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Driver Monitoring Systems May Prevent Thousands of Distracted Driving Accidents

Driver Monitoring Systems May Prevent Thousands of Distracted Driving Accidents

Distracted and drowsy driving is one of the leading causes of traffic-related deaths in the U.S. Here's an inside look at the technology that can put a stop to it.


News Jun 12, 2020 by Nicholas St. John
MIT’s Confetti-Sized “Brain-on-a-Chip” Is Replete With Thousands of Memristors

MIT’s Confetti-Sized “Brain-on-a-Chip” Is Replete With Thousands of Memristors

While there's some debate on whether memristors even exist beyond the theoretical realm, MIT seems to have made a major breakthrough in artificial brain synapse technology.


News Jun 10, 2020 by Robin Mitchell
DARPA Doubles Down on Chip-Level Cybersecurity

DARPA Doubles Down on Chip-Level Cybersecurity

The Automatic Implementation of Secure Silicon (AISS) program aims to make scalable security more readily available to designers.


News Jun 08, 2020 by Gary Elinoff
Programming Optical Circuits for Specific Applications and Reducing Production Costs

Programming Optical Circuits for Specific Applications and Reducing Production Costs

Researchers have developed a new way to build power efficient and programmable integrated switching units on a silicon photonics chip.


News Jun 06, 2020 by Luke James
UK Researchers Tweak Semiconductor Properties by Manipulating Adjacent Crystals

UK Researchers Tweak Semiconductor Properties by Manipulating Adjacent Crystals

Researchers at the University of Manchester’s National Graphene Institute have shown how the properties of a material made from layers of atomically thin semiconductors can be precisely altered by rotating the position of adjacent crystals.


News Jun 05, 2020 by Luke James
Has the Modern Data Center Outstripped I2C and SMBus? I3C May Be the Answer

Has the Modern Data Center Outstripped I2C and SMBus? I3C May Be the Answer

An upgrade in serial communication interfaces may be in order. Renesas is stepping up to support the transition.


News Jun 05, 2020 by Gary Elinoff
A New Partnership Brings Professional Dev Tools to RISC-V Microcontrollers

A New Partnership Brings Professional Dev Tools to RISC-V Microcontrollers

The joint efforts of GigaDevice and IAR Systems may speed the development time when working with RISC-V.


News Jun 04, 2020 by Gary Elinoff
Are Contactless Smart Cities Around the Corner? NXP Thinks So

Are Contactless Smart Cities Around the Corner? NXP Thinks So

COVID-19 has accelerated the push for contactless smart cities. Now, a new IC shows that security and speed are at the heart of such technology.


News Jun 03, 2020 by Gary Elinoff
What Is Silicon Germanium’s Place at the Semiconductor Table?

What Is Silicon Germanium’s Place at the Semiconductor Table?

Cheaper than gallium arsenide. More flexible band-gap tuning than silicon. What's silicon germanium's place in circuit design?


News Jun 02, 2020 by Vanessa Samuel
Post-Pandemic Technology Will Change the Airport Experience

Post-Pandemic Technology Will Change the Airport Experience

Just as we saw a major shift in airport security following 9/11, we're likely to see major technological changes in airports post-COVID-19.


News Jun 02, 2020 by Gary Elinoff
An Inside Look at the New SpaceX Spacesuits

An Inside Look at the New SpaceX Spacesuits

Manned spaceflight isn’t possible without reliable spacesuits.


News Jun 01, 2020 by Tyler Charboneau
Two Companies Partner to Secure an Automotive Linchpin—the CAN Bus—at the Hardware

Two Companies Partner to Secure an Automotive Linchpin—the CAN Bus—at the Hardware

Despite its function as the central data bus for all modern vehicles, the CAN bus is still surprisingly underprotected.


News Jun 01, 2020 by Gary Elinoff
Sensor-Embedded “Smart Socks” Help Patients With Diabetic Neuropathy

Sensor-Embedded “Smart Socks” Help Patients With Diabetic Neuropathy

Patients with diabetic neuropathy often can't feel injuries on their feet, which can lead to ulcers and amputation. Siren's microsensor-embedded socks catch early signs of inflammation.


News May 30, 2020 by Nicholas St. John
ADI Makes Big Swing for Industry 4.0 with First Software-Configurable Industrial I/Os

ADI Makes Big Swing for Industry 4.0 with First Software-Configurable Industrial I/Os

Two new I/O solutions bring remote programmability to building control and industrial automation.


News May 29, 2020 by Gary Elinoff
Arm Ramps Up 5G Portfolio With New CPUs, GPUs, and NPUs

Arm Ramps Up 5G Portfolio With New CPUs, GPUs, and NPUs

With an eye on 5G at the hardware level, Arm is attracting notice from Facebook, Snapchat, Google, and Netflix.


TinyML: When Small IoT Devices Call for Compressed Machine Learning

TinyML: When Small IoT Devices Call for Compressed Machine Learning

Machine learning on small IoT devices presents several challenges to designers: power consumption, latency, and accuracy.


News May 27, 2020 by Vanessa Samuel
NYU and IBM Researchers Discover a New Spintronics-Based Fast Data Transfer Solution

NYU and IBM Researchers Discover a New Spintronics-Based Fast Data Transfer Solution

Working in collaboration, New York University and IBM Research have studied the use of spintronics as a means to increase the efficiency of both data transfer and storage—thus enhancing the already-fast-growing R&D into spintronics-based software solutions.


News May 27, 2020 by Sam Holland
Xilinx’s New Customizable FPGA for Data Centers is “Born to Run”

Xilinx’s New Customizable FPGA for Data Centers is “Born to Run”

With an increasing burden on networking systems, Xilinx has unveiled a new FPGA with high data processing and flexibility to meet evolving connectivity standards.


News May 26, 2020 by Robin Mitchell
ISP in a Box: Althea Reimagines Mesh Network Systems

ISP in a Box: Althea Reimagines Mesh Network Systems

It all starts with firmware that runs a routing protocol, allowing routers to pay each other for bandwidth and automate network configuration.


News May 22, 2020 by Kayla Matthews
Semiconductor Nanophotonics Linked to Higher Communication Speed for Supercomputers and Data Centers

Semiconductor Nanophotonics Linked to Higher Communication Speed for Supercomputers and Data Centers

In the world of electronics and indeed science on the whole, when something simply just works without explanation, that’s not good enough; lots of questions get asked and researchers poke and prod until they can understand the underlying mechanisms and processes at work.


News May 21, 2020 by Luke James