Industry News (2012/03/06)

Xsilon is Aiming at M2M Communication with Low Bandwidth

Published:2012/3/6 23:54:00 Author:Li xiao na

Bath-based fabless start-up Xsilon’s goal is the machine-to-machine communication over domestic power. The firm intends to trade data bandwidth for coverage. It tries to reach all mains sockets in a house at low bandwidth, rather than some of the sockets at high bandwidth. The M2M service is going to connect to mobile devices, and the M2M services within the home begin to off; therefore, generation of reliable M2M ...   (View)

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Xilinx 7 Series FPGAs help to gain power-optimized designs

Published:2012/3/6 1:24:00 Author:Ecco

Xilinx 7 Series FPGAs, the new generation of the products requires a set of ever-increasing and conflicting challenges which include increasing integration and performance while reducing power c...   (View)

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The front-end full-spectrum capture cable receivers from MaxLinear

Published:2012/3/6 1:16:00 Author:Ecco

RF and mixed-signal chip vendor MaxLinear Inc. had claimed two 40-nm single-chip solutions for 16- and 24-channel digital cable front-end receivers based on the company’s proprietary full-spectrum capture (FSC) technology on March 5. MaxLinear said that customer samples of the MxL265 and MxL267 are available with volume production expected in the third quarter of this year. MaxLinear uses its proprietary FS...   (View)

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MEMS-based tracking tags can survive in extreme temps and gamma irradiation

Published:2012/3/6 1:00:00 Author:Ecco

The STMicroelectronics and Bluechiip micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS)-based tracking tag is a mechanical device rather than an electronic one; it can survive and function in extreme temperature and gamma irradiation. This robustness provides significant advantages over more traditional identification and tracking solutions such as ...   (View)

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Solving noise issues in hybrid cars by active vibration control technology

Published:2012/3/6 0:54:00 Author:Ecco

As the demand of solving varying vibrations and noise issues in hybrid cars increasing, Trelleborg’s innovative active vibration control (AVC) system is claimed to significantly improve driver comfort by monitoring and adjusting to sound levels. Data from the microphone is fed into an Electronic Control Unit (ECU) that sends a signal to an electromagnetic actuator or shaker located near mount attachment ...   (View)

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ARM’s Studio 5 toolchain supports graphic analysis

Published:2012/3/6 0:02:00 Author:Li xiao na

The Studio 5 toolchain has been introduced by ARM, which supports for graphic analysis on Mali graphics processors. The targeted applications of DS-5 v5.9 toolchain include mobile application processor design and games system development. The DS-5 toolchain of new graphics analyser enables the developers to design interactive interfaces ...   (View)

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