ST Introduces World’s Smallest 3-Axis Gyroscope

Cuts package size by almost a factor of 2 to open up new designs
By Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.uk

ST has shrunk its popular 3-axis analogue gyroscope by half.
The L3G3250A combines the same robust and field-proven micromachined MEMs technology that ST has already used to produce nearly 1.54 billion motion sensors with a smaller package technology to make it the first 3-axis gyroscope to meet

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MathWorks move model-based design into SoCs with Faraday

MATLAB and Simulink Speed Simulations by 200x and Reduce Gate Count by Half
By Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.uk


MathWorks is succcessfully moving its MATLAB and Simulink model-based deign tools more into silicon design. Faraday Technology is using Model-Based Design to accelerate the development of SoCs, including development of its NAND Flash Controller error correcting code (ECC) engine.

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Inkjet printing of single-crystal films

Inkjet printing of single-crystal films:



By Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.uk

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Build Your Own Arduino Sonar For The Visually Impaired

Build Your Own Arduino Sonar For The Visually Impaired: "Build Your Own Arduino Sonar For The Visually Impaired"

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Zigbee gains early lead in $12bn smart grid market

By Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.uk

Revenues over $12bn by 2016 with powerline dominating but US rollouts peak this year
Worldwide smart meter revenues will grow to over $12bn by 2016, with the vast majority ZigBee-enabled say market researchers In-Stat..The smart meter is a device that is at the heart of the smart grid transformation. It records a user’s electrical, water, or gas usage at a set

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New SATA µSSD Specification for Embedded Solid State Drives

By Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.uk

Connector-free, high-capacity, embedded SSDs for a new generation of tablets and ultrathin notebooks

Memory maker SanDisk has implemented the new SATA µSSD specification into its SanDisk iSSD product line of postage stamp-sized embedded SSDs. SATA-IO, an industry consortium dedicated to sustaining the quality, integrity and dissemination of serial ATA (SATA)

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TI introduces industry’s lowest power NFC transceiver

The TRF7970A evaluation module 
By Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.uk

TRF7970A NFC platform speeds designs with easy-to-configure software

Texas Instruments has launched what it claims is industry’s lowest-power contactless short-range communication transceiver. Aimed at infrastructure devices, the TRF7970A extends battery life through eight selectable power modes ranging from under 1µA in

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Panasonic, Samsung and Sony join forces for new standard for full HD wireless 3D glasses

 Development of Joint Licensing on Bluetooth enabled and IR 3D glasses

By Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.uk

Panasonic, Samsung Electronics, Sony and X6D (XPAND 3D) are to collaborate on the development of a new technology standard for consumer 3D active glasses called the "Full HD 3D Glasses Initiative."
The companies say they will work together on the development and licensing of radio

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Micrium Makes uC/OS-III Source Code Available

Source Code of Popular Real-Time Kernel Now Available for Free Evaluation

By Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.uk

Embedded real time operating system vendor Micrium is to make the source code of the popular real-time kernel uC/OS-III available free of charge to developers who wish to evaluate uC/OS-III, as can researchers, students and others in academia.To help ensure that developers who try out

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First multicore Compact RIO system

Intel Core i7 Processor and Smallest NI Single-Board RIO Devices 

By Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.uk

National Instruments has expanded its reconfigurable I/O (RIO) platform with the addition of the highest performance and first multicore system and smallest Single-Board RIO devices. Acknowledging the move to multicore in embedded systems, the cRIO-908x systems feature an Intel Core i7

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National Instruments launches LabView 2011

By Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.uk



25 years of graphical programming with LabView 2011
National Insturments has launched its 25th anniversary version of the LabView graphical programming tool. The new version usefully adds re-use of code from Microsoft's .NET framework as well as more hardware integration.
LabVIEW 2011 helps increase development efficiency through new engineering-specific

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Camera fits on the head of a pin - MedicalPhysicsWeb

Camera fits on the head of a pin - MedicalPhysicsWeb

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