Leti and Intel to combine on chiplet packaging

Leti today announced a new collaboration with Intel on advanced 3D and packaging technologies for processors to advance chip design. The research will focus on assembly of smaller chiplets, optimizing interconnection technologies between the different elements of microprocessors, and on new bonding and stacking technologies for 3D ICs, especially for HPC applications.  In 2019, Intel ...

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Want a Risc-V PC? Try this development board

SiFive has created a PC-style motherboard as part of a platform for native Risc-V code development that “enables developers to create the Risc-V-based software they need for Risc-V platforms”, it said. “From real-time operating systems to custom Linux distributions, and the compilers, libraries, and applications that go with product design. Called ‘HiFive Unmatched’, at its ...

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UK made: PXI test module simulates current loop sensors

Essex-based Pickering Interfaces has announced a PXI-based module that simulates current loop based sensors in industrial control applications – a PXIe version is also available. Called ’41-765 Analog output/current loop simulator’, it is intended to tests transceivers using 4-20mA current loops. In addition, is also simulates other interfaces including 0-24mA, +/-24mA, 0-5V, +/-5V, and +/-12mV. A channel ...

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Stronger haptic feedback for unambiguous automotive control

Alps Alpine has revealed more about its high-power haptic vibrator, following Dialog Semi’s announcment of the driver chip inside it yesterday. Haptic Reactor Heavy Type is intended for touch feedback, primarily in automotive applications. “There is currently growing demand for vibrational feedback, which allows more intuitive control and does not require any shift of gaze,” according ...

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Untether AI rethinks Von Neumann architecture for AI inference accelerator cards

AI chip provider, Untether AI, has based its tsunAImi accelerator cards on its runAI200 chips, which, the company claims, are the first at-memory computation engines. They offer up to 8TOPS/W efficiency to deliver more than twice the computation rates of any other PCIe card, says the company. Instead of a conventional Von Neumann architecture which ...

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Kioxia to start building Fab 7 In the Spring

Kioxia is to start buildIng a new fab, Fab 7, at its Yokkaichi site in Spring 2021. Fab7 will be built on the north side of Yokkaichi Plant, where land development is underway. Construction will be divided into two phases, with the first phase of construction scheduled to be completed by the Spring of 2022. ...

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Floadia raises $11.5m Series C

Floadia, the Tokyo-based Renesas spin-out specialising in embedded non-volatile memory IP, has raised $11.5 million in a Series C financing round. Floadia will use the money to  expand its existing embedded memory business and develop a new semiconductor memory technology that can make a breakthrough in AI edge computing with ultra-low power consumption. Teijin took ...

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Electronica goes virtual

Electronica will take place digitally for the first time from November 9 to 12, 2020. In addition to the exhibitors’ digital presentations, there will be a four-day online forum program. On November 11 and 12, the Cyber Security Forum will demonstrate practical examples of security in the digital world from the automotive, embedded, medical and ...

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Leti to build entangled photon comms system

 CEA-Leti today announced plans to build a quantum-photonics system for hack-proof communications. Quantum technology is expected to provide unconditionally safe data encryption required by the finance, health care, energy, telecommunications, defense and other essential industries and sectors.  Funded by the R&D network Carnot, the project will build on CEA-Leti’s silicon-photonics platform complemented with new quantum ...

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Infineon launches Raspberry Pi-based design kit for secure smart home devices

Infineon has come up with  a kit to help the design and evaluation of secure smart home devices based on an OPTIGAP Trust M security solution for Raspberry Pi. Using this kit, device manufacturers can experience the strong security of Infineon’s security hardware in combination with the new Connected Home over IP standards that are ...

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Machine learning finds heart faults

Russian and US scientists have used machine learning to find ‘atrial fibrillation (AF) drivers’ – small patches of faulty heart muscle that can cause cardiac arrhythmia. The team tested their approach on 11 donated human hearts and located AF drivers with an accuracy of up to 81%. Multi-electrode mapping (MEM) is a technique that can ...

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Farnell signs Industrial Shields

Farnell has signed a franchise agreement with Industrial Shields, the. manufacturer of industrial automation devices (PLCs and Panel PCs) based on open source hardware from Raspberry Pi and Arduino. The use of open source hardware provides many benefits to design engineers, including the opportunity to bring industrial products to market at a lower cost and ...

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Booming Q3 for Samsung

Samsung Electronics had record Q3 sales of  $59 billion – up 8% y-o-y – for a profit of $8.3 billion – up 49% y-o-y. Phone sales were up 50% delivering a $4 billion profit  and semiconductor sales were up 82% delivering a $4.8 billion profit. Operating profit was up  59% to $11 billion. Samsung warned ...

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Marvell to buy Inphi

Marvell is  buying Inphi for around $10 billion, reports Dow Jones.  Marvell will pay 60% of the price in stock. The deal could be announced today. Inphi is expected to see revenue growth of around 90% this year. The deal will make 2020 a record for M&A with Nvidia-Arm at $40 billion, AMD-Xilinx at $35 ...

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Sundance launches RISC-V module for embedded system development

Sundance, the embedded module specislist, has launched PolarBerry, a production and deployment-ready SoM with a hardened 64 bit, multicore real-time, Linux-capable RISC-V MPU subsystem to deliver an unparalleled combination of defence-grade security, low power consumption and thermal efficiency for embedded systems development. With Microchip‘s PolarFire SoC field programmable gate array (FPGA) at its heart, providing a ...

