Belfast researcher’s work on hurricane comms in Newton Prize final

A researcher at Queen’s University Belfast has been shortlisted for the 2017 Newton Prize for his work designing a wireless communications system for use when natural disasters, such as an earthquake, tsunami or hurricane, strike. Dr Trung Duong, who is originally from Vietnam and based at the Institute of Electronics, Communications and Information Technology at ...

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Back-end process adds LEDs and photo-diodes to silicon for on-chip comms

Photonics can be added to silicon CMOS, creating infra-red LEDs and photo-diodes using layers of molybdenum telluride, according to MIT. As a back-end process over CMOS, the team fabricated a p-n junction with an infra-red bandgap from a bi-layer of the two-dimensional dichalcogenide MoTe2. “Researchers have been trying to find materials that are compatible with silicon, ...

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Renesas and ASTC develop ADAS SoC

Renesas and Australian Semiconductor Technology Company (ASTC) are jointly  developing The VLAB/IMP-TASimulator virtual platform (VP) for Renesas’ R-Car V3M, an automotive system-on-chip (SoC) for advanced driving assistance systems (ADAS) and in-vehicle infotainment systems. The VP simulates image recognition and cognitive intellectual properties (IPs) in the R-Car V3M SoC and realizes embedded software development using a ...

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Brainchip ships first accelerator card

BrainChip, the neural net specialist, has shipped its first BrainChip Accelerator card to a major European automobile manufacturer. It is the first commercial implementation of a hardware-accelerated spiking neural network (SNN) system. The BrainChip Accelerator is an example of neuromorphic computing, a branch of artificial intelligence that simulates neuron functions. BrainChip Accelerator will be evaluated ...

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Qualcomm had 42% smartphone AP market share in H1

Qualcomm had 42% of the smartphone AP market in H1,  followed by Apple and Mediatek with 18% each, says Strategy Analytics. The market declined 5% y-oy to reach $9.4 billion in the first half of 2017. “After a successful 2016, Qualcomm continued its momentum and gained market share with the help of a strengthened portfolio ...

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Imec develops curved photo-detector

Imec and Holst Centre have produced a prototype of a curved photodetector on a plastic substrate. The breakthrough paves the way for smaller optical and 3D imaging X-ray systems with better, more uniform image quality. A prototype curved X-ray detector has been integrated into a medical cone-beam CT (CBCT) demonstrator. Curved surfaces are the most natural ...

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LTE and 5G to push GaAs RF to $9.5bn market in 2021

RF GaAs devices passed $7.5 billion sales last year for the first time, says Strategy Analytics. Last year saw the RF GaAS market grow less than  1% with a drop in cellular revenues offsetting gains in other market areas. SA forecasts that gigabit LTE and emerging 5G applications will drive GaAs device revenue past $9 ...

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TI launches LLC resonant controller with integrated HV gate driver

TI has launched an inductor-inductor-capacitor (LLC) resonant controller with an integrated high-voltage gate driver that enables, claims TI, the industry’s lowest standby power, as well as longer system lifetimes. The UCC256301 provides a cost-effective system solution that helps meet stringent energy-efficiency standards for a wide range of AC/DC applications, including digital televisions, gaming adapters, desktop ...

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Sony to sample 7.42MP stacked CMOS image sensor

Sony says it will sample, next month, a stacked CMOS sensor with an ‘effective’ 7.42 Mega-Pixels. Sony sees it as an image sensor for cameras enabling ADAS and says it can capture a high-definition image of road signs approximately 160 metres ahead. The sensor is equipped with a pixel binning mode for raising the sensitivity ...

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Toshiba EV battery gives 200 miles after six minute charge

Toshiba says that by replacing the lithium-titanium oxide anodes used in its lithium-ion EV batteries, with titanium-niobium oxide (TNO) anodes it can charge a battery in six minutes. This would give an EV 200 miles of range on a six minute charge, says Toshiba. Currently the Chevy Bolt gets 90 miles after a 30 minute ...

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