Personal digital assistants (PDAs) are handheld devices that were originally designed as personal organizers, but have now evolved over the years into small computers that can be used for administrative applications, communication and collaboration, and teaching and learning applications. A PDA may also be referred to as a handheld device, a Palm, or a Pocket PC.
PDAs have many uses: calculating, use as a clock and calendar, playing computer games, accessing the Internet, sending and receiving e-mail, use as a radio or stereo, video recording, recording notes, use as an address book, GPS and use as a spreadsheet. Newer PDAs have both color screens and audio capabilities, enabling them to be used as mobile phones (smartphone), web browsers or portable media players. Many PDAs can access the Internet, intranets or extranets via Wi-Fi, or Wireless Wide-Area Networks (WWANs). One of the most significant PDA characteristic is the presence of a touch screen.
Board support packages for SH7722, SH7354, SH7343 and SH7763 series devices enable developers of Linux-based embedded systems to bring products to market faster.
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Featuring the best performance-per-watt operation and the smallest footprint in the industry, the VIA C7-M ULV mobile processor will power the "SmartCaddie" Ultra Mobile PC from PBJ, Inc., on show...
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Micrel has launched the MIC5326/27/37 family of devices, suited for battery-powered electronics including mobile phones, PDAs, MP3s, PNDs, DSCs and handheld medical instruments.
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LLSI Corporation (NYSE: LSI) today announced two new additions to the StarProTM Media Processor family – the SP2603 and SP2612. These new media gateway system-on-a-chip (SOC) solutions offer...
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The Personal Digital Assistant is primarily a productivity and communications tool that is lightweight, compact, durable, reliable, easy to use, and integrates into existing operations. PDAs have...
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Marvell’s Sheeva Central Processing Unit (CPU) technology is at the heart of a broad range of applications – from mobile devices and consumer electronics to enterprise IT infrastructure...
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Anytime, anywhere computing is on the rise, and PDAs - convenient and ubiquitous - are becoming multimedia, remote-access devices. NXP Semiconductors has proven expertise in the technologies that...
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Sharp continues to add to its family of white Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs). These High Brightness (HB) LEDs are specifically designed with small packages for space-limited applications such as...
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This diagram illustates several PDA codec solutions. The shaded boxes encompass the functions of the various AKM chips. As you can see, the AK4533 combines a mono input codec with a touchscreen...
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Organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs) are poised to break out well beyond their primary applications in cell phone sub-displays over the next several years. According to DisplayBank, a South Korean...
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The WEBENCH environment provides the end-to-end design and prototyping tools you need to create power supplies that meet your design's requirements.
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NVM - the Fastest Growing Sector of the Semiconductor Market. Non-volatile memory (NVM) devices retain stored information even without a power source.
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Giving portable designers the ability to add more features and functions on a handheld device, Texas Instruments announced the industry's smallest and thinnest 500-mA, step-down DC/DC converter...
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The NXP TVoM HotPlug delivers a comprehensive standalone TVoM system, and enables handset manufacturers to quickly introduce TV services by combining tuning, audio and video decoding features,...
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Wolfson announces the latest addition to its AudioPlus Smart Power product line. The WM8400 combines a multimedia CODEC with integrated power management features to deliver the high performance...
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Designed to simplify the development of high-resolution graphics and touch interface applications, the AF-EV850-TFT reference design provides a single-source solution to customers with combined NEC...
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Fairchild Semiconductor enables designers to achieve higher levels of efficiency in their power designs with its 40V breakdown DC-DC synchronous rectifier.
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Texas Instruments introduced an analog-input audio subsystem that integrates TI's field-proven stereo Class-D power amplifier and stereo DirectPath headphone amplifier into one compact package.
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AMRI-2000 is an Integrated Circuit (IC) used in AMRT-1410 input device module to provide a mouse-like pointing solution for use in a variety of mobile devices. Typical applications include mobile...
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Summit Microelectronics announced the latest addition to the company’s family of multi-output programmable power manager ICs. The SMB119 is targeted at portable consumer equipment and...
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