Archive : 2015 год

Engineering researchers from Columbia University in the US have devised a way to implement full duplex radio ICs in nanoscale CMOS. The devices are said to support simultaneous transmission and reception at the same frequency; something previously thought to be impossible. The presented its work at the recent ISSCC event in San Francisco.Engine...

Electroplating Engineers of Japan and the University of Tokyo claim to developed an electroless plating process which enables the simultaneous formation of contact electrodes for p-type and n-type organic field effect transistors (OFET).The process, which uses silver nanoparticles as a catalyst, allows the formation of top contact OFET contact...

The US Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) has installed and commissioned an array of laser diodes with a peak power of 3.2MW. The diode arrays are a key component of the High-Repetition-Rate Advanced Petawatt Laser System (HAPLS). When completed, HAPLS will be installed in the European Union's Extreme Light Infrastructure (ELI) Beaml...

In a move intended to increase the competitiveness of its industrial partners, CEA-Leti has launched the Silicon Impulse IC design competence centre. According to the French research organisation, Silicon Impulse will offer IC design services, advanced IP, emulation and test services, as well as multiproject wafer shuttles. In a move inten...

The merger between Cypress and Spansion has been completed ahead of schedule, creating a company that will be the third largest supplier of memories and MCUs to the automotive industry.Cypress' president and CEO TJ Rodgers, pictured, said: "The new Cypress will capitalise on its expanded product portfolio and leadership positions in em...

Scientists from Forschungszentrum Jülich have developed a prototype solid state lithium ion battery which is said to have an improved interface between solid electrolyte and electrodes. The cell, said to be the forerunner of a new generation of such devices, has been charged and discharged in the laboratory more than 350 times. Lithiu...

Silicon Labs and ARM are working together deliver power management application programming interfaces (APIs) for ARM mbed platforms. According to the companies, the APIs will enable the mbed community to optimise their designs for energy efficiency and longer battery life.Zach Shelby, ARM's vice president of IoT business marketing, said: &q...

A new communications technology developed by IBM Research and Semtech is said to offer 'significant advantages' over cellular networks and Wi-Fi when it comes to M2M communications.The technology, called LoRaWAN – Long Range wide-area networks – taps the unlicensed wireless spectrum, allowing sensors to communicate over long...

Infineon has introduced the OptiMOS 5 product family of 25V and 30V devices, including power MOSFETs in standard discrete packages, a new class of power stages named Power Block and in an integrated power stage called DrMOS 5x5.According to the company, efficiency improvements of around 1% have been made across the whole load range compared to...

As part of a major project which aims to build on the legacy of the BBC Micro, the BBC plans give a personal coding device to every child across the country starting secondary school in September 2015.The device, which is still in development, is currently called Micro Bit. The BBC says it will be a small, wearable device with an LED display th...