NeoPhotonics Corp of San Jose, CA, a vertically integrated designer and manufacturer of both indium phosphide (InP) and silica-on-silicon photonic integrated circuit (PIC)-based modules and subsystems, has launched a small-form-factor, ...
LED headlamps are getting better and more cars are getting them as industry finds its feet with the technology. Right now there are some 20 car models on the road with LED headlamps - some all-LED and some with LED low (dip) beams and ...
Tags: LED Headlights, Car Makers, Lighting
Thomas Edison invented the first incandescent light bulb 130 years ago, which greatly contributed to the advancement of civilization. However, that technology is antiquated, economically inefficient to operate, and fragile. Fluorescent ...
Tags: LED, LED lights, LEDs
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 ...
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In Star Wars terms, the small cells that mobile carriers and vendors will be talking up this week at Mobile World Congress are more like the odd-couple androids R2-D2 and C-3PO than like their foes, the Empire's phalanxes of identical storm ...
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Held every year in February in San Francisco, the IEEE's International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) is the world showcase for innovative circuit design. This is the 60th conference, and year's theme is '60 years of (em)powering ...
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Delphi Automotive is to use NXP tuner chips in car radios. In particular: the SAF775x family of single-chip RF CMOS tuners, NXP´s AM/FM background tuner, and its SAF36xx software defined radio for digital reception. ...
Microsemi's latest optical system linecard device is designed to address channel density issue with the uptake of 100G links. "Growth of 100G is exceeding our most optimistic predictions and, in turn, significantly bolstering the optical ...
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Based on the ARM Cortex A9 and A15 processors Texas Instruments (TI) has launched the TPS65090, the single-chip, front-end power management unit (PMU) chip which it is claimed can extend the battery life of tablets and other portable ...
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Skyworks Solutions Inc of Woburn, MA, USA (which manufactures high-reliability analog and mixed-signal semiconductors) has secured a reference design with Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) for smart energy, industrial and networking ...
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Professor Yue Kuo of the Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering at Texas A&M University has fabricated a new type of LED, capable of producing a wide spectrum light while operating for long periods of time at atmospheric ...
Tags: LED, LED industry, Fluorescent lights
LED chip and component maker SemiLEDs Corp of Hsinchu Science Park, Taiwan has announced power improvements to its EV-LED family of products (launched last June), allowing single-chip emitters to achieve luminous efficiency of more than ...
Tags: SemiLEDs, Blue EV-LED Chips, LED
SemiLEDs proudly announces its power improvements in its EV-LED family allowing single-chip emitters to achieve over 130lm/W. SemiLEDs announced its recent improvements in both epitaxial quality and chip process to its EV- family of LED ...
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RF Micro Devices Inc (RFMD) of Greensboro, NC, USA has introduced a highly-integrated front end module (FEM) for Smart Energy/Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) applications at the 2013 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. The ...
Tags: RFMD, FEM, Smart Energy, AMI applications
Fabless semiconductor firm RFaxis Inc of Irvine, CA, USA, which designs RF semiconductors and embedded antenna solutions for the wireless connectivity and cellular mobility markets, says that its CMOS RF (radiofFrequency) front-end ...
Tags: RFaxis, RF semiconductors, wireless connectivity, CMOS RF, RFeICs