http://www.electronicsweekly.com/ElectronicsWeekly.com - News, analysis, research and opinions provided by the journalists of Electronics Weeklyen-gbCopyright Reed Business Information 2006http://www.electronicsweekly.com/images/ew-logo.gifhttp://www.electronicsweekly.com/14430Electronics WeeklyThu, 17 May 2012 00:09:00 GMT60http://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2012/05/17/53669/acal-bfi-claims-lantronix-web-server-is-smallest.htmhttp://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2012/05/17/53669/acal-bfi-claims-lantronix-web-server-is-smallest.htmeditorial@electronicsweekly.comThe device, which is an Ethernet-based web server and full IP stack, measures just 24mm x 16.5mmThu, 17 May 2012 00:09:00 GMThttp://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2012/05/17/53670/freescale-faces-up-to-intel-in-the-blade-server-market.htmhttp://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2012/05/17/53670/freescale-faces-up-to-intel-in-the-blade-server-market.htmeditorial@electronicsweekly.comBut ARM processor-based systems are still expected to follow Freescale into the blade server marketThu, 17 May 2012 00:01:00 GMThttp://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2012/05/16/53665/plastic-logic-goes-for-plastic-inside-strategy.htmhttp://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2012/05/16/53665/plastic-logic-goes-for-plastic-inside-strategy.htmeditorial@electronicsweekly.comPlastic Logic has dropped its e-reader product line and is going for a ‘Plastic Inside’ strategy – selling its plastic back-planes, sensors and tags for customers to incorporate into end products. Wed, 16 May 2012 16:30:00 GMThttp://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2012/05/16/53668/ftdi-signs-arrow-for-new-usb-device-push.htmhttp://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2012/05/16/53668/ftdi-signs-arrow-for-new-usb-device-push.htmeditorial@electronicsweekly.com“With the recent launch of our new X-Chip series of USB bridge interface chips, our teams can now engage the market,” said Fred Dart, founder and chief executive officer of FTDI ChipWed, 16 May 2012 15:49:00 GMThttp://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2012/05/16/53667/dram-recovery-on-the-way.htmhttp://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2012/05/16/53667/dram-recovery-on-the-way.htmeditorial@electronicsweekly.comAfter falling 25% last year, the DRAM market will grow 3% this year, says IHS. The DRAM business is on an upwards trend, topping $30bn this year and set for $40bn in 2016. Wed, 16 May 2012 12:21:00 GMThttp://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2012/05/16/53666/personal-body-networks-go-wireless-at-2.4ghz.htmhttp://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2012/05/16/53666/personal-body-networks-go-wireless-at-2.4ghz.htmeditorial@electronicsweekly.comFor commercial off-the-shelf antennas to used for medical body area networks they must be able to operate in an environment that they were not generally designed for, next to the human body instead of in free space, writes Simon KingsleyWed, 16 May 2012 12:06:00 GMThttp://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2012/05/16/53664/optical-triangulation-sensor-works-in-bright-ambient.htmhttp://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2012/05/16/53664/optical-triangulation-sensor-works-in-bright-ambient.htmeditorial@electronicsweekly.comiC-LO is a triangulation sensor from German fabless chip company iC-Haus. For use in diffuse reflective photoelectric sensors, the IC includes a linear array of 129 photodiodes, signal conditioning...Wed, 16 May 2012 11:19:00 GMThttp://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2012/05/16/53663/jaguar-joins-drive-to-boost-engineer-graduate-numbers.htmhttp://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2012/05/16/53663/jaguar-joins-drive-to-boost-engineer-graduate-numbers.htmeditorial@electronicsweekly.comJLR employs over 1,000 electrical and electronic engineers for R&D in the UKWed, 16 May 2012 11:06:00 GMThttp://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2012/05/16/53662/smart-grid-reaches-substations.htmhttp://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2012/05/16/53662/smart-grid-reaches-substations.htmeditorial@electronicsweekly.comSmart grid street transformer remote monitoring system GridKey has won its first design-in, in 100 substations operated by...Wed, 16 May 2012 10:40:00 GMThttp://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2012/05/16/53660/science-teleportation-record-heralds-secure-global-network.htmhttp://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2012/05/16/53660/science-teleportation-record-heralds-secure-global-network.htmeditorial@electronicsweekly.comThe distance record for quantum teleportationMovie Camera has been smashed. Juan Yin and colleagues at the University of Science and Technology of China in Hefei, Anhui, teleported a quantum state 97 kilometres, 81 km further than the previous record.Wed, 16 May 2012 08:49:00 GMThttp://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2012/05/16/53659/zmdi-to-design-power-chips-in-ireland.htmhttp://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2012/05/16/53659/zmdi-to-design-power-chips-in-ireland.htmeditorial@electronicsweekly.comThe move by the German chip firm builds on a growing cluster of power chip expertise in the regionWed, 16 May 2012 06:01:00 GMThttp://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2012/05/16/53661/space-soyuz-carries-crew-to-international-space-station.htmhttp://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2012/05/16/53661/space-soyuz-carries-crew-to-international-space-station.htmeditorial@electronicsweekly.comThree astronauts have been successfully launched into orbit aboard a Soyuz rocket from Baikonur, Kazakhstan. The astronauts, one American and two Russians, will dock with the International Space Station (ISS) on 16 May.Wed, 16 May 2012 00:01:00 GMThttp://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2012/05/15/53658/software-is-at-heart-of-everything-says-national-instruments.htmhttp://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2012/05/15/53658/software-is-at-heart-of-everything-says-national-instruments.htmeditorial@electronicsweekly.com“The