Renesas is looking at buying IDT for $6 billion, reports the Nikkei. Renesas is engaged in something of a renaissance under CEO Bunsei Kure (pictured) who took over in May 2016. In February 2017, Renesas bought Intersil for $3.2 billion. Five years before that, in 2012, Renesas had to be bailed out by the Japanese ...
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TT Electronics has announced a series of low profile (2mm) high power resistors for use on heatsinks. Called WDBR-UL, they are thick-film-on-steel resistors, developed from the existing WDBR series, with creepage, clearances and power ratings assessed in accordance with the requirements of UL508, “easing the compliance burden for UL approved end-users,” said the TT. “For circuit designers who need ...
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Socionext has announced acoustics IPs in its “ForteArt” software family. ForteArt enhances the sound-related user experience, with applications including consumer products, public signage and automotive infotainment systems. The software IPs can be implemented with other vendors’ hardware, as well as with Socionext’s SoC products. ForteArt has been organized as a family of solutions to address ...
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X-FAB is to double ssix inch SiC capacity at its fab in Lubbock, Texas. In preparation for doubling capacity, X-FAB Texas has purchased a second heated ion implanter for use in manufacturing 6-inch SiC wafers. Delivery of this heated ion implanter is expected by the end of 2018, and production release is planned during the ...
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Custom MMIC has launched a line of GaAs Digital Step Attenuators (DSA). The DSA family is intended to ease the design of high dynamic range receivers and instrumentation. These applications often must accomplish gain control of 50dB or more. Fine step DSAs (e.g., 0.5dB Least Significant Bit [LSB]) are often used for these applications. However, when ...
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The Drummond MTL15 test lamp has a 1,000V CAT IV safety rating, and LED indication for AC and DC voltages ranging from 50 to 690V, “ensuring compliance with health and safety requirements for safe working in all BS EN61010 installation categories”, said component distributor Martindale Electric, which is stocking the test lamp. Built-in LEDs provide ...
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Consumer goods should be repairable, freeing owners from the cycle of ‘throw it away and buy a new one’. If, like me, you are angered by the increasingly “throw-away” culture which pervades technology products you might wonder, like me, why the government can’t be more active in encouraging, even forcing companies that make consumer goods ...
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LoRa is emerging as the champion for low power data exchange for the ‘smart’ utilities the IoT relies on, writes Caroline Hayes. Smart city low power wide area (LPWA) is expected to achieve over 140 million connections. According to analyst ON World, there could be as many as 2.6 billion connected, wireless IoT devices for ...
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Premier Farnell saw sales grow 11.1% y-o-y in its 2018 financial year with revenue of $1.5 billion. Q4 sales were up 13% y-o-y. “This is a significant result,” says Farnell president Chris Breslin (pictured), “we have built real momentum, delivering growth every quarter, in every region, and 13% year over year growth globally during the ...
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Following Theresa May’s trip to Africa, the DCMS has announced a number of tech initiatives with Nigeria, South Africa and Kenya. Dedicated UK science, technology and innovation teams will build on the existing science relationships with South Africa and Kenya, including through the shared investments in the Newton Fund and high-end research programmes like the ...
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Idec has improved the inherent safety inside its stop switches with two developments: By reversing the position of the spring, the contact’s relaxed state corresponds to its safety position (when contacts are open, the machine is at a standstill). The spring does not undergo any load once the plunger has been pressed down and as ...
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Darpa’s decision to spread the R&D love will keep US tech ahead of big-spender China. Thirty-three years after Sematech was founded, the Americans are embarking on a new semiconductor research and development programme which could be just as significant. Unlike 1985, when the Japan had overtaken the US in memory process technology and in semiconductor ...
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Sir James Dyson has applied for planning permission to build a ten mile test track for EVs at his ex-airfield base in Malmesbury. Dyson has also announced plans to spend another £150 million on an EV which will be launched the year after next. The investment will take Dyson’s total spend on the EV project ...
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Insight SIP, the ultra-miniature RF modules specialist, has seen a consolidation of its investors. By buying the interests of existing shareholders, the Toulon investment firm 2C Invest has amassed an 18.6% share in the company. Over the last 10 years, the company has grown at an annual rate of over 30% per annum and has ...
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Simplifying the design of low-to-mid-power motor controls in the 7V-45V range, ST’s STSPIN830 and STSPIN840 single-chip drivers contain flexible control logic and low-RDS(ON) power switches for industrial applications, medical technology, and home appliances. The STSPIN830 for driving 3-phase brushless DC motors has a mode-setting pin that lets users control the three half bridges of the integrated power stage with direct ...
