The SIA has asked Washington for $37 billion for R&D, to build a fab and to provide funds for states wanting to give incentives to get semiconductor investment, according to the Wall Street Journal. The aim is to match China in its state investment in semiconductors. $5 billion of the $37 billion would be spent ...
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Microsoft’s news site is to sack 50 journos and replace them with an AI programme, reports the Seattle Times. The journalists staffed Microsoft’s MSN website and Edge browser. They did not write original stories but made selections of stories from other media. 27 of the journalists were sub-contractors employed by PA Media, formerly the Press ...
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Smiths Interconnect has won a contract from Boeing to design, manufacture and supply bespoke connectors for use aboard NASA’s Orion spacecraft and Lunar Gateway. Smiths Interconnect’s docking umbilical connectors will be used to transfer power, signal and communications to different modules on the space station. “With many phases of the Artemis programme still to come, ...
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Infineon has added a 1700v class to its CoolSiC MOSFET offering. Maximising the physical characteristics of SiC, this ensures that the 1700 V surface-mounted devices (SMD) offer superior reliability, as well as low switching and conduction losses. The CoolSiC MOSFETs 1700 V are targeting auxiliary power supplies in three-phase conversion systems such as motor drives, ...
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Will a 1970’s era Intel 8085 design kit power up after 40 years? A look at the Intel MCS-85 System Design Kit and some vintage computer and processor history.
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How to reduce your PCB assembly cost & production risk by optimising schematic and BOM. Dave explains three ways to consolidate your project PCB Bill Of Materials (BOM), to make your products potentially cheaper and easier to manufacture with less supply risk. As well as being an essential good design practice! A look at a complex FPGA based design with a large number of components, how far can this design be optimised and for what benefit?
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The Oxford Foundry today announces the four solutions it will support on the OXFO COVID-19 Rapid Solutions Builder. The four solutions are: Healthcare stream. My110: A saliva-test for COVID-19, which is easier and non-invasive compared with other means of testing. My110 went through Entrepreneur First and the team has deep diagnostics development knowledge, protein chemistry and nanomedicine expertise. ...
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An ESA satellite, EDRS-C, has now completed its in-orbit commissioning review and is ready to start service, as part of the European Data Relay System (EDRS). This system, dubbed the “SpaceDataHighway”, helps Earth-observing satellites to transmit large quantities of potentially life-saving data to Europe in near-real time. EDRS-C is the second operational node of the ...
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The government has launched a £400,000 funding pot for innovators to design schemes to boost the security of internet-connected products, Digital Infrastructure Minister Matt Warman announced today. The programme aims to support the development of the market of assurance schemes for the IoT. Assurance schemes demonstrate that a device has undergone independent testing or a robust ...
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The Bluetooth SIG has announced a partnership with DiiA, an alliance of companies from the lighting and sensor industries. The aim is to speed the adoption of IoT-enabled commercial lighting. The collaboration, it states, will enable the deployment of certified DALI-2 devices and intelligent D4i luminaires, with qualified Bluetooth mesh intelligent lighting-control networks, bringing together ...
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The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has allocated its 6GHz spectrum to un-licensed use, opening 5.925 – 7.125GHz for uses such as Wi-Fi in the US. Unlicenced users will share it with licensed utility, public safety and wireless back-haul microwave services, and to protect these there are rules including only allowing low-power indoor operations over the ...
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The UK has come up with a plan to provide alternative sources to China for telecoms, pharmaceuticals and other key supplies. The government has proposed to Washington a plan to form a D10 group of ten democracies – the G7 plus India, Korea and Australia – to create alternative sources of supply of 5G and ...
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The 10 largest suppliers of analogue ICs collectively accounted for 62% or $34.2 billion of the $55.2 billion analog IC market in 2019. That was an increase of two points from 60% in 2018, according to data compiled and presented in the April Update to the 2020 McClean Report. The update ranked the top semiconductor ...
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In the last decade, an exciting dynamic is propelling manufacturing towards 3D printing, or additive manufacturing (AM), writes Bill Davis of Siemens Digital Industries Software, discussing the digital twin. From a machining perspective, additive manufacturing enables designers to consolidate components, leading to less expensive parts, superior reliability, increased durability, and creative design. Also, from a ...
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Globalfoundries has filed papers to officially close its FD-SOI fab in Chengdu, China and lay off its 74 employees. GloFo and the town of Chengdu had a jv to build a $10 billion 300mm fab for 22nm FD-SOI. The plan was to begin production of mainstream process technologies in 2018 and then focus on manufacturing 22FD-SOI, ...