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Rambus IPsec reduces 5G load on CPU

Rambus has brought out its IPsec Packet Engine with integrated DPDK and companion key negotiation toolkit capable of securing 5G network traffic at data rates from 1 to 10 Gbps. A complete IPsec product, the packet engine can be easily integrated into SoCs for a broad range of 5G devices from base stations and cloud, to ...

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US FCC clears sale of OneWeb to UK government and Bharti

The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has completed the formalities for the sale of OneWeb to the UK government and Bharti Global. A public notice officially approves the sale of the London-based satellite operator, clearing the way for it to leave its Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings. The document confirms the two main parties will hold ...

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Surrey Uni unveils MMT

 The University of Surrey has unveiled a device with unique functionality that could signal a new design philosophy for electronics, including next-generation wearables and eco-disposable sensors. The device, called the Multimodal Transistor (MMT), has immunity to parasitic effects that reduce a transistor’s capacity to produce uniform, repeatable signals. These have hindered traditional “floating gate” designs ever ...

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Si Labs expands IoT wireless module portfolio

Silicon Labs has added to its portfolio  of pre-certified wireless modules specifically designed to address IoT applications. The portfolio consists of the only modules in the industry with full stack support for multiprotocol solutions to enable commercial and consumer IoT applications, with flexible package options and highly integrated device security. Silicon Labs’ modules are available ...

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ST sets up lab-in-a-fab for piezo MEMS

STMicroelectronics is setting up a 200mm piezoelectric MEMS research facility inside its existing semiconductor fab in Singapore, in conjunction with the Singapore research institute A*STAR’s IME and Japanese manufacturing-tool vendor ULVAC. The three companies have a history of working together. “This collaboration will accelerate the adoption of piezo MEMS actuators in new fields of application ...

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Dialog gets auto qual for haptics driver

Dialog has received automotive qualification for its DA7280 high-definition haptics driver. As a result,  Alps Alpine has chosen the DA7280 to be used in conjunction with the Alps Alpine Heavy, the latest in the company’s family of HAPTIC Reactor linear resonant actuators (LRAs), to fuel intuitive interactive experiences in automotive applications. Dialog claims that the ...

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Silicon MEMS resonators

SiTime continues to siliconise the $7.7 billion timing market with ApexMEMS resonators. The devices represent SiTime’s third-generation of all-silicon MEMS technology and operate at popular MHz frequencies. ApexMEMS resonators are suited for high volume, space-constrained Mobile and IoT applications such as Bluetooth modules, hearables, high-speed connectivity interfaces, asset-tracking, and microcontrollers. “With our recent Cascade  family of MEMS ...

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Wrist-wearable ref design measures blood oxygen, ECG, heart rate, temperature and activity

Maxim is measuring blood oxygen, ECG, heart rate, body temperature and activity data in its third generation of wearable health monitor reference design, this time entirely wrist-worn. Called Health Sensor Platform 3.0 (aka MAXREFDES104#), it comes in a ready-to-wear wrist form with algorithms to provide heart rate, heart-rate variability (HRV), respiration rate (RR), SpO2 , ...

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Global O-RAN plugfest

Viavi Solutions today announced the company successfully participated in a global O-RAN plugfest hosted by several Tier-1 communications service providers (CSPs) and the O-RAN ALLIANCE. The plugfest involved a series of on-site demonstrations in multiple countries, conducted in September and October 2020. VIAVI provided industry-leading 4G and 5G test and validation platforms to support the ...

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LoRaWAN TS1-1.0.4 Link Layer (L2) spec published

The LoRa Alliance has published the LoRaWAN TS1-1.0.4 Link Layer (L2) Specification. Thisc latest definition of the LoRaWAN standard includes all required implementation elements to facilitate LoRaWAN deployments globally. According to industry research firm IoT Analytics, LoRaWAN is the most adopted LPWAN technology to date, representing more than one third of all deployments globally. This market ...

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How to half the size of electrolytics in universal ac-dc PSUs

In a nice example of lateral thinking, Power Integrations has found a way to halve the space needed for electrolytic reservoir capacitors in universal mains ac-dc PSUs up to 65W. It relies on automatically switching a low-voltage capacitor in parallel with a high voltage capacitor, springing from the observation that, for the same amount of ...

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Tech giants to defend section 230

Later today, the CEOs of Google, Facebook and Google will defend their immunity from legal liability for what their sites publish.   The trio are up before the US Senate Commerce Committee. Section 230 of the US Communications Decency Act states: “No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the ...

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DRAM ASP to fall for the rest of the year

DRAM price erosion is expected till the end of 2020, reports IC Insights. The price jump that typically coincides with the introduction of new smartphone models in 3Q and 4Q is not expected due to disrupted buying patterns and cautious discretionary spending. IC Insights’ October Update to The McClean Report showed that the ASP of ...

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Europe is moving towards the Moon

Nasa and the European Space Agency (ESA) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to take Europe to the Moon. ESA Director General Jan Wörner and Nasa Administrator Jim Bridenstine have officially declared the European Space Agency’s involvement with Nasa’s Artemis programme, albeit remotely due to Covid-19 restrictions. It will include building the next-generation International Space ...

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SSD module shipments grew 60% in 2019

Kingston, ADATA and Tigo took the top three slots in the 2019 rankings of SSD module makers, says TrendForce. The total worldwide shipments of branded SSDs bound for the channel (retail) market in 2019 reached 131 million units, showing an increase of almost 60% from 2018, according to TrendForce’s latest investigations. This result also indicated ...

