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STMicroelectronics today announced it has shipped its one billionth MEMS sensor. ST’s micro-machined accelerometers and gyroscopes have enabled motion-activated user interfaces in a number of popular consumer devices, such as game consoles, smart phones and remotes, making these more accessible and appealing to people.

As operators worldwide strive to increase their network capacity in more cost effective ways and keep ahead of swelling user data consumption, Texas Instruments Incorporated today unveiled the industry’s first wireless base station System-on-Chip (SoC) with the 4G class performance required to tame the wireless data deluge.

Texas Instruments has introduced today a 3-MHz, switch-mode battery charge management integrated circuit (IC) for portable electronics that can be charged from an adaptor or a USB port. The tiny 2 mm x 2 mm switching charger, the bq24150, significantly improves charge time, reduces power dissipation and cuts board space in half compared to typical implementation with linear chargers.

LeCroy Corporation, the worldwide leader in USB protocol test solutions, has upgraded its SuperSpeed USB analyzer product line with new capabilities designed to improve interoperability testing for next generation USB devices. Available as a free software download, this new release helps developers test and verify compatibility with an expanding variety of USB 3.0 host and hub controllers from different SuperSpeed vendors.

National Instruments has introduced LabVIEW for LEGO MINDSTORMS, a new education-focused version of the company’s professional LabVIEW graphical system design software. Developed specifically for secondary school students to use with the LEGO Education robotics platform in classrooms or competitions, LabVIEW for LEGO MINDSTORMS is a teaching tool that helps students visually control and program MINDSTORMS NXT robots, while learning the same sof...

National Instruments recognised 20 innovative applications developed by engineers, scientists and researchers from around the world at the second annual Graphical System Design Achievement Awards earlier this month. At the award ceremony held during the annual NIWeek graphical system design conference and exhibition in Austin, Texas, winners from 10 categories ranging from academic/research to prototype/validation test were recognised for develop...

National Instruments and LEGO Education continue their educational robotics collaboration with the new LEGO Education WeDo classroom robotics platform. Powered by NI LabVIEW graphical design software, LEGO Education WeDo Software is a drag-and-drop, icon-based environment that students ages 7 to 11 can use to easily program their own robotics inventions. Using WeDo software, students learn basic programming skills while designing their robotics a...

National Instruments UK & Ireland is producing a series of Robotics Webcasts aimed at engineers seeking solutions for innovation and design with robotics. Taking place between 24th and 28th May, the series will give a fascinating insight into the next generation of robots and embedded technologies.

Dialog Semiconductor plc, has launched the first in a new family of power management ICs designed to optimise the power efficiency of applications using the Intel® Atom™ processor Z5xx series which is being broadly adopted today. The DA6001 provides all power supplies, power management and clock supplies in a single chip. The PMIC improves battery life, simplifies design, improves system reliability, requires less than half the board space and...

Microtune today introduced the MT3511 RF MicroDigitizer, a groundbreaking RF-to digital converter that harnesses advanced radio frequency (RF) and digital silicon technologies to bring software defined radio to the global automotive industry.