28/02/2018
In January 2018, the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) celebrated its 20th anniversary. Formed in 1998, the group was started with just a handful of companies who were looking to replace wire for mobile voice and data. Today, membership stands at more than 33,000 companies.
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14/02/2018
Since its launch by Real Time Engineers some 15 years ago, FreeRTOS has grown to be one of the most popular real time operating systems – if not the most popular. According to Richard Barry, the operating system’s developer and founder of Real Time Engineers (RTE), even today, FreeRTOS is downloaded every three minutes.
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14/02/2018
UKRI is to map the UK’s research and innovation infrastructure, looking to identify what will be needed for the UK to stay competitive in the next 10 to 15 years.
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23/01/2018
The demands of the IoT are pushing wireless MCU developers to create devices with more processing power, a range of connectivity options and ultra low power consumption.
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23/01/2018
Trojans aren’t restricted to the software domain; in some instances, hardware Trojans could even open backdoors in custom silicon.
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23/01/2018
At this year’s CES voice took centre stage as ‘big technology’ companies appear to view it as the next major evolution in computing.
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23/01/2018
The race is on to develop new battery chemistries and manufacturing processes – and the UK is looking to take the lead.
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11/01/2018
Chris Edwards explores how timing, EMI and even sound can provide attackers with information about the secrets held by a supposedly secure system.
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11/01/2018
Oxford University has a reputation not only as an internationally recognised seat of learning but increasingly as a hotbed of commercial innovation and small business creation.
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13/12/2017
The Internet of Things is developing from being a concept just a few years ago to something far more tangible. But the whole idea of the IoT is dependent upon collecting masses of data from billions of so called edge devices, analysing it and deciding on actions. That data needs to be collected by sensors of all description – and those sensors need to be low cost if the aims of those creating products for the IoT are to be realised.
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13/12/2017
Last month saw the publication of the Industrial Digitalisation Review which outlined a series of proposals to boost the UK’s economy through the deployment of advanced digital technologies including: robotics, 3D printing, augmented and virtual reality and artificial intelligence.
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12/12/2017
Whether in the smart home or in in-car entertainment the audio market is changing rapidly. The audio industry is enjoying a sustained period of rapid growth, particularly in key audio markets like the US and UK, and audio is becoming more important as developers look to create more immersive experiences in the fields of gaming and virtual reality.
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29/11/2017
A number of factors are driving the need for 5G deployment. The relentless growth in demand for data means that – even with additional bandwidth being added through carrier aggregation and higher order modulation – 4G networks will not be able to keep up with future demands.
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29/11/2017
Established in 2003 by Professor Bob Stone, Birmingham University’s Human Interface Technologies (HIT) Team, based within the university’s School of Electronic, Electrical and Systems Engineering (EESE) has been a pioneer in the development of interactive media and telerobotic technologies in the UK, building on Stone’s long experience in virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), mixed reality, simulation and telerobotics.
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28/11/2017
It is easy to see artificial intelligence (AI) as a naturally power-hungry technology; it demands racks of servers stuffed with a combination of multicore CPUs, GPUs and, increasingly, FPGAs that crunch through terabytes of data to form the connections between millions of virtual neurons.
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28/11/2017
The National Physical Laboratory (NPL) was established in 1900 with the aim of bringing ‘scientific knowledge to bear practically upon our everyday industrial and commercial life’ and, over the past 117 years, it has established itself as a world class centre of excellence in measurement science. Not only that it has maintained the nation’s primary standards of measurement while developing and contributing to a host of innovations and technologies, from radar to atomic clocks.
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15/11/2017
A report published earlier in 2017 by consumer body Which? reinforced the perception that companies designing products for the Internet of Things don’t take security seriously enough.
In what it called a ‘snapshot’ investigation, it set up a network featuring such smart gadgets as wireless cameras, smart padlocks and children’s toys, then hired a team of ethical security researchers to hack it. While some of the devices proved harder to hack than others, eight of the 15 appliances on the network had at least one security flaw.
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14/11/2017
Set up in 1956 Roke Manor Research has over the past 60 years established itself as a world-class electronics engineering consultancy.
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16/08/2017
IoT devices, which transmit and receive data and commands over the world’s universal network, are exposed to a far greater variety and number of threats than earlier products that supported machine-to-machine (M2M) communication, typically over a closed, private network.
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01/08/2017
The Internet of Things (IoT), Cloud-based solutions and Big Data represent major challenges for future system designs. The Microsoft Azure cloud is providing a framework to encapsulate these paradigms in manageable chunks allowing them to be mastered in a straight-forward way. MSC Technologies, producer of embedded hardware, has now certified its most popular COM products for the Azure Cloud, and is offering the software suite ‘Easy IoT’ which is a ready-to-run application for Azure.
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01/08/2017
The traditional development flow of an all programmable Zynq SoC segments the design between processor system and programmable logic. The Zynq is a complex heterogeneous system which combines advanced ARM dual core Cortex-A9 processing systems with programmable logic. This programmable logic provides not only the traditional Flip Flops and Look Up Tables but also block RAM and distributed RAM, DSP Slices, PCIe endpoints and multi-gigabit transceivers. Users need a development environment which enables them to exploit the capability provided by both the processor and the programmable logic.
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26/07/2017
The UK is once more seen as a leading space science nation, with companies focused on making satellite technology more affordable through smaller, lighter-weight satellites that lower the cost of commercial launches. The Government’s continuing commitment to the industry was highlighted in the recent Queen’s Speech to Parliament, which included a space industry Bill outlining its ambition to grow the UK’s share of the global space market from 6.5% to 10% by 2030.
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26/07/2017
Robotics and autonomous systems (RAS) are one of the Eight Great Technologies, identified in 2013 by the previous UK coalition government, in which the UK could become a global leader.
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25/07/2017
Users of battery powered consumer electronic devices usually have one thing in mind; how long will it last before the battery needs to be recharged. Depending on the device and how it’s used, that could be less than a day.
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25/07/2017
In June 2013, Sir Mark Walport and Professor Dame Nancy Rothwell, co chairs of the Council for Science and Technology, sent a letter to then Prime Minister David Cameron entitled ‘The Age of Algorithms’. The letter contained eight recommendations, the sixth of which was the establishment of a National Centre to promote advanced research and translational work in algorithms and the application of data science. “This could fittingly be named the ‘Alan Turing Centre’,” they noted.
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