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 …
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 …
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 …
MEMS photonic integration opens door to 25Gbit/s
IRT Nanoelec in Grenoble has integrated a III-V/silicon laser and silicon Mach Zehnder modulator to transmit at 25Gbit/s down a single 10km optical fibre, claiming this to be a first. “This transmission rate usually is achieved using an external source, over a 10km single-mode fibre,” said the R&D organisation, which is predicting increased bandwidth and reliability …
ARM multi-core v8 test chip fabbed on TSMC 10nm finfet process
ARM today announced the first multicore, 64-bit ARMv8-A processor test chip based on TSMC’s 10FinFET process technology. Simulation benchmarks show impressive power and efficiency gains relative to TSMC’s 16FinFET+ process technology, which is currently used to implement chips powering many of today’s leading premium smartphones. The successful validation of the test chip (tape out completed …
ARM multi-core v8 test chip fabbed on TSMC 10nm finfet process
Imagination goes with Debian OS for MIPS64 processors
Imagination is working with the Debian Project to accelerate development of the open source Debian operating system for its 64-bit MIPS processors. As part of its work with the project, Imagination is providing the project several MIPS64 processor based platforms, its calls SDNA-7130, for development and evaluation purposes. The SDNA-7130 (Software Defined Network Appliance) platforms …
Digi-Key circles the world with ARM’s processor tools
Digi-Key Electronics has expanded its distribution partnership with ARM to include all of Asia. In addition to expanding the reach of the partnership, ARM’s latest Keil MDK Version 5.20 software development kit for ARM Cortex-M microcontrollers is also available through Digi-Key. Keil MDK includes the µVision IDE, C/C++ compiler, debugger, Software Component management, and the CMSIS …
Autonomous vehicles get insurance boost in the UK
Autonomous vehicles are to be insured under normal policies in the UK. This was one of the government proposals announced in the Queen’s Speech. According to the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), this is an important step forward which will ultimately improve road safety and reduce congestion. But the IET warned the Government that …
Data center taps Power over Ethernet lighting for extra big energy savings (UPDATED)
mindSHIFT Technologies says the intelligence in the Cisco/Cree PoE system will cut electricity consumption far more than ordinary LEDs would.
Amazon WorkSpaces now supports tagging
Starting today, you can use tags to manage and track your Amazon WorkSpaces. Tags let you categorize your Amazon WorkSpaces so you can easily identify their purpose and track costs accordingly. For example, you could use tags to identify all the Amazon WorkSpaces for a particular department, project, application, vendor, or use case. Once you have tagged your Amazon WorkSpaces, you can use the AWS Tag Editor console (starting in June 2016) to filter and search by specific tags, and obtain usage and cost details for particular tags by signing up to get your AWS account bill with tag key values included.