Xilinx has started shipping its Zynq UltraScale+ RFSoC family to lead customers. According to the company, the parts represent a breakthrough architecture in which the RF signal chain has been integrated into an SoC with applications such as 5G wireless and radar.Based on 16nm UltraScale+ MPSoC architecture, the RFSoCs integrate RF data convert...

A photonic integrated chip developed by researchers from the Institute of Telecommunications and Multimedia Applications (iTEAM) at the Universitat Politècnica de València and the Optoelectronics Research Centre at the University of Southampton is said to behave similarly to a microprocessor. According to the team, just like the hardw...

Belgian nanotechnology research centre imec has developed a pressure sensor based on micro-optomechanical systems (MOMS) technology. The device is said to exhibit excellent measurement precision over a large pressure range while being compact, resistant to EMI. Applications are expected to include high-quality sensing, particularly in the medical a...

Design house, Plextek RFI, has announced that it has developed a multi-chip module (MCM) to cover the recently-designated European ‘Pioneer Band’ for millimetre-wave (mmWave) 5G around 26GHz.The development of the Front-End Module (FEM) was carried out in collaboration with Filtronic Broadband.“The band 24.25 to 27.5GHz wa...

Some 66% of thermal engineers must wait at least a day for their thermal simulations to solve. That’s according to the new State of Thermal report from 6SigmaET, which asked 170 thermal engineers in the electronics industry – including users of nine of the top thermal simulation suites - to share their views on thermal simulation.Th...

Delphi Automotive has signed an agreement to use the BlackBerry operating system in its Centralised Sensing Localisation and Planning (CSLP) concept. The turnkey automated driving solution, planned to launch in 2019, is said to provide car manufacturers with Automated Mobility on Demand functionality.The BlackBerry QNX OS for Safety will be use...

Engineers and scientists from UCLA Henry and non profit R&D organisation SRI International have created a thin flexible device whiuch they believe could keep smartphones and laptop computers from overheating. The team also envisages applications in wearable electronics, robotic systems and new types of personalised cooling systems.The solid...

Recognising that security touches all the markets its addresses, Synopsys’ ARC division has launched a preverified hardware and software IP package intended to secure high value embedded applications.Called the DesignWare ARC secure IP subsystem, the solution features either the SEM110 or 120D security processor, both featuring SecureShie...

Xilinx, Arm, Cadence Design Systems and TSMC are collaborating to build the first Cache Coherent Interconnect for Accelerators (CCIX) test chip with TSMC 7nm FinFET process technology for delivery in 2018.The test chip will be implemented on TSMC’s 7nm process and be based on the latest Arm DynamIQ technology, CMN-600 coherent on-chip bus...

The US Army Research Laboratory (ARL), working with the University of Maryland, has developed a lithium-ion battery that uses a water-salt solution as its electrolyte and says it could be commercialised within five years.According to the team, its battery provides 4V without the risks associated with non-aqueous lithium-ion batteries. Dr Kang X...