Telesoft Technologies has selected Achronix' Speedster22i HD1000 FPGAs for use in its MPAC6200 dual 100GbE PCIe card for cyber security, monitoring and analytics."Use of Speedster22i FPGAs has accelerated our product development cycle time," said Rob Downham, Telesoft's chairman. "In previous FPGA projects, the integratio...

York EMC Services has opened a new compliance test laboratory, relocating its Scottish operation from Dalgety Bay to Grangemouth. The purpose built laboratory offers a range of EMC, safety, radio, telecoms and EMF compliance services to companies in Scotland and the North of England. Chief Executive Nick Wainwright said: "The complian...

The emission of light from and capture of light by metamaterials can be enhanced with the use of light emitting nanocrystals, according to research conducted by the City College of New York, along with scientists from the University of Alberta and Purdue University. The work is believed to have application in ultrafast LEDs, nanoscale lasers and si...

Light communication company pureLiFi – previously known as pureVLC – has raised £1.5million in its latest round of investment as it ships Li-Flame, what is said to be the world's first full wireless LiFi networking system. The latest investors in the University of Edinburgh spin off were led by London and Scottish Inv...

Scientists at Imperial College London have developed a way to manipulate the optical properties of polymers by drawing patterns with a solvent 'ink'. The approach is said to allow more precise control over how these materials interact with light and could have application in all kinds of devices that emit, detect and control light. One exam...

Intersil has launched the ISL8203M, a dual 3A/single 6A step down DC/DC power module said to simplify the design of power supplies for FPGAs, ASICs, microprocessors and DSPs. The module is described as a complete encapsulated power system featuring a PWM controller, synchronous switching MOSFETs, inductors and passive components. Accepting...

An international research team, including scientists from Forschungszentrum Jülich and the Paul Scherrer Institute in Switzerland, has created the first semiconductor laser consisting solely of Group IV elements. The germanium-tin (GeSn) laser can be applied directly onto a silicon chip and thus creates a new basis for optical data tr...

Ambiq Micro has launched the Apollo family and claims the parts – which feature a 32bit ARM Cortex-M4F microcontroller core – have an energy consumption typically 5 to 10 times less than than that of MCUs with comparable performance. The devices use the company's patented Subthreshold Power Optimized Technology (SPOT) platf...

What is said to be a major step forward in the development of quantum computing systems has been made by researchers at Princeton University in the US. The team has built a laser the size of a grain of rice powered laser powered by single electrons tunnelling through quantum dots. The microwave laser (maser) is said to demonstrate the fundamental i...

A team of electrical engineers from Penn State University in the US has developed a device featuring a single layer of metallic nanostructures and says the device provides 'exceptional capabilities' for manipulating light. Applications potentially include satellite communications. "We have designed and fabricated a waveplate t...