MENU

Technology News Page 680

Technology News Page 680
Atmel’s sensor hub platform helps Sensirion to develop smarter devices for IoT and wearables
Atmel’s sensor hub platform helps Sensirion to develop smarter devices for IoT and wearables
Technology News |
Sensirion has partnered with Atmel to create an easy-to-use and power efficient sensor hub solution. The partnership enables Sensirion to…
Technology promises high accuracy current measurements at low cost
Technology promises high accuracy current measurements at low cost
Technology News |
Cambridge, UK, based product design consultancy 42 Technology has devices an innovative approach for polyphase current measurements. Since this topology…
Selecting the correct level of DC-DC converter for your space applications
Selecting the correct level of DC-DC converter for your space applications
Technology News |
DC-DC converters, point of load converters, EMI filters and other power modules are offered by various manufacturers, with many claiming…
ZMDI partners Murata Power Solutions to release true-digital POL solutions
ZMDI partners Murata Power Solutions to release true-digital POL solutions
Technology News |
Dresden-based semiconductor company ZMD AG (ZMDI) has partnered Murata Power Solutions to release what is claimed to be a true-digital…

UC Santa Barbara researchers point the way to brighter solid-state lighting
UC Santa Barbara researchers point the way to brighter solid-state lighting
Technology News |
Researchers at UC Santa Barbara's Solid State Lighting & Energy Center (SSLEC) have determined simple guidelines to optimize phosphors, which are a key component in white LED lighting, to enable…
UK falls behind in IPv6 adoption
UK falls behind in IPv6 adoption
Technology News |
The UK is falling behind in the move from IPv4 to IPv6, hitting its ability to innovate, warns its telecoms regulator.
Energy democratization will come: it’s called multi-junction photovoltaics
Energy democratization will come: it’s called multi-junction photovoltaics
Technology News |
The mood was very optimistic at the 28th European photovoltaic solar energy conference (EU PVSEC) taking place in Paris early October.
USB ‘scope range grows with 20-GHz electrical, 9.5 GHz optical sampling units
USB ‘scope range grows with 20-GHz electrical, 9.5 GHz optical sampling units
Technology News |
Pico Technology, designers of USB modular scopes that use PCs or laptops for display and control functions, has expanded its range with the PicoScope 9300 Series TDR/TDT sampling oscilloscopes, for…
Realtime waveforms to test PA envelope tracking
Realtime waveforms to test PA envelope tracking
Technology News |
Envelope tracking (ET) in smartphone and other power-amplifiers (PAs) enhances amplifier efficiency as it allows the amplifier supply voltage to track the envelope of the RF signal. Rohde & Schwarz…
Accelerate the design of LED drivers
Accelerate the design of LED drivers
Technology News |
Matthias Ulmann of Texas Instruments describes how a LED driver system based on highly integrated LED driver modules like Texas Instruments TPS9255x series can be built and how several drivers…
Antireflective black silicon technology to slash solar cell production costs by 23.5 percent
Antireflective black silicon technology to slash solar cell production costs by 23.5 percent
Technology News |
To make solar cells, manufacturers typically acquire silicon wafers from an outside source. Since these wafers are cut from a large ingot, they usually have saw damage, which must be…
Damped-wave algorithm eliminates sudden traffic jams
Damped-wave algorithm eliminates sudden traffic jams
Technology News |
Not all highway traffic jams are caused by road works or accidents. Sometimes, a stall simply occurs out of the blue, apparently for no reason. A professor from the Massachusetts…
Damped-wave algorithm eliminates sudden traffic jams
Damped-wave algorithm eliminates sudden traffic jams
Technology News |
Not all highway traffic jams are caused by road works or accidents. Sometimes, a stall simply occurs out of the blue, apparently for no reason. A professor from the Massachusetts…
Silicon Carbide start-up company gets £1m funding to further develop low-cost SiC power devices
Silicon Carbide start-up company gets £1m funding to further develop low-cost SiC power devices
Technology News |
Led by founder Dr Peter Ward, Coventry-based Anvil Semiconductors has developed a ground-breaking technology that promises a step reduction in the cost of manufacturing silicon carbide (SiC) power switches, enabling…
ARM unveils interactive online platform to encourage collaboration and innovation
ARM unveils interactive online platform to encourage collaboration and innovation