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UltraSoC and Canis Automotive Labs are addressing a cybersecurity vulnerability in the automotive industry – the lack of security features within the CAN bus. The bus is commonly used to interconnect in-vehicle systems such as brakes, steering, engine, airbags, door locks, and headlights. The partnership between the two companies will yield hardware-based intrusion detection and mitigation ...
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Sandvik makes commercial heating elements from an iron-chromium-aluminium alloy called Kanthal AF, which works up to 1300°C and is intended for use in thing like toasters, hair dryers, heaters and ceramic hobs. To demonstrate this metal wound into porcupine form – elements usually used in hot air guns, radiators and tumble dryers – the company ...
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Vishay has improved temperature drift in its TNPU e3 series of precision resistors, and now has ±2 ppm/K ±0.02% devices in 0603, 0805, and 1206 surface-mount sizes. “This combination makes the AEC Q200 qualified resistors perfectly suited for applications such as operational amplifier circuits and sensors for test and measurement, automotive, industrial, medical, and telecommunications equipment,” according ...
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Analog devices is aiming at industrial control with a four-channel I-O integrated circuit. Control is though a four-wire digital interface to a host controller that clocks at up to 24MHz and is compatible with SPI, QSPI, Microwire and other protocols. Each of the four channels on the other side of the chip can be software-configures as: ...
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Weather postpones launch of the manned Demo-2 mission, which is a joint enterprise between NASA and SpaceX.
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The British Standards Institution has published initial safe working guidelines to help businesses manage a safe return to work and re-occupation of their facilities. To allow for continual improvement, the guidelines will be updated as the business community learns more about safe working and government requirements evolve. “Version 1 of the guidelines is available for immediate ...
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Farnell is launching a new variant of the Raspberry Pi 4 Model B computer with 8GB of on-board memory, offering double the capacity of the existing high-end model. The additional memory improves the performance of data-intensive applications, making the 8GB version an attractive solution for general desktop computer users, hobbyists and makers, and professional developers ...
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The Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) today invited all organisations in the Wi-Fi ecosystem to join WBA OpenRoaming and become part of a globally available Wi-Fi federation that offers an automatic and secure connection of billions of devices to millions of Wi-Fi networks. WBA OpenRoaming provides a new global standards-led approach, removing public-guest Wi-Fi connectivity barriers ...
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The US Entity List of black-listed Chinese organisations has received another 33 members to add to the 28 companies and institutions put on the list last October. Being on the list means that a US potential supplier to an Entity List member has to get a licence from the US government to do the supply ...
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DARPA has announced two research teams to address its Automatic Implementation of Secure Silicon (AISS) programme. They are: Synopsys, Arm, Boeing, Florida Institute for Cybersecurity Research at the University of Florida, Texas A&M University, UltraSoC, and University of California, San Diego Northrop Grumman, IBM, University of Arkansas, and University of Florida AISS aims to automate ...
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Lattice Semiconductor and Etron Technology have brought out a memory controller reference design for Etron’s low pin-count RPC DRAM to enable low power Edge AI and video processing in applications requiring a compact form factor. A low power ECP5 FPGA from Lattice provides processing for the AI or smart vision workload and serves as the memory controller ...
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US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (pictured) issued this statement on Hong Kong yesterday: “Last week, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) National People’s Congress announced its intention to unilaterally and arbitrarily impose national security legislation on Hong Kong. Beijing’s disastrous decision is only the latest in a series of actions that fundamentally undermine Hong ...
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Under the theme “Innovative Devices for a Better Future,” the 66th annual IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM), to be held December 12–16, 2020 at the Hilton San Francisco Union Square hotel, has issued a Call for Papers seeking the world’s best original work in all areas of microelectronics research and development. The paper submission ...
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Nexperia has introduced 120V silicon germanium (SiGe) rectifier diodes “with reverse voltages that combine the high efficiency of their Schottky counterparts with the thermal stability of fast-recovery diodes”, according to the company. “Design engineers can rely on an extended safe-operating area with no thermal runaway up to 175°C.” 150V and 200V parts are in the ...
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PA Consulting’s Raspberry Pi Competition awards took place virtually this year, due to the pandemic. It was a strange irony of the times, as this year’s theme addressed ‘creating the sustainable city of the future using a Raspberry Pi’. The annual competition, now in its eighth year, challenges primary, secondary and college students across the ...
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German supercapacitor maker Skeleton Technologies us helping NanoMalaysia to develop a hydrogen-paired electric racing car in Malaysia The project has been running for several months and is expected to be completed in the second half of June, according to Skeleton. Hydrogen-Paired Electric Racecar (HyPER) is to be powered by NanoMalaysia’s ‘hydrogen and hybrid energy storage ...
