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Always-On or Always-In

When I first started writing about the World of Always-On, almost five years ago, I envisioned sensors worn on clothing which would interact with wireless networks to monitor health in real-time. As the field evolved Always-On has become Always-In. A Body Computing Conference in October saw industry...

Tags: Sensor, Health Care, MEMS, Wireless Network, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2007-12-03

Building MEMS-Based Storage Systems for Streaming Media

The performance of streaming media servers has been limited by the dual requirements of high disk throughput to service more clients simultaneously and low memory use to decrease system cost. To achieve high disk throughput, disk drives must be accessed with large IOs to amortize disk access overhead. Large IOs...

Tags: DRAM, Disk, MEMS, Storage System, Streaming Media, Storage, Hardware

White papers 2007-06-01

A wireless power transmission plastic sheet

Several companies have started to sell power pads that can charge your cellphone when you put it on the pads surface. But these silicon-based pads are expensive -- and relatively specialized. Now, Japanese researchers have built a plastic sheet which could power all the devices placed close to it. So...

Tags: Wireless &, Telecom, Engineering &, Innovation, Energy &, Environment, Computers &, Internet

Blog posts 2007-04-30

Cornell researchers develop projector in your pocket

Coming soon to a cellphone near you ... the latest Hollywood blockbuster on HDTV. MIT Technology Review reports that researchers at Cornell University have developed a laser technology that could lead to the ability to project high-definition television images from devices the size of cell phones. The new technology...

Tags: Cornell University, mirror, MEMS

Blog posts 2006-09-06

2 bln microphones sold worldwide in 2005, 5% of them MEMS

The MEMS silicon microphone market has become a hotbed of activity, spurred by record-breaking growth in consumer electronics products such as hearing aids, cellular phones, cordless phones, headsets, and headphones, according to The Information Network. The market is geared to reach 5% of the nearly 2 bln microphones sold worldwide...

Tags: microphone

Blog posts 2005-12-07

MEMS to grow at 19.87% a year

Buoyed by a strong, eventful 2004, the MicroElectroMechanical Systems MEMS market will grow over the next few years in terms of unit shipments at a Compound Annual Growth Rate CAGR of 19.87% to nearly 6 bln units in 2009, reports In-Stat. Funding for MEMS companies increased by 43.9% in 2004...

Tags: MEMS

Blog posts 2005-09-09

5% of all microphones sold in 2005 will be MEMS microphones

The MEMS microphone market is geared to reach 5% of the nearly 2 bln microphones sold worldwide in 2005 and grow to 15% of the nearly 3 bln microphones sold in 2008, a compounded growth rate of 240%. A similar growth rate in the speaker sector will propel the MEMs...

Tags: MEMS, microphone

Blog posts 2005-06-06

Additional Resources

LayoutEditor 20091118 (Mac)

The LayoutEditor is a program to design and edit layouts for MEMS/IC fabrication. As well as it is suitably for Multi-Chip-Modules MCM, Chip-on-Board COB, Low temperature co-fired ceramics LTCC, Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuits MMIC, printed circuit boards PCB, GDS Editor thick film technology, thin film technology, .... It has sophisticated...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Layout, Font, Juspertor, LayoutEditor, Apple Mac OS X, Linux, Apple Mac OS, Desktops, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-11-15

LayoutEditor 20090801 (Mac)

The LayoutEditor is a program to design and edit layouts for MEMS/IC fabrication. As well as it is suitably for Multi-Chip-Modules MCM, Chip-on-Board COB, Low temperature co-fired ceramics LTCC, Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuits MMIC, printed circuit boards PCB, GDS Editor thick film technology, thin film technology, .... It has sophisticated...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Layout, Font, Juspertor, LayoutEditor, Apple Mac OS X, Linux, Apple Mac OS, Desktops, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-08-01

One-third of mobile phones to use accelerometers by 2010

iSuppli reports that accelerometers are expected to appear in one-third of mobile phones shipped next year, due to their inclusion in the popular iPhone and Palm Pre handsets. The iPhone's accelerometer detects when you rotate iPhone from portrait to landscape and changes the display accordingly. The...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Phone, Mobile, Cell Phone, Smart Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2009-07-10

LayoutEditor build 20090512 (Windows)

