12/11/2013
The past five years have seen massive changes in the services offered by electronics distributors. Distributors are still the 'middle men' in the supply chain, but they are no longer just a place to buy components: they have a much bigger part to ...
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12/11/2013
Power electronics and power management technology rank among the most diverse in terms of breadth of applications and markets.
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12/11/2013
The world is increasingly software oriented, and the way we interact with devices is changing. Smartphones, set top boxes and even automobiles are now defined by their embedded software. With this evolution, we are challenged to keep up with the ...
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12/11/2013
Embedded systems have experienced significant growth over the past decade in markets such as telecommunications, industrial, security and consumer electronics as developers add more intelligence and connectivity to devices and systems. The embedded ...
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12/11/2013
From ultra-efficient LEDs to coupling for isolation, optoelectronic semiconductors are increasingly important in applications ranging from lighting and factory automation to renewable energy and smart metering.
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12/11/2013
The ever-increasing demand for longer battery life and faster performance of computers and mobile devices has driven rapid innovation and change in semiconductor devices. According to Moore's Law, device performance has been doubling every 1.5 to 2 ...
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12/11/2013
Moore's Law is the engine that drives the development of digital semiconductors. And as the processors in digital devices such as smartphones and tablets become more powerful, so developers find more uses for the analogue components that can sense ...
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12/11/2013
Analogue ICs have remained the core of a reliably profitable part of the IC market for years, in contrast to the fortunes of the memory and digital logic sectors that are more vulnerable to the booms and busts of the semiconductor business.
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12/11/2013
The UK is one of the leading players in the field of power electronics. It's a sector which contributes more than £50billion to the UK's GDP and which supports – directly and indirectly – 500,000 jobs in 25,000 companies. And it has the opportunity ...
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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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