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Road-side long-range sensors could provide road users in normal vehicles with warnings similar to those available in smart vehicles, according to a research project running in Germany. The concept involves solar-powered road-side units with a mix of radar, optical cameras and infra-red sensors, feeding neural networks and machine learning designed to differentiate between pedestrians, cars, ...
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1Q 2020 revenue versus 4Q 2019 was mixed for major semiconductor companies, ranging from a 19% decline for ST to 9.9% growth from Kioxia (previously Toshiba Semiconductor), reports Bill Jewell’s Semiconductor Intelligence. WSTS reported a decline of 3.5% for the semiconductor market in 1Q 2020. Guidance for 2Q 2020 revenues shows continued caution. Most companies expect ...
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Infineon has sold 55 million new shares at €19.30 a share to raise €1.06 billion. After deducting commissions and expenses the funds will be used to repay a part of the acquisition financing provided by banks for the purchase of Cypress. “With the share placement we completed the envisaged equity portion of the overall refinancing ...
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The Raspberry Pi Foundation has brought out the beta release of a firmware update featuring a bootloader with USB boot support on the Raspberry Pi 4. The update allows USB boot support, eliminating the need for a microSD card entirely. With the beta firmware, Pi 4 owners can boot operating systems using USB 3.0. Since ...
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Nvidia says it has developed AI technology which can re-create the code that created Pacman just from watching the game being played. Nvidia demonstrated how the technology was able to construct the code after watching the game being played for for four days. “It learns all of these things just by watching,” says Nvidia’s vp of ...
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PVcase, the photo-voltaic power plant software specialist, has released version 1.33, to coincide with the update to PVsyst 7.0. The joint tracker-focused integration between PVcase’s utility-scale solar design tool and PVsyst – software which predicts the performance of different PV system configurations, is now immediately available to all users who have updated to the latest versions of both. ...
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ST has extended the capabilities of its FlightSense ToF ranging sensors by introducing a device with patented histogram algorithms that allow measuring distances to multiple objects as well as increasing accuracy The VL53L3CX measures object ranges from 2.5cm to 3m, unaffected by the target color or reflectance, unlike conventional infrared sensors. This allows designers to introduce ...
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Arm has announced flagship processors for phones: Cortex-X1 CPU, Cortex-A78 CPU, Mali-G78 GPU and Ethos-N78 neural network processor (NPU). Offered as part of Arm’s custom programme, Cortex-X1 is the most powerful Cortex processor yet, according to the company, with 30% greater peak performance over the current Cortex-A77 CPU, as well as 22% single-thread integer performance improvements over ...
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CUI is cutting the cost of USB Type C connectors in power-only applications, by doing away with the data pins. UJC-HP-3-SMT-TR is a 6-pin USB Type C receptacle that can deliver up to 60W of power through its 3A 20V rating. Housed in a surface mount package, the connector is compatible with any standard USB ...
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A veteran of 31 years in the Analogue Integrated Circuit industry, Ash Madni takes a personal look at how rapidly the electronics have evolved over his career from 1985 with 3GHz Bipolar technology to 300GHz FDSOI...
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COM-HPC is a computer-on-module standard for high-performance embedded computing, following on from COM Express 3.0. PICMG COM-HPC technical subcommittee chairman Christian Eder, also marketing manager at Congatec, and MD of embedded computing firm Recab UK Martin Frederiksen have put together a Q&A to explain further. What are the main differences between COM-HPC and COM Express? ...
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SK Telecom and Omron have developed a 5G-powered autonomous robot to fight against the coronavirus. The robot performs contactless temperature screenings for visitors and disinfection of buildings among other functions,. Upon detecting visitors, the robot automatically moves towards them to check their body temperatures using a thermal imaging camera. In case the measured temperature is 37.5°C ...
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Q1 NAND revenues grew 8.3% QoQ due to datacentre demand, says TrendForce. While Q1 bit shipments were relatively level with 4Q19, the ASP rose. Total Q1 NAND revenues were $13.6 billion. Demand for enterprise SSDs exceeded supply because cloud service providers’ procurement for data centers had been growing progressively since 4Q19. Also, inventories of NAND ...
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ELTEC Elektronik has developed interface cards for the communication of safety-critical infrastructure. These interface cards are plugged onto a computer board as mezzanine boards and are controlled via SPI or PCI Express. When integrated in the wireless gateway CyBox GW-P or in the automotive LTE router CyBox RT 2-A, the modules enable the collection of ...
