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2. New eSi-RISC Scalable Soft Processor Cores for ASICs and FPGAs
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... such as energy monitoring, intelligent sensors, medical and wireless networking. The eSi-3200 is a 32-bit core designed for use with on-chip memory. This configuration is only 15k gates. The 5-stage pipeline ...

3. Tabula launches ABAX FPGAs based on 3D Spacetime architecture
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... a wide range of applications, ABAX devices will initially target the telecom, enterprise, and wireless infrastructure markets. "For decades, the Holy Grail for electronic system manufacturers has ...

4. An Introduction to Software-Defined Radio (SDR)
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The term software-defined radio (SDR) refers to a smart radio that automatically switches frequency spectrum and operational modes on-demand. This article provides an introduction to the history of SDR ...

5. Communications Flexibility is the Key to an interoperable “Smart” Grid
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... Protocol (IP) networking for both wired and wireless smart object communications. This paper will discuss how to approach the system architecture so to provide the maximum flexibility and backward compatibility ...

6. Cool Beans: Telekinetic Obstacle Course
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... a headset that measures your brainwaves and wirelessly transmits the results to a base station that includes a ping-pong ball in a tube. You train yourself to use your brainwaves to control the fan driving ...

7. Coolest dev kit ever: MCU+RF sports watch!
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Kenton’s Score-O-Meter:  5 of 5.  TI’s eZ430-Chronos wireless dev kit is fun (it comes inside a sports watch!), feature-packed, and easy to use.  If you are developing small-form-factor ISM-band app, you ...

8. QNX showcases connected car prototype
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... Long Term Evolution (LTE) 4G networks can potentially bring video-on-demand, Internet radio, and other wireless broadband services to the automobile. Alcatel-Lucent is also a partner on the program.  ...

9. Xilinx launch New Connectivity, Embedded, and DSP Kits (Nitty-Gritty Details)
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... over 700 DSP48 slices that can deliver in excess of 400 GMACs of DSP processing bandwidth. This is the perfect development platform for high performance wireless, aerospace or defense application. Features ...

10. FM wireless transmitter
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I was rummaging around though some old files and found this. When I was a lad, I made hundreds of these wee beasties. These FM transmitters can be made from very common components, will run for several ...

11. Atmel goes after ZigBee with combined transceiver microcontroller chip
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... Today, Atmel announced a new family of AVR microcontrollers that combine these two functions in a single chip targeted at wireless applications such as ZigBee®, RF4CE, and 6LoWPAN. Specifically, the new ...

12. Vehicles talk safety
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Traffic safety is a top-priority area within the EU. By getting vehicles to communicate with one another and using infrastructure in what is known as cooperative systems, it is possible to considerably ...

13. Mentor embraces SystemC in their Catapult high-level synthesis solution
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... C++. Standards, for such applications as audio, video, encryption, wireless communications etc are all defined in C or C++ and thus there is a strong desire to be able to import these descriptions without ...

14. New dev platform for Cypress PSoC 5 with ARM Cortex-M3
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... of the kit’s onboard sensors including an accelerometer, a thermistor, proximity sensing, and CapSense.  The kit enables easy development via 28 general-purpose I/O pins, a 12-pin wireless module header, ...

15. Cypress enhances analog/digital embedded design platform
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... Wire Debugging (SWD), an accelerometer, a thermistor, proximity sensing, CapSense, a 12-pin wireless module header, and 28 general purpose I/O pins. This kit is $49.00. The PSoC Development Kit (CY8CKIT-001) ...

16. Hunting a Wild Engineer
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... Imaging Hero, Wireless Designer... Meanwhile, while you're pondering this poser, here's the video I promised (if you've somehow managed to have missed seeing this before, you're in for a real treat): ...

17. HSPA, EVDO, WiMax & then LTE but what about the mobile backhaul?
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... wireless broadband traffic but what bout the evolution of backhaul?? Is it ready? or is it going to be a major bottleneck analogous to the traffic jams seen if only one lane was operating out of a four ...

18. Xilinx 7 Series 28nm FPGAs – "Super Family" with three branches
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... generation broadcast systems and wireless networks. Virtex  represents the summit and highest capability. The Virtex-7 family delivers the industry’s highest system performance and capability. The new ...

19. ASCII, EBCDIC, ISO, and Other Computer Codes (Part 1)
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... computer store, purchase a cheap-and-cheerful printer, return home, connect it to our computer (often via a wireless connection), and instruct the computer to print out a document ... and everything works ...

20. Smart Home/Smart Grid Product Survey Part 1 – The BuLogics Smart Grid Home Controller
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... home controller is a natural evolution of their home automation business which has been involved with the wireless control systems (most notably Z-Wave) for six years. According to BuLogics, the system ...