Tuesday, July 14, 2015

Sony years to improve the status of the TV company set up video loss smartphones



In recent years, Sony has been unrest continued, losses for many years, serious internal divisions. Recently, the Japanese media reported that Sony starting from October 1 this year, the establishment of Sony AV companies, music players, home theater systems, Blu-ray devices, which contain video and music departments will be transferred to Sony's audio and video.

Sony's move is intended to improve the status of the company sustained losses. Earlier rumors that Sony will sell a more serious loss of smart phones and smart TV services. Sony Mobile's president and CEO, recently affirmed Hiroki Totoki expressed in the "Arabian Business" interview, Sony Mobile will complete the restructuring in 2015, and is expected to maximize revenue by the end of 2016.

Friday, July 10, 2015

2-D-semiconductor of phosphorus and arsenic as an alternative to silicon



Chemists at the Technische Universitaet Muenchen (TUM) have developed a two-dimensional semiconductor, in which individual phosphorus atoms are replaced by arsenic. Within the framework of international cooperation they built it together with American colleagues first field-effect transistors.

For many decades, silicon is the basis of modern electronics. So far could produce ever smaller transistors, the silicon technology for smaller and smaller devices, the size of silicon transistors is gradually beginning to their physical limit. Silicon is also hard and brittle, but would consumers like to flexible devices, devices that can be incorporated into clothing and much more. All this has a race for new materials triggered that could replace silicon one day.

Such a material could be arsenic-containing black phosphorus. As the graph consisting of a single layer of carbon atoms, it forms thin layers. The range of its applications ranging from transistors, sensors to mechanical-flexible semiconductor devices. Unlike the graph whose electronic behavior is similar to that of metals, it behaves like a semiconductor.

Phosphors instead of graph

In a cooperation between the Technical University of Munich and the University of Regensburg on the German side and the American Universities University of Southern California (USC) and Yale field effect transistors of arsenic-containing black phosphorus have now been produced for the first time. The compounds synthesized Marianne Kopf laboratory of the department for synthesis and characterization of innovative materials at the TU Munich. The field effect Trasistoren were built and measured in the group of Professor Zhou and Dr. Liu.

Developed at TU Munich new method makes it possible to synthesize black arsenic-phosphorus without high pressure. This requires less energy and is cheaper. About the arsenic content, the gap between valence and conduction bands can be precisely adjusted. "This allows us to produce materials with previously unattainable electronic and optical properties in an energy window that was previously inaccessible," says Professor Tom Niges, head of the department for synthesis and characterization of innovative materials.

Detectors for infrared

In an arsenic content of 83%, the material has a band gap of 0.15 eV only. For such a material, for example sensors can be constructed that detect wavelengths in the far infrared. In this area, for example, LiDAR sensors operate (Light Detection and Ranging). They are used inter alia in cars as distance sensors. Another application is the measurement of dust particles and trace gases in the environmental monitoring.

Another interesting aspect of this new two-dimensional semiconductors are their anisotropic electronic and optical properties. The material can be peeled off in layers. The thinnest layers were reached so far only two atomic layers thick.

Wednesday, July 8, 2015

UMC design and implementation of new Calibre platform reliability verification, and interactive custom design validation



Mentor Graphics Corporation (Nasdaq: MENT) today announced, United Microelectronic Corporation (UMC) is for its customers to develop a new set of IC reference flow reliability. This new process is based on the Calibre® PERC ™ reliability verification platform developed that detects small design flaws, such as may be caused venue (in-field) fault electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection circuit is missing, to help customers improve Long-term reliability of its IC products. This solution includes the UMC and Mentor Graphics are jointly developing a pre-defined check, target customers using UMC 28 nm process all common clients. UMC is expected to debut at the end of this year to check its reliability.

In addition, UMC is also designed to achieve added Calibre RealTime platform solutions. UMC simulation results indicate that the use of Calibre RealTime in custom design to identify and solve physical verification problems can be more than double the productivity.

Calibre RealTime allows design engineers to layout editing software is often used when drawing the respective circuit layout in real time interactive viewing validation errors. Since this tool uses the standard signoff Calibre UMC design kit, UMC customers can also achieve the same efficiency UMC claimed improved.

Director of R & D-cum UMC silicon intellectual property design Support Linshi Qin said: "The circuit reliability checks need to have a special function tool automation system design engineers need to identify a specific circuit structures such as ESD protection circuit, and the internal voltage value can be calculated. to ensure that the circuit voltage of each node is maintained at the limits. At the same time, improve production efficiency is the direction of UMC UMC-house design team and the concerted efforts of customers. By adding design implementation platform Calibre® PERC ™ and Calibre RealTime tools , we can meet these requirements. "

Calibre® PERC ™ solution provides a unique feature that allows you to check the physical layout and schematic netlist information, which include the type and connection between the various components. This logic-driven layout (LDL) ensures that all design analysis capabilities, including UMC IP libraries and customer design meets UMC ESD and electrical overload (EOS) design rules. Important part of ESD / EOS protection techniques include:

• Verify whether the ESD protection circuit in all necessary positions
• Ensure that the IO Pad to power / ground Pad ESD path of least resistance interconnects, and can withstand greater Human Body Model (HBM) surge current
ESD protection diodes and resistors • Check the layout of the components of
• Check the ESD MOS / diode component is covered with the correct symbol layer
• ensuring the protection circuit assembly is properly connected to the power cord, and the voltage range is correct

Other products Calibre® PERC ™ products and co-operation of the Calibre platform, not only can detect violations of reliability design guidelines, but also provides global browsing environment on the circuit connectivity, topology, physical layout and design rules to help design Engineers debugging circuit reliability problems.

Mentor Graphics' Calibre Design Solutions Marketing Senior Director MichaelBuehler-Garcia expressed: "UMC and Mentor have collaborated to develop an automated solution leverages the solution, design engineers can more easily ensure first-class design reliability. while significantly enhance the design verification efficiency. With the automotive, medical and other markets on the reliability of electronic technology and design and development cycle of growing importance, the Calibre® PERC ™ and Calibre RealTime incorporated into your IC Design Toolbox will take you to a significant advantage. "

UMC plans to increase in the future each update release process more reliable inspection.

Monday, July 6, 2015

First Cortex-M controller with asymmetrical hardware cryptography

Freescale Kinetis K8x MCU family combines security features and performance and is so safe for IoT networking about of sale terminals.

The implementation of a secure embedded application has been made up to three ICs required, including the main processor, a coprocessor for cryptographic security functions and in some cases, an IC for a physical sabotage protection.

Kinetis K8x MCU family combines all these functions into a single MCU, thus saving costs, space and power. Kinetis K8x

By integrating powerful security functions in this MCU family for the broad market Freescale contributes to the safe networking of IoT applications (Internet of Things) as POS terminals, smart energy gateways, home automation and building management, portable medical and wearables.

Act "MCUs for the broad market as a catalyst for innovative final applications. For the further evolution of IoT such MCUs for new product developments to ensure maximum safety, "explains Steve Tateosian, for microcontroller platforms executive director in the Microcontroller Division of Freescale. "Freescale has been a leader in securing IoT end nodes. We are expanding our portfolio of security features for Kinetis based MCU products ever made, and we have our new K8x MCU family designed so that they can master even future security problems in IoT. "

First ARM Cortex-M MCU with hardware-based cryptography

Kinetis K8x is so Freescale, the first multi-application MCU family based on the ARM Cortex-M technology with hardware-based cryptography.

This should bring significant benefits for the cryptographic throughput with it. Authentication takes an order of magnitude faster than with pure software implementations, the program memory is relieved, the energy efficiency increases and the latest communication protocols are operated.

Kinetis K8x MCU family with patent-pending 'on-the-fly decryption' for external serial NOR flash supports a version of the encrypted external memory and provides in this way secure scalability.

Integrated sabotage prevention functions on the Kinetis K8x MCU family protect against both physical and passive attacks. In total, these advanced technologies ensure first-class security for a wide range of applications.

Friday, July 3, 2015

Samsung will continue to provide flash pass positive tests for iPhone 6s



It is reported that China Mobile, Samsung is in contact with Apple, provides NAND flash memory in talks for the upcoming release of iPhone 6s series. Informed sources also revealed that Samsung is the Xi'an facility to test its stability and reliability of flash memory chips.

Samsung did not give current iPhone 6 family provides flash memory chips, allegedly because the two companies do not agree on price. According to Credit Suisse (Credit Suisse) report shows that Toshiba provides iPhone 6 series 50% of flash memory chips, Hynix 30%, the remaining 20% ​​of SanDisk (SanDisk) are also available.

Allegedly, Apple is planning to provide additional capacity of 64G iPhone models, because Chinese and European demand for this model great cooperation deal Samsung Apple iPhone 6s may be used for the flash memory chips. It is not clear Apple iPhone 6s series of products accounted for Samsung's memory chips have much.

It seems Samsung will play a very important role in the iPhone 6s series production, there are rumors that Apple is also enabled Samsung to help them do most of the production of iPhone 6s series A9 chips, although there are other reports that TSMC is the current iPhone 6 Series A8 The main supplier of the chip, the vendor will continue this year, Apple offers A9 chip.

Apple is expected to release in September this year, iPhone 6s and 6S Plus, but until the new listing, after the multiple capacity version comes out we can see the truth of the incident.