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Melexis launches a better motorcycle fuel pump controller

Melexis, the Belgian fabless auto IC specialist, has  introduced the most powerful and cost-efficient version of its market-leading motorcycle fuel pump controller, helping manufacturers comply with tightening environmental regulation, including the BS-6 emission standards in India. The MLX80302 is a three-phase BLDC motor controller IC with a peak driving capability of 2.6 A. It is ...

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ST claims first 64-zone ToF sensor

ST has extended its portfolio of FlightSense Time-of-Flight (ToF) sensors with what it claims to be the world’s first 64-zone device that breaks a scene into separate areas to help an imaging system build the most detailed spatial understanding of a scene. The device comprises a 940nm Vertical Cavity Surface Emission Laser (VCSEL) light source, a ...

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AMD-Xilinx takeover confirmed

Today, AMD and Xilinx  announced they have entered into a definitive agreement for AMD to acquire Xilinx in an all-stock transaction valued at $35 billion. The combination will offer a portfolio of  processor technologies, combining CPUs, GPUs, FPGAs, Adaptive SoCs and software expertise to enable computing platforms for cloud, edge and end devices. The combined ...

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Xilinx adds hardened IP to increase RFSoC performance for 5G

Xilinx has announced an enhanced Zynq RFSoC architecture to meet the requirements of a second wave of 5G. The ZynqRFSoC DFE integrates hardened digital front end application-specific blocks for 5G NR performance. It will operate up to 7.125GHz and is futureproofed for 3GPP and O-RAN radio architectures, says Gilles Garcia, director of Wired Communication, at ...

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Maxim majors on industrial automation with new parts and designs

Maxim has announced a suite of integrated circuits and reference designs for industrial automation using IO-Link communications. IO-Link is a short-range (<20m) point-to-point industrial bus developed to connect sensors and actuators to a local hub, from which the data is transferred to a remote PLC (programmable logic controller) via Ethernet or other long-range field bus. ...

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Toshiba CMOS op-amp draws only 0.27μA

Toshiba has released an micro-power CMOS operational amplifier, drawing a maximum of 600nA and typically 270nA (1.5V supply, -40 to 105°C). Called TC75S102F, it will run from supplies between 1.5V and 5.5V and is rail-to-rail on both input and output. Unusually for an op-amp, no input excursion outside the rails is allowed at all. “Operational amplifiers have ...

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Renesas launches online marketplace

Today, Renesas launches its online Market Place, which offers a one-stop source of solutions that help accelerate technical innovation for the future mobility market. Developers can download various solutions designed for Renesas’ R-Car automotive system-on-chips (SoCs) directly from the Market Place. Developers can also use the Market Place as a portal to obtain reference evaluation ...

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Farnell signs MegiQ

Farnell has added RF and microwave development tools from MegiQ to its test and measurement portfolio. Farnell offers the full MegiQ range of Vector Network Analysers and Antenna Measurement Systems used by designers to develop, test and verify wireless communication equipment and IoT devices. MegiQ products are affordable to to IoT start-ups and universities looking ...

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Tek’s isolated scope probes get smaller and better

Tektronix has announced a second-generation of IsoVu isolated oscilloscope probes, claiming smaller size, easier use and enhanced electrical performance. Isolated probes are for probing power systems when high common-mode voltages and un-grounded systems make life difficult for differential probes. “Engineers working with wide-bandgap technologies such as SiC and GaN face difficult challenges to accurately measure and ...

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Cincon half brick DC-DC converters have wide input range for rail and industry

Specialist distributor, Relec Electronics, has added the CHB150W12 and CHB200W12, wide input DC-DC modules. The CHB150W12 (150W) and CHB200W12 (200W) half brick DC-DC converters have an ultra-wide, 12:1 universal input range of 14-160Vdc. They are rugged, making them practical for use in railway applications, distributed power architectures, telecommunications, battery operated equipment and industrial applications. Both ...

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China phone production down but computers up

Chinese production of mobile phones from will suffer a double-digit decline this year, says the National Bureau of Statistics of China. In 1Q 2020, China mobile phone production declined 50% from 4Q 2019 and dropped 33% from a year earlier. Many factories were temporarily closed. Production has since recovered with 2Q 2020 units up 36% ...

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RISC-V Conference Programme

The RISC-V International Association has announced the online program for the RISC-V Summit 2020 from Tuesday Dec. 8 to Thursday, Dec. 10, 2020. Register online here. The RISC-V Summit brings together innovators, academics and business leaders to discuss the latest developments in the RISC-V ecosystem and dive deeper into collaboration and commercialization opportunities. The virtual ...

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September SEMI billings up 40% y-o-y

SEMI billings of $2.75 billion in September 2020 were 3.6% up on August’s $2.65 billion, and up 40.3% on the September 2019 billings figure of $1.96 billion. “September billings of North America-based semiconductor equipment manufacturers mark another month of growth,” says SEMI CEO Ajit Manocha, “the semiconductor industry remains resilient despite challenges posed by the pandemic ...

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Arduino introduces Oplà IoT Kit for securing IoT projects

Arduino has announced the launch of its Oplà IoT Kit, described as an open programmable IoT platform. It aims to simplify the building of custom IoT devices, with support for cryptographic control over personal data. The entry-level kit comes with a set of eight self-assemble projects, showing how to easily turn everyday devices into ‘smart ...

