News Digest 26 Nov 2014

ધોલેરા સ્માર્ટ સીટીનું માઈક્રો મોડેલ : DMIC રૂટમાં સૌથી પહેલું સીટી ગુજરાતમાં ડેવલપ થશે

સંદેશ | 26 Nov 2014 | Read More

The 25 Best Inventions of 2014

Hoverboards, intelligent space craft, edible food wrappers, and much much more —Welcome to TIME’s annual round-up of the best inventions making the world better, smarter and—in some cases—a little more fun. Read More

4.4 million Graduates join the Indian workforce annually,  We need to channelize our energies towards them

The Times of India | 26 Nov 2014

Recent achievements such as the Mars mission and the Nobel peace prize victory are testaments of India's rising influence and growth. India has a rich tradition of philosophical thinking right from the Vedas to contributions to astronomy, history and mathematics. We have had exemplary educational institutions in this genre. Indian thinking has evolved to be rational and objective. Read More

Bacteria turned into tiny tape recorders

Ahmedabad Mirror |23 Nov 2014

Researchers have hacked bacteria allowing them to record data in their DNA. The modified bacteria could be used as environmental sensors or as medical devices. Massachusetts Institute of Technology engineers have transformed the genome of the bacterium E coli into a long-term storage device for memory. They envision that this stable, erasable, and easy-toretrieve memory will be well suited for applications such as sensors for environmental and medical monitoring. Read More

Will your provident fund be enough?

The Times of India

While your retirement corpus can be funded by the provident fund, you may have to supplement it with other high-yielding options. If you dream about a comfortable retirement but are planning to de pend solely on your Provident Fund (PF) to meet your needs, be ready for a shock. The PF can be an important pillar in a retirement plan, but the corpus of the average subscriber is likely to fall woefully short of his requirement. One needs to make additional investments to build a corpus big enough to sustain one's expenses for 20-odd years after retiring. Read More

'Mind the gap' between atomically thin materials

For the first time, researchers have grown a single atomic layer of tungsten diselenide on a one- atom-thick substrate of graphene with pristine interfaces between the two layers using an industrially scalable technique. Read More

Landslide risks in Pacific Northwest US high: New technology may speed up, build awareness of landslide risks

Engineers have created a new way to use lidar technology to identify and classify landslides on a landscape scale, which may revolutionize the understanding of landslides in the US and reveal them to be far more common and hazardous than often understood. Some areas of the Pacific Northwest may have had 10-100 times more landslides than were previously known of. Read More

New solar power material converts 90 percent of captured light into heat

A multidisciplinary engineering team developed a new nanoparticle-based material for concentrating solar power plants designed to absorb and convert to heat more than 90 percent of the sunlight it captures. The new material can also withstand temperatures greater than 700 degrees Celsius and survive many years outdoors in spite of exposure to air and humidity. Read More

Upgrading infrastructure could reduce flood damage

The severe flooding that devastated a wide swath of Colorado last year might have been less destructive if the bridges, roads and other infrastructure had been upgraded or modernized, according to a new study. Read More

Startup to Open Source Parallel CPU

A startup founded by two teenagers is designing a parallel processor that it hopes delivers a 10x leap in performance per watt for high-end systems. Rex Computing will make open source its instruction set architecture in hopes of rallying supporters around it. Read More

Megachips to Launch DSP-Based Sensor Fusion IC

The emerging sensor-fusion controller market for smartphones and wearable devices is about to meet a new competitor -- this time out of left field. Megachips, Japan’s fabless, is rolling out a motion engine and sensor hub chip, dubbed Frizz. Read More

Are Analog Design Tools Turning Engineers Into Simulation Jocks?

ver the years, the introduction of more complex tools has enabled much more capability in the circuit simulation arena. These new tools enable exploring circuit interaction to arrive at solutions to complex issues. The combination of the complexities of the models for these sub-micron technologies and the need to come closer to the idea of first-pass success is driving the need for simulation tools to do more and to explore various simulations not possible in the past. Read More

Industrial Processor Avoids Cache to Improve Real-Time Performance

In industrial control systems deterministic response times can be critical, both to maximize performance and to ensure safety. But many high-end microprocessors will cache instructions and data in on-chip SRAM to avoid waiting for slower, Flash-based program memory to respond. While this will speed the average execution rate, it comes at the expense of deterministic operation. Because the contents of cache memory vary, the occurrence of cache misses, and thus the need for time-consuming cache updates is unpredictable. This lack of determinism can wreak havoc in systems requiring real-time responsiveness. Read More

Motor Controllers Offer Improved Noise Immunity

SEATTLE — Microchip has introduced a new family of 16-bit digital signal controllers (DSCs) for motor control in harsh electrical environments. Targeting industrial, automotive, and appliance applications the devices operate on a 5V supply to improve noise immunity and robustness. The dsPIC33EV family also includes safety-critical features such as error correction coding (ECC) on internal Flash memory, windowed watchdog timers, and dead man timers as well as a backup oscillator. Read More

Jaguar Land Rover Tours Its Cars : "Not an easy roadmap," says engineer

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — An engineer from Jaguar Land Rover sketched out the guts of its latest cars and gave a sneak peek at plans for future ones in a keynote at the Printed Electronics USA show here. Read More

Will You Buy Accident-Free Cars? : A host of vision technologies applied for safety

I've often thought of driver assistance systems as high-end "fancy features" -- more convenient than necessary. Can a case be made? In a recent interview with EE Times, Freescale Semiconductor's CEO Gregg Lowe talked about "cars that won't get into accidents." He said, "Imagine you have a 16-year-old who has just begun driving. I think people will pay more for a car that is nearly impossible to get into an accident." Read More

CogniVue, Fraunhofer Debut Supersmall Camera at Electronica

TOKYO — As automotive electronics takes center stage at Electronica this week in Munich, a "microcamera" module recently designed by researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for driver-assistance applications is expected to enjoy the spotlight. Read More

Infotainment Systems Drive Automotive SSD Adoption

TORONTO — Infotainment systems are driving the increased adoption of SSDs as car owners expect more advanced navigation systems and richer entertainment experiences. Read More