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Microsemi Unveils 65-nm Embedded Flash Platform

-- All Devices to Converge on Jointly Developed UMC 65-nm eFlash Technology -- New IP Friendly Architecture Offers More Functionality, Lower Power Consumption -- Company Offers Sneak Peek at Next-Generation FPGAs for Space IRVINE, Calif. -- Microsemi Corporation (Nasdaq: MSCC), a leading provider of semiconductor technology aimed at building a secure, smart, connected world, announced that its...

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Low-Jitter FPGAs target wired optical communications.

Virtex-®-6 HXT FPGAs support 40 and 100 Gbps line cards with flexible port configurations including 1x40, 4x10, 1x100, and 10x10 Gbps. They interface to SFP+, XFP, and CFP optical modules at line rates up to 11.18 Gbps and offer low jitter performance, eliminating need for external conditioning circuitry. Featuring 6.6 Gbps GTX transceivers and 11.18 Gbps GTH transceivers, units also have...

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Octal Ultrasound Receiver ICs consume as little as 25 mW/channel.

Octal Ultrasound Receiver ICs consume as little as 25 mW/channel.

Offering full time-gain-control path, ADC, and I/Q demodulator within 10 x 10 mm BGA package, 8-channel AD9278 and AD9279 are pin- and package-compatible with each other and provide output-referred large-signal SNR up to 67 dB. Model AD9278 suits portable ultrasound systems and AD9279 serves high-end and mid-range systems; both ICs offer 45 dB variable gain range, fully differential signal path,...

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Radio System on Chip embeds RF in wireless sensor networks.

Radio System on Chip embeds RF in wireless sensor networks.

Supplied in 64-lead, 9 mm x 9 mm LFCSP, ADuCRF101 SoC integrates all RF transmit and receive functions, data conversion, and processing elements required to enable fully programmable radio. It is designed for remote, battery-powered wireless sensor network applications and offers 1-300 kbps data rate. Components include 12-bit ADC, 32-bit ARM Cortex-M3 MPU core, up to 128 KB Flash and 6 KB SRAM,...

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Creative Sound Blaster® X-Fi® Titanium HD and Sound Blaster® Digital Music Premium HD Now Available

Pro Audio Sound Cards Feature THX TruStudio PC(TM) Audio Technology and Offer the Highest Quality Audio Playback of Any Creative Sound Card Introduced Middle East - 1 November, 2010 - Creative Technology Ltd. today announced the availability of the PCI-E Creative Sound Blaster-® X-Fi-® Titanium HD discrete audio card and USB Creative Sound Blaster Digital Music Premium HD digital audio system....

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Thomson, PACE and Sagem's First IC Partner Choice Is Princeton Technology Corp.

Thomson, PACE and Sagem's First IC Partner Choice Is Princeton Technology Corp.

Set Top Box (STB) Display Driver IC Design - Low Power Consumption, Multiple Functions, Reasonable Prices . Self - Sufficient Test Capabilities. World-Class Manufacturing Integration The rapid growth in Asia is being driven by a surge in satellite set top box shipments, in conjunction with strong IPTV STB growth. Thomson, PACE and Sagem are world famous set-top box vendors, and they are all...

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TI Introduces Breakthrough High-density Power Solutions for Point-of-load Design

Fully integrated 600-mA solution measures only 6.7 mm-²; high-performance 6-A, 14.5-V integrated converter achieves 800 W/in3 DALLAS - Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (NYSE: TXN) today introduced two new power management integrated circuits for point-of-load designs that raise the bar for size, power density and performance. TI's TPS82671 and TPS84620 integrated power solutions ease design...

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Current Sense Amplifier operates from -5 to 80 V.

Current Sense Amplifier operates from -5 to 80 V.

Featuring 2 MHz bandwidth, Model LT1999 monitors currents in H-bridge motor controls, switching power supplies, and battery chargers. Bidirectional unit guarantees more than 80 dB common-mode rejection at 100 kHz, and features buffered output with fixed-gain options for 10, 20, and 50 V/V. Gain error is less than 0.5% and input offset voltage is less than 1.5 mV over full temperature range of -40...

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Wireless Base Station SoC offers floating point capabilities.

Built as wireless data engine, Model TMS320TCI6616 is based on TMS320C66x DSP using KeyStone multicore architecture, which processes both fixed- and floating-point math. System on Chip is equipped with PHY coprocessors for every 3G and 4G standard, including WCDMA chip rate and LTE bit rate, facilitating 3G to 4G migration. Autonomous packet processing manages packets from core and radio...

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KSW Reaches Security Milestone with MasterCard Certification for Thinlam® Prelaminates

Dresden, Germany - KSW Microtec AG, one of the world's leading suppliers of RFID components and inlays for secure cards and documents, has received MasterCard Certification for its innovative Thinlam-® prelaminate. This latest milestone follows the strategy to offer RFID components and Thinlams-® for high security applications in the fields of eBanking and eGovernment. This strategic move...

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