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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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Luxtera, ST reach a consensus to take silicon photonics main trend

Published:2012/3/5 4:00:00 Author:Iris zhang

STMicroelectronics NV has came to an agreement with CMOS photonics specialist Luxtera Inc to develop a profession silicon photonics process at its 300-mm research and pilot production wafer fab in Crolles, France. Then production at Crolles would permit these two companies to supply silicon photonics components and systems. The purpose ...   (View)

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Primary-Side-Control for LEDs

Published:2012/3/5 0:52:00 Author:Ecco

Monolithic Power Systems MP4021 power solution reduces component costs and improves overall energy efficiency with several methods，including the primary-side control. It also limits primary-side turn-on switching loss，using boundary conduction mode (BCM) and implements active power-factor correction (PFC). The general illumination markets have been rising the demand for high-efficiency lighting with LEDs. ...   (View)

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Features of the Quad 40-V precision amplifiers

Published:2012/3/5 0:27:00 Author:Ecco

Quad 40-V precision amplifier is generated by Intersil Corp. It has the features of high ESD and low power to provide excellent DC accuracy and noise performance. The new quad amplifiers are ideally for 12-bit to 24-bit process control, data acquisition and instrumentation applications. The models include ISL28407, ISL28417 and ISL28408. (View)

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The Improvement of Supercomputer in US

Published:2012/3/5 0:19:00 Author:Li xiao na

The first phase of an improvement to Jaguar has been completed by Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Jaguar is the most powerful supercomputer in US, which will boosted from 2.3 to 3.3Pflop. The system will be renamed Tian and will be capable of 10 to 20Pflops, when the upgrade process is completed in this fall. The positive impact on applications can be seen, for example in computational fluid dynamics from the double...   (View)

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The STM32 F0 series aim to budget sophisticated applications

Published:2012/3/4 19:37:00 Author:Ecco

The STM32 F0 series integrate hardware support for Consumer Electronics Control (CEC) included in the HDMI interface. The CEC core can be independently clocked by a low-speed 32 kHz external clock or internal 8MHz clock further reducing system cost. This simplifies design into numerous home multimedia devices, allowing connections based on the latest industry-standard protocols while leaving the microcontroller’s C...   (View)

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Intel, AMD withdraw of WSTS

Published:2012/3/2 4:20:00 Author:Iris zhang

Late last year, AMD (Advanced Micro Devices Inc) confirmed to pull out of WSTS. According to Wall Street Journal Tuesday, Intel Corp also declared that they would exit from this organization on Feb 28th. WSTS organization is short for World Semiconductor Trade Statistics. It is a non-profit organization which publishes reports about global ...   (View)

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FTDI’s USB Interface Design Makes User Experience Better

Published:2012/3/2 2:08:00 Author:Li xiao na

The full range of USB interface design options of Future Technology Devices International are pulled together in a single range of products. The X-Chip series is available with 13 different package options. Just like FTDI’s proprietary FT1248 I/O, it supports interface types, such as UART, full UART, FIFO and I2C. The supplier said the new r...   (View)

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Description of Toshiba’s Free Software Tool

Published:2012/3/1 0:54:00 Author:Li xiao na

Toshiba is a world leader in technology. It is specialized in manufacturing electrical and electronic products. Information and communications equipment and systems, electronics components and material, power systems and industrial equipment, consumer products are included in its product archive. A free software tool has been released by Toshiba, which is designed to design and test the embedded motion cont...   (View)

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Atmel’s 5in and 10in Automotive Touchscreen and Touchpads are Available Now

Published:2012/2/29 1:13:00 Author:Li xiao na

Founded in the year of 1984, Atem Corporation is an industry leader in secure system, especially for the smart card market. System-level solutions built around flash microcontrollers are the focal point of this company. Its products include microcontrollers, and its own Atmel AVR and AVR32 architectures, radio frequency devices, EEPROM ...   (View)

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The Health-focused IPhone Apps will Become Popular in the Future