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Alps Alpine proposes a touchless control panel for situations when touching is undesirable, not possible or not allowed. Market research is currently underway with an eye toward commercialisation in around 2021. Downsizing and advanced functionality are aims behind recent replacement of switches with touch panels as the input and control technology for a wide range ...
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Plans to further reduce Huawei’s involvement in UK 5G infrastructure are being drawn up following growing anti-China sentiment in the wake of the coronavirus. BT is already committed to stripping out Huawei equipment from the core of the network by 023. The core is where voice and data are routed to their destinations across sub-networks ...
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A team from the Australian universities of Monash, Swinburne and RMIT have achieved a data transmission speed of 44.2Tbps. Researchers said they achieved this be using a micro-comb photonics IC. Researchers installed 48 miles of optical fibre between RMITs Melbourne City Campus and Monash University’s Clayton Campus. The microcomb chip – contributed by Swinburne University ...
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SEMI’s April billings for North America-based manufacturers of semiconductor equipment were $2.26 billion which is 2.2% up on the March figure of $2.21 billion. The April 2020 billings figure is 17.2% above the April 2019 billings level of $1.93 billion. Billings have now stayed above $2 billion for the seventh consecutive month. “April billings of ...
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Texas Instruments is hosting a webinar on motion sensing technology – on how to accurately detect objects and how to select the correct motion detector technology. Industry experts will highlight the three most common motion and occupancy detecting systems: PIR, mmWave and Time of Flight. It takes place on Wednesday June 17th, 2020 (14:00 hrs ...
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With schools still remaining closed, the Institute of Coding have partnered with social inclusion enterprise Sisterhood to host a free virtual ‘Do Good With Digital’ workshop. It’s aimed at 16-18-year olds, to give them a chance to work with industry experts and learn how digital skills can help them make a positive impact. The ‘Do ...
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China is going to fall a long way short of its ‘Made in China 2025’ target for domestic semiconductor production, says IC Insights. IC Insights reckons that China may only achieve about 30% of its ‘Made in China’ target of having 70% of its domestic chip requirement supplied from domestic sources in 2025. IC production in ...
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Researchers at Surrey University and Kyung Hee University of Korea have developed a biodegradable motion sensor – paving the way for implanted nanotechnology. They developed a nano-biomedical motion sensor which can be paired with AI systems to recognise movements of body parts. The technology builds on previous work around triboelectric nanogenerators (TENG), where researchers used ...
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UltraSoc’s embedded analytics technology has been selected by SimpleMachines, Inc (SMI) for use within SMI’s innovative Composable Computing Platform. UltraSoC’s technology will allow SMI and its customers to gain an intimate understanding of the behaviour of the hardware and software within the company’s products, which are targeted at a diverse range of demanding applications such ...
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Triad RF Systems of New Jersey has added to its THPR series of ready-to-install amplified radios. Eliminating the need to integrate standalone components to create a long-range wireless and intelligence, surveillance, and recognizance (ISR) radio links working in S-band, Triad has combined high power RF subsystems with a Silvus StreamCaster model SC4210E-235 core radio that ...
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A team of physicists at the University of Bristol has use CMOS to integrate photon source suitable for “large-scale quantum photonics”, it said. “An important challenge that has limited the scaling of integrated quantum photonics has been the lack of on-chip sources able to generate high-quality single photons,” according to Bristol quantum engineer Stefano Paesani. ...
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Power conversion products from Artesyn Embedded Power are now available from Relec Electronics, following a distribution agreement between the two companies. Artesyn’s AC-DC products cover a power range of 3W – 24kW and are available in open frame and enclosed models, conduction cooled, modular configurable and rack mount front ends versions, many of which are ...
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Alpha and Omega Semiconductor has released a 1.2kV 65mΩ silicon carbide mosfet, its first on a new technology platform. “After years of development work, we are excited to add this SiC mosfet technology to Alpha and Omega’s existing silicon mosfet and IGBT portfolio, and our 650V GaN platform,” said company director David Sheridan. The SiC ...
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Diodes has announced the first in a new generation of discrete mosfets, with two n-channel transistors in a 3.3 x 3.3mm package. Called DMN3012LEG, its transistors are made using an LDMOS (lateral diffused MOS) process, and optimised for buck converters and half-bridges – they are internally connected with Q1 as the high-side switch and Q2 on ...
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Samsung is to put $8 billion into building a new logic fab at Pyeongtaek for its foundry business and another $8 billion unto expanding its memory fab at Xi’an in China. The Pyeongtaek fab is due to run first silicon next year. It will have Samsung’s 5nm EUV process. Samsung started using EUV in production ...
