Author: Ray Keefe

  • Top Programming Languages 2017

    Top Programming Languages Each of the past three years IEEE Spectrum have conducted a survey of the Top Programming Languages. This year they have done it again and the results are in. The overall winner is Python with C taking out the Embedded Software category.   Here is the overall list covering all development platforms…

  • Nanosheets Supercede Nanowires for Next Generation Transistors

    Nanosheets Enable 5nm Transistor Technology It was less than a year ago that we covered Nanowires Enable FinFET Successor which looked at the use of Nanowires to create transistors and improve on FinFET technology which had become the primary transistor construction technology for complex semiconductors. This was using 8nm Nanowires and was expected to be the…

  • Worlds Thinnest Hologram

    Holograms Holograms are the product of Holography. This sounds rather self referencing. You can think of this as recording light the way you record sound. So you can have monophonic sound or full surround sound. A 3D Hologram allows you to see the original object from different directions as you move around it even though…

  • Light at Work

    Putting Light to Work Light is a really interesting thing. It has so many different aspects. And it took us a long time to work out exactly how it functioned. And in many ways that is still an ongoing process. So this post is a brief survey of some recent advances in our understanding of…

  • Printed Electronics Overview

    Printed Electronics Way back in 2011 we looked at the state of Printed Electronics and concluded this was a rapidly emerging area of Technology and had been since the previous look at The Future of Low Cost Electronics Manufacture in 2009. It has been a while so what has happened since then?   This is…