tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34894388031000162462012-02-13T10:49:42.849ZHardware and Software News for the embedded electronics industry in Europe from Nick FlahertyTechnology Writerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13685878839763912155noreply@blogger.comBlogger6651100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3489438803100016246.post-31501808639390025072012-01-09T16:09:00.000Z2012-01-09T16:10:24.485Z

NXP Launches Compact High-Precision MEMS Frequency Synthesizer - EETimes Europe NXP Semiconductors has developed a high-precision silicon MEMS-based frequency synthesizer that it sees competing directly with quartz crystal-based timing devices. Using MEMS technology replaces a quartz crystal with a bare silicon die that is more than 20 times smaller

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Xilinx ships the first parts in its Zynq-7000 extensible processing platform - EETimes EuropeXilinx has demonstrated its Zynq-7000 Extensible Processing Platform (EPP) for the first time as it starts shipping devices to customers. The platform combines 28nm FPGA fabric with a dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore processing system, with the 30K logic cell Zynq-7000 EPP shown running a Linux-based

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Silicon Labs claims lowest power wireless microcontroller - EETimes Europe Silicon Labs is aiming to have the industry’s most energy-efficient microcontroller and wireless MCU with several architectural and technology innovation in its C8051F96x The 8bit core uses a 32bit wide interface to flash for the first time so that multiple instructions can be accessed quickly and the flash shut down

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Entry-level 32bit microcontroller for consumer applications - EETimes EuropeAtmel has launched an entry-level 32bit microcontroller for designs requiring low-power capacitive touch as well as other consumer and industrial applications.By Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.uk

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DSP core designer CEVA has invested in an Israeli gesture recognition company. The software from eyeSight Mobile Technologies will run on CEVA's MM3000 ISP and video platform to add gesture recognition applications for mobile, digital home and automotive markets with the potential to improve power efficiency by a factor of 20.CEVA invests in gesture recognition software firm - Electronics

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Renesas Electronics Europe has teamed up with industrial communication systems company Hilscher to develop a customisable 40nm system-on-chip (SoC) based around a combination of the ARM Cortex-A9 and R4 processor cores. Renesas and Hilscher to develop 40nm high end ARM chip for industrial automation - Electronics Eetimes By Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.uk

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FPGA module for SERCOS III industrial bus - Electronics EetimesBy Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.uk

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An audio power cable costing over £20,000 has been described as "the most advanced cable technology ever developed."£20k audio power cable introduced - E & T Magazine: 'via Blog this'

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Aeroflex launches new S-Series Digital Signal Generators and Vector Signal Analysers Aeroflex is launching two new 3GHz and 6GHz digital signal generators to fill out its S-series as well as two new vector signal generators ranging from 6GHz to 13GHz.By Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.uk

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Magma tool speeds board-level failure analysisMagma Design Automation has launched a design tool that extends CAD navigation and circuit debug from integrated circuits to stacked die, printed circuit boards and multichip modules.By Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.uk

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Freescale develops ARM9 'Home Health Hub' for telehealth Freescale Semiconductor has developed a home health hub (HHH) reference platform to help medical equipment manufacturers quickly and easily create remote-access devices that can collect, connect and securely share health data for improved healthcare management.By Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.uk

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World’s First 802.11ac chipset for Gigabit-Wireless Wi-Fi Routers and Consumer Electronics - Electronics EetimesUS chip designer Quantenna Communications has launched the first 4x4 gigabit-speed IEEE 802.11ac wireless local-area networking (WLAN) chipset. By Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.uk

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Altera Launches Industry’s First OpenCL Program for FPGAs - Electronics EetimesBy Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.uk

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New slimline Em-ITX form factor boardBy Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.ukVIA Technologies has launched its latest Em-ITX form factor board, the VIA EITX-3002, which combines rich I/O with multimedia. Partnered with the new VIA AMOS-5002 industrial chassis kit, the VIA EITX-3002 provides a wide range of durable and fanless next generation devices in medical, healthcare, industrial and building

