Researchers at the University of Southampton's Zepler Institute have manufactured a 11km length of hollow core photonic bandgap fibre. According to the team, this type of fibre has only been made in lengths of hundreds of metres previously.Hollow core photonic bandgap fibre supports bandwidths in excess of 200nm, with a longitudinally unifo...

Frontier Silicon has signed an agreement with Google that will see the inclusion of Google's Cast for Audio technology in the next generation of Frontier's audio solutions, which are planned to ship in the first half of 2016.Anthony Sethill, CEO of Frontier's parent company Toumaz Group, said: "Our agreement with Google will pr...

Air traffic control company NATS is exploring the possibility that TV signals could be used for tracking aircraft, following a proof of concept conducted in conjunction with Thales ATM and Roke Manor.The two year trial was carried out primarily over London, with a Thales concept demonstrator using signals from the Crystal Palace transmitter. Th...

Three research projects announced by the European Commission are looking to make electromobility cheaper, more efficient and more reliable. The projects, which will run until 2018, have received €67million in funding. Infineon will lead the projects, which bring together 120 researchers from 15 countries.According to Infineon, the projects...

Figures released by the AFDEC group within the Electronic Components Supply Network (ecsn) show showed that total monthly billings increased by 2% compared to April 2014. The increase was accompanied by an increase in the book to bill ratio, with the semiconductor and electro-mechanical market sectors leading the way. However, while year on year bi...

Cadence has announced the next generation of its JasperGold formal verification platform. The solution blends Cadence's Incisive formal technology with JasperGold into a platform that is said to deliver an improvement in performance of up to 15x compared with previous solutions.The company acquired Jasper about a year ago, but has decided t...

Two years after announcing Stratix 10 SoC FPGAs, Altera has disclosed more details about how the devices – being built on Intel's 14nm TriGate process – achieve the claimed performance.Alongside quad Cortex-A53 processors, the parts also take advantage of Intel's Embedded Multi Interconnect Bridge (EMIB) and what's calle...

Synopsys is buying Atrenta in deal which is said to provide designers with a more comprehensive portfolio of silicon to software solutions for complex electronic systems."Atrenta's demonstrated leadership in static and formal technologies is recognised throughout the EDA industry and its technology is used by design and verification te...

Electronic test equipment specialist Electro Rent is establishing a UK office. Although the company has been servicing the UK market for the last 10 years from its European headquarters, increasing levels of business mean the UK office will be able to better support customers. Electro Rent Europe's managing director David Saeys, pictur...

AMD has launched its 6th Generation A-Series processor, described as the first high performance Accelerated Processing Unit in an SoC design. AMD has launched its 6th Generation A-Series processor, described as the first high performance Accelerated Processing Unit in an SoC design.Codenamed 'Carrizo', the processor is said to...