LuxLive: Plessey to show concept lighting
UK GaN-on-silicon LED maker Plessey will be demonstrating smart lighting concepts at LuxLive in London later this month, starting with a lightbulb that combines illumination with the functions of a mobile phone bluetooth headset – it has microphone, speaker, processing and Bluetooth radio. “Lights help change the use of a room and because there are ...
Raspberry Pi and Brillo will be a match made in heaven
Raspberry Pi may have been slow to announce support for Google’s IoT open source development platform, but it is only a matter of time before the tiny computer embraces Brillo. Google’s bid to bring its Android OS into the orbit of the internet of things come with a developer kit for building testing and debugging. If ...
Signal booster chip makes NFC transactions more reliable
AMS says it can speed up the transaction speeds of NFC (near field communications) with an analogue front-end device which includes a signal booster. The supplier claimed the device can improve the reliability and perceived speed of NFC transactions even with applications that use a small antenna. The AS3921 with the booster technology implements active ...
Thin-film solar panels designed for cloudy northern skies
Solar panels based on thin-film technology which are designed to work more efficiently than other photovoltaic (PV) panels in low light and cloud have been installed on the roof of Parliament Buildings in Belfast. Supplier Beacon Renewable Energy has worked with German thin-film solar module producer Calyxo to create a solar energy system which is ...
Com Express modules grab new AMD processor
Congatec is offering its first COM Express basic modules with AMD’s new generation processors. The conga-TR3 modules with dual- or quad-core AMD Embedded R-Series SOCs offer a scalable TDP from 12 to 35W. There is also an AMD Radeon graphics processor on the modules which support the HSA specification 1.0. This means workloads can be ...
Hearing-aid processor has wireless interface
ON Semiconductor has introduced a wireless-enabled audio processor for designing into hearing aids. Called the Ezairo 7150 SL, it is a hybrid module based on the firm’s open-programmable 24-bit mixed-signal DSP platform. It is a wireless system-in-package with multi-protocol operation that is optimised for 2.4GHz band applications, including Bluetooth Low-Energy. The module also has a ...
The small cell market became big this year with the value of the ICs which go into them increasing by 5x which is likely to bring in more suppliers. The Semiconductor for Small Cells market study by analysts Mobile Experts has found that MIMO, Carrier Aggregation, LAA/LWA, and multi-mode requirements have driven up the value ...
Imec breakthrough may commercialise silicon photonics
Imec and Ghent University have monolithically integrated arrays of indium phosphide lasers on 300mm silicon substrates in a CMOS pilot line. It provides a path toward high-volume manufacturing of cost-effective photonic integrated circuits (PICs) with monolithically integrated laser sources. Such laser-powered PICs will revolutionize data transfer between future logic and memory chips. Silicon photonics enables ...
Imec breakthrough may commercialise silicon photonics
Imec and Ghent University have monolithically integrated arrays of indium phosphide lasers on 300mm silicon substrates in a CMOS pilot line. It provides a path toward high-volume manufacturing of cost-effective photonic integrated circuits (PICs) with monolithically integrated laser sources. Such laser-powered PICs will revolutionize data transfer between future logic and memory chips. Silicon photonics enables ...
Soraa builds second GaN-on-GaN LED fab
GaN-on-GaN LED maker Soraa is building a semiconductor fab in Syracuse New York, in partnership with the State of New York. The firm, which has a fab in Fremont California, is working with SUNY College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, shell completion is scheduled by the end of this year, and production for the second half of ...
