A systems engineering framework developed by the EU funded ADVANCE programme is said to have the potential to 'revolutionise' the design, verification and validation of complex cyber physical systems. The ADVANCE toolset upgrades the existing Rodin platform by adding more powerful and innovative verification and simulation capabili...

Molex has made what it calls a strategic investment in NuCurrent, a US based developer of wireless power antenna technology. "NuCurrent's wireless power antenna capabilities dovetail with our business strategy of helping customers bring pioneering products to market," said Lily Yeung, director of business development for Mole...

A novel type of 'smart' textile that turns garments into active motion sensors has been developed by Cambridge Consultants. Acccording to the company, XelfleX features a fibre optic thread which acts as a sensor. "Our aim was to create wearables that people actually want to wear," said XelfleX inventor Martin Brock. "...

Korean based SK Telecom has launched Air Cube, a portable monitoring device that measures air quality and suggests appropriate actions at emergencies via a designated application on user's smartphone. Air Cube comes in two models: Air Cube C measures the level of fine dust particles and carbon dioxide; while Air Cube T measures fine du...

Two modified Raspberry Pi's will be sent into space with British astronaut Tim Peake next year, as part of a school coding competition organised by UK Space and the European Space Agency.The Astro Pi Competition invites primary and secondary school children to submit ideas and write code for space experiments that can be done using the two...

Looking to address a verification challenge that is compared to navigating through London's traffic on a bad day, Cadence Design Systems has launched the Perspec System Verifier platform The platform brings together an intuitive graphical specification of system level verification scenarios and a definition of the SoC topology and acti...

Researchers at Purdue University in the US have created what they believe is the first modern germanium circuit. The CMOS device is unusual in that it uses Ge as the semiconductor, instead of silicon. Germanium was originally the semiconductor of choice in the early days of the transistor – and Purdue was instrumental in its creation...

The IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM) – the leading forum for the presentation of advances in microelectronic, nanoelectronic and bioelectronic devices – will celebrate its 60th anniversary when it gets underway next week in San Francisco. "The IEDM conference has long been the place where the world's...

Intel has launched Intel IoT Platform, described as an end to end reference model designed to unify and simplify connectivity and security for the Internet of Things (IoT). The company also announced integrated hardware and software products based on the new platform. "With this platform we are continuing to expand our IoT product fam...

A partnership between the Holst Centre, imec and Evonik has resulted in a general purpose 8bit microprocessor. The device has been made using complementary thin film transistors (TFTs) processed at temperatures compatible with plastic foil substrates (250°C). The new 'hybrid' technology integrates two types of semiconductors &n...