Wednesday, July 1, 2015

Apple announced HomeKit Siri instruction Smart Home Development Analysis



HomeKit system equipped with devices coming soon, Apple recently released a list of HomeKit Siri instructions, instructions contained adjust lighting, temperature control, coffee machine and printer mounted device open and close treatment, despite instructions not rich, but to meet the user daily home needs. HomeKit Apple introduced the first smart home platform, built-in features include door locks, lights, thermostat, network, HomeKit needed for the operation of third-party hardware products in collaboration with Siri is completed.

With Apple's smart home platform by developers to application stage, the smart home industry also will enter a substantial pace. Under the "Internet +" effect, intelligent appliances, connected to each other as a whole, all function controls integrated in a portable smart devices (such as smart phones, etc.), intelligent home life is becoming the mainstream of development. Foreign Apple, Google is constantly exerting force, the domestic market, millet, music, as, Haier, Midea, Wanda, and other businesses are actively force the smart home, smart home industry which led to the development of China.

At present, China potential smart home users have more than 100 million people, under the continuing impact of the Internet, the industry is expected in 2015 of smart home industry scale up to 124 billion yuan. 2013 of the smart appliance market size of over 100 billion yuan, is expected to market size in 2025 is expected to rise to 1 trillion yuan, intelligent hardware and software vendors will receive a major positive.

Apple announced HomeKit Siri instruction Smart Home Development Analysis

However, by the impact of the development time is not long, our smart home industry, there are technical standards are not uniform, inflated prices and product experience disadvantages such as poor. This requires hardware and software vendors to strengthen cooperation and expand the scope of cooperation in different fields, and promote the establishment of industry standards, improve concurrent power technology, improve product quality, to improve this situation. Apple released a smart home platform directive is the industry a good start, which will attract industry polymerized together in the development of the whole industry chain of intelligent, smart home industry will enter a rapid development stage.

Thursday, June 25, 2015

Just a drop of blood the new sensor can measure cancer and cholera



According to the latest issue of "Journal of the American Chemical Society," it reported that the International team includes Canadian researchers have developed a new, including graphene sensors. The biosensor to detect cholera toxin not only has a very high sensitivity, but also provide early diagnosis for cancer and other diseases. Surface plasmon resonance (SPR) sensor is a medical diagnosis of optical technology for high sensitivity and specificity. The researchers found that adding graphene may cause SPR sensor signal multiplied, so that a single molecule can anchor an ultrathin layer of a particular disease signal.

The sensor can detect within minutes of the cholera toxin, by contrast, the current detection techniques require hours or even days. The technology can also be extended to detect almost any including cancer disease markers.


The researchers said that in addition to faster and greatly improved due to the sensitivity of the sensor can be more easily detected small amounts of biological markers, in order to create conditions for the early diagnosis and prognosis of cancer and other diseases. This means that, just use a drop of blood sample from a patient acupuncture, can detect the biomarkers of disease.

SPR biosensor is significantly larger than the standard enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) has a higher sensitivity, laboratory-grown graphene proof than before the use of other forms of graphene is more suitable for the development of new sensors. Graphene is called chemical vapor deposition growth technique to create a large-area graphene nearly defect-free, uniform surface of the graphene helps amplifying the sensor signal.

Tuesday, June 23, 2015

Electromagnetic interference shielding data center cabling system

1, interfering with the data center cabling system

Cabling system consists of several subsystems, signal size of each subsystem used, frequency, etc. are not the same height, so there is interference, as well as the mutual interference between the various loads. To sum up, the integrated wiring system has the following sources of interference.

1.1 sources of interference from the data center within the building

(1) distribution network and the distribution box to generate high-frequency interference.

(2) high-power electric motor electric spark generated by harmonic interference.

(3) fluorescent lamps, electronic ballasts produce interference.

(4) High-frequency switching power supply interference.

(5) generated by the telephone ringing current interference.

(6) Information processing device generates periodic pulse interference.

If the cabling system can not keep a safe distance from these sources may be used to reduce or eliminate shielding system interference sources above the interference of cabling system.

1.2 the source of interference from outside the data center building

Sources of interference from outside the data center architecture are:

Radar, radio transmission equipment, mobile phone base stations, high-voltage wire, electrified railways, lightning strike zones in the interference signal environment and so on.

Obviously intelligent building external interference sources have a high electric field strength, when external cabling systems exist one or more sources of interference should be shielded system.

1.3 sources of interference from the surrounding environment cabling system

Cabling system noise level ambient interference signal field strength or integrated wiring system also should be shielded to protect the system exceeds the following requirements.

(1) computer local area network, if the frequency of the interference signal is introduced l0kHz ~ 600MHz, its field strength of 1V / m; frequency of 600MHz ~ 2.8GHz interference signal field strength of 5V / m.

(2) telecommunications terminal equipment, is introduced through the signal line and other DC or AC frequency of the interfering signal introduced into 15 ~ 80MHz, the field strength of 3V / m (amplitude modulation 80%, 1kHz).

Terminal Equipment (3) with analog / digital terminal interface to provide telephone service, the noise level exceeds 40dB total bandwidth should be less than 200MHz.

(4) The background noise level should be at least 12dB smaller than the reference.

2, comprehensive sets of wiring system anti-jamming measures

Electric field strength interference waves emitted cabling system exceeds a predetermined value, whether factors that need protective measures is more complex, which is the most harmful anti-electromagnetic interference and electromagnetic radiation. EMI issues related to the cabling system can work properly; electromagnetic radiation is related to the safety of cabling system under normal operating conditions information from being stolen by other persons, or causing electromagnetic pollution.

Conducting integrated wiring systems engineering design must be in accordance with the requirements of the construction unit, carry out a detailed arrangement and design, selecting appropriate protective measures.

2.1 shielding measures to reduce electromagnetic interference

Metal casing (1) Information systems, cable shield and metal trunking and other buildings in the introduction frame or equipotential bonding. Information system lightning protection zone in which the magnetic field strength attenuation should be calculated, to take appropriate measures to shield according to the results.

(2) The data center should not be located in high-rise buildings, should lower center of the building. Related equipment to try to stay away from the building facade. Take appropriate measures in accordance with the requirements of lightning protection zones shield and information equipment, electromagnetic field generated when the lightning to the inner decay.

(3) The information device is a non-metallic housing and the shield of the building did not meet the requirements, the importance of information equipment room or equipment based on the direct installation of metal screen or shielded room, shielded metal shielded rooms and other potential connection with phase.

Outdoor line of shielding measures 2.2

Outdoor wiring shield to note the following.

(1) the need to protect the local potential should use shielded cables and both ends of the shielding layer is peer connections, the shield after the junction of the lightning protection zones should also be equipotential connection.

(2) the use of the cable metal-containing components, shall at all into the household of the metal plugs, metal tidal layer and the metal strengthening the core metal member equipotential connection.

Room (3) Building interconnecting cables should be laid in a metal pipe, metal pipe ends to be connected to other potential electrical connections and connections to bring each building. Cable conduits must be equipotential connection. If between adjacent buildings have power and communication cables, the grounding device should be connected to each other.

2.3 Strengthening internal cabling system structure and materials of immunity

This is mainly possible electromagnetic interference requirements for products and equipment may be affected by electromagnetic interference raised. Specific requirements in the manufacturing process is tested to the appropriate standard.

Overall, computer equipment, communications equipment and electronic equipment and other products shape the structure should be made of a metal material box, box, cabinet or shelf, making it in the form of a Faraday cage, a ground terminal, and well grounded. This ability to somehow enhance immunity and radiation protection equipment.

For cable selection Cabling system must meet the system requirements, combined with the buildings surrounding electromagnetic environment into account, usually anti-jamming capability and transmission capacity is the major consideration, but also to consider the economic cost.

Select cables and cabling system connecting hardware, when determining whether a category that you want to ensure consistency. If you choose to shield the cables and connecting hardware must be shielded, and have a good grounding system. Link cabling system commonly used twisted pair, UTP has the ability to absorb and emit electromagnetic waves.

2.4 Note from the equipment and transmission lines between the different sources of interference

In addition to the use of shielded cabling system, well grounded in order to improve their own immunity, radiation protection, but also as far away from interference sources, in order to reduce its impact on the normal operation of the system, improve the reliability of systems and equipment to make Data center cabling system truly become a standard, standard cabling system.

Through a number of experiments shows that when the interference source distance transmission line at different distances, the distortion degree of the transmission signal is different. Therefore, in the construction and installation process should pay attention to the relationship between the wiring system and the distance from the source of disturbance, in strict accordance with standard design, construction, and make the appropriate testing to ensure normal and reliable cabling system.

Friday, June 19, 2015

Why periphery and core are to be considered when selecting a CPU

New products bring to market quickly - with increasing design complexity. To help customers succeed, has been certified for ARM Accredited Engineer Future Electronics' MCU 300 engineers.

The time factor more than ever now plays a crucial role in product development and in meeting the timeframe for the launch. Choosing a core that does not exactly meet the requirements can jeopardize the entire schedule. The technical distributor Future Electronics is therefore on the intensive training of its field application.

300 engineers have been in the last year certified for ARM Accredited Engineer MCU and can now offer extensive assistance in the core selection. Uwe Knipping, technical solutions manager at Future Electronics, explains in an interview with the ELEKTRONIKPRAXIS which criteria are of particular importance.

ELEKTRONIKPRAXIS: What were the reasons for the ARM certification of engineers at Future Electronics?

Uwe Knipping: Through our work with customers, we found that great need for education is around choosing a suitable cores. As a technical distributor we set at the beginning of the development work on with our assistance around the choice of a core and place here the course for the project's success.

