CTIMES - 電子科技

智慧型觸控安全地板 (2012.04.18)
IBM對觸控式安全地板的研發與專利上又有嶄新收穫。這套智慧型觸控安全地板系統，可識別物體形狀、大小、接觸點多少…等，並能辨認地板上行走者是否為居家主人，因此可以對室內安全狀況進行全面性監控

Holtek推出同步整流直流升壓IC (2012.04.18)
盛群半導體(Holtek)日前宣佈，新推出同步整流直流升壓IC HT77xxS (S: synchronous)。採用精心調整過的CMOS製程，HT77xxS的啟動電壓只需0.7V，靜態工作電流亦只需要4uA。此特性適合在單顆的鹼性、鎳氫、鎳鎘及鋰離子電池的產品應用上

力拼轉虧為盈晶心推AndesStar V3 (2012.04.18)
晶心科技(Andes Technology)日前宣佈將於5月17日舉辦第七屆晶心嵌入技術論壇，並發表AndesStar™ V3產品，其從小的sensor、microcontroller、可攜式的消費性電子與終端電腦都可以使用

壓注Windows 8　微軟能否再起？ (2012.04.17)
回顧微軟近10年的發展，除了Xbox 360外，失去主導地位的事業，很少能再重返榮譽。若由此預測未來，則Windows的新發展仍不容樂觀。

Nokia 808 PureView驚動智慧手機市場 (2012.04.17)
808 Pure View手機，以4100萬超高畫素一舉超越全球數位相機。 Nokia不僅實質終止智慧手機畫素競賽，也為自己創造「類單眼手機」市場空缺。然而Nokia能否藉此贏回手機龍頭的地位，還值得後續觀察

無反相機來勢洶洶 (2012.04.17)
無反相機的出現可能改變目前的數位相機版圖，被追趕的單眼相機，未來只能更往高階前進，而小型數位相機市場則愈來愈小了。

家電也能擺脫低價宿命 (2012.04.17)
家電市場看似明日黃花，但其實仍充滿商機。一些貼心思維的革新發明，為家電帶來嶄新價值，即使高價也讓人趨之若騖。

Altera攜手Eutecus 打造低成本FPGA視訊分析 (2012.04.17)
現今市場對於視訊分析要求越來越多，包括環境變化、規則增加、實時性的通報等，DSP已無法負荷太過複雜的演算。Altera今(17)日發布了採用FPGA架構的視訊分析解決方案，可同時分析四路D1 480/30fps(每秒幀數)

後手指時代人機互動怎麼玩？ (2012.04.16)
與機器間理性而有效率的溝通，一直是人們追求的目標。從手指、體感到語音，人機間的互動不斷創造驚奇與話題。人機互動的最高境界是什麼？盡頭又在哪裡？值得深入探究

掌紋辨識ATM機 (2012.04.16)
為了讓金融交易更加的安全與便利，日本央行採用了一種新的手掌辨識系統，使用者只要將手掌放到讀取板上，電腦系統就會自動進行手指紋的掃描，並將這些資料進行建檔與配對，藉以識別身分

不行了!? Sony宣布裁減一萬名員工 (2012.04.16)
為了解決更多經營上面對的問題，日本消費電子大廠Sony提出了新的經營計畫，而主要內容，就是裁減一萬名員工。據了解，Sony日前（4月12日）於東京召開了公司經營方針的媒體說明會，說明會上正式宣佈2012財務年度（截至2013年3月底）將裁員約1萬人

MISSION IMPOSSIBLE (2012.04.16)
MISSION IMPOSSIBLE

軍用顯示隱形眼鏡 (2012.04.15)
美國國防部先進研究局，與一家專門從事鏡片顯示的公司簽屬合作協議，共同發展一種軍用的顯示隱形眼鏡。這種顯示隱形眼鏡是以奈米鏡頭所製成，能不干擾配戴者的原來視力，將影像傳至鏡片上，能讓配戴者查看好幾里外的環境資訊，不須笨重的機械

LatticeXP2 Brevia2 Development Kit (2012.04.13)
Downloads Product Brochures The LatticeXP2 Brevia2 Development Kit is an easy-to-use, low-cost platform for evaluating and designing with LatticeXP2 FPGAs. The kit offers free design tools, reference designs, and a small form-factor evaluation board

MachXO2 Control Development Kit (2012.04.13)
The MachXO2 Control Development Kit provides a full featured development platform to prototype system control designs using MachXO2 PLDs. The kit features the MachXO2-1200HC device, a Power Manager II ispPAC-POWR1014A, 128Mbit LPDDR memory, 4Mbit SPI Flash and a microSD card socket

MachXO2 Pico Development Kit (2012.04.13)
The MachXO2 Pico Development Kit is a battery-powered, low-cost evaluation platform to accelerate the evaluation of MachXO2 PLDs. The kit features the MachXO2-1200ZE device, a 7-segment LCD display, I2C temperature sensor and an expansion header for I2C, JTAG, and GPIO interfacing

Lattice HDR-60 Video Camera Development Kit Manager Devices (2012.04.13)
The Lattice HDR-60 Video Camera Development Kit is a fully production ready High Dynamic Range (HDR) camera, designed to fit into commercially available camera housings. The hardware is designed to support full 1080p resolution at 60 frames per second in streaming mode through the FPGA, without the need for any external frame buffer

LatticeECP3 Versa Development Kit Manager Devices (2012.04.13)
The LatticeECP3 Versa Development Kit is the industry's lowest cost design platform for building leading edge systems in a variety of markets such as industrial networking, industrial automation, computing, medical equipment, defense, and consumer electronics

Platform Manager Devices (2012.04.13)
The Platform Manager™ product family represents the third-generation of mixed-signal devices available from Lattice. Programmable Platform Manager devices simplify board management design significantly by integrating programmable analog and logic to support many common functions, such as power management, digital housekeeping and glue logic

Power Manager II Hercules Development Kit (2012.04.13)
The Power Manager II Hercules Development Kits are versatile,ready to use hardware platforms for evaluating and designing with Power Manager II devices. A Standard and Advanced Edition of each kit is available. Using the preloaded Board Digital Management design provided with the development kit, you can test within minutes power management functions such as power supply hot swap control, redundant supply selection and payload power management