5Mpixel image sensor steps up low light sensitivity

Aptina Imaging has released the MT9P014 5Mpixel image sensor designed to meet the needs of the dynamic, quality-focused mobile market.

Graphics card injects 2.4 teraFLOPS processing power

AMD is offering the ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 that delivers 2.4 teraFLOPS of processing power, yielding up to 80 percent more performance than its ATI Radeon HD 4870.

NI Video Product Demo

Learn how National Instruments combines Graphical Programming (NI LabVIEW) with NI Technologies (NI Smart Camera, NI CompactRio, NI Compact FieldPoint) to help you increase productivity, reduce costs and smoothen your programming process.

Developing a green product development strategy

One of the most difficult steps in the initiation of a green product development strategy is where to get started. The green knowledge base for product development is widely distributed and not readily available within the organization, in the design or process teams.

Implement safe battery charging between gadgets

One of the challenges consumers, and especially business travelers, face today is finding a common yet practical technique to charge the wide variety of portable devices such as cellphones, wireless headsets, and MP3 players now at their disposal. Addressing this challenge requires safe charging methods that allow portable devices with higher energy storage to charge portable devices with lower power requirements.

Unlock dino robots' life-like motion tricks

The Ugobe Pleo dinosaur pet robot that offers lifelike appearance and behavior, is the most recent incarnation of a learning and evolving personal robotic toy.

Design with IGBT modules for high power inverters

Many apps require the design of inverters with ratings close to or even beyond 1MVA with 1,2000V or 1,7000V devices. Applications like UPS, heavy-duty commercial vehicles or renewable energy systems often imply restrictions that don't allow to design with higher voltage levels.

Choose and use high-speed serial data analysis tools

Serial bus technology raised the bar for high-performance test instruments in design, validation and troubleshooting. Designers need better tools to support critical SI measurements and eye diagram analysis.

Spectrum, signal analyzers boost RF test

Here are instrument and measurement basics that will help you avoid frequency-measurement errors in spectrum and vector signal analyzers.

Do one-stop test with next-gen signal analyzers

A next-gen signal analyzer can improve measurement speed and other factors in the entire product design cycle. Using the same instrument at different stages improves efficiency and hastens time-to-market.

Partition multicores for embedded networking

Multicore mania has definitely hit the embedded networking market, but as the dust begins to settle it has become clear that many important architectural details need to be examined closely before decisions are made about how to partition applications across multiple cores.

Save battery life with ambient light sensors

Active optical sensors can dramatically increase the range and usefulness of ambient light sensors, which are now found in a wide range of display applications. But power management strategies are critical in order to reduce total consumption and preserve battery life in portable or cellphone products where optical sensors are used.

Piezoelectrics to relish billion-dollar future

The global piezoelectric crystal market hit $4.8 billion last year and will climb to $6.91 billion by 2012, for an annual average growth rate of 7.5 percent, predicts Innovative Research and Products Inc.

Green trends heat up for next designs

Gone are the days when design was, well, design. Today, it's all about design-for-manufacturability, design-for-quality, design-for-cost and design-for-environment.

IIC-Taiwan: New take on IC design

Taiwan may not be generating as much buzz as mainland China, India or Vietnam, but there is no denying that it is still a prime destination for key industry players.

Update your knowledge base at IIC-Taiwan

By attending this year's IIC-Taiwan technology conference, keep abreast of trends in the field as a whole to ensure design timeliness and marketability.

Memory rests hope on floating-body cells

Intel Corp. revisited its research on floating-body cells for advanced cache designs in microprocessors during the 2008 Symposium on VLSI technology in Hawaii.

Analysis: iPhone opens door for cellphone revolution

Now that Apple has crystallized the concept of the Web-ready phone, the question is how this mobile platform will evolve in today's hypercompetitive environment.

Analysts warn of slowdown in electronics, IC markets

Don't look now, but analysts expect a "widespread slowdown" in the electronics and semiconductor sectors in the 2H 08 and beyond.

Green movement steers automotive MCU vendors

The need to maximize fuel efficiency and reduce harmful emission among vehicles drive the demand for green optimization of MCUs.

Fairchild heeds green calling

Green is so hot and commercially attractive more technology companies are jumping on the bandwagon, rolling out environmentally-friendly products and practices within their own operations.

Avnet makes buildings 'green' with LED

As advances in LED technology push it into the commercial realm, component distributors are retooling their operations to help rewire buildings to take advantage of its energy-saving capabilities.

Trio seeks to cut costs in chip packaging

Infineon has granted licenses for its embedded Wafer-Level BGA chip packaging technology to competitor ST as well as STATS ChipPAC to lower costs and achieve higher market acceptance.

Japanese chipmakers scout for Indian design partners

Trade officials from Japan's Kyushu Island, the site of 650 semiconductor-related companies, are looking for software design partners in southern India.

India outsourced R&D biz to hit $21B by 2012

India is the number one choice for companies looking to outsource R&D, with an offshoring business expected to grow 23 percent to $21 billion by 2012 and a huge talent pool.

India seeks to build world's largest solar plant

The world's largest solar power project is under negotiations for the state of Gujarat in western India at a cost of about $5 billion.