Satellite operators are increasingly acquiring more and more data in-orbit, and would prefer to process this on-board the payload to extract value-added insights rather than downlink huge amounts of ...

e2v has launched a new grade of high-performance microprocessors based on the multicore processors from the Freescale QorIQ family. These processors still produce tens of Gflop of performance, but in ...

Amid the traditional annual fanfare of NIWeek in its home city of Austin, TX, National Instruments has announced Version 8.5 of LabView, the company’s graphical system-design-software platform for ...

ON Semiconductor's device is designed to power an application microprocessor in multimedia portable devices. ON Semiconductor’s NCP1526 is a synchronous dc-dc buck (step-down) converter featuring an ...

What are Microprocessors and Microcontrollers? Microprocessors and microcontrollers are essential components of an embedded system. These are single-chip processors that accelerate the computing ...

When the microprocessor and inexpensive ROM memory arrived in the early 1970s, building small, stored-program computing systems became practical. System designers learned that with the rapidly growing ...

Two-dimensional materials, or 2D materials for short, are extremely versatile, although - or often more precisely because - they are made up of just one or a few layers of atoms. Graphene is the ...

A microprocessor is a complex, programmable integrated circuit (IC) on a single chip that can execute instructions. This generally includes CPUs found in computers but also refers to the ...

The first systematic power profiles of microprocessors could help lower the energy consumption of both small cell phones and giant data centers. The first systematic power profiles of microprocessors ...

The 4004 microprocessor. [Photo: Intel] On Tuesday November 15, Intel held an event in San Francisco to celebrate the fortieth birthday of its 4004 microprocessor–the first complete single-chip ...

IBM has announced details of the world's fastest computer chip - the microprocessor in a new version of the IBM mainframe that began shipping to customers on Sept. 10. The new zEnterprise technology ...