Archive : 2015 год

Digi-Key Electronics has announced an exclusive, global agreement to distribute software and design data from Accelerated Designs. Accelerated Designs focuses on providing EDA-tool-neutral software and data to engineers and electronics manufacturers that improves the efficiency of adding and managing new parts when designing circuits and printed ci...

At the halfway stage of a four year project intended to build a European-based supply chain in silicon photonics, PLAT4M says it has now developed three technology platforms and adds these are available to a range of fabless companies.PLAT4M, which has received €10.2million of EC funding, brings together 15 companies, including European R&...

Texas Instruments has added the CC1310 wireless microcontroller to its SimpleLink portfolio. The sub GHz device is said to enable extended battery life, longer range and enhanced integration.Featuring an ARM Cortex-M3 core and a sensor controller, the device is said to have the ability to communicate over distances as far as 20km.Running at...

Scientists at the University of Twente's MESA+ research institute have developed a manufacturing method to create 3D nanostructures. This discovery is claimed to make it possible to produce chips with additional functions for mobile devices, computers and other applications.The conventional method for manufacturing 3D nanostructures consist...

As a result of an Asia-Pacific franchise agreement with ARM, element14 claims to have become the largest global distributor of ARM development tools, software, evaluation boards and debug hardware. The agreement also extends an existing Americas and EMEA franchise agreement between the two companies.Robin Colman, global head of software busines...

In a move that enables chip companies to emulate designs with up to 9billion gates, Cadence Design Systems has unveiled the Palladium Z1 enterprise emulation platform. The device, described as the industry’s first datacentre class emulation system, is said to be capable of delivering up to 5x greater emulation throughput than its predecessor....

Two power and cost optimised communication processors from CEVA have been designed to address the growing demand for multimode connectivity solutions for Internet of Things and M2M applications.The CEVA-XC5 and CEVA-XC8 DSP vector processors are the smallest and most power-efficient members of the CEVA-XC architecture, supporting a range of eme...

According to scientists from the University of Lancaster and spin out company Quantum Base, current authentication solutions, such as anti-counterfeit tags or password-protection, base their security on replication difficulty, or secrecy, which can be broken or forged. Looking to solve this problem, the team is using nanomaterials to create an unbr...

Huawei has unveiled a range of quick charging lithium-ion batteries that have achieved a charging speed 10 times faster than that of normal batteries, reaching around 50% capacity in minutes.Two demonstrations were shown at the 56th Battery Symposium in Japan showing two types of quick-charging li-ion batteries: one with a 600mAh capacity was s...

Jennova has introduced an Electrodynamic Energy Harvesting (EH) technology designed to simplify the capture and amplify the energy produced from the rotation or spin of devices and to power smart sensors and IoT applications.“Jennova has worked to create a technology that is virtually error-free and harvest the energy that is typically lo...