Raspberry Pi and Panasonic donate computers to Cameroon school

The Raspberry Pi Foundation and Panasonic Industry Europe have donated 100 Raspberry Pis to the Lycee D’Akwa-Nord Bonamoussadi High School and the University of Science in Douala. In total over 250 pupils – undergraduate, graduate and doctoral students – together with their professors followed the educational and demonstrational sessions after the computers were handed over, ...

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CMOS sensor for laser triangulation

Teledyne e2v has announced a family of CMOS image sensors for 3D laser triangulation – for use in applications such as distance measurement, profile measurement and high resolution physical inspection. Branded ‘Flash’, the sensors feature a 6μm CMOS global shutter pixel which combines high resolution and fast frame rate. They are available in a 4k or ...

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More on: MIT’s carbon nanotube RISC-V CPU

Last week MIT announced a CPU made from carbon nano-tube (CNT) mosfets using standard CMOS fab equipment and only the materials and processes found within commercial CMOS fabs. Electronics Weekly has delved inside to see how it works. In essence, the CNT logic is CMOS, as the researchers have found a way to create p-channel CNT ...

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Omnivision sampling sensor with 2.2 micron pixel

OmniVision claims to have the smallest-ever pixel size of 2.2 microns for a backside-illuminated (BSI), global shutter (GS) image sensor. Its  OG01A sensor, now sampling, combines PureCel Plus-S pixel technology and Nyxel near-infrared (NIR) technology to enable optimal performance and precision  with NIR quantum efficiency (QE). This sensor is suitable for a wide range of ...

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PoE switches transmit over 250m

Zyxel, the Wokingham switch specialist, has brought out PoE surveillance switches with a 250 metre transmission distance. Zyxel’s GS1300 and GS1350 series PoE switches are designed to get security camera networks up and running. PoE switches have played an essential role in surveillance deployments. However, the current PoE switch designs are too generic to keep ...

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Moortec’s thermal monitoring IP adopted in SSD controller chips

Moortec, the Plymouth PVT (Process, Voltage and Temperature) monitoring IP company, has had its  28nm thermal sensing IP adopted by Innogrit of Shanghai for their Shasta SSD controller ICs. InnoGrit develops technologies that reduce the levels of computing power needed to store and transport data on networks by providing embedded monitoring of real time thermal ...

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