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Honeywell’s IHM Series Aerospace Proximity Sensors for commercial and military aircraft are available from TTI. Honeywell has over thirty years’ experience designing accurate and reliable aircraft proximity sensors for extreme environments, and its IHM Series reduces downtime and maintenance costs by obviating the need for unnecessary preventative maintenance and troubleshooting. The IHM Series has a ...
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Half of the industry’s capex this year will be spent on memory, says IC Insights. This year’s capex will be $102 bilkion, says I C Insights, the first rime it has topped $109 billion. This year’s capex is 9% on thec$93.3 billion spent in 2017, which was a 38% surge over 2016. More than half ...
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Tydrolyte of Texas is introducing an electrolyte solution for automotive, motive, and stationary storage lead battery manufacturers. Tydrolyte is a less toxic drop-in replacement for sulphuric acid in lead batteries, claims the company “Tydrolyte is a novel innovative chemistry and a promising new approach to advancing lead batteries. It eliminates the drawbacks of handling sulfuric ...
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AVX has increased the maximum operating temperature for its TWD High-Temp Max-Cap (HTMC) Series axial leaded, hermetically sealed wet tantalum capacitors from 125°C to 175°C. Currently available in two ratings, 50mF/6.3V and 25mF/10V the series achieves high capacitance values previously only offered by supercapacitors and delivers exceptional electrical and mechanical stability for extended lifetimes of ...
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The high-performance plastic PEEK – polyether ether ketone – used in connectors, medical implants and oil industry seals – can now be 3D printed, following the introduction of a PEEK-based filament for fused filament printers by German firm Apium Additive Technologies. “PEEK is considered as one of the most powerful high-performance polymers due to its ...
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Former CEO of Hewlett Packard Enterprise Services UK, Jacqui Ferguson has taken a role at EngineeringUK as a trustee. EngineeringUK has plans to broaden its industry and business support activities across a wider range of technology sectors. Ferguson’s appointment will bring new expertise to the organisation. Prior to Hewlett Packard she worked for Electronic Data ...
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Spanish high-voltage tester firm Diael has chosen a UK-made PC oscilloscope as part of is latest partial discharge analyser – partial discharge measurement is a way to assess the condition of insulation in high-voltage installations. Diael’s new system, dubbed MS Pico, uses Diael’s proprietary ‘BlueBox’ technique in which digital processing separates transient events that are ...
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Omron Electronic Components has added to its range of AC latching power relays with devices that have interfaces for electric vehicle (EV) charge stations, PV inverters and lighting control. The G9TA AC range of power latching relays are designed for applications up to 60A maximum switching current. These G9TA relays feature 2mΩ contact resistance, 6kV ...
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Logic Supply has introduced a fanless ventless industrial PC with an 8th Generation (Kaby Lake) Intel Core i7 CPU. It is based around an Intel Dawson Canyon motherboard – one of Intel’s ‘NUC’ small size motherboards, which are 4x4in (~100x100mm). “ML100G-31 provides a fully solid state, passively cooled computing solution, designed for reliability in demanding ...
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Schurter has overhauled its robust metal push-button range. The switches of the MSM family retain the original 19, 22 or 30mm diameters, and stainless steel or aluminium housings, but have changed in two places, both involving the illumination: Ring illumination is more even – “by cleverly selecting a new material that diffuses the light much ...
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Globalfoundries is giving up on 7nm. Instead, the company will concentrate its resources on its 14/12nm Finfet process. “GF is putting its 7nm FinFET program on hold indefinitely,” says the company. It is assumed that the 5nm and 3nm programmes are also scrapped. The 7nm process, which was expected to see customers’ designs tape out ...
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Arthur C Clarke’s concept of a space elevator could stsrt to be realised by experiments beginning next month by a Japanese university and construction company. Shizuoka University and contractor Obayashi aim to launch two small (10 sq cm) satellites connected by a 10m steel cable from the International Space Station. Containers on the cable will move ...
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On Wednesday the first meeting will be held by a group put together by the Japanese government to pursue flying cars. The group includes Airbus, Uber, Boeing, NEC, Cartivator (a Toyota-backed start-up), ANA, Japan Airlines, and Yamato Holdings. Japan’s Economy, Trade and Industry Ministry and the Transport Ministry plans to draft a road map this year. Economy, ...
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Fujitsu has developed a crystal structure that increases both current and voltage in GaN HEMTs, effectively tripling the output power of transistors used for transmitters in the microwave band. GaN HEMT technology can serve as a power amplifier for equipment such as weather radar. By applying the new technology to this area, it is expected ...
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The government has allocated £100 million to come up with a plan for a UK GPS system, according to the Sunday Telegraph. The Continentals are threatening to ban the UK from using the military encrypted signals from the EU Galileo satellite constellation. Richard Wimmer, Project Manager of the Aeolus satellite at Airbus in Stevenage, told ...
