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Job of the Week: Software Engineer (Embedded C, Microcontrollers, Defence Industry)
Jam Recruitment is looking for a Software Engineer with Embedded C and Microcontrollers experience - they are required on a permanent basis for an electronics company who supply the defence industry.
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Polish designer shows 'fastest 8051 CPU' at CeBIT
"Our DQ80251 runs at 300MHz without losing's breath. It was possible not because of adding higher frequency, but thanks to unique architecture we implemented," said Thomas Krzyzak, v-p at Digital Core Design
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CEVA adds DTV and white space radio to mobile platform
The CEVA-XC4000 offers a big jump in performance over the silicon IP firm's XC323 DSP for LTE-A processing, while consuming less power, said CEVA
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TI's Cortex-M4F-based MCU support ARM's CMSIS
It is claimed that use of ARM’s CMSIS libraries help to simplify the implementation of floating point, single instruction multiple data (SIMD) and digital signal processing (DSP) operations
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WinCE breathes life into intrinsically safe gas analyser
Birmingham design consultancy ByteSnap has put phone-like user-friendliness into an intrinsically safe industrial gas analyser. The brief was to bring analysers for landfill gasses up-to-date by incorporating a fast colour user interface without...
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Science: Speedy neutrino result may be due to instrument glitch
Maybe it was unbelievable for a reason. The signs that neutrinos may travel faster than light, contradicting the well-tested rules of Einstein's special theory of relativity, look like they may have been due to a bad GPS connection.
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Ingenic makes first Android 4.0 tablet 4G LTE
Originally announced in December 2011, the Ingenic tablet is one of the first Android 4.0 tablets
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Altera demos 28nm FPGAs in 100Gbit/s optical module
The demonstration, at the Optical Fiber Conference (OFC) in Los Angeles next month, includes four channels of PRBS31 data generating within the Altera’s Stratix V FPGA
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ISSCC - Solid state circuits take centre stage
The International Solid State Circuits Conference is an important gathering for the electronic engineering industry, regarding systems-on-a-chip and solid-state circuits.
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Space: Winners and losers as White House cuts NASA budget
The U.S. Government under President Obama plans to cut NASA's 2013 budget slightly to $17.7 billion. The budget request, if passed by Congress, has winners and losers. Unmanned exploration of the planet Mars would have its budget cut from $587 million to $361 million. This would effectively preclude NASA from funding the launches of the joint ESA/NASA ExoMars mission.
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Embedded World: Energy Micro announces 'lowest power' ARM Cortex-M4
Low power microcontroller firm Energy Micro has added ARM's DSP-enabled embedded processor to its range, the Cortex-M4F. Dubbed EFM32 Wonder Gecko, there are...
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Sparkling Dialog
Dialog Semiconductor continues on its merry way with Q4 revenues 22.4% up on Q3, whole-year 2011 revenue up 77.8% over 2010, and an optimistic outlook for this year.
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Small cell firm integrates 3G for faster LTE roll-out
“Small cells will have a vital role to play in delivering LTE's promise of high-speed data for large numbers of subscribers," said ip.access founder and CTO Nick Johnson
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Test firms combine boundary scan tester with USB scope
The system combines XJTAG’s boundary scan technology with the digital signal acquisition capabilities of the Pico Technology oscilloscope
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ISSCC: 5.8GHz wake-up radio needs only 15µA
Korean engineers have implemented a 15µA 5.8GHz active wake-up radio using mixed signal processing. Wake-up radio is a way...
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Embedded market goes ARM crazy
What started with standardised ARM processors is now the trend of the embedded industry, standardising on the ARM architecture rather than developing your own, writes Zeljko Loncaric
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Space: SS/L to build two comms satellites for Australia
Space Systems/Loral has been awarded a $668.6 million contract by NBNCo of Australia to build two satellites to provide broadband facilities to remote areas of Australia.
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Cloud-based tools are changing embedded design
Unified development with support of cloud technologies is set to change the way design teams collaborate, capture and create, writes Frank Krämer, technical marketing director, EMEA at Altium Europe
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Aerospace: ST Aerospace launches AERIA brand for VIP market
ST Aerospace has unveiled a new brand, AERIA Luxury Interiors, as part of the global branding programme for its VIP completion and refurbishment business.
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Intel adds another foundry customer - Tabula
Intel has added a second foundry customer – Tabula - which has a programmable logic technology which it calls Spacetime incorporated in a product called 3PLD.
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