Participation in the ARM AAME program and the associated certification of Future Field Application Engineers will create the necessary basis of trust with our customers and at the same time laid the foundation to meet the different advisory requirements. By profound knowledge about ARM cores, we are even better able to design teams the customer from the start of a new project at the right decision to accompany architecture.

Why is this help today in the project so important?

Through ARM-based cores a vast variety of CPU choices has emerged in the last five years. Many manufacturers use the same core for its microcontroller, so that differentiation at first glance is not easy. Our experiences have shown that when choosing a microcontroller knowledge is tacitly over the core.

The manufacturer informed about what they have implemented around the core to the periphery. They provide customers with a wealth of material on data sheets and examples. Often but not find the time for individual advice on specific project. Here we jump and connect our core specific knowledge with the peripheral requirements.

Important is the vendor-neutral advice that we can with our overview of various ARM-based products and proprietary cores, such as the MIPS or AVR platforms, offer through our broad-based linecard in order to arrive at an optimal solution for specific customer needs.

Wednesday, June 17, 2015

With a heart rate sensor Sony Smart Watch SmartBand 2 exposure



Usually in the form of stand or companies will disclose conference to showcase new products, or released well-made website to attract users to get as much attention. But do not take the unusual way Sony is using a new approach, although the second-generation SmartBand Smart Watch has not been released, but the relevant supporting applications have first landed Play store, but in the press before the page is offline application, but fast chips Foreign media have been preserved image.

Apparently Sony is developing a new generation of SmartBand, new product called "SmartBand2", increasing the heart rate sensor, capable of better qualified fitness tracking. The new application interface to Sony professional Lifelog application more professional, to get the best of both with a complete experience.

Contemporary with the same model, SmartBand2 sleep and can simultaneously track the number of steps varies depending on the mobile phone side dress remind transmission weather conditions, after the alarm can be set to vibrate. There are also dedicated buttons for all of the data can be retained screenshots to help you ah recorded statement is very meaningful moment.

Monday, June 15, 2015

GreenPeak attention to partners in China to build a new eco-smart home business applications



Founder of the world's leading smart home Semiconductor / Enterprise GreenPeak Technologies and CEO Cees Links represent a reporter conference in Grand Hyatt Beijing recently held, GreenPeak Technologies is seeking Chinese partners to jointly promote and create objects Smart Home ecosystem networked platform, work potential partners to accelerate the development of smart city projects. Said Mr. Cees Links, GreenPeak China witnessed an important step towards the Internet of Things. GreenPeak solutions not only solve the aging of the huge Chinese demand, but not enough to fill the number of pension institutions of challenges.

According to the world's leading market research firm Research and Markets report on China's smart home industry: China smart home from 2011 to 2014, annual growth of 30% in 2014, smart home applications and products overall value reached 28.61 billion yuan, compared with 2013 increased by 39%.
Things era many Chinese telecom operators, service providers and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) in China coming to seek opportunities. For the semiconductor industry, networking equipment based on market opportunities on behalf of the IEEE 802.15.4 and ZigBee technology trillions. Open global wireless networking standard allows a single smart devices are interconnected, lay the foundation for the Internet of Things, and to further improve the comfort, safety and efficiency of daily life.

GreenPeak Technologies founder and CEO Cees Links, said: "The current number of elderly people in China have nearly 200 million, of which about 50 million elderly people living alone to solve China increasingly serious aging problem, the key lies in the effective use of the smart home. solution, expanded use of things to install and run more economical, easier to scale .GreenPeak the social skills, learned to recognize the behavior of cloud-based self-learning ability, as well as analysis algorithm is applied to the smart home solutions, and is committed to using cutting-edge ZigBee technology and strategic cooperation model for the development of China's intelligent home networking ecosystem and contribute and really smart to upgrade the average family to family. "
Chinese social media users is most concentrated. This makes it possible to take advantage of the rapid development of China's Internet of Things technology, social media and online communications capability into the smart home applications, and it also allows families with children and the elderly in the premise of ensuring the privacy of living safely share information . Dispersed throughout the home ZigBee sensors can quietly collect data upon detection of abnormal behavior or unexpected situation, the system through social networks, such as micro letters and QQ, immediately notify the family or friends to take the necessary measures. Smart Home system makes the elderly feel more secure and increase the length of time an independent home for the elderly. Even the elderly and children separated in different cities, the smart home system will also enhance communication efficiency, and shorten the distance between the elderly and their children.

The growing strategic partnership

GreenPeak since last year opened an office in Hong Kong, China, to continue doing business in China first-tier cities, and set up offices in Beijing. In order to better serve our customers, partners, service providers and smart home ecosystem, GreenPeak plans to set up an office in Shanghai.

In March, GreenPeak with ZTE ZTE's Health Technology Co., Ltd. (ZTE Health) signed a cooperation agreement to jointly develop smart home applications. The aim of this cooperation is based on China as a starting point, to provide intelligent solutions to the problem of aging of the world. The thrust of the strategic business alliance is possible to extend the time for the elderly to live independently at home, but also make caregivers and families more peace of mind. By partnering with ZTE Health Technology Co., Ltd., GreenPeak hopes to create a more secure environment for the elderly who will be the home of independent elderly prolonged 5--10 years. Compared to the construction of the pension agency, independent lifestyle at home for Chinese families and local governments to ease enormous economic burden.

2014, GreenPeak with the world's leading wireless module solutions for design and manufacturing experts USI Electronics to develop a sensor device of a high-performance low-cost ZigBee module for the intelligent home. The new ring Asahi Electronic ZigBee module so that the original is not good at USI ZigBee technology electronic equipment development partners can quickly deploy and implement equipment upgrades, greatly reducing the time to market of its equipment, so smart home devices more widely and more affordable.

Sunday, May 24, 2015

If acquired by AMD and Intel X86 authorization is automatically terminated



Do not look now AMD, Intel X86 market is dead in the opponent, but in the early advent of X86 architecture, Intel but the initiative to AMD X86 authorized to share because it was IBM X86 processor orders, others are entitled to X86 semiconductor company to license basic on do not exist. So now the question is, poor financial situation of AMD to become bigger, to find someone to invest is not run, it is often Samsung, Qualcomm and even AMD's acquisition of China's Godson rumors broke, then the question is, if AMD with other companies, merge or be acquired, then the licensing agreement with Intel's X86 still exist?

The question naturally there are many people in the industry concerned, regardless of what AMD are subject to change, this is a major event, but also may affect many investors make money or not. For this problem, a few days ago, AMD CFO Devinder Kumar Global Technology Conference in Jeffery did statement:

"(X86 license agreement with Intel's) is a cross-protocol, they are also used in the field X86 our innovative technologies (should refer to AMD's X86 64-bit technology), from this point on, they are partners. There are a lot of things is our first invention or the first application, it is not twelve technology is so simple, so that many people mistakenly believe the market using AMD rival technology, in fact, this is a cross-licensing agreement. "

CFO's statement was interpreted as if AMD is acquired or consolidated, or even the introduction of new investors, with Intel's X86 license is not an obstacle, which is basically equal to the potential investors, clearing the way.

These statements, however CFO AMD soon be clarified, director of public relations today clarified AMD and Intel's X86 license agreement, which is very important point is that - once AMD or Intel both companies changed ownership, whether as a merger, acquisition or accept the investment, this license agreement will automatically terminate.

In other words, AMD really keep other companies, merge or be acquired, this restriction in fact, still exist. Of course, this limit is the same time for both sides, not only is AMD, Intel acquired if being the case, the agreement will automatically terminate.

In addition, X86 license agreement originally signed between AMD and Intel have been for many years, 10 years ago, when Intel antitrust end both sides who held the cross-licensing agreement, so the CFO saying is right to some extent, especially in the 64-bit AMD X86 Let Intel low a head on the processor.

Thursday, May 21, 2015

The role of the OPC Unified Architecture in industry 4.0



 
OPC stands for Open Connectivity and is the world's most widely used standardized data exchange process automation technology. What role can play OPC UA in the industry 4.0?
The next industrial revolution, known as the industry is 4.0, characterized by individualized, highly flexible production, the extensive Integration of business processes and the coupling of products and services. In the factory of the future, all components control the production process independently, based on their extensive networking and the internet of things. Elementary component here is an OPC UA standard, interoperability at all levels allowed - to bare metal environments.
The white paper "OPC Unified Architecture and Industrial 4.0" you will learn:
• about the background of the concept of industry 4.0 and its connection to the functioning of the OPC Unified Architecture more• What challenges can be overcome with OPC• how these pioneering and complex technology can be used successfully
This download is provided to you by third parties (eg the manufacturer) or by our editorial staff free of charge. If you have problems opening the whitepapers, please disable your pop-up blocker for this site.

Tuesday, May 19, 2015

Process oriented solutions are in great demand at ASM

ASM Assembly Systems draws upon completion of Trade Fair SMT Hybrid Packaging 2015 to a positive conclusion. For the first time, the printer specialist DEK and the equipping of SIPLACE experts in Nuremberg presented at a joint stand.

On the SMT Hybrid Packaging ASM Assembly Systems was waiting with a complete SMT production line for placing on super small 0201 components, consisting of a DEK stencil printer of the type Horizon 03iX and SIPLACE SX family.

Continuous were process experts from DEK and SIPLACE engrossed in discussions with customers to beantworten.Kernthemen questions about process improvements in electronics manufacturing were here with great workflow solutions such as the Material Manager, the Setup Assistant or the SiCluster Multiline even service tools such as the new nano Ultra-DEK stencil and the upgrade kits for feeder or the Head care ward of SIPLACE.