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Toshiba is sampling a 50V / 5A rated bipolar stepping motor driver that supports 1/128 microstepping. The TB67S128FTG meets the often conflicting requirements of high speed, high performance and reduced power consumption making it suitable for a variety of modern applications including 3D printers, office equipment, cash dispensers, amusement machines and home appliances. At the ...
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The government’s £1 million Digital Skills Innovation Fund is now open for bids from Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs) and Combined Authorities for initiatives which specifically aim to help people take up digital roles. The funding will be used to help women, disabled people, people from minority backgrounds or those living in lower socioeconomic areas to ...
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Automotive infotainment designers can upgrade to bigger, higher resolution displays with Maxim’s MAX20069. The MAX20069 integrates four I2C-controlled, 150mA LED backlight drivers and a four-output thin-film-transistor liquid-crystal display (TFT-LCD) bias in a single chip. The chip supports larger screen sizes and higher resolution by providing positive analogue supply voltage (PAVVD) and negative analogue supply voltage ...
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Circuit building block time. The capacitance multiplier and how it gives almost negligible power supply ripple compared to a voltage regulator.
Whiteboard theory and then some bench demonstrations and experiments. Plus a twist at the end that proves that the “Capacitance multiplier” is perhaps one of the most mis-named circuits of all time.
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Essex-based contract electronics manufacturer (CEM) Challenger Solutions has achieved AS9100 accreditation – the extension to ISO 9000 that adds aerospace quality management standards. “Everyone gets ISO 9000,” Challenger business development manager Richard Hancock told Electronics Weekly. “AS9100 means that we can work on jobs to a better specification. You need it for anything that is ...
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Oxford Instruments Plasma Technology (OIPT),has announced that Sino-semic have selected its Cobra plasma etch systems for their manufacturing facilities in Taizhou City. Sino-semic is a manufacturer of VCSELs for face recognition. The vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser, or VCSEL is a semiconductor laser diode which emit a perpendicular beam from the top surface, rather than the edge ...
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The PI354x-00-BGIZ is the latest addition by Vicor to its 48V Cool-Power ZVS buck regulator portfolio, offering a BGA package option to the existing PI354x-00-LGIZ LGA series. The device’s ZVS topology is designed to enable 48V direct to point of load. And step-down regulation from a higher voltage source will improve efficiency and reduce I2R ...
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Labcenter Electronics has partnered with SamacSys to provide free PCB symbols, footprints and 3D models for its users, via the SamacSys CAD library content. SamacSys, which also powers the Electronics Weekly Component Search Engine, has been selected to provide high-quality CAD models for Labcenter’s Proteus design tools. Components can now be downloaded into Proteus without ...
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Stable but uninspired – this describes the German component distribution market during the second quarter 2018. Sales by companies registered with the Fachverband Bauelemente Distribution (FBDi e.V.) grew in the months April, May and June by 5% (compared with Q2/2017) to 949 million Euros. The order situation performed better, and with 1.04 billion Euros exceeded ...
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July billings by manufacturers of semiconductor equipment were $2.36 billion which was 4.9% down on June’s $2.48 billion and 4.1% up on June 2017’s billings of $2.27 billion, reports SEMI. “Global billings declined for the second month in a row, indicative of customer push-outs,” says SEMI CEO Ajit Manocha, “we expect the industry to weather ...
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Cree has announced an extension to the XLamp XP-G3 LED product line optimised for connected lighting. It is designated the XLamp XP-G3 S Line. With the XP-G3 S Line, Cree delivers high-power LED technology optimized for long-lifetime, high-power general lighting applications where sensors and the internet of things (IoT) are becoming common, such as commercial ...
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TT Electronics of Woking has introduced a compact, infrared LED emitter with a spot diameter of 7mm for super-reliable optical sensing and position encoder applications. With up to 10mW total radiated power at the maximum drive current of 100mA, and 2.25° angle of half intensity, the OP207CL couples optical flux extremely efficiently onto the receiving ...
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Paper can be turned into an actuator by applying a thin layer of conducting thermoplastic by 3D printing, or even by hand, according to Carnegie Mellon University. When current is fed through the thermoplastic – off-the-shelf graphene polyactide composite – it heats and expands causing the paper to bend or fold – an process which ...
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The University of Minnesota has sputtered a ‘topological insulator’ – a solid that conducts on its surface but not inside – avoiding the single crystal growth process or molecular beam epitaxy normally needed. Bismuth selenide (Bi2Se3) is the material, magnetron-sputtered into a thin film of particles <6nm across in hetero-structures with CoFeB – “Using the sputtering ...
