The sensor is a shutterless uncooled 384x288 microbolometer with 25µm pixel pitch and pixel operability over 99.9%

National Instruments has announced single board RIO devices which can be used in embedded control and data acquisition applications

For engineers developing ARM-based embedded systems with real-time operating systems [RTOSs] for industrial applications; IAR Systems, NXP and Micrium have announced a reference design. Built around NXP’s LPC2468 ARM7 microcontroller “the industrial reference design platform software is built around the Micrium µC/OS-II real time operating system (RTOS), and IAR Embedded Workbench for ARM C/C++ compiler and debugger”, said IAR. “The ...

In this, the the seventh of our Friday series about the early microprocessors, Masatoshi Shima, fresh from the success of designing the 8080, decides to leave Intel. Shima’s friend, Federico Faggin, was preparing to leave Intel to found Zilog to pursue his vision of the next generation of microprocessors, and Shima was anxious share in it.

Further to my earlier blog on making-millions-while-sitting-in-the-pub type businesses, it seems that Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers, Silicon Valley’s top venture capital company, has put $100 million into a fund which will exclusively back start-up companies developing iPhone applications. Naturally, it’s called the iFund.

A research expedition investigated potential threats from tsunamis to coastal communities along the west European margin,” said the National Oceanography Centre at Southampton

The opening of a 40,000 wafer a month NAND flash memory chip fab in Korea by Hynix next month could be good news for consumers

After offering up an excellent article about Freescale’s options in the wireless arena, the Austin American-Statesman, which sounds a distinguished organ of the US press, asks its readers for comments.

Syfer Technology is offering higher capacitance values for its high voltage MLCCs rated at 500V dc and higher

Nortel and LG Electronics say they have completed the first live air handover using the 4G mobile phone technology known as mobile LTE, or 3G long term evolution. Engineers at Nortel’s R&D Centre in Ottawa showed streaming HD video on an early LTE mobile device from LG Electronics while driving at speeds of 100 kms per hour and moving between ...