Published:2012/2/28 1:37:00 Author:Li xiao na

Two Cambridge graduates founded the Cambridge Consultants in the year of 1960. It provides the outsourced Research and Development to clients. All its clients need to develop innovative, technologically novel and breakthrough products. Furthermore, this firm also can offer business consulting service in the aspect of innovation management, market strategy and technique due diligence. The Bluetooth low e...   (View)

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LTE Network Performance can be Limited by Handset Transmit Performance

Published:2012/2/27 1:09:00 Author:Li xiao na

Founded in the year of 2002, Nujira is specialized in offering radio frequency transmission technology. The high accuracy tracking modulator technology controls the power supply to the circuit line with the transmission performance required; hence the radio frequency power amplifiers for 3G and 4G cellular network can be created. The w...   (View)

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The First FRID Circuit Developed by Imec

Published:2012/2/24 1:00:00 Author:Li xiao na

Imec was founded in the year of 1982 when the Flemish government started a comprehensive program in the field of microelectronics. It is a micro and nanoelectronics research center. It is heardquatered in Leuven, Belgium. The offices of this firm cover Netherlands, Taiwan, USA, China and Japan. There are 1,900 people are employed by Imec. The revenue was 285 million euro in the year of 2010. The world’s fir...   (View)

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SEMICON China 2012

Published:2012/2/23 20:55:00 Author:Phyllis

SEMICON China will takes place on March 20-22 in Shanghai, with SOLARCON China and FPD China, together featuring 1,000+ exhibitors, 150+ government delegations, and 50,000+ attendees. According to the most recent SEMI Consensus Forecast, 2011 saw 26% growth for semiconductor fab equipment spending in China. China’s current Five-Year Plan (2011-2015) targets expansion for China’s microelectronics supply chai...   (View)

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Vishay Presented the MIL-PRF-83401-qualified Through-hole, single-in-line Thin Film Resistor Network

Published:2012/2/23 20:26:00 Author:Phyllis

Vishay’s newly presented MIL-PRF-83401-qualified through-hole, single-in-line thin film resistor network features low absolute TCR of ±25 ppm/°C, TCR tracking of 5 ppm/°C, and tight ratio tolerances to to ±0.05%. The resistor network offers three to nine resistors and is available in 6-, 8-, and 10-pin low-profile configuratio...   (View)

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NXP Announced the TJA1027 Transceiver

Published:2012/2/23 1:13:00 Author:Phyllis

NXP Semiconductor, the world’s largest supplier of in-vehicle networking semiconductor, recently announced the availability of the TJA1027, a standalone LIN 2.2 transceiver that enables smaller, lighter and more cost-efficient electronic control units in cars. As an ideal for body control and gateway modules, particularly where there are board apace constraints due to high node count, and also for typical ...   (View)

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CEVA’s DSP Architecture Supports Various Communication Standards

Published:2012/2/23 0:30:00 Author:Li xiao na

CEVA is a leading company to offer supply chain solutions for large and medium-sized national and multimedia companies all over the world. The complete supply chain design and implementation in logistics and freight management are supplied by CEVA alone or in combination. The facilities of CEVA cover 170 countries, and it has 49000 employees. CEVA has attached much importance on offering outstanding supply chain se...   (View)

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ON Semiconductor Introduces the NCV47700 and NCV47701 low dropout （LDO） voltage regulator ICs

Published:2012/2/22 21:30:00 Author:Phyllis

ON Semiconductor has announced two new low dropout (LDO) voltage regulator ICs. The new NCV47700 and NCV47701 are ideal for use in audio and infotainment systems, instrument cluster, navigation and satellite radio. The NCV47700 and NCV47701 LDOs feature an output diagnostic pin CSO that can be used to detect open and shorted loads. The devices provide an adjustable output current level between 10 milliamper...   (View)

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Embedded Industry is the Developing Tendency of Electronic Devices

Published:2012/2/22 3:05:00 Author:Li xiao na

The embedded industry makes the electronic devices smaller, less power-hungry. There are so many advantages of lower power consumption and better energy efficiency. It is not only the obvious benefit of longer battery runtimes with mobile ultra-mobile devices, but also it can male the device work in adverse environment. When compared with typical power consumption of well above 10W for Intel’s current Atom ...   (View)

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