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The UK government has published the first tranche of guidance should the UK leave the EU with ‘no deal’. They can be found on here on the Department for exiting the European Union website. According to the Department in the introductory document: “This document puts the government’s technical notices in context, explaining the current progress ...
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Canadian firm D-Wave Systems has calculated its way through a ‘topological phase transition’ using its 2,048-qubit ‘annealing quantum computer’. Several huge organisations have bought D-Wave computers – including Google and NASA (Lockheed-Martin even up-graded its D-Wave system) – but, in a world where folk are having trouble quantum-coupling a handful of qubits, there remain questions ...
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Toshiba has introduced a bipolar driver for two-phase stepping motors up to 44V 5A that includes 1/128 micro-stepping. TB67S128FTG, as it is to be known, also supports full, half, quarter, 1/8, 1/16, 1/32 and 1/64 step operation – micro-stepping is by PWM, using sine-wave derived on-off ratios – output chopping frequency can be adjusted by external ...
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ADI has broken ground on its new headquarters in Wilmington, Massachussetts. The facility will feature laboratories, design and manufacturing and cross-functional group collaboration space. In addition to 13,700 additional square metres for R&D, the global headquarters will include a 4,700 m² Hub comprising a café, fitness facility and auditorium designed to enable and encourage employees from all ...
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Taxing social media companies to support quality journalism is one of Jeremy Corbyn’s new ideas, along with a ‘digital licence fee’ on ISPs and publishing the social class of BBC employees. Corbyn will put forward the ideas later today in the Alternative MacTaggart lecture at the Edinburgh TV Festival. The money raised will go to ...
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gInfineon has availability of a new member of its CoolMOS P7 family, the 950 V CoolMOS P7 Superjunction MOSFET. The 950 V CoolMOS P7 attributes include improved DPAK R DS(on) enabling higher density designs. Similar to the other members of the P7 family from Infineon, it comes with an integrated Zener diode ESD protection. This results ...
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Mouser has released the fourth video episode in the Generation Robot series, part of Mouser’s Empowering Innovation Together programme. In the video, Grant Imahara tours the Cyberdyne Studio just outside of Tokyo to learn more about the company’s Hybrid Assistive Limb (HAL) — a robotic medical suit that combines human, machine, and information functionalities to restore or improve ...
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Cliff Electronics has added a panel mounting BNC connector with a moulded plastic body to its FeedThrough connector range, all of which mount through the industry standard 24mm XLR panel cut-out. It comes in both 50Ω and 75Ω versions, and saves weight over the earlier metal version (~15g compared to ~28g). “The BNC connector is ...
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Three UK universities have been recognised as Academic Centres of Excellence in Cyber Security Research (ACE-CSR), highlighting the country is leading the way in cyber security skills. The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (ESPRC) have identified the University of Kent, King’s College London, and Cardiff University as ...
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Fujitsu has announced the specifications for the A64FX CPU to be featured in the post-K computer, a supercomputer being developed by Fujitsu and RIKEN as a successor to the K computer, which achieved the world’s highest performance in 2011. The organizations are striving to achieve post-K application execution performance up to 100 times that of ...
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A way of connecting up IoT devices securely is being licensed by Foundries.io. “Our mission is solving the problem of IoT and embedded space where there is no standardised core platform like Android for phones,” says Foundries.io CEO George Grey. The Foundries.io offering comes in two flavours. For simple devices there’s the Zephyr RTOS micro-platform ...
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Toshiba is in production of 650V power MOSFETs that are intended for use in server power supplies in data centres, solar (PV) power conditioners, uninterruptible power systems (UPS) and other industrial applications. The first device in the DTMOS VI series is the TK040N65Z, a 650V device that supports continuous drain currents (ID) up to 57A ...
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According to a report published by Allied Market Research, application specific integrated circuits (ASICs) will dominate the machine learning (ML) chip market. The Machine Learning Chip Market report forecasts the global ML chip market will be worth $37.8 billion in 2025, demonstrating a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 40.8% between 2018 and 2025. The ...
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C&K has launched SDB DIP switches, intended for low-profile applications where a long life cycling under load is important. There are through-hole or surface mount models, contact rating is 25mA at 24Vdc or 100mA at 50Vdc (at least, that is what the data sheet and website say) with electrical life predicted to be 1,000 cycles ...
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One of the world’s first commercial computers has been registered as technology with essential historical significance by Japan’s National Museum of Nature and Science. Manufactured by Fujitsu in 1959, the FACOM128 was the first relay-type commercial computer made in Japan, and was instrumental in the development of Japan’s computer industry. The original computer featured the ...
