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electronicspecifier.com 3 Comment The next industrial revolution gathers pace!

t’s been a really ‘interesting’ time for anyone involved infrastructure and production logistics, IT security, big in the currency or equity markets. Traders and data and the cloud, IT and energy and M2M. Whether Iinvestors of all types have been affected by the optimised process control, automation or the intelligent uncertainty of the on/off Greek relationship with Europe planning of resources – the use of software solutions, and the reversal of fortunes in the Chinese stock sensors and embedded systems in electronics market based on the fact that China’s annual growth is manufacturing is increasing. down below 10% – a figure any other country would be delighted with by the way. According to some experts, more than half of the increases in productivity in the European economy Watching from the side-lines, those who run during the past 15 or so years can be attributed companies must decide when the time is right to invest to innovations in information and communication in people, inventory or capital equipment and, despite technology. In the area of software embedded systems the uncertainty generated by these wild fluctuations for example, Germany has achieved a leading position, in currency and share values, there is enough positive particularly in the automotive and machine-building news around to make these difficult investment sectors. Still not clear? Well the subject now has its decisions a little easier. own show and conference.

One area where investment is beginning to pay Called IT2Industry, it is being held alongside this dividends is in what is described by many as the year’s productronica in Munich and will focus on ‘fourth industrial revolution’ - which is probably intelligent, digitally networked working environments why it’s called ‘Industry 4.0’. This is the industrial and deals with topics that cover the entire forerunner to the IoT, which is sometimes described as production process. Not wanting to miss out, Machine to Machine (M2M) communication, and it is productronica’s opening event is a CEO Roundtable starting to find applications in countries with a strong discussion on Cyber security: Challenges for the manufacturing base. Germany is a good example. Get Manufacturing Industry. Leading personalities from the implementation of Industry 4.0 right, and you’ll the industrial, scientific and political sectors will be ahead in the manufacturing game. Get it wrong or discuss questions such as How can I gain insights ignore its potential and you’ll lose out to your forward into our security status? and How relevant is cyber thinking competition. security to companies that don’t think they have highly sensitive data? Besides focusing on office IT So what is Industry 4.0? Put simply, it covers the entire (attacks by viruses and malware), specific aspects of production process on the road to the smart factory cyber security in industry (smart factory) will also be - i.e. automation, industry software, data networks, examined.

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Technique Near-infrared device makes it could enable easier to find veins environmentally A device that allows medical professionals to see exactly friendly fuel cells where a patient’s veins are Researchers at UCLA’s has been introduced by California NanoSystems Christie Medical Holdings. The Institute have developed a VeinViewer Vision2 works by in real-time. With VeinViewer dramatically advanced tool projecting near-infrared light technology, professionals can for analysing how chemicals onto the patient’s skin, which see blood patterns at up to called nanocatalysts is then absorbed by the blood. 15mm deep and veins at up to convert chemical reactions The information captured is 10mm deep. into electricity. Current processed and projected back spectroscopy methods require onto the surface of the skin Read more... large laboratory machines to measure chemical reactions, but the new technique uses a Hydrogel works like an artificial muscle nanoelectronic chip to do the In research published in have also managed to use the same thing while the reactions Nature Materials, a team polymer to build an L-shaped are taking place with better led by scientists from the object that slowly walks accuracy, and while gathering RIKEN Center for Emergent forward as the temperature a completely new set of data. Matter Science in Japan is repeatedly raised and has developed a hydrogel lowered. Hydrogels are Being able to analyse these that works like an artificial polymers that can maintain reactions with increased muscle, quickly stretching and large quantities of water. accuracy, heightened contracting in response to sensitivity and greater changing temperature. They Read more... cost-effectiveness will vastly improve scientists’ understanding of Google helps calculate nanocatalysts, which will the best solar plan for you enable the development of new environmentally friendly As the price of installing solar option for decreasing their fuel cells that are more has gotten less expensive, energy bill. Google want to efficient, more durable and more homeowners are make installing solar panels less expensive to produce. turning to it as a possible easy and understandable Eventually, those new fuel for anyone. Project Sunroof cells could be used to power puts Google’s expansive data vehicles that run on hydrogen, in mapping and computing the 10th most abundant resources to use, helping element on Earth, and give off calculate the best solar plan water as exhaust. for users.

