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Cadence voices next direction for AI DSPs

Caroline Hayes — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 12:22:57 +0000

The importance of voice AI and immersive audio in home entertainment, automotice infotainement and smartphones has led Cadence to announce its sixth generation of optimised DSP IP, the Tensilicia HiFi ...

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Expect more of the same for 2026, says ecsn

Caroline Hayes — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 11:47:39 +0000

Last year, the ecsn (Electronic Components Supply Network), the body which represents authorised distributors in the UK and Eire, reported that its members were entering 2025 with “extreme caution”. Customer ...

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Autosar-ready dsPICs from Microchip for automotive functional safety

Steve Bush — Mon, 06 Jun 2022 09:16:05 +0000

Microchip has announced Autosar-ready ISO 26262-compliant dsPIC33C MCUs for vehicle use. Developed following ISO 26262 process, the dsPIC33CK family has hardware features intended to simplify functional safety certifications for ASIL-B and ...

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Covid-19 takes its toll in Q2

Caroline Hayes — Thu, 20 Aug 2020 16:55:46 +0000

The latest report from DMASS shows a downturn in the European semiconductor business across Europe in Q2 and directly links the fall of over 20% to the effects of the ...

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100Mips DSP MCU for motor control is Microchip’s smallest

Steve Bush — Tue, 27 Nov 2018 11:54:36 +0000

Microchip is aiming at sophisticated motor control with a single-core DSP MCU

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Capacitance-to-digital front-end for sensing works on harvested energy

Steve Bush — Wed, 08 Nov 2017 12:00:44 +0000

AMS has announced a configurable capacitive sensing front end which allows speed and resolution to be traded to optimise designs. Called PCap04, it can capture and digitise 50,000 times ...

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TI launches retimers

David Manners — Wed, 22 Jun 2016 07:21:16 +0000

TI has introduced three retimers which enable an extended signal range over long traces, connectors and cables without degradation of signal integrity. These devices expand TI’s high-performance retimer portfolio, and ...

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Video surveillance gets H.264 encoding

Richard Wilson — Mon, 04 Jan 2016 00:04:23 +0000

Exar has introduced a digital video recorder on a PCI Express card for professional video surveillance applications. The VRC7016XE card features two Exar S7110 software configurable processors and performs H.264 ...

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ADI selects Cortex-M4 and model-based design for motor control

Richard Wilson — Wed, 25 Sep 2013 14:38:50 +0000

Analog Devices has combined an ARM Cortex-M4 processor and a model-based design platform to address the needs of closed loop motor and solar photo-voltaic (PV) inverter control. The floating-point Cortex-M4 processor core runs ...

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640GFLOPS card for image sensor processing

EW Staff — Fri, 16 Aug 2013 09:02:11 +0000

CommAgility’s AMC-4C6678 Advanced Mezzanine Card (AMC) DSP board has four TMS320C6678 fixed- and floating-point octal core DSPs from Texas Instruments running at 1.25GHz. The total aggregated performance is 640GFLOPS and ...

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