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• Government chooses automotive funding winners for CAV testing

  24-10-2017 16:17 via electronicsweekly.com
  Competition winners to receive funding to upgrade testing infrastructure for connected and autonomous vehicle (CAV) technology.
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• Andes core fabbed in FD-SOI

  24-10-2017 16:05 via electronicsweekly.com
  Andes Technology has implemented 32bit CPU IP cores in 22FDX, the 22nm FDSOI process from Globalfoundries.   “Our newest products, N25 32bit and NX25 64bit RISC-V based cores coupled with a mature toolchain, will provide even more value to customers in these advanced nodes by providing both high speed and power efficiency,” says Andes CTO ...
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• Scans reveal secrets of the world’s oldest navigation tool

  24-10-2017 16:04
  
  Scanning technology at WMG has been used to reveal details on the surface of an astrolabe, a navigation tool found in the wreck of a Portuguese explorer ship that sank in 1503.
  Scan of the astrolabe artefact, revealing the etches (Credit: University of Warwick)The late fifteenth century astrolabe, which is believed to be the earliest known marine navigation tool, was used by mariners to measure the altitude of the sun during voyages.
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• 800A resistor gets tapped holes for mounting and connections

  24-10-2017 15:40 via electronicsweekly.com
  Vishay has added tapped holes to some of its high-current shunt resistors to aid PCB and wire mounting. WSBS8518…M3 and WSBS8518…M4 are 36W battery shunt resistors featuring M3 and M4 tapped holes (close to the centre in the photo), respectively. The resistors are 85 x 18 x 3mm With resistance values down to 50µΩ, Vishay ...
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• Ink jet printed photonic structures

  24-10-2017 15:30 via electronicsweekly.com
  Advances in ink jet printing have allowed photonically active structures to be printed, according to researchers at the University of Cambridge and the Hitachi Cambridge Laboratory. “Most inkjet printers push the ink through the nozzle by heating or applying pressure, producing ink droplets about the size of the diameter of a human hair,” said Dr Vincenzo ...
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• Inaccurate and negative perceptions are putting girls off a career in engineering

  24-10-2017 13:55
  
  Girls have a misunderstanding of what it is to be a female engineer, writes Brompton engineer Ele Sherwen.
  I’m a Mechanical Design Engineer for Brompton Bicycle Limited, making folding bicycles for commuters. This job is also a passion: I’m a keen cyclist like many of the designers here.
  My journey into bicycle engineering was undramatic and pleasant, largely unaffected by being in a female minority. I’ve benefited hugely from the gender barriers women before me have knocked do
  
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• VoW and VoM next year, says Qualcomm.

  24-10-2017 13:52 via electronicsweekly.com
  Qualcomm says it will launch video-over-wireless (VoW)  products utilising video over mesh networks (VoM)  next year. “Qualcomm  a mesh Wi-Fi solution that provides the flexibility for carriers to deploy advanced video services through traditional wireless gateways and set-top-boxes or through mesh architectures, so that consumers can enjoy a resilient network that supports their growing entertainment ...
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• Plextek joins global community for mission-critical comms

  24-10-2017 13:39 via electronicsweekly.com
  Plextek, the Cambridgeshire-based RF design firm, is joining global mission-critical communications organisation, TCCA. TCCA addresses the ongoing development of the TETRA open standard as well as promoting the development of mission-critical broadband communications. For its part, Plextek is involved in the development of systems for both Long-Term Evolution (LTE) and digital Professional Mobile Radio (PMR) ...
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• Soft sensor material could make clothes smarter

  24-10-2017 13:11
  
  Wiring-free sensor material can add electronic functionality to objects and be used in medical devices
  Researchers from Purdue University in Lafeyette, Indiana are to unveil a new material for flexible sensors, along with a method for processing the signals they produce, at an upcoming conference in Canada.
  The material has applications in sport, smart clothing, medical sensing and prosthetics, they claim, and can sense in real time, without any delays, and with no need for wiring.
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• Belfast researcher’s work on hurricane comms in Newton Prize final

  24-10-2017 13:01 via electronicsweekly.com
  A researcher at Queen’s University Belfast has been shortlisted for the 2017 Newton Prize for his work designing a wireless communications system for use when natural disasters, such as an earthquake, tsunami or hurricane, strike. Dr Trung Duong, who is originally from Vietnam and based at the Institute of Electronics, Communications and Information Technology at ...
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• Carbon nanotube-based fibres could rival copper in antennas

  24-10-2017 12:48
  
  Carbon nanotube-based fibres that are configured as wireless antennas can be as good as copper antennas but 20 times lighter, claim researchers at Rice University.Amram Bengio sets up a nanotube fibre antenna for testingThe discovery, which appears in Applied Physics Letters, is said to offer more potential applications for the strong, lightweight nanotube fibres developed by the Rice lab of chemist and chemical engineer Matteo Pasquali.
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• Back-end process adds LEDs and photo-diodes to silicon for on-chip comms

  24-10-2017 12:45 via electronicsweekly.com
  Photonics can be added to silicon CMOS, creating infra-red LEDs and photo-diodes using layers of molybdenum telluride, according to MIT. As a back-end process over CMOS, the team fabricated a p-n junction with an infra-red bandgap from a bi-layer of the two-dimensional dichalcogenide MoTe2. “Researchers have been trying to find materials that are compatible with silicon, ...
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• UK team 3D prints flexible wearable “battery”

