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Satellite links as fast as fibre with THz wireless links
Satellite links as fast as fibre with THz wireless links
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Hiroshima University, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, and Panasonic Corporation have announced the development of a terahertz (THz)…
3D printed PCBs for aerospace, defense
3D printed PCBs for aerospace, defense
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Nano Dimension Ltd. (Ness Ziona, Israel), the developer of the DragonFly 2020 3D printer for 3D circuitry and PCBs, has…
Swiss-made ecosystem to secure small connected objects
Swiss-made ecosystem to secure small connected objects
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Long-term partners Swatch Group (Biel/Bienne, Switzerland) and CSEM (Neuchâtel, Switzerland) announced they are working on the development of a unique…
‘Instrumentation for everyone’ module launched on Kickstarter
‘Instrumentation for everyone’ module launched on Kickstarter
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Digilent Inc. (Pullman, WA), a wholly-owned subsidiary of National Instruments (Austin, TX) and a provider of technology-based educational design tools,…

Elucidating OxRRAM’s data retention shortcomings
Elucidating OxRRAM’s data retention shortcomings
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In an attempt to better understand the mechanisms behind OxRRAM's data retention shortcomings, researchers from imec have investigated the impact that programming (electrical pulses and their frequency) could have on…
New compiler optimizes parallel code more efficiently
New compiler optimizes parallel code more efficiently
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Researchers at MIT (Cambridge, MA) have reported work centered around optimizing compilers; they claim to have a compiler that, “now optimizes parallel code better than any commercial or open-source compiler,…
Swatch Group and CSEM to promote “Swiss made” OS ecosystem
Swatch Group and CSEM to promote “Swiss made” OS ecosystem
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Long-term partners Swatch Group and CSEM announced they are working on the development of a unique Swiss made ecosystem to secure small connected objects and more particularly watches, built around…
Open source multi-use instrument for the makers
Open source multi-use instrument for the makers
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US company Digilent Inc. a wholly-owned subsidiary of National Instruments and a provider of technology-based educational design tools, has launched a portable multi-function programmable instrumentation module, dubbed OpenScope on kickstarter.
Optimizing code: novel compiler modification boosts parallel program efficiency
Optimizing code: novel compiler modification boosts parallel program efficiency
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Researchers at MIT have reported work centred around optimising compilers; they claim to have a compiler that, “now optimizes parallel code better than any commercial or open-source compiler, and it…
Reconfigurable transistor helps reducing component count
Reconfigurable transistor helps reducing component count
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A team of scientists from the Nanoelectronic Materials Laboratory (NaMLab) and the Cluster of Excellence Center for Advancing Electronics Dresden (cfaed) at the Dresden University of Technology have demonstrated the…
Natural night vision device lets naked eye “see” near-IR light
Natural night vision device lets naked eye “see” near-IR light
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Researchers from Kyushu University (Japan) have demonstrated a fully organic and easy to process thin-film near-infrared-to-visible optical upconversion device, whose output can be tuned across the full visible range.
Nano-LED could enable multi-Gbit/s intra-chip traffic
Nano-LED could enable multi-Gbit/s intra-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…
Miniaturized obstacle-detection technology is aim of new research project
Miniaturized obstacle-detection technology is aim of new research project
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Research institute Leti (Grenoble, France) has announced a project to adapt obstacle-detection technology used in autonomous cars, for multiple uses. The INSPEX project aims to combine knowhow of nine European…
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…
Tiny ‘virtually anything’ Linux microcomputer for IoT, DIY
Tiny ‘virtually anything’ Linux microcomputer for IoT, DIY
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Launching what it describes as a ‘virtually anything’ microcomputer, Australian design house SRKH Designs is confident its Virtualette V1 dual stack microcomputer will find plenty of use cases from the…
Looking for natural night vision
Looking for natural night vision
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Researchers from Kyushu University (Japan) have demonstrated a fully organic and easy to process thin-film near-infrared to visible optical upconversion device, whose output can be tuned across the full visible…
Research project widens use of ADAS obstacle-detection tech
Research project widens use of ADAS obstacle-detection tech
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Research institute Leti (Grenoble, France) has announced a project to adapt obstacle-detection technology used in autonomous cars, for multiple uses. The INSPEX project aims to combine knowhow of nine European…
Research project widens use of ADAS obstacle-detection tech
Research project widens use of ADAS obstacle-detection tech
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Research institute Leti (Grenoble, France) has announced a project to adapt obstacle-detection technology used in autonomous cars, for multiple uses. The INSPEX project aims to combine knowhow of nine European…
Thermo-electric generators promise higher driving range
Thermo-electric generators promise higher driving range
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In a cooperation with Yamaha Corp, German aerospace research center DLR is developing thermos-electric systems for use in cars. The goal of the collaboration is creating systems that transform waste…
Sensing e-fields in working semiconductors holds promise for next-gen electronics
Sensing e-fields in working semiconductors holds promise for next-gen electronics
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Researchers in Japan have been able to directly sense the electric fields inside working wide bandgap semiconductor devices. According to the researchers, the ability to measure the internal fields at…
Low-cost water-based inkjet printing for electronics
Low-cost water-based inkjet printing for electronics
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Researchers from the University of Manchester managed to leverage the special properties of 2D materials such as graphene, molybdenum disulphide (MoS2), tungsten disulphide (WS2) or hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) into…
‘Breakthrough’ hyperspectral camera merges snapshot, linescan technologies
‘Breakthrough’ hyperspectral camera merges snapshot, linescan technologies
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Research centre imec (Leuven, Belgium) has used the occasion of the SPIE Photonics West exhibition and conference, this week (2nd February 2017) in to make a series of product and…
Digital imaging sensor inventors win UK prize for engineering
Digital imaging sensor inventors win UK prize for engineering
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Four engineers who between them made a series of innovations that enabled the development of the modern CMOS image sensor have been awarded the Queen Elizabeth prize for engineering.
Report: Apple to add ARM processor to Mac computers
Report: Apple to add ARM processor to Mac computers
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Apple is designing an ARM-based processor chip to augment the main Intel processor within its Mac laptop computers, according to a Bloomberg report.
Panasonic partners with UMC on 40nm ReRAM
Panasonic partners with UMC on 40nm ReRAM
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Panasonic Semiconductor Solutions Co. Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan) and foundry United Microelecronics Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan) have agreed to develop a 40nm CMOS process as a platform for Panasonic's ReRAM technology as…
Fujitsu rolls first FRAM solution for automotive market
Fujitsu rolls first FRAM solution for automotive market
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Being a non-volatile memory technology, FRAM (Ferroelectric Random-Access Memory) is regarded as a future-prone candidate for many applications where short wake-up and boot times are essential. For rough automotive environments…
Atomic-level sensors measure electric fields in active power semiconductors
Atomic-level sensors measure electric fields in active power semiconductors
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Researchers in Japan have been able to directly sense the electric fields inside working wide bandgap semiconductor devices.
Hyperspectral imaging camera merges snapshot and linescan technologies
Hyperspectral imaging camera merges snapshot and linescan technologies
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Research centre imec (Leuven, Belgium) has used the occasion of the SPIE Photonics West exhibition and conference, this week (2nd February 2017) in to make a series of product and…


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