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Tuesday, November 03, 2015
#NEWS "Five Startups to Pitch at MEMS Executive Congress"
Here's a rewritten press releaseyou might have missed at the MEMS Executive Congress:
Microfluidic Foundry LLC (San Pablo, California and Beijing, China), was founded in 2011, and is developing a MEMS chip that acts as Pitot tube to read pressure, flow rate for pipeline flow monitoring as well as for wind and moving speed measurement. www.microfluidicfoundry.com
ResoCator Inc. (Jacksonville, Florida) founded in 2014 is developing a miniature atomic clock on a chip to help create a GPS tag that will report location and environmental conditions using atomic clock-based trilateration between existing terrestrial radio towers. http://www.resocator.com/
Aveni SA (Massy, France) is the new name of Alchimer SA, a startup founded in 2001, that provides metallization technologies. The technologies include Electrografting and Chemicalgrafting and are claimed to offer alternatives to existing deposition techniques for through silicon via (TSV) metallization for aspect ratios greater than 10:1 and at geometries below 14nm. www.aveni.com
Aspinity Inc. (Morgantown, West Virginia) founded in June 2012 by Vinod Kulathumani is developing reconfigurable analog signal processing circuits as ICs and IP. By extracting application-relevant characteristics prior to digitizing the sensor data, Aspinity reduces the overall power and cost required in applications such as voice control, health monitoring, and industrial vibration monitoring. www.aspinity.com
Nxtsens Microsystems Inc. (Montreal, Canada) founded in 2015 is designing temperature-compensated oscillators and other timing circuits. Based on proprietary technology that allows for the fabrication of resonators in a high-vacuum environment, Nxtsens uses wafer-level packaging. www.nxtsens.com
Microfluidic Foundry LLC (San Pablo, California and Beijing, China), was founded in 2011, and is developing a MEMS chip that acts as Pitot tube to read pressure, flow rate for pipeline flow monitoring as well as for wind and moving speed measurement. www.microfluidicfoundry.com
ResoCator Inc. (Jacksonville, Florida) founded in 2014 is developing a miniature atomic clock on a chip to help create a GPS tag that will report location and environmental conditions using atomic clock-based trilateration between existing terrestrial radio towers. http://www.resocator.com/
Aveni SA (Massy, France) is the new name of Alchimer SA, a startup founded in 2001, that provides metallization technologies. The technologies include Electrografting and Chemicalgrafting and are claimed to offer alternatives to existing deposition techniques for through silicon via (TSV) metallization for aspect ratios greater than 10:1 and at geometries below 14nm. www.aveni.com
Aspinity Inc. (Morgantown, West Virginia) founded in June 2012 by Vinod Kulathumani is developing reconfigurable analog signal processing circuits as ICs and IP. By extracting application-relevant characteristics prior to digitizing the sensor data, Aspinity reduces the overall power and cost required in applications such as voice control, health monitoring, and industrial vibration monitoring. www.aspinity.com
Nxtsens Microsystems Inc. (Montreal, Canada) founded in 2015 is designing temperature-compensated oscillators and other timing circuits. Based on proprietary technology that allows for the fabrication of resonators in a high-vacuum environment, Nxtsens uses wafer-level packaging. www.nxtsens.com
Friday, October 30, 2015
#NEWS #Micron Challenges #HyperFlash from #Cypress/Spansion
Micron is challenging HyperFlash from Cypress/Spansion, and thinks got more going, but I say let the market decide--not just the good specs they quote. They also have a few more tricks up their sleeve that I can't tell you about yet. Stand by.
