The design process and the speed of design – especially within electronics – has never been more critical.The demand for shorter design schedules and faster development from concept to production reality impacts all engineers regardless of their area of expertise. In a dedicated workshop at the Electronics Design Show, whic...

European semiconductor sales reached $3.231billion in August, a 10.9% increase over the same period in 2013.According to the European Semiconductor Industry Associations (ESIA), the highest performing category was the logic market, which continued the upward trend started at the beginning of this year. Elsewhere, revenues in the MOS mi...

Standards compliance specialist LDRA has become a partner and trusted adviser to Microchip Technology in a move that will enable the latter's customers to meet functional safety requirements. The partnership will see the LDRA tool suite being integrated with Microchip's MPLAB X Integrated Development Environment and MPLAB XC compil...

Engineers are being asked to create the 'ultimate' development kit as part of a design challenge launched by element14.The Dream Board project allows users to create and brand their own virtual development kit using an interactive tool. They can select from a range of technical options relating to board size, processor, memory,...

Freescale has launched an IoT gateway reference design, said to support applications such as building/home management, smart cities, networked industrial services, where performance and reliability are critical. The design is based around the company's QorIQ LS1021A processor which was announced in October 2013. According to Nick Sargo...

Researchers, led by the Southampton University's Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC), believe they have made a breakthrough in the use of silicon detectors in telecommunications. The research, reported in Nature Materials, describes how the team has engineered the electronic band structure of laser crystallised silicon photonic devic...

Researchers in Germany have created a miniature camera module for driver assistance systems, which they say could help to reduce the number of road accidents each year caused by sleepy drivers.Unlike conventional driver assistance technologies, the tiny camera relies on an integrated image sensor and processor to record and evaluate images.&nbs...

Google's driverless car is still attracting headlines and all the fuss has tightened the focus on the increasing amount of automation being applied in vehicles.But what is driving the trend to the driverless car and what issues will be encountered along the way? Will this increase in complexity force automotive manufacturers to dev...

Spansion has expanded its Traveo range of automotive MCUs with the addition of a device which combines 2D and 3D graphics with a Cortex-R5 core. Matthias Bräuer, director of automotive MCU marketing, said: "We are combining a traditional MCU with graphics capability. The device is aimed at hybrid clusters with pointers and a displa...

Toshiba has used its 15nm process technology to fabricate what it claims to be the world's smallest embedded NAND flash memory modules.The 16GB memory devices are compliant with the latest e·MMC standard and are designed for applications such as smartphones, tablet PCs and wearable devices. Sample shipments are available now...