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Video and audio quality: Higher, better, faster, stronger

Editorial Team Sep 26, 2016

It has been announced by Tektronix that it is releasing a high performance hardware platform for its Sentry video and audio quality monitoring solution. This new platform triples the capacity for performing PVQ measurements for H.264 and…

Materials

The challenges of PCB design and material warpage

Editorial Team Sep 26, 2016

Technical Account Manager, Ryan Curry, will co-present a paper with Don Adams, Manufacturing Engineering Manager at Bose Corporation, during SMTA International, it has been announced by Akrometrix. The presentation, “Understanding PCB…

A&D

Scientists turn to drones to save drowning people

Editorial Team Sep 26, 2016

Scientists at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), along with the Munich University of Applied Sciences and Wasserwacht (German Water Rescue Service) at Riem, have developed a new way to locate drowning people — faster — with support…

Communications

Snapchat releases sunglasses with integrated video camera

Editorial Team Sep 26, 2016

Not only did Snapchat change the name of its company to Snap over the weekend, but it also revealed its first technology hardware product — Spectacles, a new kind of camera that gets integrated into a pair of sunglasses. According to…

Communications

Interconnect solution for cloud network expansion

Editorial Team Sep 23, 2016

The Cloud Xpress 2, addressing the market demand for scalable 100GbE Data Center Interconnect (DCI) over multi-terabit optical links, has been introduced by Infinera. Infinera was first to market with a purpose-built compact DCI product…

Trends

Implementation tools certified for 7nm FinFET technology

Editorial Team Sep 23, 2016

TSMC has certified the complete suite of Synopsys' digital, signoff and custom implementation tools for TSMC's most advanced 7nm FinFET technology node, it has been announced by Synopsys. With multiple designs already under development by…

Communications

DesignWare IP delivers high reliability for automotive SoCs

Editorial Team Sep 23, 2016

DesignWare Foundation IP, including Logic Libraries and Embedded Memories, that meets stringent automotive AEC-Q100 Grade 1 temperature requirements on the TSMC 16nm FinFET Compact (16FFC) and 28nm High-Performance Compact+ (28HPC+)…

Automotive

The wheels on the bus go round and round, with a detection system

Editorial Team Sep 23, 2016

Volvo Buses is taking steps to reduce the 1.25 million annual road traffic deaths by unveiling a pedestrian and cyclist detection system. “Accidents involving buses and unprotected road-users seldom occur, but when they do the…

Featured

Tardis memory chips: They’re bigger on the inside…

Editorial Team Sep 23, 2016

A year ago, a fundamentally new way of managing memory on computer chips, one that would use circuit space much more efficiently as chips continue to comprise more and more cores, or processing units was unveiled by researchers from MIT’s…

Medical

System to screen childhood communication disorders

Editorial Team Sep 23, 2016

Early-childhood intervention can make a great difference for children with speech and language disorders, in their later academic and social success. But many such children — one study estimates 60% — go undiagnosed until kindergarten or…