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MCU sales growth Mother robot builds and tests slows despite its own ‘children’ unit shipments Researchers led by the University of Cambridge have increase built a mother robot that can According to IC Insights’ independently build its own Mid-Year Update to its 2015 children and test which one McClean Report on the does best; and then use the IC industry, MCUs are in results to inform the design of the middle of an incredible the next generation, so that capable of movement, the wave of unit growth, but preferential traits are passed mother created children unprecedented price erosion down from one generation to constructed of between one is keeping a lid on the the next. Without any human and five plastic cubes with a increase of revenues. The intervention or computer small motor inside. mid-year forecast shows simulation beyond the initial MCU shipments rising 33% command to build a robot Read more... in 2015 to 25.4bn units worldwide as a result of a tremendous upsurge in units for smartcards and 32-bit From Big Ben to the applications - many of which Big Apple in under an hour are aimed at the IoT market. After a four year wait, French Despite the blistering pace behemoth Airbus has received of unit growth, dollar-volume approval for a patent to sales of MCUs are now develop an “ultra-rapid air expected to rise by just 4% vehicle and related method French predecessor, the in 2015, reaching a new of aerial locomotion” - a patented design has been record high of $16.6bn from supersonic plane combining called “Concorde Mark 2” and about $15.9bn in 2014, when a rocket engine, turbojets “Son of Concorde”, but has the total MCU revenues also and ramjets, that could fly power to leave its pointy-nosed increased 4%. from London to New York dad in the dust. in under an hour. Inviting Read more... comparison with its Anglo- Read more...

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The industry’s fastest isolated The world’s current-sense amplifier lowest- Silicon Labs has introduced an power energy isolated current sense amplifier delivering robust isolation harvesting and the industry’s highest PMICs bandwidth and lowest signal A family of energy harvesting delay. Silicon Labs’ Si8920 PMICs that enable tiny, isolated amplifier provides a solar-powered wireless current shunt measurement sensors for IoT applications solution for power control with high-voltage stages. has been introduced by systems operating in harsh Measuring current on high- Cypress Semiconductor. environments such as industrial voltage rails (up to 1,200V) with The new devices are motor drives, solar inverters, a galvanically isolated amplifier claimed to be the world’s high-voltage power converters, provides critical information to lowest-power, single-chip UPS and EV/HEV systems. the low-voltage controller that energy harvesting PMICs, improves system response time and can be used with solar Fast, accurate current sensing and efficiency. cells as small as 1cm2. is essential for all high-power systems and power converters Read more... Datasheet... Read more...

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Turnkey kits bring ‘Yolks’ & ‘shells’ improve power to the rechargeable batteries people, wirelessly One big problem faced by electrodes in rechargeable Integrated Device batteries, as they go through Technology has introduced repeated cycles of charging groundbreaking turnkey and discharging, is that they wireless power kits that make must expand and shrink integrating wireless charging during each cycle, sometimes easy, affordable and practical doubling in volume, and then over time. Now a team of for a broad range of consumer shrinking back. This can researchers at MIT and electronics. The Qi-compliant lead to repeated shedding Tsinghua University in China transmitter and receiver and reformation of its ‘skin’ has found a novel way around reference kits deliver plug- layer that consumes lithium that problem. and-play ease of integration, irreversibly, degrading the enabling engineers to battery’s performance Read more... incorporate wireless charging capabilities into their designs in a matter of hours.

The 5W, 5V solution is The world’s first recycled batteries suitable for a wide range of Energizer has challenged in the battery industry with applications, including PC what was thought impossible its latest breakthrough, peripherals, furniture, medical Energizer EcoAdvanced, the devices, and other portable world’s first AA battery made devices still hindered by with 4% recycled batteries. traditional contact-based Energizer EcoAdvanced is charging bases or cables. Energizer’s highest performing The transmitter and receiver alkaline battery and powers reference kits are built around consumers’ most critical proven IDT wireless power devices with less impact on semiconductors. the planet.