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Mouser Electronics continues to increase its Pimoroni offering, adding the PIM486 Enviro and the Pirate Audio accessories from the Sheffield-based company. Pimoroni was founded in 2012, designing and manufacturing breakout boards, kits and add-ons for Raspberry Pi and micro:bit. The company name – pronounced Pih-mo-row-knee, is based on ‘pirate, monkey, robot, ninja’ and the company’s ...
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Erzia Technologies has announced a series of rf wide-band high-power amplifiers (WHPAs) that offer both broadband frequency coverage and consistent output power throughout bands as high as E-band. “These wide-band designs are among the first of their kind to be capable of withstanding the harshest environments while holding output power in place,” claimed the company, ...
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Farnell has added the PicoScope 6000E series of USB oscilloscopes from Pico Technology to its portfolio. The scope is useful for design and test engineers, OEMs, CEMs working with high-performance embedded systems, and researchers and scientists working on multi-channel high-performance experiments in physics labs, particle accelerators and similar facilities. Pico provides innovative and cost-effective alternatives ...
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Intel has bought Rivet Networks supplier of the Killer accelerated networking products and with which Inteln has been working on gigabit Ethernet networking chips, Wi-Fi 6 add-in cards and CNVi CRF laptop modules. In 2011, under a previous name – Bigfoot Networks – Rivet was bought by Qualcomm and later on divested. Rivet will be ...
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Infineon has made a HAT for Raspberry Pi which it says is the world’s first fully self-contained Raspberry Pi audio amplifier HAT. It offers high definition audio at boom box power levels in a small form factor. The Infineon proprietary multilevel technology ensures minimum size and consumption, state of the art power efficiency, and HD ...
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Lattice Semiconductor has launched the latest version of its complete solutions stack for on-device AI processing at the Edge, Lattice sensAI 3.0. The latest version of the stack includes support for the CrossLink-NX family of FPGAs for low power smart vision applications and features customized convolutional neural network (CNN) IP, a flexible accelerator IP that ...
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Imec has expanded its secure proximity research programme (for secure and very high accuracy ranging) with next-generation high-precision and low-power UWB technology. With a track record of over 15 years of UWB research, Imec has been rallying experts in hardware and software to develop next-gen UWB technology that achieves a ranging accuracy of less than ...
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Globalfoundries is to implement export control security measures at its most advanced manufacturing facility, Fab 8, in Malta, New York. GLoFo will bring Fab 8 into compliance with both the U.S. International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) standards and the Export Administration Regulations (EAR), making the company the most advanced ITAR foundry in the country. ...
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Techsil is stocking SilCool TIA241GF silicone thermally conductive gap filler from Momentive, intended for applications where good heat transfer, low stress and good interface wetting are required. Thermal conductivity is 4.1W/mK. Called SilCool TIA241GF, it offers tacky adhesion and retained softness after cure for applications where movements in x, y, and z directions occur due to ...
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ADA4523-1 is a precision ‘zero-drift’ op-amp from Analog Devices that works across 4.5V to 36V, drawing 6mA worst case. The output is rail-to-rail, and the input includes the negative rail – working from 100mV below the negative rail to 1.5V below the positive rail. Maximum offset voltage is ±4µV and, due to self-calibrating circuitry, this ...
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Cliff Ortmeyer, Global Head of Technical Marketing at Farnell, considers the use of cloud Services as a way to provide long-term security and protect the network. Internet connectivity provides the means to add huge value to embedded systems, yet that same connectivity can be a threat to the integrity of devices and the IoT applications that are ...
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Infineon has brought out an evaluation kit for double pulse testing of the switching behaviour of powerdrive options for the 1200V CoolSiC MOSFET in TO247 3-pin and 4-pin packages. The kit comprises a motherboard with interchangeable drive cards. The drive options include a Miller clamp and a bipolar supply card; additional variants will be launched in ...
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Farnell has added Sorensen, the DC programmable power supply brand from Ametek, to its range of power supplies. Sorensen designs and manufactures precision, programmable power supplies for research and design, test and measurement, process control, power bus simulation and power conditioning applications across a wide array of industrial segments. Its portfolio comprises of benchtop, modular ...
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The path to machine learning and personalization requires that some computing occur at the edge of the network. In fact, Gartner is forecasting that companies will generate up to 75 percent of their data outside a traditional data center within the next six years.1 Privacy is one big reason for the need for edge computing. ...
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Arrow, Panasonic, and ST have introduced a low-power wireless multi-sensor edge-intelligence module for smart factory, smart home, and smart life applications. The IoT Solution Module combines Arrow’s engineering and global distribution capabilities with Panasonic Industry’s IoT modules based on the ST BlueTile (STEVAL-BCN002V1B) multi-sensor development kit. This combination enables customers to test their ideas easily ...