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Altera, AMD, NVIDIA, Qualcomm and Xilinx lead as tapeouts doubleBy Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.ukThe march of Moore's Law continues as TSMC starts shipping production wafers from its 28nm process technology.  TSMC's 28nm process offering includes 28nm High Performance (28HP), 28nm High Performance Low Power (28HPL), 28nm Low Power (28LP), and 28nm High Performance Mobile Computing (28HPM). The

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By Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.uk The multi-gesture touchscreen continues to be the most popular story on The Embedded blog in October, but recent stories on the ARM Cortex-M4 and ST's ultra-low power microcontroller research have made an interesting entry into the list. With 9,800 views this month, these are just a small fraction of the stories that were of interest to the embedded community.

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Ready for TSMC 40nm and 28nm process in 2012By Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.ukApplied Micro has demonstrated the world’s first 64bit ARMv8 processor core running on an FPGA platform and parallels AppliedMicro’s launch of the industry’s first 64bit ARM 'Server-on-a-Chip' solution in a single footprint, designed to deliver disruptively low power and cost points for server and cloud computing

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384Mbyte/s for industrial and machine vision By Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.uk Digital camera experts Point Grey have developed the world's smallest USB3.0 camera. Measuring just 29 x 29 x 30mm, the FL3-U3 is designed specifically for the demanding requirements of machine and computer vision applications. The first available models are based on monochrome and colour versions of the Sony

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Release 2.0 adds 22 standards, specifications and guidelines to the 75 in the NIST roadmapBy Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.ukNew standards, cybersecurity guidance and product testing proposals are among the new elements in an updated roadmap for Smart Grid interoperability by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in the US.The NIST Framework and Roadmap for Smart Grid

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Laser diodes provide higher brightness with more efficiency By Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.uk Sandia researcher Jeff Tsao examines the set-up used to test diode lasers as an alternative to LED lighting. Skeptics felt laser light would be too harsh to be acceptable. Research by Tsao and colleagues suggests the skeptics were wrong. (Photo by Randy Montoya).  Researchers at Sandia Labs in

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Prototype systems using ARMv8 in 2014By Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.ukCambridge processor core designer ARM has disclosed technical details of its new ARMv8 architecture, the first ARM architecture to include a 64bit instruction set. ARMv8 extends virtual addressing but keeps the backward compatibility with the 32bit ARMv7 architecture which is used for cores such as the Cortex-A9 and

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Key development could replace costly or painful testsBy Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.ukResearchers in Israel have developed a new sensor array that can diagnose MS by analysing the determined chemical compounds that appear in the breath of MS patients. Instead of using painful tests such as spinal tap or expensive ones such as an MRI, the team at the Laboratory of Nanomaterial-based Devices (

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Fifth-generation family with up to 2MB of flash and 192KB of SRAM By Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.uk Atmel has weighed into the battle around the ARM Cortex-M4 microcontroller with its SAM4S16 that is now sampling to lead customers. This is its first M4 device, and challenges NXP, STMicroelectronics and TI who all have M4 parts. Freescale yesterday announced plans for an M4 device with an A5 

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Real time system uses double radio feature in Waspmote sensor board By Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.ukSpanish startup Libelium has developed a Vehicle Traffic Monitoring Platform as part of its Smart Cities solution that combined Bluetooth sensors in a Zigbee network.  The platform is capable of sensing the flow of Bluetooth devices in a given street, roadway or passageway while

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For simultaneous, deterministic real-time control and graphics-rich applications processing for industrial and automotive applications By Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.ukFreescale Semiconductor has combined a high-performance ARM microcontroller (MCU) and an energy-efficient applications processor for simultaneous real-time control, graphics-rich apps processing and flexible connectivity. The

