| Simplifying movable-headlamp motor control
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2008-03-18 |
| Using LIN-enabled smart micro-stepper motor drivers lets designers perform intelligent system partitioning and simplifies complex multi-axis real-time programming. |
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| Altera's automotive aspirations
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2008-03-17 |
| Altera Corp. is entering the automotive electronics space in a big way. Robert Blake, VP of the automotive and consumer business unit, spoke with EE Times Asia about their automotive solutions. |
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| NI: Path leads to parallel for test and measurement
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2008-03-14 |
| Actions, computing and instructions occurring simultaneously are increasingly common requirements in today's world, as evidenced by the unstoppable migration from single-core to multicore processors in PCs. This new paradigm—the Parallel Shift—brings a huge challenge to test engineers: the marriage of parallelism with computing, and in related applications of measurement and control. |
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| Acer acquires smart handheld device maker
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2008-03-13 |
| Acer has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire E-TEN, a designer and manufacturer of smart handheld devices. |
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| Garmin embeds ST processors in navigation products
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2008-03-13 |
| STMicroelectronics' Cartesio automotive-grade application processor SoC with embedded GPS will be implemented inside several products from Garmin, including the company's new n?vi 205 navigation system |
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| India manufacturing gets boost from NXP
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2008-03-11 |
| NXP Semiconductors India targets to boost the Indian manufacturing ecosystem for wireless handsets and is looking into alternative markets for its semiconductors. |
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| Maximize multiband handset performance
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2008-03-03 |
| Cellphones have moved rapidly from dual-band to tri-band to even quad-band. Also, cellphones need to handle various signals for peripheral radios such as Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and GPS. Ultimately, it is the RF switch that must be capable of switching up to nine paths of high-power RF signals with low insertion loss, high isolation and exceptional linearity to realize the necessary multiband performance |
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| GPS goes beyond navigation to video games
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2008-02-28 |
| By combining GPS and a digital compass with accelerometers, HP Lab's Mediascape platform lets gamers 'become a mouse and a gamepad,' said Patrick Goddi, a senior researcher at HP Labs |
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| SK Telecom enters China telematics market
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2008-02-19 |
| SK Telecom said it has bought controlling stake in Shenzhen E-eye High Tech Co., paving the way for the South Korean telecom to advance into China's telematics market. |
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| Apple, Google, Nokia spark shift in carrier market
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2008-02-19 |
| Apple's iPhone, Google's Android OS platform and Nokia's Maps 2.0 GPS technology may have just taken the reigns out of the hands of cellular network operators on services, applications, device definitions and most of all—prices |
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| Optimism stirs in mobile TV market
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2008-02-19 |
| Calling 2007 'a rock-bottom year' for mobile TV, DiBcom CEO Yannick Levy said he is hoping that things will start to get a little better this year. |
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| Why we need a new analog design flow
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2008-02-18 |
| Analog-mixed signal designers need a first-time right design methodology now. Why is this familiar cry more urgent and probably truest this time? |
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| ABI: Mobile handsets to enter navigation markets
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2008-02-15 |
| Over the next years, mobile handsets will play an increasingly important role in portable navigation markets, with handset-based navigation devices reaching an annual sales volume of over 96 million units by 2012, according to ABI Research. |
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| NXP steps up wireless business initiatives
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2008-02-15 |
| NXP Semiconductors targets to bring clarity to its once-sprawling wireless business strategy under a new wireless business management. |
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| Tech firms demo slew of Android prototypes
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2008-02-14 |
| Several versions of Google's Android platform-based cellphones were showcased at the Mobile World Congress, but few were impressed after seeing Nokia's fresh rollout of multimedia phones. |
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