Leading test equipment company Teledyne LeCroy has added the 780E multiprotocol analyser/generator to its quantumdata 780 series. The device features DisplayPort input and output ports, which the company says makes it the only portable instrument capable of testing HDMI, HDBaseT and DisplayPort devices and distribution networks, including HDCP 2.2...

According to a survey conducted by research-driven security services company, IOActive, 85% of the senior security professionals surveyed believe that less than half of IoT products are secure.The IOActive IoT Security Survey, conducted in March 2016, revealed that nearly half (47%) of all respondents felt that less than 10% of all IoT products...

Following a distribution deal, TTI is now offering Smiths Connector’s high reliability connectors featuring Hypertac hyperboloid contact technology across Europe. The agreement is said to build on a successful partnership between Smiths Connectors and TTI France.Ronald Velda, TTI’s supplier marketing director Europe for connectors a...

A free development tool from Microchip is said to allow designers to develop GUIs for products based on its PIC32 microcontrollers.Called MPLAB Harmony Graphics Composer (MHGC) – and used in conjunction with Harmony Configurator and the MPLAB X IDE – the software allows branded branded content to be created using the Harmony Gra...

Responding to increasing demand for higher resolution video imaging systems, Synopsys has launched the EV6 range of vision processors. The cores are said by the company to offer up to 100 times the performance of the EV5 range, introduced in 2015.Mark Thompson, senior product marketing manager with Synopsys’ DesignWare ARC processor group...

You can now pre-register to attend EDS 2016. The show, made up of the Engineering, Electronics and Embedded Design Show, returns to the Ricoh Arena in Coventry on 19-20 October 2016.Pre-registration is done through the show website, and guarantees your place to this great event. It is quick, simple and free to do.2016 will be the biggest ed...

Rohde & Schwarz has launched a competition to find the most innovative use for its recently announced Scope Rider, the rugged portable oscilloscope with lab performance. Ten shortlisted entrants will each receive a GoPro Hero4 silver camera to make a video of their idea, and the overall winner will receive a Scope Rider.Steven Edwards,...

MC10, a US based healthcare technology company, has joined with design and manufacturing specialist PCH to commercialise the former’s Wearable Interactive Stamp Platform (WiSP).WISP, which is worn on the skin, is a stretchable and disposable stamp which is said to be just 0.05mm thick. When paired with a smartphone, tablet or NFC reader,...

French research institute Leti has extended its collaboration with Qualcomm Technologies under which the partners were developing CoolCube, the former’s sequential integration technology.Created by Leti as a way of creating high density, high performance circuits, CoolCube is said to eliminate the need for through silicon vias – TSV...

A report from market analyst IHS says demand for seniconductors fell in 2015 and could herald three years of weak growth. Sequential quarterly growth was weak throughout every quarter of 2015, especially in the first quarter, when the market declined 8.9% over the previous quarter. That drop represented the deepest sequential quarterly decline sinc...