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ST and Sanken collaborate on IPMs

ST and Sanken Electric are collaborating on intelligent power modules (IPM) in high-voltage, high-power equipment designs. The two companies are developing and will jointly market 650V/50A and 1200V/10A industrial modules, which simplify design challenges and shrink the bill of materials for HVAC systems, industrial servo drives, industrial washing machines, and general-purpose inverters over 3 kW. ...

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Evonexus and GloFo to promote connectivity startups

EvoNexus, a non-profit technology incubator, has engaged with Globalfoundries to accelerate the growth of semiconductor startups developing products in wireless and the IoT. As an innovator in SOI-based technology, GLoFo delivers ICs suitable for  IoT and wireless connectivity. This will help EvoNexus’ partners  to develop products and will cut their time to market. “5G, IoT, ...

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Novel OLED structure could lead to 10,000 ppi displays for VR and AR

It is possible to double the efficiency of colour OLED displays based on white-emitting material, and achieve 10,000 pixel-per-inch density, by replacing the rear reflector with a meta-material, according to Stanford University researchers. Generally there are two types of colour OLED display: displays with side-by-side patterns of red, green and blue emissive materials, and those ...

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SpaceX completes 100th successful flight of Falcon rocket

It’s a ton up for Elon Musk’s SpaceX company as it completes the 100th successful flight of a Falcon rocket. This is since Falcon 1 first flew to orbit in 2008. On Saturday October 24, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket launched another 60 Starlink satellites to orbit to complete the milestone. The location was Space Launch ...

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Lower parasitic loss in 200mm RF GaN-on-Si epi wafer

IGaN of Singapore is claiming lower losses from its 200mm RF GaN-on-silicon epi wafers. “Despite the great promise showcased by GaN-on-Si RF electronics, there remain few issues to be resolved,” according to company technologist Dr Karthikeyan S. “One such issue is the presence of parasitic channel formed at III-nitride/silicon interface, which leads to parasitic loss, ...

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Imec developing 15 minute Covid test

Imec has started developing a SARS-CoV-2 test. Unlike current approaches (using blood, saliva, or a nasopharyngeal swab), the new test will identify SARS-CoV-2 virus particles in a person’s exhaled breath. The solution promises the accurate identification of a contagious case in less than five minutes. This will make for faster, easier, more comfortable, and larger- ...

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6.5V bare die SiC MOSFETs available

GeneSiC Semiconductor of Dulles Virginia, has announced  6.5kV SiC MOSFETs for medium-voltage power conversion applications such as traction, pulsed power and smart grid infrastructure. 6.5kV SiC MOSFET bare chips available now are designated  G2R300MT65-CAL and G2R325MS65-CAL. Full SiC modules using the technology are soon to be released. Applications are expected to include traction, pulsed power, ...

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‘Create your own EMC trouble-shooting kit’

Saelig has introduced a  180-page book “Create Your Own EMC Troubleshooting Kit: Essential Tools for EMC Troubleshooting” by Ken Wyatt. This first volume in his EMC Troubleshooting Series covers the benefits of creating a personal EMC troubleshooting kit and also defines which products to include. Individual chapters name suitable Spectrum Analyzers, Near Field Probes, Current Probes, ...

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Yamaichi in mass production of VW Quadlock interface

Yamaichi has further developed and optimised the Volkswagen standard interface. Mass production has already started. In general, junction boxes, which are used in automotive infotainment systems for the internal wiring and control of loudspeakers, are a common interface. Yamaichi has further developed and improved this I/O connector, which is based on a Volkswagen standard interface (Quadlock) The ...

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Wearables: A boost for flexible solar cells

Luminescent solar concentrators are sheets that collect light at various wavelengths and re-emit it at a wavelength better matched to a solar cell. They can be created in various geometries – for example a flat sheet can be arranged to collect light over its large surface, and then re-emit it from one edge to a ...

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Embedded Workbench adds support for position-independent RH850 code for automotive

IAR Systems Embedded Workbench C/C++ compile and debug toolchain can now generate position-independent code and position-independent data for Renesas’ RH850 automotive MCUs. “The added functionality is useful in systems where applications are loaded dynamically,” according to IAR. “When using position-independent code and read-only data [ROPI], the compiler will generate code that uses PC-relative references for ...

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element14/Vishay buck regulator webinar

element14 and Simon Foley of Vishay will hold a webinar entitled “5 Things to Know About Buck Regulators” on 4 November, 2020 12pm BST. Automation is driving the world into a completely new era of communication. As a result, the power ecosystem is now fundamentally being transformed into a workhorse, to deliver essential energy to those critical IT infrastructures. Vishay ICs, provide ...

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NEC and ADI collaborate on 5G Massive MIMO RAN

NEC and ADI have teamed up to design a 5G Network Massive MIMO Antenna Radio Unit for Rakuten Mobile. The radio unit adopts ADI’s wideband RF transceiver to achieve Massive MIMO and possesses a 5G open vRAN interface corresponding to Rakuten Mobile’s virtualized cloud-native mobile network. It uses 3.7GHz frequency Massive MIMO and digital beamforming technology. ...

