GE's new ERCW003A6R 100-watt, one-eighth brick DC-DC converters, the latest addition to its Orca-series family of isolated, board-mounted power amplifier modules. The new high-efficiency converters provide high-voltage and high-power applications with up to 3.6 amperes DC output current at a nominal output voltage of 28 volts DC. The modules have a typical efficiency of ...
Nature piblishes an open-access Samsung paper "Organic-on-silicon complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor colour image sensors" by Seon-Jeong Lim, Dong-Seok Leem, Kyung-Bae Park, Kyu-Sik Kim, Sangchul Sul, Kyoungwon Na, Gae Hwang Lee, Chul-Joon Heo, Kwang-Hee Lee, Xavier Bulliard, Ryu-Ichi Satoh, Tadao Yagi, Takkyun Ro, Dongmo Im, Jungkyu Jung, Myungwon Lee, Tae-Yon Lee,...
Business Wire: Sony increases its production capacity for stacked CMOS sensors in the fiscal year ending March 31, 2016 ("FY15"). Sony Semiconductor also plans to reorganize and optimize its production sites as it accelerates the shifting of resources to the image sensor business. This investment is intended primarily to augment production facilities used in the maste...
ST 32x32 SPAD array developed under EU funded FP6 project Megaframe with University of Edinburgh and partners is the basis of Heriot-Watt University 20 billion fps-fast camera. The open access Nature Communications' paper "Single-photon sensitive light-in-fight imaging" by Genevieve Gariepy, Nikola Krstajić, Robert Henderson, Chunyong Li, Robert Thomson, Gerald Buller, B...
Rice University: The device traps electrons formed when light hits the material and holds them until released for storage, Lei said. CIS pixels are highly sensitive to light because the trapped electrons dissipate so slowly, said Robert Vajtai, a senior faculty fellow in Rice’s Department of Materials Science and NanoEngineering. “There are many two-dimensional materials...
Software developed with Pengutronix is available for applications with touch displays. A particular characteristic of the embedded module TQMa6x concerns its CPU-internal graphic controller. This controller supports displays with resolutions of up to Full HD. This CPU module also enables the simultaneous connection of up to four displays with the possibility of displ...
With Olympus FV-OSR software, the FluoView FV1200 confocal laser scanning microscope can be transformed into a powerful system for super resolution microscopy. Introducing a smart route to super resolution, the software module enables FV1200 microscope users easy access to what was previously the sole domain of highly specialized microscopy systems. The extra detail offe...
The Air Force recently tested whether its high-powered communications satellites could be operated from a mobile ground unit in case of a nuclear war. In January, after about six months of testing, the exercise proved that the Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) communications satellites could be operated remotely and securely from outside their Integrated Operat...
Micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) display technology, renowned for its excellent image quality, is used in more than 80 percent of the world’s digital cinemas. Recent innovations in size, efficiency and brightness now enable this same proven technology to be incorporated into small form factor and battery-powered devices, allowing developers, brands and system inte...
The use of silicon carbide as a semiconductor for mechanical and electrical sensor devices is showing promise for improved operations and safety in harsh working environments, according to new research from Griffith University. Experiments with silicon carbide grown at the Queensland Micro- and Nanotechnology Centre (QMNC) at Griffith University have demonstrated the ...
An engineering team at Stanford University has devised a way to improve computer chips by making them taller. According to the team, current chips suffer from “jammed wires" when the logic and memory components become overtaxed. Their solution--adding layers of logic atop memory and using electronic nanoscale “elevators” to move data between layers--eliminates bottleneck...
Supporting the 12G-SDI interface, the new Rx series instruments usher in 60-frame/s 4K video monitoring on a single cable. The material improvement over multiple 3G SDI streams enables the lower cost, lower power, higher density solution. The 12G-SDI family includes cable drivers, adaptive cable equalizers, reclockers, and crosspoint switches. The PHABRIX SxE, with i...
Many photonic, terahertz, and RF solutions have been proposed to solve the accelerating bandwidth demand of mobile-communications technologies. For example, optical wireless communications (OWC) using near infrared (NIR) technology can support the necessary data rates. Yet fog effects and dust scattering can cause significant fading effects. Using a hybrid photonic-t...
Passive-intermodulation (PIM) performance is essential to the successful operation of many wireless communications systems, although it typically must be tested with a number of fairly high-level test tones. Fortunately, the MW82119B PIM Master line of portable testers from Anritsu Co. is on the case. These offerings combine the capabilities of the company’s Site Mast...
As the use of these radio systems grows, techniques for managing the performance of these deployments will be needed. Maintaining a reasonable spurious-free dynamic range (SFDR) and adequate linearity can be challenging for SDR deployments, which rely on flexible spectrum use to optimize radio-system performance. To enhance these radios’ performance in multi-carrier/mult...
A private mobile radio (PMR) common platform processor to support digital/analog Frequency Division Multiple Access (FDMA) PMR/LMR and 2-slot time division multiple access (TDMA) digital systems has been developed by UK-based low-power wireless semiconductors specialists CML Microcircuits. Private mobile radio, also known as professional mobile radio (PMR) and land mo...
As the doors to millimeter-wave sensing and generation have opened, scientists and researchers have begun creatively using this new realm of electromagnetic (EM) radiation to enhance their current experiments and make new ones possible. The imaging of 95/150-GHz radiation for the background imaging of cosmic-extragalactic-polarization (BICEP) projects is among the mil...
