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| | New sensor and MCU technology are key to nextgen robots... | | Constructing a robot back in the "good old days" was a difficult, error-prone and time-consuming process. Sensing the environment was achieved with devices built from discrete components, many of which were never designed to effectively function toge... |
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| | USBSPYDER08 Product Summary Page... | | External Link: http://www.freescale.com/webapp/sps/site/prod_summary.jsp?code=USBSPYDER08&parentCode=MC9RS08KA1&nodeId=016246844994879931&tid=t8lpMECH... |
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| | 'Hybrid' processor targets 'by-wire' autos... | |
BOSTON, MASS. - Motorola, Inc. today (Monday, Sept. 22nd) will unveil a "hybrid processor" with an electronic architecture that could serve as the brain for the auto industry's next-generation, by-wire products.
Known as the 56F8300 hyb... |
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| | MCUs or DSPs: Which is in (Motor) Control?... | |
Quick!—name the world's most popular microprocessor chip. If you said "Pentium" you're wrong. Way wrong. Fact is, Intel's famous Pentium family makes up barely 2% of the world's microprocessors. The other 98% are all embedd... |
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| | Application-Specific MCUs focus on motor control ... | | San Jose, Calif. -- Zilog, Inc.'s thrust into the growing motor control market is its Z8 Encore! MC family, a new generation of flash MCUs targeted at sensorless Brushless DC (BLDC) and AC Induction motor control applications. Availa... |
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| | Eight-bit MCUs claim half the automobile... | |
Dozens of 8-bit microcontrollers (MCUs) inhabit the average new automobile, which says something about both 8-bit MCUs and automobiles. Today's automobiles are nothing like their predecessors. Whereas automobile engineers/ inventors were origi... |
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| | Make a PI controller on an 8-bit micro... | |
This article shows you how to implement a classical PI (proportional-integral) controller on a simple 8-bit microcontroller. To implement the PI controller, we developed specific libraries that make it possible for the microcontroller to perfo... |
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| | ARM Cortex-M3-based MCUs add flash, peripherals... | |
Austin, Tex.— Coming on the heels of the launch of its first Cortex-M3 processor-based microcontroller, Luminary Micro has added four devices to its Stellaris family. The LM3S301, LM3S310, LM3S315 and LM3S316 are available ... |
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| | Renesas adds to H8SX microcontroller family... | |
San Jose, Calif. — Renesas Technology has added eight devices to its H8SX family of 32-bit CISC microcontrollers. The devices areplaced in three groups: the H8SX/1638, H8SX/1648, and H8SX/1622. All eight devices in these groups operate at speed... |
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| | 8-bit MCU supports field oriented control... | |
Munich, Germany — Infineon Technologies has introduced a family of 8-bit microcontrollers (MCUs) with field oriented control (FOC) capability and a new Digital Application virtual Engineer (DAvE) drive software configuration tool kit, which is ... |
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| | 8-bit MCU supports field oriented control... | |
Munich, Germany — Infineon Technologies has introduced a family of 8-bit microcontrollers (MCUs) with field oriented control (FOC) capability and a new Digital Application virtual Engineer (DAvE) drive software configuration tool kit, which is ... |
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| | Driverless vehicles meeting challenge... | |
PORTLAND, Ore. — The winners of the last Grand Challenge, an autonomous vehicle race sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa), announced their entry for this year's Urban Grand Challenge.
The entries were announced... |
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| | RFID basics - And a few new challenges... | |
A basic Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) system consists of: an antenna; a transceiver with a decoder; and a transponder (also known as an RFID tag). Without software to utilize the information derived from reading the tags, however, the system... |
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| | PWM control IC touts input voltage range up to 75-V... | |
El Segundo, Calif.—International Rectifier introduced the IR3651, a synchronous PWM control IC designed for high-performance synchronous DC/DC buck applications with an input voltage range up to 75-V.
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| | PWM control IC touts input voltage range up to 75-V... | |
El Segundo, Calif.—International Rectifier introduced the IR3651, a synchronous PWM control IC designed for high-performance synchronous DC/DC buck applications with an input voltage range up to 75-V.
With programmable switching frequency up ... |
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| | Slim relay saves space in industrial apps... | |
Schaumburg, Ill. — Omron Electronic Components has launched an industrial-style G2RV slim relay with a width of 6 mm, offering space savings in industrial applications.
Rated at 6 A, the G2RV is available in six versions with voltages ranging ... |
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| | Heavy-duty connector targets motion control systems, motors... | |
Harrisburg, Pa. — Tyco Electronics Corp. has expanded its HTS heavy-duty connector series with a new range of plastic connectors for motion control, industrial machinery (e.g., transportation belts/equipment, pumps and positioning equipment) an... |
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| | Automated-home protocols proliferate... | |
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If you've ever done your own teardown and would like to see it published across the Techonline/EETimes ... |
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| | Auto MEMS maker shifting gears... | |
Infineon Technologies' first microelectromechanical system was a pressure sensor developed for its Automotive, Industrial and Multimarketing group. Now well known for its MEMS side-air-bag and tire-pressure sensors, Infineon AIM has branched out i... |
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