We like a bit of energy scavenging on Gadget Master and it seems the US Marines are conducting field trials of a device called PowerWalk, that will scavenge energy wasted during route-marches.
Xilinx Zynq UltraScale gets embedded software support from Mentor
Mentor Graphics is now supporting the Xilinx Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC devices with its embedded tools and software portfolio. The embedded software support includes Linux and Android OS, Nucleus real-time operating system (RTOS) and Mentor’s Embedded Hypervisor. Scot Morrison, general manager of the platforms business unit, Mentor Graphics Embedded Systems division, writes: “Dealing with the complexities …
Xilinx Zynq UltraScale gets embedded software support from Mentor
MOOCs take off in a big way
MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses), the free programme of study, accessible via mobile, tablet and desktop, is taking off in a big way at the University of Southampton which has just signed up its 200,000th learner. The attraction of MOOCs is that courses can be delivered to large numbers of participants in a way that …
Elektra Awards 2016: Entry deadline approaching
There are only four days remaining to enter your company for an Elektra European Electronics Industry Award. Due to popular demand, the entry deadline for the Elektra Awards 2016 was extended by two weeks, but that finishes Friday 17 June. Entering is simple and free. We hope the deadline extension will allow you to submit the best …
Top Ten Semi Companies For Profit
Thanks to CapIQ for this one – the ten most profitable (operating margin %) IC companies in 2014: Inotera 53 LTC 46.3 ARM 40.3 TSMC 38.9 Nanya 38.3 Xilinx 32.4 Qualcomm 30.5 ADI 30.1 TI 29.9 Hynix 29.8
NXP gets regulatory approval for RF Power sale
NXP has had its sale of its RF Power unit to Jianguang Asset Manangement (JAC Capital) from the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS). The divesture of the RF Power business was a condition for NXP’s merger with Freescale Semiconductor. Earlier this week NXP and JAC Capital announced they had agreed the …
Power analyser – Make sure you don’t blow it
Sam Foster describes the best way to use a power analyser to characterise inrush currents and properly size fuses. In the development of different technologies, many engineers encounter and have to deal with inrush currents to their devices. The reality of inrush current and the meaning of an I2t measurement will be discussed. Also, an …
Egil about to land
Egil, ARM’s next Mali video processor due later in the year, has been designed to optimise performance between the various IP blocks through use of bandwidth saving technologies such as ARM Frame Buffer Compression (AFBC), writes ARM’s Roger Barker. AFBC can be implemented across the entire range of multimedia IP within an SoC and, depending …
Blue energy in LED lighting shortens shelf life of milk, according to Cornell researchers
LED lighting in grocery cases can degrade milk, according to researchers in Cornell’s Department of Food Science, with exposure times as short as four hours impacting product quality.
Amazon SES Now Supports Email Headers in Notifications
Amazon SES can now include the original email headers in the bounce, complaint, and delivery notifications it provides through Amazon SNS. This feature enables you to more easily match a notification to the specific email that triggered it, because the notification can contain the email headers that you used when you passed the email to Amazon SES. Previously, when you wanted to match a notification to a specific sent email, you needed to store a mapping between the email and the message ID that Amazon SES returned when you sent the message. Now, you can add a custom header to the email and then retrieve that custom header from the notification, without storing the message ID on your side. You can include any other custom headers that might be useful to you. For example, resellers can now add client identifiers for improved tracking.