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First PIC32s to offer on-board peripherals for audio playback and capacitive touch  By Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.uk Microchip has launched a new series of low pin-count 32-bit PIC32 microcontrollers (MCUs) that provide 61 DMIPS of performance, in packages as small as 5 mm x 5 mm, for space-constrained and cost-sensitive designs. The PIC32 ‘MX1’ and ‘MX2’ MCUs are the company's smallest and

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Dual core Cortex-A9 SoM provides Atom performanceBy Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.ukIsraeli embedded board maker Variscite is aiming to provided the industry's fastest ARM System-on-module (SoM) by using a OMAP4 1.5GHz dual core processor from Texas Instruments.Using TI's OMAP4460 mobile processor fives VAR-SOM-OM44 board a wide range of target markets requiring rich multimedia functionality,

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Flooding in Thailand interrupts HDD supplies By Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.uk Suppliers in the UK and around the world have had their allocation of hard disk drives for the next quarter cancelled, driving up prices and creating an opportunity for solid state drive suppliers. The shipments have been cancelled as a result of the severe flooding in Thailand, as all three large suppliers -

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Atom processor provides colour and high resolution and IP67 for the first time By Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.ukNational Instruments has added seven new models to its NI Smart Camera family, including colour and high-resolution options. The new NI 177x Smart Cameras feature a 1.6 GHz Intel Atom processor for increased processing power and an IP67 rating to protect the hardware from dust and

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New iPhone4S teardown shows new RF front end, altered Qualcomm modem and a throttled apps processorPortable Multimedia reports the latest teardown from ABI Research that looks more closely at the iPhone4S

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Research at Imperial College London paves the way for new generation of biological computing devices By Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.uk Scientists at Imperial College have successfully demonstrated that they can build some of the basic components for digital devices out of bacteria and DNA. Published in Nature Communications, the researchers have demonstrated that they can build logic gates out

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Single-Chip for HD Video Analytics at 1080p/30fps for surveillanceBy Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.uk Altera is expanding in high-definition (HD) video-surveillance with the world's first FPGA-based full-HD 1080p/(30 frames per second) 30fps video analytics on a Cyclone IV FPGA. Altera's single-chip solution provides a new level of video analytics performance, combining high throughput (60-Mpixel

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Atmel RF's latest transceiver offers low-power, antenna diversity and AES security for ISM, IEEE 802.15.4 and ZigBee RF4CE By Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.uk Atmel has launched a new RF transceiver that brings antenna diversity into the high-volume consumer markets in the 2.4GHz ISM (Industrial, Scientific and Medical) band. The AT86RF232 transceiver includes all the necessary features to

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The Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) in Taiwan has developed the world's first electronic paper that can be fully recycled. i2R e-Paper provides a re-writable, re-usable and environmentally friendly recyclable print medium that can be manufactured in a variety of sizes for a 300dpi screen that uses a thermal printer to store and transmit images. This will limit waste on short-lived

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By Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.uk Altera has launched a family of ARM-based SoC FPGAs, integrating 28-nm Cyclone V and Arria V FPGA fabric, a dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore processor, error correcting code (ECC) protected memory controllers, peripherals and high-bandwidth interconnect into a single chip. These SoC FPGAs inherit ARM's ecosystem of software development tools, debuggers,

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Native Instruments Use XMOS Silicon in New ProductsGerman music and DJ equipment designer Native Instruments is using a chip developed in Bristol by XMOS Semiconductor for its latest products. The Berlin company is using the XMOS single chip processors as an audio streaming platform in their product range, helping them to deliver systems that use the latest USBAudio Class 2.0 standard. “We are

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SiRFstarIII system embedded GPS applicationsBy Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.ukAntenova Ltd in Cambridge has developed a GPS receiver module that costs less than $3 to open up the technology to new embedded applications.  The RADIONOVA SS3 Receiver Module is a complete GPS receiver including SiRFstarIII GPS IC and all front end RF components in a very small low profile single package module. It

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Using breath to generate a microwatt to power small devices By Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.uk One of the strangest ways to harvest energy to power small devices has come from engineers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Materials Science and Engineering Assistant Professor Xudong Wang, postdoctoral Researcher Chengliang Sun and graduate student Jian Shi have created a plastic microbelt

