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• Cambridge graphene start-up opens production facility

  04-10-2018 15:19 via electronicsweekly.com
  Paragraf, the Cambridge graphene start-up, has followed its seed investment of £2.9m, announced in May 2018, with the opening of a groundbreaking, new facility north of Cambridge, UK. The site represents a turning point for graphene-based technologies, enabling Paragraf to drive large-scale development of mass-market, graphene-based electronic devices. Paragraf’s proprietary production technique overcomes the quality, ...
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• Renesas expands e-AI applications

  04-10-2018 14:53 via electronicsweekly.com
  Renesas is expanding its range of embedded AI artificial intelligence (e-AI)  for incorporating AI into embedded systems by bringing intelligence to endpoints. Approximately 150 companies in more than 10 countries worldwide are already conducting trials based on this technology, and there are more than 30 actual e-AI use cases underway. Renesas has now developed a ...
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• Infineon helps with auto emissions

  04-10-2018 14:24 via electronicsweekly.com
  Infineon  is launching a new member of its FLEX multichannel low-side switches family that will help reduce fuel consumption and thus CO 2 emissions. The TLE9104SH is the first smart four-channel low-side switch for currents up to 5A DC in 12V systems. This allows controlling actuators such as high-precision port fuel injectors, high-energy valves or ...
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• Edinburgh Hyperloop diary: Driving diversity

  04-10-2018 13:23
  
  Nadezda Avanessova and Maisie Edwards-Mowforth of the Edinburgh University HYPED team highlight some of the stimuli of being part of a student project to develop Hyperloop technology.Engineering is sadly sometimes seen as a male discipline. Female engineers are outnumbered in the workplace and at university, and it is not uncommon for women to be extremely under-represented on several courses. At HYPED we really care about this imbalance and so we’ve worked hard to ensure that not onl
  
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• Microchip moves AVR development to MPLAB X

  04-10-2018 12:57 via electronicsweekly.com
  Microchip has introduced the next generation of its MPLAB X Integrated Development Environment (IDE) which supports designs based on its AVR microcontrollers.  This release, MPLAB X version 5.05, will allow designers who traditionally used PIC microcontrollers and developed with the MPLAB ecosystem to evaluate and incorporate AVR MCUs into their applications.  Microchip said that design ...
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• October 1954: The flying bedstead

  04-10-2018 12:54
  
  In a week that has seen the first F-35Bs land vertically on the Queen Elizabeth carrier, The Engineer remembers a slightly less advanced VTOL aircraft in the shape of Rolls-Royce’s flying bedstead. Also known as the vertical flight research rig or the Thrust Measurement Rig (TMR) – the zany contraption first appeared in these pages 64 years ago this week, having made its maiden, free flight on August 3rd 1954. The same issue featured a vignette on Lockheed’s XFV-1, a
  
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• First flat lens puts focus on light polarisation

  04-10-2018 11:29
  
  Columbia Engineering researchers have created the first flat lens to focus a large range of colours of any polarisation to the same focal point without the need for additional lenses.
  Top panels: Micrographs of sections of broadband meta-lenses composed of silicon nanopillars with various cross-sectional shapes patterned on a glass substrate. Bottom panel: two elements of a multi-element meta-lens imaging systemThe one micron thick ‘flat’ lens is claimed to offer performance comparab
  
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• Honda adds weight to GM and Cruise autonomous project

  04-10-2018 11:07
  
  Japanese automotive giant Honda is partnering with General Motors and its subsidiary Cruise Automation to develop a new autonomous vehicle.A Cruise Automation Chevrolet Bolt (Credit: Dllu via CC)GM purchased technology startup Cruise in 2016 and the San Francisco-based company now forms the core of GM’s autonomous endeavours. Honda, which has previously collaborated with GM on electric vehicles, will now join forces with the two US firms to develop a purpose-built autonomous vehicle for Cr
  
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• Beetle inspired 3D printed cement could lead to disaster proof buildings

  04-10-2018 10:14
  
  3D printed cement that mimics the shells of beetles by getting tougher under pressure could lead to the development of more resilient building structures, optimised to withstand natural disasters.The 3D printing technique, developed by a group at Purdue University in the US, takes its inspiration from nature to control how damage spreads between the printed layers of a material. “Nature has to deal with weaknesses to survive, so we are using the ‘built-in’ weaknesses of cement-
  
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• Siltectra to offer wafering services.

  04-10-2018 07:33 via electronicsweekly.com
  Siltectra of Dresden will begin offering “outsourced wafering” services to customers, starting in January 2019. The new business aims to provide affordable access to the company’s  COLD SPLIT wafering solution to semiconductor manufacturers and materials providers, and help speed the adoption of new substrate materials by the industry at large. The manufacturing initiative will be ...
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• Analog Bits demo-es picojoule-per-bit SERDES on TSMC 12nm.

  04-10-2018 07:20 via electronicsweekly.com
  Analog Bits has demo-ed its low picojoule-per-bit SERDES macro on TSMC’s 12nm process geometry. Implementations of this same multi-protocol SERDES architecture are available on a variety of TSMC process nodes and support speeds of up to 25Gb/s. The combination of high performance and low power make this suitable for short reach, chip-to-chip applications while support ...
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• C&K add to switch portfolio

  04-10-2018 07:07 via electronicsweekly.com
  C&K, the electromechanical switch specialist, has announced its SAM series multiway switch. This switch is defined by its direct motor management based on SPDT (single pole, double throw) contacts, and flexible mechanical characteristics including travel, shaft shape and dimensions. The switch is valuable for applications such as seat adjustment systems for automotive, off-road vehicles and ...
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• Brainchip licenses Greek cybersecurity technology

  04-10-2018 07:04 via electronicsweekly.com
  Brainchip, the Australian neural chip specialist, has licensed the cybersecurity technology of  the Democritus University of Thrace, Greece. The agreement consists of a license to their cybersecurity technology and their researcher’s support in porting the technology to Brainchip’s  Akida Development Environment. The cybersecurity technology includes data-to-spike convertors and is specifically designed for network intrusion and ...
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