Graphene Used To Create World's Smallest Transistor

Dr Ponomarenko, who carried out this work, shows his research sample: graphene quantum dots on a chip. (Credit: Image courtesy of University of Manchester)Reporting their peer-reviewed findings in the journal Science, Dr Kostya Novoselov and Professor Andre Geim from The...

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Ramtron introduces first 2MB Serial F-RAM

Ramtron International Corporation, a developer and supplier of nonvolatile ferroelectric random access memory (F-RAM) and integrated semiconductor products, has unveiled the industry's first 2-megabit (Mb) serial F-RAM memory in an 8-lead TDFN (5.0 x 6.0 mm) package.  Manufactured on an advanced 130 nanometer CMOS process, the...

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Tektronix Wave Inspector in mid-range priced digital phosphor oscilloscope

Tektronix has decided to offer its Wave Inspector trace analysis and manipulation capability in a truly mid-range priced digital phosphor oscilloscope. The DPO3000 also provides triggering and decode support for I2C, SPI and CAN serial buses so this scope is aimed squarely at the development of embedded designs where the use of high speed...

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Maxim launches white LED driver

Maxim Integrated Products introduces the MAX8822, the white-LED (WLED) driver to combine a highly efficient negative charge pump with two independent, low-dropout (LDO) regulators. Available in a tiny, 3mm x 3mm x 0.8mm TQFN package, this single-chip solution for driving up to four WLEDs is 50% smaller than the standard two-chip solution....

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Retailers fined for digital TV offenses

Federal regulators on Thursday fined Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Best Buy Co., and other retailers $3.9 million combined for failing to properly label that analog-only televisions will need to be retrofitted after the switch to digital TV next year.The Federal Communications Commission also handed down $2.7 million in fines to other companies for...

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Transparent Computer Monitors? Engineers Make First 'Active Matrix' Display Using Nanowires

Purdue postdoctoral research associate Sanghyun Ju, sitting, and professor David B. Janes work at a "micro-manipulation probe station" in research using nanotechnology to create transparent transistors and circuits. The innovation represents a step that promises a broad...

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TDK thin-film common-mode TCM0605 filter

TDK claims to have one of the smallest thin-film common-mode filters for the EMI filtering of high-speed data transmission. The TCM0605 filter employs thin-film magnetic-head technologies, fine-pattern-conductor-formation and film-formation technologies. A target application is in video streaming or high-quality image downloads, which require...

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A scalable, efficient multichannel diversity receive

Constructing a communication system with a diversity receiver creates multiple options in device count, power, board space, and signal routing. To reduce the amount of RF components, a direct conversion architecture using a quadrature demodulator can be used. Constructing...

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LG unveils sexy new LG Black Label Series Mobile Phone

LG Electronics introduces a new Black Label Series phone that follows the LG Chocolate and LG Shine and promises to be as successful or even more. LG only released photos and some highlights of the new Black Label handset. They did not even reveal the name of the...

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12-bit DAC offers high dynamic performance

The 12-bit 4.0-Gsample/s MAX19693 D/A converter achieves an SFDR of greater than 70 dBc for output frequencies less than 800 MHz, and 62 dBc at an output frequency of 1,500 MHz. At a 4.0-Gsample/s update rate and 200-MHz output frequency, the device offers a wideband-noise...

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Toshiba tech support for next-generation SoC and SiP custom chips

Toshiba has announced technical support for its next generation TC320 high-density, low power system-on-chip (SoC) and system-in-package (SiP) custom chips. Fabricated on a 65nm process, the TC320 Asic family combines a low-k dielectric with up to eight levels of copper and one level of aluminium interconnect. Analogue and application-specific...

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CML evaluation kits for CMX990 RF transceiver with GMSK modem

CML Microcircuits has introduced a couple of evaluation kits for its CMX990 RF transceiver with integrated GMSK modem. The EV9900A board-based evaluation kit will support frequency bands and its initial configuration is for 410-430MHz operation with 25kHz channel spacing at 9600bps. The second kit, the EV9902, provides a graphical user interface...

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Macroblock DC-DC converter for high power LED lighting apps

Macroblock has a DC-DC converter for high power LED lighting applications. It is a 1.2A constant current buck DC-DC converter with a constant current mode hysteretic PFM design. This has the advantage of powering LED design with a current source. By combining the features of adaptive output switching frequency and an audio frequency skip,...

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4180 Series Precision Infrared Calibrator Heats Up For Fast and Easy High-Quality Thermometer Calibration

Easy enough to use in the field and accurate enough to use in the lab AMERICAN FORK, Utah – Hart Scientific, a division of Fluke Corporation and a world leader in temperature calibration products and services, today announced the 4180 Series Precision Infrared Calibrators. The two new models, 4180 and 4181, utilize the same size...

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ARJ45 connector with 5GHz signalling frequency

Millions of users are connected to the Internet through copper cables and over a billion RJ45 connectors are employed in this global network. The Internet data rate is limited to about 1Gbit/s (100 to 250 MHz signalling frequency). The RJ45 connector was never intended to transmit these high frequency signals and so members of IEC/ISO committees,...

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Altera, Bitec video dev kit for Cyclone III FPGAs

Altera has teamed with Bitec to offer a video development kit based on Cyclone III FPGAs. For video applications the attraction will be the device's large parallel processing capabilities with up to 288 multipliers and 4Mbit embedded memory blocks. The kit will support multiple video I/O formats. The development has been developed with applications...

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