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Jet engines fit for the hydrogen age

Jet engines fit for the hydrogen age

Researchers at ETH Zurich have now provided an important contribution for the development of clean hydrogen aircraft engines: they have tested the acoustic behaviour of hydrogen injection nozzles in the lab under conditions similar to those prevalent at cruising altitude“Hydrogen burns much...

Published on: November 11, 2024

Paper power from the air for disposable sensors

Paper power from the air for disposable sensors

Researchers in the US have developed an paper-based energy harvesting technology that can generate power from moisture in the air for disposable sensors.The bacteria-based ‘papertronic’ power cell developed at the Bioelectronics and Microsystems Lab at Binghamton University in New York state, use spores...

Published on: November 11, 2024

Broadband muscles in on Matter in the smart home

Broadband muscles in on Matter in the smart home

Broadband vendors are aiming to tap into the smart home market using the Matter protocol, which is seen as too fragmented.A new cloud-based device management specification from the Broadband Forum will enable broadband service providers to deploy compatible devices in the smart...

Published on: November 11, 2024

SnapMagic adds 3500 Harwin connector models

SnapMagic adds 3500 Harwin connector models

SnapMagic has released over 3500 computer-aided design (CAD) models for Harwin high reliability connectors to help engineers develop boards faster.The CAD models include schematic symbols and PCB footprints and follow industry standards as well as SnapMagic’s internal standards. All the component libraries...

Published on: November 11, 2024

Renesas, Nidec show first 8-in-1 e-axle proof of concept

Renesas, Nidec show first 8-in-1 e-axle proof of concept

Renesas Electronics has teamed up with Nidec for the industry’s first ‘8 in 1’ e-axle proof of concept (PoC). The e-axle combines eight functions with a single RH850/U2B microcontroller and power management IC (PMIC) rather than separate devices for each function to significantly...

Published on: November 11, 2024

3D-printed solutions for electronics protection

3D-printed solutions for electronics protection

With the help of 3D printing techniques, researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) are “packaging” electronics with printable elastomeric silicone foams to provide both mechanical and electrical protection of sensitive componentsElectrostatic discharge (ESD) protection is a significant concern in the chemical...

Published on: November 11, 2024

AI vision implemented on edge MCUs using Nvidia TAO demonstrated

AI vision implemented on edge MCUs using Nvidia TAO demonstrated

Alif Semiconductor® and Edge Impulse have announced a significant breakthrough in implementing AI vision processing on edge microcontrollers (MCUs), through the introduction of full support for the Nvidia TAO model training toolkit on the Ensemble® and Balletto™ MCU families and the Edge...

Published on: November 11, 2024

Digital special edition covers electronics 2024

Digital special edition covers electronics 2024

As the world’s leading electronics innovators and companies gather for electronica 2024 in Munich this week, Elektor and eeNews Europe have published a special digital edition to  showcase of the strengths of both publications. Both eeNews and Elektor are at the show...

Published on: November 10, 2024

ADI buys Flex Logix embedded FPGA assets

ADI buys Flex Logix embedded FPGA assets

Flex Logix has sold its embedded FPGA assets to Analog Devices (ADI), which has also hired the technical team.Flex Logix had been selling its low power EFLX and InferX embedded FPGA IP for artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) designs, having also...

Published on: November 10, 2024

Magnetic octupoles overcome problems with antiferromagnets

Magnetic octupoles overcome problems with antiferromagnets

Physicists at RIKEN have demonstrated how ultrafast, low-power-consumption memory devices could be realized by replacing conventional magnetic materials with novel onesIn conventional hard disk drives, the magnetic disk has to be physically moved to read to and write from the disk. This...

Published on: November 10, 2024