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DC/DC buck converter offers reduced EMI/EMC & PMBus

Texas Instruments has EMI/EMC and a PMBus converters simplify power introduced the industry’s first interface for Adaptive conversion and speed 20 and 30A synchronous Voltage Scaling (AVS). Used the power supply design DC/DC buck converters with in conjunction with TI’s process. frequency synchronisation award-winning WEBENCH for low-noise and reduced online design tools, the Read more... Datasheet...

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Qseven standard Low-profile clips offer cost- connector offered effective RFI shielding with long term Harwin has expanded its popular EZ-Boardware range availability with the introduction of three The Standardization Group RFI Shield Clips, suitable for for Embedded Technologies small and low profile shield (SGET) highly values the cans with wall thicknesses of long term availability of its between 0.15 and 0.20mm. standards and the related These additions include two sized cans to the PCB using key components. With regard clips of only 3.9mm length this cost effective method. to Qseven, this especially (S0941-46R and S0951-46R), concerns the 230-pin MXM2 allowing users to fix smaller Read more... Datasheet... system connector. This was initially designed to work as a cost-effective board-to- One-circuit terminal connectors board connector for consumer minimise shadowing effects graphics cards and has come close to its end of life Molex has introduced the profile TermiMate coplanar in this function. Qseven is a TermiMate one-circuit board-to-board and wire- well-established, legacy-free terminal-style connector to-board connector reduces standard for technology- system. Designed to minimise component and assembly independent small form the shadowing effect in LED costs for manufacturers. factor COMs which includes lights and TV backlighting standardised thermal/ applications, the ultra-low Read more... Datasheet... mechanical interfaces. Qseven was the first and long-time only Standard which supported High current cabling system x86 and ARM technologies targets energy storage in COM-compatible environments. For developers Optimised for battery pack needs of energy storage for of small form factor devices connections rated from 50 commercial and residential this is a strategic and cost to 400A using a touch-safe battery storage systems, saving benefit, as the decision interface, Amphenol has as well as EVs and HEVs. for one or the other hardware released a high current cabling Suited for use by inverter and does not affect the mechanical system designed to meet the power supply manufacturers, design of the devices. This SurLok Plus’ flexible design enables risk-free changes accommodates dimensional between the platforms and a constraints and its low profile, wider scalability by means of right angle RADSOK pin and cost, performance and specific socket connector is extremely features. space efficient.

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The board demonstrates these features of the Additional features include USB Host and Device PIC24FJ128GC010 Microcontroller: direct LCD drive, support, RF expandability, audio output via 16-bit Sigma-Delta ADC, 12-bit Pipeline ADC, 10-bit headphone jack, and on-board debugger/programmer. DAC, Op-Amps, CTMU, DMA, USB, and XLP low power consumption. Features: • 16-bit Sigma-Delta Analog to Digital Converter The demonstration code includes: LCD display including scrolling text with icons, Sine • 12-bit Pipeline 10 Msps Analog to Digital Converter wave audio output, Light Sensor, Temperature Sensor, Resistive Sensor, Watch Crystal • 10-bit 1 Msps Digital to Analog Converter (2) based Time display, mTouch™ User Input Control with Visual Feedback, Bar Graph • Operational Amplifiers (2) display of sensor and microphone input, and data logging of 16-bit ADC data to USB drive. • Comparators (3) The board also features an analog connector designed to insert into a breadboard for • Voltage References (3) easy access to analog peripherals, and an expansion area for adding RF connectivity. • Charge-Time Measurement Unit (CTMU)

