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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
ModusToolbox to simplify motor control development
Infineon Technologies has launched a suite of software, tools and resources for developing, configuring and monitoring motor control applications using the triple core XMC7000 controller with PSoC support coming.The Infineon ModusToolbox Motor Suite supports industrial, robotics, and consumer applications such as home...
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