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58VIN, 2A with IOUT, 2.4MHz Step-Down DC/DC Converter Draws Only 85µA of Quiescent Current & Withstands 80V Transients
MILPITAS, CA – September 28, 2009 – Linear Technology Corporation announces the LT3980, a 2A, 58VIN step-down switching regulator with Burst Mode® operation to maintain…
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Green Hills Software to Present and Exhibit at ISA Expo 2009
SANTA BARBARA, CA — September 29, 2009 — Green Hills Software, Inc., the largest independent vendor of embedded software solutions, will speak at the ISA…
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Aonix Announces PERC® Java Virtual Machine for BeagleBoard
San Diego, CA, September 29, 2009 —Aonix®, the provider of the PERC product line for embedded and real-time Java developers, announced Java™ virtual machine support…
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Embedded Signal Processing Capabilities of the LatticeECP3 sysDSP Block
Enhanced DSP Capabilities The success of the LatticeECP2M family in addressing the 2G/3G wireless arena, coupled with discussions with customers, has served to drive the…
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The Death of the Trade Press
Obsolescence is a familiar and friendly concept to engineers. In fact, it is our job. We are professional creators of obsolescence. Each day, we go…
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A World Of Their Own
They were your typical pack of teenage kids. By turns rough-and-tumble and vulnerable. On top of the world while at the same time knocked about…
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ARM’s Race Escalates with Cortex-A9
In military parlance, an Osprey is a propeller-driven airplane that takes off and lands vertically, like a helicopter. The Osprey tilts its wings 90 degrees,…
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Universities and Electronics
When the first semiconductors were created, they were the result of theoretical studies. As integration grew, so the device manufacturers and the equipment manufacturers pragmatically…
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AV Done Right. Finally.
We’ve all experienced it. The SPDIF output on device A doesn’t match with the analog line inputs on pre-amp B, which don’t synchronize with…
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New Chips Don’t Suck (Power)
Within a week, Intel and Freescale both announced new high-end embedded processors. They’re both packed with multicore processors, DRAM controllers, and PCI Express interfaces. But,…