News tagged with reconfigurable hardware

Embedded systems -- the whole picture

(PhysOrg.com) -- Embedded computer systems must be fast and efficient. A European consortium has created a new modelling framework that lets designers strike the best balance between static, reconfigurable ...

Technology / Engineering

created Oct 28, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0




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Several antennas in one: A major innovation for mobile communications

(Phys.org) -- Scientists at EPFL have developed a single antenna that is capable of transmitting the same data as a two-antenna system. This achievement will be more than useful for future communication systems.

Technology / Engineering

created May 11, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New system makes hardware models of multicore chips more efficient, easier to design, more reliable

Most computer chips today have anywhere from four to 10 separate cores, or processing units, which can work in parallel, increasing the chips’ efficiency. But the chips of the future are likely to have ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Apr 13, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New software-simulation system promises much more accurate evaluation of multicore-chip designs

For the last decade or so, computer chip manufacturers have been increasing the speed of their chips by giving them extra processing units, or “cores.” Most major manufacturers now offer chips with ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Mar 09, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Nicira promises virtual networks will transform networking

(PhysOrg.com) -- For the past four years, founders of the start-up company Nicira have been developing cutting-edge software that they predict will transform the networking technology underlying the Internet. ...

Technology / Software

created Feb 06, 2012 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 3 | with audio podcast weblog

Universal transistor serves as a basis to perform any logic function

(PhysOrg.com) -- Most of today’s electronics devices contain two different types of field-effect transistors (FETs): n-type (which use electrons as the charge carrier) and p-type (which use holes). Generally, ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Dec 20, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (31) | comments 17 | with audio podcast feature

Clearing the decks

On the deck of an aircraft carrier, where up to 60 aircraft are crammed into 4.5 acres (1.8 hectares), real estate is at a premium. While aircraft directors wave fighter jets out of the landing strip, maintenance ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Aug 03, 2011 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

A power grid on a chip

Presented during the EPFL Middle East research days, a device only 4mm thick can manage an urban power grid a thousand times faster than currently possible.

Technology / Semiconductors

created Jun 09, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 8

iMobot rolls, crawls and creeps

An intelligent, reconfigurable modular robot invented by a UC Davis alumnus and a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering is headed for commercial development with the help of a grant from the National ...

Electronics / Robotics

created Mar 24, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Low power, programmable cell array demonstrated by NEC

NEC Corporation announced today the successful demonstration of a low power programmable cell array using a rewritable and nonvolatile solid-electrolyte switch, "NanoBridge," integrated into a 90nm CMOS.

Technology / Semiconductors

created Feb 22, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

UF leads world in reconfigurable supercomputing

University of Florida researchers say their supercomputer, named Novo-G, is the world's fastest reconfigurable supercomputer and is able to perform some important science applications faster than the Chinese supercomputer ...

Electronics / Hardware

created Feb 15, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast


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