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embedded world saw developers and decision makers converge en masse to Nuremberg last month.

Some announcements from the recent embedded world exhibition, including Freescale's launch of the KV5x MCU family

Akustica adds two analogue MEMS microphones

New digital controllers come with programmability and digital features

Thin films and silicon electrodes could improve Li-ion battery performance

MEMS sensors feature integrated DSP

EnOcean adds data encryption to wireless sensors portfolio

US certification specialist acquires NQA, creates global certification organisation

Flexible patches could act as mobile input devices

Chip allows one wireless device to be charged by another

New family of Hall effect sensors target contactless switching

New Smartwatch reference model from Toshiba