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The BlueCore Bluetooth silicon from CSR is providing the wireless connectivity needed by the Team2 heart-rate monitoring system to remotely keep track of up to 28 heart-rate monitors.

The highly integrated BCM7440 Blu-ray Disc system-on-a-chip (SoC) from Broadcom Corp. is powering the LG Electronics BD300, said to be the world’s first Blu-ray player featuring Netflix instant streaming.

PLX Technology’s ExpressLane PCI Express switches not only incorporate a four-channel DMA engine that can offload memory transfer chores from the host, they also eliminate the need for DMA support on the host or its support chips.

The National Instruments Smart Camera line now has three new family members— the NI 1744, NI 1762, and NI 1764.

Billion Electric Co. Ltd. has selected the BroadLight BL2348 Residential Gateway (RG) system-on-a-chip (SoC) for a new line of high-performance customer-premises equipment (CPE).

The trick to conserving power is to do nothing—or next to nothing. Most low-power microcontrollers utilize this approach in some fashion. Freescale’s MPC8536E incorporates a number of features to optimize power consumption in a network environment. Its gigabit Ethernet ports support packet lossless deep sleep. When in use, the Ethernet ports are active and filter incoming network traffic while the rest of the chip is in deep-sleep mode. Packets...

A group of semiconductor industry firms are collaborating to develop a common design platform for 32- and 28-nm systems-on-a-chip (SoCs) designs. The platform will be based on IBM’s high-k metal-gate (HKMG) technology. Joining IBM are ARM, Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing Ltd., and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.

Samsung has chosen two power amplifiers from RF Micro Devices Inc. for use in more than 10 upcoming 3G handsets. The Wideband CDMA/High-Speed Packet Access power amplifier and the EDGE power amplifier deliver superior performance and current consumption compared to competitive offerings, according to RFMD. The devices allow OEMs to deliver feature-rich 3G handsets that maximize performance and improve battery life.

In the search for decent UMPC software, Technology Editor Bill Wong takes a trip with CoPilot.

Technology Editor Bill Wong evaluates Altera's NIOS II Evaluation Kit.

Human Monitoring Ltd. has introduced a high-definition (HD) stabilizer for user-generated applications based on Texas Instruments’ digital media processors using TI’s DaVinci technology. The XDM-compliant Leonardo Video Stabilizer supports 60 frames/s and 1080p resolution on TI’s processors, including the TMS320DM6467.

A new line of Internet Media Tablets from ARCHOS uses the OMAP 3 applications processor from Texas Instruments Inc. to deliver laptop-like performance and multi-format video support. The ARCHOS 5, ARCHOS 5G, and ARCHOS 7 are the industry’s first implementation of the OMAP 3 based on the 600-MHz superscalar ARM Cortex-A8 processor, according to the company.

Secura Key has chosen Luminary Micro’s Stellaris microcontrollers for its new mid-range RFID reader, the e-Tag. The company will also use the Stellaris MCUs in a new line of access-control products that allow the implementation of secured elevator controls that mange up to 130 floors with badge readers.

Dellux Technologies Inc. will use Golden Dragon LEDs from OSRAM Opto Semiconductors for the luminaires to be installed in the first tunnel in Germany and the longest in Europe to be lit by LEDs. The luminaires and the LED light sources combine for a virtually maintenance-free light source with a minimum life span of 130,000 hrs. (15 yrs.), according to OSRAM. They will be installed in a tunnel on the A71 in Thuringen.

Sanyo Denki Co. Ltd. is using the Actel Fusion mixed-signal FPGA in Sanyo’s new RA035 position-detection device (encoder) for servo motors in industrial applications. The 600,000-gate AFS600 device serves as the main process circuit, converting signals from the resolver into position data.

The new T6M-100 AdvancedMC (PrAMC) platform from JumpGen Systems incorporates the Tilera TILE64 processor, with 64 cores of general-purpose compute capability running at 700 MHz. The single-wide T6M-100 is one of several JumpGen PrAMC products that support 10-Gbit/s Ethernet interfaces addressing growing market requirements for IP networks.

European television manufacturer Loewe has chosen the SAA7164 system-on-a-chip (SoC) from NXP Semiconductors to provide digital video recorder (DVR) and time-shifting functions in Loewe’s new hybrid LCD TVs. The SAA7164 forms the core SoC of a highly integrated encoder module that enables consumers to pause or record analog sources in addition to digital programs onto a hard disk drive, without the need for an external set-top box.

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