The LayoutEditor is a program to design and edit layouts for MEMS/IC fabrication. As well as it is suitably for Multi-Chip-Modules MCM, Chip-on-Board COB, Low temperature co-fired ceramics LTCC, Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuits MMIC, printed circuit boards PCB, GDS Editor thick film technology, and thin film technology. It has sophisticated...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Layout, Font, Juspertor, LayoutEditor

Software downloads 2009-05-12

OMSTPA - ONS 15454 Multiservice Transport Platform (MSTP) Advanced v8.5

View Available Dates and LocationsIn this course, you will get an advanced overview of the features and functions of the Cisco ONS 15454 MSTP and you'll learn to perform many of the tasks required to successfully turn up an ONS 15454 MSTP network. You will learn how...

Tags: Network, Circuit, Provision, Mesh Networking, Networking

Training 2008-08-01

A robotic brain-computer interface

California Institute of Technology Caltech engineers have developed a robotic device able to act as a brain-computer interface. This is the 'first robotic approach to establishing an interface between computers and the brain by positioning electrodes in neural tissue.' According to the researchers, their approach 'could enhance the performance and...

Tags: Algorithm, Electrode, California Institute Of Technology, Positioning, Telecom & Utilities, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-05-21

100 GB memory chip coming in 2009

Bytes, not bits. Oh, and it's fast, too. Nanochip, a Silicon Valley-based fabless semiconductor firm, just received $14 million in funding to complete work on a 100 GB storage chip. Intel Capital, who should know something about chips, is an investor. The goal: ". . . allow Nanochip to...

Tags: Memory Chip, Chip, Semiconductors, Network Technology, Hardware, Networking, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2008-01-22

Too much glare when you look at your cameraphone photos? Could be a thing of the past

Yesterday at CES, chip-maker Qualcomm's subsidiary Qualcomm MEMS Technologies, Inc. made a series of announcements that IMHO will do no less than revolutionize image quality factors on mobile devices. At first blush, the announcement of Qualcomm MEMS teaming up with communications device manufacturer Foxlink Group for a...

Tags: Camera Phone, Qualcomm Inc., Mobile Device, Photograph, Nothing, Camera Phones, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2008-01-08

Detecting individual cancer cells with silicon

Take a silicon MEMS device as large as a business card.  (For more on MEMS technology click here.) Coat it with tens of thousands of microposts, and coat the posts with antibodies which detect a molecule only found on cancer cells. Then run blood...

Tags: Silicon, Blood, Cell, Cancer Cell, Semiconductors, Hardware, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2007-12-20

Nano's new frontier, green tech

At the AlwaysOn GoingGreen conference in Davis, Calif., panel moderator David Scott Lewis, SVP of Zytech Solar leads a discussion with executives on nano and MEMS technologies that are being developed in next-generation green practices. The panelists are Pankaj Dhingra, CEO at Nanostellar; Deepak Srivastava, CTO at Nanoexa; and Vincent...

Tags: Green Technology, Nano, Emerging Technologies, Green

Videos 2007-09-19

Autonomous insect cyborg sentinels

In a very brief article, AZoNano reports that nanotechnology is turning insects into flying cyborgs. Researchers from Cornell University have implanted 'microfluidic devices in insects before they hatch into fully grown flying creatures.' Of course, when they grow, these insects still carry the sensors. And if this works, they'll be...

Tags: Science &, Nature, Robotics, Nanotechnology, Engineering &, Innovation, Defense &, Security

Blog posts 2007-06-22

DARPA plans to turn moths into cyberspies

In a project that seems like it was hatched from the brain of a science fiction writer, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency DARPA is growing computer chips around insects for use in surveillance, reports The Times.DARPA is implanting computer chips in moths while still in the pupa stage. The...

Tags: Defense

Blog posts 2007-05-30

Information Processing and Data Management in Wireless Sensor Networks

The rapid progress of wireless communication and embedded micro-sensing MEMS technologies has made wireless sensor networks possible. A wireless sensor network normally comes a large area with many inexpensive, tiny sensor nodes, each capable of collecting, processing, and storing environmental information, and communicating with neighboring nodes. In the past, sensors...

Tags: Network, Wireless Sensor Network, Data Management, Wireless, Wi-Fi, Networking, Wireless And Mobility

White papers 2007-01-01