Software-Defined Radar Is First Leap On SDV Path


Software-defined vehicles (SDVs) have had car company marketers in a veritable tizzy for several years, and while they generally agree on the direction, they differ on the speed and route to adoption. For most OEMs, a wholesale change in vehicle architecture, from hood ornament to trunk-latch, is easier said than done. Legacy systems, both hardware and software, are the millstone around OEMs... » read more

Power/Performance Bits: July 19


Atomic storage In the search for ever-smaller storage, a team of scientists at Delft University in the Netherlands built a 1 kilobyte memory where each bit is represented by the position of one single chlorine atom. "In theory, this storage density would allow all books ever created by humans to be written on a single post stamp," said lead scientist Sander Otte. They reached a storage de... » read more