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LED drivers and their applications

Published:2012/3/19 21:21:00 Author:Ecco

The lighting-emitting diodes (LEDs) are more efficient and smaller in size, have a substantially longer life, and allow considerably greater design freedom for improved aesthetics, and more. And they are widely used in automotive applications. An LED driver requires a constant current to LEDs in order to produce consistent ligh...   (View)

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Shanghai International IT & Electronics Fair 2012 Press Release

Published:2012/3/19 8:52:00 Author:Li xiao na

The press release of Shanghai International IT & Electronic Fair 2012 is held by Shanghai Foreign Economic & Trade Department, PuDong New Area Government at March 19th. The fair is supported by SEMI, CPCA and MMI. Mr Wang Yu, director of Foreign Economic & Trade depa...   (View)

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The second generation of FlexRay transceiver

Published:2012/3/18 21:47:00 Author:Ecco

The FlexRay electrical physical layer spec rev. 3.0.1 has been pushed. It is the second generation of FlexRay transceiver and it starts mass production. The conformity, compatibility, and interoperability of new products are taken for granted, the semiconductor manufacturers have to ensure full device specific functional range in existing...   (View)

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Blue Pearl Software supports Synopsys Synplify Pro FPGA

Published:2012/3/18 21:01:00 Author:Ecco

The Blue Pearl Software is a provider of next generation EDA software that increases designer productivity and design quality. The Blue Pearl Software Suite is design...   (View)

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Power Controller Released by Lapis Semiconductor

Published:2012/3/18 5:29:00 Author:Li xiao na

A power controller has been released by Lapis Semiconductor, which is for the systems with dual power supplies like solar panel and batteries such as coin battery. Just like performing the charging control of power supplied from the solar panel to the secondary battery, the devices control the switching between the primary/secondary batter...   (View)

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GainSpan＇s SDK-Builder to create custom Wi-Fi solutions

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

The GainSpan Corporation today pushes SDK-Builder which is a web-based tool. And it enables developers to select Wi-Fi features and build custom binary for their embedded devices with no IDE tool chain. SDK-Builder, the first such tool for the embedded Wi-Fi market, reduces development cost for companies designing connected devices based on GainSpan’s Wi-Fi modules. SDK-Builder provides a baseline default c...   (View)

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HDS6601 server-class Sandy Bridge octal-core Intel Xeon processor

Published:2012/3/15 1:40:00 Author:Ecco

The HDS6601 is a high-density server signal and data processing engine harnessing two of the latest generations of server-class Sandy Bridge octal-core Intel Xeon processor introduced by Mercury Comput...   (View)

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Cypress’s GPIF II graphical tool for EZ-USB FX3 USB 3.0 controller

Published:2012/3/15 1:28:00 Author:Ecco

The Cypress Semiconductor has pushed the immediate availability of their GPIF II Designer Software for EZ-USB FX3 Controllers for SuperSpeed USB 3.0. EZ-USB FX3 is the industry’s first and only certified programmable USB 3.0 device controller, and it adds USB SuperSpeed connectivity to virtually any system. EZ-USB FX3 is the industry’s only certified programmable USB 3.0 peripheral device. It is equipped wi...   (View)

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Status of the NAND Market after Earthquake

Published:2012/3/15 0:52:00 Author:Li xiao na

Influenced by the Japanese earthquake, Toshiba lost six points of NAND market share in the second quarter of 2011. Three of those lost points had clawed back by the end of third quarter. The ratio taken by Toshiba reached 35% in the global NAND market. Its Yokkaichi facilities were far enough from the epicentre to avoid significant da...   (View)

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The popular AVR MCU family of Atmel

Published:2012/3/15 0:46:00 Author:Ecco

The Atmel have pushed 14 new devices in their widely adopted Atmel AVR microcontroller (MCU) family, providing more options to meet unique design requirements. The devices of AVR MCU family include AVR XMEGA C, tinyAVR ATtiny1634, AVR UC3 L3, AVR UC3 D4 and so on. Used by well over 100,000 engineers worldwide, AVR microcontrolle...   (View)

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Cortex-M0+ of ARM has Better Performance

