Week in Review: IoT, Security, Auto

By Jeff Dorsch - 16 Nov, 2018 - Comments: 0

Internet of Things Gartner identified what it says are the top 10 strategic Internet of Things technologies and trends. Number one, no surprise, is artificial intelligence. Nick Jones, research vice president at Gartner, said in a statement, “AI will be applied to a wide range of IoT information, including video, still images, speech, network traffic activity, and sensor data.” Other top t... » read more

Power/Performance Bits: Nov. 6

By Jesse Allen - 06 Nov, 2018 - Comments: 0

Camera for object recognition Researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign developed a new camera that could improve object detection in vehicles. Inspired by the visual system of mantis shrimp, the camera detects the polarization of light and has a dynamic range about 10,000 times higher than today's commercial cameras. "In a recent crash involving a self-driving car, th... » read more

The Big Data Shift Has Started

By Ed Sperling - 05 Nov, 2018 - Comments: 0

Terry Brewer, president and CEO of Brewer Science, sat down with Semiconductor Engineering to talk about different priorities for private and public companies, why AI completely changes the game for technology companies, and what impact materials will have on innovation and design in the future. SE: What are the next big opportunities for Brewer Science? Brewer: There are broad opportunit... » read more

DARPA Seeks To Engage With MEMS Industry

By Jeff Dorsch - 31 Oct, 2018 - Comments: 0

Napa, Calif. — DARPA is looking for a few good members of the MEMS industry to offer advice and help to the agency’s Rapid Innovation for Production MEMS (RIPM) concept. Ronald Polcawich, a program manager for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s Microsystems Technology Office, presented the keynote address on the second and final day of the 2018 MEMS & Sensors Executive... » read more

Security for MEMS, Sensors

By Jeff Dorsch - 30 Oct, 2018 - Comments: 0

Napa, Calif. — The role of MEMS and sensors is growing as more devices are connected and more intelligence is added into those devices. But that has created its own set of issues involving security and privacy. “Our strategic landscape is changing,” observed Cynthia Wright, principal cybersecurity engineer at The MITRE Corp. and CEO of Synthus, during a keynote speech on day one of the... » read more

Power/Performance Bits: Oct. 23

By Jesse Allen - 23 Oct, 2018 - Comments: 0

Integrated solar battery Researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) built a unified solar cell-liquid battery device capable of returning more than 14% of the incoming solar energy as electricity. The device is capable of both converting solar energy to electricity for immediate use or storing it as chemical energy in ... » read more

Speedier, More Accurate Testing of Automotive Sensors Is Here

By Advantest - 12 Oct, 2018 - Comments: 0

The amount of electronic content in automobiles continues to grow at a brisk pace, and sensors represent a significant percentage of cars’ electronics. MarketsandMarkets estimates that the automotive sensors market alone will reach US$36.42 billion in value by 2023, at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 6.7 percent between 2017 and 2023. Sensors in cars are used to monitor and control... » read more

What Is SOTIF?

By Ed Sperling - 10 Oct, 2018 - Comments: 0

Arteris IP’s Kurt Shuler discusses new system-level best-practices approach to automotive design that will be used for both diagnostics and forensics when something goes wrong with autonomous vehicles. https://youtu.be/nC3TkF7c0Oo » read more

Data Converters For Automotive Applications

By Manuel Mota - 04 Oct, 2018 - Comments: 0

Sensor applications requiring data converters range from temperature sensors identifying different engine status to radar/LIDAR enabling Automotive Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS). Other applications involving data converters include wireless transceivers for communicating with other vehicles or with a fixed network. The data converter IP (analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog) provides an i... » read more

Power/Performance Bits: Oct. 2

By Jesse Allen - 02 Oct, 2018 - Comments: 0

Photonic sensor Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis devised a way to record environmental data using a wireless photonic sensor resonator with a whispering-gallery-mode (WGM) architecture capable of resonating at light frequencies and also at vibrational or mechanical frequencies. Optical sensors are not affected by electromagnetic interference, a major benefit in noisy or har... » read more

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