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• Microchip’s PIC® Microcontrollers with nanoWatt XLP eXtreme Low Power Technology Have Won Three Global Honors

  
  Embedded System News .Com — Authority: 137
  The PIC® microcontrollers with nanoWatt XLP eXtreme Low Power Technology have won three global honors. In Europe, XLP received the prestigious 2009 Elektra Award in the Semiconductor Product of the Year category. In the U.S., Microchip’s XLP Technology was selected by Wireless Design & Development Magazine for ...
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• Fairchild Semiconductor Develops PWM Controllers to Improve Energy Savings at Light Load

  
  Embedded System News .Com — Authority: 137
  Fairchild has developed integrated PWM controllers, like the FAN6754, which offers designers high-voltage startup to improve energy savings at light load by 25 percent when compared to alternate solutions. It also eliminates external protection circuits by incorporating over-voltage, over-current and over-temperature ...
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• Intel Westmere 32nm Layout and Design for Manufacturability Analysis

  
  EDA Blog — Authority: 132
  Chipworks announced their Design for Manufacturability (DFM) analysis of Intel’s 32 nm Clarkdale/Westmere microprocessor from the Core i5 660. The analysis combines a standard reverse engineering report with the ICWorks Surveyor format. ICWorks Surveyor is a software tool that allows the engineer to navigate ...
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• Intel shows off experimental chip with 48 brains for cloud computing

  
  Gadget Reviews — Authority: 157
  Intel showed off an experimental version of a 48-core microprocessor today that the company called a “single chip cloud computer.”With 48 cores, or processing brains, the single chip has 10 to 20 times the number of cores that Intel normally puts on its PC chips today. The company isn’t saying when it could do a ...
  2 days ago

• Freescale Announces Two Interchangeable Peripheral Modules and 8- and 32-Bit Microcontroller (MCU) Modules for the Tower System

  
  Embedded System News .Com — Authority: 137
  The advanced peripheral modules offer developers 802.11b Wi-Fi and rapid prototyping functionality. The newest MCU modules support Freescale’s MCF5225X 32-bit ColdFire® MCU and MC9S08LL64 8-bit MCU. The Tower System provides a comprehensive and highly customizable embedded design environment that allows developers ...
  3 days ago

• Actel Extends Core8051s for Line of High-Reliability Axcelerator®, Radiation-Tolerant RTAX and Low-Power IGLOO® FPGAs

  
  Embedded System News .Com — Authority: 137
  Core8051s is an ASM51-compatible 8-bit microcontroller core that can run programs written for the 8051. It contains the main 8051 core logic but no peripheral logic. Core8051s has an APB bus interface that can be used like the SFR bus to easily expand the functionality of the core by connecting it to existing APB IP ...
  3 days ago

• Rumor: 6-core Intel Core i9 CPU on the way to a Mac Pro near you

  
  F-Default — Authority: 469
  -: Hardware , Rumors , Mac Pro Hardmac has provided the Mac universe with an interesting rumor — that a future Mac Pro , expected in early 2010, will sport dual Intel Xeon Core i9 ” Gulftown ” CPUs. The website cites a Polish website, PCLab , as showing test results of the CPU at about 50% faster than the ...
  5 days ago

• IEI Announces AFOLUX 4-Series In-Wall Mount Panel PC, All-in-One Touch Panel PCs for Home Automation

  
  Embedded System News .Com — Authority: 137
  The AFOLUX 4-series panel PC has a user-friendly interface and the powerful features necessary for central control of an automated household or building. The AFOLUX 4-series offers in-wall installation and a VESA mount for easy and complete installation in just minutes. Screen sizes range from 8″ to 15″ to fit the ...
  5 days ago

• British engineers found new way to stop computer viruses in their tracks

  
  LEGAL & FINANCIAL UPDATES FROM TAX GURU — Authority: 454
  When a new virus hits the Internet, there is little that an anti-virus software can do to stop the malware on the very day. But now British engineers have come up with an answer to the problem. Engineers Simon Wiseman and Richard Oak from defence... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website www.taxguru.in ...
  1 week ago

• Kontron Announces The New Fanless Box PC Kontron CB 752 with the Energy-Saving, Cost-Efficient Intel® Atom Processor 270

  
  Embedded System News .Com — Authority: 137
  The new fanless box PC Kontron CB 752 offers a wide range of interfaces, which can be configured to meet industrial requirements. Due to this, the Embedded Box PC is ideal for a broad spectrum of applications which require long-term availability, for example in medical technology, transportation, automation and P.O.S. ...
  1 week ago

