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

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...

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...

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...

By Bob Blake | 27-10-2015

Data, data, data. We all want it; we can’t get enough of it. It’s an intrinsic part of the increasingly frenetic life we all lead. Phones or tablets in hand, we’re constantly checking our screens, whether it’s to track the latest sales figures, view our Twitte...

By Nick Robins | 27-10-2015

Electropages' European editor Paul Whytock and technical features editor Sally Ward-Foxton report from Munich on the top technology stories breaking at the Pinnacle International Press Summit. Simon Flatt, managing director of Pinnacle Marketing, organisers o...

By Paul Whytock | 21-10-2015

The simple answer to that is maybe, but there are a few buts clouding the perovskite horizon. However, there is no doubt about the excitement perovskite photovoltaics (PV) is causing within the solar power industry. It shows very promising performance with som...

By Paul Whytock | 15-10-2015

Communications technology is constantly evolving to accommodate the ever-growing need for higher data rates and increased bandwidth. A crucial element in this progress is the development of new pluggable transceiver form factors, such as the SFP+—an enhanced v...

By Marco Enge | 12-10-2015