Archive for the ‘Electronics’ Category
Monday, May 14th, 2012
Demand for shielded cast windows continues to rise in terms of quantity and quality. To satisfy demand on both fronts for these products, which reduce radio-frequency and other electrical interference and help manufacturers achieve electromagnetic compliance (EMC), Chomerics Europe, a division of Parker Hannifin, has established a new manufacturing cell ...
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Tuesday, April 24th, 2012
French research and technology organisation CEA-Leti and Caen-based company IPDiA have announced the successful development of a new process based on the deposition of atomic medium-K dielectric layers within the aggressive architecture of IPDiA’s 3-D metal-insulator-metal capacitors. Atomic layer deposition (ALD) is a key process technology that enables conformal coating ...
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Thursday, April 12th, 2012
As more and more healthcare apps enter the marketplace, manufacturers increasingly will wrestle with complex regulatory issues that don't always have a clear path to compliance. For example, as functionality is added to software used in a healthcare setting, it can become a medical device in legal terms, writes ...
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Monday, April 9th, 2012
A cordless portable device developed at Fraunhofer Institute for Ceramic Technologies and Systems can supply power to medical devices without touching them. The device can be attached to a belt and carried by the user.
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Friday, March 30th, 2012
Because of their mechanical flexibility, organic transistors have tremendous potential to improve the functionality of pacemakers, hearing aids and related medical devices, but the sensitivity to heat and the power requirements of conventional transistors pose an obstacle. Japanese researchers say they have found a work-around.
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Wednesday, March 28th, 2012
Research in robotics tend to focus on making robots as similar to humans as possible. Robots are even supposed to communicate like humans (a recent study looked at how robots can learn to sound more like us). Some researchers are taking a step back and looking for inspiration in animals. ...
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Monday, March 12th, 2012
An endoscopy cable developed by Leoni AG’s Healthcare Business Unit features an outer diameter of just 0.52 mm yet reliably transmits high-resolution image data. The cable was designed for Israeli company Medigus to ensure interference-free and secure data transmission from a 0.66 x 0.66 mm sized CMOS sensor to ...
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Friday, March 9th, 2012
At the DATE 2012 (Design Automation and Test in Europe) conference, taking place on 12 March in Dresden, Germany, a new design approach for systems-on-chips will be discussed. Ioannis Sourdis, project leader of DeSyRe (On-Demand System Reliability) and Assistant Professor in computer engineering at Chalmers University of Technology (Stockholm, Sweden) ...
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Monday, March 5th, 2012
At Embedded World in Nürnberg, Germany, Analog Devices Inc. (ADI) announced that its iCoupler digital isolator technology is now incorporated in Lantronix Inc.'s new family of wireless communication network servers. The EDS-MD family of multiport medical device servers enabled by ADI's iCouplers remotely monitor, manage and control multiple medical devices. "In medical ...
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Monday, March 5th, 2012
Last week, Barnaby Jack, a researcher at McAfee Inc., demonstrated how a hacker could kill a diabetic by stealing the security credentials of an insulin pump. Jack made the demonstration at the RSA security conference in San Francisco using a see-through mannequin. By using a program he had written, he ...
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Thursday, March 1st, 2012
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MAZeT GmbH is presenting its technical expertise in the development of medical equipment electronics at Embedded World taking place in Nürnberg, Germany this week. The developer and manufacturing service provider for embedded computing and optoelectronics based in Jena, Germany anticipates significant growth potential in the ...
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Tuesday, January 24th, 2012
A tiny terahertz (THz) transmitter developed at the Technische Universität Darmstadt Institute for Microwave Technology and Photonics achieves the highest frequency on record for a device of this kind and can operate at room temperature.
Typically used to nondestructively inspect materials, THz transmitters have found limited adoption because of their cost ...
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