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By Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.ukThe team at the University of Manchester that discovered the properties of graphene team have for the first time demonstrated how it can be used inside electronic circuits in the future.By sandwiching two sheets of graphene with another two-dimensional material, boron nitrate, the team created a graphene 'Big Mac' – a four-layered structure which they say could

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Energy harvesting from radio signals powers sensorsBy Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.ukResearchers in Germany have developed a fail-safe system for wireless window sensors that is particularly easy to use and needs no wiring or batteries as the sensors harvest the energy they need to run from ambient radio signals. “Our wireless window contacts draw all their energy from ambient radio signals,”

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By Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.ukMaking porting embedded software between wireless platform easier is one the biggest demand of the industry, according to a new top ten list of 'most wanted' innovations.The list from The Wireless Innovation Forum represents the collective view of the Forum’s 100+ member organizations on innovations, either technical, business or regulatory, that if achieved

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System-on-Chip for Implantable Medical, Wireless Sensor Networks and Mobile Applications By Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.uk STMicroelectronics and the Microsystems Technology Laboratories (MTL) of Massachusetts Institute of Technology have been working on an advanced R&D project targeting a low-power 32bit microprocessor technology that would give a core operating power consumption under 1mW

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Gives uninterrupted video delivery and optimum viewing on any connected deviceBy Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.ukSTMicroelectronics has been working with Fraunhofer's Heinrich Hertz Institute (HHI) on the first 3D video receiver to use the new MPEG-DASH standard for dynamic and adaptive HTTP streaming. The fully working prototype was developed within the EU-funded COAST (Content Aware Searching

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Sub-1 GHz solution with hardware, software and tools to help simplify development  By Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.uk Freescale Semiconductor has launched a new ultra-low-power, sub-1GHz integrated smart radio chip for smart metering, medical, building and home automation applications. The MC12311 platform combines a sub-1GHz RF transceiver featuring high link budget and strong blocking

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Commercial GPUs to speed up baggage imagingBy Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.ukMercury Computer Systems is to develop a high performance baggage scanning system based around graphic processors (GPUs). The company, which has been using GPU arrays in military and medical imaging systems since 2004, is using its unique expertise in optimizing algorithms for GPUs and its software framework to enable

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Minimorph uses META processor, two ENSIGMA comms engines and Flow software By Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.uk Imagination Technologies has launched a highly integrated low cost 'connected processor' based system designed to help engineers create the next generation of Cloud-connected embedded and consumer solutions. Minimorph is the first connected processor based development system targeted at

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A 32Gbyte SATA drive in a ball grid array package By Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.uk        Greenliant Systems has started volume production of its SATA interface NANDrive solid state drives (SSDs). The GLS85LS product family has the same pin-out across all capacities—2 GB, 4 GB, 8 GB, 16 GB, 32 GB and higher in the future—which simplifies system-level board design.Measuring 14mm x 24mm x

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Over 100,000 designers can easily add WiFi to embedded applicationsBy Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.ukAtmel Corporation has teamed up with Redpine Signals to help its community of system engineers easily add 802.11n Wi-Fi to its AVR and ARM-based microcontrollers for a variety of embedded systems in building automation, metering, digital audio and medical applications. Designers can add 802.11a/b

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AR7420 Chipset Aims to Provide the Smallest, Highest Performing and Lowest Power HomePlug AV-Based ProductsBy Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.ukFollowing hard on the heels of yesterday's announcement by Broadcom of a 40nm single chip powerline device, Qualcomm Atheros (QCA) has also launched a new chipset for the HomePlug AV powerline networking standard. The networking and connectivity subsidiary

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Driving down cost of HomePlug AV and IEEE 1901 powerlineBy Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.ukBroadcom has launched the industry's first 40nm single chip monolithic Powerline Communications (PLC) SoC that is HomePlug AV 1.1 certified and IEEE 1901 compliant. Using existing residential electrical wiring to create a home network, Broadcom's BCM60321 Powerline Networking SoC enables increased in-home