We reduced test time to 1/20 of the estimated time for equivalent testing on a dynamometer.”— Mr. Tomohiro Morita, FUJI Heavy Industries, Ltd. The Challenge: Using automated testing to develop a new verification system that satisfies the control quality level required for the motor electronic control unit (ECU) in Subaru’s first production model hybrid vehicle, Su...
Modular Phones Forum: Toshiba presents its work on camera module design for Google Project Ara modular phones. Shardul Kazi, SVP from Toshiba America, says: "We’ve been engaged in Ara program for more than a year now. Engagement started because of Toshiba’s involvement in the standards committee of MIPI UniPro, and UniPro is a backbone of the Ara phone. So we know Uni...
Sony patent application US20150029374 "Image sensor, manufacturing apparatus and method, and imaging apparatus" by Yoshiaki Kitano proposes a back-illuminated sensor where at least some of SF, SEL and RST and even TG transistors are placed in a layer grown on top of the photodiode - possibly a local epi, although Sony does not use this word. The transistors are FinFET-li...
Cooler still may be the latest developments in quantum sensing that measure activity on a nanoscale. The unique behavior of systems at the atomic scale allows for ultraprecise measurements that are starting to transform a variety of industries like medicine, agriculture and transportation. They have the potential to impact our lives much sooner than many other quantum...
Using the Bluesky National Tree Map, which details the location, height and canopy cover of more than 280 million trees, scientists at Cranfield University are analysing how the proximity of trees can impact on the sewer infrastructure. Working with long term data from Anglian Water, they considered the location of infrastructure assets such as pipes and manhole covers a...
Hudson, MA, – SignalFire Telemetry has expanded the interface capabilities within the open architecture of its Remote Sensing System to support a wider array of sensors in the remote management of assets in challenging outdoor environments such as oil fields, water systems and mining. At the heart of every Signal Fire Remote Sensing System (SFRSS) are remote transcei...
The utility industry is a dynamic and ever-changing landscape with no shortage of topics to discuss. I'll be writing a recap each month of some interesting news shaping the utility industry, and I invite readers to contribute and share their thoughts as well. During April, the topics that were of most interest to me ranged from California legislation to utility mergers: ...
Claimed to deliver broadband speeds 100 times faster than the previous generation, Immarsat’s Global Xpress satellites should be able to provide connectivity just about anywhere—even in the most inaccessible and remote regions of Earth. The fifth-generation satellites, built by Boeing, will mobilize the first globally available, high-speed mobile broadband service delive...
In a 2013 study in conjunction with the University of Georgia, Crittercam took to the suburban streets of a city in Georgia, traveling on the collars of roaming domesticated cats. The resultant study and quantitative assessment of the predatory lives of domesticated roaming cats was published in the journal Biological Conservation. Based on the hunting practices of do...
In 2013, the French Canadian machining, fabrication and assembly company, Marmen Energy, made the move to the United States. After touring many states for several years, the company decided to set up shop in Brandon, South Dakota, just 20 minutes from Sioux Falls. Marmen builds equipment for the global energy sector, and its Brandon facility is dedicated to wind tower...
For those engaged in R&D of next generation products, incorporating millimeter wave components into broader designs is facilitated by partnering with established industrial experts that have already spent decades in the design, development, and testing of such systems. Millimeter waves (30-300 GHz), a sub-set of the microwave band, are utilized to deliver pencil-beam...
But researchers at Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute shows drones can be a lifesaver as well. In a demonstration aboard a former U.S. Navy ship, a small quadrotor developed by Robotics Institute researchers and spin-off company Sensible Machines flew autonomously through dark, smoke-filled compartments to map fires and locate victims. The demonstration...
Whoever wants to manufacture more productively, efficiently and flexibly tomorrow, needs solutions today. The key differentiator is the systematic interplay of all product development and production phases: the seamless integration of all design, planning, engineering, execution and services tasks – including the resulting data consistency across the entire value chain. ...
This includes a trigonometric math unit (TMU) and control law accelerator (CLA). The controller is available with 512 Kbytes of ECC flash memory, 100 Kbytes of SRAM with parity support, a boot ROM and a 16-/32-bit external memory interface (EMIF). It also has a pair of 128-bit security zones. The TMU implements sin, cos, atan, divide, and square root instructions. Thi...
Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) are taking on more chores as the underlying chips become more powerful. These systems are incorporating more sensors including multiple high-definition cameras that significantly increase the bandwidth of incoming data that needs to be integrated before presentation to the driver. Texas Instrument’s (TI) 28-nm TDA3x targets AD...
The kit, which supports the EtherCAT protocol, is a hardware/software reference design intended for the development of remote I/O devices typically used for I/O monitoring, communication, and industrial process control. Since the R-IN32M3 series supports protocols including EtherCAT, CC-Link IE, Ethernet/IP, and PROFINET, remote I/O products that support multiple prot...
But those batteries were too big and weak to meet some of the researchers’ goals. So engineers at nearby Pacific Northwest National Laboratory downsized the battery. The engineering team used carbon and lithium chemistry to create a laminated combination of carbon fluoride (the cathode), a separating material, and lithium (the anode). They rolled up and encapsulated t...
Engineers have been harvesting energy for centuries, first using water and windmills, then hydroelectric dams, solar panels, and geothermal plants. Now some engineers are following physicist Richard Feynman’s advice and thinking small. They are using tiny solar panels and thermoelectric generators to glean power from seemingly insignificant temperature differences, piezo...
The programmable logic controller (PLC) can also exchange data with other programs over an OPC server, and has gateway functionality for Ethernet/IP and PROFIBUS when connected with other controllers. A CODESYS programming platform enables standard programming according to IEC 61131-3. Real-time control is achieved with a Linux operating system and an EtherCAT master...
