Wittenstein High Integrity Systems says its SafeRTOS is available for the SIL3 compliant Texas Instruments TMS570LS microcontroller (MCU) family for safety rela
Monthly Archives: May 2010
Maxim chipset for 11Gbit/s optical fibre links
Maxim Integrated Products has an optical transmit/receive chipset for data rates 1.0625Gbit/s to 11.3Gbit/s
Samsung To Beat $30bn Sales This Year, says IC Insights
Samsung is on pace for at least a $30bn sales year in 2010, according to IC Insights, which reckons Samsung could have a 50% rise in sales revenue this year. With a semi capex of $9.6bn – about as much as Intel and TSMC combined – Samsung could achieve 22% world semiconductor market share. Elsewhere there was a shake-up in ...
European micro robots win at IEEE games
Swiss and French microrobots walked away with gold at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation in Alaska this week. In the Mobile Microrobotics Challenge, six teams from...
High gain amplifier helps with thermocouples
According to Analog Devices, to achieve reliable measurement with thermocouple-based systems cold junction compensation and a high gain accuracy precision amplifier is required
A Tribute To Genius
That Apple is now worth more than Microsoft is an extraordinary tribute to genius.
Pre-emptive strike on design bugs
Guest columnist Nathan Field, an engineering manager at Green Hills Software, describes how designers can use pre-emptive debugging of their systems to save project time and cost
An Engineer in Wonderland – Mr Laithwaite’s informative chart
The great heavy electrical engineer Eric Laithwaite, at one of his legendary Christmas Lectures, displayed a chart
Peregrine designs PLLs in Europe
Peregrine Semiconductor has added to its range of phase-locked loop (PLL) frequency synthesisers for the military, broadband cable infrastructure, and wireless
Electric sports car attempts M25 record
Tonight students from Imperial College will attempt to drive their electric vehicle twice around the M25 on a single charge. Inspiration for the trial came from...