The Internet of Things represents an enormous opportunity for the healthcare sector, but security should be a major concern, writes Neil McLellan, Senior Manager for Medical Platforms at Wind River. Healthcare executives contemplate many difficult strategic...

By Neil McLellan | 13-11-2015

A pioneering breakthrough on what would be a cheap and effective way of linking millions of people still without Internet was recently demonstrated by the University of Edinburgh’s Research Centre, led by Professor Harald Haas, the acknowledged founder of an o...

Articles | By Paul Whytock | 13-11-2015

A pioneering breakthrough on what would be a cheap and effective way of linking millions of people still without Internet was recently demonstrated by the University of Edinburgh’s Research Centre, led by Professor Harald Haas, the acknowledged founder of an o...

Insights | By Paul Whytock | 13-11-2015

What are seen as the first heterogeneous SiP devices that integrate HBM2 DRAM with FPGAs have been developed by US semiconductor company Altera. The company believes these Stratix 10 DRAM System-in-Package (SiP) devices will offer over 10X higher memory bandwi...

Articles | By Paul Whytock | 10-11-2015

What are seen as the first heterogeneous SiP devices that integrate HBM2 DRAM with FPGAs have been developed by US semiconductor company Altera. The company believes these Stratix 10 DRAM System-in-Package (SiP) devices will offer over 10X higher memory bandwi...

Insights | By Paul Whytock | 10-11-2015

Traditionally it has always been the mysterious gypsy character that would read your palm but recent developments by the Fujitsu Labs now means that biometric data such as the veins in your hand can be turned into cryptographic keys. And this is a development...

Articles | By Paul Whytock | 05-11-2015

Traditionally it has always been the mysterious gypsy character that would read your palm but recent developments by the Fujitsu Labs now means that biometric data such as the veins in your hand can be turned into cryptographic keys. And this is a development...

Insights | By Paul Whytock | 05-11-2015

A modem solution that can support any PLC protocol standard for all global frequency bands including CENELEC A, FCC and ARIB, has been launched by Renesas Electronics. This is Renesas' third generation of flexible single-chip powerline solutions and the compan...

Articles | By Paul Whytock | 04-11-2015

A modem solution that can support any PLC protocol standard for all global frequency bands including CENELEC A, FCC and ARIB, has been launched by Renesas Electronics. This is Renesas' third generation of flexible single-chip powerline solutions and the compan...

Insights | By Paul Whytock | 04-11-2015

We all appear on camera hundreds of times daily thanks to the amount of street-level CCTV monitoring in our towns and cities, and soon we could see street cameras that will predict and analyse our behaviour. Japanese technology conglomerate, Hitachi, has devel...

Articles | By Paul Whytock | 28-10-2015

We all appear on camera hundreds of times daily thanks to the amount of street-level CCTV monitoring in our towns and cities, and soon we could see street cameras that will predict and analyse our behaviour. Japanese technology conglomerate, Hitachi, has devel...

Insights | By Paul Whytock | 28-10-2015

FPGAs and SoC devices are evolving to add mixed signal functionality to the programmable fabric and unleashing system-level performance that was previously unattainable. However, in order to reap the performance rewards from these complex devices, the designer...

Technical Analysis | By Bob Blake | 27-10-2015