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Taking the blue phosphors out of traditional RGB displays and adding yellow cyan and violet to make a five colour televisions, for example, could strongly reduce sleep disruption from late-night viewing without noticeable changes in image quality, according to research by the Universities of Manchester and Basel – and the display could be switched to ...
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element14.com has launched a giveaway for educators to help get the popular BBC micro:bit coding device into the hands of more students and get teachers talking about how to use it in the classroom. For many students and educators, the month of August signifies the approaching return to school, and shopping for the classroom. The ...
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Gresham Power Electronics, the Salisbury power conversion specialist, has introduced announced its latest micro-footprint, Ultra High Density (UHD) 550W output power supply the OF(M)550. The product range has been designed for use in applications including industrial and telecom systems, medical equipment and LED lighting. This new series of open frame switching power supplies utilises a ...
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Vision Engineering of Woking is shipping a compact TVM Field of View (FOV) video measurement system. TVM combines a small footprint, with larger system performance and ease of use. Time-saving instant FOV measurements and a moving stage allow larger components to be measured quickly and easily. The TVM series includes TVM20 and TVM35, with FOV ...
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Amazon shipped 4.8 million Echo devices between April and June, says Strategy Analytics, three times more than its closest competitor Google which shipped 1.6 million units. Google grew its smart speaker market share from 16.1% in Q2 2017 to 27.6% in Q2 2018. Apple was in fourth place in Q2, behind Alibaba, with 700,000 HomePods shipped ...
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To better protect industrial systems from the dangers of high-voltage signals, equipment designers can now turn to the MAX22445 5kVRMS four-channel reinforced digital isolator from Maxim. The MAX22445 communicates across the isolation barrier to ensure safe operation of compact industrial, medical and other equipment. In high-voltage equipment, digital isolators provide signal isolation and level-shifting for ...
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Samsung extended its lead over Intel to 22% in H1, reports IC Insights. All but four of the top 15 companies had double-digit year-over-year growth in 1H18. Moreover, seven companies had ≥20% growth, including the five big memory suppliers (Samsung, SK Hynix, Micron, Toshiba/Toshiba Memory, and Western Digital/SanDisk) as well as Nvidia ...
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Phoenix Contact has extended its range of PCB connectors, with a pitch of 2.54 mm. The single and double-row MCC 0,5 and DMCC 0,5 connectors are suitable for conductor cross sections from 0.14 mm² to 0.75 mm². The 2-pos. to 16-pos. connectors are designed for currents up to 6A and voltages up to 160V. Corresponding crimp contacts with ...
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Analog Device has created an impressively thin dual 10A dc-dc converter, that can also be used as a single 20A converter. Called LTM4686, it comes in a 16 x 11.9 x 1.82mm LGA package, which includes inductors and mosfets, but needs external capacitors. “The 1.82mm package height allows the LTM4686 to be placed on a ...
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After nine quarters of consecutive growth the DRAM price is finally on the way down, reports DRAMeXchange. Q4 contract ASPs are expected to fall 1-3% due, says DRAMeXchange, to “increasing supply yet fairly limited growth in demand.” Contract prices for PC DRAM and server DRAM memory have risen 1-2% sequentially in Q3, while mobile DRAM and ...
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Shipments of flexible AMOLED panels are expected to account for more than 50% of total AMOLED panel shipments by 2020. Shipments of flexible AMOLED panels are expected to reach 335.7 million units by 2020, topping those of rigid AMOLED panels at 315.9 million units. Flexible AMOLED panels are predicted to make up 52% of total ...
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Q2 semiconductor sales were up 6% q-o-q and 20.5% y-o-y at $117.9 billion, says the SIA. June sales increased 1.5% on the month and 20.5% from June 2017 to $39.3 billion. “Halfway through 2018, the global semiconductor industry continues to post impressive sales totals, notching its highest-ever quarterly sales in Q2 and record monthly sales ...
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TI’s HDC2080 humidity and temperature digital sensor is a capacitive-based device that uses an integrated heating element to dissipate moisture and condensation. The sensor allows for the use of programmable input thresholds to deliver system wake-ups and alerts without needing to rely on a microcontroller to monitor the system. Developers can place their MCUs in ...
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We are very pleased and proud to announce the commencement of EW BrightSparks 2019.
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The way ants dig tunnels could help prevent collaborative robots accidentally slowing each other progress, according to Georgia Tech. The study, published August 17 in Science, shows that not all nearby ants attempt to dig a tunnel simultaneously. “We noticed that if you have 150 ants in a container, only 10 or 15 of them ...
