Development of Wearable Vital Signs Sensor System by Toshiba
Toshiba has recently announced the development of a prototype of a intelligent wearable vital signs sensor module, which company calls it Silmee. Silmee includes a Pseudi-SoC analog front end, a 32 bit ARM processor chip and a dual mode Bluetooth bare chip in a 14.5mm x 14.5mm small package. Read more
Development of CMOS Image Sensor with Double the performance for Small and Low Power Applications
Toshiba today has unveiled its latest CMOS image sensor featuring a small area and low power pixel readout circuits offering double the performance of conventional CMOS image sensors. The low power pixel readout circuits in CMOS image sensors are needed for their noise reducing correlated double sampling (CDS), and are accompanied with a programmable gain amplifier (PGA) and an analog to digital converter (ADC). Read more
Development of Industry’s Most Sensitive CMOS Image Sensor by Toshiba
Toshiba has released industry’s most sensitive 20MP BSI CMOS image sensor helping to boost image quality in digital still cameras. The new TCM5115CL CMOS offers industry’s highest resolution in 1/2.3 inch optical format using backside illumination technology (BSI) helping to improve sensitivity and imaging performance. Read more
Development of Four Legged ROBOT by Toshiba
As the recovery works continue at crippled Fukushima No.1 Nuclear power plant the officials in charge of the investigation and recover work are working hard to find a way to minimize the risk for individuals working at the plant which makes use of robots as an indispensable solution to carry out this operations. One company which has been involved in developing such solution is Toshiba which has developed a tetrapod (four-legged) robot to carry out such type of missions. The new robot comes with an integrated camera and dosimeter capable of investigating the condition of nuclear power plants by remote-controlled operation. Read more
World’s First Li-ion Battery Monitoring Chip Set capable monitoring up to 16 Cells
Toshiba has announced the development of battery monitoring chipset for automotive applications capable of monitoring up to 16 cells per 1 IC, industry’ first. This capability would help to reduce the number of components while providing a simple and low cost battery monitoring systems. The new chip set which combines battery monitoring IC and microcontroller is capable of detecting the remaining charge level where it will balance it among cells (cell balancing) in addition to detecting faulty battery status. Read more
Development High Iron Concentration Samarium-Cobalt Magnet by TOSHIBA
With an aim to replace the heat-resistant Neodymium Magnet in essential applications such as traction motors for hybrid and electric automobiles, Toshiba has developed dysprosium-free samarium-cobalt magnet, offering superior magnetic properties in comparison to the heat-resistant neodymium magnets which are currently used in motors. In order to eliminate dysprosium, the key element in these types of magnets, Toshiba has used heat treatment technology to improve the magnetic force of the samarium-cobalt magnet. The high concentration samarium-cobalt magnet surpasses that of the heat-resistance neodymium magnet in magnetic force by 1% at an operating temperature of 100 degrees Celsius, and by 5% at 150 degrees Celsius. Read more
Industry’s Largest Capacity 2.5-Inch HDD with 10,500 RPM Rotational Speed by Toshiba
Toshiba does it again by introducing yet again world’s largest capacity 2.5-inch HDD with 10500 RPM rotational speed. The new HDD line-up features a 900 GB capacity, offering an improved magnetic recording head and disk magnetic layer, resulting in areal density of 856 Mbit/mm2 (552Gbpsi). Furthermore, the internal transfer rate has been improved by 32% to 286 MB/s. The new HDD is the first of its class to offer dual-stage head positioning actuator, helping to improve head positioning accuracy by approximately 30%. Read more
Development of 64-Core SoC for Automotive and Consumer Products
Toshiba has recently released a many-core system-on-a-chip (SoC) for embedded applications in area of automotive and digital consumer products. The new prototype integrates 64 cores, which is 8 times more than its multi-core predecessor while operating 14 times faster. This has been achieved by using tree-based network-on-chip (NoC) architecture as well as highly efficient embedded processor cores. The new SoC features 1.5 tera operations per second at 333MHz and integrates image recognition hardware accelerators. Read more
Development of World’s First Hardware Engine Capable of Directly Streaming Video Content from SSD to IP Network
Toshiba has announced that it has successfully developed the world’s first hardware engine, the NPEngine™ capable of direct streaming of video contents from SSD to IP networks, without any needs to access the server’s CPU or any memory resources. NPEngine is capable of simultaneous delivery of up to 64,000 high quality video streams at a rate of 40Gigabit per second which well surpasses the performance of a typical server, while reducing power consumption by 77% and space requirements by 70%. Read more
Release of World’s Fastest Data Transfer Speed SDXC and SDHC Memory Cards
Toshiba has announced the launch of a new class of high performance SDHC class memory cards compliant with UHS-I, which is the ultra high speed interface in SD memory card standard ver. 3.0 capable of delivering data at a rate from 25 to 104MB per second. The newly launched EXCERIA™ comes in three different series Type 1, 2 and HD. These high performance memory cards of Type 1 series have world’s fastest data transfer speed with maximum read speed of 95MB/s and a write speed of 90MB/s. Read more
