HeTech industrial design solutions
23 July, 2013HeTech, an Australian design and manufacturing solutions (turnkey) company, is adding a new service to its portfolio - industrial design.
Aldec Spec-tracer unified requirements life cycle management application
23 July, 2013Aldec’s Spec-tracer is a unified requirements life cycle management application designed specifically for FPGA and ASIC designs. Spec-tracer facilitates requirements capture, management, analysis, traceability and reporting that seamlessly integrates with windows-based HDL design and simulation tools.
Electrolube hexane-free flux remover
19 July, 2013Electrolube has developed a hexane-free flux remover (HFFR) for use during PCB manufacturing. HFFR is a fast-drying cleaning solvent that eliminates the use of the hazardous material n-hexane. Flux removers commonly consist of a blend of solvents, which can contain low levels of n-hexane - a solvent that has been identified as hazardous to human health.
Heineken’s LED interactive beer bottle
03 July, 2013Dutch brewer Heineken has introduced the world’s first smart beer bottle - Ignite - that can interact with other Ignite bottles, its environment and the people around it. The interactive bottle uses microsensors and wireless networking technology to sense the moment when a bottle is being used to say ‘cheers’.
Shrinking labs to the size of a computer chip
02 May, 2013Microfluidic devices are allowing microelectronic engineers to shrink laboratories to the size of a computer chip. By ferrying reagents through a series of microscopic channels and reservoirs carved into a flat plate, researchers can develop new chemical reactions or monitor the cellular effects of drugs on a much smaller scale, potentially saving time and money.
Upgraded PCB design
08 April, 2013Hybrid Electronics Australia manufactures thick film hybrid (hybrid) electronic circuits which can replace PCBs, be integrated with PCBs or upgrade PCBs.
Lattice Semiconductor iCE40 LP384 FPGA
04 April, 2013The iCE40 LP384 FPGA from Lattice Semiconductor is the smallest member of its expanding iCE40 family of ultralow-density FPGAs.
International Rectifier Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistor (IGBT) selection tool
22 March, 2013International Rectifier has enhanced its Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistor (IGBT) selection tool that enables design optimisation in a wide range of applications including motor drives, uninterruptable power supplies (UPS), solar inverters and welding.
Pushing the bounds of superconductivity
08 March, 2013A multiuniversity team of researchers has artificially engineered a unique multilayer material that could lead to breakthroughs in both superconductivity research and in real-world applications.
Microchip BodyCom uses human body as a secure, low-power communication channel
05 March, 2013Microchip Technology has announced its BodyCom technology, which provides designers with a framework for using the human body as a secure communication channel. Compared to existing wireless methods, BodyCom technology provides lower energy consumption, while further increasing security via bidirectional authentication.
RS Components mbed application board
04 March, 2013RS Components has available an mbed application board that supports rapid prototyping.
Highly energy-efficient CMOS logic systems
01 March, 2013Non-volatile bistable memory circuits being developed by Satoshi Sugahara and his team at Tokyo Institute of Technology are paving the way for highly energy-efficient CMOS logic systems.
Transient and vanishing electronics for the battlefield
25 February, 2013A new program aims to develop electronics that simply disappear when they are no longer needed on a battlefield. This will limit the access of enemy forces to the technologies and equipment harvesting.
Nanoscopic microcavities offer control in light filtering
11 February, 2013Using the geometric and material properties of a unique nanostructure, Boston College researchers have uncovered a novel photonic effect where surface plasmons interact with light to form ‘plasmonic halos’ of selectable output colour.
A new material for environmentally friendlier electronics
11 February, 2013A new ferroelectric material has been created by an international team of researchers. With properties analogous to those of a magnet in electricity, this new material has a lower impact on the environment.