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Ethernet switches Anti-sulfur chip resistor arrays feature precision utilise thick film technology time protocol Stackpole Electronics announces the release of HARTING has expanded its the RAVS series of convex range of Fast Track Ethernet termination anti-sulfur switches for industrial chip resistor arrays. The applications with the FTS RAVS series utilises thick 3000-PTP range of managed film technology with lower switches. The devices feature silver inner terminations Precision Time Protocol (PTP), to significantly reduce the allowing the creation of high- susceptibility of the array to under industry standard sulfur precision industrial networks contamination by sulfur. This test ASTM B 809-95. in which all components of performance is proven with the automation process can less than 1% resistance shift Read more... be synchronised for time- critical applications. The FTS 3000-PTP managed Ethernet switches support PTP in Mitigating spark flash dangers accordance with IEEE 1588v2 in hazardous environments and can detect automation frames and accelerate them Wherever sources of sparks airborne dusts or fibres pose so that they always arrive or excess heat are present, a serious risk of triggering an at the destination in time, substances such as gases, explosion and subsequent independent of the network petroleum products and fire. To minimise these losses, load. Besides the Rapid regulatory bodies around the Spanning Tree Protocol, the world have worked to refine switches support the Media standards that will mitigate Redundancy Protocol for ring the spark flash potential that wiring and can be installed in can be found in these working various topologies. environments.

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Shielded, SMT power inductors suit small electronics

Designed for compact PA4330, PA4331, PA4332, mobile computing, home PoL and mobile devices, a PA4333, PA4334 and automation, portable POS family of six ultra-low profile PA4335 inductors feature and other small handheld SMT shielded inductors mounted height profiles devices. have been introduced by from 1.0 to 3.2mm, making Pulse Electronics. The them suited for today’s Read more... Datasheet...

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Capacitors exhibit the industry’s Switch is approved highest energy per volume for use in explosive Providing small, high energy, atmospheres low profile solutions for demanding SSD applications, SCHURTER develops and the J-CAP series of tantalum manufactures state of the polymer capacitors has been art switch and pushbutton released by AVX. technologies including microswitches, piezo Exhibiting low ESR and the elements, switches with highest energy per volume of low profile case sizes and, mechanical actuation, metal any comparable SMT capacitor subsequently, close positioning pushbuttons and keypads currently available on the for efficient, high density PCB as well as display elements. market, the capacitors feature layouts. Combined, these A key focus is Metal Line. conductive polymer electrodes, attributes reduce both cost and The first switch from the PSE which exhibit a benign failure footprint in MLC, single-level family is now approved for mode under recommended cell, enterprise flash drive, and use in potentially explosive use conditions, and undertab PCIe SSDs. atmospheres. terminations, which enable high volumetric efficiency in small, Read more... Datasheet... Read more... Design

Windows 10 IoT Core targets Rapidly prototype Raspberry Pi & Minnowboard Max your smart Microsoft has released the connectivity Windows 10 IoT Core for the Raspberry Pi and the designs Minnowboard Max. Designed to make it easy to build professional grade devices, the core is suitable for small, experience; instead the user embedded devices that may can write a Universal Windows or may not have screens. app that acts as the interface For devices with screens, the for their device. Windows 10 IoT Core does not have a Windows shell Read more... Reducing development risk and accelerating time-to- market, the ECP5 Versa development kit has been Platform offers programming introduced by Lattice speeds of up to 80MB/s Semiconductor. The kit accelerates the prototyping Optimised for the latest PSV7000 automated system and testing of connectivity generation of eMMC devices and manual configurations. designs targeted for small and large file sizes, the The platform delivers ultra- cells, microserver, broadband LumenX programming fast performance with access and industrial video platform has been introduced programming speeds up applications worldwide. by Data I/O. The programmer to 80MB/s and download is claimed to deliver the speeds of 25MB/s, which is Lattice optimised the ECP5 highest performance managed up to five times faster than family’s architecture with the and secured programming for today’s programming and goal of delivering the best the lowest total cost per part. duplicating technology. value below 100K LUTs. The LumenX programming platform is available in the Read more... Read more...

