Archive : 2016 год

A team from Abaco Systems’ Towcester facility has won the overall prize in Mentor Graphics’ Technology Leadership Awards. The awards scheme recognises innovative solutions to system design challenges.The Abaco team designed a 3U VPX single board computer on a short timescale, whilst dealing with significant challenges, including the...

The 2016.03 release of HSPICE, FineSim and CustomSim simulators from Synopsys will include a native environment for simulation management and analysis; a move which the EDA company claims will improve analogue verification productivity.The move will provide designers with access to the advanced features available in Synopsys SPICE and FastSPICE...

A report from Beecham Research suggests that, while most of the hype around augmented reality (AR) has tended to focus on consumer technology, growth in demand over the next five years will come from business applications.According to the report – Augmented Reality and Wearable Technology – manufacturing, logistics, healthcare and r...

Imagination Technologies has announced that Sir Hossein Yassaie has stepped down after 18 years as the company’s chief executive with immediate effect.Andrew Heath, a non-executive director who has held executive roles at Rolls-Royce and Alent, has been appointed interim chief executive while Imagination searches for a new chief executive...

Intelligent Energy has signed a Joint Development Agreement with an unnamed emerging smartphone OEM to develop embedded fuel cell technology for the manufacturer’s devices. Once embedded, a fuel cell has the potential to keep a smartphone powered for more than a week on one charge.Intelligent Energy’s Consumer Electronics division a...

Research led by Yoke Khin Yap, a professor of physics at Michigan Technological University, states that the road to more versatile wearable technology is dotted with iron. Specifically, quantum dots of iron arranged on boron nitride nanotubes (BNNTs).Prof Yap says the iron-studded BNNTs are pushing the boundaries of electronics hardware. "...

The introduction by Teledyne LeCroy of the HDA125 high speed digital analyser is said to expand the capabilities of its oscilloscopes. By adding the HDA125 digital acquisition system, which captures 18 channels of data at 12.5Gsample/s, users can create what the company claims is ‘the most flexible, highest performance mixed signal solution a...

UK semiconductor company, SmartKem has claimed to have set a world record in digital circuit performance with its tru-FLEX solution processed organic semiconductor.SmartKem has designed a tru-FLEX based all-organic five-stage OTFT ring oscillator using solution coating that operates with an oscillation frequency above 500kHz and stage delay of...

A group of materials scientists from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, led by Xudong Wang, a UW-Madison professor of materials science and engineering, and postdoctoral researcher Fei Wang, has developed a technique for creating two-dimensional sheets of compounds that do not naturally form such thin materials. It is said to be the first time su...

A team of engineers at NASA has been chosen to build the space agency's first ever integrated photonics communications modem. This could transform everything from telecommunications, medical imaging, and advanced manufacturing to national defence.The modem will be tested aboard the International Space Station beginning in 2020 as part of NA...