Medical, Healthcare & Wellness

July 2014

IoT design challenge announces 15 finalists

element14, along with partners EnOcean, Tektronix, the Raspberry Pi Foundation and the Eclipse Foundation, has selected 15 finalists in the “Forget Me Not” design challenge, a global design competition which will encourage participating engineers to develop pioneering applications in the field of home monitoring an

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07/31/2014

Analog Devices claims first 256-channel, 24-bit current-to-digital converter

Analog Devices, a leader in high-performance signal processing technology and leading provider of ICs for medical imaging, introduced a current-to-digital converter module that reduces the cost and complexity of computed tomography (CT) scanner system design. The ADAS1131 is a 256-channel, 24-bit current-to-digital co

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07/30/2014

The LTM8046 2.5W output DC/DC µModule converter with 2kVAC galvanic isolation

Linear's 2kVAC 9 x 15 x 4.92-mm BGA-packaged 2.5W isolated µModule converter is UL60950 recognized

Linear Technology introduced the LTM8046, a 2.5W output DC/DC µModule® (micromodule) converter with 2kVAC galvanic isolation (production tested to 3kVDC) in a 9mm x 15mm x 4.92mm ball grid array (BGA) package. A minimum creepage distance of 4.3mm on the package exterior supports operation at a working voltage up

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07/30/2014

Newark element14 adds nanopower sensor ICs from Honeywell to its portfolio

Newark element14 announces the addition of Honeywell’s Nanopower Anisotropic Magnetoresistive Sensor ICs to its product line today – the industry’s first of its kind. The new ICs provide the highest level of magnetic sensitivity, as low as 7 Gauss typical, while requiring nanopower up to 360 nA in value. The Nanopower

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07/25/2014

Considering power inverters in demanding applications

Aengus Murray and Bob Zwicker, Analog Devices

Concerns over climate changes due to carbon emissions have resulted in the increasing application of power electronic inverters in both renewable energy applications and in energy efficient motor drives. Safe and reliable operation of these systems requires that the power electronic circuits connected di

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07/25/2014

Zeno the robot

Humanoid robot using NI technology helps diagnose autism in kids

A new robot is changing the way child autism is diagnosed and treated. The robot, called Zeno, is a collaboration between Dr Dan Popa at the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA), Hanson RoboKind, Dallas Autism Treatment Centre, Texas Instruments and National Instruments, and is the brainchild of Hanson Robot ow

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07/24/2014

element14 announces winners of wireless-power design competition

The element14 engineering community has announced two winners in its “Beyond the Phone” Wireless Power Challenge. They were chosen out of 12 finalists from around the world who built wireless power solutions for everyday purposes using technology from Wuerth Elektronik and Texas Instruments. Eduardo Iscar Rul

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07/24/2014

Exar’s 40V COT controller delivers industry-leading line regulation

Exar, a leading supplier of high performance analog mixed-signal components, and video and data management solutions, introduced the XR75100, a 40V-capable switching controller in its line of DC-DC power conversion products. The XR75100 Synchronous Step-Down Controller supports point-of-load (POL) supplies from in

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07/22/2014

IDTechEx launches Wearable Technology LIVE! event in the USA

IDTechEx's Wearable Technology LIVE! international tradeshow and conference is focused on wearable technologies with a particular emphasis on the critical enabling technologies that will shape the future of wearable devices. IDTechEx forecasts that the wearable technologies market, as defined by its analysts, wil

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07/17/2014

Fully printed organic thin film transistors (OTFTs) on a paper substrate. (a) Schematic of the device structure for a fully printed OTFT on paper. (b) Arrays of fully printed OTFTs fabricated on a paper substrate inkjet printed with the NIMS logo before adding the device. (c) An optical microscope image of fully-printed OTFT arrays. (d) A magnified optical microscope image of the individual device

Conductive nanoparticle ink for printed electronics needs no high-temperature annealing

Printing semiconductor devices are considered to provide low-cost high performance flexible electronics that outperform amorphous silicon thin film transistors currently limiting developments in display technology. However the nanoparticle inks developed so far have required annealing, which limits them to substrates th

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07/16/2014

Peter Blyth, XP Power

Is Your Medical Device RoHS Compliant?

Peter Blyth, XP Power

By 22 July 2014 all medical devices must be compliant to the RoHS II legislative Directive (2011/65/EU). The key question is, are you ready? It may feel like the deadline crept up rather fast for some, but we’ve known since July 2011 when RoHS II was published. There has been plenty of time, but if you’ve only

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07/08/2014

An illustration of the molecular structure of tropoelastin, the smallest unit of the protein elastin

Ferroelectric switching seen in biological tissues

University of Washington researchers have shown that a favorable electrical property is present in a type of protein found in organs that repeatedly stretch and retract, such as the lungs, heart and arteries. These findings are the first that clearly track this phenomenon, called ferroelectricity, occurring at

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07/04/2014