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Freescale spins out MRAM biz 6/9/2008
Freescale’s 50-member MRAM team, along with the company’s related IP and products, will become EverSpin Technologies, a new company focused on bringing MRAM to market both as an embedded and standalone memory. "The spin out is to allow the technology to get wider adoption beyond Freescale’s products in the marketplace, but we will still be a very strong supporter and user of the technology," Freescale CTO Lisa Su said.Light sensor integrates photodiode, transimpedance amp, and a linear voltage-output stage 6/6/2008
Melexis has introduced the MLX75305 light-to-voltage sensor for high-volume automotive, industrial, and consumer applications.LED shipments to climb on notebook usage 5/29/2008
LEDs will light the notebook-PC-display-backlighting market ablaze during the next few years, with iSuppli Corp predicting that nine out of 10 large mobile-PC LCD panels will use the technology by 2012.Carbon nanotubes behave like asbestos, study shows 5/21/2008
In a wakeup call for nanotechnology in general and carbon nanotubes in particular, a major study suggests some forms of carbon nanotubes, which has been the poster child for the “nanotechnology revolution” could be as harmful as asbestos if inhaled in sufficient quantities, the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies reports.Thin film encapsulation technology can be leveraged for flexible OLED displays 5/21/2008
Holding the potential to accelerate commercialization of flexible organic light emitting diodes (OLED) displays, the US Display Consortium reported that a cooperative R&D program with GE Global Research has been completed whereby GE has demonstrated an ultra high barrier thin-film encapsulation process on a wide variety of OLED structures through a batchmode, plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition process.In-Depth
Estimating junction temperature from top-surface temperature in power MOSFETs 5/30/2008
If you can determine the surface temperature of a MOSFET package with a bench probe, you can get a good idea of the device's junction temperature.Designing with high-power LEDs on epoxy-glass boards 3/31/2008
Learn the fundamentals of thermal design and how it can be implemented using practical methods and materials to produce acceptable high-power LED applications.A few useful formulas for magnetic-products design 3/27/2008
These useful equations assist in selecting magnetic cores, making the necessary gap assessment, determining magnetic-core parameters, and evaluating the energy-storage capability of gapped cores.Power, power everywhere but nary a watt to blink 2/27/2008
Tales From The Cube: Clever design takes 550V-ac oil pumps offline to avert environmental disaster.EDN announces 18th Annual Innovation Awards finalists 2/1/2008
EDN proudly announces the 18th Annual EDN Innovation Awards finalists. Please review the finalists and vote using the online ballot.Experts
Harley Feldberg: the pulse of the industry 3/20/2008
Voices: EDN speaks with Avnet's Harley Feldberg about the economic situation, the growing role of Avnet in the design community, and the changing role of Asia in the industry.Voices: Chano Gómez on powerline networking's "universal" hope 12/14/2007
How does UPA (Universal Powerline Association) technology cope with powerline noise? Why is it marketed as "200 Mbps" when it provides only a fraction of that? And is there hope for a true powerline standard? DS2's Chano Gomez provides technical and strategic insights.Reach out and touch: Designing with touchscreens 9/27/2007
Although the touchscreen interface may be digital, the human interface is purely analog.Roll back the lead-free initiative: 12 ROHS myths 9/13/2007
I'm all for environmental legislation when it actually helps. When it doesn't help, and it harms something else, I question the result.Internet video provides another channel for Design Idea delivery 6/7/2007
Our goal with video and other multimedia presentations is to provide you information in whichever ways you want to consume it.DesignIdeas
