Nick Flaherty

Carbon electrode for roll-to-roll perovskite solar cell manufacturing

Swansea University has developed a carbon ink for low cost roll-to-roll (R2R) production of perovskite solar cells. Using slot die coating in a roll-to-roll (R2R) process, researchers from the Innovation and Knowledge Centre at Swansea University…

Catch up with the news from Embedded World 2023 #ew23

A great chat with Calista Redmond of RISC-V International at Embedded World #ew23 as the ecosystem mature

AI automated development tool support for 1700 boards - video

Amber Semi tapes out its AC-DC silicon ... Amber Semiconductor has taped out its first silicon for its AC Direct DC Enabler technology that extracts DC directly from AC mains without the use of transformers, rectifier bridges, or…

EU to form €20bn Critical Materials club

The European Union is looking to create a Critical Raw Materials Club to bring together all interested countries that use and produce materials for batteries and green tech to strengthen global supply chains. This will see investment of over €20bn by…

CEO Interview: Calista Redmond of RISC-V International at Embedded World 2023

Calista Redmond, CEO of RISC-V International talks to Nick Flaherty at Embedded World (EW2023) about the open instruction set architecture breaking out of embedded. “We are at maturity point and at a point in the technical development where there is…

Infineon teams for air core motor control with SiC

Infineon Technologies is working with Infinitum to provide silicon carbide (SiC) CoolSiC MOSFETs and other key semiconductor components for a breakthrough air core motor. The Infinitum Aircore EC motor is being shown at APEC 2023 in Orlando, Florida…

CEO interview: Richard Lind, IAR

Swedish development tool company IAR is halfway through a two year programme that has seen a new chief executive, a re-direction, a codebase re-write and a re-branding. CEO Richard Lind talks to Nick Flaherty at Embedded World (EW2023) this week…

ADI turns RS-485 cabling into single pair Ethernet

Analog Devices (ADI) is demonstrating a system that can run single pair Ethernet (SPE) over existing RS485 cabling in smart buildings. This allows building operators to run legacy protocols such as BACnet and Modbus over Ethernet infrastructure…

2GHz real time spectrum analysis for satellites boosts digital twin development

Keysight Technologies has launched real-time spectrum analysis (RTSA) for satellite communication systems with a bandwidth up to 2GHz. The software-based RTSA system is based around the Keysight N9042B UXA Signal Analyser and monitors satellite…

MikroE adds AI to Necto development tool – video

MikroElektronika has developed rule based AI, natural language processing and machine learning to increase the efficiency of its development environment as the first step to automatic code generation. MikroE produces a new development board every…

Amber Semi tapes out its AC-DC silicon

Amber Semiconductor has taped out its first silicon for its AC Direct DC Enabler technology that extracts DC directly from AC mains without the use of transformers, rectifier bridges, or filtering. This marks the start of the commercialisation stage…

Rolls-Royce is to develop a small nuclear reactor for a future Moon base.

The £2.6m funding from UK Space Agency will be used to develop a demonstration power system with the University of Oxford, University of Bangor, University of Brighton, University of Sheffield’s Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC) and…

Tracealyzer adds bare metal option, boosts ARM-R support

Percepio in Sweden has updated its Tracealyzer development tool with several major improvements including a bare metal option, automotive ECU profiling and enhanced support for the ARM Cortex-R family of real time microcontroller cores. Version 4.7…

Siemens to automate Continental tire factories

Continental’s tire division and Siemens have signed a strategic supplier agreement to automate tire factories worldwide The preferred supplier deal aims to further optimize Continental’s global tire production with the latest Industry 4.0 control and…

First fully digital chips for full stack quantum computers ... Seeqc in the US has introduced a family of high speed digital chips capable of running all core qubit controller functions of a quantum computer at the same cryogenic temperature as the…

Murata, NXP team for Matter combo wireless module

Murata has launched a wireless module for WiFi 6, Bluetooth and 802.15.4 LR-WPAN Matter protocol using the IW612 chip from NXP. The LBES5PL2EL module is highly optimised for next generation IoT hardware where having Matter connectivity is set to…

AMD brings 5nm x86 to the edge

AMD has launched a family of x86 processor for edge designs using a 5nm process technology. Although pitched at embedded designs with the launch at Embedded World (EW2023) this week in Germany, the AMD EPYC Embedded 9004 Series processors have a…

UK to build €1bn exascale AI supercomputer

The UK government has announced the scale of funding for the development of a supercomputer system for AI with around £900m ((€1bn). The money will also be used to launch an AI sandbox to trial new, faster approaches to help innovators get cutting…