Altera Corporation has developed what’s said to be the industry’s first 40nm FPGAs and HardCopy ASICs. The Stratix IV FPGAs and HardCopy IV ASICs, both with transceivers options, provide unprecedented ....
As transportable embedded systems become commonplace, designers are looking for economical ways to integrate global-positioning equipment to track movements and deter theft. To target these applications, ....
The passive/semipassive IDS-SL13A tag chip from IDS Microchip AG finds use in single-cell, battery-powered smart-RFID (radio-frequency-identification) labels. An external 1.5 or 3V battery powers the ....
Actel has extended its Igloo series of low-power FPGAs with Igloo Plus. Whereas the company designed the original devices for maximum density, it optimized the new parts for I/O count. The core-logic ....
At the recent Critical Embedded Systems conference in Scottsdale, AZ, Pentek introduced its latest high-performance, high-resolution software-radio module. The Model 7151 PMC (peripheral-component-interconnect-mezzanine ....
Vibration analysis can serve as the proverbial ounce of prevention for factory equipment, in which unscheduled downtime can be prohibitively expensive. Targeting that prevention, Analog Devices’ ADXL001 ....
With an eye toward demanding military, aerospace, medical, and industrial applications, VersaLogic announced the Cougar single-board computer at the April Embedded Systems Conference. The new PC/104-plus ....
A project at Princeton University shows that surface heating of small features on an IC can reduce edge roughness and, in some situations, repair defects in metal and semiconductor structures. Project ....
Texas Instruments Incorporated opens up new possibilities for low-power lighting design. Its recently developed TPS62260LED board controls the color and brightness of a lamp or runs an automatic color ....
A research group including members from Purdue University, Northwestern University, and the University of Southern California claims it has developed the first active-matrix display based on nanowire ....
