RS Components and element14 have unveiled the Raspberry Pi 3 Model B. The latest version of the credit card sized computer features an SoC based on a 64bit ARM Cortex A53 quad core processor, as well as integrated Bluetooth and wireless LAN connectivity IoT development projects.Eben Upton, CEO of Raspberry Pi Trading, said: “Four years ag...

Said to be the most compact lab oscilloscope available for multidomain applications, the RTO2000 from Rohde & Schwarz allows complex measurements to be made quickly.According to the company, the device allows developers to analyse how functional units in advanced embedded designs – such as power supplies, the processor system and the...

Researchers at MIT have demonstrated what they claim are the thinnest, lightest solar cells ever produced. This proof-of-concept shows an approach to making solar cells that could help power the next generation of portable electronic devices.According to the researchers, the key to their approach is to make the solar cell, the substrate that su...

The desire to gather more information about manufacturing equipment embodied in Industry 4.0 is pushing sensor manufacturers to make smaller, but more capable devices which generate less heat.Looking to help them meet these challenges, Maxim Integrated has launched the MAX14827, a dual channel 250mA IO-Link transceiver which is said to integrat...

Building on its expertise in developing RF transceivers for medical applications, Microsemi has unveiled a low power sub GHz transceiver for industrial systems. According to the company, the ZL70550 brings ‘best in class’ low power characteristics, a high level of integration and an extremely small footprint.Francois Pelletier, prod...

A collaboration organised by the Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) and involving Bosch Rexroth, Cisco, Intel, KUKA, National Instruments, Schneider Electric and TTTech is developing the first Time Sensitive Networking (TSN) testbed.“Testbeds are a major focus and activity of the IIC and its members,” said IIC executive director D...

A research group from Cornell University in the US believes its work with quantum dot solids might help to usher in a new era in electronics.The team, led by associate professor Tobias Hanrath, has fused together lead-selenium nanocrystal building blocks to form atomically coherent square superlattices.The difference between these and previou...

Scientists at the University of Southampton have made a major step forward in the development of digital data storage that is capable of surviving for billions of years.Using nanostructured glass, scientists from the University’s Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC) have developed the recording and retrieval processes of five dimensional...

A team of computer scientists and electrical engineers from the University of Washington claims to have generated Wi-Fi transmissions using 10,000 times less power than conventional methods. The Passive Wi-Fi system is also said to consume 1000 times less power than existing energy-efficient wireless communication platforms, such as Bluetooth Low E...

Power Integrations and Cypress Semiconductor have announced a joint reference design describing a 20W, USB-PD compliant AC/DC power converter targeted at chargers for smart mobile devices. The design, titled DER-533, pairs the EZ-PD CCG2 USB Type-C port controller from Cypress with Power Integrations’ InnoSwitch-CP off-line CV/CC flyback swit...