Archive : December 2015 год

Solid Sands and Vector Software are to work together to integrate the VectorCAST Change Based Testing approach with Solid Sands’ SuperTest C/C++ compiler test and validation suite. The move is expected to minimise compiler revalidation time by executing only those test cases which are impacted by compiler code changes and by reporting in a st...

Researchers at Columbia University in New York say they have adenosine triphosphate (ATP) to power an integrated circuit. The team coupled a conventional CMOS circuit with an artificial lipid bilayer membrane containing ATP powered ion pumps and say this could open the door to creating systems that contain biological and solid-state components....

CEA-Leti has announced what it calls preliminary steps for demonstrating a quantum bit – or qubit – in a process usjng a silicon on insulator (SoI) CMOS platform.According to the French R&D organisation, the leading solid state approach for treating quantum information uses superconducting qubits, but it says other approaches ar...

Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute have developed an energy storage device which is said to be significantly more cost-effective over the entire life cycle of a battery than previous approaches.Batteries for electric vehicles are, in general, monolithic blocks accommodating individual cells and the necessary technology. While all cells sho...

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) researchers claim to have used optical microscopes emitting tiny fractions of the wavelength of light to measure chip features that are approaching 10nm.Using a microscope that combines standard through-the-lens viewing with a technique called scatterfield imaging, the NIST team accurately m...

The Rice University researchers who pioneered the development of laser-induced graphene have formed it into flexible, solid-state microsupercapacitors that are claimed to charge 50 times faster than batteries, discharge more slowly than traditional capacitors and match commercial supercapacitors for both the amount of energy stored and power delive...

Cadence Design Systems and Spreadtrum have developed a virtual reference design kit specific to Spreadtrum’s SC9830A quad-core system-on-chip (SoC) platform requirements. The kit is claimed to enable designers to accelerate their product and application design cycles by up to 12 weeks, including time spent on schematic design, PCB design and...

Researchers at Linköping University’s Laboratory of Organic Electronics have developed ‘power paper’. The material consists of nanocellulose and a conductive polymer and has the ability to store energy.The researchers claim that one sheet, 15cm in diameter and a few tenths of a millimetre thick can store as much as 1farad...

A team of scientists, from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) and the Russian Quantum Centre, claim to have demonstrated a method of exciting magnetic vortices using less current.Controlling magnetic vortices, through spin or otherwise, is what scientists are researching as a foundation for the electronics of the future, call...

Engineers at Oregon State University claim to have made a breakthrough in understanding the physics of photonic ‘sintering’, which could lead to advances in solar cells, flexible electronics, sensors and other high-tech products printed onto something as simple as a sheet of paper or plastic.Sintering is the fusing of nanoparticles...