Lattice and Affarii put remote radio head on FPGA

COMPLETE RRH HARDWARE FOR WIRELESS INFRASTRUCTURE

By Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.uk

Lattice Semiconductor and Affarii Technologies have demonstrated the industry’s lowest cost, low power Remote Radio Head (RRH) solution at 1300mW per antenna. The integration of all RRH processing has been achieved on a single LatticeECP3-150 device.
The single chip solution supports 2x2 MIMO configurations

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Que? That’s Spanish for “Where The Hell is My E-Reader,” Right?

Que? That’s Spanish for “Where The Hell is My E-Reader,” Right?Story from WSJ on the cancellation of pre-orders for Plastic Logic's Que reader, and no date for shipping - opps, not a good sign, and a real shame for a UK startup!

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Updated: Yorkshire silicon resonator firm raises £3m - 25/06/2010 - Electronics Weekly

Updated: Yorkshire silicon resonator firm raises £3m - 25/06/2010 - Electronics Weekly

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IBM, Samsung and GLOBALFOUNDRIES Set To Produce 28nm Chips with STMicroelectronics

Three Tier Two suppliers aiming to boost into next generation process technology - ST the beneficiary

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Portable Multimedia: Toshiba aims to standardise WiFi in an SD card

Portable Multimedia: Toshiba aims to standardise WiFi in an SD cardNot just for portable multimedia communications but a quick and easy way toadd WiFi to all manner of embedded and industrial devices via an SD slot

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Xilinx tackles FPGA power with 28nm Series-7

Scalable from low to high density with 28nm Virtex-7, Kintex-7, and Artix-7 families

By Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.uk

Xilinx is tackling two of the key barriers to using FPGAs - power and cost. It is reducing the power consumption of its new 7 Series devices families by 50% over the previous generation and has developed an architecture that wil scale across three families, helping to reduce

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Toshiba Launches Industry’s Largest Embedded NAND Flash Memory Modules

32nm Embedded Memory up to 128GB NAND and Controller in a Single PackageBy Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.ukToshiba has launched a 128-gigabyte (GB) embedded NAND flash memory module, the highest capacity yet achieved in the industry. The module is fully compliant with the latest e•MMC standard, and is designed for application in a wide range of digital consumer products, including

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Shipments of Short Range Wireless ICs Expected to Increase 18% in 2010, Says ABI Research | Business Wire

Shipments of Short Range Wireless ICs Expected to Increase 18% in 2010, Says ABI ResearchShort range wireless ICs, including Bluetooth, NFC, UWB, 802.15.4 and Wi-Fi have been widely adopted in computing, communication, and consumer products in recent years. “The market for short range wireless ICs is booming in 2010, says ABI Research analyst Celia Bo. “

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Engineers build 3D printer for making plastic parts | News | The Engineer

Engineers build 3D printer for making plastic parts | News | The EngineerFast 3D printer from the SPRINT project

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Portable Multimedia: Tiny pico projector for cell phones and cameras

Portable Multimedia: Tiny pico projector for cell phones and camerasBy Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.ukVery nice little unit, 4cc, 6mm high for embedding in cameras although still a bit large for use in smartphones

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Portable Multimedia: First standard 1.8in solid state drive modules

Portable Multimedia: First standard 1.8in solid state drive modulesNice little modules from Apacer, SATA interface up to 64Gbyte capacity with the latest JEDEC standard

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Benchmark Results: Throughput : USB 3.0 On A Stick: Super Talent's RAIDDrive 64 GB

Benchmark Results: Throughput : USB 3.0 On A Stick: Super Talent's RAIDDrive 64 GBBy Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.uk

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Power management chip shortage looms

Remarkable growth over Christmas drives up prices By Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.uk

Strong demand for power management semiconductors in the first half of 2010 has caught suppliers off-guard, spurring shortages and causing prices to rise in the near term, says market researcher iSuppli. This will impact on the design and supply and cost of portable euipment in particular this year.
Revenue for

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Industry drives ARM-based Linux devices through Linaro

ARM, Freescale, IBM, Samsung, ST-Ericsson and Texas Instruments Form New Company to Speed the Rollout of Linux-Based Devices

By Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.uk

ARM, Freescale, IBM, Samsung, ST-Ericsson and Texas Instruments have created the not-for-profit company, Linaro, to provide new resources and industry alignment for open source software developers using Linux on the world’s most

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Mercury ships dual GPU open processor system

Industry’s highest performance OpenVPX, dual-GPU, conduction-cooled subsystem


By Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.uk

Mercury Computer Systems has started shipping the industry’s highest performance 6U module-based OpenVPX, dual GPU-based conduction-cooled subsystem, using whichever high power GPU is available. This subsystem is currently deployed in an embedded rugged defense surveillance

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Hewlett-Packard Maintains MEMS Dominance in 2009

Print heads still drive MEMS manufacturing but cell phone accelerometers are catching up
By Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.uk

It's always good to have pre-conceptions challenged, and this one is big - that HP is the leading manufacturer of Microelectromechanical (MEMS) sensors among semiconductor Integrated Device Manufacturers (IDM) and fabless firms, according to the latest figures from

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Broadcom combines three WiFi channels for wireless HD video

Intensi-fi 65nm single chip supports 450Mbit/s 3x3 802.11n WiFi
By Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.uk

In a bid to make wireless video work in the home, Broadcom has developed a single-chip 802.11n dual-band 3x3 wireless solution that achieves 450 Mbit/s data rates in client devices and over 600Mbit/s throughput (TCP/IP) in 3x3 AP/router configurations. By combining the MIMO wireless capacity with

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Portable Multimedia: Qualcomm ships dual-core Snapdragon chips

Portable Multimedia: Qualcomm ships dual-core Snapdragon chips

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Copper nanowires enable flexible displays

Cheaper than silver and made in volume

By Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.uk

A team of Duke University chemists has perfected a simple way to make tiny copper nanowires in quantity that are small enough to be transparent, making them ideal for thin-film solar cells, flat-screen TVs and computers, and flexible displays.
"Imagine a foldable iPad," said Benjamin Wiley, an assistant professor of

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SGI puts petaflop hybrid computing in a single cabinet

By Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.uk


Scalable Mixed Technology Uses Open Architecture  SGI has developed a breakthrough hybrid computing platform that will deliver a petaflop of performance within a single cabinet using technology from NVIDIA, ATI and Tilera. The platform uses an open software architecture and will scale from

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