Magnified Self presents MixStik, a LED stick to help anyone make perfect drinks, no experience necessary. The LEDs indicate the specific amount of ingredients needed for each cocktail. It couldn’t be easier, everybody can mix and have ...
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The new NFC controller LSI is scheduled to enter mass production in October 2013. Toshiba has launched an NFC controller LSI 'T6NE2XBG', which is said to improve security for mobile payments through proximity wireless communication. ...
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Element14 has introduced a website to support the selection of software tools and BoosterPacks for the Texas Instruments MSP430 Value Line, C2000 and Stellaris microcontrollers. Dubbed TI LaunchPad, the microsite provides access to ...
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IAR Systems has announced a starter kit for developing smart meters, weighing scales and other applications needing precision measurement. The kit is centred around a TMPM061FWFG microcontroller which has an analogue front-end (AFE), ...
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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 ...
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Freescale Semiconductor has signed a major new ARM license agreement which will cover the Cambridge firm’s most advanced processor cores. Freescale has taken a multiyear subscription license with ARM beginning with the ARM ...
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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 ...
The IEEE ISSCC (International Solid State Circuits Conference), which runs this year from February 17-21 in San Francisco, is an important gathering for the electronic engineering industry. It is the world's show case for the best in ...
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What do we mean by “the internet of things” and why is it becoming so important to software design, writes Frank Schirrmeister of Cadence Design Systems As we approach the Embedded World exhibition and conference in Nuremberg ...
32-bit performance at 8-bit prices is the sales pitch for Infineon’s ARM Cortex M0-based family of industrial controllers called XMC1000 which begin sampling in March. ‘With the XMC1000, Infineon is the first semiconductor ...
Effective interrupt control is achievable in low power microcontrollers,writes Joseph Yiu,embedded technology specialist at ARM Interrupts are a major feature of most embedded microcontrollers and effective real time response to interrupts ...
ARM on Thursday formed a group with other U.K.companies to create a reference design on how smart devices with Internet access should be deployed in coming years. ARM said 50 billion intelligent devices with Internet access would by ...
Tags: ARM, U.K., smart devices, Internet access, embedded chips