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On Monday, National Instruments announced one such platform. It's called LabView Robotics. In addition to LabView, the popular data-acquisition application, the package includes a bunch of tools specific to robotics. It can import codes in various formats (c, c++, Matlab, VHDL), offers a library of drivers for a wide variety of sensors and actuators, and has modules for implementation of real-time and embedded hardware. NI says engineers could use the package to both design and run their robotic systems. 

Simple mathematical analysis shows that the best answer to address this problem is to  select a cR ratio QGD/QGS1 that is less than 1. Other factors to consider for preventing c dv/dt induced turn-on include low driver-sinking impedance (<1 Ώ), a FET design with intrinsically low RG, an externally-applied G-S capacitor and Q2 packages that minimize parasitics and voltage ringing.

DSP core licensor ceva Inc. is due to unveil a software-programmable multimedia video processor architecture at the Mobile World congress in Barcelona next week. The multicore architecture, called MM3000, which comes complete with c compilers, power management provision and an RTOS/multithreading scheduler is intended to be able to process any and all video codecs up to the highest resolutions and frame rates currently available as well as future codecs for things like 3-D video.

Robots mean many things to many people, and National Instruments offers intuitive and productive design tools for everything from designing autonomous vehicles to teaching robotics design principals. The NI LabVIEW graphical programming language makes it easy to program complex robotics applications by providing a high level of abstraction for sensor communication, obstacle avoidance, path planning, kinematics, steering, and more.

This API provides users with a standard FPGA communication interface from c++ code. It is intended to encourage more widespread adoption of FPGAs and reconfigurable computing platforms—particularly among Windows application developers

Analog Devices, Inc., has introduced a pair of class-D audio amplifiers for smart phones, GPS units and other handheld electronics where premium sound quality offers a major competitive advantage. The SSM2375 and SSM2380 amplifiers provide audio system designers with the option of fixed or programmable gain settings combined with low noise and superior audio performance. The SSM2380 low-power, stereo class-D amplifier is the first in its class to incorporate an I²c interface, which allows gain stages to be set from 1 dB to 24 dB (plus mute) in 47 distinct steps with no other external components required. The programmable interface also enables independent L/R channel shutdown, a variable low-EMI (electro-magnetic interference) emission control mode, and programmable ALc (automatic level control) functions for speaker protection. The SSM2380 achieves a 100-dB SNR (signal-to-noise ratio) and extends battery life by achieving 93 percent power efficiency at 5 V while running at 1.4 W into an 8-ohm speaker.

STMicroelectronics has the STM8S Discovery kit for around US$7. For that little bit of money you get an 8 bit cPU with a detachable USB programming/debugging board and 32k of flash, 2k of RAM, and 1K of EEPROM. Downloadable tools include demo c compilers from a variety of third party vendors (limited to 16k, if I'm reading the literature correctly).

D-Wave Systems, which in 2009 partnered with Google to test a prototype quantum computer for detecting vehicles in images, announced that it has now sold the first commercial quantum computer. The D-Wave quantum computer, called Rainier, solves discrete optimization problems using quantum annealing. The computer was sold to Lockheed-Martin for an undisclosed price. It is supercooled, requires 15 kilowatts, and supports APIs in multiple programming environments including Python, Java, c++, SQL, and MATLAB.