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Low power chip extends battery life in sensors by up to 10x
Low power chip extends battery life in sensors by up to 10x
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Engineers from the University of Bristol have developed a low-cost voltage detector chip that enables batteries in sensors to last…
Advancing automotive application development
Advancing automotive application development
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Safety-critical software functions required in a car are traditionally placed in separate, single-core Electronic Control Unit (ECU). With this practice,…
University circuit enables zero-power standby
University circuit enables zero-power standby
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Researchers at the Electrical Energy Management Group of the University of Bristol have developed a novel low-voltage comparator circuit that…
Material found that harnesses multiple forms of energy simultaneously
Material found that harnesses multiple forms of energy simultaneously
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Researchers from the University of Oulu in Finland have found that a mineral with the perovskite crystal structure has the…

NFC tag on plastic promises item-level ID, brand protection & smart paper
NFC tag on plastic promises item-level ID, brand protection & smart paper
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Describing their work as an innovative tag that is the thinnest and mechanically most robust technology compatible to ISO protocols, at the 2017 International Solid-State Circuits Conference in San Francisco,…
Dedicated motor control circuit for automotive MCUs targets next-gen EVs
Dedicated motor control circuit for automotive MCUs targets next-gen EVs
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Renesas Electronics (Tokyo, Japan) has announced that it has developed an Intelligent Motor Timer System (IMTS), a dedicated circuit block that can be integrated into automotive microcontrollers (MCUs) for next-generation…
The ultimate energy harvesting material
The ultimate energy harvesting material
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Researchers from the University of Oulu in Finland have found that a mineral with the perovskite crystal structure has the right properties to extract energy from multiple sources at the…
Android alternative, Ubuntu ported to the Fairphone 2
Android alternative, Ubuntu ported to the Fairphone 2
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During Mobile World Congress in Barcelona at the end of February UBports will show Canonical’s Ubuntu OS on the Fairphone 2. By porting Ubuntu to the Fairphone 2 both worlds…
Delphi4LED project to yield transparent large-area foil luminaires
Delphi4LED project to yield transparent large-area foil luminaires
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Recently launched three-year European project Delphi4LED aims to develop design and simulation tools for LED structures to better meet the needs of the rapidly evolving lighting industry and end users.
Plastic electronics NFC tag: thin-film transistors on plastic carrier
Plastic electronics NFC tag: thin-film transistors on plastic carrier
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Describing their work as an innovative tag that is the thinnest and mechanically most robust technology compatible to ISO protocols, at the 2017 International Solid-State Circuits Conference in San Francisco,…
Motor control in MCU hardware lifts EV efficiency, adds functional safety
Motor control in MCU hardware lifts EV efficiency, adds functional safety
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Renesas Electronics has announced that it has developed an Intelligent Motor Timer System (IMTS), a dedicated circuit block that can be integrated into automotive microcontrollers (MCUs) for next-generation electric vehicles…
EU funds Welsh compound semiconductor research
EU funds Welsh compound semiconductor research
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The Institute for Compound Semiconductors at Cardiff University has received £13 million (about €15 million) in funding from the European Union via the Welsh European Funding Office (WEFO).
Heat-driven transistor could benefit IR cameras, medical electronics
Heat-driven transistor could benefit IR cameras, medical electronics
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Researchers at the Laboratory of Organic Electronics, Linköping University, Sweden, have created a thermoelectric organic transistor that demonstrates a strong dependence on temperature.
Stomach acid-powered ingestible sensor promises medical advances
Stomach acid-powered ingestible sensor promises medical advances
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Researchers at MIT (Cambridge, MA) and Brigham and Women's Hospital (Boston, MA) have developed a small voltaic cell that is powered by acid in the stomach.
Smartphone CMOS image sensor with DRAM speeds data readout
Smartphone CMOS image sensor with DRAM speeds data readout
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Sony Corporation (Tokyo, Japan) has developed what the company claims to be the industry's first 3-layer stacked CMOS image sensor with DRAM for smartphones.
Global navigation systems to face greater security risks in 2017, says report
Global navigation systems to face greater security risks in 2017, says report
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In its latest annual security forecast for 2017, Spirent Communications plc (Crawley, UK) has warned of the increased likelihood of disruptions this year to a wide variety of civil and…
Terahertz transmitter promises wireless links 10x faster than 5G
Terahertz transmitter promises wireless links 10x faster than 5G
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Hiroshima University, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, and Panasonic Corporation have announced the development of a terahertz (THz) transmitter capable of transmitting digital data at a rate exceeding…
Smallest micro speaker developed using MEMS technology
Smallest micro speaker developed using MEMS technology
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Graz, Austria-based start-up USound, in partnership with several Fraunhofer Institutes (IDMT, ISIT, IIS and IZM) and utilizing PCB technology together with system integration expertise from specialist PCB manufacturer AT&S (Leoben,…
Sony stacks CMOS image sensor with DRAM: full HD readout at 1000fps
Sony stacks CMOS image sensor with DRAM: full HD readout at 1000fps
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Sony Corporation has developed what the company claims to be the industry's first 3-layer stacked CMOS image sensor with DRAM for smartphones.
0.7mm pitch LED video wall
0.7mm pitch LED video wall
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Recently merged Leyard Group and Planar Systems are showcasing the latest in video wall technology at ISE 2017.
Project aims for flexible solid state battery just 0.25mm thick
Project aims for flexible solid state battery just 0.25mm thick
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A $1.5m collaborative project is set to develop and produce a flexible, solid-state lithium battery that is just 0.25mm thick by integrating an ultra-thin flexible ceramic substrate.
Western Digital doubles 3D-NAND capacity
Western Digital doubles 3D-NAND capacity
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Western Digital has started production of a 512Gbit 64-layer 3D-NAND flash memory with its manufacturing partner Toshiba in Yokkaichi, Japan. Mass production is expected in the second half of 2017.
Configurable mixed-signal ICs and asynchronous state machines can optimize embedded designs
Configurable mixed-signal ICs and asynchronous state machines can optimize embedded designs
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Configurable ICs can make lower power, more secure and easier-to-implement alternatives to MCUs, argue executives from Silego Technologies.
Stomach acid powers sensors
Stomach acid powers sensors
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Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Brigham and Women's Hospital in the US have developed a small voltaic cell that is powered by acid in the stomach.
Cache controller IP cuts power for execute-in-place flash memory
Cache controller IP cuts power for execute-in-place flash memory
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From IP house Dolphin Integration (Grenoble, France), the R-Stratus-LP silicon IP significantly reduces power consumption of flash memories…
Smallest micro speaker uses PCB & MEMS technology
Smallest micro speaker uses PCB & MEMS technology
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Graz (Austria)-based start-up USound, in partnership with several Fraunhofer Institutes (IDMT, ISIT, IIS and IZM) and utilizing PCB technology together with system integration expertise from AT&S, has developed what is…
Nano-LED could support multi-Gbit/s on chip traffic
Nano-LED could support multi-Gbit/s on chip traffic
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Photonics is a hot topic when it comes to increasing inter-chip and on-chip traffic between different processor or memory blocks. So far, microwaveguides, light modulator, outcoupling gratings and photodetectors have…
Report sees global navigation applications facing greater security risk in 2017
Report sees global navigation applications facing greater security risk in 2017
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In its latest annual security forecast for 2017, Spirent Communications plc has warned of the increased likelihood of disruptions this year to a wide variety of civil and military applications…


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