Tag Archives: University of Newcastle

Professor Mike Capaldi, dean of innovation and business at Newcastle University, is to be the Chair of UK power, electronics, machines and drives (PEMD) manufacturing network DER-IC. Funded by Innovate UK, the network offers access to equipment, facilities and expertise from the PEMD manufacturing supply chain. Capaldi is returning to the network having lead the initial funding application and development ...

Researchers at the University of Newcastle have implemented a non-neural-network hardware that can significantly cut the power consumption of artificial intelligence. The team trained a neural network, and their technology – a ‘Tsetlin machine’ – to recognise hand written digits from the standard MNIST data set. “Using an out-of-the-box neural network we could get less than 10 trillion operation per Joule”, Newcastle ...

The first human corneas to be  3D printed have been developed by scientists at Newcastle University. It means the technique could be used in the future to ensure an unlimited supply of corneas. As the outermost layer of the human eye, the cornea has an important role in focusing vision. Yet there is a significant shortage of corneas available to ...

Boosting the digital skills of UK students is the remit of an on-going collaboration between Siemens and Newcastle University. The University this week saw the opening of the MindSphere Lab which will provide students with access to data from a number of projects across sectors including infrastructure, manufacturing, water and energy. Professor John Fitzgerald, Head of Newcastle University’s School of ...

Newcastle-based Inex Microtechnology is to use Keysight’s Advanced Design System (ADS) EDA software to deliver its gallium nitride (GaN) Process Design Kit (PDK) “Our GaN HEMT process addresses a growing UK space and defence customer base. The process developed over the last two years enables a unique UK sovereign supply,” said Inex CTO Matthew O’Keefe. “We aim to provide our ...

Raytheon UK has collaborated with Newcastle University to produce silicon carbide (SiC) based amplifier circuitry with operational amplifier like characteristics. The research has used the thermal characteristics of SiC not in a high power device, but in small-signal circuitry that can operate in high temperatures. “To date, the focus on Silicon Carbide semiconductors has been power electronics and exploiting the ...

AppMovement.com is a website created by Newcastle University where designers can propose and develop mobile applications. They are being urged to help grow an app for drone flyers which helps to keep them informed of locations where it is legal and safe-to-fly drones. There is an increasing number of consumer multi-rotor aircraft, UAVs or drones being bought and flown around ...

Raytheon and Newcastle University are to work together to enhance the performance of SiC electronic devices, specifically for Raytheon’s own SiC CMOS process, writes David Manners.

Researchers at Newcastle University are investigating Google Glass as an assistive aid for people with Parkinson’s, to help retain their independence for longer. The researchers are part of the University’s Digital Interaction group, in its School of Computing Science. Led by Dr John Vines, PhD student Roisin McNaney and Dr Ivan Poliakov, this is the first UK trial of Glass, ...

Newcastle University is taking the lead in a £16 million programme – funded by the Technology Strategy Board – to investigate the benefits of high-speed motors for hybrid and electric vehicles. Newcastle has already researched novel, sustainable and efficient motors, but the new project will see such motors being fitted into the Jaguar Land Rover Evoque within the next two ...