The body is the enemy of wearable devices Wearable devices such as smart watches, smart glasses and fitness monitors present a specific set of challenges for antennas. Firstly, they are by definition held very close to the body at all times, which poses a prob...
By Marco Enge | 18-12-2015
A new SRAM that could provide the real-time image processing capabilities for future autonomous-driving technologies has been developed by Renesas Electronics. The company has revealed that when testing the new SRAM in a 16nm process, it managed 688 picosecond...
By Paul Whytock | 16-12-2015
Industry analysts reckon that by the end of this decade there will be around 50 billion connected devices operating worldwide. This Internet of Things, as this profusion of connectivity is often called, will mean that a monumental quantity of miniscule informa...
By Paul Whytock | 14-12-2015
The integration of high mobility InGaAs as a channel material for 3D vertical NAND memory devices formed in the holes with the diameter down to 45nm has been demonstrated for the first time by electronics research centre Imec. The development of this type of c...
By Paul Whytock | 08-12-2015
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You've seen them a few days before Christmas wandering aimlessly around department stores with a panicked look in their eyes and expressions that alternate between grim determination and pathetic hopelessness. They are the men that have left buying their loved...
By Paul Whytock | 07-12-2015
The simple answer to that is no, providing users are careful. But will they be? Smart watches are predicted to be this Christmas' must have gift and Yuletide will be the closing stages of a year when nearly €10 billion worth of these clever timepieces found wr...
By Paul Whytock | 01-12-2015
The Raspberry Pi product range available from element14 has been extended with the addition of the smallest form factor Raspberry Pi on the market, the Raspberry Pi Zero. To save space and cut costs the Raspberry Pi Zero has one Micro USB data port and a Mini...
By Paul Whytock | 26-11-2015
Replacing tired, worn out batteries in mobile phones and laptops is a pain but when batteries start to fail in your electric car it's a financial disaster. Not surprisingly then the Holy Grail for battery technologists is how do we create the never-ending batt...
By Paul Whytock | 24-11-2015
Solar powered Smart Benches are now being tried in locations at Canary Wharf in London's Docklands area. As well as re-charging mobiles, tablets and music players, the Strawberry Smart Benches track air quality and noise levels in the surrounding area and incl...
By Paul Whytock | 19-11-2015
Cadence has unveiled the Palladium Z1, an emulation platform with a capacity of up to 9.2 billion gates which can support up to 2034 parallel jobs. The new emulator has 5x the throughput of its closest competitor, says Cadence, calling it the industry’s first...
By Sally Ward-Foxton | 18-11-2015
The Internet of Things (IoT) and the volume of data that it brings is going to impact almost every industry. Current predictions suggest 25 billion IoT devices will be in place by 2020. Clearly getting the design of an IoT solution right from the beginning is...
By Pelle Svensson | 18-11-2015
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...
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...
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...
By Paul Whytock | 05-11-2015