secret sauce for us was creating a reuseable software platform for instruments,” says Alex Davern, chief operating officer of National InstrumentTue, 15 May 2012 17:31:00 GMThttp://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2012/05/15/53657/mitsubishi-igbt-modules-for-solar.htmhttp://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2012/05/15/53657/mitsubishi-igbt-modules-for-solar.htmeditorial@electronicsweekly.comMitsubishi has announced its sixth-generation of IGBT modules for power converters. "The sixth-generation carrier-stored trench-gate bipolar transistor reduces...Tue, 15 May 2012 17:30:00 GMThttp://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2012/05/15/53656/cadence-offers-system-level-verification-for-speed.htmhttp://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2012/05/15/53656/cadence-offers-system-level-verification-for-speed.htmeditorial@electronicsweekly.comCadence has targeted the verification process itself and speeded up the process considerablyTue, 15 May 2012 17:07:00 GMThttp://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2012/05/15/53655/gan-is-coming-silicon-beware.htmhttp://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2012/05/15/53655/gan-is-coming-silicon-beware.htmeditorial@electronicsweekly.com“Gallium nitride power transistors are poised to move out of the labs and into mains PSUs and motor drives,” was one message from the PCIM power show in Nuremberg this monthTue, 15 May 2012 16:31:00 GMThttp://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2012/05/15/53654/sic-aims-for-super-junction-mosfet-territory.htmhttp://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2012/05/15/53654/sic-aims-for-super-junction-mosfet-territory.htmeditorial@electronicsweekly.comSemiSouth has announced a 650V silicon carbide JFET. Although voltage devices SiC exist for solar and industrial use, this is the first time a firm has aimed a SiC transistor at applications already addressed by silicon super-junction mosfets for...Tue, 15 May 2012 16:23:00 GMThttp://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2012/05/15/53652/mcu-meets-fpga-seminar-series-launched-by-msc-lattice-and-atmel.htmhttp://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2012/05/15/53652/mcu-meets-fpga-seminar-series-launched-by-msc-lattice-and-atmel.htmeditorial@electronicsweekly.comMSC Gleichmann UK, Lattice Semiconductor and Atmel have announced a series of workshops aimed at helping engineers to develop systems that combine microcontrollers (MCUs) and field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs).Tue, 15 May 2012 15:57:00 GMThttp://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2012/05/15/53653/sic-jfets-acquisition-takes-the-fear-out-of-driving.htmhttp://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2012/05/15/53653/sic-jfets-acquisition-takes-the-fear-out-of-driving.htmeditorial@electronicsweekly.comWhy did PSU chip maker Power Integrations buy an IGBT driver board firm? It looks like it was to remove potential customer worry over driving high-power silicon carbide JFETs. Power Integrations (PI) is a fabless...Tue, 15 May 2012 15:28:00 GMThttp://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2012/05/15/53638/job-of-the-week-atlantic-microwave-business-development-engineer.htmhttp://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2012/05/15/53638/job-of-the-week-atlantic-microwave-business-development-engineer.htmeditorial@electronicsweekly.comAtlantic Microwave is recruiting a Business Development Engineer. Based in the UK, it is a permanent full-time roles. The salary is £50,000 plus + benefits + bonus.Tue, 15 May 2012 09:22:00 GMThttp://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2012/05/15/53651/space-cmse-europe-event-advance-programme-announced.htmhttp://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2012/05/15/53651/space-cmse-europe-event-advance-programme-announced.htmeditorial@electronicsweekly.comThe organisers of the 11th 'Components for Military and Space Electronics' have announced the advance programme for the event, which is taking place from the 25th to 27th June 2012, in Portsmouth.Tue, 15 May 2012 00:42:00 GMThttp://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2012/05/15/53649/unusual-shape-of-intels-finfets.htmhttp://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2012/05/15/53649/unusual-shape-of-intels-finfets.htmeditorial@electronicsweekly.comIntel’s finfets are the topic du jour in the IC industry and Professor Asen Asenov of Glasgow University and CEO of Gold Standard Simulations has thrown light on the reason for their unusual shape. Tue, 15 May 2012 00:01:00 GMThttp://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2012/05/15/53650/imperas-releases-ovp-models-for-mips-aptiv-processors.htmhttp://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2012/05/15/53650/imperas-releases-ovp-models-for-mips-aptiv-processors.htmeditorial@electronicsweekly.comOVP processor models can be used for the development of hardware-dependent software such as firmware and bare metal applicationsTue, 15 May 2012 00:01:00 GMThttp://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2012/05/14/53648/koreans-take-85-of-mobile-dram-market.htmhttp://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2012/05/14/53648/koreans-take-85-of-mobile-dram-market.htmeditorial@electronicsweekly.comMobile DRAM ASP fell by 10-15% in Q1 while thecontract price dropped 10%, says DRAMeXchange but, as shipment bit growth was around 20%, total mobile DRAM revenue increased by approximately 37% QoQ. Mon, 14 May 2012 14:51:00 GMThttp://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2012/05/14/53647/semi-industry-set-for-a-good-year-says-ic-insights.htmhttp://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2012/05/14/53647/semi-industry-set-for-a-good-year-says-ic-insights.htmeditorial@electronicsweekly.comThe semiconductor industry is set for a sparkling year growing by 6% between Q1 and Q2 and by more between Q2 and Q3, according to IC Insights. Mon, 14 May 2012 14:01:00 GMT