Cadence Design Systems has announced that Phison Electronics Corporation has used the Cadence Voltus-Fi Custom Power Integrity Solution to achieve silicon-proven accuracy on electromigration and IR-drop (EMIR) checks for its flash controller chips. Phison claims the tool reduced its tapeout schedule by eight weeks, improving time to market by 40% w...

A research team from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW) and the US Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory has developed a way to control the growth paths of graphene nanoribbons on the surface of a germanium crystal."Researchers have wanted to make transistors out of carbon nanotubes but the problem is that they grow...

An accidental discovery by scientists from Penn State University and the University of Chicago may enable the next generation of advanced computers and quantum chips.“To be honest, we were trying to study something completely different,” said Andrew Yeats, a graduate student in Professor David Awschalom’s laboratory at the Uni...

Texas Instruments has launched what it says is the most powerful embedded SoCs. The Sitara AM57x range also offers real time processing and a range of multimedia features.Adrian Valenzuela, marketing director, noted: “We haven’t seen anything like this in the market. It’s a combination of heterogeneous cores, including Cortex-...

ThingWorx has announced it is working with Analog Devices to offer customers an integrated sensor to cloud environment using the ThingWorx IoT Platform.Russell Fadel, president of ThingWorx, said: “We’re excited to collaborate with Analog Devices and endeavor to solve IoT infrastructure challenges such as connectivity, communication...

Apple may have to pay a substantial settlement to the University of Wisconsin after a US federal jury found the company guilty of infringing a University patent – US Patent 5781752 – that helps to improve processor efficiency.The suit was filed by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF), which commercialises research at the...

According to a report by Beecham Research, it is expected that Low Power Wide Area Networks (LPWANs) will provide 26% of the total IoT connectivity market by 2020 with 345million connections, marking an end to the near monopoly of traditional cellular networks for machine connectivity.“LPWANs represent the most dynamic and potentially gam...

The US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) has approved a pilot programme to test an electronic filing system that will require those importing consumer products into the US to electronically submit five data elements.The measures are designed to enable the CPSC to enhance its surveillance of imported goods and to allow the accurate ident...

Researchers from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) are working on improving the solid electrolyte interphase (SEI) as a way to boost battery life.When a lithium battery is first charged up, a thin SEI film forms on the surface of the carbon anode. This film has a complex chemical structure containing both organic and ino...

A report from Deutsche Telekom claims the European smart homes market could be worth in excess of €19billion by 2019, when around 50million homes are expected to have installed some type of ‘smart’ technology.However, the report – ‘How to Create Growth from the Connected Home’ – finds that while the conn...