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End-to-end security for connected cars

Editorial Team Jul 21, 2016

A public unveiling of full capabilities from Argus Cyber Security's multi-layered car protection portfolio comprised of multiple suites of products and services delivering comprehensive end-to-end security for connected cars has taken…

Smart Home

Luna Smart Home System includes ZigBee chip from Qorvo

Editorial Team Jul 21, 2016

The new Luna Smart Home System for energy management, from Levary, includes ZigBee chips from Qorvo’s Low Power Wireless business (formerly GreenPeak Technologies). Qorvo’s ZigBee Green Power chips enable secure, long range and highly…

A&D

Powerful and innovative- world’s smallest computer designed

Editorial Team Jul 21, 2016

French electronic design specialists, Adeneo has partnered with e2v, to develop an innovative, powerful and pocket-sized avionics computer weighing less than 300g. The computer achieves its ultra-compact size by combining e2v’s processing…

Displays

TVS diode arrays design to safeguard high-speed interfaces

Editorial Team Jul 21, 2016

Two series of TVS diode arrays (SPA diodes) have been designed, by Littelfuse, to safeguard many of the latest high-speed interfaces from damage due to ESD. The SP7538P series TVS diode arrays integrate eight channels of ultra-low…

Computers

High-voltage power converter enables ultra-low-consumption SMPS

Editorial Team Jul 21, 2016

A high-voltage power converter that allows designers to build an ultra-low-consumption, simple and cost-effective SMPS with a 5V output voltage has been introduced by STMicroelectronics. The converter is tailored to provide the auxiliary…

Communications

Global 5G deployment accelerated by Qorvo technology

Editorial Team Jul 21, 2016

Infrastructure solutions from Qorvo have supported more than twenty 5G field trials with global infrastructure providers. This is a key milestone in Qorvo’s strategy to support the evolving 5G ecosystem and help accelerate the deployment of…

3D Printing

3D portable printer prints teeth and cutlery

Editorial Team Jul 21, 2016

A team of engineering students from the University of Leicester have created a functional portable 3D printer which has enabled them to print various objects including a set of cutlery and a set of teeth. Fourth year Mechanical…

Featured

New computer graphics make glittery objects more realistic

Editorial Team Jul 21, 2016

A team of computer graphics experts from the University of California, San Diego has figured out a way to make shiny objects within films look a lot more realistic. For example, Iron Man's suit, Captain America's shield, even The Batmobile…

3D Printing

Now researchers can 3D-print lab instruments like Lego blocks

Editorial Team Jul 20, 2016

Now when universities, schools, and hospitals need a scientific tool, they'll be able to custom 3D print them in block form quickly and inexpensively. A team from the University of California, Riverside has created the Lego-like system…

A&D

DARPA wants to shrink PCBs down to the size of a single chip

Editorial Team Jul 20, 2016

Inside of your electronic devices you'll find a printed circuit board (PCB), a green gizmo filled with processors, memory chips, data and graphics components, among other, that are all interconnected with wire. The Defense Advanced…