University Electronics

The 68020 microprocessor will live on, with a new package, life thanks to a collaboration between Essex-based e2v and Freescale. It is now available in a 132pin ceramic quadpack (CERQUAD), pin-to-pin compatible with the original Freescale plastic quad flat package (PQFP). “This new package option will facilitate the transition from the original PQFP, discontinued in 2010, and enable manufacturers to ...

A European team of astronomers, using a radio telescope, has obtained the most sensitive image of a galaxy below 1 GHz, claims the University of Southampton. The university writes: The team viewed the “Whirlpool Galaxy” Messier 51 (M51), about 30 million light years away, with the Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) radio telescope in the frequency range 115-175 MHz, just above ...

Researchers at Bath University have developed a low-cost device that could be used to monitor the quality of drinking water in real time.

A team of scientists at the University of Sheffield are the first to fabricate perovskite solar cells using a spray-painting process – a discovery that could help cut the cost of solar electricity.

Another possible application of graphene – photonic microchips, with the manipulation of photons of light to carry information. Researchers from the Universities of Manchester and Southampton have described how graphene can be wrapped around a silicon wire, or waveguide – the so called ‘racetrack resonators’ – and modify the transmission of light through it. The paper has been published in ...

Here’s an interesting one, for our ‘Age of Disinformation’. Researchers at the University of Southampton have helped to develop a system for gathering evidence and information during disaster situations. The hope is it will enable more effective emergency responses.

In suite 712 of the Eventi Hotel, high above the sticky June bustle of Midtown Manhattan, New York, one of the world’s most advanced consumer robots awaits command.

We first wrote about the UK Space Agency’s UKube-1 – the UK’s first CubeSat – back in 2011, when the payload competition winners were revealed. TOPCAT from the University of Bath and the Bath Alumni Fund was chosen among others, to help measure space weather conditions just beyond the earth’s atmosphere (between 600 km and 20,000 km from the surface ...

With mobile video traffic increasing significantly, research at the University of Bristol has shown how videos can be better transmitted over wireless links such as Wi-Fi and 4G.

Surrey University has announced a successful bid for £5m of government funding for its 5G comms research, specifically its 5G Innovation Centre (5GIC), centring on mobile broadband. The funding will be made available over five years and is based on the 5GIC being seen as “a key driver for economic growth in the region”. “We are delighted to hear the ...