Why it is that we are only now starting to appreciate the value of big data and where all this data comes from, asks Matthew Caffrey, general manager at Chesterfield-based embedded systems supplier, DSP Design. With the advent of the ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics
Marvell and Daintree Networks will partner to help drive ZigBee-enabled, intelligent SSL products into the commercial sector, and Marvell also announced that it is supplying the driver IC for Samsung Electronics LED retrofit lamps. ...
A processor with a hardware video accelerator can provide an interesting alternative to a traditional DSP-based multimedia system design, writes Israel Shem-Tov, high-end applications engineer at Future Electronics (Israel). Recent years ...
Tags: Video Processing, Hardware Acceleration, Consumer Electronics
At the Optical Fiber Communication/National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference (OFC/NFOEC 2013) in Anaheim (19-21 March), ClariPhy Communications Inc of Irvine, CA, USA, which develops high-speed mixed-signal digital signal processing (MXSP) ...
When St. Andrew's C of E Church in the Gloucester village of Churchdown decided to re-orientate its interior through 90° to better accommodate its growing congregation, it presented a real audio challenge for Kelly Gibson's ...
Tags: Lights, Lighting, Electronics
Krones, A&D Australasia, BASF and Festo are just four of the 270 companies who will be exhibiting at AUSPACK PLUS 2013. Krones Pacific will be showcasing the KSB 6R series on stand 616. The KSB 6R series are PET blow-moulding machines ...
Tags: Krones, A&D Australasia, Electrical
Toshiba has announced its first ARM Cortex-M4 microcontroller with DSP extensions, a floating point unit (FPU) and a programmable servo/sequencer controller (PSC). The TMPM4440 microcontrollers are available with 768kbyte or 1024kbyte of ...
Tags: Toshiba, Consumer Electronics, Electronics
Texas Instruments and 4DSP, a developer of FPGA-based signal and image processing systems, are offering a new mezzanine card, the FMC667, for mission critical applications. 4DSP’s FMC667 mezzanine card includes TI’s ...
Tags: image processing, Texas Instruments, 4DSP
Fohhn Audio, together with leading spatial audio solutions provider IOSONO, has opened Europe's largest state-of-the-art 3D audio demonstration facility in its Nrtingen-based SoundLab. The system offers a spectacular three-dimensional audio ...
Tags: Fohhn Audio, audio solutions, IOSONO
Eriez — an Erie, Pa.-based manufacturer of magnetic, vibratory, inspection and flotation technology for applications in textiles and other industries — has introduced the Eriez line of E-Z Tec DSP metal detectors for detecting ...
Tags: magnetic, vibratory, inspection, flotation technology, textiles
From 8-13 January, this season's Biathlon World Cup was contested in the Chiemgau Arena in Ruhpolding, Germany. During the five days of competition, some 70,000 spectators visited the village in Upper Bavaria to watch the world's elite ...
NXP has announced a 3.6V loudspeaker driver that can deliver 3.4Wrms into an 8Ω speaker. The voltage headroom required comes from an on-chip dc-dc converter with a 9.5V output. Aimed at mobile phone use, it can deliver a lot of ...
Tags: NXP, loudspeaker, company news
XMOS has designed a multicore microcontroller which will cost under $3 in 100 unit quanities. The xCORE XS1-L4-64 integrates four 32-bit logical processor cores producing 400MIPS performance. “This is the price point of other ...
Tags: XMOS, multicore microcontroller, logical processor cores
UK - Described as "an oasis of Latin colour in east London", entrepreneur Ferdie Ahmed has lit up Shoreditch with the opening of Barrio East on the site of the former Avalon club. The third in the Barrio series (following Barrio North in ...
Tags: LED stage lighting, LED, LED lighting
Ikon Semiconductor and Texas Instruments introduced new SSL driver ICs designed specifically for retrofit lamp applications at the Strategies in Light conference. Although socket saturation will come in LED-based retrofit lamps as we ...
Tags: LED Lamp Driver, LED Lamp, LED