Electronics Today

EXECUTIVE FORUM
Dr. Somasegar wins Asian American Engineer of the Year Award
Dr. Rajeev Rastogi is Head, Yahoo! Labs, Bangalore
Ahmed Mahmoud is CIO, AMD
Sangita Singh honoured
Ganesh Natarajan is Nasscom’s new Chairman

TRENDS
GPS gives cell phones street credentials
Tabletop antenna calibration to 110GHz
Progress in CNT-enhanced conducting polymers
Tiny device crunches big numbers
Nanowires allow ‘power dressing’
CMOS crash-avoidance chip developed
Silicon carbide transistors boost inverter efficiency
Coating electrical contacts with organic semiconductor film
Carbon nanotube breakthrough by Fujitsu
Nanoscale metal-to-insulation transition possible
Electrospray research yields practical results
An updatable holographic three-dimensional display

TECHMARCH
Extreme ultraviolet lithography

SPECIAL REPORT
Personalised medical monitoring

SPECIAL ARTICLE
Pioneering world’s first production of rollable displays
heralds mobile revolution

TECHNEWS
Nanostructured thin film promises efficient solar energy conversion
Energy-efficient ultra-low-voltage microchip
Wafer yields could increase with MEMS measurement technology
Israeli company, Modu, unveils tiny phone module
New leadframe-based plastic packaging technology
Network for femtocell standardisation
Industry’s first ‘full field’ EUV test chip
Technology to target next gen devices
IC tool extracts device models from semi process
Fullerene FETs at room temperatures
Forward-looking polymer with immediate applications
Terabyte memory integrated circuits on track
World’s fastest NAND flash technology developed
WirelessHD 60GHz specs issued

AROUND THE CIRCUIT AND WITHIN
The visionary of global satellite communications, Sir Arthur Clarke
dies at 90
The number of IPTV subscribers to reach 60 million by 2010
Government to extend CAS, re-look at DTH fee formula
GPS based technology helps fishermen      

Corporate briefings
No more USO fund for BSNL
MTNL launches iPTV service
Kolkata to have semiconductor research centre
Tata Tele to sell 49% stake in tower biz
Ramco Systems, NIIT in pact
Tata Communications partners Telsima
Huawei deploys IP CDMA network in India
France’s TES expands multimedia workforce in India
BEL ties up with three Israeli companies
Wipro opens global service centre in Kuala Lumpur
India Design Centre in Kolkata attracts IBM
MS India opens lab at IIT Madras
Gartner upbeat on Indian IT growth
Sanyo India sets Rs. 1.5 billion sales target
Moser Baer to invest $1.5 b in thin film unit
Axiom opens Bangalore unit
Tundra Semiconductor expanding design centre

DESIGNER’S CORNER
NXP introduces four 32bit ARM9 MCUs
Amtel’s AVR MCUs reduces system cost
Renesas commercialises Tiny Series MCU
Infineon unveils next-gen powertrain MCUs
ST introduces Bluetooth/FM radio combo
Temperature switch operates over ‘largest’ voltage range
MOSFET/Schottky device up DC/DC converter efficiency
High power wire-wound resistors

PRODUCT REVIEW
Signal Analyser LSA series
Tektronix unveils world’s fastest probe
Anritsu enhances microwave spectrum analysers
NI introduces USB-controlled RMS RF power meter
ZTEC introduces LAN-based oscilloscopes
Star Micronics TSP700II ultra high speed thermal printer
Solid-state Microwave amplifiers
Advantest SoC test system
Yokogawa’s new Transport Analyser
Pico squeezes signal generator into compact PC scopes

SMARTCARDS TODAY

Future Group and Cisco in talks for retail RFID
project in India
Sandeep Sethi is no more
Asim Ghosh, new COAI Chairman
Sunil Goyal is CEO, Bharti Teletech
Rollout of smart card based RSBY starts
Bartronics secures US patent for its RFID wristband
YES Bank launches mobile payments
Electronic stamping facility in Karnataka
Wafer-thin display card with PKI chip
ePassport development at IIT-Kanpur
Maharashtra to issue biometric ration cards
Automated parking machines in Hyderabad
MNIC national rollout planned from 2011
SBI smart card solutions for Sikkim
Zicom’s JV with CNA group
New gen. NFC retail solution from Oberthur, Airtag
SCM Microsystems unveils new NFC reader
RFID monitors blood transfusion process
Global GSM growth to slow in 2008
Biometrics bank accounts for diamond workers
Mobily opens tech centre in India

RFID Briefings

Conversion of Paris library branches to RFID
UHF RFID tyre tag and rubber patch technology combined
HP extends RFID solution for retail in India
IBM unveils Smart retail innovations in India
RFID inlay design and low-volume production service
TAGSYS, Sirit announce RFID technology partnership
Leadership for hospital asset and patient tracking
American national animal identification system
Tracking trucks and other mobile assets throughout Africa
Printed RFID to achieve accepted commercial use by 2010

RFID Products

Personal tracking device guides you to lost items
TDC-industry-leading RFID reader
UPM Raflatac Hammer RFID tag for near-metal tagging
Advanced RFID memory windshield inlay launched
Desktop readers for 125kHz and 13.56 MHz systems
RFID tag chips with industry-leading performance
SmartMark™: pipeline RFID tags
Bielomatik transponder and label attaching machine
Intermec large rigid tags: passive RFID tags

Smart Products
New access control cards available from Electro-Com
Cryptomathic’s key management system
Verifone announces PCI-PED approved MX860
New Evolis travel case — plastic card printing on-the-go
USB2.0 fingerprint reader gets FIPS 201/PIV certification
New ACR122 Octopus Card reader
Fingerprint recognition system offers network control of
security access applications
Epson puts smartcard reader on laser printer

Smart Briefings
World’s first smartcard profile interoperability solution
Corporation Bank’s mobile banking facility
RBI modifies fund transfer system
RBI: high value payments only thru e-transfer
NIST asked to develop Biometrics accreditation BLAP
Airtel launches mobile payment solutions
Otto Kuennecke awarded passport project in Korea
Bundesdruckerei develops forgery-resistant high-security cards
Muehlbauer reveals on-the-road biometric capture
European eGovernment project FASTeTEN goes live
Insurance with new smart cards in India