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Aiming at broadcast racks, Densitron has will be showing its UReady range of high-resolution rack-mount displays at IBC in Amsterdam (14-18 September, Hall 8, Stand C07). Intended to bring phone-like quality to rack displays, there are options with up to 212ppi resolution and IPS technology for wide viewing angles. With versions for 1U and 2U ...
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Formula 1 training simulation technology could be used for testing and certifying autonomous vehicles, according to the University of Warwick which has funding from the Government’s Innovate UK agency to examine the potential. “Several manufacturers are already testing their vehicles on public roads, with mixed results,” said the University. “One of the problems is the ...
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Breaking with tradition, Arm has announced a roadmap for its client CPUs, and plans for a new CPU later this year and the company’s plans to meet the demands of 5G and always-connected devices. Following the release of Cortex-A76 in May this year, Arm will deliver a CPU, codenamed Deimos to partners later this year, ...
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Renowned Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo expects Apple to launch a car between 2023 and 2025. “We expect that Apple Car, which will likely be launched in 2023–2025, will be the next star product,” says Kuo, “the reasons for this are as follows: Potentially huge replacement demands are emerging in the auto sector because it is being ...
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Infineon has enabled a new open source software stack which aims to make work easier for developers who want to use the Trusted Platform Module (TPM) 2.0 – a standardized hardware-based security solution for securing industrial, automotive and other applications such as network equipment. This is the first open source TPM middleware that complies with ...
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Applied Materials grew net sales by 19% to $4.47 billion in the quarter to the end of July. On a GAAP basis, the company recorded gross margin of 45.4% and grew operating income by 23% to $1.26 billion or 28.1% of net sales. GAAP EPS) grew 38% to $1.17. On a non-GAAP adjusted basis, over the ...
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Dave looks at some traps in chips and their modes of operation. In this case the TI LM2776, a look a the classic 7660 charge pump voltage inverter, and output ripple and ways to reduce it.
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dual-core digital signal controllers (DSCs) for motor control applications. The dual-core DSCs combine two dsPIC DSC cores in a single chip, with optional support for the control area network flexible data rate (CAN-FD) protocol. The communications characteristics with increased bandwidth make the DSCs suitable for embedded applications with algorithms, such as motor control, server power supplies, automotive sensors, industrial ...
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Keysight has introduced its smallest solder-in probe head for use with high-end oscilloscopes. Designated the MX0100A InfiniiMax, the micro probe head is a micro solder-in head for use with the company’s InfiniiMax I/II probe amplifiers. With the small scale of devices in mind, the lead wires can be adjusted to accommodate targets from 0 mm ...
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China has made a big move toward the introduction of autonomous vehicles with the roll-out of national standards for testing smart autonomous cars on roads. A report in the China Daily said the move is expected to facilitate the development of autonomous driving in the country, which is already the world’s largest car market and ...
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Lithium metal batteries can be stabilised using ceramics, according to the University of University of Michigan, following the University of Texas announcement last year that glass can be used for stabilisation. Using lithium metal has the potential to increase the capacity of lithium-based rechargeable cells significantly compared with lithium-ion cells – Michigan claims doubling capacity. ...
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Mazda has used hardware-in-the-loop, including a robot, to test and verify the function of a complete car electronic system. This is in addition to the traditional practice of testing and verifying individual units and sub-systems separately. “Increasingly, one system’s operation is dependent on results from other systems. In addition to testing systems individually, multi-system tests ...
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The Q2 NAND market grew 3.5% q-o-q despite a 15-20% drop in ASP, says DRAMeXchange, which expects a 10% decline in Q3 NAND prices due to over-supply. There is upside to the ASP fall for the NAND guys – while it denies them revenue, it encourages users to increase the NAND content of their products ...
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The hybrid photonic integration platform PolyBoard, developed at Fraunhofer HHI, enables the flexible and efficient combination of various optical functionalities on a single chip. This toolbox will be further developed in the coming years as part of the “Quantum Flagship” of the European Union to meet the specific requirements of novel quantum technologies. The project ...
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Uber is being urged by investors to scrap its autonomous driving unit called its Advanced Technologies Group, reports Reuters. The unit is reported to have lost between $750 million and $1.2 billion in the last six quarters. Earlier this month Uber announced it was withdrawing from its autonomous truck driving operation. Two years ago Uber ...
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Integra Technologies, the El Segundo RF and microwave transistor and amplifier specialist, is offering an IFF avionics transistor offering 120W peak output power using GaN technology. Designed for IFF avionic applications, IGN1011L120 is a high power GaN transistor, specified for use under Class AB operation. This transistor operates at 1.03 – 1.09 GHz, and supplies a ...