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Xilinx has announced a 20nm space-grade FPGA, delivering full radiation tolerance and ultra-high throughput and bandwidth performance for satellite and space applications. The Kintex UltraScale XQRKU060 FPGA provides on-orbit reconfiguration with radiation tolerance across all orbits. A portfolio of ML development tools supporting industry standard frameworks, including TensorFlow and PyTorch, enable neural network inference acceleration ...
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Sundance Multiprocessor has launched an Intel-based 3U OpenVPX single board computer (SBC) for enhanced reliability industrial control, automotive, mil/aero and UltraHD video and graphics processing applications. Available in standard air-cooled and rugged conduction-cooled versions, the VF370 utilizes the Intel Atom E3900 Series of embedded processors combined with Intel’s Cyclone FPGA technology. The VF370 features a ...
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ROHM has brought out a compact linear LED Driver suitable for automotive socket type LED lamp applications such as rear lamps, turn, fog and position lamps or DRLs (Daylight Running Lamps). In response to the growing demand for higher levels of reliability, safety, and increased flexibility for the LED’s thermal management in combination with an ...
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Rohm has introduced a linear LED driver for automotive use, following close on the heels of its LED driver for motorcycles. BD18336NUF-M is a 3 x 3 x 1mm constant current driver IC that can deliver 400mA continuously (600mA at 50% duty cycle) into a string of three white LEDs or parallel strings of LEDs. ...
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Liquid crystal meta-surfaces can steer lasers to create solid-state lidars for automotive and industrial applications, according to Lumotive of Seattle. It claims a larger aperture for greater range compared to MEMS-based systems, and a technology that can be scaled for automotive, industrial and consumer use – with the surfaces manufactured in CMOS semiconductor processes. “The huge ...
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There are estimated to be 366bn commercial satellites and SpaceX, a private company is currently planning to launch the Falcon 9 rocket and NASA’s Crew Dragon spacecraft on 27 May. One of the major challenges in the space industry is the architecture of components used in various projects, whether they are global satellites or rockets ...
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Diodes has announced what is says is industry’s first AEC-Q100 grade 3 qualified 10Gbit/s USB-C DisplayPort Alternate (DP-Alt) mode linear re-driver IC. DP-Alt mode allows the transfer of DisplayPort signals through a USB Type-C connector. Called PI3DPX1207Q, the Diodes’ chip supports 8.1Gbit/s DP1.4 and 10Gbit/s USB 3.2 specifications. It is a “transparent, protocol-agnostic re-driver capability ...
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Digi-Key and a team at the University of Minnesota have collaborated to ensure the open source Conventor ventilator is delivered to hospitals. Physicians at the University of Minnesota, partnered with companies to develop the Conventor ventilator, which can be used to monitor more than one patient at at time. It was created in response to ...
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Uber is to sack another 3,000 workers on top of the 3,700 it fired earlier this month and close 40 offices which will mean it has reduced its workforce by a quarter in the last few weeks and made savings of $1 billion. The sackings are of office staff and do not include drivers. “We ...
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Huawei made its first official response to the US action banning it from buying ICs made using US technology at its analyst day yesterday. “We expect that our business will inevitably be affected. We will try all we can to seek a solution,” said Huawei Chairman Guo Ping, “survival is the key word for us ...
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The top-5 notebook brands saw their combined shipments in April grow 12% m-o-m to reach a new record, according to Digitimes Research. Demand for notebooks from users working and studying from home in mature markets was stronger than expected. HP had strong growth in April, as it had in March. Dell experienced rising orders from ...
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A five part video series on building the Free PDK open source programmer for the 3 Cent Padauk microcontrollers. A new video released 9am Sydney time every day. Part 1 is about how to take a github hardware project and order the parts and PCB from a Bill Of Materials. This could be applicable to any project you want to get manufactured.
Forum: https://www.eevblog.com/forum/blog/eevblog-1306-(1-of-5)-3-cent-padauk-micro-open-source-programmer/
Siglent SSG5000X-V is a 6GHz signal generator with vector capability “which now gives the company RF generators that address the complete sub-6GHz communication frequency range. This includes the latest NR-5G Band [FR1], which is located between 3.4 and 3.7GHz”, according to Siglent. Phase noise is -120dBc (1GHz 20kHz offset) with regulated maximum output to +20dBm ...
