Smartphones can be 85% accurate in identifying who is carrying them, merely by detecting motion as the person walks around normally, according to the University of Plymouth. This rises to almost 90% when they walk fast. The trial had 44 participants, aged between 18 and 56, each carring a phone in a belt pouch for 7 ...
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Joe Sawicki , executive vice president, IC EDA at Siemens, challenged the mutterings that Moore’s law has run its course, and said the semiconductor industry was blighted with pessimism. At this year’s DAC (Design Automation Conference) he set about looking at the figures in a new light. “There have been morose expectations and miserable prognostics, for ...
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Georgia Tech has developed a general-purpose MMIC (monolithic microwave IC) for the direct filtering and processing of microwave and millimeter-wave signals. The aim is to reduce radio power consumption by swapping some digital signal processing elements for reconfigurable analogue processing blocks. “High-speed digitisation blocks targeting microwave frequencies are expensive and consume a lot of power,” ...
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Expanding its portfolio of board sockets, Harwin has introduced additional sizes for the Sycamore Contact range. These 6A current rated surface-mount PCB sockets allow engineers to accommodate different designs, placing individual sockets freely on a board without the constraint of connector housings. Two additions complement the existing 3.87mm length sockets, which accept 0.8-1.3mm or 1.5-1.9mm ...
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hiSky, a developer and provider of satellite-based Internet of Things (IoT) networking, has completed a $30 million Series A funding round. It was led by ST Engineering’s Corporate Venture Capital unit and SDF (Strategic Development Fund), which is the investment arm of United Arab Emirates-based Tawazun Holding. Current hiSky shareholders also took part. The Israeli ...
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ADI has brought out the first IC in its RadioVerse series. The ADRV9040 offers eight transmit and receive channels of 400MHz bandwidth and integrates advanced DSP functions, including carrier digital up-converters (CDUC), carrier digital down-converters (CDDC), crest factor reduction (CFR) and digital pre-distortion (DPD). These capabilities can eliminate the need for an FPGA, thereby reducing ...
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Murata’s new power inductors claim to have a 20% increase in saturation current (ISAT) and a 50% reduction in DC resistance (RDC) over their predecessors, while L-shaped electrodes allow these components to reach high density levels The DFE21CCNR24MEL has a 0.24 µH inductance value, with an RDC of 20mOhm (Max) and an ISAT of 6.5A ...
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