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2015-03 Connectors Silicon Labs

[Mar 21 2015] Silicon Labs, a leading provider of microcontrollers, sensors and wireless connectivity solutions in the Internet of Things (IoT), has announced a partnership with ARM to define and release the first power management application programming interface (API) for the ARM mbed platform. Adding a power management API to mbed will bring improved energy efficiency to standards-based solutions, further o ...

2015-03 Connectors Silicon Labs

[Mar 21 2015] Silicon Labs, a leading provider of wireless connectivity solutions for the Internet of Things (IoT), has announced the launch of a complete family of Bluetooth Smart solutions designed to help developers minimize the energy consumption, cost and complexity of wireless IoT designs. Silicon Labs' recent acquisition of Bluegiga, an industry-leading provider of wireless modules and software, greatly ...

2015-03 Semiconductors Rohm Semiconductor

[Mar 20 2015] Rohde & Schwarz has extended the analytical bandwidth of the high-end signal and spectrum analyzer R&S FSW to 2GHz with the introduction of a new hardware option, the R&S FSW-B2000. The test solution enables developers to demodulate and analyze ultra-wideband signals in detail. No other device on the market today offers such a large analysis bandwidth and a test frequency range of up to 67GHz at ...

2015-03 Connectors Cypress Semiconductor

[Mar 20 2015] Cypress Semiconductor Corporation announced the introduction of the CYTT21X/31X TrueTouch family of capacitive touch screen controllers that add advanced features to smartphones, e-books and low-cost tablets. The CYTT31X supports passive stylus input with a 2.5mm nib and is suitable for languages such as Chinese, Korean and Japanese that require reliable writing and enhanced character recognition ...

2015-03 Connectors Diodes Incorporated

[Mar 19 2015] Diodes Incorporated introduced a 3W stereo Class D audio amplifier and a Class AB headphone driver, the PAM8009, aimed at manufacturers of liquid crystal displays, all-in-one personal computers and video projectors. The amplifier features power limiting technology to protect the speaker and advanced DC volume control for precise gain adjustment of 64 levels. It minimizes the number of external co ...

2015-03 Sensors Infineon Technologies

[Mar 19 2015] Infineon Technologies AG has announced a +/- 5cm ultra-high-resolution micro-MEMS (micro-electro-mechanical Systems) pressure sensor for mobile and wearable devices as well as Internet of Things (IoT) devices. The DPS310 is a low-power digital atmospheric pressure sensor that facilitates the development of new and enhanced navigation, positioning, health, gesture recognition and weather monitorin ...

2015-03 Sensors STMicroelectronics

[Mar 18 2015] STMicroelectronics further expands its portfolio of environmental sensors with the introduction of the UVIS25, the world's first sensor with direct digital output of Ultraviolet Index (UVI). The UV Index is an international measurement standard for measuring the intensity of ultraviolet radiation from the sun at a specified time and place. Excessive exposure to ultraviolet light can cause tempora ...

2015-03 Connectors Texas Instruments

[Mar 18 2015] Texas Instruments announced the launch of its new SimpleLink ultra-low power wireless microcontroller (MCU) platform, which enables battery-free operation with energy harvesting or years of continuous operation powered only by a button battery. With this industry-first technology, users have the flexibility to develop products that support multiple wireless connectivity standards with a single ch ...

2015-03 Power Artesyn Embedded Technologies

[Mar 17 2015] Artesyn Embedded Technologies announced the launch of the first high-performance, highly integrated computing system conceived and designed in accordance with Open Computing Project (OCP) standards. With the introduction of the Atson OCP platform, communication service providers can adopt hardware and software that supports open standards and open source code, as well as take full advantage of vi ...

2015-03 Power STMicroelectronics

[Mar 17 2015] STMicroelectronics has partnered with Flextronics to develop a mobile product charger platform based on ST's multi-mode power management controller. The new platform uses the industry's most efficient power management architecture to achieve two design goals: zero no-load power consumption and excellent dynamic load regulation. Important breakthroughs have been made in the application of charging ...

2015-03 Power Xilinx

[Mar 16 2015] Xilinx announced the launch of SDSoC development environments for fully programmable SoCs and MPsoCs. As the third member of Xilinx's SDx family of development environments, the SDSoC development environment enables the broader community of systems and software developers to benefit from the powerful benefits of "fully programmable" SoCs and MPSoC devices. The SDSoC environment provides a greatly ...

2015-03 Power IPDiA

[Mar 16 2015] Imagination Technologies has announced the launch of a new area-optimized PowerVR GPU that puts the full capabilities of OpenGL ES 3.0 into low-cost, space-constrained devices. Imagination customers planning to develop entry-level smartphones, screen equipped wearables and IoT devices (including smartwatches, appliances, connected radios), and screen dashboards for affordable cars and other vehic ...