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The Industry’s First SoC FPGA Development Kit Based on the RISC-V Instruction Set Architecture is Now Available

“The rising adoption of the free and open RISC-V Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) is driving the need for an affordable, standardized development platform that embeds RISC-V technology and leverages the diverse RISC-V ecosystem. To meet this need …

The New Composite Prevents Malfunctions of Electronic Devices

“Scientists from South Ural State University follow the rapid development of micro- and nanoelectronics. Researchers are developing materials for future electronic devices. For example, they have proposed a new composite material that can be used in capacitors to increase energy …

Theoretically, two layers are better than one for solar-cell efficiency

“Solar cells have come a long way, but inexpensive, thin film solar cells are still far behind more expensive, crystalline solar cells in efficiency. Now, a team of researchers suggests that using two thin films of different materials may be …

Toshiba Launches Photorelays in New Package for High-density Mounting

“Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation (“Toshiba”) has launched three photorelays, TLP3480, TLP3481 and TLP3482 in P-SON4, a new package with a significantly smaller mounting area than Toshiba’s SOP packages. Shipments start today. All of the new photorelays have …

Watson Researchers Create Better Material For Wearable Biosensors

“Biosensors that are wearable on human skin or safely used inside the body are increasingly prevalent for both medical applications and everyday health monitoring. Finding the right materials to bind the sensors together and adhere them to surfaces is also …

3D printing a miniature magnetic pump

“A new miniature pump — compact, valveless, and operated magnetically — demonstrates the broad capabilities of devices manufactured by 3D printing. Measuring only 1 centimeter in volume, the pump was fabricated in 75 minutes in a single process using multiple materials that …

A robot that controls highly flexible tools

“How do you calculate the coordinated movements of two robot arms so they can accurately guide a highly flexible tool? ETH researchers have integrated all aspects of the optimisation calculations into an algorithm. The hot-​wire cutter will be used …

A tiny instrument to measure the faintest magnetic fields

“Physicists at the University of Basel have developed a minuscule instrument able to detect extremely faint magnetic fields. At the heart of the superconducting quantum interference device are two atomically thin layers of graphene, which the researchers combined with boron …

Boundaries no barrier for thermoelectricity

“Rice researchers find potentially useful electrical phenomenon in gold nanowires. Though the Summer Olympics were postponed, there’s at least one place to see agile hurdlers go for the gold. You just need a way to view these electron games …

Brazilian researcher creates an ultra-simple inexpensive method to fabricate optical fiber

“A novel process to fabricate special optical fiber that is far simpler, faster and cheaper than the conventional method has been developed by Cristiano Cordeiro, a researcher and professor at the University of Campinas’s Physics Institute (IFGW-Unicamp) in …