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Swatch Group exceeds the 7 billion sales milestone for the first time. |
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Gross sales for the Group reach a new record mark of CHF 7 143 million, an increase of +21.7% at constant rates versus 2010. December 2011 strongest month in turnover in the history of the Group. |
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EM9301 Single-Cell Battery Bluetooth Low Energy Controller for Single-Mode Applications |
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The EM9301 is a single-mode Master/Slave controller optimized for low voltage and low energy systems such as wireless sensors, wireless remote controls and wireless monitoring. With operating supply voltage as low as 0.8V, the circuit allows applications to take advantage of a wide range of common single-cell batteries or of energy harvesters such as solar cells, piezo-electric and electro-magnetic elements.
The EM9301 is fully compliant with Bluetooth V4.0 specification adopted by the Bluetooth SIG. It is a single-mode and master-slave Bluetooth low energy qualified solution, providing full Bluetooth low energy functionality from the radio up to the host controller interface (HCI).
Due to its state-of-the-art architecture, the EM9301 can be interfaced with any 8, 16 or 32bit host controller, which allows much better cost/performance optimized solutions than comparable products with fully integrated and often overpowered host controllers. |
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SCALOPES - an ARTEMIS project on SCalable LOw Power Embedded platformS |
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ASICentrum belongs to 39 partners from 12 countries that participated in Scalopes project running from January 1, 2009 until December 31, 2010.
The project focused on cross-domain technology and tool developments for multi-core architectures. These developments were driven by and proven for 4 different application domains: communication infrastructure, surveillance systems, smart mobile terminals and stationary video systems. Focus in the technology developments was on application & programming models, composability, dependability, reliability, predictable system design, resource management and tools supporting these new developments. As much as possible generic cross-domain tools and architectures were worked upon, but also application-specific extensions were covered. The project focused on enhancing as much as possible the generic aspects by means of identifying how cross-domain reference platforms are made.
On October 19, 2011 the opponency of czech participation on the project took place. Results achieved by the project were agreed as well as the financial means consumed. Scalopes project was oficially closed. |
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RFI21 - Brand new RFID UHF Reader |
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* MULTIPROTOCOL: supports iP-X, EPC Class1 Gen2, ISO18000-6A-B
* HIGH COMMUNICATION DATA RATES: up to 320kbps in EU version (DRM support)
* CERTIFICATION: EU version according to EN 302 208 V1.2.1
* REAL POCKET SIZE: dimensions 115mm x 85mm x 16mm
* EXCELLENT UNIT PRICE: 240 USD for 1-10pc quantities |
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The World’s First Software-based Real-time Single-mode Bluetooth Low Energy Data Transfer |
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The system consists of the Z-Focus BLE-ZTM single-mode BLE stack running on Triad’s ARM® Cortex™-M0 based Mocha™ development system with the BLE wireless connection enabled by EM Microelectronics’ EM9301 BLE radio. |
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EM4324 - 1kbit Read/Write, ISO 18000-6C / EPC C1 G2, Battery-assisted Passive Contactless UHF RFID |
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• ISO 18000-6C compliant
• EPC Class 1 Gen2 compliant
• EPC Class 3 compliant (Battery-Assisted Passive gen2)
• 1024-bit non-volatile memory
• 720-bit user's free memory
• 96-bit EPC numbers supported
• 64-bit manufacturer-programmed Unique Identifier (TID/UID)
EM4324 is available beside wafers in TSSOP-8 packages as well. |
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EM9201 - World’s First Fully Integrated Single-Cell Battery 2.4 GHz Transceiver |
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• 2.4 to 2.485GHz ISM frequency range, GFSK modulation, Bluetooth low energy technology standard
• on air data rate configurable to 1Mb/s or 2Mb/s
• SPI interface
• two versions of EM9201 programmable by a metal mask are available:
- with DC/DC converter integrated on chip - for 1.5V battery, supply voltage from 0.85V
- without DC/DC converter - for any voltages ranging 1.9 – 3.6V
• current consumption 0.8µA in power-down mode, 3µA in sleep mode
• output for external device 2V/500µA in sleep mode
• output for external device 100mA in active mode
• MLF package with 24 leads, 4x4mm dimensions
• only 6 external passive components needed
• a perfect combination with the new Flash-based EM6819Fx microcontroller family |
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| http://www.emmicroelectronic.com/Products.asp?IdProduct=278 |
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EM6819 - Ultra Low Power 8bit Flash Microcontroller Family; VDDmin: 0.9V, DC/DC converter, ADC, OpAmp, EEPROM, 8-32 leads |
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8bit Flash Microcontroller integrates an On-Chip Temperature Sensor, 10bits ADC and OpAmp. The EM6819's advanced power management covers the full supply voltage range from 0.9V up to 3.6V without the need for external components. It offers a unified general purpose non-volatile memory (GPNVM) for Data (up to 12kB) and program code (up to 17kB) with user defined memory allocation between the two.
