By Tahar Allag The wearable and personal-electronics industries are booming. Devices in this market vary wildly by application and use. These multifunction devices are designed to help people…
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Dual-mode BLE SoCs bring wireless streaming to speakers, headsets and gaming headphones
Microchip Technology Inc. today announces the next generation of dual-mode Bluetooth® audio products. The IS206X family builds on Microchip’s successful IS202X portfolio of highly integrated system-on-a-chip (SoC) devices and modules…
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Bluetooth LE SoC highlights power efficiency in beacon mode
ST Microelectronics has announced the first Bluetooth Low Energy wireless System-on-Chip (SoC). The BlueNRG-1 is optimized to satisfy high-volume opportunities in the fast-growing Bluetooth Low Energy market through the combination of energy efficiency and strong radio performance. Bluetooth Low Energy technology is ideal for energy-constrained smart sensors and connected devices like wearables, retail beacons, keyless entry […]
Evaluation kit helps spec eGaN FETs, ICs for multi-mode wireless power charging systems
Efficient Power Conversion Corporation (EPC) today announces the availability of a complete demonstration multi-mode wireless power charging kit, the EPC9121. The purpose of this demonstration kit is to…
1200 V Silicon Carbide MOSFET tech boosts power density
Infineon Technologies AG has unveiled a silicon carbide (SiC) MOSFET technology allowing product designs to achieve previously unattainable levels of power density and performance. Infineon’s CoolSiC™ MOSFETs offer a new degree of flexibility for increasing efficiency and frequency. They will help developers of power conversion schemes to save space and weight, reduce cooling requirements, improve […]
Researchers 3D print ultralight supercapacitors
For the first time ever, scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and UC Santa Cruz have successfully 3D-printed supercapacitors using an ultra-lightweight graphene aerogel, opening the door to novel, unconstrained designs of highly efficient energy storage systems for smartphones, wearables, implantable devices, electric cars and wireless sensors. Using a 3D-printing process called direct-ink writing […]
Power efficient design for wearable electronics
The wearable electronic device market is growing rapidly with predictions of more than a $10bn market size by 2020. But the devices are small and so are the batteries so you need to be careful and creative to ensure your device has a battery life of months or years instead of days or hours. That […]
How to design with GaN power devices – video series
Efficient Power Conversion Corp. now offers a free, nine-part educational video series on design basics, DC-DC conversion, wireless charging, reliability, and other applications for Gallium Nitride (GaN) FETs and integrated circuits. This expands the company’s existing video library on GaN technology designed to provide power system design engineers advanced technical information and application examples on […]
IC design libraries for ultra-low power 40-nm and 55-nm process technologies target the IoT
Synopsys, Inc. announced a comprehensive portfolio of IP optimized to address the security, wireless connectivity, energy-efficient and sensor processing requirements for a wide range of Internet of Things (IoT) applications such as wearables, smart appliances, metering and wireless sensor networks. The DesignWare® IP portfolio for the IoT includes power- and area-efficient logic libraries, memory compilers, non-volatile memory […]
Verification IP for SoCs
Synopsys, Inc. SNPS, +0.83% a provider in software, IP and services used to accelerate innovation in chips and electronic systems, announced the immediate availability of verification IP (VIP) for LPDDR4. Synopsys VIP for LPDDR4 is based on a 100 percent native SystemVerilog Universal Verification Methodology (UVM) architecture to enable ease of use, ease of integration […]