Microchip says Kvaser’s CAN and CAN FD IP will be featured in a range of products targeted at automotive and industrial applications. The devices are expected to appear in the middle of 2016.As part of the collaboration, Kvaser says it has benefited from Microchip’s integration expertise and test capabilities and notes the two compa...

Building on earlier work, Fujitsu Laboratories has developed a technology which it says can turn biometric data, such as a map of the veins in the palm, into a cryptographic key. The approach, which uses randomised numbers to create a 2kbit feature code, is also said to avoid having to send biometric data across a network.According to the devel...

Researchers at the University of Delaware and the Chinese Academy of Sciences have used nanotechnology to boost the energy density of dielectric capacitors.One of the keys to the success of the new capacitor is said to be its interdigitated design, which decreases significantly the distance between opposing electrodes and therefore increases th...

imec and CMST, its associated lab at Ghent University, have developed thermoplastically deformable electronics technology that is said to enable the creation of low cost 2.5D free form rigid electronic objects. The technology is being tested by Philips for use in LED lamp carriers, a downlight luminaire and a omnidirectional lightsource.The app...

Researchers from Brown University and Harvard University have developed a way to control light from phosphorescent emitters at very high speeds. The technique provides an approach to modulation that could be useful in silicon-based nanoscale devices, including computer chips and other optoelectronic components."Our results demonstrate rela...

Researchers from the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) in Washington, DC have demonstrated that a combination of two technologies – one to create a thin film and the second to ‘cut’ designs from the film – could be a way to create custom electronic components.The approach combines the attributes of laser induced forward tr...

AMD has launched the R Series of SoCs, which it is targeting at embedded applications. According to the company, the x86 based device ‘pushes the boundaries’ for embedded silicon solutions.Colin Cureton, senior manager with AMD Embedded, said: “There are a lot of things happening which lend themselves to AMD’s technology...

Researchers at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) claim to have designed the first on chip metamaterial with a refractive index of zero. The team says this means the phase of light can travel infinitely quickly.The metamaterial consists of an array of silicon pillars embedded in a polymer matrix and clad in gold film....

Queen’s University Belfast will unveil its electric DeLorean, on the exact date that Marty McFly went Back to the Future in the iconic Belfast-built carThe DeLorean was famously modified as a time machine in the Back to the Future movies, the second of which saw Marty McFly travel to 21 October 2015 to prevent his future son being sent to...

Imagination Technologies has announced that it is working on a Creator board for the IoT market, to accompany its Creator Ci20 microcomputer. It is called Creator Ci40 and features an innovative MIPS-based chip.The chip at the heart of the Creator Ci40 development board has been manufactured by GLOBALFOUNDRIES on a 40nm low power process node....