Archive : January 2016 год

Telit has acquired Bluetooth, Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) and Near Field Communication (NFC) assets in hardware and software from Stollmann Entwicklungs und Vertriebs (Stollmann). Stollmann designs, develops and manufactures low-power Bluetooth modules and software solutions for short range wireless communications. Assets in acquisition include amon...

Following the launch in October 2015 of its Synergy platform, Renesas Electronics has announced the release of the Synergy Software Package (SSP) version 1.0.0, mass production availability of its S7G2 Synergy MCUs and availability of Verified Software Add-on (VSA) software from its partners.The Synergy Platform, intended to speed the developme...

Cypress has expanded its automotive portfolio with the introduction of Traveo MCUs manufactured on a 40nm process. The move is said by the company to enable higher performance and more cost-efficient implementations of instrument clusters. The use of 40nm technology will also enable more on chip flash for advanced applications, as well as making it...

Scientists at three Department of Energy national laboratories claim to have discovered how to keep a lithium ion battery cathode from developing a coating that degrades its performance. The teams used a manufacturing technique to form the cathode material into tiny, layered particles that store a lot of energy while protecting themselves from dama...

Last month, IBM opened a new global headquarters for its Watson Internet of Things (IoT) unit in Munich. At the launch, the company made a series of announcements – including new offerings, capabilities and partners – with the aim being to extend cognitive computing into the rapidly evolving IoT world by deploying IBM’s Watson IoT...

Researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and the Innovation Centre Iceland have built a polarimeter on a microchip, revolutionising the design of this widely used scientific tool.When light is reflected or scattered off an object, its polarisation changes and measuring that change reveals a lot of in...

The manufacture of high performance low power electronics devices based on graphene nanoribbons is likely to be possible, according to an international research team based at Tohoku University’s Advanced Institute of Materials Research.In its work, the team used molecular assemble to connect chiral edge graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) with zi...

Organic LEDs are attractive not only because they emit light in all observation directions, but also for their colours and high contrast. It is also possible to manufacture transparent and flexible OLEDs, enabling new applications.OLEDs consist of ultra thin layers of organic materials – the emitter – between two electrodes. When a...

A team from Northwestern University in the US claims it has made the laser simpler and more versatile by integrating a mid infrared tunable laser with an on chip amplifier. The development is said to allow an adjustable wavelength output, modulators and amplifiers to be held inside a single package.According to the team, the laser has demonstra...

Imagination Technologies has extended its Rogue graphics architecture with the addition of two GPUs. The devices, part of the PowerVR Series7XT Plus family, are said to be aimed at the premium and mid-range segments of the consumer electronics market.Peter McGuinness, director of multimedia technology marketing, said: “We’re rolling...