Further details including Fact Sheet, Data Sheet and Application Notes are available under the following link. |
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| http://www.emmicroelectronic.com/Products.asp?IdProduct=272 |
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EM6420 - Capacitive Touch Sensor Interface IC with CURRENT CONSUMPTION 8.5µA @ 3V IN ACTIVE MODE ONLY !!! |
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The EM6420 can detect all sensors or the most active sensor in applications where sensors are tightly spaced. To scan more than 16 sensors, several EM6420 can be used in parallel. The device parameters are configurable either from a host microcontroller through a communication port or through configuration inputs. The chip can communicate through several interfaces: 4-wire SPI, I2C, 4-bit parallel interface. The direct output mode is useful for applications without microcontrollers.
The chip starts working at 1.2V. The supply range is selectable by pin; 1.2V to 2.0V or 2.2V to 3.6V are the two configurable voltage ranges. The power consumption 8.5µA @ 3V in active mode is 100 times less than for comparable circuits currently available. |
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| http://www.emmicroelectronic.com/Products.asp?IdProduct=267 |
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EMDB412 - UHF RFID Developer Kit |
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UHF RFID Developer Kit contains SkyeTek M9 module supporting 4x22, 4x44 family of tags ePC C1 Gen2 compliant, two external antennas, power supply, cabling and CD with demo sw, drivers, libraries and documentation. Tags in the label form are included as well: 5pcs with chip EM4122V3 and 5pcs with chip EM4444V3. |
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| http://www.emmicroelectronic.com/Products.asp?IdProduct=277 |
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EM4298 - RFID UHF Baseband Coprocessor |
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EM4298 integrates all functions necessary
- for encoding of digital signals entering analog module of RFID UHF reader
- and for decoding of digital signals coming from analog module of RFID UHF reader.
Mass production of EM4298 chips in 0.5μm CMOS technology is running in EM Microelectronic.
EM4298 enables future construction of all-purpose and cheap RFID readers. They are able to communicate with different types of RFID UHF transponders using all common standards (ISO18000-6A, ISO18000-6B, ePC C1G2, iPX).
More detailed information on EM4298 including pictures. EM4298 product folder. |
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EM3027: first RTC with integrated readable temperature sensor |
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• Fully operational from 1.8 V to 5.5V
• Thermometer readable in BCD format
• Low Voltage Detections VLow1, VLow2
• Serial communication via I2C or SPI
• Oscillator stability 0.3 ppm / Volt
• Counts, seconds, minutes, hours, day of week, date months, years in BCD format and alarm
• 2 EEPROM and 8 RAM data bytes for users
• 1 Hour periodical refresh of EEPROM registers
• Extended Temperature Range: -40°C to +125°C
• Packages: TSSOP8, TSSOP1 |
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| http://www.emmicroelectronic.com/Products.asp?IdProduct=266 |
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EM MICROELECTRONIC, TREND-SETTER IN THE FASHION INDUSTRY |
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MARIN, Switzerland – January 23rd, 2008 – EM Microelectronic, the semiconductor company of the Swatch Group, today announced that it has already shipped a cumulated amount of over 250 Million Tag-Talks-Only (TTO) UHF RFID chips. The largest part is used for the manufacturing of intelligent labels for garment tagging in the fashion industry. Marks & Spencer uses it to improve their clothing in-store stock levels. Marks & Spencer's RFID initiative in apparel is known to be the world's largest item-level tagging project and thereby establishes EM's UHF chips as a de-facto standard in this field. |
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International conference DDECS 2008 |
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ASICentrum belonged to the sponsors of DDECS, the 7th IEEE International Workshop on Design & Diagnostics of Electronic Circuits & Systems. It took place in Bratislava, Slovakia in April 16.-18, 2008. Further informations are available here. |
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| http://ui.sav.sk/DDECS2008/CfP-DDECS08.pdf |
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Sophisticated methods of the analog and mixed-signal circuits design in sub-micron technologies |
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ASICentrum is co-responsible for solving of the research project GA 102/07/1186 of the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic entitled "Sophisticated methods of the analog and mixed-signal circuits design in sub-micron technologies".
The project is realized in the period 2007-2009 and is being solved in a close co-operation with the co-ordinator which is the reseach group of the Circuits and Systems Laboratory at the Department of Circuit Theory FEE CTU Prague. The main goal of the project is to streamline the design of analog and mixed-signal integrated circuit blocks used in signal pre-conditioning circuits (such as electrical filters, amplifiers, A/D converters) and ultra low power applications.
The Maple software as well as professional CAD tools from Cadence and Mentor Graphics are used for effective solving of this project. |
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