Electronics Weekly articles from April 2009

Electronics Weekly archives from April 2009

Products.
April 29, 2009... LED design tool helps translate performance figures on web Cree has launched an interactive LED design tool for characterising and translating nominal LED performance figures on the data sheet. The online tool allows users to easily...

Products.
April 29, 2009... Hardware-software co-verification firm Eve has expanded the hardware debugging capabilities of its ZeBu emulation systems by adding support for SystemVerilog Assertions, flexible probes, and complete access to all combinational signals at...

News.
April 29, 2009... Why would anyone use an independent tool vendor when many microcontroller companies offer their own tools?Every microcontroller manufacturer of any standing works very closely with us, even if they have their own toolsets. They recognise that...

News.
April 29, 2009... Switching applications involving controlling devices or appliances using digital I/O lines through a relay often need to indicate the change of state of the I/O line and, hence, the connected device. This indication could be in the form of...

Features.
April 29, 2009... Achieving 16-bit performance in high-speed signal paths such as high-speed instrumentation or high-sensitivity wireless basestations requires attention to every detail. Precious decibels are often lost in the translation from the RF domain to...

Features.
April 29, 2009... 29apr09bluetoothwatch.jpg By Steve Bush and Richard Wilson The very low power version of the Bluetooth wireless comms standard could be about to make an impact in mobile and healthcare markets with chip firms offering first silicon....

Features.
April 29, 2009... Since the 1980s, manufacturers have used barcodes to tag PCBs at the start of their way around the production cycle. Traceability is becoming more important as flexible manufacturing gains popularity; different versions or models of an...

News.
April 29, 2009... Almost 400,000 more engineers will be needed to carry through the sustainable energy and technology initiatives outlined in last week's Budget. Welcome as the investment proposals for a green economy and growth technologies are, the...

News.
April 29, 2009... Forge Europa was one of several electronics companies that received Queen's Awards this month. The Cumbria-based designer and manufacturer of LED products was established in 1993 by Peter Barton, pictured below with his wife and fellow...

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April 29, 2009... Xilinx aims to widen the use of FPGAs with a new version of its design tool suite designed for specialists and non-specialists. The company has identified three typical users of its FPGAs: embedded system designers, DSP designers and...

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April 29, 2009... Microchip has released PIC microcontrollers with 20nA standby current, which isclaimed to be the lowest of any microcontroller. Aimed at battery-powered applications with up to 20 years of operation from lithium primary cells and energy...

News.
April 29, 2009... Bluetooth over 802.11 Wi-Fi radio links became a reality last week with the ratification of a new high-speed Bluetooth standard called v3.0+HS. Chip suppliers have been pushing the use of Wi-Fi to increase the limited data rate of current...

News.
April 29, 2009... 29apr09design1... The Government has put up [pounds sterling]400,000 in a national search for designers and technologists who can create 'crime-proof' mobiles "Today sees the launch of a national search for designers to develop new...

News.
April 29, 2009... Third-generation (3G) wireless technology will be the biggest enabler of mobile broadband for the next five years, according to Qualcomm. The challenge will be improving the data-carrying capacity of CDMA by adopting the enhancement...