May 24, 2012, MEMS Business Forum, Santa Clara, CA—Gabriel Rebeiz from UC San Diego talked bout RF MEMS switches and tuners and the commercialization of those devices. The technology enables higher performance and agility over discrete and other integrated solutions. The investigations into RF MEMS is separated by UC campuses. San Diego focuses on switches [...]
May 24, 2012, MEMS Business Forum, Santan Clara, CA—Al Pisano from UC Berkeley describes research into Wireless MEMS for harsh environments for energy and power monitoring. These sensors are not something for a smart phone and they cannot use standard silicon. The economic impact of additional sensor capabilities is fairly high. Gas turbines are used [...]
May 24, 2012, MEMS Business Forum, Santa Clara, CA—Frank Melzer from Bosch Sensortec talked about the growing movement of MEMS into consumer products. the abilities to increase levels of integration in silicon are resulting in smaller, lower cost, higher performance devices. MEMS started over 25 years ago with single-axis motion sensors. Now, markets in mobile [...]
May 24, 2012, MEMS Business Forum, Santa Clara, CA—Jeffery Hilbert from WiSpry discussed the drivers for better performance in mobile devices. Adding RF MEMS and changing driving software can be a cost-effective solution to the problems of current architectures. Mobile phones represent a multi-billion unit market for the RF front-end components. Smart phones are forecast [...]
May 24, 2012, MEMS Business Forum, Santa Clara, CA—Shahin Farshchi a principal at Lux Capital Management looked at MEMS in healthcare. The MEMS has an evolving role in improving care, health, and well being. Lux started in ’00 with a focus on health and energy. They have funded 20 companies and have 3 funds for [...]
May 24, 2012, MEMS Business Forum, Santa Clara, CA—Jeremie Bouchard, director and MEMS analyst at IHS ISuppli talked about MEMS and consumer tends. At issue is the possibility for long-term growth in an industry that is starting to see longer term price erosion. Currently, the big drivers for sensors are consumer and mobile, which are [...]
May 24, 2012, MEMS Business Forum, Santa Clara, CA—Sandhiprakash Bhide senior strategist and futurist from Intel described his view of the near future as a world where computers are aware of all of you, environment, emotions, health, and many more aspects. An increasing diversity of sensors and actuators will change the way computers and humans [...]
May 2012 – At a small gathering in San Francisco Arista Co-Founder and industry luminary Andy Bechtolsheim their new high density Arista7100T auto-negotiating 10GbaseT switches. Available in a 1U rack form factor, the 24 port and 48 port switches feature a low cost cabling up to 100m with Cat6a connections and up to 55m with [...]
May 2012 – The Connectivity Week events included a panel discussion on testing, certification and quality of the reporting methods and data. One of the issues regarding smart meters and the reliance on their data is the accuracy of the meters and the data being reported. The panel consisted of Doug Houseman of EnerNex, Rudi [...]
May 2012 – Connectivity Week has long focused on a number of topics in multivendor interoperatbility and data transfer with IT infrastructure. This years event focused on Power management and the Smart Grid. The lead off for the event was a discussion on the Green Button Initiative In the words of the organization – “Green [...]
