Electronics Weekly articles from May 2008

Electronics Weekly archives from May 2008

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May 21, 2008... Samsung has demonstrated an LCD with a field emission backlight (FEB) - achieving a claimed 300,000:1 contrast ratio. Key to this astonishingly high contrast ratio - using a LCD panel, where generally 1,500:1 is the limit - is to make a...

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May 21, 2008... Altera will double gate count with move to 40nm process technology for its next generation Stratix IV FPGA family.Made by TSMC using 193nm immersion lithography, strained silicon, and low-k dielectrics, Stratix IV devices have up to 680,000...

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May 21, 2008... By W Bruce Warren editorial@electronicsweekly.com Some op amps, such as the AD8041 from Analog Devices and the EL5100 from Intersil, provide a disable pin, which allows you to parallel the outputs of several op amps for video...

Features.
May 21, 2008... Almost anyone who has ever worked in an office will be familiar with the cold-white, shadowless light produced by most fluorescent strip lights. Indeed, the fluorescent tube is today the most common choice of light source where the system...

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May 21, 2008... The growing adoption of LEDs as a lighting source in different applications has simultaneously driven the demand for LED driver ICs to power them. To understand the obstacles for the design and manufacture of these LED driver ICs, it is...

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May 21, 2008... LED lighting modules are a huge growth area across many application areas including automotive lighting, battery powered portable equipment and domestic, commercial and industrial lighting. The need for binning and its follow-on effect is...

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May 21, 2008... Could organic LED technology hold the key to the high volume fluorescent light replacement market? Conventional (non-organic) LEDs are starting to be used for various lighting applications from car lights to building design, but high cost...

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May 21, 2008... What is the future for advanced analogue processing? The question was debated at the IET/GSA Semiconductor Forum in London last week. "It breaks below 65nm [process technology]," said Nicky Lu, founder and CEO of specialty DRAM manufacturer...

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May 21, 2008... Future Waves, a fabless RF chip company targeting the digital broadcast market, is expanding its business in to mobile TV after getting $4.75m in funding. The RF CMOS specialist, which was formed out of Imperial College spin-out Toumaz...

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May 21, 2008... Despite pessimism in some quarters about the future of venture capital-backed semiconductor start-ups, the IET/GSA Semiconductor Forum in London threw up a happy picture that all is well. "There's a lot of doom and gloom around, and that's...

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May 21, 2008... methanol fuel cells are 'highest power density' Sharp is claiming the world's highest power density for a direct methanol fuel cell stack aimed at mobile equipment. Sharp has developed the three-dimensional stack structure and the power...

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May 21, 2008... By Steve Bush steve.bush@rbi.co.uk Avago has introduced the world's smallest packaged RF amplifiers - 1x0.5x0.25mm - using a wafer-scale technique. "The process is the critical thing," applications manager Alan Rixon told EW. "It...

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May 21, 2008... 21may08Luxeon3DCAD.JPG Lumileds' Rebel power LED. The firm is putting CAD files on line. For lighting engineers, Lumileds has put power LED optical, mechanical and electrical model files on-line. Files available now for the firm's...

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May 21, 2008... Eindhoven-based Polymer Vision is to unveil a colour version of its rollable display this week at the Society for Information Display (SID) conference in Los Angeles, alongside a higher resolution monochrome version. Both are paper thin...

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May 21, 2008... 21may08AtmelArm....jpg Atmel has announced an ARM9 microcontroller that dissipates 80mW at 400MHz. "It draws only 80mW in full-power mode with all peripherals turned on," claimed the supplier. Four reduced power modes are...

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May 21, 2008... By Abel Raynus, Armatron International The moving-dot display has some benefits over the bar-graph display: It better indicates the location of a detected object in sonar and radar applications it needs only one LED's current-limiting...