Achieve 20% faster signoff DRC performance

The latest release of the refinements to the core 2015.06 allows designers to company’s comprehensive engines to deliver a two times extend the use of their current physical verification signoff memory footprint reduction workstations and manage product, IC Validator 2015.06, and 20% faster signoff design multiple concurrent jobs with has been introduced by rule check performance on greater ease. Synopsys. The 2015.06 average. Twice as fast in release focuses on many cases, IC Validator Read more...

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Software kick starts PCB design

CadSoft Computer has The ‘EAGLE Make’ product ‘EAGLE Make Personal’ extended its software portfolio line was created in order to (previously EAGLE Hobbyist), with the new ‘EAGLE Make’ respond to the requirements and the brand new ‘EAGLE line launched, along with of the emerging Maker Make Pro’. new product segmentation segment by providing two for the whole EAGLE range. different license types: Read more...

Evaluation kit Safety package accelerates enables fast functional safety implementation prototyping of IoT To significantly reduce development time to implement applications functional safety for industrial equipment and devices, such as sensors, safety controllers, and industrial drives, Renesas Electronics has introduced inherently safe devices on the the RX111 safety package. factory floor, from the PLCs Industry 4.0 and the Industrial down to the sensors at the Internet of Things (IIoT) edge of the factory network. movements are driving the need for more robust and Read more... Panasonic Automotive & Industrial Systems is launching a Grid-EYE IR Array sensor evaluation kit this autumn that The industry’s fastest USB 3.0 combines its ‘nanopower’ camera reference design kit PAN1740 Bluetooth Smart module and a MCU on one Cypress Semiconductor circuit schematics and related PCB. By combining its IR and THine Electronics have materials, the kit accelerates sensor technology with introduced the industry’s customers’ time-to-market Bluetooth technology and fastest USB 3.0 camera without expensive initial software for IR detection of reference design kit with costs for developing camera people and objects on one 13MP resolution at 21fps. firmware. The kit delivers board, Panasonic enables The Ascella design kit is based high-resolution performance customers to develop rapid on Cypress’s EZ-USB CX3 and advanced functions such prototypes and quickly build USB 3.0 camera controller as auto-focus and live video their own wireless sensor IoT and THine’s THP7312 Image streaming for a broad range of applications. Signal Processor (ISP). With consumer applications. optimised firmware, a software Read more... development kit, reference Read more...

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Intel launches 6th Controllers meet needs of x86- Generation Intel based notebook designers Core processor A family of highly configurable low-power embedded family controllers customised to Intel has introduced the the needs of x86-based 6th Generation Intel Core notebook and tablet platform processor family. The launch designers has been released marks a turning point in by Microchip. The scalable people’s relationship with family of MEC14XX devices computers. The 6th Gen is one of the first to support MEC14XX family also provides Intel Core processors deliver both Intel’s enhanced Serial a flexible arrangement that enhanced performance and Peripheral Interface (eSPI) and allows multiple I/O signals. new immersive experiences at the existing Low Pin Count the lowest power levels ever (LPC) interface. Microchip’s Read more... Datasheet... and also support the broadest range of device designs, from the ultra-mobile compute EtherCAT slave controller is first to stick, to 2-in-1s and HD All-in- integrate RT, latency-free I/O peripherals One desktops, to new mobile workstations. TRINAMIC has announced EtherCAT-compliant interface an EtherCAT-compliant slave product line currently under There are over 500m controller IC. It is the world’s development at TRINAMIC, computers in use today that first EtherCAT slave controller based on the company’s are four to five years old or to integrate real-time, latency- active membership in the older. They are slow to wake, free I/O peripherals. The EtherCAT Technology Group. their batteries don’t last long, TMC8460 slave controller and they can’t take advantage is also the first device in an Read more... of all the new experiences available today. Built on the new Skylake microarchitecture Patient multimedia terminal on Intel’s leading 14nm operates in Android OS manufacturing process technology, 6th Gen Intel An 18.5” patient multimedia Technology. The M1860, Core processors deliver up terminal that operates which is certified for medical to two and a half times better in Android OS has been use, offers a Flush design performance, triple the battery introduced by ARBOR multi-point touchscreen with life, and graphics that are a number of connections for 30 times better for seamless multimedia services. In addtion, and smooth gaming and the terminal features a remote video experiences versus the control with optional integrated average 5-year-old computer. nurse call.

