Thin flexible bio-sensors are 3d-printed

Georgia Tech has developed a way to 3d print highly flexible bio-compatible battery-free wireless stretch sensors. A potential application is pressure sensing inside brain blood vessels damaged by aneurysms – floppy side bulges that can burst. ‘Aerosol jet’ 3D printing is the chose fabrication technique – in which a fine mist of droplets are blown ...

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Raspberry Pi implanted in a human body

Brian McEvoy at Hackaday tells this gruseome tale of implanting a Raspberry Pi in a leg – two legs actually. ”Earlier this month,” writes McEvoy, “ a group of biohackers installed two Rasberry Pis in their legs. While that sounds like the bleeding edge, those computers were already v2 of a project called PegLeg. I ...

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sureCore launches low power design service

sureCore, the Sheffield low power SRAM IP specialist,  has opened a new Low Power Design Service that offers its concept-to-tape-out low power mixed-signal design expertise to ASIC developers. sureCore’s Design Service targets the pervasive system-centric low-power design challenge through a comprehensive suite of low-power mixed signal services, including design and layout capabilities, technology porting, as ...

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Revenues shrink for IC design houses

Q2 revenues of the top five IC design companies all shrank y-o-y, is says TrendForce. This was due to the US-China trade war, mounting inventory levels along the supply chain and less-than-satisfactory global demand for consumer electronics, including smartphones, tablets, notebooks, LCDs, TVs, servers etc. NVIDIA registered the largest decline among the five: 20.1%. This is ...

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Toshiba claims fastest PCIe gen4 SSD

Toshiba claims to have the fastest-class PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSDs for enterprise applications with a sequential read performance of over 6.4GB/s. The CM6 Series SSDs support dual-port PCIe Gen4 x4 lanes and are NVMe 1.4 compliant. The family of enterprise NVMe SSDs will be available in a 2.5-inch form factor with capacity points from 800GB to ...

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Harwin invests in local skills with expansion to Portsmouth site

Harwin has formally opened its Apprentice Training Hub, along with an R&D Centre. Located at the company’s Portsmouth headquarters, construction and kitting out of the unit that will house both these operations has been completed and they are now ready to be staffed. “We started an academy program with a local college as part of ...

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Two more USB Type-C Power Delivery chips

Microchip has added two integrated circuits for implementing USB Type-C Power Delivery (PD) designs USB705x family is for fast device charging and introduces PD implementations called HostFlexing and PDBalancing (see below) – combined with 5Gbit/s SuperSpeed data rate from USB 3.1. UPD301A is a stand-alone USB Type-C PD with basic USB Type-C PD charging functions ...

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Crystals are tough for cars

Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) J2657 specification is the target Diodes is aiming at with its XRQ range of crystals for tyre pressure monitoring – now a mandatory safety feature for new cars marketed in territories worldwide, according to the firm. Infotainment, telematics, and driver assistance systems are other potential applications. The crystals are capable ...

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Ventec adds thermally-conductive thin isolation foils

Ventec has added two thermally-conductive thin isolation foil materials to its range of thermal interface materials under its distribution agreement with EMI Thermal. Both feature high tensile strength, designed to prevent cut through and electrical shorts, are UL94-V0 recognised and have no viscosity (see table below for characteristics). Intended applications include: PSUs, telecoms, visual devices, ...

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