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Lockheed Martin gets approval for Shetland Space Centre plans

The UK government has approved plans for Lockheed Martin to transfer its small satellite launch operations to Shetland Space Centre. It hopes this will lead to the creation of “hundreds of space jobs” in Scotland. The UK Space Agency (UKSA) believes the company’s plans to move its UK Pathfinder Launch to the Shetland site, at ...

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SiPearl joins CXL Consortium

SiPearl, which is designing the microprocessor for the European exascale supercomputer, has joined the CXL Consortium, whose founding members are Alibaba, Cisco, Dell EMC, Facebook, Google, HPE, Huawei, Intel and Microsoft. Together, they are developing the technical specifications for the CXL technology, which will be the future open high-performance protocol for interconnecting microprocessors, their devices ...

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TMR-based sensors from Crocus

Murata is now including in its portfolio advanced 1D linear and 2D angular sensor devices from Crocus Technology based on tunnel magnetic resistance (TMR) technology. With two different temperature and packaging options, the sensor devices offer elevated levels of operational stability over a broad temperature range from -40°C to +85°C, or from 40°C to +125°C ...

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Mid-travel tact switch with soft sound

Following on from an ultra-quiet 8mm tact switch in May, C&K has launched a ‘soft sound’ 12mm mid-travel tact switch, also aimed at automotive use. Called the SFS 12 Series, they are designed to have a positive haptic feeling and last for at least 300,000 cycles (1million cycles disconnected). There is a choice of actuation force: ...

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Mid-travel tact switch with soft sound

Following on from an ultra-quiet 8mm tact switch in May, C&K has launched a ‘soft sound’ 12mm mid-travel tact switch, also aimed at automotive use. Called the SFS 12 Series, they are designed to have a positive haptic feeling and last for at least 300,000 cycles (1million cycles disconnected). There is a choice of actuation force: ...

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Cambridge spin-out offers ‘smallest’ flow sensor

University of Cambridge spin-out Flusso has launched what it claims to be “the world’s smallest flow sensor” – with a 3.5 x 3.5mm footprint. Called FLS110, it is a CMOS device designed for gas flow measurements, with gas entering and leaving through two  tubular stubs. Flow range is up to 200cm3/min directly through the sensor, ...

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Hermetic wet tantalum capacitors reach 58,000µF for mil/aero

Vishay has extended its EP1 range of wet-tantalum capacitor, supplying the industry’s highest capacitance per voltage-rating for this device type, according to New Yorker Electronics, which is stocking them. “Vishay developed this upgraded capacitor to meet the needs of military and avionics applications with new ratings in the B and C case codes.” The parts ...

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Mentor and Arm hook up to streamline verification

Mentor and Arm have hooked up to help IC designers optimize and streamline the functional verification of their Arm-based designs. With this collaboration, the Arm Design Reviews program now offers the expertise of Mentor’s top functional verification engineers to help customers optimize their Arm-basedSystem-on-Chip (SoC) designs. Arm’s new RTL Verification Design Review service, in collaboration with ...

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Renesas and Sequans partner on IoT modules

Renesas and Sequans will partner to develop IoT modules based on Sequans’ Monarch LTE-M/NB-IoT platform. The modules are designed to provide IoT companies with an integrated microcontroller (MCU) plus connectivity platform that streamlines and simplifies IoT system design for many applications, including smart city, smart home, and industrial IoT. The collaboration between the two companies ...

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ST closes in on $10bn

ST has reported  Q3 net revenues of $2.67 billion with gross margin of 36%, an operating margin of 12.3% for a net profit of  $242 million and a gross profit of $959 million. YTD net revenues are $6.98 billion with a gross margin 36.3%, an operating margin of 9.5% and net income of $525 million. ...

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China to monitor IC investment more carefully

Resources have been wasted as companies “with insufficient knowledge of integrated circuit development have blindly entered into projects”, said Meng Wei (pictured) of  China’s National Development and Reform Commission, yesterday. “The risks of low-level construction have appeared repeatedly, and there has even been stalled construction of individual projects and vacant factories, resulting in a waste ...

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Microsoft Azure Space uses SpaceX to take on Amazon

Microsoft is extending its Azure cloud computing service, with Azure Space addressing the growing commercial opportunities around space connectivity. Back in July we reported that Amazon Web services were aiming for space business. It announced the introduction of a new business segment dedicated to the aerospace and satellite industry, and it will be this that Microsoft ...

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Europe’s ‘pre-exascale’ supercomputer

AMD and HPE have said that EPYC CPUs and AMD Instinct GPUs will power a “pre-exascale” supercomputer built under the European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) initiative. Delivering up to 550 petaFLOPs, the machine will help researchers across Europe advance R&D.  The supercomputer  – one of the world’s fastest  – will be located at ...

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Application Specific FETs

Nexperia has defined a new MOSFET product group – Application Specific FETs (ASFETs) – which feature MOSFETs with optimized parameters for specific applications. By focusing on individual applications, significant improvements can be offered. Nexperia is offering ASFET families for battery isolation, motor control, hot-swap and Power over Ethernet (PoE) applications. Defining the improvements that these ...

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Si Labs and Teledyne hook up on hi-rel gate drivers

Silicon Labs has announced a  HiRel isolation partnership with Teledyne e2v HiRel. Under the agreement, Teledyne will offer a new specialized line of high-reliability products based on Silicon Labs’ isolated gate driver technology optimized for space, aerospace, military and oil and gas markets. Teledyne e2v HiRel will market custom high-reliability solutions based on the Silicon ...