For much talk about the presentation of the first mounting solution caused the midspeed segment: E by SIPLACE. This ASM Assembly Systems addressed first new target groups and applications outside the high-end segment. The team of the Distributor SmartRep, who presented the E-series at its own stand, still recorded the first orders from Germany, Austria and Switzerland at the fair.

"Just one year after the integration teams of DEK and SIPLACE are grown together very well and already presented joint solutions and projects," said Gabriela Reckewerth pleased, Global Marketing Director at ASM Assembly Systems, the successful trade fair appearance: "The goal is clear: We want to provide continuous line optimized solutions. The feedback from the fair shows that we are on the right track and can give comprehensive answers to the requirements in electronics manufacturing. "

It was noteworthy that the focus of the visits was not only on machines but primarily on integrated processes. This emphasizes Hubert Egger, Product Marketing Manager at SIPLACE team: "Technically the processes occur more and more to the fore. The customers are asking for integrated solutions and for ASM As a manufacturer next to Best-in-Class printer and placement also advanced software and in-depth process knowledge. Only the perfect interaction of all components ensures process-optimized, tailored to the specific needs of individual electronics manufacturing solutions. "

For the Productronica, the world trade fair for electronics production in the fall, Egger announced the intention to expand the theme of the Smart Factory, which had already been virulent at the SMT Hybrid Packaging yet.

Friday, May 15, 2015

16-bit DSC allows smaller power supplies with higher switching frequencies

The Digital Signal Controllers (DSCs) from Microchip have been designed for the implementation of sophisticated nonlinear, predictive and adaptive control algorithms at higher switching frequencies. For the first time, a flash memory for live updates without interruption in running systems has been integrated.

Microchip announces the dsPIC33EP "GS" family before 14 new Digital Signal Controllers (DSCs), which are suitable for the implementation of sophisticated nonlinear, predictive and adaptive control algorithms at higher switching frequencies. These algorithms enable not only more efficient power supplies, they also have better overall specifications.

Block diagram of microcontroller family dsPIC33EP- "GS" from Microchip
Block diagram of microcontroller family dsPIC33EP- "GS" from Microchip (image: Microchip)
Higher switching frequencies allow the development in turn physically smaller power supplies with higher component density at a lower cost. Compared to the previous generation of DSCs, the new "GS" family less than half the latency when it is used in an expansion joint with three poles and three zeros, and needs regardless of the application up to 80% less power.

The dsPIC33EP- "GS" family also comes up with special properties, such as the flash memory for live updates, which is particularly important for high availability or uninterruptible systems. The firmware of a power supply and the active calculation code for the compensator can thus be replaced by live update during operation and continuous control. A short presentation, see www.microchip.com/Presentation and in our gallery.

The technical basic parameters of the new digital power design Controlle

Other key features of the family are up to five 12-bit ADCs with 22 ADC inputs. You have a total throughput of 16 mega samples per second (Msps) and an ADC latency of 300 ns.

Furthermore, 12-bit DACs available for each of the four analog comparators for designs with higher accuracy. Two programmable analog amplifier on the chip are designed for current measurement and other precision measurements and help to save external components and board space and reduce costs.

Wednesday, May 13, 2015

Infra Red Light MAKE new production processes POSSIBLE

The production of new sandwich structures, such as those used for example for modern aircraft and vehicles require different heating processes. An infrared system from Heraeus Noblelight offers the necessary flexibility for both trials and for later production. From the Institute of Lightweight Structures and Polymer Technology (ILK) of the TU Dresden as could new combination method such as the thermal pressing, be improved. The ILK has the novel manufacturing processes so implemented that they are now economically viable and are nearing production readiness.

Foam technologies are used increasingly in the future as can improve the performance of components with the new composite technologies and new applications are possible. The requirements for the components are going to increase the functionality and integration capability, while reducing component weight and manufacturing costs.

When thermopressing organic sheets are connected to foam board. For this, the sandwich of thermoplastic cover layer and core material is produced and transformed directly in the pressing tool. Heated semi-finished products are transported in a pressing tool with foam panels, which are covered above and below with Organoblechzuschnitten. When the tool is the outer layers and the foam core are formed and pressed to form a sandwich structure.
Infrared systems transfer heat without contact medium, by means of electromagnetic waves that produce heat directly in the material.

Infrared systems provide a very flexible adjustment and control of power. They also have very short response times, short-wave and carbon emitters react within one to three seconds. This makes heat controllable and helps to realize temperature profiles.

This flexibility of infrared systems makes them an ideal source of heat in the design phase of new technologies.

The technology group Heraeus headquartered in Hanau, is a 1851 founded and today the world's leading family. With expertise, innovation orientation, operational excellence and entrepreneurial leadership, we strive to improve our economic performance continuously.

We provide quality solutions for our customers and sustainably strengthen its competitiveness by combining material expertise with technology know-how. Our ideas are based on themes such as environment, energy, health, mobility and industrial applications. Our portfolio ranges from components to matched material systems. They are used in diverse industries, including steel, electronics, chemicals, automotive and telecommunications.

In fiscal 2014, Heraeus generated product revenues of € 3.4 billion and a precious metal trading revenues of € 12.2 billion. With around 12,600 employees worldwide in more than 100 locations in 38 countries worldwide, Heraeus holds a leading position in its global markets.

Heraeus Noblelight GmbH with its headquarters in Hanau and with subsidiaries in the USA, UK, France, China and Australia one of the world's market and technology leaders in the production of specialist light sources and systems. Heraeus Noblelight had 2014 annual revenues of € 137.3 million and employed 884 people worldwide. The company develops, manufactures and markets infrared and ultraviolet emitters, systems and solutions for applications in industrial manufacture, environmental protection, medicine and cosmetics, research and analytical laboratories.

Sunday, May 10, 2015

Fitbit launch IPO or a wearable device first listed company in the field

Fitbit wearable device company today officially submitted to the United States on the NYSE IPO application, plans $ 100 million public financing (but the amount may change), and have been identified under the ticker symbol FIT. Morgan Stanley, Deutsche Bank and Merrill Lynch will be the lead underwriters listed Fitbit.

Fitbit Founded in 2007, precisely because of earlier entered the field of wearable devices, so set up a certain advantage. According to its prospectus disclosed that in 2014 Fitbit sold a total of 10.9 million sets of wearable devices, more than double the 2013's. Nearly two years of its financial situation is very good, in 2014 turnover reached 740 million, and net profit of 130 million.

Data analysis reports in addition to selling hardware products, Fitbit there is a piece of the revenue from user fees, the annual fee is $ 49.99. As of the first quarter of this year, Fitbit active users of the service charge of 950 million people.

Fitbit's current flagship product sports bracelet Fitbit Charge and Fitbit Flex, There is also a smart watch Fitbit Surge.

As more and more companies began to enter the field of smart wearable devices, Fitbit will face more intense competition. Apple and other large companies, especially admission, Fitbit will form a great pressure. Late last year, Apple had the shelf Fitbit own line of products within the store.

Fitbit total financing of $ 80 million on the history, the current co-founder of two JamesPark (CEO) and EricFriedman (CTO) owned 10.9% stake in the company. Their investors FoundryGroup, TrueVentures and Softbank shares accounted for 28.9%, 22.4% and 5.6% respectively.

Friday, May 8, 2015

Linxens complete RFID antenna specialist KnL acquisition

Dedicated to the design and manufacture connectors for smart cards worldwide leader Linxens KnL Group has just completed the acquisition.

KnL Group in 2010 was founded by Yannick Zoccola managing director of this company, located in Bangkok, Thailand. This company specializes in radio frequency identification (RFID) and antenna embedded in the manufacture thereof, and these products are generally used for bank cards, ID cards, access cards and transportation cards and passports.

Christophe Duverne Linxens Group CEO, said: "This acquisition is Linxens KnL Group an important step and will help strengthen our momentum and we are happy for our products join KnL talent, technology and products, and are convinced that this. It will help us accelerate our ambitions in contactless products in the market. "

Yannick Zoccola KnL director, general manager, said: "KnL antenna has been developed in terms of a set of unique capabilities and we are pleased to own expertise and the expertise of Linxens binding, and accelerating the development of our business in the medium to long term, it will. Our products and services can bring a more reasonable choice for our customers. "Yannick Zoccola will continue to serve his current role, and add Linxens management team.

Tuesday, May 5, 2015

Perfect film for the chip of the future

Chip developers know that the time is not far off, as their raw material silicon will reach its limits. The probate recipe, more and more, always accommodate smaller components to the processors, then almost only deliver Committee. Alternative materials and alternative principles must therefore forth.

Particularly promising is considered a class of certain metal compounds with the best known representatives of molybdenum disulfide. Similar to the "miracle material" graphene They can be prepared in stable thickness layers only a few atoms. However, in contrast to carbon-based graphene they reveal a trait that she is predestined for use in computer chips: They are like silicon semiconductors, ie, their electrical conductivity can be changed within a split second. That's why they come, at least from a theoretical point of most likely for use in chip into consideration.

But their semiconductor property is just one of the features associated with these "transition metal dichalcogenides" points. Thanks to some exotic properties they exist also for alternative computer concepts, such as on the basis of electron spins (spintronics) or other atomic phenomena (Valleytronik, Orbitronik). Some scientists see their applications on the other hand more in optoelectronics, high-speed communications or alternatively as data or energy storage. And researchers have long not yet explored the full range of possibilities offered by these materials.

