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Search and rescue gets software defined radios |
11/03/2010
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| RAF pilots flying Sea King HAR 3 helicopters are to get new radios which will maintain the RAF's airborne Search and Rescue capability until the aircraft goes out of service. The MoD has procured more 40 R&S M3AR series radios from Rohde & Schwarz to equip the Sea King HAR 3 fleet and the training Flight Simulator. The radios will replace the ARC-115 VHF and ARC-116 UHF Air Traffic Control radios, which have been installed since the aircraft was built. |
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NI launches grant programme for SMEs |
11/03/2010
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| National Instruments UK & Ireland has announced a grant programme to support micro, small and medium sized enterprises in embedded development. |
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Tier Logic comes out of stealth, targets design and production needs |
10/03/2010
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| Prompted to emergy from 'stealth mode' by recent announcements by Tabula, Tier Logic has unveiled its 3d based technology for fpgas and asics.
Tier Logic separates user circuits and configuration circuits into stacked layers. By removing the configuration overhead from the silicon base layers, Tier Logic says it can produce smaller, denser, faster, lower power and more reliable fpgas. |
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MIT researchers pursue ultra low power chip for medical apps |
09/03/2010
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| Engineers from MIT's Microsystems Technology Laboratory (MTL) are working on tiny, low power chips that could diagnose heart problems, monitor patients with Parkinson's disease or predict seizures in epileptic patients, according to MIT News.
Such wearable or implantable devices could transform the way medicine is practiced and help cut the costs of expensive diagnostic tests. Dennis Buss, former vp of silicon technology development at Texas Instruments and a visiting scientist at MIT, said: "Microelectronics has the potential to reduce the cost of health care in the same way it reduced the costs of computing in the 1980s and communications in the 1990s." |
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Synopsys, IMEC collaborate on 3d stacking |
09/03/2010
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| Synopsys and Belgian nanoelectronics research centre IMEC has have entered into a collaboration under which they will use Synopsys' TCAD finite element method tools for characterising and optimising the reliability and electrical performance of through silicon vias (TSVs). According to the companies, their collaboration will accelerate the development of 3d stacked ic technologies. |
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Ingenious Britain report calls for ‘cultural change’ |
09/03/2010
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| Sir James Dyson's report 'Ingenious Britain', commissioned by the Conservative party last year to identify ways of making the UK the top high tech exporter in Europe, calls for 'cultural change' to develop higher esteem for science and engineering.
According to Sir James: "Now, more than at any time over the past 20 years, I sense there is a real opportunity to set a new vision for our economy. To do this, a new government must take immediate action to put science and engineering at the centre of its thinking – in business, industry, education and – crucially – in public culture." |
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Manufacturing industry demands action |
08/03/2010
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| Representatives from the UK's manufacturing industry made their concerns very clear at The Future of UK Manufacturing Summit, held last week at the Institute of Mechanical Engineers in London. The summit was organised by Findlay Media, in association with the ERA Foundation and the Institute of Mechanical Engineers. |
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MEMS devices created within cmos wafers |
08/03/2010
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| A MEMS fabrication process developed by Spanish company Baolab Microsystems allows nanoscale MEMS devices to be created within cmos wafers using standard processes. The approach is said to allow MEMS devices to be created more easily and more quickly than existing techniques. Baolab also claims the cost of MEMS devices can be cut by up to two thirds. |
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DRAM revenues rise to $8.5billion for Q4 2009 |
08/03/2010
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| The fourth quarter 2009 represented a strong period for dram suppliers, with the industry posting revenue of more than $8billion for the ?rst time since the ?rst quarter of 2007, according to market analyst iSuppli. |
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UK electronics manufacturing industry calls for a single voice |
05/03/2010
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| Key speakers from Government and the electronics industry joined forces yesterday at the first Future of UK Manufacturing Summit, organised by Findlay Media. Delegates unanimously agreed that there is a crucial need for a single voice to express key issues to Government. |
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MATLAB, Simulink ugprades bring better functionality |
05/03/2010
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| The MathWorks has unveiled Release 2010a of its MATLAB and Simulink product families. The release upgrades a number of features in the software packages, as well as adding streaming capabilities for signal processing and video processing in MATLAB and non linear solvers for standard and large scale optimisation. |
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News from Embedded World |
04/03/2010
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| Embedded World, which took place in Nuremberg from 2 to 4 March, saw a large number of product announcements, with attendance apparently up on last year's event.
Here are some of the microcontroller launches made at the Show. |
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Intel adds three Atom processors with seven year support |
04/03/2010
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| Intel unveiled three Intel Atom processors at Embedded World, all of which will be available with seven year lifecycle support. The processors – the single core N450 and D410, and the dual core D510 – feature enhanced graphics and memory controllers and are paired with the Intel 82801HM I/O controller. The cores on all three devices run at 1.65GHz, while graphics speed is 200MHz on the N450 and 400MHz on the other two parts. |
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Quantum computing comes closer |
04/03/2010
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| Researchers at the Ruhr University in Bochum and the Universities of Stuttgart and Austin have managed to place two nitrogen atoms a few nanometers apart within a diamond lattice; close enough that laser excitation can create quantum mechanical coupling. |
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Atmel adds fpu to 32bit mcu family |
04/03/2010
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| Atmel has developed a floating point unit for its 32bit AVR UC3 product family. This will enable designers to replace a two chip microcontroller and dsp solution with one microcontroller in automotive and industrial control applications. |
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USB controller upgraded |
02/03/2010
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| Future Technology Devices International has launched the Vinculum VNC2 dual USB 2.0 host/slave intelligent SoC controller. The device builds on the capabilities of the VNC1L by reducing the device cost, as well as allowing designers to develop their own application firmware and program the host controller. |
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Next generation embedded I/O standard announced |
02/03/2010
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| A next generation embedded I/O standard has been announced at Embedded World, which originator, Diamond Systems claims is 'the most significant embedded system expansion innovation since the birth of PC/104 in 1992'. |
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Thin film storage flash to feature in next generation mcus |
02/03/2010
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| Freescale will use a 90nm thin film storage flash memory technology in its next generation microcontrollers. The mcus will be targeted for applications ranging from consumer electronics and household appliances to medical devices and smart metering systems. |
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Three into one |
02/03/2010
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| Actel has launched SmartFusion, which it describes as the world's first intelligent mixed signal fpga. Built on a flash process, the device features Actel's fpga fabric, a complete microcontroller subsystem built around a hard ARM Cortex-M3 processor and a range of programmable analogue blocks. |
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Freescale SoC doubles rendering performance of previous processor |
01/03/2010
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| A processor designed to help lower costs for next generation eReaders has been launched by Freescale Semiconductor. According to Freescale it is the first SoC to integrate ARM Cortex A8 technology together with a hardware based display controller from E Ink. |
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