Samsung targets wearable IoT devices with bio-processor
Samsung is aiming for a slice of the wearable health and fitness device market with a multi-function processor which will be introduced early in 2016. Dubbed the bio-processor, the system-on-chip device will carry out various body monitoring functions including PPG, ECG, skin temperature, GSR and body fat. It is essentially a processor with integrated DSP ...
Compliance is vital with new electromagnetic field exposure rules
The EU Directive 2013/35/EU on the minimum health and safety requirements regarding the exposure of workers to the risks arising from physical agents (electromagnetic fields) published in mid-2013 is due to be transposed into UK law by July of next year, 2016. Howard Venning, managing director of Aspen Electronics, lifts the lid on the subject and ...
Super low power microcontroller gets design kits
Ambiq Micro has introduced evaluation kits for its low power Apollo sub-threshold microcontrollers. A feature of the first EVB board is the integration of an on-board hardware debugger together with a complete software development kit. It also comes with FreeRTOS, along with the necessary hardware drivers. The Eclipse-based graphical software integrated design environment (IDE) and ...
Tiny lens makes LED lights shine brighter
Escatec has designed a miniaturised TIR (total internal reflection) lens for mounting on high brightness LEDs. The TIR lens is mounted directly onto the bare LED and secured in place using clear glue with no air gap for optimal optical coupling. The aim is to ensure that the light is transferred from the LED to ...
Boundary scan can be used for chip design
XJTAG has introduced the latest version (3.4) of its boundary scan development system, which improves the visibility into complex systems during product development and manufacture. According to the company, because of its ability to interrogate and control JTAG-enabled devices, boundary scan is being used to develop and debug products as well as test them. As ...
Raspberry Pi shrinks to $5 Pi Zero
Raspberry Pi just got smaller and ridiculously cheap. Raspberry Pi Zero measures just 65mm x 30mm with a height profile of 5mm, it is the smallest form factor Pi available. And it costs just $5. It is a slimmed down Raspberry Pi Zero so there is only one Micro USB data port and a Mini HDMI port which ...
E2v super ADC is “free of non-harmonic spurs”
UK-based specialist chip firm e2v says it has produced its most powerful ever ADC. It is a 12-bit resolution analogue-to-digital converter (ADC) which has a sampling rate of 5.4Gsample/s, an instantaneous bandwidth in excess of 3GHz and latency as low as 26 clock cycles with a noise of -150dBm/Hz. According to the supplier, it will ...
E2v super ADC is “free of non-harmonic spurs”
UK-based specialist chip firm e2v says it has produced its most powerful ever ADC. It is a 12-bit resolution analogue-to-digital converter (ADC) which has a sampling rate of 5.4Gsample/s, an instantaneous bandwidth in excess of 3GHz and latency as low as 26 clock cycles with a noise of -150dBm/Hz. According to the supplier, it will ...
Raspberry Pi shrinks to $5 Pi Zero
Raspberry Pi just got smaller and ridiculously cheap. Raspberry Pi Zero measures just 65mm x 30mm with a height profile of 5mm, it is the smallest form factor Pi available. And it costs just $5. It is a slimmed down Raspberry Pi Zero so there is only one Micro USB data port and a Mini HDMI port which ...
Silica lathes will make industry turn, says government minister
The government is investing in research for the use of photonics in a range of advanced component manufacturing technologies. This is part of an important advanced manufacturing technology research programme which will incorporate research centres at the universities of Southampton and Sheffield, and Brunel University in London which will lead research into liquid metal engineering. ...
