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• Wood-derived substrate for microwave transistors

  01-07-2015 16:26 via electronicsweekly.com
  
  Fast flexible thin-film silicon electronics can be assembled on a wood-based substrate, claim researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The transparent flexible biodegradable substrate is cellulose nanofibrillated fibre (CNF). The team has to go to quite an effort to make its chip biodegradable: double gate transistors are formed in the top 270nm layer of a Soitech...
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• FPGA flash storage good for the cloud, says Altera

  01-07-2015 15:37 via electronicsweekly.com
  
  Altera says you can double the life of NAND flash by implementing an FPGA-based solid-state disk (SSD) controller running NAND optimisation software. It has developed a storage reference design based on its Arria 10 SoC, which integrates a SSD controller from Mobiveil and NAND optimisation software from NVMdurance. “An FPGA-based storage system provides hardware offload functions...
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• Giant magnetoresistance could improve hard drives

  01-07-2015 13:08 via electronicsweekly.com
  
  German scientists have discovered giant magnetoresistance – the effect used in hard drive read heads – in niobium phosphide. They also identified graphene-like carriers in the 3D material. “Until now, the computer industry has used various materials stacked on top of each other in a filigree structure to achieve this effect. Now, Max Planck scientists...
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• Giant magnetoresistive material could improve hard drives

  01-07-2015 13:06 via electronicsweekly.com
  
  German scientists have discovered giant magnetoresistance – the effect used in hard drive read heads – in niobium phosphide. They also identified graphene-like carriers in the 3D material. “Until now, the computer industry has used various materials stacked on top of each other in a filigree structure to achieve this effect. Now, Max Planck scientists...
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• 5G mobile networks will adapt to needs of society

  01-07-2015 12:15 via electronicsweekly.com
  
  Technology behind next generation 5G mobile networks will start to take shape over the coming months with a group of companies including Alcatel-Lucent, Nokia Networks, Deutsche Telekom and Orange will work to define the mobile network architecture. The work which beings this month is part of the 5GPPP standards process. It will define the network architecture incorporating the radio access...
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• 5G mobile network will adapt to needs of society

  01-07-2015 12:15 via electronicsweekly.com
  
  Technology behind next generation 5G mobile communications will start to take shape over the coming months with a group of companies including Alcatel-Lucent, Nokia Networks, Deutsche Telekom and Orange will work to define the mobile network architecture. The work which beings this month is part of the 5GPPP standards process. It will define the network architecture incorporating the radio access...
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• Nanogenerator harvests power from rolling tyres

  01-07-2015 12:14
  An innovative nanogenerator developed by engineers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the US uses a car’s rolling tyre friction to generate electricity.
  
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• Renesas adds more DSP to low power IoT MCUs

  01-07-2015 11:30 via electronicsweekly.com
  
  Renesas Electronics has introduced a low power microcontroller with DSP extensions and a floating point unit (FPU) in its RX series. The RX231 32-bit microcontrollers are based on a new version of the RX CPU core with a performance benchmark score of 4.16 CoreMark/MHz, which is a 35% increase on the previous generation RX200 series....
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• Comment: 3D-printing revolution impacts on supply chains

  01-07-2015 11:10 via electronicsweekly.com
  
  Michael Minall, of Vendigital, sees the adoption of 3D-printing technology gaining momentum in the aerospace and defence sectors. Easyjet’s announcement of its intention to use 3D printing to produce replacement cabin parts is further evidence that a technological revolution in the sector is gaining momentum. And it is already having a significant impact on supply chain and...
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• Imagination to teach mobile graphics

  01-07-2015 08:44 via electronicsweekly.com
  
  Imagination Technologies’ University Programme now offers a complete teaching course on mobile graphics – “An Introduction to Mobile Graphics”. In universities, graphics technologies are generally taught as part of game development or computer science curriculum, and are based on standard console or PC graphics. Since consumers increasingly interact with graphics on their mobile devices via...
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• Nordic integrates Bluetooth Smart and NFC Touch-to-Pair

  01-07-2015 08:07 via electronicsweekly.com
  
  Nordic Semiconductor has put Bluetooth Smart and NFC for Touch-to-Pair on its  nRF52832 SoC which has a 64MHz ARM Cortex-M4F processor, a 2.4GHz multi-protocol radio, and automatic power optimization. Achieving a 215 CoreMark the nRF52832 delivers up to 60% more generic processing power than competing solutions and thanks to its ARM Cortex-M4F up to an...
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