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Texas Instruments acquires Irish PSU company 13/5/2008

Texas Instruments has acquired Commergy Technologies, a power supply reference design provider that specialies in energy-efficient and compact architectures. TI says the acquisition will benefit improving energy efficiency, especially in areas of AC ....

Instrument and software package decodes DDR3 13/5/2008

For designers who anticipate using DDR3-generation memory in their designs, Tektronix has assembled a test toolset that spans the full range of performance of all three variants of DDR. DDR3 supports transfer rates up to 1600 MT/sec (mega-transf....

Signal generator handles DVB-T/H and HD-radio 22/4/2008

IZT is a spin-off of the Fraunhofer Gesellschaft, the German institution for applied research, making radio monitoring, test and measurement and broadcast products. Its IZT S2000 signal generator is now able to simulate digital broadcast, DVB-T, D....

Dual-core processor hosts embedded Linux 18/4/2008

At the Embedded Systems Show in San Jose, California, this week Freescale introduced a dual-core system-on-chip (SoC) in its mobileGT processor family, the MPC5123. The device will, Freescale says, simplify embedded-Linux O....

Multi-chip module drives motors up to 70A 16/4/2008

Infineon has announced additions in its NovalithIC family of integrated driver ICs for motor drive applications. The components combine three chips in a lead-free package, using both chip-on-chip and side-by-side assembly, to reduce pc....

Motor-control kits support TI DSP designs 14/4/2008

Swiss motion-control specialist Technosoft has released a complete motion control development and evaluation package based on TI’s TMS320F28335 floating-point digital signal controller. The MCK28335 kit comes with C language source code a....

Optimising compiler for PIC 14/4/2008

The PIC 10/12/16 PRO package from Hi-Tech uses “super-optimising” OCG compiler technology to minimise code size. Rather than the “global” optimisations that most compilers claim – which, says supplier C....

Software will “cut RF PCB design time in half” 10/4/2008

Mentor Graphics and Agilent have announced a coupling of technologies that they claim will significantly improve productivity for the design of RF circuits on PCBs; the two companies anticipate i....

Design style suits C to parallelisation 10/4/2008

Belgian research centre IMEC has introduced a programming coding style for C code, called CleanC that increases the extent to which analysis tools can parallelise and optimise the code for multiprocessor target systems. IMEC is developing tools to ef....

Alliance promotes battery-free wireless sensors 9/4/2008

A number of systems promise in-building wireless sensor connection and control functions (Zigbee, other IEEE802.15.4-type radio links and others). A new alliance has been formed to enable “sustainable” building developments, around the product conc....