Archive : 2015 год

Intel is being blocked from working on the world’s largest supercomputer by the US government. The company, which had applied for a licence to export thousands of chips to update the Tianhe-2 computer based in China, was blocked by the Department of Commerce on the grounds that nuclear research could be done on the machine.The Tianhe-2 us...

Researchers in Japan have designed a smectic liquid crystal that overcomes many of the challenges posed by organic field effect transistor materials. Crystalline organic semiconductors have attracted a lot of interest as they offer convenient low-cost fabrication by printed electronics.Development to date has been slow because of the low therma...

Farnell element14 is become the first distributor to stock the recently launched ARM mbed IoT Starter Kit – Ethernet Edition for IBM Internet of Things Foundation. The agreement will open up opportunities for technical enthusiasts around the world looking to experiment and innovate with the Internet of Things (IoT). Available now from element...

Large area graphene is able to preserve electron spin over an extended period, and communicate it over greater distances than had previously been known, according to researchers based at Chalmers University of Technology. The findings, published in Nature Communications, have opened the door for the development of spintronics, with an aim to manufa...

Following an agreement with Altera, Rochester Electronics will be able to provide a long term supply pipeline of the company's mature FPGAs and CPLDs.Following an agreement with Altera, Rochester Electronics will be able to provide a long term supply pipeline of the company's mature FPGAs and CPLDs.Chris Gerrish, Rochester's pre...

Researchers at the University of Cambridge say they have unravelled one of the mysteries of electromagnetism and add their work could allow the creation of antennas small enough to be integrated into a chip."Antennas are one of the limiting factors when trying to make smaller and smaller systems, since below a certain size, the losses beco...

The Nucleus SafetyCert real time operating system (RTOS) from Mentor Graphics has been verified and documented by Verocel to meet the certification requirements for IEC61508 SIL 3, IEC62304 Class C and RTCA DO-178C Level A."We conducted thorough code reviews, analysis, testing and generated full traceability mapping between related life cy...

Inspired by the way living organisms have evolved, researchers from Durham University and the University of São Paulo-USP in Brazil are exploring similar 'evolutionary' methods in order to create information processing devices.Inspired by the way living organisms have evolved, researchers from Durham University and the University...

Looking to bring a significant boost in capability to those developing FPGA based satellite applications, Microsemi has launched the RTG4 family."Satellites have more capable sensors, better resolution imagers and faster downlinks," said Ken O'Neill, Microsemi's director of marketing, space and aviation. "Operators want m...

Stanford University scientists say they have invented the first high performance aluminium battery that charges quickly, is long lived and inexpensive, as well as offering a safe alternative to many batteries in use today."We have developed a rechargeable aluminium battery that may replace existing storage devices, such as alkaline batteri...