Butterfly-bush and staghorn sumac are popular additions to our gardens but are now considered problematic. The reason? These are invasive alien plants – invasive neophytes – and discussions about how to tackle them, as well as the ban on them, are becoming more prevalent.

Precision measurement is essential for many industries. A team of researchers at CSEM has developed a sensing technology that sets new standards in this field – by using the interplay of light and shadow.

CSEM, the Swiss technology innovation centre, has announced that Sara Girardi will be its new Chief Financial Officer (CFO), succeeding André Laville, who will step down next year.

CSEM’s Board of Directors will appoint Mr. Andreas Rickenbacher as its new Chair of the Board, subject to his election as a member of the Board of Directors during CSEM’s Annual General Meeting by its General Assembly.

Image sensor will be developed by CSEM engineers EU funded incorporated into an aircraft’s composite structure in order to detect damage and defects.

CSEM and Mie Fujitsu Semiconductor (MIFS) have joined forces to develop a near-threshold 0.5V ecosystem; since energy scales with the square of the supply voltage, huge reductions in energy consumption can be achieved for similar performance. MIFS’ Deeply Depleted Channel (DDC) technology is perfectly adapted to low power applications, while its immunity to random dopant fluctuations makes it suitable for low voltage operation.

Providing tools to evaluate pilots’ fatigue state: this is the aim of the Clean Sky project HIPNOSIS. Coordinated by CSEM and under the guidance of Honeywell, the project will combine artificial intelligence (AI) with aeronautics expertise, contributing to the advent of next-generation cockpits.

It has been announced that G-ray Switzerland and CSEM have achieved a major milestone in packaging the latenium technology to deliver X-ray imaging solutions with the latenium Evaluation Kit. Centred on particle-counting X-ray imaging, these solutions are set to improve the quality of the images obtained from examinations such as breast cancer screening helping earlier detection and reducing the radiation doses currently needed for mammography.&n...

G-ray Medical Sàrl has developed an ultra-high performance detector dedicated to medical applications and in particular mammography. These ultra-high performance detectors will be made in partnership with CSEM, based on G-ray’s latenium technology. Centred on particle-counting X-ray imaging, this unique solution is set to improve the quality of the images obtained from examinations such as breast cancer screening helping earlier dete...

The private, non-profit Swiss research and technology organisation, CSEM, has announced that its Vision-in-Package system for real-time embedded facial recognition was recognised by the judges of the annual Vision Systems Design Innovators Awards programme. The judging panel consisted of esteemed experts from system integrator and end-user companies and CSEM was honoured with a gold-level award. 

2017 will witness the arrival on the market of the first Bluetooth 5 products which, with twice the datarate and four times the range of Bluetooth 4.2, will accelerate the digitalisation of things. CSEM’s IcyTRX silicon RF IP is the first Bluetooth Low Energy RF to be fully validated as Bluetooth 5 compatible thanks to a partnership with Rohde & Schwarz.

CSEM has proposed the first commercial solution based on Semtech’s LoRa technology for GPS-free geolocation of connected devices. This technological breakthrough allows the geographical tracking of LoRaWAN end-nodes without any material impact on BOMs or battery life and will help enhance the industrial development of the IoT.

Mie Fujitsu Semiconductor (MIFS) and CSEM have penned a joint development agreement to cooperate in the development of Deeply Depleted Channel (DDC) and near/sub-threshold technologies for the IoT/Wearables market. The agreement encompasses the development of ultra-low voltage, ultra-low power standard cell libraries, power management cells and memories as well as the development of a representative qualification vehicle to showcase the technolog...

Swiss researchers at CSEM in Neuchatel have developed the world’s smallest vision SoC. The Vision-In-Package (VIP), which has a variety of potential uses, including brand recognition, robotic surgery guidance, driving assistance and even home security, combines the optics, processor and wireless transmitter into a single easily-integrated package. 

The IcyTRX-65, a 2.4GHz silicon RF transceiver for BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy) circuits, has been introduced by CSEM. This is a 65nm version of the company's existing IcyTRX transceiver, offering a 5mA current consumption from a 1V battery.  BT4.1 compliant, the transceiver provides a sensitivity of –97dBm and a transmitter frequency synthesiser settling time of 5μs. 

Established in 2011 by a consortium of industries, universities and RTOs, CSEM's FlexTiles project is celebrating its completion with a workshop on September 1st 2014 in Munich. The FlexTiles project saw members of the consortium join forces to develop a programmable heterogeneous many-core platform, which could be reconfigured on the fly to meet advanced processing needs. The workshop will present results and offer hands-on experience.

Enabling users to monitor their heart rate accurately and reliably during training, CSEM has collaborated with PulseOn (a start-up spun out from Nokia in 2012) to develop a small and stylish wrist device. With wireless connectivity to iOS and Android mobile applications, the heart rate data is transformed into meaningful feedback on training: feedback that is personalised for each individual.

An ultra-high-speed vision sensor, which addresses the needs for the inspection and alignment of packages traveling at very rapid speeds, has been developed by CSEM and BOBST. A miniaturised optical sensor that is able to capture color images in a flash (800,000 lines per second), enables the device to capture an accurate image of components that are moving extremely fast.

One year since its launch, the CSEM Photovoltaics Center (PV-center) is confident about the future of solar energy. With CHF 19m in financing from the Swiss Confederation for 2013 to 2016, the PV-center aims to accelerate the industrialisation process, develop new generations of PV cells and modules, and support the transition to a national energy system where solar electricity is vital.

Initiated by RivieraWaves and CSEM, the European funded BLIM4SME project launched last month with the aim of developing miniature wireless modules targeting healthcare and lifestyle applications using Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE). This is in response to the consortium's view that wireless sensors enabled with BLE are experiencing strong market interest.