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Handling privacy and security concerns in the IoT: Big Data and Privacy
Handling privacy and security concerns in the IoT: Big Data and Privacy
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This is the second part in a series of three short articles; read part 1, on the topic of identity…
Solar cell splits water to produce H2
Solar cell splits water to produce H2
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The efficiency with which GaP (gallium phosphide) produces hydrogen gas from water can be improved tenfold by arranging the material…
Boeing issues warning on lithium battery bulk shipments fire hazard
Boeing issues warning on lithium battery bulk shipments fire hazard
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Boeing has issued a formal warning that airlines flying bulk shipments of lithium batteries as cargo in the holds of…
Don Quixote and the Mysterious Pad
Don Quixote and the Mysterious Pad
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Gustavo Castro tells the tale of the Ingenious gentleman of La Mancha and his reliable companion, the data book.

What about magnetic position sensor reliability?
What about magnetic position sensor reliability?
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A stubborn question about the reliability of magnetic position sensors lingers in the minds of some automotive and industrial system designers. Yet complete stray field immunity is possible in contactless…
2A, 70V SEPIC/Boost DC/DC converter with 7µA Iq
2A, 70V SEPIC/Boost DC/DC converter with 7µA Iq
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LT8494 is a current mode, fixed frequency SEPIC/boost DC/DC converter with an internal 2A, 70V switch. Quiescent current of 7µA suits the device for always-on automotive or other industrial battery…
Free digital media course on High-Speed Digital Design, from University of Oxford
Free digital media course on High-Speed Digital Design, from University of Oxford
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Howard Johnson, author of “High-Speed Digital design - A Handbook of Black Magic”, is one of the world’s leading experts on high-speed digital electronics design and signal integrity, and for…
Digi-Key & ARM support University Program with ‘Lab-in-a-Box’ logistics
Digi-Key & ARM support University Program with ‘Lab-in-a-Box’ logistics
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Available to participating Universities worldwide, the Program puts ARM-based technology into the hands of students to further education, build new skills, and jump-start careers: electronic components distributor Digi-Key Electronics has…
Ruggedness and flexibility keep PLCs strong in industrial
Ruggedness and flexibility keep PLCs strong in industrial
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The modern programmable logic controller (PLC) is at the nexus of two debates that are taking place daily at opposite ends of the control-system spectrum. At one end is the…
IDT’s Analytics and Computing Lab will target integration of RapidIO Interconnect
IDT’s Analytics and Computing Lab will target integration of RapidIO Interconnect
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Integrated Device Technology has created an Open High-Performance Analytics and Computing (HPAC) Lab to address the real-time application needs of enterprise and cloud computing end users. The is intended to…
Article; Handling Privacy and Security Concerns in the IoT: The Importance of Identity
Article; Handling Privacy and Security Concerns in the IoT: The Importance of Identity
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This is the first in a three-part series on security and privacy related to the Identity of Things (IDoT). In the first part, we’ll take a look at the definitions…
Fuel cell technology boosted by emerging infrastructure
Fuel cell technology boosted by emerging infrastructure
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Today, acceptance of the hydrogen fuel cell technology suffers from the lack of an adequate refuelling infrastructure. But the situation could improve faster than some critics expect. The HyFive project…
Smartphones feel the heat
Smartphones feel the heat
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Premium smartphones are a delicate balance between performance and battery life. With increases in performance, are phones getting too hot?…
Looking near and far for omnifocal answers
Looking near and far for omnifocal answers
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Are Deep Optics' omnifocal eyeglasses impractical or is it just a case of working through the engineering?…
Resistive RAM edges closer with imec/Panasonic research disclosures
Resistive RAM edges closer with imec/Panasonic research disclosures
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Imec and Panasonic have jointly announced that they have fabricated a 40-nm TaOx-based (tantalum oxide) RRAM (resistive RAM) technology with precise filament positioning and high thermal stability.
Code analysis technology linked to ADA developer’s tools
Code analysis technology linked to ADA developer’s tools
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Vector Software has announced a new measure of tool integration with AdaCore’s CodePeer 3.0 static analysis tool; this, the company says, provides Ada developers with powerful tools for automated code…
Thread Group issues formal release of its networking protocol
Thread Group issues formal release of its networking protocol
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The Thread Group (www.threadgroup.org) has formally released Thread, the IP-based wireless networking protocol designed for low-power connected products in the home. Product developers who are members of the Thread Group…
Combating capacitor corrosion for long life applications
Combating capacitor corrosion for long life applications
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Advanced EMI suppression film capacitors that can withstand harsh environments for 15 years or more enable designers to implement economical circuitry in cost-sensitive equipment such as smart meters…
Go active or stay passive?
Go active or stay passive?
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Bill Schweber discusses the pros and cons and ebb and flow of passive versus active circuit approaches at high frequencies.
Silicon Labs pairs Thread protocol stack with 15.4 silicon
Silicon Labs pairs Thread protocol stack with 15.4 silicon
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Silicon Labs has announced its Thread networking solution, comprising a software stack that the company says has been refined to ensure the completely robust networks; and a suite of mesh…
“Robust” GNSS receiver provides platform to access Galileo PRS
“Robust” GNSS receiver provides platform to access Galileo PRS
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QinetiQ (Farnborough, UK) has developed a robust navigation receiver which will utilise the new global navigation satellite system (GNSS) Galileo, and particularly the secured Public Regulated Service (PRS).
Rad-hard multiplexers for space flight data acquisition systems
Rad-hard multiplexers for space flight data acquisition systems
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Intersil’s ISL71840/41SEH multiplexers claims best-available ESD protection; these radiation hardened (rad hard) multiplexers also claim highest signal chain accuracy and timing performance.
Stepper motor driver IC simplifies control & is CPU-independent
Stepper motor driver IC simplifies control & is CPU-independent
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Motion control company Trinamic (Hamburg, Germany) has a stepper motor drive IC architected for ease of use: applications include 3D printing. Seven pins initialise and set parameters, and the device…
Anechoic MIMO OTA test laboratory installs Anite’s channel emulation
Anechoic MIMO OTA test laboratory installs Anite’s channel emulation
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Anite’s Propsim F32 Channel Emulators have been selected by Spanish test house AT4 to perform device testing compliant with forthcoming CTIA and PTCRB certification requirements…
Pressure sensitive materials technology puts joysticks on smartphone case
Pressure sensitive materials technology puts joysticks on smartphone case
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Peratech, provider of pressure-based technologies for novel human-machine interface designs, has supplied its Quantum Tunnelling Composite pressure-sensitive technology to form sensors embedded in the Flitchio smartphone case with built-in game…
Analyse broadband and pulsed signals up to 85 GHz
Analyse broadband and pulsed signals up to 85 GHz
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The R&S FSW85 is Rohde & Schwarz’ latest addition to its high-end signal and spectrum analysers, aimed at complex measurement tasks in the fields of automotive radar, 5G and other…
IBM shows working devices fabricated at 7nm node
IBM shows working devices fabricated at 7nm node
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An alliance led by IBM Research, together with New York academic institution SUNY Polytech and with Samsung and GlobalFoundries, has produced 7nm (nanometer) node test chips with functioning transistors.
Phosphorene: competitor to graphene as a future silicon substitute?
Phosphorene: competitor to graphene as a future silicon substitute?
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Graphene – the physical state of carbon in which it forms single-atom-thickness layers – continues to be the subject of a great deal of research work, both for its physical…


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