LEUVEN, Belgium—Imec, a research center for nanoelectronics and digital technologies based here, is developing tools, modules and nanochips with the goals of advancing cancer treatment, sequencing proteomes and better understanding the brain, Peter Peumans, imec’s CTO for health technologies, told EE Times. One project focuses on improving the groundbreaking adoptive cell cancer therapy called chimeric […]
The analog side of the Internet of Things (IoT) has always existed. In recent years, however, design engineers realized its importance in making IoT systems robust and reliable. In the past, IoT engineers mainly focused on the digital side of the IoT. That is, until they discovered that if the processor or microcontroller don’t have […]
Analog sensors return a continuous voltage when a physical quantity changes. In other words, at their output, there is a potential difference proportional to the type of event measured. There are hundreds of analog sensor types, and their best use is to be connected to a microcontroller equipped with an ADC input for measurement detection […]
LONDON—6G Futures, the center for research, education, and innovation that King’s College, the University of Bristol, and the University of Strathclyde established a bit longer than a year ago, is formally seeking funding from the U.K.’s ministry for digital media and culture and the U.K. Research Council, Toktam Mahmoodi, professor in communications engineering, and Director […]
SkyWater Technology CEO Thomas Sonderman is building a new type of chip foundry that shifts onerous multi-billion–dollar fab investments to customers who bear most of the cost. The only 100% U.S.-owned foundry was created in 2017 after private equity investor Oxbow Industries acquired Cypress Foundry Solutions, a subsidiary of now-defunct Cypress Semiconductor, and installed former […]
Do you know all of these FPGA design flow terms? Get a quick overview from a software perspective by our Achronix Applications Engineering Manager, Katie Purcell. Even if you’re familiar with software design flows, you may not know the terms used in FPGA design flows. https://www.eetimes.com/wp-content/uploads/01-Katie-Complete_sub_vertical_youtube.mp4 Achronix, a fabless manufacturer of high-performance FPGAs, eFPGA IP, and accelerator […]
Event cameras—neuromorphic sensors that output asynchronous spikes analogous to those that go from the retina to the brain—may be approaching a point where they stop being considered quite so “exotic.” EE Times has covered them before, especially in articles by those on the front line of the technology, such as Tobi Delbruck and Jean-Luc Jaffard. […]
I spy with my little eye…a thousand other eyes looking back at me. Almost everywhere we look in today’s world, we find image sensors. The typical smartphone has at least two, and some contain up to five. Devices such as security cameras, in-car cameras, smart doorbells, and baby monitors can look in all directions, keep […]
Roland Sperlich (Source: TI) Not that anyone needed more proof that the analog segment in the electronics industry is booming, but Texas Instruments (TI) is serving it up anyway: On Sept. 29, TI announced it began initial chip production at RFAB2, a new 300-mm analog wafer fab in Richardson, TX, that is connected to RFAB1, […]