12/11/2013
When Findlay Media announced last year that it was tripling the size of the Engineering Design Show in 2013 by launching the Electronics Design Show and expanding the Design for Manufacture section to create Engineering Materials Live, there was a ...
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11/11/2013
NMI, the trade association for the electronic systems, microelectronics and semiconductor communities in the UK, has been working hard to address the issues facing industry since its establishment in 1996. It aims to provide a home for the industry ...
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23/10/2012
Back in 1965, Gordon Moore realised the number of components in integrated circuits had doubled every year since 1958. He saw no reason why that shouldn't continue to happen 'for at least 10 years'.
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23/10/2012
As we approach 2013, the mixed signal and analogue markets will unquestionably play an increasingly important role in the design and operation of electronic systems worldwide. Nowhere is this more evident than in the development of power conversion ...
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23/10/2012
Everyone is familiar with the technologies used for person to person communication, such as mobile phones and PCs, but few are as well acquainted with machine to machine (or M2M) technology, a broad term for the huge range of machines that talk to ...
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23/10/2012
Global energy consumption is expected to grow by about 70% in the next 25 years – driven by rising standards of living in developing countries. Faced with this growth, consumers and commerce alike are looking to the electronics industry and ...
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23/10/2012
If there is one design pressure above any other in today's environment, it is that of time to market. But an increasing concern to customers is the total cost of ownership (TCO) of a project.
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23/10/2012
Electronic Design Automation (EDA) is a central enabler for Moore's Law and the incredible electronic innovation that is the driving force in today's global economy. Keeping up with Moore's Law requires continuous innovation from the EDA industry. ...
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23/10/2012
One of the trends during the 21st Century has been the integration of SoC like components into an FPGA fabric.
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23/10/2012
The technology landscape in the UK has developed somewhat differently from North America and Asia. Britain has not witnessed the massive growth of firms like Apple or the rise of global internet giants such as Google and Facebook. Neither has it ...
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23/10/2012
Over the last several decades, the basic model of instrumentation has remained largely unchanged. Engineers and scientists have typically selected fixed function hardware and used software, such as NI LabVIEW, on a PC to control the instrument. The ...
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23/10/2012
The desire to be seen to be green is seeing the trend to lower voltages go into sharp reverse. The devices beyond the point of load (PoL) continue to reduce their internal supply voltages to avoid stressing their tiny transistors to the point of ...
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01/10/2011
There has been a significant shift over the last 10 years towards combining MCUs and digital signal processors (DSP) within a single System on a Chip (SoC), thereby bringing the DSP's functionality and capabilities within the MCU.
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01/10/2011
For semiconductor companies, an IP infrastructure is a strategic investment and a successful IP strategy depends on having strong partnerships with IP providers.
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01/10/2011
Digi-Key is one of the five largest global distributors of electronic components, offering companies in more than 170 countries products from more than 470 world class manufacturers.
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01/10/2011
Optoelectronics – the partnership of technology and light – is an area of great innovation and exciting development. Helped by the rapid evolution of components and technologies, new applications abound for electronic devices that source, detect and ...
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01/10/2011
Research into solar cells has succeeded in improving the efficiency of the process of converting photons into electrical energy. Laboratory cells have demonstrated efficiencies beyond 20% and scientists are confident they can push this figure much ...
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01/10/2011
Rapid growth in the intelligence and interconnected nature of embedded devices is accompanied by an increase in security threats. Attacks are perpetrated not only by the usual suspects, but also by a new breed of hackers supported by organised ...
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04/11/2010
If you could identify one theme which has emerged from the power sector during the past couple of years and which is likely to continue for the foreseeable future, it is likely to be the efficient use of power.
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04/11/2010
Virtualisation technology has been widely adopted in the enterprise market to make the best use of ever more powerful microprocessors with multiple cores. Virtualisation now spreading to the embedded market.
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04/11/2010
Integration issues threaten the development of large scale SoCs and suggest different approaches might be more successful
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04/11/2010
Let's go back 27 years to 1983, the year in which the first programmable logic device (PLD) company was founded. Shortly thereafter, on an average, at least one new PLD company was born every six months.
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03/11/2010
The electronics industry is shifting its focus from silicon to software applications. It's time for a new EDA approach that puts applications first.
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03/11/2010
In recent years, the embedded processor market has seen a strong focus on multicore product announcements. The majority of these have been based on the symmetric multiprocessing concept, which offers higher processing performance and bandwidth. ...
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03/11/2010
The concept of a 'rebalanced' economy has become central to the debate on how the UK can emerge from recession and generate sustainable growth.
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