Xilinx has released the Vivado Design Suite 2015.1, said to include major productivity advances. Included in the release are: the Vivado Lab Edition; accelerated Vivado Simulator and third party simulation flows; interactive clock domain crossing analysis; and advanced system performance analysis with the Xilinx Software Development Kit.The Viv...

Laser-generated microplasma in air can be used as a source of broadband terahertz radiation, researchers at the University of Rochester's Institute of Optics have shown.PhD student Fabrizio Buccheri demonstrated that an approach for generating terahertz waves using intense laser pulses in air can be done with much lower power lasers than pr...

Sales of International Rectifier products and growing demand for chip card and security products have boosted Infineon's performance in the second quarter of its 2015 financial year.Sales of International Rectifier products and growing demand for chip card and security products have boosted Infineon's performance in the second quarter o...

Researchers at the University of Rochester in the US have shown that defects on an atomically thin semiconductor can produce single photons and say the approach could find application in integrated photonics.In a paper, the Rochester researchers describe how tungsten diselenide can serve as a platform for solid state quantum dots that do not in...

Looking to expand from its automotive business, Tesla has produced the Powerwall, a lithium-ion battery that can store energy for load shifting, backup power and self-consumption of solar power generation.Tesla Energy is attempting to move consumers away from fossil fuels to a sustainable energy future enabling homes, business, and utilities to...

While there has been significant activity in developing technology that might enable the creation of a quantum computer, there has been less activity in the development of an operating system that might control what that computer does.While there has been significant activity in developing technology that might enable the creation of a quantum...

Although its Nucleus real time operating system is installed in more than 3billion devices, Mentor Graphics has expanded it to address the power consumption, multicore and IoT requirements of wearable devices.The Mentor Embedded Nucleus RTOS framework is said to include a range of features targeting next generation wearable IoT devices for the...

Barclays has launched a £100million fund to help fast growing technology businesses get to the next level. The bank will lend up to £5m to some of the most innovative UK technology businesses.Ashok Vaswani (pictured), chief executive of Barclays Personal and Corporate Banking, said: "With this new drive, we will be able to supp...

To mark 2015 the International Year of Light, the University of Southampton has introduced Photonics4All, a project to highlight the importance of photonics.Photonics4All aims to raise awareness of the importance of photonics in the community as well as in business and industry through a variety of activities and events such as business innovat...

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) Organisation has decided that the permanent headquarters of the SKA project will be the University of Manchester's Jodrell Bank site.The ambition is to create a system of distributed radio telescopes whose total collecting area is 1sq km. The SKA is set to provide vast amounts of data to help scientists answ...