Mouser Electronics has signed a distribution agreement with National Instruments subsidiary Digilent, which offers technology based educational tools to a range of customers.Mouser Electronics has signed a distribution agreement with National Instruments subsidiary Digilent, which offers technology based educational tools to a range of customer...

Linear Technology has introduced the LTC2373-18, an eight channel, 18bit, successive approximation register (SAR) A/D converter sampling at 1Msample/s. With an SNR of 100dB, the LTC2373-18 features a programmable sequencer that can store up to 16 control words for configuring the multiplexer and input range. This, says the company, provide...

If smart fabric manufacturers overcome existing business challenges, the market has the potential to grow to $2billion by 2018, according to market researcher Frost & Sullivan.The report, called Technology Innovations in Smart Fabrics, says market segments in the spotlight will include digital fabrics, energy harvesters and nano based senso...

While nanostructured electrodes in Li-ion batteries have several advantages over bulk material electrodes, including shorter distances for charge-carrying particles to travel and a high surface area, battery researchers find it difficult to work with nanoscale materials. However, researchers at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) ha...

ARM saw a 19% increase in revenue for Q4 2014 compared to the same quarter in 2013, according to its latest financial statement. Other positives highlighted by the company included an increase in processor licensing revenue of 30% and what it says is a record cash generation figure of £122million.Simon Segars, chief executive officer, sai...

Shopping trolleys fitted with low cost sensors and Bluetooth Smart technology could revolutionise the retail experience, says Cambridge Consultants, pinpointing the location of trolleys within stores to within 1m and alerting shoppers to promotions as they browse the aisles.The innovation is a small device that fits on a trolley wheel and which...

Organic electronic materials specialist Merck and flexible electronics company FlexEnable claim they have reached an important stage in the development of plastic LCDs. Between them, the companies have created a demonstrator in what is said to be a 'very short timeframe' and which is said to show a route to low cost solutions for volume man...

The number of applications requiring electronic devices which can resist high temperatures is growing and some, such as turbines and down hole sensing, need devices which can operate at temperatures of more than 200°C.A team of researchers from the University of California, Riverside and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have discovered that...

Researchers from South Korea have developed a thin film that retains its electric and magnetic properties, even when highly curved.According to the team, flexible electronics have been hard to manufacture because many materials with useful electronic properties tend to be rigid. The solution, says the team, is to take tiny bits of materials lik...

HyperCatCity, a smart city initiative backed by technology companies, private organisations and public institutions, was launched last month. The initiative looks to exploit the HyperCat standard, unveiled last year to ensure that various IoT services and systems can work together more effectively. Supported by more than 250 organisations and multi...