The US’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) is to integrate a cluster of Quantum Brilliance’s (QB’s) diamond-based quantum processing elements into its conventional supercomputers. “Parallel quantum computing holds potential for scientific discovery and industrial applications that require high-performance computing,” said ORNL director of quantum science Travis Humble. “Partnering with Quantum Brilliance allows us to explore effective integration with our existing ...

Scotland is welcoming its biggest ever space industry event next week: the inaugural Space-Comm Expo Scotland, at SEC Glasgow over 11-12 September. The organisers are expecting 3,000 delegates and 70 exhibitors, as well as 100 speakers including representatives from  the European Space Agency, the UK Space Agency, and Ministers from the UK and Scottish Governments. “There are currently an estimated ...

The 2024 Millennium Technology Prize has been awarded to Professor Jayant Baliga of North Carolina State University for his part in the invention and development of the IGBT. “Two thirds of the electricity in the world is used to run motors in consumer and industrial applications,” said chair of Millennium Technology committee Professor Päivi Törmä. “Professor Baliga’s innovation has allowed ...

Bourns has created an AEC-Q200 compliant 1:1 signal isolation transformer for automotive battery management systems. SM91872AL is surface-mount and will fit into a 17.4 x 10.6 x 8.1 envelope – including its visible legs. Inductance is 150 to 450µH (100kHz 100mV) across its -40 to +125°C operation range, and leakage inductance is 1µH max. Both sides have a maximum resistance ...

Juno is a neutrino detector under construction 750m below Jiangmen in China. A collaboration between 17 countries, 730 scientists from 74 universities and national laboratories have worked on it. At its heart will be a 34.5m diameter acrylic sphere filled with 20,000 tons of liquid scintillator, which will emit photons if neutrinos interact with it – neutrinos sourced from eight ...

I was concocting a rather silly low-pass filter design, when I remembered that Messrs Sallen and Key did it better in the 1950s, and decided to use their two-pole design to implement a Butterworth filter (thank you also Mr Butterworth). Wonderfully, there are free Sallen and Key Butterworth filter calculators on the web now – I used the one on ...

Toshiba is developing an interface IC for the automotive CXPI (clock extension peripheral interface) bus whose hardware logic “can control data communication by CXPI protocol and GPIO, eliminating the need for dedicated software development”, according to the company. Not a lot more has been revealed about the function of the IC, called TB9033FTG, except that it has 16 GPIO pins, ...

Segger has added an oscilloscope-like window to its SystemView embedded system analysis software to record variable data alongside runtime events. Called DataPlot, its graphs are synchronised with SystemView’s Timeline and CPU Load windows. Data can be sent in fixed point or floating-point formats and multiple variables can be recorded – each identifiable by a descriptive name and a different color ...

Surrey UK based Cliff Electronics has created versions of its DualSlims FeedThrough connectors to suit the North American market with #4-40 (UNC) threaded mounting holes. The connectors measure 19 x 35.5mm (17.15 x 22.86mm panel cut-out = 0.675 x 0.9in), allowing up to 20 connectors to be mounted across the front of a 1U, 19inch rack panel. Mounting holes are ...

ODU has added its EBP (expanded beam performance) optical connection technology into its Mini-Snap Series K, Medi-Snap, ODU-Mac product ranges. “As a non-contact lens technology, EBP achieves low attenuation, virtually no cleaning or maintenance requirements and a long service life,” claimed the company, which explained: “Under normal conditions no maintenance is required  – cleaning the ferrule is only necessary in ...