Automotive was THE topic at CES 2013 in Las Vegas. For NXP, one of the coolest things was our announcement just ahead of the show: NXP partners with Cisco and Cohda Wireless for timely market introduction of intelligent transportation systems (ITS) and car-to-x communications! The Internet of Things is enabling Read More
Convincing customers to switch to LED lighting remains a challenge. Despite the widely-known energy saving and lifespan benefits, many consumers are not satisfied with the light quality, which is indeed rather poor compared to old-style bulbs. For example, one of the biggest complaints regarding dimmable LEDs is that they don’t change Read More
One of the exciting products that we showcased at our recent Innovation Day media event in Amsterdam was the Serial GPIO, a software-defined protocol sequencer. The Serial GPIO solves a common problem caused by the wide variety of peripherals available on the market that use non-standard serial interfaces. Not only Read More
And you thought that CES, already the world’s largest consumer electronics event, couldn’t get any bigger… Spread across an area the size of nearly 37 football fields, the 2013 International CES show not only took up the most space in its history, but also had the biggest number exhibitors (3,250), Read More
Rechargeable lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries are everywhere these days, powering everything from laptops and tablets to cell phones, MP3 players, digital cameras, and all sorts of portable electronics. But what’s the best way to charge them? This app note looks at using an LPC111x MCU to do the job, because this Read More
A growing number of applications, including VoIP, voice messaging, internet audio streaming, and audio books, involve the recording and playback of human speech. To support these applications, we’ve developed source code and a sample application for running Speex, the open-source, royalty-free software codec for voice data. The sample application demonstrates Read More
Last month was the thirtieth birthday of another key component in the electronics world: the insulated gate bipolar transistor, or IGBT. December 1982 saw the issuing of what is commonly described as the seminal patent in the development of the IGBT. The device is essentially a power transistor switch that Read More
Perhaps the biggest trend in consumer electronics right now is the ability for devices to talk to and share information with each other – not just computers and phones, but all electronic and digital devices, from tiny sensors that can monitor energy usage in a house through to major electro-mechanical Read More
In today’s multi-screen world we need to be able to get relevant content to the customer, at the right time in their format and language of choice. Life is no longer as simple as making PDF documents, we need to feed consistent information to all our multi-channel publications (web/mobile/print) and Read More
For most people the Internet is synonymous with the World Wide Web but the reality is that the Internet was born some six years earlier, on 1 January 1983 when the US Department of Defense switched its Arpanet network to using Internet Protocol (IP). This is not to decry the Read More