Consumers will have to share small, inexpensive cells in their homes with nearby mobile users to affordably meet the growing demand for mobile data in the next decade, a Qualcomm executive said Tuesday. "There really is no alternative," ...
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NXP Semiconductors N.V. introduced 15 new reference design boards featuring NXP’s broad portfolio of mains-dimmable and non-dimmable solid-state lighting (SSL) driver ICs. Each reference board is built around a best-in-class ...
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If software-defined networking ultimately changes the landscape of networking, Intel could be one of the biggest beneficiaries -- and might be one of the reasons. SDN is intended to take the control of networks out of the equipment that ...
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Lattice Semiconductor has introduced a reference design for remotely locating image sensors up to eight metres away from the image signal processor (ISP) and transmit and receive video signals at resolutions that range up to 720p60 and ...
To make server upgrades easier, Intel introduced a rack reference architecture that speeds up data throughput while reducing energy and maintenance costs in data centers. The architecture, announced on Tuesday, calls for decoupling ...
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TSMC and Imagination Technologies are working together to develop reference design flows and silicon implementations for Imagination’s PowerVR Series6 GPUs on TSMC’s advanced process technologies, including 16nm FinFET process ...
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Texas Instruments has introduced its first fully programmable DC arc detect reference design. It is designed to protect high-power DC systems such as aircraft battery management systems, industrial factory equipment and photovoltaic ...
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Intersil has joined with Renesas Electronics to develop a sensor signal conditioning reference design for thermocouple, pressure and strain gauges. The design incorporates two boards - an Intersil board with analogue front-end chips ...
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Skyworks Solutions Inc of Woburn, MA, USA (which manufactures high-reliability analog and mixed-signal semiconductors) has introduced highly integrated front-end modules enabling 802.11ac connectivity in smartphones and tablets. IEEE ...
Radio-frequency component and compound semiconductor company RF Micro Devices Inc (RFMD) of Greensboro, NC, USA is shipping production volumes of its power amplification solutions that are compatible with Broadcom's 5G WiFi chips. RFMD ...
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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
Altera has teamed up with Flexibilis of Finland to make it easy to implement an FPGA-based Ethernet switch. Combining Altera FPGAs with the Flexibilis Redundant Switch (FRS) IP provides ‘an easy and cost-effective way to implement ...
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Altera has introduced an FPGA-based reference design for smart grid substation automation equipment. Developed jointly with wireless networks firm Flexibilis Oy, the IEC 62439-3-compliant reference design includes Flexibilis Redundant ...
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For full-year 2012, GaAs-based broadband wireless and wireline communications component maker Anadigics Inc of Warren, NJ, USA has reported revenue of $112.6m, down 26.3% on 2011’s $152.8m. However, although down 16.5% on $36.5m a ...
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RF front-end component maker and foundry services provider TriQuint Semiconductor Inc of Hillsboro, OR, USA has introduced two new high-performance Multi-band, Multi-mode Power Amplifiers (MMPAs). The highly integrated MMPAs support more ...