Thursday, October 29, 2015
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#NEWS: "Intel Xeon E7v3 Fastest for Dollar, Catching Up to IBM Power8" #SUPERCOMPUTER #Microprocessor
Intel's new Xeon E7v3 claims to the fastest in world for business analytic sand analysts say Intel is catching up to IBM at a lower price and consuming much less power: R. Colin Johnson @NextGenLog and EE Times
Thursday, April 30, 2015
Wednesday, April 29, 2015
Tuesday, April 28, 2015
#MEMS: "Smart Tires Our Destiny--Saving Billions and Maximizing Safety" #NEWS
Smart tires are our destiny according to Freecale, which says 18-wheeler fleet managers claim they can save $ millions on tire wear and preventive maintenance (as well as keep a tab on how safe their drivers are being). Tire pressure sensors are now standard equipment on most cars worldwide, due to government mandates. However big-rig trucks are exempt, but by adding special high-pressure sensors and accelerometers to thier portfolio Freescale plans to change all that, making "smart tires" the standard on every vehicle.
Thursday, April 23, 2015
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Wednesday, March 18, 2015
#NEWS: "Cyborg Insects Harnesed for Surveilance"
Insects swarming around your house? Check them closely, you may be on some agencies "close observation" list, making even outdoor conversations each to overhear. Or even better, if trapped in a building collapse yell help to every insect you see--it may be searching for survivor: R. Colin Johnson @NextGenLog and EE Times
READ FULL STORY AT EETIMES
READ FULL STORY AT EETIMES
Monday, March 16, 2015
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Wednesday, February 04, 2015
#GOOGLE: "Out-Google Google without the Ads"
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY CLAIMS DISPUTED--SEE COMMENTS ON GOOGLE'S PROWESS
#AIRSAFETY "2nd TransAsia Flight Crashes, All Planes Grounded" #News #Safety
DON'T MISS VIDEO SHOWING WHOLE CRASH INTO RIVER!
Sunday, February 01, 2015
#EETimes "Invisibility Cloaks Can Now Hide People Too" #News #HarryPotter #invisibility
Harry Potter's invisitility cloak is finally here for all visible wavelengths of light. There are still engineering hurdles to surmount before commercialization, but the Department of Defense--for one--is not waiting, but already deploying invisibility cloaks today. On what? That's classified: R. Colin Johnson @NetGenLog and EE Times
FULL STORY AT EE TIMES INCLUDING HOW-TO VIDEO
FULL STORY AT EE TIMES INCLUDING HOW-TO VIDEO
Tuesday, January 27, 2015
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Tuesday, January 20, 2015
#IoT "World's 1st Internet of Things App Store for IoT and Wearables" #DRONE #ROBOT
The world's first Internet-of-Things (IoT) App Store opens today by the makers of the most popular version of Linux, Cananical's Ubuntu. The company is giving away the Ubuntu Core--a stripped down version of Linux with no graphical user interface (GUI)--for anyone making IoT or wearables, will handle auto-updating devices, guarantees bullet-proof security and will allow developers to use their cloud to test apps, list them in their store, or help IoT or wearable maker to put up their own cloud-based store: R.Colin Johnson @NextGenLog Google+ and EE Times
Robotic quadcopter produced using Canonical's Ubuntu Core.
Cheap $35 Odroid robot controller board wors with Ubuntu Core.
FULL STORY AT EE TIMES
Robotic quadcopter produced using Canonical's Ubuntu Core.
Cheap $35 Odroid robot controller board wors with Ubuntu Core.
FULL STORY AT EE TIMES
#AUTOMOTIVE: "Ford Self-Driving Cars Will Be Cheap" #SELFDRIVING #CARS #GOOGLE
Ford funded researchers have found a way to make self driving cars that use a single camera. Google or Ford or someone with deep pockets will first have to send survey cars around to create 3-D maps, similar to the maps your Garmin already has produced. R.Colin Johnson @NextGenLog, Google+ and EE Times
Three Ford Fusions have been adapted to autonomous self driving by the University of Michigan.
FULL STORY ON
EE TIMES
Three Ford Fusions have been adapted to autonomous self driving by the University of Michigan.
