Combined company – known as SIMFLO – will draw on nearly a century of experience to push boundaries in pump technology.

 

OmniVision and ASTRI to develop a reference design for production-ready augmented reality (AR) glasses.

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Qualcomm has produced a plan to protect its employees if Broadcom’s bid for it succeeds. The plan will also make it more difficult and expensive to shed employees after a takeover. Broadcom CEO Hock Tan says Broadcom typically sheds 30% of the staff of companies it acquires either through unit disposals or lay-offs. Under the …

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Imec and Holst Centre have developed a prototype of an electroencephalogram (EEG) headset that can measure emotions and cognitive processes in the brain. The headset is a major breakthrough in emotion measurement for therapeutic, learning and gaming applications. Traditionally, EEG brain scans are used to diagnose medical conditions such as epilepsy or sleep disorders. More …

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Don’t forget new fuseholder safety regulations, is the message from Schurter. “Tests of devices with built-in fuseholders have shown that their installation position has a major influence on heat generation and fire development,” said the firm. “The fuseholder standard IEC 60127-6 has been revised with the aim of improving fire protection. Accordingly, since October 2017, …

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Disaster was averted at the Chocolate Factory in Rotterdam and production continued through the busy period in the run-up to Christmas. Hook-shaped metal machine parts on the conveyor belt have been replaced by FDM Nylon 12CF carbon-filled thermoplastic versions, created by Visual First, using Stratasys additive manufacturing. The hook-shaped parts lift the wrapped bars onto …

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Fujitsu’s first product of a FRAM process die shrink is the MB85RS2MTA. The chip is a 2 Mbit FRAM device with SPI interface. Apart from the commercial benefits, IC offers a series of technical advantages. The maximum operating frequency has been increased from 25 MHz up to 40 MHz at 3 V supply. The  device …

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Machine vision and AI-specialist Altek is showing its latest 3D-depth sensing chip, the AL6100, at CES 2018. It is aimed at smartphones, surveillance cameras and VR/AR cameras. The real-time depth information provided by the AL6100 allows a more accurate perception of an application’s surrounding environment, says the company. For example, the posture and gesture of …

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With women seemingly discouraged from taking up careers in science and engineering it comes as no surprise that even as we move into the 21st Century, space travel is being lead by men, to an over-whelming degree. A recent survey sponsored by RS Components showed that since 1961, 550 people have been to space, but …

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EDA and IP company, Synopsys, has bought Kilopass Technology. The antifuse one time programmable (OTP) IP provider’s non volatile memory (NVM) IP has been incorporated into the DesignWare IP portfolio of logic libraries, embedded memories, embedded test, analogue IP, wired and wireless interface IP, security IP, embedded processors and subsystems. The OTP NVM IP for …

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