tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34894388031000162462013-04-25T08:02:22.602+01:00Hardware and Software News for the embedded electronics industry in Europe from Nick FlahertyTechnology Writerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13685878839763912155noreply@blogger.comBlogger678125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3489438803100016246.post-79325436769891095652013-03-21T11:27:00.001Z2013-03-21T11:27:08.637Z

Implantable 'lab on a chip' monitors health via Bluetooth Researchers in Switzerland have developed a tiny personal blood testing laboratory on a chip that gives an immediate analysis of substances in the body and transmits the results over a mobile phone.  The device integrates five sensors for different proteins, a radio transmitter and a power delivery system into a few cubic millimetres so

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Lime wants a Raspberry Pi for RF - Electronics Eetimes: RF chip developer Lime Microsystems wants to make its configurable RF hardware as ubiquitous as the Raspberry Pi low cost computer by making it open source.The company, based in Fleet, has provided all the schematics and documentation for the board for an open source project called Myriad-RF, and is looking for partners to make more

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Two US researchers have identified over 7,000 critical control devices that are accessible via the Internet and so may be vulnerable to attack. The researchers from Infracritical built a suite of scripts that includes 600 search terms for equipment built and managed by close to seven dozen manufacturers of SCADA equipment and support systems for SCADA. The pair found not only devices used for

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A security firm has found that point of sale equipment around the world has been targetted by malware to skim off credit card numbers, a deeply embedded security attack. "Custom-made malware that has been used over the past 2-3 months to infect hundreds POS systems," said the Seculert Blog: Dexter - Draining blood out of Point of Sales. "Some of the targeted POS systems include big-name retailers

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This is the reason I bang on about security for embedded systems, particularly for the Internet of Things: Researcher Aaron Portnoy found a remote code execution bug and a denial-of-service (DoS) flaw in Rockwell Automation SCADA products; three remote execution flaws and one DoS bug in Schneider Electric products; a DoS flaw in Indusoft SCADA products; eight DoS flaws in Realflex SCADA

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Ten... technology FAILS from The Register: Nokia's N-Gage, Palm's Foleo, Motorola's Atrix, Apple's Newton MessagePad, HD DVD, Sony's Rolly, Sony's Mylo, Philips' CD-i, Commodore's CD-TV, IBM's PCJr, the Camputer's Lynx, Gizmondo, the Phantom, Atari's Jaguar, MySpace, Beenz - behind every iPad there are dozens and dozens of technology products that aspired to greatness but were successful only

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The Dragon 32 is 30 • Reg Hardware: 'via Blog this' By Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.uk

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By Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.uk A group of graphics experts led by computer scientists at Harvard have created an add-on software tool that translates video game characters—or any other three-dimensional software animations—into fully articulated action figures, with the help of a 3D printer. The project is described in detail in the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Transactions

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Black Hat hacker gains access to 4 million hotel rooms with Arduino microcontroller | ExtremeTech: Bad news: With less than $50 of off-the-shelf hardware and a little bit of programming, it’s possible for a hacker to gain instant, untraceable access to millions of key card-protected hotel rooms.

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Bristol software firm develops first anti-virus protection for TVs : SW Innovation News: 'via Blog this'

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Transparent memory chips are coming: 'via Blog this' By Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.uk

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By Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.uk  A 285 µm racecar, printed at the Vienna University of Technology The London Tower Bridge (credit: Klaus Cicha) The distance between the towers is 90µm  Researchers at the Vienna University of Technology (TU Vienna) have made a major breakthrough in speeding up 3D printing at micron resolutions, opening up completely new areas of application, such as in

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Intel reveals its Ivy Bridge chip specifications - The Inquirer:'via Blog this'

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NXP Launches Compact High-Precision MEMS Frequency Synthesizer - EETimes Europe NXP Semiconductors has developed a high-precision silicon MEMS-based frequency synthesizer that it sees competing directly with quartz crystal-based timing devices. Using MEMS technology replaces a quartz crystal with a bare silicon die that is more than 20 times smaller

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Xilinx ships the first parts in its Zynq-7000 extensible processing platform - EETimes EuropeXilinx has demonstrated its Zynq-7000 Extensible Processing Platform (EPP) for the first time as it starts shipping devices to customers. The platform combines 28nm FPGA fabric with a dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore processing system, with the 30K logic cell Zynq-7000 EPP shown running a Linux-based

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Silicon Labs claims lowest power wireless microcontroller - EETimes Europe Silicon Labs is aiming to have the industry’s most energy-efficient microcontroller and wireless MCU with several architectural and technology innovation in its C8051F96x The 8bit core uses a 32bit wide interface to flash for the first time so that multiple instructions can be accessed quickly and the flash shut down

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Entry-level 32bit microcontroller for consumer applications - EETimes EuropeAtmel has launched an entry-level 32bit microcontroller for designs requiring low-power capacitive touch as well as other consumer and industrial applications.By Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.uk

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DSP core designer CEVA has invested in an Israeli gesture recognition company. The software from eyeSight Mobile Technologies will run on CEVA's MM3000 ISP and video platform to add gesture recognition applications for mobile, digital home and automotive markets with the potential to improve power efficiency by a factor of 20.CEVA invests in gesture recognition software firm - Electronics

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Renesas Electronics Europe has teamed up with industrial communication systems company Hilscher to develop a customisable 40nm system-on-chip (SoC) based around a combination of the ARM Cortex-A9 and R4 processor cores. Renesas and Hilscher to develop 40nm high end ARM chip for industrial automation - Electronics Eetimes By Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.uk

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FPGA module for SERCOS III industrial bus - Electronics EetimesBy Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.uk

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An audio power cable costing over £20,000 has been described as "the most advanced cable technology ever developed."£20k audio power cable introduced - E & T Magazine: 'via Blog this'

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Aeroflex launches new S-Series Digital Signal Generators and Vector Signal Analysers Aeroflex is launching two new 3GHz and 6GHz digital signal generators to fill out its S-series as well as two new vector signal generators ranging from 6GHz to 13GHz.By Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.uk

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Magma tool speeds board-level failure analysisMagma Design Automation has launched a design tool that extends CAD navigation and circuit debug from integrated circuits to stacked die, printed circuit boards and multichip modules.By Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.uk

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Freescale develops ARM9 'Home Health Hub' for telehealth Freescale Semiconductor has developed a home health hub (HHH) reference platform to help medical equipment manufacturers quickly and easily create remote-access devices that can collect, connect and securely share health data for improved healthcare management.By Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.uk

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World’s First 802.11ac chipset for Gigabit-Wireless Wi-Fi Routers and Consumer Electronics - Electronics EetimesUS chip designer Quantenna Communications has launched the first 4x4 gigabit-speed IEEE 802.11ac wireless local-area networking (WLAN) chipset. By Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.uk

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