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Provides Serial and I/O Data, and Auto-Reporting By Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.ukRF Monolithics has launched its latest low-cost, long-range frequency hopping spread spectrum (FHSS) module for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). The DNT24 module is a very affordable solution for wireless applications that require reliable performance in difficult or unpredictable RF environments that

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Opens up broadband to hard-to-reach rural areas with 12Mbit/s over 6km By Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.uk TTP in Cambridge is successfully streaming iPlayer HD video at speeds of over 5.4Mbps across a 5.6km white space link from its research centre near Cambridge to a house in the rural village of Orwell. The early success of these trials demonstrates the potential importance of white space

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Aims to Drive Next Generation of Mobile Payments and Connectivity to Bluetooth and WiFiBy Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.ukBroadcom has launched a new family of NFC chips designed to drive the mass deployment of NFC in consumer electronics devices, based on a leading edge 40nm process.  By using the latest process technology Broadcom cut power consumption by more than 90 percent, used 40 percent

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$2 devices drive high-contrast LCD displays for consumer devicesBy Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.uk NXP has launched the first ARM Cortex-M0 microcontrollers with integrated segment LCD drivers, enabling high contrast and brightness in a single chip. Featuring the NXP PCF8576D LCD driver, the LPC11D00 and LPC12D00 are capable of driving any static or multiplexed Liquid Crystal Displays

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By Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.ukIllinois chip designer Grid Connect has developed a ARM-based System on a Chip with integrated Gigabit Ethernet for the low cost embedded marketplace costing just $10 .The gridARM is designed for low cost products that require a fast Ethernet connection. As most IT networks, PCs and laptops are all gigabit Ethernet, it only makes sense to have all your devices

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HX 100G NPU offers programmable wirespeed processing, advanced traffic management and low power consumption By Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.ukSwedish chip designer Xelerated has started volume production of its HX family of 100G network processors (NPU) for packet-OTN, mobile backhaul/PTN and Carrier Ethernet Switch-Routers.  The HX family of NPUs was the first to demonstrate 100G wirespeed

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Researchers in Denmark have developed a fully functional smartphone brain scanner with a a low-cost 14-channel EEG headset with a wireless connection to a Nokia N900 smartphone. This provides a touch-based interface with real-time brain state decoding and 3D reconstruction and enables minimally invasive EEG monitoring in naturalistic settings.See the video here: Researchers develop brain scanner

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Low cost headset connects to Nokia phoneBy Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.ukResearchers in Denmark have developed a fully functional smartphone brain scanner with a a low-cost 14-channel EEG headset with a wireless connection to a Nokia N900 smartphone. This provides a touch-based interface with real-time brain state decoding and 3D reconstruction and enables minimally invasive EEG monitoring in

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Combines Lantiq’s network processors with Altair’s LTE chipset By Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.ukGerman chip maker Lantiq has teamed up with Altair Semiconductor to speed development of LTE-ready home gateways.  The deal combines Altair's ultra-low power, small footprint and high performance 4G LTE chipsets with Lantiq XWAY GRX family of network processors.The Altair FourGee-3100/6200 is a 3GPP

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China to see $586bn investment in the next ten yearsBy Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.ukThe proliferation of electrical smart grids during the next decade will generate nearly $6 billion worth of demand by 2020 for lithium ion batteries used mainly in energy storage systems, according to the IHS iSuppli Rechargeable Batteries Special Report. Worldwide revenue from sales of lithium ion batteries

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EETimes reports that Broadcom is closing its chip design business for the US ATSC digital TV standard. The decision seem to come as the company is said to have been steadily losing DTV sockets to two Taiwan-based consumer chip companies, MediaTek and Mstar, in the mid- to low-end of the digital TV markets. Broadcom closes DTV, Blu-ray chip units:

