Fifty years ago this month Doug Engelbart demonstrated what we’ve come to know as computing—the mouse, hypertext, and windows. His goal wasn’t to revolutionize computing per se, it was to give people better tools for collaboration, which he hoped would lead to better ways to fix the real problems of society. (Moving a cursor around […]
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Drones are growing in popularity for their ability to serve as a kind of eye in the sky. However, they can generally only last up to 30 minutes on a charge because of the limits of current battery technology. Now, a research team at the University of Washington has found a way to make bumblebees […]
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What’s the best type of device from which to build a neural network? Of course, it should be fast, small, consume little power, have the ability to reliably store many bits-worth of information. And if it’s going to be involved in learning new tricks as well as performing those tricks, it has to behave predictably […]
Understanding the System We are developing a tank fluid-level monitoring system. This system can be deployed in breweries, wineries, and other beverage facilities at the IoT edge to collect the status of the fluid levels and to notify technicians proactively if there are any issues (such as leaks). We have modified the system (Figure 1) […]
Experts dream that one day much of the Internet of Things (IoT) will power itself. But the trickle of energy most prototype systems can gather from the environment through ambient heat, light, radio waves, or even the metabolism of bacteria don’t easily give you enough voltage to power today’s transistors. One solution: ditch the transistors in […]
Once you upgrade to the high-end MPU space, ease-of-use is typically lost, as architectures and software environments bear their inherent complexities. But with MCUs clearly showing performance limitations, designers aiming to upgrade to high-performance will inevitably face the complexity challenge. There is only one exception to this rule, Renesas RZ/A embedded MPUs. With a large […]