Nanolayers in Huge
One application was previously opposed mainly the disabled manufacturing process. He provided the scientists little more than small pieces of material. Such samples are usually wins by peeling method - of larger multi layer blocks most precise individual layers are removed. Using aggressive starting chemicals can also produce films by deposition from the gas phase. But experts say it is unlikely that with the hitherto existing methods pops useful for the computer industry.

Construction of molybdenum disulfide
Transition-metal dichalcogenides such as molybdenum disulfide are not true 2-D-materials, because their molecules form other than the planar graphs a three-dimensionally structured monolayer in which the Calkogen, here the sulfur, protrudes from the plane.
More promising sounds a new procedure that has a team to Jiwoong Park from Cornell University in Ithaca now presented. Transition metal dichalcogenides always consist of a metal such as molybdenum or tungsten, as well as one of the three elements sulfur, selenium or tellurium. Their molecules together form a three-layer structure in which the metal is flanked at the center of the overlying and underlying second element.

Park and colleagues have now succeeded to produce such precise three atoms thick layers of molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) and tungsten disulfide (WS2) - not in micron size, but in round slices of rich ten centimeters in diameter. They are therefore more than 100 million times wider than it is thick.

"There are a lot of people who are trying to breed such individual layers on a large scale, including me", the materials researcher Georg Duesberg says from Trinity College in Dublin against "Nature". "As it is, who it now really done."

Hot full steam process
The new method essentially corresponds to the conventional, ie the so-called chemical vapor deposition, however, includes a central gimmick that is to take other gaseous starting materials than previously customary, explained Park. The corresponding molecules (Mo (CO) 6 and W (CO) 6 and S (CH2CH3) 2 as sulfur supplier) each contain only one atom of the desired substance. With these gases, the layers are grown in 26 hours under 550 degrees Celsius on a silica-coated silicon wafer. As proved decisive, while continuously supplying hydrogen gas to prevent carbonaceous impurities in the final product.

Researchers used now gone one better and produced on this blank a total of 200 field-effect transistors, a standard component of modern electronic circuits. The review found that only two of them were not working as intended, what they gave a success rate of 99 percent. It shows that an error-free layer had grown to almost the entire surface.

The new computer era
According to researchers, it should be possible to cover a layer with a layer of silicon dioxide and again to undergo the process, so that a sandwich structure. One directed to the appropriate places a conductive links between the layers, to three-dimensional circuits would be realized, explained Park and colleagues. Also experiments with laminates from MoS2 and graphs or boron nitride have already delivered promising results.

Process too "inflexible"?
Before too much euphoria, however, warn Tobi Marks and Mark Hersam of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, in their otherwise very positive accompanying Comment: The practical application still stood against a number of obstacles. Thus, the charge carriers in the three atoms thick layers move more slowly than in a conventional example silicon or even graphene, which theoretically limits the computer's speed. Also comply with their electronic properties not yet completely the wishes of chip manufacturers that indeed must, for example think of the energy consumption of their devices.

Due to the high production temperature, the layers may also not be created on flexible carriers. Here are the ultra-thin 2-D materials just play to their strengths here. However, there may be would find ways to create the MoS2 on silica and then transfer them to new surfaces, write Marks and Hersam.

And who knows, maybe the true "killer app" of these materials is so in an entirely different field. An exotic effects no shortage. According to Marks and Hersam to grain boundaries can be moved within the layer of electric shock, bringing the lead resistance can be deliberately manipulated - it creates a "memristor", and from there it is practically only a very short distance to the electronic nerve cell in the computer.

Monday, May 4, 2015

Ultra-thin LCD VS 64% of the surface of the liquid crystal former consumer preferences



2015's TV market, ultra-high definition picture quality on the market is still dominant, but the design also became the new consumer benchmark. In addition to the new form of curved LCD TV market today is more thickness comparable with the flagship smartphone of ultra-thin TV, what is more recognized consumer trends?
Recently, the authority of the domestic research firm AVC Openwave cloud Posted "2015 TV product design research report" that TV consumption trends and the integration of home design, as consumers buy new television standard. The report also indicates the relative surface LCD TV, ultra-thin TV consumers have a better understanding, more than 60% of consumers are more inclined to choose the ultra-thin TV.

2014 experienced a development boom 4K Ultra HD, pure display technology upgrading has been difficult to reflect the panel makers to pursue differentiated, panel makers are turning to TV design. Promote "more ergonomic 'curved LCD TV, and the pursuit of thinner and lighter ultra-thin television emerged as the two design direction of the current panel market.

AVC report shows that both the ultra-thin TV or curved LCD TV, consumers of their level of understanding of the whole are low, but consumers about the ultra-thin TVs and surfaces LCD TVs concepts, without considering the price of the premise, the relative surface of the liquid crystal TV, 64 percent of consumers prefer ultra-thin TV, the tendency of consumers accounted for only 23% of surface TV, ultra-thin TV as all income groups most consumer choice.

AVC data analysis, design better and more innovative, more high-end products, technology and more innovation, more easily matched with home decoration style, ultra-thin TV consumers tend to choose four reasons. Among them, more innovative product design, technology and product innovation is more and more high-end consumers in the choice of ultra-thin TV's core demands, but also consumers that ultra-thin TV LCD TVs more competitive relative to the surface of the product features.

In addition, the report also shows that in the minds of consumers, relative to the surface of the liquid crystal TV, ultra-thin TV with a relatively higher premium capacity, higher market value. 38.3% of consumers to accept prices above the surface of ultra-thin TV LCD TV prices, and ultra-thin TV prices lower than the acceptable proportion of consumers curved LCD TV prices dropped 25.3%.

Next higher price diversified television popular TV applications

Picture quality, new features and design are the three core elements of ultra-thin TV consumer preferences in Key considerations when buying a TV. The report shows that the design, the external shape (curved & flat), material and product thickness of the material is ultra-thin television preferences of the three demands of consumers in terms of product appearance. AVC The report notes that the ultra-thin TV brings minimalist design also an excellent way to meet the trend of home design. In terms of price, consumers are more than 1 million TV products have begun to show more favor, showing that the market trend of strong demand for high-end products.

Not difficult to see, ultra-high definition picture quality and design, will be the main direction of development of television the next few years. In addition to 4K, another keyword is "ultra-thin" no doubt. As the world's largest television market, China is expected to be formed in 2017, the market size of 45.35 million units, including ultra-thin TV will reach 7 million units, accounting for 15.4%, an average annual growth rate of 165% of rapid development. In 2016, the ultra-thin TV market will reach 3.8 million units, will completely throw off the market size is 300 million units of curved LCD TV, which also means that ultra-thin TV market trends in China will become the largest LCD TV market.

Trend of ultra-thin TV market at the beginning of this year will win the favor of consumers. In the upcoming May Day appliance sales season, the reporter found that ultra-thin television has become the supermarkets and TV manufacturers, "meat and potatoes", LG, Skyworth, Konka, Changhong and other manufacturers have introduced complete ultra-thin TV Promotions activities. Which is no shortage of heavy models added, both the thickness of only 55 inches G9200 Air 7.5mm Skyworth, but also has applications Zhen wide color gamut technology of LG 65 英寸 UF9500. In addition, Konka Yi TV · Slim2 8900S, Changhong CHiQ Q2R etc. are also ultra-thin star product. Ultra-thin TV season May Day performance worth the wait.

Thursday, April 30, 2015

Planned merger of Applied Materials and Tokyo Electron failed

The announced eighteen months ago merger of the two companies from the USA and Japan has met with opposition from the US antitrust authorities. The promise of more competition does not suffice to competition watchdogs.

The cartel investigations in the US Department of Justice issued the merger plans drawn up by Applied Materials and Tokyo Electronics clearly rejected. The recent concessions of the two companies to provide for the merger to more competition, not enough auditors. Applied Materials wants to buy back its own action worth about three billion dollars (about 2.77 billion euros) in the market.

In September 2013, the California service and manufacturing companies and the Japanese producer of flat screens and machines for the semiconductor industry had announced their plans for a merger. The merger should arise a new heavyweight for equipment, software and services in the semiconductor industry and the production of chips and displays, such as for smartphones.

Had the merger of Applied Materials and Tokyo Electron been completed, a market value $ 29 billion was for the emerged from the merger company with a planned new headquarters in the Netherlands worden.Die predicts shareholders of Applied Materials should with 68 percent of the majority of shares hold in the new company. From the merger, the two companies promised not only to accelerate the development of new technologies for semiconductors and displays, but also a savings of 500 million euros annually.

Tuesday, April 28, 2015

Enables remote measurements of diode power sensor



Previously, power meters are grouped together by the power meter external power sensors and a host via a cable connection. In the radio-frequency power sensor signal is converted into a voltage signal, amplified, after digitization, is displayed in the host. This has the advantage that you can choose the appropriate power sensor for the current task, without the need to replace the power of the host, the downside is that the power sensor can not work independently, it can not be used without a host.

Now, with advances in semiconductor technology, power meter can be made into a small, integrated unit, and can be via a standard USB interface to connect directly to a PC or a power meter host. Rohde & Schwarz has recently released a new R & S NRPxxS and R & S NRPxxSN USB interface three-channel diode power sensor. The new three-channel diode power sensor products with greater flexibility, in addition to the existing USB interface probe, there is a new LAN interface, so you can easily achieve the long-distance power measurements.

The new diode power sensor has about features:

A wider range of frequencies

Both models have three selectable power sensor frequency range: 10 MHz to 8 GHz or 18 GHz or 33 GHz

Superior measurement speed

10,000 times per second, to be completed by the measurement trigger, trigger a minimum resolution of 100μs. Probes specific models can even be completed per second over 50,000 such interval measurement. Improved design allows three-channel diode power sensor can measure lowering the minimum -70dBm. New models with up to 93dB of dynamic range. At low power measurement speed improvement is particularly evident.

