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Monthly Archives: September 2010

Out with the old, in with the 2.0 Maxim

Thursday, September 30, 2010

Maxim held its first editor/analyst day Tuesday (9-28-10) in Sunnyvale and most of us came away thinking that they should have done this years ago because we were mostly pleasantly surprised about the depth and breadth of today’s Maxim. Wait, how did that happen? How did Maxim become a cutting edge company in so many [...]

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LeCroy introduces 45-GHz scope

Thursday, September 30, 2010

LeCroy today is introducing the WaveMaster 8Zi-A line of digital oscilloscopes (including serial-data and disk-drive analyzers) with models that have bandwidths up to 45 GHz and sample rates of 120 Gsamples/s, making them the highest bandwidth and fastest sample rate real-time oscilloscope commercially available. Members of the scope family can also provide 20 GHz of [...]

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Danaher to acquire Keithley

Thursday, September 30, 2010

After the close of the NY Stock Exchange on Wednesday, Sept. 29, Danaher Corp. announced it would acquire Keithley Instruments. Danaher already owns two of the most widely known electronic design test equipment manufacturers: Fluke (acquired in 1998) and Tektronix (in 2007).

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RX Design Guide can jump start design and provide application guidance

Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Design Guide starts power-supply circuits, MCU operating modes, the flexibility to support big- or little-endian operations, and clock and reset circuits; and it continues through details in terms of memory maps and the variety of RX sleep modes.

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Two new at Lindley Processor Conference

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

multicore processors

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Design Demonstrations for TI’s Stellaris MCU

Saturday, September 25, 2010

This past week, Texas Instruments announced the winners of its DesignStellaris 2010 engineering competition that featured innovative electronics applications running the company’s Stellaris ARM Cortex M3-based microcontrollers (MCU). TI awarded the top entrants $10,000 in prizes and is promoting the top designs with contributed articles and press coverage in several publications and on several websites. [...]

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An Update on California’s New Mandatory TV Spec

Thursday, September 23, 2010

September 7, 2010 – Last fall, I wrote about the California Energy Commission (CEC) approving the first mandatory TV efficiency standard (see my blog from November 18, 2009). At the time, the CEC had just unanimously voted to amend the state’s Appliance Efficiency Regulations (Title 20) to include tighter energy efficiency standards for televisions. On [...]

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