architecture provides  fast waveform update rates and responsive deep memory…


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