Implanting electronics into the brain
23 November, 2012If you’re thinking about the ‘Six Million Dollar Man’, you’re not entirely off base. University of Utah electrical engineering professor Florian Solzbacher is pushing the boundaries of electrical devices that can be implanted into the brain and used as an interface between neurons and computers.
Surprising findings could influence material choices in nanoelectronics
12 November, 2012To build the computer chips of the future, designers will need to understand how an electrical charge behaves when it is confined to metal wires only a few atom-widths in diameter. A team of physicists has shown that electrical current may be drastically reduced when wires from two dissimilar metals meet.
Faster, smaller electronics
24 October, 2012The dilute magnetic semiconductor gallium manganese arsenide could open up an entirely new class of faster, smaller devices based on ‘spintronics’. Materials of this type might be used to read and write digital information, not by using the electron’s charge, as is the case with today’s electronic devices, but by using its ‘spin’.
RS Components now a distribution partner for Arduino’s educational kit
08 October, 2012The Arduino Uno educational kit aids entry-level electronics design and prototyping.
Microchip Technology’s 24-bit audio MCU-based development boards
18 September, 2012USB digital audio accessory board for audio and voice device development.
Curiosity lands on Mars with OmneticsConnector’s nanoconnectors
30 August, 2012When Curiosity landed on Mars recently it contained OmneticsConnector’s miniature and low-weight nanoconnectors used within two miniature inertial measurement units.
Rubber-band electronics
27 August, 2012Researchers have recently developed a design that allows electronics to bend and stretch to more than 200% their original size, four times greater than is possible with today’s technology. The key is a combination of a porous polymer and liquid metal.
On-track Technology electronics manufacturing services
13 July, 2012Based in Mascot, Sydney, On-track Technology provides electronic manufacturing services.
element14 Features robotics range
29 June, 2012The newest edition of ‘element14 Features’, with solutions and over 15,000 products for industrial manufacturing and robotics, has been announced.
Kontron COM Express Starterkit type 6
26 August, 2011 byThe COM Express Starterkit type 6 from Kontron assists users to develop and evaluate new systems based on COM Express pin-out type 6 computer-on-modules.
Ferroelectrics may lead to new memory
12 May, 2011The properties of ferroelectric materials are moving scientists closer to realising a new way of electronic memory storage.
Digital prototyping in mechatronic design
07 June, 2010Today’s manufacturers are using a mechatronics-based approach to integrate the electronic, mechanical and software components of their increasingly complex products. Digital prototyping allows disparate engineering teams to work from a single digital model, saving time and reducing errors throughout the design process.
MEMS inside a CMOS wafer
05 May, 2010Baolab Microsystems has developed a technology to construct nanoscale MEMS (micro electro mechanical systems) within the structure of the actual CMOS wafer itself using standard, high-volume CMOS lines, which is much easier and quicker with fewer process steps than existing MEMS fabrication techniques that build the MEMS on the surface of the wafer.
Designing mini x86 devices efficiently
02 December, 2009With Pico-ITX, small form factor (SFF) designers can gain from a standard solution, with which they can develop the smallest embedded devices fast and without having to make user-specific adaptations. There are, however, alternatives.
Navigating the design process
02 December, 2009 by LX InnovationsThis article by LX Innovations outlines the process of electronics design and points out some of the various common pitfalls that can be encountered and ways they can be avoided.
