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Cypress EZ-USB FX3: the USB 3.0 controller with an ARM9 core

slovati — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 21:30:54 PST

Cypress Semiconductor has announced its first integrated USB 3.0 controller, the EZ-USB FX3, based on a core built with ARM9 architecture.

The femtocell technology

slovati — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 10:28:36 PST

Femtocell is a promising technology used primarily to enhance the signal quality of mobile devices inside buildings, where coverage is spotty or the signal is weak, or simply when you want a faster and reliable connection.

Disclosed the unpatched vulnerabilities of six commercial SCADA systems

slovati — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 05:43:20 PST

An Italian researcher in the field of computer security, Luigi Auriemma, has disclosed a list of bugs, not yet corrected, regarding six commercial SCADA systems. The control systems adopted by major industrial companies are vulnerable and subject to attacks from hackers?

An oscilloscope from an iPad/iPhone

slovati — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 02:15:34 PDT

Oscium, a manufacturer of innovative instrumentation for test and debug, has announced its new product iMSO-104, the first mixed-signal oscilloscope expressly designed for iPod touch, iPhone and iPad.

ESMO: the first european student mission to the Moon

slovati — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 04:08:48 PDT

The European Space Agency (ESA) has launched a project aimed at European universities with the ambitious goal to create a lunar spacecraft entirely designed, built, and operated by students, and to place it in orbit around the Moon.

Great success of Renesas in recovering Naka fab

slovati — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 07:22:15 PDT

Renesas Electronics recently announced that the production in its front-end fab at Naka, hardly damaged by the earthquake occurred in Japan last March, will resume earlier than the date originally scheduled.

Google chooses Arduino as a development platform for Android

slovati — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 06:50:12 PDT

At the conference Google I/O 2011, held on 10 and 11 May 2011 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, Google announced a new development platform for Android based on Arduino.

How PC bootstrap works

slovati — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 06:50:38 PDT

In computer science, more specifically in the context of operating systems, the term bootstrap identifies the operatopn after which at least part of the operating system is transferred to memory before being executed by the microprocessor.

TI SM320F28335-HT: the Digital Signal Controller for high temperature

slovati — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 06:50:04 PDT

Texas Instruments has launched a microcontroller with floating point arithmetic features that can operate in extreme temperature conditions (from -55°C to +210°C), the first able to overcome the traditional upper limit of +150°C related to devices for high temperature.

An hybrid-air engine on the next cars?

slovati — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 06:40:03 PDT

In a period of ever and ever rising energy costs and increased attention and sensitivity to various forms of alternative or renewable energy, we assist to a concrete interest shown by car manufacturers in a new and revolutionary model of hybrid-air engine, of which a complete prototype has already been produced.

Wireless EV charging station? Siemens and BMW believe in it

slovati — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 06:50:46 PDT

Siemens and BMW have jointly implemented a system which recharges the batteries on electric cars in a wireless way (no wires or cables are required)

Citiled: 22W, 1000 lumen LED lighting module with AC drive circuit

slovati — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 06:56:58 PDT

A Japanese company, a leading manufacturer of LED lighting modules, has developed a LED module directly driven from the AC mains, with a brightness of 1000 lumens and a power of 22W

The best free IDEs

slovati — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 06:50:24 PDT

IDE is a tool that greatly facilitates the development activities of any software application, often integrated with other tools like compiler and debugger. Let us see an overview of IDEs which can be downloaded from the net and freely used.

2-Ch DIP-size scope for all budgets

slovati — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 06:50:31 PDT

The oscilloscope is certainly one of the laboratory equipment most coveted by fans of electronics, especially when they are young (and therefore, often, with a limited budget). The world of electronics, however, is going to help us, offering an integrated module with outstanding features at a limited cost.

Open Source Wireless Internet of Things

Ionela — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 01:30:37 PDT

openPICUS is an open source wireless platform that uses Wi-Fi and freeRTOS to connect things to the web. The guys from openPicus released some new features for their FlyPort Wi-Fi module:

Energy Harvesting - electricity from shock absorbers

slovati — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 07:10:58 PDT

Energy Harvesting, or how to recover part of the energy from the environment, which would otherwise be lost and convert it into another usable form of energy, like electricity. We will see in this article an original idea to convert into electricity the energy produced by the shock absorbers of vehicles.

LTC2871 - RS232/RS485 Multiprotocol Transceivers with Integrated Termination

slovati — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 06:50:39 PDT

Linear Technology has recently introduced the LTC2870 and LTC2871 multiprotocol transceivers, both provided with integrated and switchable line termination designed for devices with a supply voltage of 3.3 V and 5 V.

A microscope from a cellular phone

slovati — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 06:50:23 PDT

A group of researchers has developed a simple, lightweight, compact, and inexpensive microscope with a standard mobile phone, opening the door for applications in the field of basic medical diagnosis.

Which future for Intel MeeGo?

slovati — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 07:08:31 PDT

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Intel MeeGo, the operating system for mobile and portable devices based on Linux born from an agreement between Intel and Nokia, has suffered a blow following the decision of the Finnish giant to focus on Windows 7 Phone as primary platform for its future mobile devices. Will MeeGo to go over ground already accomplished by Android?

DSL Phantom Mode - how to obtain over 300 Mbps on copper lines

slovati — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 08:50:34 PDT

DSL Phantom Mode. Bell Labs, the research facility of Alcatel-Lucent has developed a technique by which they reached speeds of 300 megabits per second over traditional DSL copper lines, a goal that was considered possible only with the fibrt optic transmission technology.