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Atmel Optimizes QTouch Architecture for Touch Application-Specific Devices
Atmel announced a new family of QTouch capacitive touch controllers for implementing button, slider and wheel (BSW) functionality on application-specific devices. The new Atmel AT42QT1070 and AT42QT2120 devices offer designers an easy-to-use solution with no firmware development, reduced bill of materials and lower power consumption. In addition, the AT42QT2120 device offers the industry's greatest proximity range of up to 8 inches to enable uniq...
Official opening of new Steatite facilities
Steatite, the UK's largest provider of advanced computer-based measurement, automation systems & battery packs for mission-critical applications, officially opened their new self contained purpose built facility located within the Ravensbank Business Park in Redditch, Worcestershire. Sajid Javid, MP for Bromsgrove and Karen Lumley, MP for Redditch County, unveiled a plaque to mark the relocation.
Nujira and Xilinx complete FPGA envelope tracking reference design
Nujira and Xilinx today announced the first successful integration of envelope tracking (ET) technology with a third-party digital pre-distortion (DPD) solution running on an FPGA. The two companies have delivered a reference design for a cellular base station PA circuit with Nujira’s Coolteq.h envelope tracking modulator linearised by a Xilinx DPD block running on a Xilinx Virtex 6 FPGA platform. Envelope signal generation in the FPGA was impl...
ZMDI ZSSC3122 capacitive sensor signal conditioner benefits battery-powered applications, MEMS, industrial and harsh environments
ZMD AG has expanded its family of capacitive sensor signal conditioners (SSCs) with the addition of the wide-dynamic-range ZSSC3122 cLite device. Thanks to new design technology, the chip delivers 14-bit resolution and 0.25% full-scale-output accuracy. A built-in sleep mode lowers current consumption to
Synopsys to Present at Morgan Stanley Technology, Media & Telecom Conference
Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS), a world leader in software and IP for semiconductor design, verification and manufacturing, today announced that John Chilton, senior vice president of marketing and corporate development, will speak at the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media & Telecom Conference in San Francisco, on Mar. 1, 2011.
RFMD Unveils Portfolio Of Cellular Front End Modules For 3G/4G Switch And Signal Conditioning Applications
RF Micro Devices announced the addition of four new products to RFMD’s expanding portfolio of front end modules for 3G/4G switch and signal conditioning applications. RFMD's switch and signal conditioning product portfolio includes antenna switch modules, switch filter modules, switch duplexer modules, RF power management components, and low noise amplifiers. The four newly introduced products – the RF8889A, the RF1291, the RF1194A, and the ...
AWR Gifts Software to IMS 2011 Power Amplifier and Wideband Balun Student Design Contest Participants and Winners
AWR Corporation, the innovation leader in high-frequency EDA, announced today that it will gift fully-functional, one-year, personal-use term licenses of its popular Microwave Office and Visual System Simulator (VSS) software suites--inclusive of AXIEM 3D planar EM software--to the top 3 winners / winning teams of the International Microwave Symposium (IMS) 2011 High-Efficiency Power Amplifier and Wideband Balun Student Design Competitions. This ...
TI - World’s first Android development platform bringing ZigBee and ZigBee RF4CE to Smartphones and Tablets
Texas Instruments has showcased an Android 2.2 software development platform, designed to simplify the mobile device integration of the ZigBee and ZigBee RF4CE protocol stacks. A first for the industry, mobile device manufacturers can now connect directly to the growing consumer electronics and smart home application markets. Resulting use cases enable consumers to manage commands like smart TV and set-top-box (STB) remote control features or uti...
Texas Instruments and Azcom Technology develop new 3G/4G small cell base station platform, offering developers a boost in performance and product development time
Texas Instruments in collaboration with Azcom Technology, a leading provider of services and solutions in the wireless communications domain, today announced the availability of a new small cell base station platform focused on 3G and 4G high speed data systems. Based on TI’s KeyStone multicore architecture and industry leading TMS320C66x digital signal processor (DSP) core, the TMDXSCBP6616X supports multi-carrier HSPA+ systems as well as ...
Now that’s performance – Texas Instruments’ C66x core surpasses all other DSPs in the market
Texas Instruments today announced its TMS320C66x DSP core, which is at the heart of TI’s multicore DSPs. At 1.5 GHz, TI’s C66x DSP surpasses the performance of any other DSP in the industry, achieving the highest scores on both fixed-and floating-point performance in benchmark tests conducted by the independent third-party analysis firm, Berkeley Design Technology, Inc. (BDTI).