LEDs let novel robot finger sense force in all directions

Engineers at Columbia University have created a force-sensitive finger for robots that senses in all directions. “There has long been a gap between stand-alone tactile sensors and fully integrated tactile fingers – tactile sensing is still far from ubiquitous in robotic manipulation,” said researcher Matei Ciocarlie. “We have demonstrated a multi-curved robotic finger with accurate ...

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LoRaWan keeps lonely vigil on Etna

A LoRaWan network has been installed on Mount Etna in Sicily to allow scientists to monitor radon gas from their base in Clermont-Ferrand, 1,200km away. “For many years, scientists have measured radon in the soil of the 3,300m-high Etna, which required on-site visits,” according to Kerlink, whose radio equipment has been deployed. “A new system ...

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Embedded World: Embench 0.5 benchmark platform launches

Speaking exclusively with Electronics Weekly, Embench announced its 0.5 launch today at Embedded World. The benchmark suite is an open-source collaboration between academia and industry, aiming to provide accurate and relevant performance figures for embedded processors. Embench measures a processor’s performance using 19 real-world programs. The programs are deliberately selected from a range of authors ...

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Tact switches for automotive

Alps Alpine is aiming at automotive use with a tact switch push button with 5N operating force and 1.04mm travel, adding it to its existing SKSU series. “As an automobile safety consideration, input switches inside vehicles are increasingly integrated into the steering wheel area for drivers to operate without taking their eyes off the road,” ...

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Embedded World: FPGA standard cells with crypto

Menta and Secure-IC are to add cryptographic features to FPGA intellectual property (IP). Under the agreement, announced at Embedded World in Nuremberg, the companies will deliver Menta eFPGAs incorporating cryptographic IP including AES and RSA from Secure-IC. “Security is fast becoming a defining feature of SoCs used in a variety of applications,” said Secure-IC CTO ...

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Sondrel warns on upcoming payroll tax change.

Sondrel, the IC design consultancy, has warned about the the Inland Revenue’s change to payroll rax which comes into effect on April 6th. Called IR35, the tax change makes it  the responsibility of hirers of staff to assess the employment status of off-payroll workers such as freelancers and people contracted via their own small companies. The ...

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Phase-change and MRAM winning market adoption

3D XPoint and STT-MRAM will lead a $6 billion market for emerging memory technologies in 2025, says Yole Developpement. “The stand-alone emerging NVM market will grow to over $4 billion in 2025”, says Yole’s  Simone Bertolazzi,  “it will be driven by two key segments: low-latency storage (enterprise and client drives) and persistent memory (NVDIMMs).” The ...

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Automated vision design for FPGA and ASIC

MathWorks has announced that, with the recent availability of Release 2019b of the MATLAB and Simulink product families, Vision HDL Toolbox includes native multipixel streaming support to process high-frame-rate (HFR) and high-resolution videos on FPGAs. Video, image processing, and FPGA design engineers can speed the exploration and simulation of behavior and implementation tradeoffs when processing ...

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Samsung in mass production of LPDDR5 DRAM

Samsung has begun mass producing 16GB LPDDR5 mobile DRAM package for smartphones. Data transfer rate for the 16GB LPDDR5 comes in at 5,500 megabits per second (Mb/s), approximately 1.3 times faster than the previous mobile memory (LPDDR4X, 4266Mb/s). Compared to an 8GB LPDDR4X package, the new mobile DRAM delivers more than 20-percent energy savings while ...

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