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Take a seat and let the sun charge your phone

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...

Articles | By Paul Whytock | 19-11-2015

Take a seat and let the sun charge your phone

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...

Insights | By Paul Whytock | 19-11-2015

Emulator with 9.2bn gate capacity launched to help close ‘automation gap’

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...

Articles | By Sally Ward-Foxton | 18-11-2015

Emulator with 9.2bn gate capacity launched to help close ‘automation gap’

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...

Insights | By Sally Ward-Foxton | 18-11-2015

Three reasons why multiradio devices are an IoT essential

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...

Articles | By Pelle Svensson | 18-11-2015

Three reasons why multiradio devices are an IoT essential

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...

Insights | By Pelle Svensson | 18-11-2015

Connected devices promise to deliver much better healthcare provision

The Internet of Things represents an enormous opportunity for the healthcare sector, but security should be a major concern, writes Neil McLellan, Senior Manager for Medical Platforms at Wind River. Healthcare executives contemplate many difficult strategic...

By Neil McLellan | 13-11-2015

Spreading the Net with some blue-sky thinking

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...

Articles | By Paul Whytock | 13-11-2015

Spreading the Net with some blue-sky thinking

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...

Insights | By Paul Whytock | 13-11-2015

3D stacking technology will beat the bandwidth bottlenecks

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...

Articles | By Paul Whytock | 10-11-2015

3D stacking technology will beat the bandwidth bottlenecks

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...

Insights | By Paul Whytock | 10-11-2015

Keeping your passwords safely in the palm of your hand

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...

Articles | By Paul Whytock | 05-11-2015