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Decawave tapes out scensor DW1000 chip

DecaWave has completed tape out of MPW2 of its ground-breaking DW1000 chip, the first product of the ScenSor family.

Dust Networks demonstrate self-powered IPV6 wireless sensor network

Dust Networks® demonstrated a SmartMesh® IP 6LoWPAN wireless network running on harvested energy at the IDTechEx Wireless Sensor Network & RTLS Summit in Munich, Germany, June 21 - 22.

Winners of the IDTechEx Energy Harvesting and WSN Awards

At the Energy Harvesting & Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) awards dinner on June 21 in Munich, Germany, companies were recognized for making significant technical or commercial progress with these technologies.

Flexible graphene memristors

Graphene oxide is the latest flavor of memristor, and it works on bendable plastic

Solar powered tablet PC for Indian school children

The I-slate is the first of a series of electronic notepads being built around a new class of green, power-stingy microchips that use a fraction of the electricity of today's computer chips.

Microchip and Powercast Debut World's First RF Energy Harvesting Kit

Microchip Technology Inc and Powercast Corporation have announced the Lifetime Power® Energy Harvesting Development Kit for Wireless Sensors featuring PIC® microcontrollers with eXtreme Low Power (XLP) Technology.

Electromagnetic suspension

A paper just publishes in IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology proposes electromagnetic active suspension system providing additional stability and manoeuvrability by performing active roll and pitch control during cornering and braking and eliminating road irregularities.

Active RFID applications using IEEE 802.15.4

At the recent IDTechEx conference Wireless Sensor Networks and RTLS Europe in Munich, Colin Faulkner of the UK fabless semiconductor company Jennic spoke on Active RFID Applications Using IEEE 802.15.4.

Greenpeak names Hans Rohrer as Chairman of the Board

GreenPeak Technologies, a leading fabless semiconductor company, has announced that semiconductor industry figure Hans Rohrer has been appointed Chairman of the Board.

CAP-XX to Speak at Energy Harvesting Europe 2010 & Sensors Expo 2010

Mr. Pierre Mars, vice president of quality and applications engineering for CAP-XX Ltd, will speak at both the IDTechEx Energy Harvesting and Storage Europe and Sensors Expo conferences on the power management challenges of battery-free wireless sensor networks (WSNs) powered by environmentally-harvested energy.

Evidence shows memristors are capable of performing logic functions

Evidence shows memristors are capable of performing logic functions

Greenpeak Technologies helps roll out green wireless network

GreenPeak Technologies, a leading fabless semiconductor company, announced that it is teaming up with the world's top Consumer Electronics companies, Service Providers and the ZigBee Alliance to help roll out the next big thing - The Third Wireless Network for home and office that is Green and conserves energy.

World first from Arveni

Arveni, based in France, claim to have developed the world's first batteryless device powering a bidirectional radio. This has been developed to power an infrared remote control. The device uses a powerful piezoelectric microgenerator, which delivers up to 90mW (for the first transmission in infrared).

Imec, Holst Centre present ADC suited for low energy radios

At yesterday's International Solid State Circuit Conference, Imec and Holst Centre reported an ultra-low power 8 bit analog to digital convertor (ADC) consuming only 30fJ energy per conversion step.

Using a supercapacitor to manage your power

This article will explain some of the key properties of supercapacitors that design engineers creating energy harvesting circuits need to be aware of, and explore how to use supercapacitors in these circuits.

Micromachined piezoelectric harvester with record power output

For the first time, a piezoelectric harvesting device fabricated by MEMS technology generates a record of 85μW electrical power from vibrations. A wafer level packaging method was developed for robustness.

Scientists predict the unpredictable to guide future nano-chip design

Scientists at the University of Glasgow, in collaboration with colleagues from Edinburgh, Manchester, Southampton and York universities, have developed technology, which will help microchip designers create future integrated circuits.

Decawave announces LG Innotek Scensor module and sales

DecaWave, the pioneering fabless semiconductor company, has announced a module and sales agreement with LG Innotek, the Korean global electronics components company, for DecaWave's revolutionary chip ScenSor.

GreenPeak Technologies obtains Zigbee RF4CE certification

GreenPeak is one of the first ZigBee members to obtain RF4CE certification but takes the standard RF4CE to a new level by adding ultra low power and low cost to its solution.

GreenPeak Technologies secuires US$19M in Series B funding

GreenPeak Technologies, a leading fabless semiconductor company offering innovative ultra low power wireless and battery-free data communication technologies for consumer electronics and sense and control applications, has announced the closing of a Series B financing round.