A recent article featured in LEDs Magazine describes how Fern Howard’s EdgeLED™ luminaire range is helping to drive company growth. Indeed, LED technology has long promised energy saving advantages – although its wholesale adoption in commercial applications such as offices and shared areas has been somewhat restricted by the visual discomfort created by intense light sources.
Data centers eye next-gen memory options
Semiconductor Engineering editor in chief Ed Sperling recently noted that data center architecture has experienced very few radical changes since the commercial introduction of the IBM System/360 mainframe way back in 1964. “There have been incremental improvements in speed and throughput over the years, with a move to a client/server model in the 1990s, but from a high level this is still an environment where data is processed and stored centrally and accessed globally,” Sperling wrote.
Duquesne University installs Cooper WaveStream-based LED lighting in library
Planar, light-guide-based SSL products offer adjustable mechanical form factor and deliver both indirect and direct light along with significant energy savings relative to the fluorescent incumbents.
Understanding the methodology behind side-channel attacks
Rambus Cryptography Research Fellow Pankaj Rohatgi recently penned an in-depth EDN article describing the methodology behind side-channel attacks. The technique, says Rohatgi, relies on the fact that any physical realization of cryptography in hardware or software cannot be an “atomic black box” as assumed by the traditional mathematical proofs of security. Simply put, physical systems routinely leak information about the internal process of computing.
Securing silicon with a hardware-based root of trust
Steven Woo, VP of solutions marketing and distinguished inventor at Rambus, recently sat down with Anne Fisher of Embedded Systems Engineering to discuss the burgeoning security requirements of a rapidly growing Internet of Things (IoT).
U.S. merchants prep for smart credit cards
Writing for the Institutional Investor, analyst Jeffrey Kutler reports that U.S. merchants – in an effort to limit loss liability – face an October 2015 deadline to install PoS (Point of Service) devices compatible with the E.M.V. standard. “[This] enables them to read cards equipped with computer chips, which are far less vulnerable to fraud and forgery than the old magnetic stripes, and which card issuers are currently distributing,” Kutler explains.