The government of Flanders is putting €30 million into the imecXpand investment fund aimed at companies that work on commercialising IoT technology. The goal is to build a fund of €100 million for which Imec is looking towards private partners and the European investment fund. “The fund will support start-ups that do not have access …
Surrey 5G centre partners with Digital Greenwich to plan smart cities
The University of Surrey’s 5G Innovation Centre (5GIC) and Digital Greenwich, part of the Royal Borough of Greenwich, have teamed-up to create technology, standards and services for smart cities. 5GIC will provide the technological foundations on which Digital Greenwich will build test beds and trials leading to commercial smart city solutions. Digital Greenwich will host …
Surrey 5G centre partners with Digital Greenwich to plan smart cities
Mouser adds SPICE simulation to MultiSIM PCB tool
The latest MultiSIM BLUE version of the NI Multisim circuit design tool which is available from Mouser Electronics is the Premium version features a Berkley SPICE simulation environment. This can be used to design and simulate circuits before laying them out in physical prototypes. Also to help with organising schematics, hierarchical design capabilities have been …
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Just the right amount of water makes perovskite solar better
Moisture is the key to a mysterious improvement experienced in perovskite solar cells after manufacture, according to scientists at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University. The change, noticed when cell are left out in air, is due to improved doping distribution in the hole transport layer – spiro-MeOTAD doped with lithium TFSI …
Just the right amount of water makes perovskite solar better
Subtlety is not always the answer for haptic feedback
MIT has discovered haptic feedback can be too subtle in research into preventing people tripping over objects. In particular, the team was finding ways to help astronauts step over things in their bulky space suits – which have big boots and poor downward visibility. The idea is to have sensors in the boot as well …
Happy Days Are Here Again
Happy days are here again as the semiconductor industry returns to significant growth. The SOX is at a multi-year high and the book-to-Bill ratio is trending positive. By hitting 778, the SOX is up 16.75% YTD, reports Investopedia. Qualcomm is up 22.5%, TI up 30%, Broadcom up 18.7%, and Nvidia up 72%. Last year the …
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Avnet makes £691m bid for Raspberry Pi supplier Farnell
Premier Farnell, online distributor and supplier of Raspberry Pi has received a £691m takeover bid from US giant Avnet, one of the world’s largest electronics distributors headquartered in Phoenix. Avnet is in a bidding battle for UK-based Premier Farnell, which owns the element14 brand, with Datwyler Technical Components. William Amelio, interim CEO of Avnet, said: The talented …
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Fable: The Patient Patenter
There was once an engineer who filed a patent application on the microprocessor. 20 years later, the US patent office granted him a patent for “a single chip integrated circuit computer architecture.” Philips did a deal with the engineer to share the revenues from the patent which is estimated to have earned the engineer $150 …
Android’s emergency location service is good news, says IET
Google’s new emergency location service is to be rolled out in Europe and Professor Will Stewart, chair of the IET’s Communications Policy Panel, believes there will be big benefits. Android’s new emergency location service will allow a smartphone user to be pinpointed when making a 999 emergency services call. “This will be hugely beneficial,” said …
Industrial connector aimed at motors up to 830V and 40A
Twinhousing is an industrial connector shell for Amphenol’s Heavymate F series. Designed to accommodate two of the series modules, the metal housing is combined with an additional shielding frame for electromagnetic shielding. The plastic lever is designed for easy handling. Typical applications, particularly with the three-pole power module, are motor connections. Heavymate F connectors have …
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