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Slim connectors

Cliff Electronics has introduced its SLIMS FeedThrough Connector range which offers a more compact alternative to their 26mm wide XLR form factor product range. SLIMS connectors are just 19mm wide allowing up to 20 to be mounted in a 1U, 19” rack panel, rather than just 16 of the existing XLR design with cut out ...

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UK 20 drone swarm collaborates beyond-line-of-sight

Bedfordshire autonomy company Blue Bear Systems Research has demonstrated a 20 drone swarm collaborating out of sight. The heterogenous swarm consisted of five different types and sizes of fixed wing drones carrying six different types of payload from five different companies. Linking them together was Blue Bear’s technology. Payloads and payload support came from Plextek DTS, ...

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UK made: test jigs for low-volume manufacture

Nottingham-based Ignys is aiming at low volume manufacturing with a fixture concept for populated PCB testing, programming, set-up or calibration. “For high volume products, there are conventional ways of arranging tests but these are often too expensive and too slow for the start-up community or low volume manufacturers to benefit from,” according to the company. ...

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EMI receiver spans 9kHz to 3GHz

PMM has introduced a CISPR 16-1-1 compliant EMI receiver for conducted or radiated emission test measurements from 9kHz to 3GHz. “Its use of gapless FFT technology allows rapid troubleshooting since a fully compliant scan can take as little as two seconds in frequency band B [250 – 500MHz] and only one minute in bands C and ...

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80V DC/DC controllers support data centre servers, 48V telecom and rugged industrial equipment

Renesas has announced a pair of 80V DC/DC controllers that support the extra voltage margin needed for data center servers, 48V telecom and rugged industrial equipment. The ISL81801 buck-boost controller acts like a “UPS on a chip” by enabling bidirectional current flow (forward or reverse) using constant-voltage and constant-current regulation. This allows a battery or ...

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Nokia adds Telia to 5G customer base

Nokia has been selected by Telia Company as the exclusive provider of 5G RAN in Finland adding to its 5G standalone (SA) core customer base in Denmark, Estonia, Lithuania, Norway and Sweden in the Nordic and Baltic regions. The Telia deal in a five-year contractthat includes the modernization of legacy networks and will cover 7,500 ...

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Cree selling LED business to focus on SiC and GaN devices and materials

Cree has agreed to sell its LED business (‘Cree LED’) to memory maker Smart Global Holdings. “We are pleased to announce the sale of our LED products business to Smart, which represents another milestone in our journey to create a pure-play global semiconductor powerhouse,” said Cree CEO Gregg Lowe. “This transaction positions us with a ...

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Qualcomm producing 5G telecoms infrastructure

Qualcomm is to make modules for 5G telecoms infrastructure ranging from macro base stations with massive MIMO to micro base stations with compact designs, to accelerate the cellular ecosystem transition toward virtualized and interoperable radio access networks (RAN).  Qualcomm is introducing three 5G RAN platform offerings: Qualcomm Radio Unit Platform, Qualcomm Distributed Unit Platform, and ...

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NXP expands UWB portfolio

In its efforts to promote UWB as the standard for fine-ranging and high-precision sensing, NXP, has expanded its UWB offering from mobile and automotive ICs, to chips to enable IoT use cases such as smart locks and real-time location system (RTLS) tags delivering “relative position”. The new UWB ICs are  dubbed Trimension SR040 and SR150. ...

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GaN Systems launches 650V, 60A transistors for automotive

GaN Systems has announced availability of the first product in a family of new 650V, 60A transistors for the automotive market. The GS-065-060-5-T-A is designed to meet automotive reliability standards including AEC-Q101 qualification and GaN Systems’ AutoQual+ testing and qualification. AutoQual+ is an enhanced AEC-Q test sequence based on the company’s collaboration with automotive partners ...

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NASA selects first “human-tended” suborbital research using Virgin Galactic

A planetary scientist has been chosen to be the first to conduct NASA-funded science experiments while flying aboard a Virgin Galactic commercial spacecraft. Dr Alan Stern – of the Texas-based Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) – is associate vice president of SwRI’s Space Science and Engineering Division. He will fly aboard the “SpaceShipTwo” (pictured) on a ...

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VW adopts NXP BMS

Volkswagen has adopted NXP’s battery management system (BMS) into its MEB (Modular Electric Propulsion) platform to help increase vehicle range, extend battery longevity, and enhance safety.  NXP’s BMS provides flexibility and scalability from an ID.3, a plug-in hybrid, or a luxury electric vehicle like the ID.4, Audi e-Tron or Porsche Taycan. It is battery-agnostic in ...

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Intel reported to be selling NAND business to Hynix

Intel is to sell its NAND business to Hynix for around $10 billion, reports theWall Street Journal. The 3D XPoint  product line – Intel’s phase change memory used in Optane SSDs – will not be included in the deal. Optane is a strategic component of Intel’s offering in the datacentre. The US SSD business is ...

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Enablers for LoRa Edge

Semtech has announced two enablers for its LoRa Edge platform: LoRa Basics Modem-E, a software modem leveraging the LoRaWAN protocol for the LoRa Edge platform that runs inside the LoRa Edge transceiver, and the LoRa Edge Tracker Reference Design, a device-to-Cloud commercial grade reference solution for asset tracking applications. LoRa Basics Modem-E, which forms part ...