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Electrochromic technology is the key to low-cost simple displays, according to Swedish firm Rdot Displays. According to the firm, it can mass-produce reflective flexible displays on plastic substrates without needing metal or ITO layers – by either sheet-to-sheet or roll-to-roll printing. Viewing angles are wide and contrast is high for reflective technology. The underlying technology involves ...
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Kyocera has developed tiny ceramic UHF RFID tag that can be attached to metal tools in the aerospace industry for identification and tracking. RFID tags will be attached to workshop tools of maintenance and repair service providers. The attached tag will withstand harsh environments which are typical for workshops, including impacts and dirt (e.g. oil, ...
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Purdue University researchers have created a design for FETs which makes them promising candidates for next generation nanodevices. The re-engineered Purdue FET can offer better switching behaviour for computers and devices than traditional FETs. “Our technology merges lasers and transistors,” said Purdue’s Tillmann Kubis, “there is traditionally not a lot of overlap between these two ...
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The theme of the 64th IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM) is “Device Breakthroughs from Quantum to 5G and Beyond”. The meeting will be held from December 1-5 2018 is at the Hilton San Francisco Union Square hotel. The progress on EUV will interest many. “In terms of industrial applications, the evening panel session on EUV will ...
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Intel has said it has found three new flaws in its processors. ‘When a program attempts to access data in memory, the logical memory address is translated to a physical address by the hardware, says Intel, accessing a logical or linear address that is not mapped to a physical location on the hardware will result ...
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Need a nut that can be rotated, but can’t get lost? If it has to hold sheet metal, Pen Engineering is offering PEM SFN, a ‘spinning flare nut’ that can be made captive in thin metal. If two sheet metal assemblies have to be held together, it can be paired with a self-clinching stud in ...
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Toshiba is aiming at motor control in consumer and industrial applications with a set of Arm Cortex-M3 microcontrollers with 64 – 144pin packages, 256 – 512kbyte flash programme memory, and 32kbyte data flash memory. Licensed from Silicon Storage Technology, the flash is ‘Super Flash, where the code flash is rewritable up to 10,000 times and the ...
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Julian Nolan of Iprova explains how AI could affect electronics and how electronic engineers can take advantage to innovate.
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Analog Devices has released a set of differential-in differential-out amplifiers win a minimum CMRR (common-mode rejection ratio) of 94dB. Based on the existing LTC6363 differential amplifier which needs external resistors, they have built-in matched resistors. “Resistor matching is equivalent to a 0.002%. Initial gain accuracy is 45ppm maximum and varies by only 0.5ppm/°C maximum over temperature,” ...
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Apple will launch three new iPhones this autumn, says TrendForce, all with FaceID and two premium versions with AMOLED screens. TrendForce expects the initial production volume of the three phones to be 83-88 million units. The AMOLED versions are expected to be 5.8-inch and 6.5-inch and the cheaper, LCD version is expected to be 6.1 ...
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The ST plug-and-play wireless battery-charger development kit (STEVAL-ISB045V1) lets users build ultra-compact chargers up to 2.5W with a space-saving 20mm-diameter coil, for charging small IoT devices and wearables such as smart watches, sports gear, or healthcare equipment. Built around the STWBC-WA wireless charging-transmitter controller, the kit comprises a charging base unit containing a transmitter board ...
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Mouser has signed a global distribution agreement with Micron. “By adding Micron to the Mouser line card, we are providing the design engineering community with proven solutions,”says Mouser’s Jeff Newell. Micron is the third largest DRAm producer with 21.6% market share and is the fifth largest NAND supplier with 12.2% share. Mouser is now stocking the ...
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EE has confirmed its position as market leader in mobile network performance across the UK, according to RootMetrics. EE has won the last 10 half yearly national reports produced by RootMetrics, confirming five consecutive years as the UK’s leading network in terms of overall performance. This is measured by a combination of reliability and speed ...
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Bürklin Elektronik, the Munich components distributor, has signed an agreement with Rochester Electronic that allows Bürklin to offer an additional 200,000 products from over 70 semiconductor manufacturers. These include both end-of-life and regularly available products for applications in the fields of industrial automation, transportation, military, medical, energy, civil aviation, the automotive industry and telecommunications. ”We are honored ...
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Infineon is sampling its latest TRENCHSTOP IGBT6 technology with a 650 V blocking voltage. The trench and field-stop technology co-packed with a soft, fast recovery anti-parallel Rapid 1 diode translates into reduced losses. The building block for motor drives up to 1 kW is marked by a good thermal performance, especially at higher switching frequencies ...
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Premier Farnell has appointed Rob Rospedzihowski as vice president for sales for the EMEA region. Rospedzihowski has held the position of regional sales director with the distributor since 2015. In this role he led the company’s sales, marketing and e-commerce operations in Eastern Europe, Nordics and key International Market territories in Russia, Turkey and Israel. Rospedzihowski re-joined ...
