Intel and Micron break NAND flash barrier
Intel and Micron Technology have announced a benchmark in NAND flash technology – what is claimed to be the world's first 20nm, 128Gbit multilevel-cell device. The companies also announced mass production of their 64Gbit 20nm NAND.

Tackling the challenge of bringing commercial technology into the health sector
There is an increasing interest in the use of consumer electronics for other markets including the health sector, said conference chair John Eaglesham from the Advanced Digital Institute. “There are economic and demographic issues in the health service and people are looking for ways that the use of electronics can help,” he said.

European Standards body to challenge Vita and Picmg
Three of Europe’s major embedded companies have joined forces to set up a new standards body for Europe to tackle what they see as long delays by US bodies to complete the standardisation process. The formal announcement of the new organisation is likely to be mid-February with the publicity ramping up in time for Embedded World in Nuremberg (28th February to 1st March 2012). The aim is to have a press conference at the show.

GE Healthcare and Microsoft join forces in medical market
GE Healthcare and Microsoft plan to create a joint venture aimed at helping healthcare organisations and professionals use real-time, system-wide intelligence to improve healthcare quality and the patient experience. The new company aims to develop and market an open, interoperable technology platform and clinical applications focussed on enabling better population health management to improve outcomes and the overall economics of health and wellness.

Lattice to buy Silicon Blue for $62m

Shipments start for Xilinx extensible processing platform

Arm and Global Foundries work advances SoC designs

Alliance to create trusted platforms

MSC to bring G series to Q Seven

Adlink commits to Arm with support for Kontron com standard
Machine-to-Machine: Focus on smart services
Standards-based tools and platforms are essential to rapid development of intelligent devices and services, says Claus Giebert, product marketing manager at Kontron.
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Software Development Tools: Debug tools - the future direction
Lauterbach's UK manager, Barry Lock, looks at the developments that engineers can expect in the fields of code trace, test and verification
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Single Board Computers: VME bus versus the fabric architectures
Vita’s executive director Ray Alderman explains why VME still scores over fabric architectures
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Single Board Computers: Taking a risc
Barry Husbands discusses why risc technology is enabling the next generation of single board computer
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IP65 sealed fanless panel PC for harsh environments
The latest addition to BVM Mobile’s family of panel PCs is the UPC-V312-D525, a 30.7cm touchscreen fanless unit. Running Win CE, Win XPE, Win 7 Embedded or Linux, the unit is based on the Intel ICH8M chipset, with an Intel Atom D525 dual core 1.8GHz processor and up to 1Gbyte of ram.
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Isolated offline regulator needs no opto
The LT3798 isolated flyback controller from Linear Technology has single stage active power factor correction. A power factor of more than 0.97 is accomplished by actively modulating the input current, eliminating the need for an extra switching power stage and associated components. In addition, no opto-isolator or signal transformer is required for feedback since the output voltage is sensed from the primary-side flyback signal.
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SBC aims to improve energy efficiency
The IB905 8.9cm disk-size single board computer from IBase Technology is based on the Intel QM67 Express chipset that supports the second generation Intel Core processor family, integrated with graphics and memory controller to improve performance and energy efficiency. Applications are in the automation, PoS, test equipment and digital signage fields.
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Triple-output supplies programmed from front panel
Claimed to be the only triple-output power supplies in their class with front-panel programming, the U8030 DC power supplies from Agilent Technologies are available with benchtop or industrial settings. Front-panel analogue programming saves time and reduces complexity by allowing the user to set and control key output parameters without extensive programming knowledge.
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