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IDENT Technology and AU Optronics to jointly develop Multi-touch displays with integrated long range free-space 3D gesture control capabilities By Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.uk One of the world's largest flat panel makers, AU Optronics, has signed a deal to use a 3D gesture control chip in its 2D multi touch and 3D Liquid Crystal Display Modules (LCM) to create the world’s first LCM display

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By Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.ukThe competition for microcontrollers based on the ARM architecture is hotting up with STMicroelectronics launching its STM32 F4 series of microcontrollers with the claim of the world's most powerful.  The 90nm series is based on the latest ARM Cortex-M4 core, which adds signal-processing capabilities and faster operations. Single-cycle DSP instructions of the

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Battery life of over a year for wireless peripherals By Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.uk Cypress Semiconductor has launched a highly integrated 2.4GHz WirelessUSB Radio-on-a-Chip with very low power consumption for wireless keyboards, mice, remote controls and other Human Interface Devices (HIDs). The new devices are offered in 4 x 4 mm QFN packages, in bare die, and in wafer form, enabling

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By Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.uk Carbon nanotubes have been are inching toward electrical conductivities seen in metal wires in the labs, but researchers have now been able to use them at line voltages, lighting up interest among a range of industries. Researchers at Rice University in the US made such a cable from double-walled carbon nanotubes and powered a fluorescent light bulb at

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Major German manufacturer will also make ARM tablet and box PCs By Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.ukOne of Europe's major embedded manufacturers is to add a new format of ARM-based boards and PCs boxes to its Intel and AMD-based product range. Kontron describes this as a strategic move into the ARM architecture, enabling a new breed of embedded scalable building blocks for application-ready

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iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch devices replace controller to make iOS monster truck danceBy Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.ukThis one is a bit of fun for September but hints at the demise of the radio controlled handset, instead using freely available iOS devices to give more control, either using the gyroscope or the touch panel and so adding to the capabilities of embedded devices without adding

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Portable Multimedia: Nokia sees 1000x more bandwidth for 'Beyond 4G' There is room for a ten-fold increase in mobile broadband subscribers and possibly up to 100 times higher traffic per user (more than 1 GByte/sub/day), with smartphones and super-phones experiencing the fastest growth, says Harri Holma, a Fellow at Nokia Siemens Networks. 'via Blog this'

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By Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.uk It looks like the world's first TV to be controlled by brain waves is really set to launch in a few days time. The  TV, developed by Haier in China, uses embedded EEG technology from Neurosky, which already supplies companies such as Mattel and Toshiba with its ThinkGear system.The Haier Cloud Smart TV offers the ability for users to interact with their Smart

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By Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.uk Researchers in the US have have demonstrated a quantum integrated circuit that implements the quantum von Neumann architecture, the heart of practical computing. In this architecture, a long-lived quantum random access memory can be programmed using a quantum central processing unit, all constructed on a single chip, providing the key components for a quantum

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Cuts package size by almost a factor of 2 to open up new designs By Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.uk ST has shrunk its popular 3-axis analogue gyroscope by half. The L3G3250A combines the same robust and field-proven micromachined MEMs technology that ST has already used to produce nearly 1.54 billion motion sensors with a smaller package technology to make it the first 3-axis gyroscope to meet

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MATLAB and Simulink Speed Simulations by 200x and Reduce Gate Count by Half By Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.uk MathWorks is succcessfully moving its MATLAB and Simulink model-based deign tools more into silicon design. Faraday Technology is using Model-Based Design to accelerate the development of SoCs, including development of its NAND Flash Controller error correcting code (ECC) engine.