• STMicroelectronics Announces Low-Cost Development Environment Maximizing Access to STM32 Microcontroller Using ARM Cortex-M3 Processor Core

  
  Embedded System News .Com — Authority: 137
  STMicroelectronics Maximizes Accessibility of STM32 Microcontrollers with Extremely Low-Cost and Highly Featured Development Environment using the ARM Cortex-M3 processor core, which is optimized for embedded application. The environment combines the Atollic TrueSTUDIO®/STM32 development tool, which can be downloaded ...
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• Avago Technologies Announces ACPL-K370/K376 Optocouplers for Industrial Control applications

  
  Embedded System News .Com — Authority: 137
  The ACPL-K370/K376 optocouplers are designed to detect AC/DC sources and convert the voltage to a logic interface across an optical coupling barrier to provide safe isolation in electronically noisy environments found in industrial applications. These voltage/current sensing optocouplers are ideal for use in ...
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• Atmel Announces ATtiny4, ATtiny5 and and ATtiny9, Three New 6-pin PicoPower AVR Microcontrollers

  
  Embedded System News .Com — Authority: 137
  The ATtiny4, ATtiny5, and ATtiny9 are new 6-pin picoPower® AVR® microcontrollers, include a rich feature set, and execute code 6-times faster than the closest competitor. The new 6-pin picoPower® AVR® microcontroller sare are pin- and functional-compatible to the existing ATtiny10. For customers, this means ...
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• The Water Cooler Effect

  
  Blogs — Authority: 162
    Imagine youre the manager of a call center and a researcher told you of a simple way to increase your workers overall productivity by 10-15%. Youd be interested, yes? What about when the researcher told you that the key to this was "fewer memos and more coffee breaks"? Your grandmother would probably agree that ...
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• Computer History Museum Honors First Microprocessor Intel’s 4004

  
  USB Powered Gadgets and more.. — Authority: 416
  Today, a team of engineers will be recognized at the Computer History Museum for designing the first microprocessor in 1971, a 4-bit parallel CPU with 2,300 transistors. That project, from an infant Intel [3 years old], was a huge achievement and one can honestly say “it changed the world.” The Intel 4004 was the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Atmel Announces AT90SCR050, a New Atmel AVR® Microcontroller for the Smart Card Reader Market

  
  Embedded System News .Com — Authority: 137
  The AT90SCR050 is a new Atmel AVR® microcontroller designed for the smart card reader market. Targeting the low-cost, high volume market, Atmel’s new AT90SCR050 is a complete system solution that enables designers to bring their products faster-to-market. The AT90SCR050 is AVR microcontroller with 16 Kbytes of ROM, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Atmel Announces TwinAVR Microcontrollers (MCUs), the Industry’s First Dual-Core Secure Microcontrollers

  
  Embedded System News .Com — Authority: 137
  Atmel’s TwinAVR™ microcontrollers (MCUs) (AT90SDC100 and AT90SDC104) are the industry’s first dual-core secure microcontrollers targeting demanding smart card applications such as the growing PayTV conditional access market. Atmel’s TwinAVR™ microcontrollers (MCUs) offer two independent cores with central ...
  2 weeks ago

• Texas Instruments Introduces UCC28610, Off-Line Green Mode Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) Controller

  
  Embedded System News .Com — Authority: 137
  The UCC28610 brings a new level of performance and reliability to the AC/DC consumer power supply solution. A PWM modulation algorithm varies both the switching frequency and primary current while maintaining discontinuous or transition mode operation over the entire operating range. Combined with a cascoded ...
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• Atmel Announces VaultIC460, Security Modules for Femtocells, Smart Meters, Telehealth, USB Token and Gaming Platforms

  
  Embedded System News .Com — Authority: 137
  The VaultIC460 is the first security module available on the market that provides a secure microcontroller with multiple interfaces and bundled firmware. Based on Atmel’s AT90SO secureAVR® microcontrollers, this new family enables higher levels of security and provides a secure turnkey solution for system ...
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• A Tale of a Microprocessor, RISC and a Few Loops of miRNA

  
  Physiology physics woven fine — Authority: 92
  The word ‘microprocessor’ is generally used to designate VLSI and SLSI ( V ery/ S uper L arge S cale I ntegrated circuits) devices which accept, decode and execute instructions presented in binary coded forms. They may be called the heart of the computer. RISC ( R educed I nstruction S et C omputer), on ...
  2 weeks ago

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