Published:2012/3/14 1:26:00 Author:Li xiao na

In order to make the Cortex-M0 more compatible with bit and 16bit processors, ARM has developed the Cortex-M0+. The instruction set of these two components are same. The big-banging of the M0 has been changed, which can be changed in one cycle now. However, the biggest change lies in the pipeline: where the three-stage M0 design has bee...   (View)

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Electric potential sensor detecting at a distance

Published:2012/3/13 22:41:00 Author:Ecco

LEUVEN, Belgium – Plessey Semiconductors Ltd. (Plymouth, England) prepares to sample an electric potential sensor to detect changes in electric field at a distance. The University of Sussex has been developing the sensor for more than eight years. The first Electric Potential Integrated Circuit (EPIC) sensors are optimized for use as ...   (View)

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Arrow Develops the Evaluation with Energy Harvesting Radio Boards

Published:2012/3/13 4:13:00 Author:Li xiao na

Self-powered wireless sensors can operate with ambient energy such as solar. Small solar panels and Peltier cells are ideal for the harvesting mechanisms for use in smart building sensor networks. The solar panel is used to assist the batteries of small devices such as calculators and watches. By exploiting the movement of charge carr...   (View)

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Ulinx UHR401 and UHR402 USB isolators to withstand industrial environments

Published:2012/3/13 2:03:00 Author:Ecco

B&B Electronics Manufacturing Co. Inc. manufactures its family of USB isolators, which are designed to isolate and protect connected equipment from surges, spikes and electrostatic discharges carried on USB cable. The features of the devices include (1) Level 4 ESD protection (15 kV air, 8 kV contact); (2) 4 kV isolation ...   (View)

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ST, ST-Ericsson using SOI for mobile chips

Published:2012/3/13 2:00:00 Author:Ecco

The ST-Ericsson NV has chosen planar fully depleted SOI (FD-SOI) technology for use with future mobile chips. The implementation of the NovaThor mobile application processor and modem on FD-SOI wafers supplied by Soitec (Bernin, France) enables as much as 35 percent lower power consumption at maximum performance. Soitec SA is a supplier of silicon-on-insulator (SOI) wafers. NovaThor family has been develope...   (View)

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16-kbit memory for Energy harvesting

Published:2012/3/12 3:51:00 Author:Ecco

STMicroelectronics NV has pushed a 16-kbit memory that can also harvest enough energy. The M24LR16E EEPROM is part of ST’s RFID/NFC range of memories. The memory makes the small electronic items become battery-free electronic applications. STMicroelectronics NV is the Europe’s largest chip company. The M24LR16E is a dual-inter...   (View)

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The anti-counterfeit NFC chip of Inside

Published:2012/3/12 3:33:00 Author:Ecco

VaultIC150 is an NFC-based security IC which is designed for embedding into consumer or luxury products. The VaultIC150 is pushed by Inside Secure SA which is a fabless supplier of near field c<...   (View)

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16-string LED drivers with integrated timing algorithms

Published:2012/3/11 21:57:00 Author:Ecco

Atmel Corporation has pushed a new family of high-performance 16-string LED drivers with integrated timing algorithms that improve LCD TVs’ picture quality by eliminating 3D ghosting and flickering effects. With these capabilities, the Atmel MSL2164 and Atmel MSL2166 devices are designed for the new 2D and 3D scrolling backlight TVs. The MSL2164 and MSL2166 devices drive up to 16 parallel strings of LEDs a...   (View)

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Freescale＇s GaAs monolithic microwave IC family for RF basestation ICs

Published:2012/3/9 1:43:00 Author:Ecco

Freescale Semiconductor has designed the integrated gallium arsenide devices for RF basestations, and the device is building on its business in lateral-diffusion MOS discrete power transistors for basestation apps. The first members of Freescale’s GaAs monolithic microwave IC family are low-noise amplifiers and power amplifiers (PAs) for wir...   (View)

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Analysis on World’s Most Powerful Computer

Published:2012/3/8 21:50:00 Author:Li xiao na

A paper at ISSCC in San Francisco has given us an insight to the world’s most powerful computer which is called K computer. It is made by Fujitsu and installed at the RIKEN advanced centre in Kobe. It is tested at 8.162Pflop, and it will reach 10Pflop when it is finished. This supercomputer is based on massive parallelism- in this case 548,352 cores from 68,544 eight-core scalar SPARC64 VIIIfx (View)

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