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Inkjet printing of single-crystal films: By Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.uk

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Build Your Own Arduino Sonar For The Visually Impaired: "Build Your Own Arduino Sonar For The Visually Impaired" 'via Blog this'

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By Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.uk Revenues over $12bn by 2016 with powerline dominating but US rollouts peak this year Worldwide smart meter revenues will grow to over $12bn by 2016, with the vast majority ZigBee-enabled say market researchers In-Stat..The smart meter is a device that is at the heart of the smart grid transformation. It records a user’s electrical, water, or gas usage at a set

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By Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.uk Connector-free, high-capacity, embedded SSDs for a new generation of tablets and ultrathin notebooks Memory maker SanDisk has implemented the new SATA µSSD specification into its SanDisk iSSD product line of postage stamp-sized embedded SSDs. SATA-IO, an industry consortium dedicated to sustaining the quality, integrity and dissemination of serial ATA (SATA)

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The TRF7970A evaluation module  By Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.uk TRF7970A NFC platform speeds designs with easy-to-configure software Texas Instruments has launched what it claims is industry’s lowest-power contactless short-range communication transceiver. Aimed at infrastructure devices, the TRF7970A extends battery life through eight selectable power modes ranging from under 1µA in

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 Development of Joint Licensing on Bluetooth enabled and IR 3D glasses By Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.uk Panasonic, Samsung Electronics, Sony and X6D (XPAND 3D) are to collaborate on the development of a new technology standard for consumer 3D active glasses called the "Full HD 3D Glasses Initiative." The companies say they will work together on the development and licensing of radio

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Source Code of Popular Real-Time Kernel Now Available for Free Evaluation By Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.uk Embedded real time operating system vendor Micrium is to make the source code of the popular real-time kernel uC/OS-III available free of charge to developers who wish to evaluate uC/OS-III, as can researchers, students and others in academia.To help ensure that developers who try out

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Intel Core i7 Processor and Smallest NI Single-Board RIO Devices  By Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.uk National Instruments has expanded its reconfigurable I/O (RIO) platform with the addition of the highest performance and first multicore system and smallest Single-Board RIO devices. Acknowledging the move to multicore in embedded systems, the cRIO-908x systems feature an Intel Core i7

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By Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.uk 25 years of graphical programming with LabView 2011 National Insturments has launched its 25th anniversary version of the LabView graphical programming tool. The new version usefully adds re-use of code from Microsoft's .NET framework as well as more hardware integration. LabVIEW 2011 helps increase development efficiency through new engineering-specific

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Camera fits on the head of a pin - MedicalPhysicsWeb

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Phone sensor: This modified iPhone case can be used to detect sodium levels via a nanosensor “tattoo.” Credit: Heather Clark and Matt Dubach By Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.uk Researchers at Northeastern University in the US have developed a technique to track blood sugar via an iPhone, aiming at cyclists initially. The technique uses an injection of carefully chosen nanoparticles into the

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By Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.uk Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a memory device that is soft and functions well in wet environments, opening the door to a new generation of biocompatible electronic devices. “We’ve created a memory device with the physical properties of Jell-O,” says Dr Michael Dickey, an assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular

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By Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.uk Researchers have developed a new way to fabricate nanometre-scale ferroelectric structures that could lead to a new generation of low cost energy harvesting devices and micromachined structures The key is that they have been able to build ferroelectric structures directly on flexible plastic substrates that would be unable to withstand the processing

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Electricity from Blood SugarBy Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.uk Reseachers at the Department of Microsystems Engineering (IMTEK) of the University of Freiburg are developing biological fuel cells to provide power in the human body. Researchers have yet to find an optimal method for supplying implantable medical microsystems with electrical energy. The batteries of a pacemaker, for instance, need

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By Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.uk French researchers at CEA-Leti have developed an ultra-wideband (UWB) radio chip and location software to help airport operators identify and control the continuous movements of ground crews and their vehicles. The chip and software performance has been demonstrated at Portugal’s Faro Airport as part of the European Commission-funded LocON platform project to

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480 cores on a board for military digital signal rpocessing By Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.uk Marking a key move of massively parallel graphics technology from the PC desktop to the embedded world, Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing (CWCEC) has developed the industry's first openVPX board based on NVIDIA's Fermi graphics engine. The VPX6-490 GPU Application Accelerator uses two NVIDIA

