Just how much technology do humans want attached to them as they go about their daily lives? If consumer organisations have their way we homo sapiens could be carrying more electronics than RoboCop. Why do I mention this? Well, because Bosch Sensortec recently...

By Paul Whytock | 27-06-2016

A new version of the J-Link firmware for NXP's evaluation boards with OpenSDA debug and programming interface has been developed by embedded software company SEGGER. OpenSDA is used on the Tower and Freedom evaluation boards equipped with Kinetis microcontroll...

By Paul Whytock | 22-06-2016

It seems that more and more features are being packaged into smaller electronic modules. Due to the ever-increasing power density of such modules, it is difficult for electronics engineers to keep things running cool. Here, I review a thermal design issue whic...

By Mark Scholton | 21-06-2016

Significantly increased range, speed and broadcast messaging capacity are some of the attributes that the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) is promising with the launch of Bluetooth 5. Expected later this year, Bluetooth 5 is predicted to provide reliable...

By Paul Whytock | 17-06-2016

A convection-cooled modular power supply platform that delivers 600W without fan-assisted cooling has been developed by Excelsys Technologies. Claimed by the company to be the only fanless modular power supply on the market, the CoolX600 comes in an 8.5 x 4.5...

By Paul Whytock | 15-06-2016

Automotive embedded systems specialist ETAS and embedded software security company ESCRYPT have teamed up with power semiconductor company STMicroelectronics in a development project focussing on secure connected car applications. Automotive engineers increasi...

By Paul Whytock | 14-06-2016

Three companies have got together to launch the first generation of the Qt Automotive Suite. With a background of providing automotive user interface (UI) software to more than twenty automotive customers, the Qt Company along with Pelagicore and KDAB see this...

By Paul Whytock | 09-06-2016

Russian semiconductor foundry Angstrem-T has developed an ASIC based on a Cortus APS 32bit microcontroller core. The development comes following a working relationship between the Russian foundry and Cortus, a company specialising in low power 32Bit processor...

By Paul Whytock | 08-06-2016

How would you like to be on an aircraft that was hit by a drone while taking off or landing? The answer is of course that you wouldn’t. Yet in April this year that’s exactly what happened to a British Airways Airbus A320 destined for London Heathrow Airport. T...

By Paul Whytock | 02-06-2016

Entry, mid and high-end dev boards for the STM32F7 microcontroller series that are entering volume production with up to 2Mbyte of on-chip Flash have been launched by STMicroelectronics. Created to provide design start-up support, these dev tools include a STM...

By Paul Whytock | 31-05-2016

A combination of perovskite solar modules positioned on top of silicon solar modules could mean that future solar power conversion efficiencies of 30% might be achieved. This possibility follows the unveiling by Solliance, a research and design consortium, and...

By Paul Whytock | 26-05-2016

Test and measurement company Keysight Technologies has extended its collaboration with China Mobile Research Institute (CMRI) on the development of 5G test and measurement technologies. China Mobile is considered to be the world’s largest mobile network operat...

By Paul Whytock | 25-05-2016

Wireless power transmission was first tried by inventor Nikola Tesla in the early 1900s and if recent reports from industry analysts are correct it now seems that consumers are finally buying into the technology in significant numbers. But are they? When it co...

By Paul Whytock | 23-05-2016

What is claimed to be the first programmable bridging device that resolves interface mismatches between mobile application processors, image sensors and displays has been developed by Lattice Semiconductor. Very often systems with embedded cameras and displays...

By Paul Whytock | 17-05-2016