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Maxim creates new Power SoC product category to reduce PCB size, extend battery life, and lower total system cost of mobile devices
Maxim announced the creation of highly integrated Power System-on-Chip (Power SoC) devices. These new products integrate power management and mixed-signal functions such as digital audio, a high-speed interface, and a touch-screen controller on a single chip to enable high performance, as well as thinner and smaller form factors in smartphones, tablets, and e-readers.
Cambridge Consultants to support ip.access in new product development
Cambridge Consultants, a leading technology product design and development firm, today announced that it has been appointed by ip.access, the award-winning developer of femtocell and picocell solutions, to help with the development of a range of femtocell technologies targeted at new uses and applications. ip.access turned to Cambridge Consultants due to its extensive experience and expertise in wireless development - through its work in a huge v...
ARM Processor Technology and ARM Partners Continue to Lead in Wireless Connectivity with the Transition to LTE and LTE-Advanced Markets
ARM and a number of its Partner Community, which includes all the leading silicon vendors in wireless connectivity, today highlighted their ongoing activity in baseband modem designs and momentum in the LTE and LTE-Advanced markets. The group also welcomed the acceleration of LTE / 4G technologies that will provide consumers with improved mobile experience based on the ARM architecture. Over the last 20 years ARM processors have proven to be alm...
Analox Chooses LDRA for IEC 61508 Compliance
LDRA, the leading provider of automated software verification, source code analysis and test tools, is announcing its selection by Analox, a leader in gas-detection technology, for compliance and test generation. Analox chose the LDRA tool suite for two projects—a dive monitoring system and for its Analox Sub MkIIIF system that measures oxygen, carbon dioxide, pressure, temperature and humidity in hyperbaric chambers and submarine rescue vehicl...
Imec reports reconfigurable radio solutions enabling low-cost and low-power spectrum sensing
Imec presents a digital front-end component for low-cost and low-power spectrum sensing, paving the way to power-efficient cognitive radios and networks. The new results support industry’s search for increased flexibility and reliability for their next-generation wireless devices.
Broadcom's New Combo Chip Integrates 802.11n Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.0 + HS and FM to Bring New Multimedia Applications to Smartphones, Tablets and Other Mobile Devices
Broadcom announced its newest wireless combination (combo) chip designed to support more media and data applications without impacting size or battery life for smartphones, tablets and other mobile devices. The BCM4330 integrates Broadcom's industry leading 802.11n Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and FM radio technologies on a single silicon die providing significant cost, size, power and performance advantages over discrete semiconductor implementations, makin...
Gary Meyers Named to Oasys Design Systems’ Board of Directors
Gary Meyers, an experienced electronic design automation (EDA) and semiconductor executive, has been named to the Board of Directors of Oasys Design Systems, provider of Chip Synthesis™, a fundamental shift in how synthesis is applied to integrated circuit (IC) design and implementation.
Atmel Digital Temperature Sensors
The Atmel expanding portfolio of digital temperature sensors can be used to address a variety of temperature monitoring needs in applications such as DDR3 DIMMs, Lithium Ion (Li-Ion) and Lithium Polymer batteries, Plasma and LCD TVs, notebook and desktop computers, workstations and servers, digital video recorders (DVRs), energy meters, industrial controls, and various medical devices.
Integrating AT-MINI bootloader in mikroElektronika AVR compilers
This is a short demonstration of how to integrate AT-mini bootloader in mikroElektronika AVR compilers.
AirWalk, Mindspeed and Lime Microsystems Collaborate on LTE Small Cell Technology Development
AirWalk Communications Inc., the leader in innovative small cell radio access networks, Mindspeed Technologies, Inc.(NASDAQ: MSPD), a leading supplier of semiconductor solutions for network infrastructure applications; and Lime Microsystems, a semiconductor company specializing in digitally configurable transceivers for the next generation of wireless broadband systems, have together developed an LTE small cell product to be on display in Barcelo...