Layering graphene creates sensors for energy-efficient IoT

 Researchers at the University of Manchester have developed graphene sensors embedded into RFIDs. The team, led by Dr Zhirun Hu, hopes that the breakthrough could expand the IoT with the sensors able to connect to any wireless network for battery-free, smart, wireless monitoring. Humidity sensors could be used in manufacturing processes where mositure levels are ...

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Charcroft tunes linecard for high-rel and COTS sectors

Charcroft Electronics has published a new linecard representing its specialisation in the design-in and sourcing of COTS, high-reliability and sector-approved components. Likely to be most relevant for avionics, high-end audio, defence, oil and gas, rail and space sectors, the line-card covers passives, electromechanical, opto-electronics, RF and microwave components, as well as magnetics, power supplies, sensors ...

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e-pill monitors hydrogen, CO2 and oxygen in real-time

Researchers at RMIT University in Melbourne have created a gas sensing pill that measures gut gasses after being swallowed. It uses a novel gas sensing technique, that has now been patented. According to ‘A human pilot trial of ingestible electronic capsules capable of sensing different gases in the gut‘, a paper in Nature Electronics, accuracy ...

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Conrad Business Supplies adds voice control module for Raspberry Pi

Described as a universal assistant for smart factories, Talking Pi from Joy-it is an open source, speech control intelligent module for systems and connected applications in smart factories and industrial control. The module, now available from Conrad Business Supplies, serves as an extension to Raspberry Pi, allows the control of lights, individual sockets or devices ...

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ST licenses Globalfoundries’ 22nm FD-SOI process

ST, which pioneered FD-SOI, has taken a licence for Globalfoundries’ 22nm FD-SOI process. “It’s now clear to everyone that there’s a roadmap for advanced FD-SOI and it will become a mainstream technology for all the non-CPU applications out there,” Alain Mutricy svp for product management at Globalfoundries told EW. Asked if he was convinced that ...

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Toshiba adds to BLE line-up

Toshiba will start sampling this month two new additions, the TC35680FSG and TC35681FSG, to its line-up of ICs compliant with the Bluetooth low energy Ver. 5.0 communications standard. The new ICs are compliant with the new high-speed features, 2M PHY and Coded PHY (500kbps and 125kbps) added to the Bluetooth Ver. 5.0 standard and support ...

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Spectre and Meltdown not a concern for mobile says Qualcomm

Qualcomm president Cristiano Amon (pictured) told a CES meeting yesterday that the mobile ecosystem is uniquely protected from the Spectre and Meltdown processor flaws. “There are a few things that are unique about the mobile ecosystem,” said Amon,  “users download from an app store. On top of that, the impact you had on Android and ...

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US securities firm investigates Kzranich.

Block & Leviton LLP, a Boston-based US securities litigation firm,  is investigating Intel  CEO Brian Krzanich’s sale of the vast majority of his Intel stock – over $39 million – on November 29, 2016. ‘Intel was aware of major security vulnerabilities uniquely affecting its processors for months prior to Mr. Krzanich’s October 30, 2017 adoption ...

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Hybrid dc-dc converter stirs switched capacitor into buck step-down

Analogue Devices has combined switched capacitor and inductive buck conversion in the same topology to reduce the size of step-down dc-dc converters. Called LTC7821, this is “industry first hybrid step-down synchronous controller that merges a switched capacitor circuit with a synchronous step-down controller, enabling up to a 50% reduction in DC/DC converter solution size compared ...

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Intel and Micron end flash partnership

Micron and Intel are to go their separate ways on 3D NAND. They will continue to co-develop 3D XPoint. “Micron’s partnership with Intel has been a long-standing collaboration, and we look forward to continuing to work with Intel on other projects as we each forge our own paths in future NAND development,” says Scott DeBoer, ...

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