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Efficient GPGPU programming with OpenCL 24/05/2012

Today's graphics processors are highly programmable, massively parallel compute engines. In this role, they are commonly called general purpose ...

Always connected, always safe: Technology provides a ... 22/05/2012

It's a somewhat chilling statistic; 1.2million people will die on the world's roads this year. By the time you have finished reading this sentence, ...
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Expert panel: Innovation, collaboration and competition are ... 22/05/2012

You might think that a roundtable at a meeting of the Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA) charged with discussing the future of the semiconductor ...

New WEEE reuse specification aims to reduce the number of ... 22/05/2012

In March 2011, a new publicly available standard was established to reduce the amount of waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) ending up ...

Intelligent debug tools becoming a commercial necessity 22/05/2012

When developers start a new microprocessor based project, they are faced with a critical choice – which debug solution should they use? This article ...

Countering complexity: How graphical techniques are being ... 22/05/2012

Mobile has embraced increasingly complex technologies to boost data rates towards 100Mbit/s. The emerging Long Term Evolution (LTE) cellular standard ...

Are we set to move beyond 3d tv into another viewing ... 22/05/2012

The next generation of television viewing seems set to escape the screen one way or another – either through 3d effects or by exploring the notion of ...

IP advice: What is the Patent Box? 22/05/2012

New Electronics has partnered with leading intellectual property law firm D Young & Co LLP to offer advice and information to help companies ...

E-waste: How industry associations are helping engineers ... 08/05/2012

Electronic waste is a huge global problem and one whose impact on our environment is not expected to lessen any time in the near future.
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Large scale fuel cells near commercial application 08/05/2012

"Fuel cells are the most promising new form of energy generation – and always will be!" That is the unkind jibe sometimes levelled at this ...
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Balanced approach matches analogue design requirements 08/05/2012

Despite its continuing – and, in many cases, increasing – importance in modern chips, analogue and mixed signal (AMS) design has proved difficult to ...

Extensions to FreeRTOS bring productivity gains to embedded ... 08/05/2012

Operating systems can be a major source of stress for embedded design engineers. Factors such as size, cost and support all contribute to make the ...

As analogue tv switches off, innovative applications are ... 08/05/2012

As the last elements of the UK's analogue television network are switched off, attention is turning to what industry might be able to do with the ...

Testing efficiently an increasing challenge for design ... 08/05/2012

When thinking about product testing, most people focus on the area of most interest to them. A software engineer might want to test firmware before a ...

All electric racing car utilises breakthrough technology 23/04/2012

The sheer amount of technology transferred from the motorsport sector is hard to beat. From advanced materials to sensor technology, innovations ...

Behavioural modelling helps develop systems which span the ... 23/04/2012

Despite the trend towards digital electronics, the world remains stubbornly analogue. No matter what you are designing, chances are that you'll need ...

Prototyping development platform allows IP to be tested in ... 23/04/2012

Infineon has recently announced a multicore architecture which will be the foundation for its next generation mcu families for automotive powertrain ...

Integrated device addresses HART communications 23/04/2012

The humble 4 to 20mA current loop has been a faithful servant of process control systems for decades, largely down to its reliability and simplicity.

Enclosure specifiers explore colour, shape and texture 23/04/2012

Henry Ford once said the Model T was available in any colour you wanted, so long as it was black. Until recently, a similar approach could have been ...

Affordable imaging technology could help to unlock the ... 10/04/2012

Medical imaging is one of the underrated miracles of modern medicine. Only a few decades ago, the field consisted of little more than X rays; today, ...

DO-178 specification gets upgrade to take account of model ... 10/04/2012

Software has developed a reputation for being inherently bug ridden and there's one place where the last thing you need is unpredictable software – ...

Can tweaking the analogue properties of digital circuits ... 10/04/2012

As semiconductor process technologies get ever smaller, the effects of stochastic variability become more pronounced. It's no surprise: because there ...

Hardware processing blocks give highest video performance ... 10/04/2012

When digital signal processors first appeared commercially in the early 1980s, they took the electronics world by storm, eventually enabling the ...

Creating frequency scalable nonlinear transmission line ... 10/04/2012

High frequency vector network analysers (VNAs) make use of harmonic samplers, or mixers, to down convert measurement signals to intermediate ...

Adapting to ever changing standards helps consultancy ... 10/04/2012

Just a stone's throw away from the River Mersey, specialist consultancy LDRA provides automated analysis and testing tools for software applications ...