Texas Instruments(TI)has released LM3463,which is a six-channel LED driver for high-power LED lighting applications.This LED driver is an addition to the already existing TI's range of LED drivers which include the eight-channel TLC5960 and ...
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Maxim is staking its future on integrated analogue in the belief that sales of analogue SoCs will overtake discrete analogue sales within two years. Asked by EW what integrated analogue means,Maxim responded:'Analogue has traditionally ...
Dallas Texas Instruments Incorporated(TI)(NASDAQ:TXN)today introduced a six-channel LED driver with dynamic headroom control for high-power applications,which accurately and efficiently drives up to six strings of LEDs.The LM3463 is the ...
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Based on a low-power Renesas RL78/I1a microcontroller, the DALI Demo Kit uses a wireless mesh network for SSL control and will be available from Virtual Extension in Q4. Renesas Electronics Europe and Virtual Extension are showcasing a ...
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In response to the global energy demands, lighting system engineers continue to develop alternative lighting methods, particularly light-emitting diode (LED) technology. LEDs can provide efficient, cost-effective and low environmental ...
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An embedded networking demonstrator with Infineon's Cortex-M4 based XMC4000 microcontroller has been designed to show how low-cost hardware with a modest memory and no operating system,can support network functions via different physical ...
Joerg Strughold,v-p of EMEA sales at Atmel tells Electronics Weekly industrial applications continue to be largest end market,followed by smartphones and tablets in the consumer market Describe your company's business in two sentences. ...
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For small petrol engines,Freescale has introduced an analogue mop-up chip to fire the ignition,pump the fuel injection,and read sensors in engine management systems. "Small engine makers are increasingly deploying electronic engine ...
Guest writer Andy Gardner,design manager for mixed signal products at Linear Technology says that for designers of networking equipment increasing system functionality adds Asics and processors,each requiring several voltage rails,resulting ...
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Everyone's talking about energy harvesting–but what exactly is it?The term is often used as a paraphrase for the whole range of low-power applications,yet the"harvesters"themselves are only one part of a larger system,writes Ingo ...
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The new UJA1018 from NXP simplifies the configuration of interior LED lighting, and offers car manufacturers and consumers great customization options. Ambient LED lighting is becoming increasingly popular ...
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Vector Software, a provider of software testing solutions, has integrated its VectorCAST platform with Segger Microcontroller Systems' embOS real-time operating system (RTOS). The embOS is a zero interrupt latency RTOS designed to be used ...
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NXP Semiconductors,a provider of in-vehicle networking semiconductors,recently unveiled a compact integrated solution,the UJA1018.This novel solution contributes to versatile and affordable LED ambient lighting applications within the ...
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NXP has introduced a LIN bus interface chip for simple identical control nodes in cars that take their identity from their position in a daisy-chain-so called'node position detection'. Intended for non-critical multi-colour LED modules ...
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Atmel is sampling its first 2Mbyte embedded flash Cortex-M4 processor-based microcontroller. The SAM4SD32 runs at 120MHz operating frequency and features cache memory for accelerated code execution out of flash. "We are continuing to ...
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