FULL STORY ON
EE TIMES
Monday, January 19, 2015
#MEDICAL: "Electronic Spine Cures Paralysis"
Spinal injuries need not cause paralysis anymore with this electronic spine installed. It already works on rats and is being rushed through human trials to cure paralyzed people soon: R. Colin Johnson @NextGenLog and EE Times
Biocompanitble implant has a silicon substrate that is covered with cracked gold electric conducting tracks that can be pulled and stretched without damage.
FULL STORY AT EE TIMES
Biocompanitble implant has a silicon substrate that is covered with cracked gold electric conducting tracks that can be pulled and stretched without damage.
FULL STORY AT EE TIMES
Thursday, January 15, 2015
#CHIPS: "FeFET Extends Moore's Law Beyond end of Silicon Roadmap"
A transistor that is smaller than today's silicon transistors and yet has a built-in memory material in its gate oxide, called ferroelectric transistors, could change the face of computing by allowing instant-on operation as well as eliminate the need for RAM and flash by running faster than DRAM and denser than flash: R. Colin Johnson @NextGenLog and EE Times
The ferroelectric material pictured on a germanium channel above a silicon substrate retains its polarization indefinitely making any computers built from FeFETs instant-on
The measurement set-up using negative-biased conductive scanning probe to sense switching in ferroelectric layer.
FULL STORY AT EE TIMES
The ferroelectric material pictured on a germanium channel above a silicon substrate retains its polarization indefinitely making any computers built from FeFETs instant-on
The measurement set-up using negative-biased conductive scanning probe to sense switching in ferroelectric layer.
FULL STORY AT EE TIMES
Monday, January 12, 2015
#MEMS Sparking Wearables / IoT Beyond Your Dreams
MEMS are enabling wearables that would be impossible without the tiny sensor technology and you won't believe some of the possibilities Intel and others have in the queue: R. Colin Johnson @NextGenLog and EE Times
From fashion that reflects your mood to robots making their own replacement parts, MEMS sensors are sparking a whole new generation of wearables and Internet of Things (IoT) devices. Source: Intel
FULL STORY AT EE TIMES
From fashion that reflects your mood to robots making their own replacement parts, MEMS sensors are sparking a whole new generation of wearables and Internet of Things (IoT) devices. Source: Intel
FULL STORY AT EE TIMES
#CES "Ultra-High-Definition 4K TV Delivered Cheap Over Telephone Wires"
You used to have to subscribe to an expensive fiber optics or high speed cable service to bring 4K TV into the home, but now Sckipio is enabling twisted copper pairs, already installed in every home, to carry the ultra-high-defininition (UHD) signals for 4K TV: R. Colin Johnson @NextGenLog, Google+ and EE Times
Sckipio enables telcos to deliver ultra-high-definition (UHD)4K TV to houses over plain old twisted pair copper wires already installed in every household.
FULL STORY AT EE TIMES
Sckipio enables telcos to deliver ultra-high-definition (UHD)4K TV to houses over plain old twisted pair copper wires already installed in every household.
FULL STORY AT EE TIMES
Tuesday, January 06, 2015
#CES: "IoT Modules Quicken Innovation" #EETIMES #IoT
Weaved has leveled the playing field for small companies by allowing them to mix and match remade Internet of Things (IoT) devices that are pre-connected to Weaved's cloud infrastructure, leaving the innovator to build the app that controls it all.
Weaved's smart 360-degree camera module can be used to create Google-like neighborhood maps, watch activity everywhere in a room, parking lot, wherever.
FULL STORY ON EE TIMES
Weaved's smart 360-degree camera module can be used to create Google-like neighborhood maps, watch activity everywhere in a room, parking lot, wherever.
