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Many of you will be familiar with RJ45 Cables in the Cat 5e & Cat 6 formats they are pretty much commonplace with anyone that has an office network or broadband router at hom
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By Steve Bush
Imperial College spin-out DNA Electronics is to get $51.9m from the US Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) to develop a sequencing techniques for anti-microbial resistant infections and influenza through a projects called PISCES. PISCES (pathogen identification from specimen, via capture extraction and sequencing) involves development and validation of DNAe’s test platform, branded Genalysis, and support …
Read full article: US pays Imperial spin-out $52m for research
Just imagine being a Motorola Semiconductor employee 13 years ago. First you’d have suffered the 2003 re-org prior to being spun-off as Freescale; Then the re-org prior to the 2004 IPO; Then the re-org after the 2006 buy-out by private equity firm Blackstone; Then the re-org preparing for the 2011 IPO; Then the re-org after …
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The Pet Cube is a 4-inch cube that allows you to remotely see, communicate and play with your pet when you’re away from home.
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TI has introduced a power management IC for DDR2, DDR3 and DDR3L memory subsystems in automotive and industrial applications. The TPS54116-Q1 DC/DC buck converter is a 2.95-V to 6-V input, 4-A synchronous step-down converter with a 1-A peak sink/source DDR termination and buffered reference that reduces system size by up to 50 percent compared to …
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By Steve Bush
Analog Devices has announced a pair of three-axis MEMS accelerometers intended to detect structural defects via wireless sensor networks. “The low noise of ADXL354 (analogue out) and ADXL355 (digital out) with low power consumption makes it now possible enable low-level vibration measurement applications such as structural health monitoring,” said the firm. Claimed noise density is 25µgravity/√Hz – the analogue …
Read full article: Accelerometers measure the health of buildings
By Steve Bush
Advantech has adopted Linear Tech’s ‘SmartMesh IP’ wireless mesh technology for its M2.COM sensor platform. M2.COM is an inter-company standard for wireless connectivity, in a physically interchangeable 22x30mm (M.2 standard) module with a standard edge connector to connect to the host sensor board. Each module has a radio, a microcontroller, and the interface for sensors. The idea is …
Read full article: Linear and Advantech add internet protocol to M2.COM IoT options
Leti has joined the Stanford SystemX Alliance, a network of 100 Stanford professors and 27 companies, joining forces in a pre-competitive environment to define tomorrow’s research strategies. The alliance is a collaboration between Stanford researchers and over two-dozen leading global technology companies – such as Google, Huawei, Xilinx, Intel, Qualcomm, Toshiba, Infineon, and many more …
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Silicon Labs has bought RTOS specialist Micrium. Micrium’s RTOS and software tools will continue to be available to all silicon partners worldwide, giving customers a wide range of options, even when using non-Silicon Labs hardware. Micrium will continue to fully support existing as well as new customers. Micrium’s widely deployed RTOS software has been ported …
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Four of Britain’s major banks have recently ordered electronic cheque reading and sorting machines which are to operate in conjunction with computers for automatic processing of cheques. So, 55 years ago, started a story in Electronics Weekly’s edition of March 1st 1961. The story continues: One of the drawbacks in this development has been the …
Read full article: Automatons To Be Bank Cashiers