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Quadrature speed & direction sensor reduces downtime

Combining high- has been unveiled by and system downtime performance accuracy Honeywell. The sensor is from moisture, extreme with industry-leading designed and tested to temperatures and reliability, the MagSpeed perform within potentially electrical noise. Quadrature output speed harsh conditions that and direction sensor could cause malfunctions Read more...

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Using capacitive sensors for proximity detection

Capacitive sensors can extended range proximity sensing, on the other form a cheaper way to sensors have used infra- hand, can provide a lower build a proximity antenna red technology, which cost and lower power than using infra-red suffers from both high alternative. technology and consume costs and high power less power. Traditional consumption. Capacitive Read more... Datasheet...

Sensor improves Wearables sensor measures pulse the accuracy of & oxygen saturation prostate cancer Providing excellent signal quality and low energy diagnosis consumption, the SFH 7060 sensor from Osram Opto New research has shown Semiconductors is designed how a smart sensor chip, to measure pulse rates and able to pick up on subtle the oxygen saturation level optical sensor contains five differences in glycoprotein of blood. It is designed for light emitting diodes with three molecules, can improve the wearables such as smart different wavelengths and one accuracy and efficiency of watches and fitness armbands high-sensitivity photodiode. prostate cancer diagnosis. for continuously monitoring Researchers at the University fitness levels. This integrated Read more... Datasheet... of Birmingham believe that the technology will help improve the process of early stage diagnosis. How to choose the right potentiometer sensor Glycoprotein molecules, proteins that are covalently Hoffmann + Krippner has engineers understand how bound to one or more announced a new whitepaper: membrane potentiometer carbohydrate chains, How to choose the right sensors work and how to pick perform a wide range of potentiometer for reliable the right type of membrane functions in cell surfaces, sensing, to help design potentiometer for their project. structural tissues and blood. Authored by Jens Kautzor, Because of their essential CEO, Hoffmann + Krippner, the role in our immune response, whitepaper covers the various they are useful clinical types of potentiometers, biomarkers for detecting potentiometer development prostate cancer and other history and their various diseases. components.

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WiFi, Bluetooth Low cost energy harvesting or Zigbee? device for use in NFC applications The Centre for Process Recently the buzz around Innovation (CPI) has Industrial IoT has grown to a announced a UK-based deafening roar. The market consortium to develop a novel for IoT devices is projected printed energy harvesting to grow exponentially over device that is powered by NFC. the next several years as The device will facilitate the businesses start to capture wider adoption of NFC-enabled more data regarding their applications in consumer for defence, healthcare and operations. That data will be packaging, document and medical devices. used to monitor and optimise brand security, in addition processes, and as companies to wireless sensor networks Read more... learn to use the data they capture to improve processes, the result will be increased Sensor hub AP supports wearable tech productivity. Beyond internal Toshiba Electronics Europe Toshiba’s ApP Lite TZ1000 productivity, this data may has announced the launch of family of solutions for the lead to improved company- TZ1041MBG, an application IoT. The TZ1041MBG meets to-company operations processor designed for use increasing market demand benefiting both the producer in wearable devices such as for IoT devices able to and the customer. activity monitoring products, support multiple external smart watches, bracelet and sensors. Multiple technology glasses-type devices. The advancements have IC is the latest addition to Read more... converged to make large-scale Industrial IoT deployments possible. Efficient algorithm can These advancements detect lung problems include reduced cost of data storage, lower power RF Researchers from North the wheezing of patients solutions and higher levels Carolina State University with breathing difficulties of network accessibility. have developed an efficient to give medical providers Another important enabler algorithm that can interpret information about what’s for Industrial IoT is wireless happening in the lungs. The standardisation. Wireless research is part of a larger, networks have been used for ongoing project to develop over 30 years in the industrial wearable smart medical market. In the past, these sensors for monitoring, networks were typically sub collecting and interpreting 1GHz proprietary systems. personal health data.