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Microchip aims to help developers use its PolarFire FPGAs for creating overlay-based neural network applications for edge use, without learning an FPGA tool flow, with a product called VectorBlox Accelerator software development kit (SDK). “FPGAs are ideal for edge AI applications, such as inferencing in power-constrained compute environments, because they can perform more Gop/s with greater ...
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Leman Micro Devices’s e-Checkup and V-Sensor for integration into smartphones, mobile devices and wearables can measure five vital signs – blood pressure, respiration rate, non-contact body temperature, blood oxygen level (SpO2) and pulse rate – all with medical accuracy, within seconds. With no need for any other external devices, e-Checkup is a game-changer in personal ...
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We are surrounded by IoT solutions, from phones to smart meters to smart vehicles that are connected to the internet and constantly share data, writes Zoltan Varnai of Nokia. But while today’s cellular IoT devices are primarily connected via 3G and LTE networks, the development of 5G will broaden the realm of possibilities when it comes ...
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C&K is aiming at vehicle interiors with a tactile switch optimised for low sound, long travel and positive-but-soft tactile feedback, according to the company. Called the TLS (tact low sound) series, they have J-leads to reduce pcb footprint – which is ~8 x 8mm and 4mm tall. “The IP54 sealed switch offers protection against dust, ...
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TSMC has stopped taking new chip orders from Huawei following the US ban on the sale of chips that have been made using US technology, reports the Nikkei, TSMC responded to the report saying it was based on ‘market rumours’ but it did not deny them. Washington had banned anyone selling chips to Huawei which ...
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On-chip monitoring is not only revolutionising chip design but influencing end product design. From simply reporting on the functioning of a die, on-chip monitoring has moved to dynamically adjusting a chip’s settings, to reporting how customers use the chip and even to influencing how end products are built. This is why Moortec expects to treble ...
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Dialog has come up with a Wireless Ranging (WiRa) SDK that adds distance measurement capabilities to its DA1469x family of BLE SoCs. The need for more accurate and reliable distance measurement and tracing technology has become even more critical in the wake of COVID-19. With businesses across the globe planning a controlled reopening of their ...
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Huawei’s flagship phone, the 5G-capable Mate 30, contains only 1% by value of US-sourced components, according to p Tokyo tear-down specialist Fomalhaut Techno Solutions. China-sourced parts now form 42% of the total value of components. US-made parts now represent only 1% of the total components value in a Mate 30.
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NXP has added to its KW3x family of microcontrollers (MCUs). KW39/38/37 MCUs incorporate Bluetooth 5.0 long-range capabilities and expanded Bluetooth advertising channels. Compatibility with hardware, software and tools usedwith the previous generation of devices -, KW34/35/36 – is maintained. The connectivity MCUs allow Bluetooth LE devices to communicate at distances of more than a mile ...
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Intelsat files voluntary Chapter 11 petitions in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. It continues its day-to-day operations.
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China’s state-controlled newspaper Global Times has responded with a diatribe to the US move to block chip sales to Huawei. It threatens ‘including certain US companies into its list of “unreliable entities,” imposing restrictions on or investigating US companies such as Qualcomm, Cisco and Apple, and suspending purchases of Boeing aircraft.’ ‘The radical approach of ...
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The US Department of Commerce has ruled that companies must get a licence to sell to Huawei any ICs which “are the direct product of certain US software and technology.” This would include any IC designed by US EDA or fabbed on US-made manufacturing equipment. Huawei has continued to use US EDA to design circuits ...
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TSMC is to build a $12 billion 5nm 20k wpm fab in Arizona. The US government has been pressuring the company to build a fab in the USA after worries about US reliance on Asian fabs for advanced chips. “This project is of critical, strategic importance to a vibrant and competitive U.S. semiconductor ecosystem that ...
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France struck another blow at the US tech companies yesterday when the French parliament passed a law saying that social media companies must take down some objectionable content within 24 hoist of it being flagged up and, in certain cases, within an hour. The content that must be removed within 24 hours includes comments based ...
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CHIPS Alliance has announced enhancements to the RISC-V SweRV Core EH2 and SweRV Core EL2, developed for the open-source community by Western Digital. Since the introduction of the cores earlier this year, the CHIPS Alliance has worked with its community to exhaustedly validate the cores through a transparent and rigorous process, as well as incorporate ...
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We caught up (remotely) with Chris Elliott one of the founders of Leman Micro Devices (LMD), who discusses the company’s timely ambition to bring medical measurements into the consumer space. “We want to get accurate medical vitals signs measured by every mobile device,” he tells us. Why? Because signs such as blood-pressure and temperature levels ...
