Poseidon facility would provide 50 million gallons per day of drinking water to Orange County.
Itron launches STEM curriculum to encourage next generation of innovators
Educational App Developed by University of Texas at Austin Professor and Disco Learning Media
San Francisco Public Utilities Commission issues world’s first certified green bond for water infrastructure
$240 Million Wastewater Revenue Bond to finance stormwater and wastewater management projects.
Transmitted reference cuts Rx power in IoT radio scheme
Attempting to cut receiver power consumption in IoT sensor nodes, the University of Twente in The Netherlands is proposing a novel technique – effectively moving the Rx local oscillator to the transmitter. Not only that, but its team has found an interesting way to foil front-end amplifier saturation at the same time. Its engineers argue …
ARM buys Apical
ARM has acquired embedded vision specialist Apical for $350 million in cash, The acquisition supports ARM’s long term growth strategy by enabling new imaging products for next generation vehicles, security systems, robotics, mobile and any consumer, smart building, industrial or retail application where intelligent image processing is needed. Apical’s technology will complement the ARM® Mali™ …
Intel, CEA extend R&D agreement
The CEA (Atomic Energy Commission) and Intel are boosting their collaboration through a new R & D agreement signed in Paris on Thursday 12 May. This collaboration, extended to several key areas in digital technology, will enable the two sides to develop a shared R&D programme and jointly submit research and innovation projects on a …
Narrowband green is easier for migraine sufferers
Exposing migraine sufferers to a narrow band of green light significantly reduces photophobia and can reduce headache severity, according to a report by researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Harvard University and published in Brain: Migraine photophobia originating in cone-driven retinal pathways. “Although photophobia is not usually as incapacitating as headache pain itself, the inability …
TI claims industry’s fastest 14bit ADC
Texas instruments is claiming the fastest 14bit ADC yet with one that works at 3Gsample/s, delivering “an instantaneous 1.5GHz-per-channel bandwidth, enabling engineers to implement wideband in-phase and quadrature-component receivers beyond 2.5 GHz”, said the firm. The dual-channel ADC32RF45 can be used for direct RF signal conversion up to 4GHz,” said TI. “The first in a new data …
If At First You Don’t Succeed . . . . .
China is taking to heart the old maxim: If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. It has found another route into the DRAM business. UMC is to help China make DRAM in an agreement which has been approved by Taiwan’s Ministry of Economic Affairs. China has a problem with its huge trade deficit …
IQE ties up with Imec for GaN-on-Si
IQE and imec have demonstrated 650V GaN-on-Si power diodes on 200 mm wafers GaN technology offers faster switching-power devices with higher breakdown voltage and lower on-resistance than silicon, making it an ideal material for advanced power electronic components. The partnership builds on promising results achieved in a recent project, in which imec and IQE collaborated …