Google's driverless car is still attracting headlines and all the fuss has tightened the focus on the increasing amount of automation being applied in vehicles.But what is driving the trend to the driverless car and what issues will be encountered along the way? Will this increase in complexity force automotive manufacturers to dev...

Spansion has expanded its Traveo range of automotive MCUs with the addition of a device which combines 2D and 3D graphics with a Cortex-R5 core. Matthias Bräuer, director of automotive MCU marketing, said: "We are combining a traditional MCU with graphics capability. The device is aimed at hybrid clusters with pointers and a displa...

Toshiba has used its 15nm process technology to fabricate what it claims to be the world's smallest embedded NAND flash memory modules.The 16GB memory devices are compliant with the latest e·MMC standard and are designed for applications such as smartphones, tablet PCs and wearable devices. Sample shipments are available now...

Teledyne LeCroy (Chestnut Ridge, NY) introduces the WaveSurfer 3074, extending the bandwidth range of the popular WaveSurfer 3000 series of oscilloscopes to 750 MHz. WaveSurfer 3000 oscilloscopes feature the MAUI advanced user interface, previously available only on higher-end oscilloscopes. This advanced user interface seamlessly integrates a deep...

ACCES I/O Products, Inc., announces the release of a new family of PCI-104 serial communication boards: the 104I-COM-8SM Series. These PCI-104 boards feature a selection of eight, four, or two ports of field selectable RS-232, RS-422, and RS-485 asynchronous serial protocols on a port by port basis.Ports are accessed via two 40-pin I DC type ri...

ADDEDB&K Precision has expanded its digital storage oscilloscope (DSO) portfolio with the release of their new 2550 Series. This new series of scopes adds four two-channel models (2552, 2554, 2556, 2558) and four four-channel models (2553, 2555, 2557, 2559), ranging from 70 MHz to 300 MHz bandwidth with 2 GSa/s sampling rates and 24 kpts/Ch m...

HAMEG Instruments has increased the frequency range for all spectrum analyzers in its 1000 series from 1 GHz to 1.6 GHz. With the purchase of a HMS1000, HMS1010, or HMS1000E, HAMEG customers will experience an immediate increase of 60% more frequency range at no additional cost.The latest firmware version (HAMEG_FW_HMS_2.022) is available a...

Ipetronik announces IPEspeed, a robust GPS receiver with an update rate of 20 Hz. IPEspeed passes GPS data continuously to the CAN bus and offers great flexibility with a wide variety of measurement systems. More and more, vehicle test drives require not only recording of the route travelled, but also require the continuous recording of vehicle spe...

Infineon introduced its Coil on Module chip package for Dual Interface bank and credit cards. Dual Interface cards, which are used for both contact-based and contactless applications, are a fast growing segment of the global payments industry. The new package combines a security chip and antenna that makes a radio frequency (RF) connection to the a...

The makers of JTAG Live Buzz and BuzzPlus announce a new release of the popular JTAG Live platform and the free Buzz module that is now downloadable without registration. New JTAG Live V1.6 features include an automatic chain detect that can interrogate multiple boundary-scan chains to determine the number of components in each plus their manufactu...