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Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing has announced its 3U OpenVPX GPGPU (general purpose GPU) multi-core engine, the VPX3-491 GPU application accelerator. The small form factor accelerator features an Nvidia GPU based on the... More about 3U OpenVPX general purpose GPU Engine for military DSP applications

Samsung Electronics has launched the Exynos 5250, a 2GHz, low-power, dual-core processor based on the ARM Cortex-A15 core and is intended for use in tablets. The processor utilises 32nm high-k metal gate low-power process technolo... More about 2GHz Dual-Core Processor

A battery charger IC from Texas Instruments supports higher cell capacity batteries and the battery charge currents of tablets, e-readers and smartphones. The bq2416x integrated, single-cell, Li-Ion battery charger has dual inputs... More about Integrated Li-Ion Battery Charger

The MLX90132 transceiver IC for NFC is designed and qualified for automotive systems, yet is robust and durable for use in retail, consumer and industrial NFC applications, says Melexis. The 13.56MHz, integrated, multi-protocol RF... More about Near Field Transceiver

Support for HD multipoint voice and video calling has been added by TeamSpirit DSP to its TeamSpirit Engines. The software development kits are for real-time IP calling or conferencing communications. The engine software combines ... More about Voice and Video IP Upgrades

Arasan Chip Systems has announced the availability of SD 4.0 host controller IP core, the latest addition to its flagship SD (secure digital) IP product family portfolio. The IP core is compliant with the latest SD specifications,... More about Host controller IP core supports full- and half-duplex operations

STMicroelectronics has unveiled its IC for interactive HD personal video recorder and cable STBs (set-top boxes). The company is also supporting its latest IC, the STiH225, with a reference design that simplifies its latest design... More about IC integrates cable STB processor and analogue interface on single chip

Kontron has introduced an AMC (advanced mezzanine card) processor module, the AM4140. Equipped with a Freescale QorIQ P4040/80 CPU with up to eight cores at 1.5GHz and high-speed fabrics, the processor module is suitable for paral... More about Processor module with eight-core Freescale QorIQ processor

STMicroelectronics has introduced the EMIF06-MSD03F3, an IC combining EMI filtering and ESD protection for mobile phones, tablets and 3G dongles using SD 3.0 UHS-I (ultra high speed) micro-SD cards. The IC protects micro-SD interf... More about IC for Micro-SD Interfaces

The ADF41020 frequency synthesiser from Analog Devices can be used to implement local oscillators as high as 18GHz in the up-conversion and down-conversion sections of wireless receivers and transmitters. It consists of a low nois... More about MicrowaveFrequency Synthesiser

Linear Technology has introduced the LTC2991, an eight-channel I2C temperature, voltage and current monitor for 3 and 5V systems. The monitoring IC incorporates a 14bit ADC, 10ppm/°C voltage reference, and I2C digital interface to... More about Eight-Channel I2C Monitor

Akros Silicon has announced the Energy$ense family of multi-output, digital DPMUs (DC/DC power management unit) ICs. They provide real-time power measurements and power-subsystem health monitoring, 94% efficiency and standby curre... More about Multi-Rail Digital ICs

A family of ADCs is, claims National Semiconductor, the first in the industry to directly sample RF signals beyond 2.7GHz, with IMD3 (third-order intermodulation distortion) up to -71dBc. The 12bit ADCs in the ADC12Dxx00RF series ... More about Direct Sampling RF ADCs

Following its acquisition by Bosch 18months ago, Akustica has used the parent company's manufacturing facilities in Germany to deliver the AKU230 digital CMOS MEMS microphone. It measures just 0.7mm² and has a user-selectable left... More about Single-Chip Digital MEMS Microphone

Renesas Mobile Corporation announced that it has exhibited a mobile application processor SoC at the Mobile World Congress Expo. The SH-Mobile APE5R features Imagination Technologies' POWERVR SGX MP graphics processor and delivers... More about Mobile application processor SoC features POWERVR SGX MP graphics processor

CML Microcircuits has launched the CMX7261 single chip G.711/G.729A/CVSD full duplex multi-transcoder for use in software-defined radio and VoIP applications. The multi-transcoder is claimed to generate toll quality speech for num... More about Full Duplex Multi-Transcoder IC

The LPC11C22 and LPC11C24 integrated high-speed CAN physical layer transceiver and microcontroller have been launched by NXP Semiconductors. The devices are on-chip CANopen drivers with integrated TJF1051 CAN transceiver to incorp... More about High-Speed CAN Devices

Micrel has launched the KSZ8895, -8875, -8864 series of low-power, integrated, four- and five-port Layer-2 switch-on-a-chip ICs. In order to provide Ethernet connectivity in consumer and industrial applications, the products featu... More about Four, Five-Port Switch ICs

Two configurable sensor analogue front end ICs from National Semiconductor enable design engineers to select a sensor, design, configure it and download configuration data to the sensor analogue front end, reducing the number of b... More about Configurable Analogue Front End ICs

Synopsys recently announced the availability of DesignWare IP for the MIPI (Mobile Industry Processor Interface ) DSI (display serial interface) host controller. With this, the company expands its DesignWare MIPI IP portfolio cons... More about DSI host controller speeds up development of display subsystems in mobile devices

Renesas Electronics has announced the development of its new two-channel single-chip IO-Link solution for IO-Link master applications, based on cooperation with its business partners ELMOS Semiconductor and TMG-Karlsruhe. The IO-L... More about Two-channel single-chip IO-Link features small size

The immediate availability of the HiGig MAC IP core for low cost LatticeECP3 FPGA family has been announced by Lattice Semiconductor. Multiple individual devices interconnected via the HiGig protocol operate as one logical network... More about User-Configurable IP Core

The SC14441 and SC14442 are two single-chip DECT / CAT-iq ICs from SiTel Semiconductor. The chips feature a low-power QSPI (quad serial peripheral interface) flash interface, allowing its use with external QSPI flash memory ICs. T... More about Single-Chip DECT / CAT-iq ICs

Integrated Device Technology's family of high-definition PC audio codecs feature the DDX-based class-D modulation technology developed by Apogee Technology. This three-state modulation technique extends battery life, eliminates po... More about High-Definition Codecs