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Research & Development

Expert panel discusses the definition and practicalties of ... 28/05/2013

For more than a decade, design reuse and plug-and-play have underpinned the concept of semiconductor IP building blocks.

Review of EU policies could bring problems for UK companies ... 28/05/2013

A significant change in the requirements relating to medical equipment is on the horizon. This change will have a major impact on how medical ...

IP advice: The shape of things to come? 27/05/2013

Design engineers are responsible for creating innovative and revolutionary products. If they have any knowledge of intellectual property (IP), this ...

Lithium sulphur cells set to change the battery landscape 14/05/2013

Since the invention of the battery by Volta in the early days of the 19th Century, users have been looking for more performance. Volta's device was ...

Power verification is just as important as functional ... 14/05/2013

SoCs are getting smaller and faster, but smaller node geometries leak more current and higher speed circuitry consumes more power. Yet everyone wants ...

The kilogram is the last SI unit to be represented by a ... 23/04/2013

A Century ago, two of the basic units of measurement – length and mass – were calibrated against physical artefacts.

Atomic force microscopy set to answer fundamental questions ... 09/04/2013

The microscope is one of science's oldest tools for examining nature, going back at least to the late 16th Century, with Galileo being its most ...

Built in crypto functions help to combat the prevalence of ... 09/04/2013

The counterfeiting of electronic components continues to rise alarmingly. IHS iSuppli reported that, in the first eight months of 2012, more than 100 ...

Improvements still needed to make LEDs more efficient 26/03/2013

Two recent developments are set to make LEDs more efficient. One, from Osram, deals with the core technology in the chip, while the other, from ...

IP Advice: European patents - a very big change 26/03/2013

Readers may have noticed that Business Secretary Vince Cable signed a very significant agreement in Brussels last month.
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ASIC/SoC prototyping platforms increase productivity 12/03/2013

Time to market pressures and growing design complexity are steering SoC designers towards an IP based development methodology, using a mix of off the ...

Recast of RoHS directive has implications for design ... 26/02/2013

The Restriction of Hazardous Substances (or RoHS) Directive, which first came into effect in July 2006, restricts the use of six hazardous substances ...
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Building an IP-XACT design and verification environment ... 12/02/2013

With more IP components and growing time to market pressures, designers are looking for a way to build and update SoC designs easily.

IP advice: Are you ready for the Patent Box? 21/01/2013

New Electronics has partnered with leading intellectual property law firm D Young & Co LLP to offer guidance to companies on how to protect their IP. ...

LEDs have green fingers 08/01/2013

Research has long shown that plants respond better to particular wavelengths of light, specifically in the 400 to 500nm (blue) and 600 to 700nm (red) ...

SoCs with more powerful cores need a more powerful ... 08/01/2013

When mobile phones were used only to make voice calls and to send texts, the communications world was a much simpler place. But things have changed. ...

IP advice: Increasing your understanding 11/12/2012

New Electronics has partnered with leading intellectual property law firm D Young & Co LLP to offer guidance to companies on how to protect their IP. ...

Researchers show reliable chips can be created from an ... 11/12/2012

It has been a continuing trend over the last few decades that electronic devices at the leading edge are designed to be as complex as the ...

The importance of verifying the architecture of an SoC ... 11/12/2012

Despite the apparent trend towards using other platforms, asics remain a popular method of integrating functionality into a single device and ...

Exploiting your IP 13/11/2012

The investment in securing registered intellectual property (IP) rights is all well and good, but the reward comes from the exploitation of that ...

Shining a light on counterfeit electronics 13/11/2012

The incidence of counterfeit electronic components is increasing rapidly. IHS reported in May that incidents of counterfeited parts amounted to 1363 ...

Embedding computer vision systems 13/11/2012

How easy is it to design a camera that can read or that can decide whether a person's eye is open or shut? This is an important question for design ...

How vacuum tube technology is being deployed at the ... 23/10/2012

Nothingness might not sound very useful. In fact, the opposite is the case because nothingness – in the form of a vacuum – has played a major role in ...

Design exploration: changing the fpga design flow 23/10/2012

FPGAs have undergone significant architectural changes in the last few years. Beginning with hard blocks such as ram and dsp, fpgas now also include ...

Outlook 2013: The future beckons 23/10/2012

Back in 1965, Gordon Moore realised the number of components in integrated circuits had doubled every year since 1958. He saw no reason why that ...
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