The injection molding machine sales have shown an upswing in the US during 2012 compared to 2011, according to the latest statistics by Society of the Plastics Industry (SPI). As per the data reported by SPI's Committee on Equipment ...
Tags: Injection Moulding Machines, Packaging, all-electric machines
Agilent Technologies has upped the memory and added serial data decode capabilitiues to its InfiniiVision 2000 X-Series of lower cost oscilloscopes. The X-Series scopes how come with up to 1M of memory per channel and a choice of low-cost ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
A new data interface for battery management systems has been designed to provide interference immunity and to support distributed battery systems, writes Jon Munson from Linear Technology. For reliability of battery packs being designed ...
Tags: Hybrid Car, Car Batteries, Auto Parts
PartnerRe, a provider of diversified reinsurance services, has established a new reinsurance sidecar facility, called Lorenz Re, to offer additional capacity to a number of its customers. Capitalized with $75m through the issuance of ...
The third-party tools and software ecosystem is expanding for Atmel's ARM Cortex-A5-based SAMA5D3 microcontrollers. A5 is ARM's baby A-series-compatible core, designed as an up-grade from the ARM926 and ARM1176 with better mW/MHz than ...
Tags: software ecosystem, ARM, microcontroller
Infineon has released samples of its ARM Cortex-M0 based LED lighting microcontroller family. Included in the family, called XMC1000, are MCUs that include a peripheral, the brightness and colour control unit (BCCU), that can dim and ...
Tags: Infineon, ARM Cortex-M0, LED lighting microcontroller family
When designing a ZigBee wireless sensor networking device is it often necessary to make a system partitioning choice. What makes the most sense – a ZigBee system-on-chip (SoC) that combines a 2.4GHz wireless transceiver and a ...
Tags: ZigBee, wireless sensor networking device, processing core
Texas Instruments has developed an ARM Cortex-M0 that can sleep on zero power and wake in 400ns, intended to run on harvested power. Key to the chip is ferroelectric RAM (FRAM) non-volatile logic (NVL), where the state of flip-flops is ...
An aid to selecting a microcontroller with high-resolution analogue/digital converters for measurement systems and metering designs by Ralf Hickl The quality of analogue peripherals on microcontrollers has risen constantly. It allows for ...
Tags: microcontroller, measurement systems, switching solutions
Analog Devices has introduced a 16-bit dual digital-to-analogue converter (DAC) in its nanoDAC series of small package devices. Relative accuracy is specified at ±2-LSB INL and the device has an on-chip 2.5V reference with ...
Tags: 16-Bit DACs, ADI, Consumer Electronics
"HomePlug AV is used in set-top boxes in Europe and is starting in the US," Greenvity CEO Hung Nguyen. "Any lighting system needs to be interoperable with set-top boxes. HomePlug Green PHY co-exists and inter-operates with HomePlug AV." ...
Tags: HomePlug AV, set-top boxes, US
Computer-on-Modules (COMs) show the way to faster Freescale QorIQ processor-based design without need for costly and time-consuming full-custom design, writes Gerhard Szczuka, product manager for Computer-on-Modules at Kontron Europe. The ...
Tags: Computer-on-Modules, processors, data-intensive applications
Raspberry Pi interface board PiFace will be shipping to the public in the next few weeks. The board adds eight output and eight inputs to Raspberry Pi, as well as various LEDs, switches, and a couple of relays. Most ...
Tags: PiFace, Pi interface board, Raspberry Pi, LEDs, switches
Food price inflation is expected to stabilise over the next few months – despite recent reports of big food price increases from Waitrose – according to market research organisation BRC-Nielsen. Sainsbury reported total ...
Tags: food, price inflation, food price, Waitrose
Cmosis has gone into production with a 12Mpixel 150frame/s colour image sensor. Called CMV12000, "the unique properties and features such as high resolution in 4K HD format, high dynamic range and global shutter, are a fit for ...
Tags: Cmosis, 12Mpixel, image sensor