Attempt to restore sight by direct brain stimulation

French research lab Leti will participate in a US project to restore vision by stimulating the visual cortex, funded by a DARPA (US Defence advanced research projects agency) programme called ‘Neural engineering system design programme’ (NESD). Leti and Leti’s biomedical research centre Clinatec, will focus on a sub-set of the programme called CorticalSight, which is ...

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600V three-phase motor driver works from 3.3V logic

DGD2136 is a 600V integrated three-phase gate driver IC from Diodes, intended to drive six n‑channel mosfets or IGBTs in three half-bridges. While inputs that work down to 2.4V allow it to be controlled from 3.3V microcontrollers. Intended for brush-less DC and permanent magnet synchronous motor driving, found in household appliances, power tools, garden tools, ...

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Acquisition could take high-end body motion analysis to a physio near you

High-end human body motion-sensing technology could become widely available, following the purchase of Dutch motion tracking firm Xsens by California MEMS accelerometer maker mCube. Xsens technology is used by computer games companies, film makers and clinicians to accurately track the movement of limbs and other major body parts. For example, it is used to record ...

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Qualcomm launches 10nm server CPUs

Qualcomm has begun  commercial shipments of  10nm server processors. The Qualcomm Centriq 2400 processor family is anARM-based processor series designed  for cloud workloads running in data centres. “Today’s announcement is the culmination of more than four years of intense design, development and ecosystem enablement effort,” says Qualcomm’s Anand Chandrasekher. The Qualcomm Centriq 2400 processor family ...

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Auto is fastest growing IC market, says IC Insights

  Automotive electronic system sales will have a CAGR of 5.4% from 2016 through 2021, says IC Insights, making auto the fastest growing of the six major electronics systems markets.   Demand is rising for electronic systems in new cars with increasing attention focused on self-driving (autonomous) vehicles, vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) and vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) communications, as ...

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25 functions for 25c

TI has launched its cheapest, lowest powered MCUs for sensing applications. The MSP430 MCUs allow  developers to implement simple sensing solutions through a variety of integrated mixed-signal features in this family of MSP430 value line sensing MCUs, costing 25c In high volumes. Features and benefits of TI’s MSP430 value line sensing MCUs 25 common system-level functions ...

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Intersil launches rad-hard quad power supply sequencers

Intersil has  announced rad-hard  quad power supply sequencers designed to drive point-of load (POL) regulators that power high performance FPGAs and complex, multi-rail power systems. Up to four power supplies can be fully sequenced by a single device or multiple devices can be cascaded to sequence an unlimited number of power supplies. Intersil’s power supply ...

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ADI IMUs for drones

ADI has announced a series of five  inertial measurement units (IMUs) for drones. The ADIS16470, ADIS16475 and ADIS16477 IMUs have standard surface mount assembly. The ADIS16465 and ADIS16467 IMUs offer similar performance in a ruggedised enclosure option. The new IMUs bring the same benefits to Autonomous Machine applications in fields such as Smart Agriculture where ...

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