Technology News |
At ARM TechCon ARM has launched an interactive, online platform to make it easier to design around the company's architecture.
ARM tunes its graphics cores for Android
ARM tunes its graphics cores for Android
Technology News |
ARM has tuned its new mid-range Mali graphics core specifically for the Android operating system.
Altera’s Stratix 10 SoCs to incorporate quad-core 64-bit ARM Cortex-A53 processor
Altera’s Stratix 10 SoCs to incorporate quad-core 64-bit ARM Cortex-A53 processor
Technology News |
Altera Corporation has unveiled the company's Stratix 10 SoC devices, manufactured on Intel’s 14 nm Tri-Gate process, which will incorporate a high-performance, quad-core 64-bit ARM Cortex-A53 processor system.
Next generation of high-power of flux emitters aim to transform directional luminaires
Next generation of high-power of flux emitters aim to transform directional luminaires
Technology News |
Philips Lumileds has introduced the company's LUXEON TX emitters which are claimed to be the next generation of high-power emitters that deliver the highest luminous flux available, with maximum efficacy,…
Multi-output power management ICs in infotainment systems
Multi-output power management ICs in infotainment systems
Technology News |
With automotive infotainment systems being increasingly incorporating highly integrated and very powerful microprocessors and FPGAs, power management for these infotainment systems is growing more complex. A solution that helps to…
Bad design and its consequences; US legal ruling on Toyota’s “killer firmware”
Bad design and its consequences; US legal ruling on Toyota’s “killer firmware”
Technology News |
In the USA, certain Toyota car models have been alleged to have contained a fault that caused them to accelerate or continue to accelerate contrary to the driver's inputs. This…
Peregrine introduces UltraCMOS® 10 technology to solve challenges of RF front-end Integration
Peregrine introduces UltraCMOS® 10 technology to solve challenges of RF front-end Integration
Technology News |
Peregrine Semiconductor announces the UltraCMOS 10 platform, the latest advancement in company’s UltraCMOS technology.
Synchronizing handshaking between data converters and high speed digital data acquisition systems
Synchronizing handshaking between data converters and high speed digital data acquisition systems
Technology News |
Sudhansu Mishra looks at data converters in SOCs using data acquisition systems (Logic analyzers or High speed digital input output [HSDIO] cards) and proposes a novel method to synchronize capture…
Anritsu gains standards body approval for LTE Advanced protocol conformance test cases
Anritsu gains standards body approval for LTE Advanced protocol conformance test cases
Technology News |
Anritsu has announced that industry testing standards body the GCF has validated its Protocol Conformance Test system for Rel-10 carrier aggregation, a crucial function in LTE Advanced network operations.
sureCore tapes-out low power SRAM IP demonstrator chip
sureCore tapes-out low power SRAM IP demonstrator chip
Technology News |
sureCore Ltd has taped out the company's low power SRAM IP demonstrator chip in STMicroelectronics' 28 nm Fully Depleted Silicon-on-Insulator (FD-SOI) process.
Low-power reference designs simplify factory automation with end-to-end signal chain integration
Low-power reference designs simplify factory automation with end-to-end signal chain integration
Technology News |
Three new low-power reference designs from Maxim Integrated Products, Inc. aim to provide end-to-end integration of the signal chain, simplifying factory automation.
BMW, CleanCharge demo cross-provider charging for e-cars
BMW, CleanCharge demo cross-provider charging for e-cars
Technology News |
Electric cars can be charged across provider lines and national borders. This was demonstrated recently by the BMW Group and Danish charging infrastructure operator CleanCharge in the course of a…
Understanding grounding, shielding, and guarding in high impedance applications
Understanding grounding, shielding, and guarding in high impedance applications
Technology News |
James Niemann of Keithley Instruments explores how ground loops and poor or nonexistent electrostatic shielding can cause error or noise currents to flow in measurement leads or the device under…
LED based luminous ceiling simulates daylight to comfort intensive care patients
LED based luminous ceiling simulates daylight to comfort intensive care patients
Technology News |
Philips has developed a media enabled LED based luminous ceiling that can simulate energizing daylight to comfort critically ill patients.


10s