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Printed antennas and electronics capture energy to drive small electronic devices By Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.ukResearchers in the US have developed a low cost way to capture and harness energy transmitted by such sources as radio and television transmitters, cell phone networks and satellite communications systems. By scavenging this ambient energy with ink-jet printed antenna, the

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By Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.uk University of Illinois engineers have developed a silver-inked rollerball pen capable of writing electrical circuits and interconnects on paper, wood and other surfaces. The pen is writing whole new chapters in low-cost, flexible and disposable electronics.  Led by Jennifer Lewis, the Hans Thurnauer professor of materials science and engineering, and Jennifer

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By Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.uk Mentor Graphics is to support Freescale's Advanced Multi-Processing (AMP) Series of QorIQ multicore processors (below) with its Embedded Linux platform, open source tools and services, to deliver a unified workflow for Freescale customers. Freescale customers who are developing Linux-based applications using the AMP Series processors are expected to realize

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Hyperthreading Intel Core i7 6U VME single-board computer launches at Paris Air Show By Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.uk Showing there's still plenty of life in VME, Kontron has launched a 6U VME single-board computer (SBC) VM6050 with an Intel Core i7 processor at the Paris Air Show today.The VM6050 combines extremely high x86 computing and graphics performance with flexible and modular

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AMP series built on 28nm with new multithreaded 64-bit core By Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.uk Freescale Semiconductor's next generation of QorIQ embedded multicore devices uses a new, multithreaded 64bit Power Architecture core, 28nm process technology, up to 24 virtual cores, new acceleration engines and sophisticated power management to deliver new levels of performance and power efficiency

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By Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.uk As portable devices become all the rage, compactness and thin profile have gone mainstream, so Apacer is introducing two industrial SSDs (solid state disks) targeting industrial tablet PCs and rugged mobile devices. The new offerings include the 2.5-inch SAFD 25M3 and the 1.8-inch SAFD 18S3, both of which are storage solutions boasting thin profile as well

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Agreement includes Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and RFID Protocols By Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.uk Green Hills Software has teamed up with Australian provider of embedded wireless solutions Clarinox Technologies to promote both companies’ joint offerings. The Clarinox application suites and drivers for short-range wireless protocols – including Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and RFID – will be integrated with Green

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Mobile phones are a key driver but mobile PC dominates this year By Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.uk The primary story for USB in 2010 was the emergence of the SuperSpeed standard and 2011 should be a much bigger year for the technology, especially in mobile PCs, says market researcher In-Stat. This is driven by the first chipsets from AMD that integrate SuperSpeed into the core logic chipset

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Plug & play M2M for quick entry into the Cloud-based 'Internet of Everything' market By Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.uk Kontron has launched a machine-to-machine (M2M) Smart Services Developer Kit based around Intel's Atom processor, the first time the chip has been used in a more deeply embedded system.The Computer-on-Module (COM)-based kit provides simple 'plug & play' capability enabling

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Using an encrypted 'jamming' signal By Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.uk For embedded devices that are too small or power sensitive to use encryption, providing protection from hacking is difficult. But researchers at MIT and the University of Massachusetts-Amherst (UMass) have developed a new system for preventing such attacks. The system would use a second transmitter to jam unauthorized

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Concerto 32-bit microcontrollers based on C28x and ARM Cortex-M3 cores By Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.uk Texas Instruments has developed a family of microcontrollers with TI’s C28x core and control peripherals with an ARM Cortex-M3 core and connectivity in a clearly partitioned architecture that supports real-time control in a single, cost-efficient device. Software libraries for the key

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Belt will work with any Bluetooth version 4.0 smartphone or gadget By Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.uk Wireless sports & fitness monitoring developer and manufacturer Dayton Industrial has developed a heart rate chest belt that is ready to go into volume production using a Bluetooth 4.0 chip from Nordic Semiconductor.Nordic believes this will spur the development of brand new Bluetooth low

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