Through the LAN interface and a web browser control

The new LAN interface enables remote power measurement distance. For example, in a satellite system or a particle accelerator system in place certain position some power sensors can be completed on the computer control and monitoring control center. Power sensor can be easily controlled through a web browser, a graphical user interface, without having to install additional software.

Diverse and versatile measurement mode

Can help mobile communication users GSM, 3GPP, LTE and LTE-A signal power measurement. Can also be used to measure the 33GHz automotive collision avoidance radar development and production. In addition, new models can still measure the continuous average power, average burst power, average power slot, the average power gating and power curves.

Friday, April 24, 2015

Metering pump detects pressure variations without external sensors

The magnetic sensor as
On the way to increasingly high-quality chemical products the exact dosage is becoming increasingly important. For the dosing affects not only on the reproducibility of the quality of products produced from, but can also increase the profit margin by a security surcharges are metered. If the metering pumps used then also monitor nor even, also increases the availability of the production process.

These and other requirements were the focus of development efforts for the new dosing pump gamma / X Prominent - the successor model of the proven series gamma / L. First comes a controlled magnetic drive is used, which has been so designed that it can also monitor the hydraulic conditions.

In conventional dosing pressure sensors are integrated to detect pressure in the liquid. The electronic components and connectors are exposed to the metered, often aggressive chemicals that can be attacked and corroded. The necessary components and additional sealing surfaces also increase, depending on the model, the price of around 15 to 20 percent. The new pumps do not require such sensors. Their magnetic control covers all variations in pressure and protects the system from overpressure. So unnecessary sources of error are excluded.

Trouble-free dosing even with effervescent media
An example of typical problems in the use of metering pumps in practice are effervescent media. Thus, gas bubbles can completely block the dosage of chlorine bleach. This may in waterworks, where the operator is not always on site, result in impairment inserts. This not only causes loss of production, but additional costs.

An automatic venting of the metering pump prevents outgassing media disturb the dosage by gas bubbles and optimize the dosing. In addition, the new solenoid diaphragm detects varying pressure conditions and adjusts their dosing automatically to the currently prevailing conditions - even with highly viscous media. Viscosity changes caused by temperature variations are automatically compensated. The control automatically ensures trouble-free dosing. The new legislation also increases the accuracy of ± 5% to ± 2% or better. As a result, product quality and productivity can be increased.

The magnetic control detects selbstätig hydraulic deviations that interfere with the metering considerably. Overpressure, broken pressure lines or vacuum and gas in the liquid can be registered without sensors and processed. This pressure is indicated on the display. When exceeding or falling below a preset limit values ​​on the display, an alarm is displayed and transmitted via relay or bus interface. The timely detection and switching off the system and pump help to prevent damage. The integrated pressure monitoring is a reliable backup system to the existing pressure gauge and pressure relief valve. The pressure in the display simplifies commissioning, monitoring and troubleshooting, and thus reduces downtimes considerably.

High accuracy and intuitive operating concept
The pump is used for the dosage of 1 ml to 45 l / h at a back pressure of 25 to 2 bar. Your control range is 1: 2,000, reproducible accuracy within ± 2%. Other features of the new pump series also includes the installation and intuitive operating concept. In a fortified with standard tool mounting plate, the new solenoid is simply connected. For installation and positioning almost no restrictions must be observed, the status LED will be readily apparent from every angle. The unique pin assignment prevents incorrect assignments. Simple and front-access controls and clear messages from the large display simplify maintenance.

The pump is equipped with a large, illuminated graphic display with plain text in many languages. Use the Click Wheel newly developed is possible a rapid adjustment of the parameters. The Quick Access is via four buttons without cumbersome long scrolling in various operating levels. The feed rate is adjusted directly in liters per hour. Stroke, frequency and dosing profile can be parameterized. By a pressure gauge gives a short glance at the display information about the existing pressures. The three-stage LED status indicator, which is attached to the upper front panel displays from all sides visible from the current operating status.

The stroke length can be adjusted electronically in the range from 0 to 100 percent. If a pulsation or continuous dosing is required, it allows the controlled magnetic drive, execute the print stroke slowly. In the volume-proportional dosing of a chemical in a main stream continuous dosing characteristic is obtained in the form of an elongated metering stroke. Since both media are already well mixed in this way, is mixing elements can be saved in the main stream.

Static mixer unnecessary
For applications for pH regulation, for example in water levels, may as "chemicals clouds" are avoided. The slow pressure stroke the pH-regulating chemical is added to the water flow evenly. The water then has a nearly constant pH and arrives without pH variation to the consumer. The cost for an additional static mixer and its installation can be saved.

In the case of rigid dosing also can smoothest flow metering characteristic be necessary to prevent pipeline or pump will be damaged by strong pulsations of the incompressible dosing liquid. This requirement is mastered by the new pump.

Conclusion: The new solenoid diaphragm gamma / X-wear, overload and energy saving. As a first metering pump in its class, it is driven by a regulated magnet. In addition to high dosing accuracy and high efficiency, it can help to improve process safety through automatic monitoring of hydraulic conditions and sensorless pressure monitoring.

E-Facts
For operators
The more precise the control of a metering pump, the better the dosing.
The solenoid gamma / X is equipped with a low-wear, controlled magnetic drive.
Together with an automatic air vent and the detection incorrectly sized suction / discharge lines makes the new drive for high reliability.
The magnetic regime embraces Durckabweichungen and protects the network without additional (error-prone) sensors against overpressure.

Monday, April 20, 2015

Sharp plans to sell its headquarters and close Mihara LED factory

According to Japan's Kyodo News April 16 reported that the media on the 16th was informed that the entire contents of the Sharp company restructuring plan the program, including the closure of the production of LCD TVs Tochigi Plant (Tochigi Yaita), sold in Osaka City Corporation and other large scale layoffs. Sharp plans to submit the plan to the major trading banks. Due to the fiscal year 2014 (April 2014-March 2015) ¥ 200 billion size (about 10.4 billion yuan) in losses, Sharp will strive to assist banks were ¥ 225 billion of capital to accelerate reorganization.

Plan for the proposed spin-off of the main LCD business, set up a subsidiary, will cut 3,000 jobs at home and abroad and about 2,000 people.

About underperforming solar cell business, including household batteries, including Sharp considering to completely withdraw from the study for the first large-scale photovoltaic power plants sell "thin-film solar cells," department.

Domestic production of LCD TVs will be transferred to the manufacture of white goods factory Yao (Yao City, Osaka). Due to the depreciation of the yen, the company has considered the production moved back from overseas Tochigi plant, but the deterioration of the performance exceeded expectations then changed the policy. Will determine the future treatment of employees and whereabouts.

Plans to shut down production program also includes an LED factory Mihara (Mihara, Hiroshima City), as well as the manufacturing plant sensors Fukuyama (Fukuyama City, Hiroshima Prefecture) of the first to plant a total of four 3 factories. The company will summarize the new medium-term management plan on the basis of the program, and released in May.

Because of the small LCD screen smartphone business performance for the Chinese downturn, coupled with structural reforms to increase the cost of, Sharp 2014 fiscal year to a loss again a year later. The company has Mizuho Bank and The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ to seek financial support.

Thursday, April 16, 2015

Various possible applications of wireless optical communication has slowly emerge



Optics in the semiconductor, electronics, using a wide range of ICT industries, such as optoelectronic semiconductors can be used as LED lights, lighting; Opto Semiconductors CCD, CMOS image sensors do digital cameras, digital surveillance, micro-electromechanical systems do DMD projector; Phototransistor, couplers for automatic control.

Or optical storage, such as Blu-ray Disc BD-chip; or optical communication, such as FTTH FTTH broadband, and optical communications is actually divided into wired and wireless, wireline, such as fiber to the House, that xPON various passive optical network; or large enterprise IT room, storage area network SAN within the data centers used; consumer electronics field, as in the past Sony MD with optical S / PDIF audio transmission line; or in the professional video editing regard, Apple Mac optical version Thunderbolt (referred TBT) transmission line.

Cable transmission of light has been used a lot, but rarely use wireless transmission, especially in the field of consumer end, almost all stay in the IR infrared remote control stage, and then the last few years people began to advocate the visible wireless communications VLC, estimated future a few years there will be a new development.

Why wireless optical communications to start showing off? Because the existing Wi-Fi in 2.4GHz spectrum resources have been squeezed almost to the limit, you want a faster rate, almost all to consider the 5GHz band, IEEE 802.11ac is the case, LTE-U is true, but not the global access 5GHz The band, some countries can not be used, or only partially used, conditional use (not for outdoor use, or may not exceed the number of transmit power).

In addition to 2.4GHz, another global access is available band 60GHz, but because the band is too high, the relevant design are highly difficult, is still developing. Plus LED popularity, people began to consider the use of wireless communication to accelerate the transmission of light in the region.

About this, the most representative of the technology for Li-Fi, has demonstrated over the 2014 CES, the fastest way transmission 150Mbps, two-way down to 110Mbps, in fact only a single antenna 11n Wi-Fi is almost, but the future There greatly enhance the potential of up to 1Gbps, 10Gbps than standard lights and colors currently available to improve the rate of increase, and the other is a channel such as a red LED, green LED is also a channel and so on.

