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When Max Planck deduced the relationship between the energy and frequency of radiation in 1900, his theory marked a turning point in physics and inspired promising physicists like Albert Einstein. Few could see the implications of that discovery for the medical world.
From Planck's discovery, another 60 years of publications, inventions, and innovations followed until March 22, 1960, when two researchers at Bell Laboratories, Charles Townes and Arthur Schawlow, obtained U.S. patent number 2,929,922 for the optical maser, now called LASER (Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation).
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The interior of a car has undergone a remarkable evolution over the last decade. Traditionally, numerous buttons have been used, each designed to perform a specific function. Today, buttons are more complex, offering multiple functions, menus, and interactive displays. Furthermore, driver assistance features are controlled interactively through the user interface, further increasing the complexity of modern vehicles.
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I had the honor of delivering one of the keynote addresses at the second RISC-V Summit, held the week of December 9th at the San Jose Convention Center. The keynote address was titled “Open for Business: True Stories About How Far We’ve Come With the RISC-V Ecosystem.” I spoke about the pivotal role Microchip Technology’s FPGA business played in taking the ecosystem from virtually nonexistent to one ripe for widespread adoption in just five short years.
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Technologies are converging to drive the next wave of improvements in manufacturing efficiency and capacity. A key element is the trend toward using available cloud resources to facilitate advanced, low-cost processing. The cloud is a valuable resource, capable of supporting more advanced operating and planning systems than those available to users who rely on programmable logic controllers (PLCs) and industrial computers on the factory floor to manage production.
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A leading automotive component producer has rapidly overcome its automation challenges by leveraging the speed and simplicity of Yamaha's RCXiVY2+ dedicated robot vision system.
The automotive industry is a leading adopter of robotics technology and continues to automate more and more processes. As original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and their suppliers strive for greater productivity and quality, the introduction of vision capabilities is a common requirement to improve the selection and precise placement or assembly of components.
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Engineering is full of clichés, and one of them is that power is always the last thing to consider. As with most clichés, there's some truth to this because design specifications often change throughout the project's lifecycle. New features typically affect the total power required, which may in turn necessitate increasing the capacity of DC/DC converters or the number of regulators distributed throughout the design. Ultimately, these new features will also place greater demands on the main power supply.
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Elie Girard, Bernard Charlès, Luca de Meo, Jean-Marc Chery and Patrice Caine, respective CEOs of Atos, Dassault Systèmes, Groupe Renault, STMicroelectronics and Thales, have announced their intention to join forces to create Software République, a new ecosystem for innovation in smart mobility.
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Yamaha Motor has announced the development of an electric motor that leads the industry in performance. This unit is intended for use in Hyper-EV models and other products in the high-performance mobility segment, with the order acceptance phase for prototype development beginning this April.
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RS Components (RS), a trading brand of Electrocomponents plc, has reached a worldwide distribution agreement with Alliance Memory, a supplier of SRAM, DRAM, and flash memory.
This agreement will give RS customers access to Alliance Memory's full product portfolio, which includes memory ranging from 64kbit to 8Gbit.
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Mouser Electronics, Inc. now has the NXP Semiconductors i.MX 8M Plus evaluation kit in stock. This comprehensive kit provides a complete evaluation platform for the new i.MX 8M Plus embedded multi-core application processors, the first in the i.MX lineup to integrate a neural processing unit (NPU) for advanced edge machine learning in industrial and Internet of Things (IoT) applications.
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It's easy to manufacture electric vehicles with 1,000-mile (1,600 km) range batteries, and the effect on market acceptance will be significant. For example, a typical city dweller today might only need to charge once every two months, and only during vacations when charging stations are scarce.
Since the solar body has already done some of the work, even the weak existing chargers won't cause much of a delay. In fact, the solar body is a feature capable of making battery electric vehicles suddenly acceptable in most parts of the world, increasing market potential and accelerating economies of scale in production, making them more affordable. Meanwhile, current electric vehicles would be easier to sell to rural residents if they had a foldable "lifeboat" with solar panels offered as an optional extra.
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With approximately 770 gigawatts (GW) of photovoltaic capacity installed worldwide by the end of 2020, most of it concentrated in large-scale solar power plants, rural electrification using photovoltaics currently represents a minority activity within the sector. However, according to World Bank data, 770 million people worldwide still lack access to electricity, and photovoltaics is one of the technologies contributing to reducing this gap.
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