  24-10-2017 12:22
  
  Researchers at Brunel University have used 3D printing to produce a flexible supercapacitor wristband that they claim could pave the way for a new generation of “battery-powered” wearables.In a paper published in the journal Materials Science and Engineering, the group, from Brunel’s cleaner electronics research group, claims that its method – which uses a basic open source printer – represents the first time that flexible supercapacitors have been produced through
  
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• This week’s poll: replicating the Bloodhound education effect

  24-10-2017 12:14
  
  What would be the best type of project to enthuse young people about STEM; including the ones that the Bloodhound SSC project couldn’t reach?
  Take Our PollFrom left: Colin Smith, Mark Chapman, Richard Noble with children taking part in the Bloodhound educational programme.One of the goals of the Bloodhound SSC Land Speed Record attempt is to enthuse younger people about the Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) fields; project director Richard Noble talks about recreating the g
  
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• Temperature-regulated nanoparticles could fight cancer

  24-10-2017 11:59
  
  Scientists from the University of Surrey have developed self-regulating nanoparticles that get hot enough to kill cancer cells but leave healthy cells intact.Hyperthermic therapy uses heat to attack cancer, but is difficult to administer without damaging non-cancerous tissue. To target tumours in isolation, temperatures need to be controlled between 42°C and 45°C. The researchers, from Surrey’s Advanced Technology Institute, have created Zn-Co-Cr ferrite nanoparticles that are capa
  
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• Renesas and ASTC develop ADAS SoC

  24-10-2017 11:45 via electronicsweekly.com
  Renesas and Australian Semiconductor Technology Company (ASTC) are jointly  developing The VLAB/IMP-TASimulator virtual platform (VP) for Renesas’ R-Car V3M, an automotive system-on-chip (SoC) for advanced driving assistance systems (ADAS) and in-vehicle infotainment systems. The VP simulates image recognition and cognitive intellectual properties (IPs) in the R-Car V3M SoC and realizes embedded software development using a ...
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• Brainchip ships first accelerator card

  24-10-2017 11:37 via electronicsweekly.com
  BrainChip, the neural net specialist, has shipped its first BrainChip Accelerator card to a major European automobile manufacturer. It is the first commercial implementation of a hardware-accelerated spiking neural network (SNN) system. The BrainChip Accelerator is an example of neuromorphic computing, a branch of artificial intelligence that simulates neuron functions. BrainChip Accelerator will be evaluated ...
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• Last week’s poll: Protecting UK strategic industries

  24-10-2017 11:30
  
  Do new protections against foreign takeovers of strategic businesses go far enough?
  Last week’s poll was predicated by government proposals to prevent manufacturers in strategic industrial sectors from being bought by foreign interests.
  The proposals apply to manufacturers in two sectors: the ‘dual use’ and military sector, whose products are already subject to export controls; and companies involved in the design of computer chips and quantum technology.
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• Qualcomm had 42% smartphone AP market share in H1

  24-10-2017 11:25 via electronicsweekly.com
  Qualcomm had 42% of the smartphone AP market in H1,  followed by Apple and Mediatek with 18% each, says Strategy Analytics. The market declined 5% y-oy to reach $9.4 billion in the first half of 2017. “After a successful 2016, Qualcomm continued its momentum and gained market share with the help of a strengthened portfolio ...
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• Imec develops curved photodetector

  24-10-2017 11:06 via electronicsweekly.com
  Imec and Holst Centre produce a prototype of a curved photodetector on a plastic substrate.
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• Imec develops curved photo-detector

  24-10-2017 11:06 via electronicsweekly.com
  Imec and Holst Centre have produced a prototype of a curved photodetector on a plastic substrate. The breakthrough paves the way for smaller optical and 3D imaging X-ray systems with better, more uniform image quality. A prototype curved X-ray detector has been integrated into a medical cone-beam CT (CBCT) demonstrator. Curved surfaces are the most natural ...
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• LTE and 5G to push GaAs RF to $9.5bn market in 2021

  24-10-2017 07:55 via electronicsweekly.com
  RF GaAs devices passed $7.5 billion sales last year for the first time, says Strategy Analytics. Last year saw the RF GaAS market grow less than  1% with a drop in cellular revenues offsetting gains in other market areas. SA forecasts that gigabit LTE and emerging 5G applications will drive GaAs device revenue past $9 ...
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• TI launches LLC resonant controller with integrated HV gate driver

  24-10-2017 07:35 via electronicsweekly.com
  TI has launched an inductor-inductor-capacitor (LLC) resonant controller with an integrated high-voltage gate driver that enables, claims TI, the industry’s lowest standby power, as well as longer system lifetimes. The UCC256301 provides a cost-effective system solution that helps meet stringent energy-efficiency standards for a wide range of AC/DC applications, including digital televisions, gaming adapters, desktop ...
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• Sony to sample 7.42MP stacked CMOS image sensor

  24-10-2017 06:14 via electronicsweekly.com
  Sony says it will sample, next month, a stacked CMOS sensor with an ‘effective’ 7.42 Mega-Pixels. Sony sees it as an image sensor for cameras enabling ADAS and says it can capture a high-definition image of road signs approximately 160 metres ahead. The sensor is equipped with a pixel binning mode for raising the sensitivity ...
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• Toshiba EV battery gives 200 miles after six minute charge

  24-10-2017 05:46 via electronicsweekly.com
  Toshiba says that by replacing the lithium-titanium oxide anodes used in its lithium-ion EV batteries, with titanium-niobium oxide (TNO) anodes it can charge a battery in six minutes. This would give an EV 200 miles of range on a six minute charge, says Toshiba. Currently the Chevy Bolt gets 90 miles after a 30 minute ...
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