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Xilinx ships first 20nm Asic like FPGA

Xilinx ships first 20nm Asic-like FPGA

An innovative architectural approach is required to manage multi-hundred gigabit-per-second levels of system performance with smart processing at full line rate, scaling to terabits and teraflops. The mandate isn’t simply to increase the performance of each transistor or system block, or scale the number of blocks in the system, but to fundamentally improve the communication,

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Philips Lumileds offers high flux density UV LEDs

Philips Lumileds offers high flux density UV LEDs

Philips Lumileds a family of high flux density LEDs in wavelengths of 380-430nm. The Luxeon UV LEDs are designed for applications including ultraviolet curing, counterfeit detection, medical, industrial and specialty lighting. “The UV LED market has been hampered by limited flux density and a lack of design flexibility,” said Kurosh Hashemi, Senior Product Line Manager at Philips Lumileds. “The company addressed

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smartphones

Spreadtrum Single-Core ARM Processor for Low-End Smartphones

Communications, the China-based mobile chip supplier, is targeting the low-end smartphone market which is now seen as the key high-growth smarttphone market. Spreadtrum is using a single core Cortex-A5 CPU to keep design costs low  and it is in volume production of its SC7710 chipset. “The mass market opportunity in smartphones is the entry level smartphone buyer, that is

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mobiles

ARM’s graphics cores start to dominate in Android mobiles – See more at: http://www.electronicsweekly.com/news/components/microprocessors-and-dsps/arms-graphics-cores-start-to-dominate-in-android-mobiles

ARM says it is seeing big success for its Mali graphics processor core in Android smartphones and tablets. The Mali graphics accelerator is a relatively new processor product for the low power CPU developer, but it is fast gaining significant traction in the mobile market. “ARM Mali GPUs unit shipments have increased by more than

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home for factory automation

Carmel, Monterey and Fremont are home for factory automation

Three reference designs from Maxim Integrated Products are aimed at design of factory automation systems. Called Carmel, Monterey, and Fremont, these industrial reference designs are fully tested subsystems, complete with schematics, layout files and firmware, and are available for immediate use and customisation. The Carmel (MAXREFDES18#) subsystem, with its high-accuracy, low-noise analogue output high voltages

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“breakthrough”

UK start-up makes 28nm FD-SOI embedded memory “breakthrough”

SureCore, the UK-based embedded memory process developer, has announced that it has taped out its low power SRAM IP demonstrator chip in STMicroelectronics’ 28nm Fully Depleted Silicon-on-Insulator (FD-SOI) process. The device will be used to validate the benefits of the start-up’s patented array control and sensing scheme, which is claimed to lowers active power consumption

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Where a cable can´t a Bluetooth can

Where a cable can´t, a Bluetooth can

Keyboard, display, sensor or other device can be connected by means of Bluetooth modules even without cables. Many times, it´s more practical to have devices interconnected wirelessly. Whether we need a simpler transfer of values from some sensor or a more complicated data communication between two devices, Bluetooth modules will manage it without a long

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