Tester for tomorrow's V2X applications Future intelligent transport systems will be implemented using standards such as IEEE 802.11p WLAN. This standard enables vehicles and infrastructures to share information in order to warn drivers of hazards such as accid...

By Paul Whytock | 06-10-2015

The constant engineering drive towards ever flatter and thinner silicon wafers has received a significant boost following the development of new laser de-bonding techniques involving Borofloat, a borosilicate glass. Borofloat glass is widely used as a substrat...

By Paul Whytock | 30-09-2015

The DSEI Defence and Security Equipment International exhibition in London is a huge collection of all the latest air, sea and land military equipment, much of it empowered by electronics. Electropages went along to search out some of the hot technology but fo...

By Paul Whytock | 24-09-2015

Technology marketers are very keen these days to convince us that wearable devices like fitness monitors are part of everyday life. Well, I don’t know about you, but they are not part of my everyday life, and I am sure that is the case for many people. The tho...

By Paul Whytock | 22-09-2015

The Palais des congrès de Paris played host to this year's European Microwave Week (EuMW) show and conference and Electropages went along to search out the top technologies. Here's what we found. Industry first for Keysight Test and Measurement specialist Keys...

By Paul Whytock | 15-09-2015

Electromagnetic interference (EMI) is an increasing concern in modern electronic designs as the demand for higher operating frequencies and lower voltages continues to grow. In this article, Mathias Goebel, an experienced product manager at Avnet Abacus, sheds...

By Mathias Goebel | 09-09-2015

Philip Lechner's career in electronics distribution has spanned 33 years, including 13 years as a field sales engineer covering power, semiconductors and IP&E, and 20 years in product management for power supplies and DC/DC converters for Avnet Abacus. In...

By Philip Lechner | 03-09-2015

Following many years of proposals and discussions within the European Union, the EU-wide’  eCall’ automatic-emergency-call alert system is now coming to a car near you. eCall is a system that provides an automated message to emergency services from a vehicle i...

By Sven Etzold | 27-08-2015

What is claimed as the world’s first 32Gbytes 48-layer BiCS FLASH device with a three-dimensional (3D) stacked cell structure has been developed and launched by the Toshiba Corporation. It features triple-level cell (TLC) technology which is a type of solid-st...

By Paul Whytock | 18-08-2015

The amount of data that will be swirling around planet Earth is set to explode during the final years of this decade and will reach the biblical proportion of around 44zettabytes (ZB). To put that in perspective 1zettabyte is the data equivalent of 250 billion...

By Paul Whytock | 12-08-2015

In the age of constant connectivity, our mobile phones have become almost an extension of ourselves. But have you ever stopped to consider the potential health implications of keeping your phone in your trouser pocket? The question may sound peculiar, but a gr...

By Paul Whytock | 10-08-2015

The problems of filament instability in resistive RAM (RRAM) technology have been cracked in a joint effort by Japanese electronics conglomerate Panasonic and research centre Imec. The two organizations say this paves the way to making 28nm embedded applicatio...

By Paul Whytock | 28-07-2015

How can an 85-year-old Hungarian help car navigate the crowded streets of London, Shanghai or New York? It turns out that a talented gentleman's work in mathematics is becoming increasingly important in many different areas of transportation and navigation. Th...

By Nick Pummell | 23-07-2015

The straight answer to that is an unequivocal no. But black arsenic phosphorus (BAP) could provide an extremely interesting alternative when it comes to producing infinitesimally thin layers of atoms that could be used in transistors. However, graphene has alr...

By Paul Whytock | 16-07-2015