Two other advantages of wireless optical communications, one from electromagnetic interference, although the current flight regulations allow passengers to use electronic products, and medical equipment in hospitals is important to use the room on the plane, are buried in the walls of the copper network in order to avoid interference from mobile phones, but there is still cause interference, in these sensitive sites use optical wireless communication, you can avoid interference.

Another is the power, the drive to pass the signal LED light off, more power than the RF radio frequency signal transmission mode, the handheld device battery power cable, optical wireless transmission would be more favorable. But optical wireless communication has its drawbacks, such as once shading can not receive, such as people walking, can not communicate through the wall, unless the wall can light.

Li-Fi direct vision combined with daylight plate LED bulbs, we can provide in-room wireless Internet HotSpot hot spots, while the phone more than a LED flash and CMOS camera lens, equivalent to already have the ability to close out of one, the future of inter-phone can easily pass information.

In addition to Li-Fi, the Japanese also developed indoor positioning IPS (Indoor Positioning System) with lighting, similar to Bluetooth Low Energy's Beacon indoor location, so you can be more energy-efficient.

Wednesday, April 15, 2015

Altera added Internet industry alliance to promote global ecosystem of Things

Altera Corporation today announced that the company joined the Internet Industry Alliance (Industrial Internet Consortium, IIC), the industry organization aimed at promoting the development of global collaborative ecosystem of Things (IoT). In particular, Altera and alliance members to work together on the technology roadmap, developing Internet industry, in this intelligent devices and sensor networks, data exchange through different Internet protocols, and enhance the performance of a variety of end-market applications . IoT promise that this intelligent network connection can support companies to develop "smart" new business applications, assets and business optimization, simplification, or automate existing processes.

Dr. Richard Soley, executive director of the Internet Industry Alliance, said: "IIC has been at the forefront of industrial innovation and technological development of IoT We are very pleased to be joining Altera IIC, play to their strengths in FPGA and SoC solutions, and develop a more flexible and secure. IoT systems. "

FPGA support intelligent and flexible acceleration IoT gateway and analysis

Altera's highly customizable FPGA (field programmable gate array) and SoC (system on a chip) product enables designers to bridge a variety of wired and wireless interface standards IoT growing variety of applications safely. FPGA technology also supports data analysis and control functions to accelerate, including data centers as well as local and edge, which is the key to meet the emerging demand for IoT applications.

Altera industrial business unit director David Moore, said: "Altera technology will help IIC seek innovative ways to support the achievement of accelerated intelligent cloud platform and gateway platform, the acquisition and processing of various 'objects' of the input signal from the network edge of these platforms. can significantly benefit from Altera programmable hardware and software capabilities, the flexibility to meet the needs of distributed applications, while providing a cost-effective analysis and security capabilities to accelerate data center and IoT infrastructure. "

Altera FPGA, SoC, and power products have been in RF wireless systems and machine to machine communication networking plays an important role. In addition, the programmable logic is widely used in factory automation and smart grid, supporting high-performance control and analysis functions, to achieve an efficient, safe, secure advanced manufacturing and power systems. FPGA is also used for the next generation of automotive and medical IoT systems, and smart city applications, for example, the use of intelligent lighting and traffic management systems of high performance embedded vision and video analysis capabilities.

Monday, April 13, 2015

The new study was important progress in the two-dimensional semiconductor LED lights cost or drop



The market can buy LED lights, although power consumption is only 6% of incandescent lamps, life of up to 50,000 hours, but tens of times the price, the LED light can not easily walk into ordinary people's homes. Recently, this reporter learned from Nanjing University, the school has made a new type of two-dimensional semiconductor research on important progress, is expected to create a new material, which greatly reduces the cost of production LED lights, the research published online in chemistry and materials science and other top journals "Germany Applied Chemistry ", and by Nature, NanoWerk, new materials and other academic online media coverage of the highlights.

It is understood that the high brightness LED lights, low power consumption, no radiation, non-toxic ingredients, but also in areas not covered by the grid, relying on solar energy can be used. Tension in the earth's resources, serious environmental pollution today, for all of humanity has very important significance. 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to the blue light-emitting diode (LED) inventor of the blue LED R & D biggest difficulty has been overcome.

Institute of Nano-optical materials have Hyperion school director, said, LED basic structure is an electroluminescent semiconductor material chip, the main material used in the production is made of gallium nitride. This is necessary to prepare high-temperature vacuum semiconductor material, expensive, is an important reason for the high price of LED lights, can not be promoted.

In recent years, drawing widespread graphene and other new materials exhibit excellent performance, very suitable, including LED, including information on energy used to manufacture the device. However, these new materials have fatal flaws - metallic or semi-metallic properties, and used in the production of semiconductor material must have properties, how to change the properties of these materials has become difficult to overcome the bottlenecks in the academic material.

Hyperion has said the new material designed for single school arsenic and antimony-ene-ene, only one atom thick, with semiconductor properties. This ultra-thin material stability, superior performance, broad application prospects. Huanan Institute of Materials Chung Yan teacher said, "The new material once used for applications, these devices not only wearable performance leaps and bounds, and will be more slim, the price will be more close to the people."

Thursday, April 9, 2015

TI-RTOS 2.12 The introduction of advanced power management capability and low power interconnect development



With Things (IoT) and gradually expand the scope of application in everyday products, simplifying software development has become increasingly important for interconnect applications. Texas Instruments (TI) (NASDAQ: TXN) today announced that its entire real-time operating system (RTOS) key upgrade. The upgrade simplifies embedded microcontroller-based (MCU) applications, such as Android and Windows for internal advanced operating system power management usability. Thus, by virtue of TI-RTOS 2.12, developers can easily take advantage of the built-in power management features TI devices to create IoT applications with longer battery life. In order to achieve universal access in the entire TI embedded processing portfolio, TI-RTOS 2.12 can be a free upgrade, designed to help application developers to focus on achieving differentiation, and preset and tested by connecting the stack and drive faster time to market, while avoiding the need to write low-level code. This new version is a major upgrade RTOS 2012 starting platform, incorporates TI experience in providing quality solutions for real-time applications OS at 20 years of accumulation. Log TI.com/RTOS now for free download new software.

TI-RTOS 2.12 for all supported devices, multi-tasking, power management, and peripheral driver API provides a standard set. This allows designers to run through the TI-RTOS application migration between different TI MCU, thereby reducing the next generation of product development time. In addition, the new scalable platform for TI Design Network also offers a free, patent restrictions and is not widely used software platform.

TI-RTOS 2.12 now with Energia integrated development environment. Energia Wiring and Arduino-based framework allows designers to the case without a lot of experience in rapid prototyping of embedded applications. TI-RTOS 2.12 will Energia common and easy-to-use API with new features such as multi-threading together. This is an easy way to deal with the design of multi-threaded applications on low-cost TI LaunchPad development kit, but can use common hardware abstraction layer.

TI-RTOS 2.12 features and benefits:

· Achieve longer battery life through the power management features TI-RTOS, which allows designers to use as little effort to achieve maximum energy saving applications.

· Wide range of wireless connectivity options, with the TI SimpleLink ™ Wi-Fi CC3100 / CC3200 solutions and SimpleLink CC26xx / CC13xx ultra-low power wireless MCU chip stack integration, support Wi-Fi®, Bluetooth® Smart and ZigBee, etc.

· OS components and drivers for open source (BSD) license, can easily be deployed on any application for free.

· Use a large number of existing software libraries before, to avoid developing software from scratch, in order to reduce development time.

· Improve documentation and a lot of examples that can help designers to quickly evaluate TI-RTOS performance, and proceed with the development.

Tuesday, April 7, 2015

Galaxy S6 Edge: Samsung released its own bending test

Samsung Electronics has provided an estimate for the first quarter of fiscal 2015 and contradicted a report on bent S6 smartphones. It is based on a continued decline in operating profit of 30 percent over the previous year - from 8.49 trillion won (7.17 billion euros) to 5.9 trillion won (5.0 billion euros). Consolidated sales decreased from 53.7 trillion won, up 12 percent to 47 trillion won. The final figures will report in late April.

Compared to the fourth quarter of 2014 with an operating profit of only 5.29 trillion won (4.47 billion euros) but an increase is visible, even though it is not possible Samsung to catch its decline from last year. For fiscal year 2014 had reported nearly a third less operating profit - due to the divisions Mobile and IT, with around 40 percent less profit for the year.

The only profitable division of Samsung was the semiconductor business, the profit is increased to 1.89 trillion won to 8.78 trillion won and its sales over the previous year increased by 6 percent to 39.73 trillion won last year. Its main customers were smartphone rival Apple, German Telekom, Ingram Micro, Sprint and Verizon, the relation of Samsung processors and components.

The success of Apple's iPhone models 6 and 6 Plus, the Samsung semiconductor manufacturing has, of course, also contributed significantly to the decline in Samsung's mobile division. Just last month it has with Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge introduced new devices.

These top models are viewing just like Apple's iPhone exposed 6 Plus at the start reproaches, they are easy to bend. The mobile insurer SquareTrade recently showed in a video that the Edge unlike other smartphones is bent at a force of 110 lbf (489 Newton) and his display breaks.

Samsung has now taken a position about this: A force of 110 lbf kick in practice hardly. In the back pocket of pressure lies much closer to 66 lbf (294 Newtons). In addition, internal tests had revealed that the Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge is not verbögen even at 79 lbf (351 Newtons). "This is so much pressure as you need to break five pencils at the same time."

In addition SquareTrade've only tested the stability of the front, criticized Samsung. Unlike many competitors, the new Samsung flagship models were equally stable backs. Its internal testing confirms that Samsung also with a video.

