Designing medical equipment? You’ll need a power supply, but not just any power supply will do. The regulations in this area are strict to ensure patient safety. Thankfully, the most pertinent information can usually be found on a power supply’s datasheet. Her...

By Philip Lechner | 15-02-2016

Prototyping by its very definition needs an engineering environment that quickly and accurately validates design ideas and a new series of development boards from chip company STMicroelectronics could provide that. With the introduction of what it describes as...

By Paul Whytock | 09-02-2016

A new world record conversion efficiency of 13.2% for an organic photovoltaic OPV multi-junction cell for the direct conversion of sunlight into electricity has been achieved by research and development teams at Heliatek, a spin off from the Technical Universi...

By Paul Whytock | 08-02-2016

What is said to be the world’s first hardware virtualised GPU products have been announced by US semiconductor company Advanced Micro Devices (AMD). Called the AMD FirePro S-Series GPUs with multiuser GPU (MxGPU) technology, this hardware-virtualised GPU archi...

By Paul Whytock | 02-02-2016

A platform to create technologies vital for the millimetre wave (mmWave) radio spectrum is being built by the New York University (NYU) Wireless research centre. The development of mmWave radio spectrum technologies is an imperative to launching the next ultra...

By Paul Whytock | 29-01-2016

Looking back at 2015 you have to say that from an electronics perspective that was not as boring year. The semiconductor business went through some dramatic changes. Smaller process nodes are coming to the fore, next generation semiconductor materials such as...

By David Somo | 27-01-2016

Mass-production of the LQP02HQ series of film-type high frequency chip inductors in the ultra-compact 01005 size has started say manufacturers, Murata. Because of the trend toward increased multiband capability and increasingly sophisticated functions, the con...

By Paul Whytock | 26-01-2016

A versatile Intel development board that is easy to use as an educational tool but is also capable of prototyping sophisticated products with connect and compute functions is available from Mouser Electronics. Called the Genuino 101, there are a lot of specifi...

By Paul Whytock | 21-01-2016

A constant pressure for manufacturers of mobile communication technology is the relentless challenge to rapidly implement new mobile devices and infrastructure that is equipped with more features and technologies like MIMO, Carrier Aggregation and voice-over-L...

By Paul Whytock | 19-01-2016

The market for RF power transistors has been dominated by mobile communications infrastructure applications for many years but advancement in LDMOS-based transistors and packaging technologies are helping drive innovation in a number of markets. One of these m...

By Rob Hoeben | 13-01-2016

As we launch into a new year of technology the Internet is already getting its fair share of pundits proclaiming what will be the top electronic technologies of 2016. In an attempt to either educate us or, for those corporately attached experts, to wax lyrical...

By Paul Whytock | 08-01-2016

The Bluetooth communication protocol is gaining massive popularity because of the diverse variety of apps that it can support. But despite its prolific use concerns over a lack of personal data security still cause serious concern. Some of those risks range fr...

By Paul Whytock | 05-01-2016

Will market and political pressures spell New Year misery for the memory makers? The straight forward answer is yes and whereas extreme market fluctuations in the DRAM market are nothing new there is now the added dimension of political pressures in the form o...

By Paul Whytock | 22-12-2015

Three design imperatives when it comes to creating wearable devices for consumers are low power consumption, compact size and a list of functions that will unnerve competitors. In a new development American chip maker Lattice Semiconductor has created an FPGA-...

By Paul Whytock | 21-12-2015