There are a lot of things going on in the engineering community right now - and, as engineers, we are tasked with creating the world of tomorrow while the current machinery in place is still running. New innovations are arising and the challenge the engineerin...
By Mark Patrick | 10-05-2019
The Internet of Things (IoT) ushered in a new era of innovation. IoT applications range from shipping and manufacturing to smart home control and automation, and even entertainment. Notably, the healthcare sector benefited from the Internet of Things greatly....
By Moe Long | 09-05-2019
Analog Devices Inc. has announced the ADMV1013 and ADMV1014, a paired highly integrated microwave upconverter and downconverter, respectively. The ADMV1013 is offered in a 40-pin, six millimetre by 6mm LGA, and the ADMV1014, which is made of silicon germanium,...
By Rob Coppinger | 08-05-2019
‘SmartVIZ’, a microLED project funded by the Bavarian State Ministry for Economic Affairs, Regional Development and Energy, is well underway with the first demonstration scheduled to be presented in October 2021. MicroLEDs, also known as mLED or µLED, are an e...
By Nnamdi Anyadike | 07-05-2019
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A new report into the outdoor wireless LAN (WLAN) market predicts substantial growth in the sector over the next five years. The key drivers are expected to be the emerging markets and the increasingly widespread propagation of Internet of Things (IoT) driven...
By Nnamdi Anyadike | 09-08-2018
Electroblog recently covered a couple of stories highlighting the menace of counterfeit electronic products and how one of the ways dishonest companies sell them is via industry exhibitions. Confronting Counterfeit Electronics at Trade Shows To talk about the...
By Paul Whytock | 04-07-2017
Two breaking news items pinged their way onto my desktop this week that reminded me of a couple of stories Electropages published a few months ago. The first latest news item looked at how the Düsseldorf District Court in Germany handed down judgments in favou...
By Paul Whytock | 26-06-2017
The German city of Stuttgart played host to the Automotive Testing Expo where over 300 companies attended to show off their new technologies in the areas of car testing, evaluation and quality control. Here are some of the highlights. Keep your distance The GP...
By Paul Whytock | 15-06-2017
E-mode 200 and 650Volt power devices that achieve a Ron dispersion of under 20% have been successfully developed using 200mm GaN-on-Silicon wafers. The technology was created by nanoelectronics and digital technology specialists Imec who say it is ready for pr...
By Paul Whytock | 13-06-2017
Organic Light-Emitting Diode (OLED) displays are front-page news again following the industry rumour that Apple is considering the thin, lightweight screen technology for the forthcoming iPhone 8. It has also distinguished its MacBook Pro with an innovative OL...
By Mark Patrick | 05-06-2017
A Microcontroller Unit (MCU) with graphics design facilities equaling Microprocessor Units (MPUs) has been launched by microcontroller and analog semiconductor specialists Microchip. The MCU family, designated 32bit PIC32MZ DA, is claimed by the company to be...
By Paul Whytock | 30-05-2017
Most of us know about the latest round of sabre-rattling, chest-thumping verbal exchanges between the USA and North Korea as they strive to convince each other their military weapons are biggest and best. Its familiar stuff, except for just recently when the s...
By Paul Whytock | 22-05-2017
The answer to that must surely be no. Vivaldi wrote more than 500 concertos for mandolin, cello, flute, viola, recorder and lute, and around 230 of them were for violin. I doubt whether even a self-learning neuromorpic microchip could be that prolific despite...
By Paul Whytock | 16-05-2017
Bluetooth connectivity has become so widely available these days it almost seems like a consumer right. Spare a thought though for developers who have to implement the Bluetooth interfaces that enable this connectivity, especially in tightly constrained embedd...
By Nick Robins | 10-05-2017