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The Compound Semiconductor Applications Catapult has received the £51m money ear-marked for the creation of its headquarters, at a location in South East Wales that its management will not reveal. It is thought that an existing building will be leased, and that the secrecy is for commercial reasons. Currently, Catapult staff are based in Cardiff. These ...
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Infineon and China e-commerce company Jingdong (JD)D group (JD) have signed a strategic partnership agreement aimed at creating an efficient and secured smart IoT ecosystem accelerating towards the vision of smart life. The two companies will combine Infineon’s expertise in semiconductors with and the local market insight and network of JD, China´s largest online retailer. Infineon ...
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A new form of electronics manufacturing which embeds silicon nanowires into flexible surfaces could lead to radical new forms of bendable electronics, say engineers from the University of Glasgow who have been able to affordably ‘print’ high-mobility semiconductor nanowires onto flexible surfaces to develop high-performance ultra-thin electronic layers. Those surfaces, which can be bent, flexed and twisted, ...
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The Q2 DRAM market grew 11.3% q-o-q, reports DRAMeXchange. Prices of most DRAM types rose 3% in Q2 and prices of graphics DRAM rose 15% pushed by crypto demand. DRAMeXchange reckons prices have peaked because new capacity is coming on-stream in H2. The Koreans had 73.5% of the market with Micron holding 21.6%. China’s monopoly ...
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Samsung is reported by the Korean newspaper Electronics Times to be considering ending production of mobile phones at one of its two China plants. Samsung’s market share in China has gone from 20% to 1% in five years as local brands Huawei, Oppo and Vivo have taken over the market. The plant where phone production ...
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Arm’s Q2 EBIT fell 99% y-o-y from £82 million in Q2 2017 to £1 million in Q2 2018. Revenue was down from £329 million in Q2 2017 and from £330 million in Q1 2018 to £281 million in Q2 2018. Licensing revenue fell 43% y-o-y from £111 million to £64 million. Royalty revenues and software/services ...
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Researchers at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville announce that they have made the first-ever 6D measurement of an accelerator beam. Taking measurements in 6D includes the same dimensions of a 3D measurement, plus additional data points for the velocity in each direction along the x, yand z axes. Until now, scientists stitched together three 2D ...
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Review of the new 18W USB-C TS80 temperature controlled portable soldering iron.
TLDR; Highly recommended, money well spent if you need a portable iron solution, but you need a QC3 battery pack.
Chinese researchers are claiming an organic solar cell record – 17.3% efficiency under standard sunlight conditions from a solution-processes structure – as opposed to more-complex vacuum processing. The cell is a tandem device, where wavelength coverage is increased by using two different junctions. In this case the materials were tuned so that the junctions complement ...
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IBM and Maersk are looking to sign up partners for their blockchain-based container-tracking service TradeLens. The companies say they have signed 92 organisations for their cross-border supply chain programme to manage and track the tens of millions of shipping containers across the world. TradeLens aims to create a global trade digitisation platform built on the Hyperledger ...
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Suzuki, Mazda and Yamaha are the latest car manufacturers to have been found to have been fudging their fuel and emissions tests, reports the Nikkei. They join Nissan and Subaru who were found to have falsified testing data earlier this year, and Mitsubishi which was found to have engaged in faulty testing in 2016 In ...
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Pickering Interfaces, the Clacton-on-sea provider of modular signal switching and simulation for electronic test and verification, has added a PXIe version of its USB 2.0 Hub module which offers the same capabilities as its PXI USB 2.0 Hub (model 40-738). This USB 2.0 Hub (model 42-738) is a single-slot 3U PXIe module that combines an ...
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Allegro MicroSystems has established a research and development centre in the Czech Republic. It currently has two dozen engineers and will work on ICs for automotive and industrial markets – initially focussing on sensor ICs for electrified vehicles, green energy, and industrial motors. “We are very excited to formally open our new R&D centre in ...
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Inspired by acoustics, a French-US team has found a way to locate objects in a room simply by their microwave scattering characteristics. Similar to diffusing reverberant acoustic wave spectroscopy (DRAWS), the techniques relies on the room having walls that reflect radio waves – reflecting sufficiently to fill the room with a complex field of interference ...
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Designers can used the integrated development environment (IDE) to quickly go from C++ to FPGA using the HLS and Achronix’s ACE design tools. The combination can reduce the development effort for 5G wireless and other design applications that require high performance FPGA technology in SoCs, configured using a proven C‑based design flow. Ellie Burns, director of marketing, Calypto Systems division, ...
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