Friday, April 3, 2015

Wireless sensor networks become a research hotspot

Wireless sensor networks are one of the hot current research in the field of information can be used to achieve specific environmental signal acquisition, processing and sending. Wireless sensor network is a new information acquisition and processing technology, has been widely applied in real life.

Sensor nodes can continuously collect data, event detection, event flags, position monitoring and control node. These features and wireless connectivity makes the prospect of sensor nodes for wireless sensor networks is very broad, can be widely used in environmental monitoring and forecasting, health care, smart home, building condition monitoring, complex machinery monitoring, urban transportation, space exploration, large workshop and warehouse management, as well as airports, large industrial park safety monitoring. With the in-depth research and extensive application of wireless sensor networks, wireless sensor networks gradually penetrated into all areas of human life and the attention of the industry.

Guarantee safe and smooth in the Intelligent Transportation System

Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) is a new transport system developed on the basis of the traditional transportation system, it information, communication, control and computer technology and other modern communications technology integration for the transport sector, and "people - vehicle - road - Environment "together organically. A wireless sensor network technology to increase the existing transportation facilities, will be able to alleviate the problems of modern safe, smooth, energy and environmental issues such as transportation from the fundamental, but also can improve traffic efficiency. Therefore, the wireless sensor network technology used in intelligent transportation system has become a hot topic in recent years. Intelligent Transportation Systems include several aspects of traffic information collection, traffic information transmission, such as traffic control and induction. Wireless sensor networks can provide an effective means for information collection and transmission of intelligent transportation systems, to monitor road and traffic intersection in each direction, speed and other information. It mainly consists of information gathering input subsystem policy control, output execution, data transfer between the various subsystems and communications. Information collected by the sensor acquisition subsystem vehicles and road information, and then by the policy control subsystem based on goal-setting, and the use of calculation methods to calculate the best solution, while the output control signals to the execution subsystem, to guide and control the vehicle passage, so as to achieve a preset target. Wireless sensor networks in Intelligent Transportation can also be used for traffic information dissemination, technical field of electronic toll, speed measurement, parking management, integrated information service platform, intelligent transportation and rail transportation, traffic guidance systems and integrated information platform.

In the health care system has much to offer

In recent years, wireless sensor networks have many applications in the health care system and health care, for example, to monitor the body's various physiological data, track and monitor the patient's physician and hospital operations, as well as the hospital's medication management. If the patient who install special purpose sensor nodes, such as heart rate and blood pressure monitoring equipment, the doctor can always be monitoring the patient's understanding of the disease, when the abnormal situation can quickly rescue. A University of Rochester study suggests that these computers can even be used for medical research. Scientists use a wireless sensor creates a "smart medical home" that a five room apartment, where the use of human research project to test the concept and prototype products. "Smart medical home" Use dust to measure important characteristics of the occupants (blood pressure, pulse and respiration), sleeping posture and activity status 24 hours a day. The data collected will be used to carry out future medical research. By embedding network sensors in shoes, furniture and household appliances and other equipment that can help the elderly, seriously ill patients and families living with disabilities. Efficient use of sensor networks can deliver the necessary information in order to facilitate the acceptance of care, but also reduce the burden on caregivers and improve quality of care. Prolonged use of sensor networks to collect physiological data, you can speed up the process of the development of new drugs, and the installation caused much inconvenience in the body of the object being monitored miniature sensors will not give normal life. In addition, medication management and other aspects, it also has a new and unique applications.

Facilitate more intelligent information appliances

The increasing popularity of wireless sensor networks, and promote the information appliance, the rapid development of network technology, the main devices in the home network from a single machine to a variety of appliances expanded home-based intelligent network control nodes for wireless sensor networks within the family, the external network The connection between the internal network and connecting information appliances and equipment provides a foundation platform.

Sensor nodes embedded in home appliances, connected together via a wireless network and the Internet, will provide people with a more comfortable, convenient and more humane smart home environment. The use of remote monitoring system enables remote control of home appliances, home security can always monitor the situation through the image sensing device. The use of intelligent sensor networks can be established kindergarten, early education monitoring environments for children, as well as tracking the trajectory of children's activities.

Wireless sensor networks using the existing Internet, mobile communication network and the telephone network indoor environmental parameters, operating status and other information appliances to inform tenants that residents can keep abreast of the situation inside the home, and appliances for remote monitoring, home interior and outside information transfer. Wireless sensor networks enable tenants not only anywhere you can access through a browser to monitor home water, electricity meters, gas meters, electric water heaters, air conditioners, rice cookers and security systems, gas leak alarm system, outsider intrusion warning system, and command can be set through a browser, remote control for home appliances. Wireless sensor network consists of more than one function the same or different wireless sensor nodes, to a monitoring device to form a wireless sensor network to access the Internet through a gateway system that uses a hybrid star star structure based on wireless sensor network structure of the system model. Sensor node in the network is responsible for data acquisition and data transfer node data acquisition, data acquisition module indoor environment, such as temperature, humidity, etc., by the communication routing protocol directly or indirectly transfer the data to the remote gateway node.

Currently, the main researches wireless sensor network node low power hardware platform design and topology control, network protocols, positioning technology. To detect light intensity sensor, for example, implement a wireless sensor network, according to the intensity of light detected by the sensor to turn off or turn on lights. In wireless sensor networks, ordinary node that collects the light intensity data is sent to the network coordinator, the network coordinator will contain data frame is sent to the control variable nodes simultaneously with the lights, but also the light intensity through the serial data transfer to the computer. By installing the software on a computer background, you can see the changes in light intensity signal. By covering the light intensity sensor may change the intensity of the collected light data, when the light intensity is relatively low when the curve decreased, whereas curve rises. This combination of embedded sensor network technology, sensor technology, short-range wireless communications technology, has a wide range of applications. The system does not require changes to the structure of the site, without the original support any fixed network, capable of rapid deployment, easy to adjust, and has good maintainability and scalability.

Wednesday, April 1, 2015

Measure conductors and semiconductors in the lower resistance range

The gauge is Loresta GX by Mitsubishi Chemical Analytech (Sales: N & H Technology) allows the sheet resistivity, the volume resistivity and conductivity measured in real time. The measuring device is designed for the low range of 10-4 to 107Ω and is suitable to measure conductors and semiconductors in the lower resistance range.

The so-called Silicon mode, it is the first time to measure silicon wafer. A TFT color display with 7.5 '' touch screen function and facilitates the reading of the data and the menu navigation. In addition, the data on the USB interface can be transferred to a PC. Due to the automatic modes and auto-hold timer mode, a one-touch operation is possible. The applied voltage may be selectively chosen, so that measurements of materials with a low conductivity are possible.

Available are various types of measuring heads which can be used depending on the nature of the measurement object.

Monday, March 30, 2015

Intel and Micron want to increase capacity of laptop memory

Boise / Santa Clara (AP) - More than 10 terabytes of data should be able to take a conventional memory card for laptops with new memory cells that Intel developed jointly with the US company Micron Technology.

External memory cards for about PCs today have a capacity of around 1 to 3 terabytes. For the increased capacity, the companies have arranged the memory cells in three-dimensional architecture. In the conventional production of flash memory, the physical limits are nearly exhausted, Intel said on Thursday (local time).

The new technology should a "dramatic effect" on it have to be able to produce memory cards with higher performance at a lower cost in the future, says Intel. And on kleistem room. A chewing gum sticks large memory stick should therefore can hold around 3.5 terabytes of data. Samsung had launched its first 3D memory on the market last year. Intel and Micron process should bring three times the power, according to the company.

The individual memory cells of flash memories about laptops are usually positioned next to each other. By now, the researchers arrange the cells above the other in 32 layers, the cells could be significantly larger, such as Intel announced. Thus, should both performance and endurance of the memory can be increased. The new memory are also suitable for use in data centers. The production of memory have already begun in the fourth quarter, it should be ready for production.

Thursday, March 26, 2015

Accurately measured with the Josephson quantum voltmeter voltages

The so-called Josephson effect, working voltages very precisely. In the future, help reduce uncertainties, a quantum voltmeter.

For over four years developed esz calibration and metrology together with Supracon from Jena and the PTB - Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, Braunschweig, the world's first industrial use AC / DC Josephson quantum voltmeter. Under the Josephson effect is understood a physical effect, which describes the tunnel current between two superconductors. Josephson junctions are very accurate frequency-to-voltage converter.

In the metrology of the inverse Josephson effect is used in order to accurately represent voltages. So far, only Josephson standards are used for DC representation. With the AC / DC Josephson quantum voltmeter can measure in addition to 2 kHz alternating voltages up to 7.19 V at a frequency of 10 Hz. By AC / DC Josephson quantum voltmeter should be possible to reduce by up to a factor of 1000 and AC voltages by a factor of 50 in future uncertainty in measurement of DC voltage.

"The next challenge is how we get away from liquid helium as the operating medium," says Alexander Winter Meier, applications engineer at esz. "Liquid helium is very expensive and difficult to obtain. We want to work with a small cooler which allows an operating temperature of 4 K (-269 ° C) on the chip. "This temperature is necessary to maintain the Josephson elements in the superconducting state. By realizing the next development stage esz will be able to operate the AC / DC Josephson normal cost effective and durable.

The Josephson system is currently for four weeks in the laboratory esz to make a series of functional tests and measurements in the industrial environment. After the system goes back to the further development Quantenkalibrator for current, voltage and resistance to Supracon to Jena. The Josephson Quantenkalibrator should be fully developed end of 2016. The total investment of esz for the project is 340,000 euros.