The MEMS Design Contest has been launched by Cadence Design Systems, Coventor, X-FAB and Reutlingen University at DATE 2016. The contest aims to encourage greater ingenuity with regard to the integration of MEMS devices and mixed-signal CMOS blocks.Design teams are encouraged to propose design concepts that combine MEMS and mixed-signal technol...

IDTechEx Research has projected that the graphene market will grow to $220m in 2026. This forecast is at the material level and does not count the value of graphene-enabled products. According to the research, continual decline in average sales prices will accompany the revenue growth, meaning that volume sales will reach nearly 3800 tonnes per ann...

A Bluetooth Low Energy module from Cypress is said to extend range to 400m, eight times more than current solutions. Using the EZ-BLE PSoC XT/XR module, the company claims, will open the use of Bluetooth connectivity to a range of home automation, industrial and smart city applications.The EZ-BLE PSoC XT/XR CYBLE-224110-00 module is supplied in...

Entries to the British Engineering Excellence Awards – Findlay Media’s celebration of all that’s good about engineering in the UK – are now open.Since the British Engineering Excellence Awards – BEEAs – were launched in 2009, the winning entries have ranged in size from chip designs to pipe laying systems, wi...

Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have designed an antenna that can process incoming and outgoing signals more efficiently and without the need for the separate components commonly used. According to the team, its development could lead to faster, cheaper and clearer telecommunications.Their breakthrough is the design of an anten...

Scientists at the University of California, San Diego, have looked to the body's immune system for inspiration on how to fix ever more intricate electronic devices. The team, led by Professor Joseph Wang, have built self-propelled nanomotors that can seek out and repair tiny scratches to electronic systems. The researchers say the nanomotors co...

Engineers at the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley), claim to have shown for the first time that magnetic chips can operate with the lowest fundamental level of energy dissipation possible under the laws of thermodynamics. This means that dramatic reductions in power consumption are possible - as much as one-millionth the amount of en...

Chinese foundry SMIC has signed a strategic partnership with resistive RAM developer Crossbar that will focus on the development and production of RRAM technology.Under the deal, the partners will provide customers with RRAM blocks based on SMIC’s 40nm CMOS process, a move that will enable the technology to be integrated into into MCUs an...

The MAOP-L284CN from MACOM is a silicon photonic integrated circuit featuring four high bandwidth Mach-Zehnder modulators integrated with four lasers operating at 1270, 1290, 1310 and 1330nm. The device also features a CWDM multiplexer and each channel is said to operate at data rates of up to 28Gbit/s.Called an L-PIC – laser photonic int...

Harvard researchers have designed a foldable material that they say can change size, volume and shape while being versatile, tunable and self actuated. The material is said to be able to fold flat to withstand the weight of an elephant without breaking, and pop right back up to prepare for the next task.The structure is inspired by an origami t...