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Philippa Oldham, Head of Transport and Manufacturing at the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, said in response to today’s UK Budget:

Harnessing tiny amounts of ambient energy from sustainable sources works well in theory, but are there any practical solutions to achieving it? By Tony Armstrong, Director of Product Marketing, Linear Technology.

The first autonomous mobile beacon for the protection of property and objects, designed to optimise the potential of the SIGFOX network, has been introduced by TRAQUEUR. NANO, which has been in development for several years, provides the opportunity for new Track & Trace markets.

Newcastle University has been chosen by Boeing to develop an ultra-lightweightelectric motorfor an upper atmosphere electric aircraft. These spidery fixed-wing aircraft can have the wingspan of a jumbo jet but the weight of a small car. Such 'atmospheric satellites' are being designed to take 10,000lb payloads into atmospheric orbit at 65,000 ft.

A vision MPU, claimed to be the first automotive vision SoC with the requisite reliability, safety and security measures to automate and ‘co-pilot’ a self-aware car, has been introduced by Freescale Semiconductor.Leveraging a host of automotive-grade technologies, the S32V takes the industry beyond the current, convenience-centric ‘assist’ paradigm and toward an era where cars can capture data, process it and actually shar...

In the world of the low-energy application, the microWatt/MHz MCU is king. By Philip Ling, Editor, ES Design magazine.

Autonomous vehicles are successful here and now but you are unlikely to meet one, because the successes are in the upper atmosphere, open cast mines, nuclear power stations, underwater, and in other relatively inaccessible places. As the IDTechEx report Autonomous Vehicles: Land, Water, Air 2015-2035 explains, the primary technology of an autonomous vehicle is that which confers autonomy and the powertrain, which is usually electric.

Silicon Labs is collaborating with ARM to define and deliver the first power management APIs for ARM mbed platforms. Adding power management APIs to mbed will bring energy efficiency to standards-based solutions optimised for ultra-low-power, battery-operated connected devices. The APIs will enable the mbed community of more than 100,000 registered developers to optimise their mbed-enabled ARM Cortex-M architecture-based designs for the utmost en...

Cortus and Nabto have announced the availability of the uNabto communication platform on Cortus’ APS processor cores. uNabto is a low-bandwidth web server protocol that runs on any Cortus APS core and employs an innovative approach to bypassing firewalls and providing GUI-based internet access to a wide range of embedded applications, using only 16KB of Flash and less than 1kB of RAM. uNabto running on Cortus APS cores with the Cortus Ether...

Farnellelement14 has launched the new Freescale Kinetis KL27/17 Cortex-M0+ based Freedom Platform with USB. The board is designed to evaluate low power Cortex-M0+ based designs that require USB capability. This new Kinetis FRDM-KL27Z Cortex-M0+ based Freedom Platform with USB OTG features a Flex I/O module, ROM Bootloader and low power crystal-less USB functionality.