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Dialog licenses CBRAM process to GloFo

Dialog has licensed  its Conductive Bridging RAM (CBRAM) technology to Globalfoundries. The resistive ram (ReRAM)-based technology was pioneered by Adesto Technologies which was acquired by Dialog  earlier this year. GloFo will first offer Dialog’s CBRAM as an embedded, NVM option on its 22FDX platform, with the plan to extend to other platforms. Dialog’s CBRAM technology ...

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Sequitur Labs supports Nvidia’s Jetson platform

Sequitur Labs has joined the NVIDIA Partner Network with support for the NVIDIA Jetson platform. The NVIDIA Jetson edge AI platform powers a range of industrial IoT applications that require various performance levels and prices – from AI-powered network video recorders (NVRs) to automated optical inspection (AOI) in high-precision manufacturing to autonomous mobile robots (AMRs). The ...

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Nexans secures FTTH street cabinets

Nexans has developed a way for telecom service providers to tackle the major headache of unauthorised access to their fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) street cabinets. Known as INFRABIRD, the intelligent keyless access and internet of things (IoT) supervision system can be deployed in just a few minutes to turn passive cabinets into smart, cloud-connected assets. The product ...

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Mouser signs Pervasive Displays

Pervasive Displays of Taipei has signed a distribution agreement with Mouser. The deal relates to a range of Pervasive Displays’ e-paper displays and the EXT 2 extension kit development board. The products will be available direct from stock or with short lead times. For those looking for a low-power display which is sunlight readable and ...

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80V gate drivers for 48V automotive motor drives

Allegro MicroSystems, has introduced a portfolio of 80V motor drivers for 48V automotive systems. AMT49100 / AMT49101 safety-enhanced three-phase gate drivers for electric power steering and other safety-critical systems AMT49502 safety half-bridge gate driver with actuators and solid-state relays A89503 safety half-bridge gate driver with independent high-side and low-side output loads for floating loads, such as ...

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riscvOVPsim gets Risc-V vector instructions

Imperas has extended its Risc-V reference model and simulator to cover forthcoming vector instructions and to support coverage-driven verification analysis. Called riscvOVPsim, the enhanced version including a vector test suite is freely available for commercial use from Open Virtual Platforms, and a base version is available free from GitHub. “The upcoming ratification of the Risc-V vector instruction ...

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Nokia to build a cellular network on the Moon

Nokia has revealed further details of being chosen by NASA last week as a partner involved in the Artemis operation, specifically to deploy a cellular network on the lunar surface. Nokia has proposed to deploy the first LTE/4G communications system in space, and on the lunar surface by “late 2022”. The idea is that it ...

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Harwin fires up 1,200 sq metre factory floor in Hampshire

Portsmouth-based Harwin has started manufacturing on its new 1,200m2 of factory floor, scaling-up production of its high-reliability connectors. The total investment in the facility is £3.8m, of which £1m is for equipment. “The additional factory space and equipment enables us to ramp up production to meet volume demands very quickly,” said Harwin operations director Paul ...

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Toshiba shipping 12000V SiC MOSFET

Today, Toshiba starts shipping a 1200V SiC MOSFET for high power industrial applications including 400V AC input AC-DC power supplies, Photovoltaic (PV) inverters and bi-directional DC-DC converters for uninterruptible power supplies (UPS). The new TW070J120B power MOSFET is based upon SiC, a new wide bandgap material that allows devices to deliver high voltage resistance, high-speed switching, and ...

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Farnell launches Raspberry Pi Compute Model 4

Today, Farnell launches the new Compute Module 4 (CM4) from Raspberry Pi. The CM4 brings the power of the Raspberry Pi 4 to the compute module family and is accompanied by two accessories, the Compute Module 4 I/O (CM4IO) Board and the Compute Module 4 Antenna Kit. CM4 is a faster and more powerful System ...

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Bug boost for UVC LED Market

Propelled by the coronavirus, the UVC LED market could reach $2.5 billion in 2025 with a 61% CAGR 2019-2025, says Yole Developpement. An overall shortage appeared across the entire UVC LED supply chain in 2020. The industry is now looking to increase manufacturing capacity very rapidly.  Key suppliers are LG Innotek and Seoul Viosys / ...

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Mathworks updates Simulink for prototyping and hardware-in-the-loop testing

MathWorks updates to  Simulink Real-Time enhance rapid control prototyping and hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) testing with Model-Based Design. In Release 2020b, Simulink Real-Time has been enabled with the QNX Neutrino RTOS, a multi-process 64-bit POSIX-compliant real-time operating system from BlackBerry. The QNX RTOS is widely used in life and safety-critical systems for vehicles, medical devices, industrial controls, ...

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riscvOVPsim reference model enhanced for vector instructions

Imperas’ riscvOVPsim RISC-V reference model and simulator has been updated and extended for RISC-V vector instructions and now supports coverage driven verification analysis. The base version of riscvOVPsim is available for free from a new GitHub site  (github.com/riscv-ovpsim), with an enhanced version including an extensive RISC-V vector test suite also freely availablewith an enhanced version ...

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Amphenol RF expands SMP series

Amphenol RF has expanded the SMP product series with enhanced performance connectors and the introduction of terminators. SMP connectors are suitable for telecommunications and military applications which require compact, board-to-board RF interconnect. These commercial products utilize the standard SMP interface and provide a high frequency solution that offers reliable performance up to 20 GHz. Higher ...

