Sony Corp.  said Wednesday it had developed what it called “the world’s first” prototype flexible colour video screen that is small enough to be rolled around a pencil. The screen consists of an ultra-thin flexible material covered in organic semiconductors, potentially pointing to a future of flexible mobile devices, television, electronic newspapers and magazines. The [...]

The world’s smallest transistor built with just seven atoms in a single silicon crystal and measuring four nanometres in length.The transistor, measuring four-billionths of a metre and embedded in a single silicone crystal, is the first step in a “quantum computer” which will make calculations millions of times faster than existing devices. Publishing their findings [...]

Mikroelektronika release a new EasyPS/2 Board. This tool can be used for connecting PS/2 device to your development board. There is on-board PS/2 connector that is needed in order to establish PS/2 communication. Also there is a DIP switch for configuring board connections. This board comes with selected examples for easier development. Source: mikroelektronika

Mikroelektronika released a new BETA version of mikroC PRO for PIC compiler with a lot of useful upgrades. Compiler is now supporting more PIC microcontrollers: PIC12F617, PIC18F13K22, PIC18LF13K22, PIC18F14K22 and PIC18LF14K22. Make your comments alive with new feature called Active Comments. New and improved libraries and new set of example projects are available for users [...]

New tool from mikroElektronika called Package Manager. This tool will bring a new great flexibility in development and sharing of libraries, sources, definition files and examples. The Package Manager is a tool which enables users to integrate their own libraries in the mikroIDE. Besides installing new libraries into the mikroIDE environment, the Package Manager can [...]

Venue: Olympiysky Sports Complex Country: Moscow, Russia Start Date: 20-APR-10     End Date:22-APR-10 Industry: Electronics & Electricals The International Exhibition of electronic components and technological equipment – ExpoElectronica will take place in Moscow. It is the leading forum of the electronic field, which demonstrates the latest developments of electronic industry and presents offers of the [...]

Company Terraelektronika designed display module TE-ULCD35,the basis of which are 3.5-inch color graphic display with touch screen and 32-bit ARM7-LPC2478 microcontroller company NXP. The module TE-ULCD35 includes:display with a diagonal 3.5 inches 320×240 pixels and touch screen, microcontroller LPC2478: 16/32 – bit ARM7TDMI-S core, 72 MHz, 512 KB Flash-memory programs,98 Kbytes of SRAM,controller, LCD;external NOR [...]

As more new televisions are released by the manufacturers, there is a trend to offer them with the Freeview HD digital TV service already installed. The latest television from Panasonic is the S20 and it comes into the range just above the X20 Plasma range of TVs. The Panasonic S20 uses 600 Hz technology, which [...]

Reports are coming in from various corners of the net that the latest firmware update for the PS3, version 3.21, is causing problems for some console owners who have applied it. Firmware 3.21 has already been the source of controversy, as it gets rid of the option to install another operating system that older PS3s [...]

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Microchip Technology Inc., a leading provider of microcontroller and analog semiconductors, today announced three development kits  that enable the rapid design of accessories for iPod and iPhone using Microchip’s vast portfolio of PIC® microcontrollers. The kits provide examples of the hardware and software required to implement applications, such as digital-audio sound systems, docking stations and [...]