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Electronic Design Europe NewsLine: Global Electronics Intelligence for European Design Engineers
In the November 19, 2009 Issue:
 Would You Let A Tiny Robot Swim Through Your Body?
 Video Test System For Multi-Media Devices
 Automotive Power-Management IC Cuts Car Battery Load
 DesignWare USB 2.0 picoPHY Supports 28nm Processes In 1.8V Architectures
 eFUSE Technology Uses Electrically Programmable PMOS Gate Oxide Anti-Fuses
 Chip Consortium To Develop High-Security ID Cards
 Femtocell Silicon Gets Flexible Yet Stays Cost Competitive

Editor's Comment

Would You Let A Tiny Robot Swim Through Your Body?

By Paul Whytock, Editor-in-Chief

Robotic capability is developing at a speed that would astonish even the prophetic sci-fi author Isaac Asimov. Now we have robots that can jump high obstacles in the battlefield or crawl or swim in the human body, the latter being reminiscent of the theme of Asimov’s Fantastic Voyage novel back in the 1960s.

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News

Video Test System For Multi-Media Devices

By Paul Whytock, Editor-in-Chief

National Instruments has introduced NI VideoMASTER 3.0, a new PXI Express-based digital video analyser for validation and production test of multimedia devices. VideoMASTER simplifies the testing of multimedia devices by using configurable measurement steps.

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Automotive Power-Management IC Cuts Car Battery Load

By Paul Whytock, Editor-in-Chief

STMicroelectronics has developed a power-management IC for car body applications. The device addresses the carmakers’ challenge to reduce the stand-by current consumption (quiescent current) at a time when the number of power-consuming products in the car continues to increase.

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Looking for expertise in the power for processors and FPGAs arena? It’s all inside the Power for Processors microsite from TI, made possible by Electronic Design. Get open access to video, product offerings, reference designs and more. Don’t miss these reference designs: High-Efficiency DC/DC Power Solution for DM365, Power Design for Xilinx® Virtex-5 FPGAs or just peruse the whole site! Check it out.

DesignWare USB 2.0 picoPHY Supports 28nm Processes In 1.8V Architectures

By Paul Whytock, Editor-in-Chief

Synopsys has added DesignWare USB 2.0 picoPHY IP to its USB 2.0 PHY IP product line. Targeted at mobile and high-volume consumer applications such as smartphones, mobile internet devices, and netbooks, the DesignWare USB 2.0 picoPHY supports 28nm processes in a 1.8V architecture.

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eFUSE Technology Uses Electrically Programmable PMOS Gate Oxide Anti-Fuses

By Paul Whytock, Editor-in-Chief

The ASIC and Foundry Business Unit at Toshiba Electronics Europe (TEE) has announced that European ASIC and system-on-chip (SoC) customers can now take advantage of eFUSE (electrical programmable fuse) technology when developing ICs based on Toshiba processes.

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Chip Consortium To Develop High-Security ID Cards

By Paul Whytock, Editor-in-Chief

Semiconductor companies Infineon Technologies AG and NXP Semiconductors Germany (NXP) and chip card maker Giesecke & Devrient (G&D) are among eleven companies from six European Union (EU) countries participating in the European research project BioP@ss to develop a high-security chip card platform.

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Hot Topics

Femtocell Silicon Gets Flexible Yet Stays Cost Competitive

By Dr. Ebrahim Bushehri, Lime Microsystems

Networks of small cell base stations–“femtocells”–are being deployed to enable better coverage in buildings and high-performance data services on mobile devices. Programmable silicon can reduce costs for femtocell OEMs.

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