World’s first low power consumption memory for digital consumer electronics with operating temperature of 125 degrees Celsius by Fujitsu
As demand for higher performance and faster as well as low cost consumer products continues, the use of System-in-packages (SiPs) which combines for instance a memory chip with a SoC in such product becomes a necessity. The use of SiPs will help to reduce the number of necessary components and board space resulting in reduction in overall system costs.
Until now, conventional memory provided limitation to SiP usage since the conventional memory can only operate at up to 95 degrees Celsius making the SiP configuration unsuitable where high performance SoC with a large power consumption can generate heat where the SiP temperature can reach 105 degrees Celsius. Use of conventional memory in a SiP configuration so far required an addition of heat disperser such as heat-sink to reduce the SiP temperature to an operationally feasible 90 degrees Celsius; however this solution will come with an increase cost and size. Read more
Panasonic’s interchangeable lens SLR camera
The DMC-GH1 a lens-interchangeable SLR camera which was exhibited at Photo Marketing Association (PMA) show has a capability of recording HD video both in 1080/24p or 720/60p AVCHD format. It also can output 1080/60i video on a TV. It comes with an improved image quality thanks to SoC hardware but with a same image sensor’s pixel structure as its predecessor DMC-G1. The camera which can truly be labeled as a prototype has an auto focus video recording functionality that the consumers might find it a bit odd. Read more
System-On-Chip for Car audio system by NEC
NEC Electronics one of the industry leaders in the area of automotive electronics and in particular the automotive infotainment solution has unveiled their latest product a SoC (System-On-Chip) targeted at car audio systems. The µPD35502 with capability of increasing the processing of audio data provides a playback functionality of multiple songs, multiple sources and multiple destinations allowing the flexibility of playing different songs at the front and rear seat of vehicle. Read more
Development of 32Mb MRAM for SoCs by NEC
An increase in functionality of system LSIs has a direct effect in an increase in their power consumption. But there is an increasing demand in lowering the power consumption of electric appliances that use system LSI. The most effective way to decrease the power consumption in system LSIs is for them to enter into a standby state where their power will be cut off resulting in increasing demand in use of embedded non-volatile memory macros in system LSIs. Read more
What sort of things the future TVs holds for consumers
The television that we are so much in tune to watch either alone or together as a family has so much potential and can be more interactive and enjoyable that what it is today, more and more the developer and engineers at TV manufacturing companies expressing similar views. Most of the new development has been focused on its thinness and picture and sound quality or their pure energy efficient functionalities which is mostly self-imposed by manufacturers themselves. Read more
Fujitsu’s world first video processing technology for Vehicles
Vehicle mounted camera technology is not something new. In fact it has been in the market for several years now. Some car manufacture equipped their new vehicle with a spot based cameras for instant camera that will assist drivers with the blind spot and for one for rear view and so on. There are also vehicle with four camera system. They are there to insure the safety of drivers but in most instances it causes more distraction than anything else due to the reason that drivers do not recognize the view that it has been presented to them by the system, which in many instances is more harmful than safe. Read more
