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Technology and Fashion industries need to come together for future of wearable tech

December 4, 2013

4 December 2013: It’s time to bring together fashion designers and stylists with engineers and nanotechnologists if devices such as smart glasses and smart watches are to become objects of desire for the mass market, says Beecham Research. While technology solves problems and enhances our lives, it is aesthetics and brands that create emotions to make objects desirable, explains Saverio Romeo, Principal Analyst at Beecham Research. Beecham recently published a report on the future of wearable technology and is an official research partner for The Wearable Technology Show in London next March < … Read More → "Technology and Fashion industries need to come together for future of wearable tech"

Fairchild Semiconductor’s 1200 V Field Stop Trench IGBTs Provide Faster Switching Performance with Improved Reliability

December 4, 2013

SAN JOSE, Calif. – December 4, 2013 – Fairchild Semiconductor, a leading global supplier of high performance power and Read More → "Fairchild Semiconductor’s 1200 V Field Stop Trench IGBTs Provide Faster Switching Performance with Improved Reliability"

M2M Software for SmartFusion Rowebots’ Unison RTOS Supports Microsemi SmartFusion

December 3, 2013

December 2, 2013, Waterloo , Canada: RoweBots Research Inc., a leading supplier in development of solutions for the Internet of Everything (IoE) or Machine to Machine communications (M2M), announced support for Microsemi SmartFusionTM with its POSIX-compliant Unison RTOS. Additional add on support for a variety of wireless modules for WiFi, Zigbee, 6loWPAN, UHF, GPRS, 3G and GPS provide developers of machine-to-machine (M2M) networks with wireless connectivity and extensive POSIX applications programming interfaces for fast and easy development.

The Unison RTOS has advanced off the shelf options for Internet of Everything or M2M development using Smartfusion with additional … Read More → "M2M Software for SmartFusion Rowebots’ Unison RTOS Supports Microsemi SmartFusion"

STMicroelectronics Reveals Advanced MEMS Accelerometers Engineered to Withstand Stresses of Modern Mobile Life

December 3, 2013

Geneva, December 3, 2013 – STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM), a global semiconductor leader serving customers across the spectrum of electronics applications and the leading supplier of MEMS (Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems) devices for consumer and mobile applications^{^[1]}, has unveiled its new state-of-the-art high-performance MEMS accelerometer engineered to withstand increasingly challenging conditions inside the latest smartphones and other portable devices.

With today’s processing-intensive mobile apps and super-slim handset designs, portable electronics are more vulnerable to thermal variation and bending. As OEMs push … Read More → "STMicroelectronics Reveals Advanced MEMS Accelerometers Engineered to Withstand Stresses of Modern Mobile Life"

Avnet Electronics Marketing Americas Offers On-Demand Technical Sessions in 4th Annual Virtual Power Forum

December 3, 2013

PHOENIX—December 3, 2013—Avnet Electronics Marketing Americas, a business region of Read More → "Avnet Electronics Marketing Americas Offers On-Demand Technical Sessions in 4th Annual Virtual Power Forum"

Altium Delivers Team Configuration Management Solution and New Version of Vault Technology

December 3, 2013

Sydney, Australia – 3 December 2013 – Altium Limited, a global leader in Smart System Design Automation, 3D PCB design (Altium Designer) and embedded software development (TASKING), announces the release of, Altium Vault Server Version 1.2 and all new product Team Configuration Center (TC2).

Hosted on an organization’s own network infrastructure, the Altium Vault manages native electronic design data, including its revision history, life-cycle state and supply chain information. This new release adds ability to … Read More → "Altium Delivers Team Configuration Management Solution and New Version of Vault Technology"

Altera Enables Immediate 20nm Design Starts with Quartus II Software Arria 10 Edition

December 2, 2013

San Jose, Calif., December 2, 2013– Altera Corporation (Nasdaq: ALTR) today released the Quartus® II software Arria 10 edition, the industry’s first development tool support for 20 nm FPGAs and SoCs. Based on TSMC 20 nm process technology, Read More → "Altera Enables Immediate 20nm Design Starts with Quartus II Software Arria 10 Edition"

80V Buck-Boost Lead Acid & Lithium Battery Charging Controller Actively Finds True Maximum Power Point in Solar Applications

December 2, 2013

MILPITAS, CA – December 2, 2013 – Linear Technology Corporation announces the LT8490, a synchronous buck-boost battery charging controller for lead acid and Lithium batteries, featuring automatic maximum power point tracking (MPPT) and temperature … Read More → "80V Buck-Boost Lead Acid & Lithium Battery Charging Controller Actively Finds True Maximum Power Point in Solar Applications"

Plessey releases new generation of GaN-on-Si LEDs

December 2, 2013

Plymouth, ENGLAND – 2 December 2013 – Plessey announced today availability of its next generation GaN-on-Silicon mid-power LEDs. The product family doubles the efficacy of Plessey’s first generation MAGIC™ (Manufactured on GaN-on-Si I/C) products released in February 2013. Using standard silicon semiconductor production techniques, Plessey is able to achieve high flux output LED products at substantially lower cost. The PLW114050 is the first in a family of entry-level LED lighting products that will be released.

“We have made great strides forward in refining, productising and improving our patented MAGIC™ … Read More → "Plessey releases new generation of GaN-on-Si LEDs"

STMicroelectronics Imaging Technology Helps Visually Impaired

December 2, 2013

Geneva, November 28, 2013 – STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM), a global semiconductor leader serving customers across the spectrum of electronics applications, announced that its 5.1 mega-pixel camera module and low-power digital image processor are being used in the revolutionary OrCam camera, a small device that clips on to eyeglasses and dramatically improves the mobility and ability of visually-impaired people to “read” signs, packaging and publications.

By pointing to an object, the wearer tells the OrCam camera what they need interpreted. The ST VX6953 camera module and STV0987 image processor work together to analyze and interpret the scene before the eye-glass-mounted device aurally … Read More → "STMicroelectronics Imaging Technology Helps Visually Impaired"