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BSI CMOS image Laser sensor monitors blood sensors are glucose levels equipped with A laser sensor that monitors blood glucose levels without PDAF penetrating the skin could Toshiba has expanded its transform the lives of people range of high performance living with diabetes. Currently, process can be uncomfortable BackSide Illumination (BSI) many people with diabetes and often has to be repeated CMOS image sensors need to measure their blood several times every day. The equipped with Phase glucose levels by pricking new technology uses a small Detection Auto-Focus their fingers, squeezing drops device with low-powered lasers (PDAF). Designed for use in of blood onto test strips, and to measure blood glucose. smartphones and tablets, processing the results with the sensors achieve high portable glucometers. This Read more... performance image capture and low power consumption. The range expansion features Connect a webcam the 8MP T4KA3-121, the to your Android device 16MP T4KC3-121, the 13MP T4KB3-121 and the 20MP e-con Systems has an array of off-the -shelf T4KA7-121. developed a USB camera webcams. This makes your application for Android USB camera portable and Originally developed for SLR smartphones and tablets. allows you to instantly share cameras, PDAF locks in Webeecam supports any the captured images using focus at speeds much faster camera that conforms to any social media applications. than the auto-focus systems the USB Video Class (UVC) currently used in smartphones specification which includes Read more... and tablets - making it easier for mobile devices to capture not only still objects, but also Optical chip lights up the fast moving objects. race for quantum computer Image brightness is boosted The microprocessor inside check emails and keep track by up to four times by a computer is a single of finances. Now, researchers Toshiba’s Bright Mode multipurpose chip that has from the University of Bristol technology and the sensors revolutionised people’s life, and Nippon Telegraph and also support High Dynamic allowing them to use one Telephone (NTT), have pulled Range (HDR) to capture machine to surf the web, off the same feat for light in the natural images of scenes with quantum world by developing a high contrast ratio, ending an optical chip that can the problem of over- and process photons in an infinite underexposed images. number of ways.

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Sensor mimics bats to detect From 3D printing dangerous structural cracks to lithography An ultrasound sensor for detecting dangerous cracks TI DLP Products is reinforcing in structures such as aircraft its reputation in imaging engines, oil and gas pipelines technology with the release and nuclear plants has been of the DLP9500UV chipset. developed by researchers at The latest addition to its the University of Strathclyde, limits of other, similar devices, portfolio features the highest with inspiration from the natural which are based on rigid resolution UV DLP chip to world. The device, known as a structures and have narrow quickly expose and cure transducer, identifies structural ranges. photosensitive materials in defects with varying ultrasonic industrial and medical imaging frequencies and overcomes the Read more... applications.

DLP Products is no stranger Fibre-like LED can be applied in to working with UV imaging, wearable displays having previously offered UV products to our DLP Design Professor Kyung-Cheol Choi House partners. Along with and his research team from the the DLP9500UV, this fall we School of Electrical Engineering will offer a second UV chipset, at KAIST have developed the DLP7000UV, available fibre-like LEDs, which can be publicly for developers. applied in wearable displays. The research findings were Both the DLP7000UV published online in the July and DLP9500UV Digital 14th issue of Advanced This technique had limited Micromirror Devices (DMD) Electronic Materials. Traditional applications for wearable enable high resolution, fast- wearable displays were displays because they were pattern switching speed, and manufactured on a hard inflexible and ignored the are optimised for exposure in substrate, which was later characteristics of fabric. the 363-420nm wavelengths. attached to the surface of clothes. Read more... Read more... Datasheet...

Accelerate robust pattern recognition & pose estimation

STEMMER IMAGING is enables robust recognition training images which extending its machine vision rates at high speed. During significantly reduces the effort software library Common the teaching phase, CVB for the user. Vision Blox (CVB) with the Polimago automatically CVB Polimago tool, which generates thousands of Read more...

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