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Automatic Meter Reading (AMR)

Market: Utility, Meter Reading, SmartGrid Target Platform: Mocha™-Family – ARM® Cortex™-M0 Configurable Arrays Application: Complete Automatic Meter Reading SoC The TM0X11 combines a high-performance ARM® Cortex™-M0 32-bit processor optimized for deterministic embedded applications with a precision data acquisition system to provide a complete automatic meter reading (AMR) solution on a single power monitoring SoC. The Cortex-M0 support 0.8 [Read more...]

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Creating an Optimized VCA

Triad Semiconductor’s via-configurable arrays (VCA) combine silicon proven analog and digital building blocks on an integrated circuit die. These building blocks are overlaid with a global routing fabric which covers the digital, memory, and analog resources throughout the VCA. Vias placed between two of the metal layers are used to interconnect and configure all of [Read more...]

Portable Power Management

Market: Power (Handheld/Portable Electronics) Target Platform: VCA-2 Application: Power Management +Plus Portable Power Management Market Handheld electronics such as PDAs, GPS receivers, games, and medical devices integrate a wide variety of logic, memory, and analog functions into a small battery powered unit. Efficiently providing power to all of the mixed signal components in such devices [Read more...]

Smart Sensor

Market: Industrial Target Platform: VCA-4 Application: Smart Sensors add value to transducer data enabling and supporting distributed processing/decision making. By providing standardized engineering unit information, self-identification and time-stamping, smart sensors simplify the integration of transducers in a networked environment. Smart Sensor Market Smart Sensor is an umbrella term used to describe the addition of local [Read more...]