Active Matrix Organic Light Emitting Diodes (AMOLEDs) have emerged as a diamond in the rough among he economic turmoil for the rest of the display and electrocnics industry

This article shows how a CPLD can replace a digital-to-analog converter, allowing it to drive an audio speaker or control things like LED intensity, motor speed, and servo position.

By combining E-Ink's Vizplex active-matrix electrophoretic display with DuPont's Teijin films, Arizona State University's Flexible Display Center has prototyped the world's first flexible touchscreen display for miliary applications today, and eventually for full-sized newspapers and textbooks.

Structuring complex FlexRay data networks requires assessing of both the logical ECU characteristics and the physical signal transmission. The article describes a set of tools for this purpose.

Automotive realtime networking expert TTTech Automotive (Vienna) has announced a software tool to validate the consistency of Autosar components in electronic control units (ECUs). TTX-Autoverify increases the engineering efficiency during system integration and thus helps to reduce time-to-market and costs, the vendor claims.

Axeon Holdings (Dundee, Scotland) has completed a two year project funded by the Department for Transport under the Energy Saving Trust's Low Carbon R&D programme, which has resulted in the development of a new Lithium-ion battery for use in a fully electric urban delivery vehicle.

BMW's new Mini convertible highlights purposeless technology.

This article focuses on the trend of less filtering and more linearity in radio design, both as a differentiating factor for receivers and as a differentiating factor for analog/RF circuit designers.

The world's first reversible diode was fabricated from ferroelectric materials at Rutgers University and is photovoltaic to boot.

Cadence Design Systems announced the availability of a single-license model that grants verification teams access to its Incisive verification IP portfolio.

Energy Department officials are scrambling to assemble a team that will work out details for creating an agile new research agency that will focus on energy technology R&D.

Seeking to grab share in a down market, programmable logic device (PLD) specialist Lattice Semiconductor Corp. has launched a three-prong attack.

Linear Technology CEO Lothar Maier asserts that preparing for the semiconductor industry's return to growth should be the guiding principle for companies during the recession. Linear has its eye on four markets: automotive, green technology, communications infrastructure and industrial.

EE confirms the theory that only graphene nanoribbons with so-called "arm-chair" edges--cut across the grain--are semiconducting, and those with "zig-zag" edges--cut with the grain--are metallic.

The National Science Foundation will get an estimated $3 billion to disperse as part of the recently passed economic stimulus package, just one of several government agencies in areas spanning energy to health care scrambling to figure out how to allocate new funds related to technology in the midst of a contracting economy.

Smart switches, with protection "in silicon," improve reliability and safety while cutting harness cost.

The Obama administration's economic stimulus package may help by lending capital to tomorrow's innovators. But throwing money at the economy is how we got into this mess in the first place.

The connection between user behavior and technology sometimes allows predictions as to which technology will be the next big thing and which one will prevail over a longer period. A study of chip vendor NXP connects user behavior to concrete car radio design.

Despite increased sales, automotive electronics supplier Continental AG (Hannover, Germany) has booked a loss in FY 2008. Reasons are the difficult automotive electronics market — and huge write-offs for VDO, the former Siemens automotive division.