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Adhering to a few simple guidelines and the careful selection of components are key to achieving long battery life in wireless applications. Jay Tyzzer, Senior Field Application Engineer at Nordic Semiconductor, explores more in this ES Design magazine article.

Kontron introduced the VX3327, a new 3U VPX graphics card with AMD Embedded Radeon E6760 GPU, designed to meet the latest demands in avionics and military technology. With its 480 computing cores, Kontron's OpenVPX-compliant board delivers a parallel data processing performance of up to 576 GFLOPs. Equipped with this processing power, the Kontron VX3327 is optimized for compute-intense General Purpose Graphics Processing Unit applications deploye...

Kontron's StarVX High Performance Embedded Computer system brings supercomputing I/O bandwidth and performance, previously only achieved in IT datacenters, to the battlefield. Based only on mainstream IT technology for greater platform support and assured longevity, the 3U VPX-based Kontron StarVX enables military systems developers to drastically reduce the process from design to field deployment of radar, sonar, autonomous vehicles and other 3D...

Freescale Semiconductor’s flagship QorIQ T4240 communications processor is now available with AltiVec software libraries provided by Mentor Graphics. Running on the next-generation AltiVec engine, the signal-processing libraries allow customers to realize super-computing performance from Freescale’s QorIQ T series processors while adhering to the size, weight and power requirements of embedded computing.

Robert Dewar, President of AdaCore, explains why, in his opinion, the rising level of — and dependence on — software in cars is becoming something we should all be worrying about.

While our modern economy couldn’t function without it, the potential of machine-to-machine communications is far from exhausted; only a fraction of the available data is currently used and it holds the potential to provide deeper insights in the future. By Jürgen Hase, Vice President M2M Competence Center, Deutsche Telekom AG.

Texas Instruments today introduced two power management chipsets with TI’s patented new MaxLife fast-charge technology, which allows consumers to charge single-cell Li-Ion batteries faster and experience longer battery life. The bq27530 and bq27531 fuel gauge circuits, coupled with TI’s bq2416x and bq2419x chargers, optimize battery performance using the highest possible charge rates with minimal battery degradation.

Harwin has announced that a prize-winning underwater robot project, designed and built for the international SAUC-E (Student Autonomous Underwater Challenge – Europe) program by students from the University of the West of England, depends on hi-rel Datamate connectors to deliver reliable power and signal transmission, even in challenging conditions.

MEMS gyros and accelerometers are now incorporated into a broad range of consumer electronic devices, becoming an essential component of automotive navigation and electronic stability control systems. But, how do they work and what does an engineer need to consider when contemplating designing-in a MEMS gyro to their end-product? By Ulf Meriheinä, Senior MEMS Application Specialist at Murata Electronics.

CSR today debuted the SiRFstarV 5e, a Global Navigation Satellite System engine optimised to enable highly accurate location positioning for devices including mobile phones, cameras, and health and fitness products. By supporting fully concurrent GLONASS, GPS, QZSS and SBAS from ROM, the highest accuracy and fastest time-to-first-fix are ensured.