TI hits home run with Chronos sportswatch wireless dev kit
The Texas Instruments product management team knew they were on to something as they prepped for the November '09 launch of the eZ430 Chronos low-power wireless MCU development kit, but they had no idea that within weeks it would surpass the 5,000-unit mark and in doing so leave previous kit-launch records in the dust. MORE
Interlop rolls TCP-offload engine SoC IP
IP developer Intelop announced delivery of its second generation TCP offload engine SoC integrated with ARP hardware module, G Bit Ethernet MAC and AMBA 2.0 bus interface running at 2 Gbps sustained rates. MORE
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EE Times Industry Challenge Pt 2: Choosing the Right Silicon Solution
The second part of this exhaustive analysis features survey results from hundreds of design teams illustrating the current practice in the industry. EE Times has mapped patterns of how the decision gets made, and what the outcome is, based on job functions and responsibilities.Click here for more.
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Prototype fuel cell for handsets eyes fivefold run-time boost As part of a research collaboration on miniaturized energy sources, the French Atomic Energy Agency (CEA) and STMicroelectronics NV (Geneva) have prototyped a hydrogen fuel cell for mobile phones that aims to reduce dependency on the use of electrical power supplies to recharge batteries. EE Times' Anne-Francoise Pele Takes a closer look.Click here to learn more.
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Phyworks demos 10G copper interconnects Communications chip specialist Phyworks (Bristol, England) has demonstrated 10Gbits/s rack-to-rack copper interconnects of up to 30 metres using technology it originally developed for the optical module market. EE Times Europe's John Walko gets the story. Click here for details.
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