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Payment platform for secured and ultra-fast contactless transactions
Payment platform for secured and ultra-fast contactless transactions
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Infineon says it has increased performance and security of contactless payment transactions with its SLC 32P family of security controllers,…
Mass flow meter sensing serves multiple medical device types
Mass flow meter sensing serves multiple medical device types
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Swiss sensor manufacturer Sensirion has expanded its SFM3xxx platform for flow measurement in medical applications, to include autoclavable mass flow…
Maxim reference design applies 24-bit signal chain to industrial sensors
Maxim reference design applies 24-bit signal chain to industrial sensors
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Industrial automation engineers can achieve highly accurate measurements for their system designs with the MAXREFDES67# analogue front end (AFE) universal…
Waterproof coaxial cable assemblies offer protection to IP67 and IP68
Waterproof coaxial cable assemblies offer protection to IP67 and IP68
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GradConn has released a range of Nautilus panel mounted waterproof coaxial cable assemblies which offer IP67 and IP68 protection from…

Sarawak-backed X-Fab invests in wafer fab
Sarawak-backed X-Fab invests in wafer fab
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More-than-Moore chipmaker X-Fab Silicon Foundries SE (Erfurt, Germany) has announced it will invest $114 million in its wafer fab in Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia, to meet demand for 0.18-micron and 0.35-micron…
Report: China has $47bn chip fund focused on US M&A
Report: China has $47bn chip fund focused on US M&A
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Tsinghua Unigroup intends to spend 300 billion yuan (about $47 billion) over the next five years to build up China's position in the chip industry, according to the company chairman…
Could Qualcomm be China’s next target?
Could Qualcomm be China’s next target?
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Recent events and financial results have started to make Qualcomm's leading position as an application processor supplier look like a poisoned chalice. Could the company now be vulnerable to an…
Battery-free internet sensor offers precision monitoring of climate data
Battery-free internet sensor offers precision monitoring of climate data
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Researchers at the University of Freiburg have developed what claims to be the first battery-free internet sensor for the monitoring of temperature, humidity or air pressure of artworks and other…
Rice University reports no-lens camera
Rice University reports no-lens camera
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Researchers from Rice University (Houston, Texas) have prepared a research paper on Flatcam, a camera system that replaces lenses with a coded mask and computation.
On Semi offers 16.2-megapixel CCD
On Semi offers 16.2-megapixel CCD
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ON Semiconductor has developed a 16.2-megapixel charge-coupled device (CCD) full-frame image sensor intended for astronomical and scientific applications.
Thread platform simplifies IoT connectivity
Thread platform simplifies IoT connectivity
NXP Semiconductors (Eindhoven, Netherlands) has unveiled the NXP Thread platform running ARM mbed OS, which is designed to simplify the task of writing software needed to control hardware devices that…
3D-printed brain-sensing headset is open source
3D-printed brain-sensing headset is open source
Brain biosensing startup OpenBCI (Brooklyn, NY) has returned to Kickstarter with an affordable, open-source 3D-printed EEG headset and development board that can be used to study patterns of brain activity.
Ford first to test self-driving cars in new test area
Ford first to test self-driving cars in new test area
Ford Motor Company (Dearborn, MI) has begun testing autonomous vehicles in Mcity - the University of Michigan’s open-air test lab designed to simulate a real-world urban environment. A Ford spokesperson…
Battery-free Internet sensor monitors environment
Battery-free Internet sensor monitors environment
Researchers at the University of Freiburg (Breisgau, Germany) have developed what they claim is the first battery-free Internet sensor for the monitoring of temperature, humidity, or air pressure of artworks…
Next-gen Li-ion batteries charge 10x faster
Next-gen Li-ion batteries charge 10x faster
Watt Lab, part of the Central Research Institute at Huawei Technology Corporation Limited, has unveiled prototype quick charging lithium-ion batteries that the company claims can be charged 10 times faster…
Teardown: WeMo Switch is highly integrated
Teardown: WeMo Switch is highly integrated
I've written a lot about home automation systems over the years, mostly those based on the Insteon powerline protocol. More recently, Belkin has come up with a Wi-Fi-based approach called…
Altera FPGAs accelerate algorithms in Texas academic compute resource
Altera FPGAs accelerate algorithms in Texas academic compute resource
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A new server cluster uses Altera FPGAs to help researchers and academia run complex algorithmic-based research.
Can more precise monitoring reduce solar flare threat?
Can more precise monitoring reduce solar flare threat?
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An international team of researchers, led by Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland, has devised a high-precision method of examining magnetic fields in the Sun’s atmosphere which improve the prediction speed…
Oscilloscopes detect ECU disturbances from EMI
Oscilloscopes detect ECU disturbances from EMI
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Loren Dunn , Mike Hertz and Dan Steinken examine how to use oscilloscopes to detect ECU disturbances from EMI.
Getting a handle on brushed DC motor current
Getting a handle on brushed DC motor current
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Ross Eisenbeis, Systems Engineer, Texas Instruments outlines an innovative way to measure and regulate motor current without a sense resistor or reference voltage.  …
Kit indroduces new users to RFID systems
Kit indroduces new users to RFID systems
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Designed specifically to help new users understand the ease and flexibility of configuring RFID systems, the introductory kit announced by Harting contains everything they need to get started.
Photon pairs on a chip to lead to ultra-secure telecommunications
Photon pairs on a chip to lead to ultra-secure telecommunications
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Researchers from RMIT University in Melbourne have helped crack the code to ultra-secure telecommunications of the future in an international research project that could also expedite the advent of quantum…
Mobile image processing in the cloud cuts bandwidth use by over 98 percent
Mobile image processing in the cloud cuts bandwidth use by over 98 percent
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There is growing demand for image-processing applications on smartphones, but as this is computationally intensive image-processing is a massive drain on the battery. Some mobile applications try to solve this…
Thread connectivity platform runs ARM mbed OS for the IoT
Thread connectivity platform runs ARM mbed OS for the IoT
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NXP Semiconductors has unveiled the NXP Thread platform running ARM mbed™ OS. Designed to simplify the task of writing software needed to control hardware devices that connect to the cloud,…
Digital signal boosters for land mobile and public safety communications
Digital signal boosters for land mobile and public safety communications
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Bird Technologies has introduced the 614 Series digital signal boosters that are designed to increase the signal strength of land-mobile/public safety communications systems operating at either 450 to 470 MHz…
Flexible dual-band FPC antennas for Wi-Fi and ISM
Flexible dual-band FPC antennas for Wi-Fi and ISM
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Antenova, manufacturer of antennas and RF antenna modules for M2M and the Internet of Things, has added three flexible FPC antennas for applications in industrial and consumer electronics.
30W, wide range input DC-DC converters occupy 1 x 1 inch footprint
30W, wide range input DC-DC converters occupy 1 x 1 inch footprint
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TDK's CCG30 series of 30W DC-DC converters is packaged in a standard 1 x 1 inch footprint, and can over a 4:1 input range. Enclosed in a metal case with…
Inorganic materials boost perovskite solar cell durability and efficiency
Inorganic materials boost perovskite solar cell durability and efficiency
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Researchers at the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS)  in Japan claim to have improved the power conversion efficiency (PCE) of perovskite solar cells to more than 16% while employing…


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