Archive : 2016 год

The Centre for Process Innovation (CPI) is leading a consortium to create a UK manufacturing supply chain that aims to enable the widespread adoption of packaging incorporating Near-field Communication (NFC) based technology.The three year project, entitled ‘SCOPE’, is building the manufacturing capability, capacity and skills requi...

A team of researchers from Kansas State University, led by Gurpreet Singh, associate professor of mechanical and nuclear engineering, has created a paperlike battery electrode using silicon oxycarbide-glass and graphene.The battery electrode is claimed to be more than 10% lighter than other battery electrodes and has close to 100% cycling effic...

According to research by Japanese startup, Flosfia, gallium oxide could replace silicon as the best material for use in electronic components such as diodes and transistors as it is cheaper, more efficient and capable of handling high voltages.Although this weakness is addressed by devices made from silicon carbide and gallium nitride, both hav...

Synopsys has launched Custom Compiler, a design solution intended to close what the company calls a FinFET productivity gap.Dave Reed, director of marketing for Synopsys’ mixed signal and analogue group, noted that, as companies move to FinFET based designs, productivity has declined by up to a factor of three. “Companies are moving...

Cypress has released a kit that enables designers to evaluate the Controller Area Network (CAN) and Local Interconnect Network (LIN) slave communication capability of Cypress’s PSoC programmable system-on-chip and Flexible Microcontroller (MCU) families. The kit features two CAN transceivers, two LIN transceivers and Arduino compatible header...

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) has purchased a first-of-a-kind brain-inspired supercomputing platform for deep learning inference developed by IBM Research. Based on a breakthrough neurosynaptic computer chip called IBM TrueNorth, the scalable platform will process the equivalent of 16million neurons and 4billion synapses and consume...

Linear Technology has introduced the LTC7130, a constant frequency peak current mode synchronous step-down DC/DC converter with temperature-compensated ultralow DCR current sensing and clock synchronisation. With an input range of 4.5 to 20V the device is claimed to support a variety of applications, including most intermediate bus voltages, is com...

Synaptics has announced a family of feature-rich touch controller solutions designed for the automotive market. The ClearPad automotive solutions include S7883, S7884, S7885, and S7886. The S7883/4 feature 80 channels and the S7884/6 feature 102 channels and are claimed to enable touchscreens up to 14 inches and an industry-leading 17 inches respec...

Researchers from Empa, the Max Planck Institute in Mainz and the Technical University of Dresden claim to have produced graphene nanoribbons (GNR) with perfect zigzag edges. Electrons on these zigzag edges are said to exhibit different - and coupled - rotational directions. This is said to be a step towards creating the spintronic devices of the fu...

New research by engineers from the Universities of Bristol and Lund, working alongside National Instruments, has demonstrated how a massive antenna system can increase spectrum efficiency by 12 times, compared with current 4G cellular technology.Multiple antenna technology – MIMO – is used in Wi-Fi routers and 4G systems and normall...