There was once a memory technology which used the floating body effect of SOI as a switch. It was a capacitor-less single transistor technology 2x the density of DRAM and 5x the density of SRAM. It was invented in Switzerland by a former Micron guy and a Russian. A company raised $22 million to develop the technology which was licensed ...

Natalie Price has launched a crowdfunding campaign to raise £14,000 to bring her device for people with dementia and their carers to market. She was inspired to create a device that would keep people living with dementia safer having watched her own mother care for people with the disease for over 15 years. Price has designed a Proximity Button which ...

Toshiba has revealed details of an electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection scheme for 0.13μm analogue power semiconductors. “ESD protection is much more robust, up four times, and the standard deviation is only 1/12 that of the conventional structure,” claimed the firm. 3D simulation revealed that lattice temperature increase due to the current flowing at the highest electric field point caused ESD-induced destruction. ...

Harting has announced a range of current transformers with an eye to wind energy system developments. The window type current transformers can be used to measure the feed from decentralised power generation plants for billing activity with the network operator. The transformers incorporate a transducer that has a rectangular shape with a cut that is selected so that it fits ...

Zytronic, the supplier of rugged projected capacitive touch sensor technology, has added force sensing to its sensor range which will allow systems to differentiate between a soft and hard touch. Force or pressure sensing is becoming available on smartphones and UK-based Zytronic is bringing it to retail and industrial applications. Its approach is based on a measurement of the surface ...

Mouser has signed a global distribution agreement With Via Technologies. The VIA product line of integrated boards and modules enables the development of embedded system designs based on industry-standard PicoITX and ETX form factors. The VIA EPIA-P910 integrates the performance of a 1.2GHz VIA Eden X4 processor with a media system processor (MSP), two USB 3.0 ports, one Gigabit Ethernet ...

NI has introduced a PXIe module source measure unit (SMU) with a measurement sensitivity of 10fA and capable of driving a voltage output up to 200V. The PXIe-4135 SMU has the low-current accuracy and can provide up to 68 channels in a single PXI chassis for wafer-level parametric test, materials research and characterisation of low-current sensors and ICs. The PXIe ...

Forgive me for missing this one at the time, but I just noticed that Toshiba announced its intention to get out of GaN-on-silicon white leds by the end of last year (2015) The company had published some high-efficacy devices, and was working on 200mm wafers, but maybe yields were lower than Toshiba was comfortable with. That is one competitor out ...

Silicon Labs is sampling multiband Wireless Gecko SoCs which enable developers to use the same multiprotocol device for operation in 2.4 GHz and multiple sub-GHz bands. The devices are designed to support standards-based and proprietary 2.4 GHz protocols for short-range connectivity and proprietary sub-GHz protocols for long-range connectivity. A single hardware design can support multiple connectivity scenarios based on the ...

The Yanks love a good lawsuit and will start one at the drop of a hat on the flimsiest of evidence – but the guy who invented the iPhone 15 years before Steve Jobs, takes the biscuit. The guy didn’t actually get a patent for his design because he didn’t pay all the fees but he did file for a ...