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Today SK Telecom presents the Galaxy A Quantum, the world’s first 5G smartphone equipped with a quantum random number generator (QRNG) in cooperation with Samsung Electronics and ID Quantique. The company will open pre-order for the Galaxy A Quantum from May 15 to 21, 2020 and officially launch the device on May 22, 2020 in ...
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HUBER+SUHNER claims to have the world’s first cooled charging cable system that allows continuous charging at 500 Amperes even in high-temperature environments. The HPC500 cable and connecter adds to builds on the the HPC400 family and field experience in cooled cable solutions for EV charging stations. Several improvements and new features make the system ready ...
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State of the art AC motor control applies power switch transistor arrays, steered by a microcontroller for all dynamic parameters.
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Applied Materials had Q2 revenue up 12% y-o-y at $3.96 billion with a gross margin of 44.2% and operating income of $932 million. “As we navigate the challenges created by COVID-19, we have rallied the company around safety, productivity and keeping our customers and the industry moving forward,” says CEO Gary Dickerson, “while the situation ...
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A compact infrared LED from Osram, called Oslon Piccolo, enables gesture control in car interiors Gesture recognition delivers new ways of interacting with displays. For example, when navigating to a destination, the vehicle displays a map with the corresponding route. At the edges of the image, different menu items for operating the display are shown ...
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Cartesiam has optimised its NanoEdge artificial intelligence software for ST’s Arm-based STM32 microcontroller development boards. NanoEdge AI Studio is designed for companies that do not have expert resources in machine learning, according to Cartesiam. “Among many improvements, it also brings live data logging in NanoEdge AI Studio directly through the STM32 serial-USB port and an enhanced ...
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Bridgelux has developed a metric for comparing light sources to natural light: average spectral difference (ASD). “With the growing market interest in human-centric lighting, the question of ‘naturalness’ of light source spectra is becoming a frequently asked question,” according to the company. “Standard lighting quality metrics such as CRI and TM- 30 do not fully address ...
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Aspinity, the Pittsburgh analogue machine learning IC specialist, is joining up with Infineon to bring together Aspinity’s Reconfigurable Analogue Modular Processing (RAMP) technology with Infineon’s XENSIVTM sensor family. Aspinity’s RAMP chip is an analogue machine learning chip that can analyse raw, unstructured analogue sensor data to determine which data are important at the start of ...
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Osram is aiming at automotive interiors with a pair of infra-red leds called Oslon Piccolo – intended to sense occupier hand gestures to allow touch-free control of in-car displays. “Automotive interior design is currently undergoing a fundamental change,” according to the company. “Displays are getting larger, the number of manual controls is decreasing and customisable ...
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Sony is about to launch intelligent vision sensors – image sensors equipped with AI processing. Including AI processing on the image sensor enables high-speed edge AI processing and extraction of only the necessary data, which, when using cloud services, reduces data transmission latency, minimizes any privacy concerns, and reduces power consumption and communication costs. AI-enhanced ...
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Toshiba has launched two driver chips for high-side power rail mosfets. Aimed at automotive applications, they are AEC-Q100 qualified and have robustness-increasing features not normally seen in high-side switches. “TPD7106F and TPD7107F have functions that support the high reliability required by automotive ECUs,” according to the company. “These include a self-protection function and various built-in diagnostic ...
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element14 has launched the “Fighting Germs” Project14 design challenge. “Everyone has the opportunity to do their part to help slow the spread of this disease, and that is especially true of our amazing community of engineers, makers and hobbyists,” says element14’s Dianne Kibbey, “our members came to us just as the lock-downs started and asked ...
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Toshiba has launched two new gate driver switch intelligent power devices (IPDs). Fully AEC-Q100 compliant, the TPD7106F and TPD7107F can be used to control the conduction and shut-off of currents being supplied to automotive electronic control units (ECUs), including junction boxes and body control modules. They are also suited to use in power distribution modules ...
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Imec spin-off Lopos and Ghent University have developed the Lopos SafeDistance wearable that supports companies in remaining active or safely restarting in-person activities during the COVID-19 pandemic. The wearable warns employees through an audible or haptic alarm, when they are violating the social distancing guidelines while approaching each other. The solution guarantees absolute privacy of ...
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Shipments of fingerprint-on-display (FoD) sensors grew 674% last year as FoDs replace silicon-based capacitive chips in smartphones, reports Omdia. A total of 228.3 million FoD sensors were shipped in 2019, compared to 29.5 million in 2018, said Omdia. FoD shipments are expected to top 400 million units this year. Besides Apple, most smartphone brands have ...
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The issue of space debris is one of ever-increasing importance, highlights the ESA.
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