FULL STORY ON EE TIMES
Monday, January 05, 2015
#CES: "Sony Chooses PNI Hub for SmartWatch 3" #MEMS #EETimes
Sony just revealed that it chose the PNI Sensor's SENtral sensor fusion coprocessor for Sony's SmartWatch 3. And now at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES, Las Vegas) PNI is showing its SENtrode design kit for others to quickly prototype a smartwatch that uses MEMS sensors to measure almost everything you can think of accelerometer, gyroscope, magnetometer, pressure sensor, low-power Bluetootg, a heart rate monitor, humidity sensors and gas sensors for measuring the quality of air: R. Colin Johnson @NextGenLog and EE Times
Just add a display and OEMs have a ready made smartwatch to add to their IoT offerings.
FULL STORY AT EE TIMES
Just add a display and OEMs have a ready made smartwatch to add to their IoT offerings.
FULL STORY AT EE TIMES
#MEMS: "Bosch Adds Air-Quality to its Combo Sensors" #EETimes
Bosch has combo sensors that measure temperature and humidity, temperature, humidity and pressure and now all the three plus the quality-of-the-air, which should be very popular in China where people wear masks when they know the air quality it poor: R. Colin Johnson @NextGenLog and EE Times
Bosch's latest environmental sensor combines temperature, pressure, humidity and indoor-air-quality (IAQ) all in the same 3x3x.93 millimeter package for smart-phones, -watches, -homes and -buildings.
FULL STORY ON EE TIMES
Bosch's latest environmental sensor combines temperature, pressure, humidity and indoor-air-quality (IAQ) all in the same 3x3x.93 millimeter package for smart-phones, -watches, -homes and -buildings.
FULL STORY ON EE TIMES
Friday, January 02, 2015
#ROBOTS "60 Top Ag Robots in 2014" #EETimes
Here we have a slideshow of the most popular agricultural robots in 2014, see them in action in-the-field: R. Colin Johnson @NextGenLog and EE Times
"BoniRob" is a lightweight field robot from Amazone being developed by Amazone-Werke Gmbh, Hasbergen, Germany with Robert Bosch GmbH. BoniRob is lightweight field robot capable of working in swarms with others like it for weeding, applying fertilizer and other ag tasks.CLICK to start slideshow.
FULL STORY ON EETIMES
"BoniRob" is a lightweight field robot from Amazone being developed by Amazone-Werke Gmbh, Hasbergen, Germany with Robert Bosch GmbH. BoniRob is lightweight field robot capable of working in swarms with others like it for weeding, applying fertilizer and other ag tasks.CLICK to start slideshow.
FULL STORY ON EETIMES
Thursday, January 01, 2015
#SMARTPHONES: "Russian Smartphone Sports Two Screens, but Is It Spying on Its User Too" #EETimes #Spying #NSA
The Russian smartphone called the YotaPhone will go on sale in the U.S. later in 2015. Its best feature is that it features an E-Ink e-reader on the back that extends its battery life to 100 hours. But will people buy it? We already know that the U.S. National Security Agency is listening to our phone calls for terrorist talk, but what might the Russian's have hidden inside their smartphone? Probably nothing, but it makes you wonder: R. Colin Johnson @NextGenLog and EE Times
The backside is always on showing time, weather, emails and messages arrived drawing almost zero power.
The backside also doubles as an e-reader which (if you turn-off the front color screen) extends the battery life to 100 hours.
FULL STORY AT EE TIMES
The backside is always on showing time, weather, emails and messages arrived drawing almost zero power.
The backside also doubles as an e-reader which (if you turn-off the front color screen) extends the battery life to 100 hours.FULL STORY AT EE TIMES
#MEMS: "Gas Sensors in Smartphones Measure Quality-of-Air" #EETimes
The use of gas sensors have been declining until 2014, but in 2015 will start skyrocketing, according to IHS, mostly because they will enable smartphones to measure the "quality of air" which is an increasing concern in China--the world's biggest market: R. Colin Johnson @NextGenLog and EE Times
Gas sensors will skyrocket starting in 2015 due to international concern over the quality of our air, especially in China.
FULL STORY AT EETIMES
Gas sensors will skyrocket starting in 2015 due to international concern over the quality of our air, especially in China.
FULL STORY AT EETIMES
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