CONTENTS JANUARY 2020
Dear readers,
With a particular focus on Data Encryption and Security, our January edition of
eeNews Europe marks our entry in 2020, a promising decade for AI at the service of
cybersecurity at all layers of data manipulation and communication.
Other features you’ll find covered in this edition include MEMS Design and evolving
Memory Technologies where the latest memristor-based designs emulate the
synaptic connections of the human brain for ultra-low power AI integration right at
the edge of data acquisition.
Enjoy this edition of eeNews Europe and don’t hesitate to get in touch to tell us
your stories, from starting up a company to developing your first prototypes,
achieving your first product design-in, sharing your insight on this fast-paced
industry or to contribute your expertise on some of the topics we’ll be covering
along the year
Let us wish you all an excellent year!
Julien Happich
Editor in Chief
www.eenewseurope.com
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4 - 49: OPINION
Uncommon Market:
French startup promises
meaningful haptics
Last Word:
Key questions to ask a potential
design/manufacturing partner
6 - 29: NEWS & TECHNOLOGY
Researchers demonstrate silicon-based
particle accelerator
Researchers at Stanford
University have demonstrated
the acceleration
of electrons through
what they describe as
an “On-chip integrated
laser-driven particle
accelerator”, capable of impulsing an extra 0.915 keV
to electrons along a 30μm-long channel.
30 - 35: DATA ENCRYPTION & SECURITY
A healthy approach
to medical security
In the current concept
of medical wearable
devices, security is
limited to the protection
of the data stream
from the medical
device to the “application/
data consumer.” But is it secure?
36 - 38: MEMS DESIGN
Miniature sensor for good air
Thanks to its experience
with MEMS microphones
and through experimental
processes, Infineon has
succeeded in developing
a new CO2 sensor based
on photoacoustic spectroscopy
(PAS) – a physical
method that is suitable for
detecting gas components
in a mixture and, for example, determining the CO2
concentration in indoor air.
39 - 42: MEMORY TECHNOLOGIES
DNA doubles as digital storage medium
To use everyday objects such as shirt buttons, water
bottles or
eyeglasses as
data storage:
This is to be
made possible
by using DNA
as a storage
medium.
A research
team involving
ETH Zurich
university is about to make this possible.
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