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Metal conductors sintered onto skin at room temperature

Metal conductors can be formed directly onto human skin, according to an international science team which found a way to sinter silver nano-particles into silver conductors at room temperature. The process was used to measure skin temperature and humidity, and to form electrodes for ECGs and conductors to LEDs for blood oxygen measurements (see photo). ...

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SIA and SRC publish $3.4bn plan for stimulating US semiconductor R&D

The SIA and the Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) have released a preview of their upcoming “Decadal Plan for Semiconductors,” a report outlining chip research and funding priorities over the next decade that will help strengthen U.S. semiconductor technology and spur growth in emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, quantum computing, advanced wireless communications.  The Decadal ...

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Synopsys launches on-chip analytics IP

Synopsys has introduced its Silicon Lifecycle Management (SLM) platform – a data-analytics-driven approach to optimizing SoCs from the design phase through to end-user deployment. The SLM platform, which is coupled with Synopsys’  Fusion Design Platform, will provide visibility into critical performance, reliability and security issues for the entirety of a chip’s lifespan. It will enable insights ...

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2020 wafer shipments to grow 2.4%

Wafer shipments will grow 2.4% y-o-y in 2020, with growth continuing in 2021 and shipments reaching a record high in 2022, says SEMI. “Silicon wafer shipments are recovering this year despite pressure from geopolitical tensions, the shifting global semiconductor supply chain and the COVID-19 pandemic,” said Clark Tseng, director of Industry Research and Statistics at SEMI. ...

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Nokia to use Qualcomm chipsets in small-cell deployments

Nokia will use Qualcomm chipsets for small cells in its indoor Smart Node 5G All-in-One base stations expected to be available in Q1 2021. This approach aims to enable 5G deployment at a significantly lower price point and smaller form factor, lowering the barriers to entry. The working relationship underscores Nokia’s commitment to selecting best-in-class partners ...

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GloFo leverages Adaptive Body Bias for IoT and wearables

GlobalFoundries is accelerating innovation in the IoT and wearables markets with the specialised Adaptive Body Bias (ABB) feature of its industry-leading 22FDX platform. The ABB feature affords designers significantly more precision when fine-tuning the transistor threshold voltage of a circuit, enabling them to more effectively optimize the performance, energy efficiency, area, and reliability of a ...

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Inclusiveness OBE calls women and girls to enter engineering

Engineer Dr Carol Marsh received an OBE in the Queen’s 2020 birthday honours for services to diversity and inclusion, and is using the platform to further encourage girls and women across the UK to consider engineering careers. “Engineering isn’t just a job, it is a vocation,” said Marsh. “When you’re an engineer, you’re thinking about ...

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ST buys SOMOS Semiconductor

ST has bought the assets of SOMOS Semiconductor of Marly-le-Roy (France) which specialises in silicon-based power amplifiers and in RF Front-End Modules (FEM) products. With this acquisition, ST reinforces its specialist staff, IP and roadmaps of Front-End Modules for the IoT and 5G markets. A first product – an NB-IoT / CAT-M1 module – is ...

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Yokogawa gets ISO17025:2017 up to 100kHz for European power calibration lab

Yokogawa’s European Calibration Laboratory in the Netherlands has achieved ISO 17025:2017 accreditation for power measurements at up to 100kHz – ISO/IEC 17025:2017 is the ‘General requirements for the competence of testing and calibration laboratories’. It enables both Yokogawa’s laboratory and its customers to demonstrate that they operate competently and generate valid measurement results. Test reports ...

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Intelliconnect UK operation approved to ISO 14001 and ISO 45001

UK-based connector and cable maker Intelliconnect (Europe) has been accredited to ISO 14001 and ISO 45001. ISO 14001 provides assurance to company management and employees as well as external stakeholders that environmental impact is being measured and improved, according to the company. ISO 45001 specifies the requirements for an occupational health and safety management system, and ...

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Bridgetek boosts EVE graphics controller for 1Mpixel displays

Bridgetek has announced a fourth generation of its minimal resource graphics engine EVE (embedded video engine). Suitable for use with 1Mpixel displays, the products include 1Mbyte of embedded graphics RAM and support resolutions including 1,920×480, 1,440×540, 1,280×800, 1,024×600, 800×600, 800×480 and 480×272. “The ability to adjust both the horizontal and vertical sync timing means that ...

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250W GaN dc-dc demo board is physically thin

GaN transistor maker EPC had released a pair of physically thin 250W dc-dc converter demo boards for 48V rails. EPC9153 – max component height 6.5mm – synchronous buck converter, 98.2% peak efficiency 44 – 60Vin, 12 – 20Vout, 12.5A out, 400kHz switching EPC9148 – max component height 4mm – more complex three-level (four output transistor) topology, 98% ...

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Sapcorda testing GNSS augmentation service for L-band signal

Sapcorda Services of Berlin has announced that testing of its first GNSS augmentation services for L-band signal is underway in North America and Europe, laying the foundation for its December 1, 2020 launch of  a GNSS augmentation signal for safety-critical navigation in autonomous vehicles and machinery. Available in areas without GSM coverage or mobile internet signal, ...

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Guerrilla expands into cellular

Guerrilla RF of North Carolina has introduced the GRF5506, the second of ten new 1⁄4 W linear power amplifiers being released over the next two quarters as part of the company’s expansion into the cellular market. These new InGaP HBT amplifiers were designed specifically for 5G/4G wireless infrastructure applications requiring exceptional native linearity over temperature ...

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UK gets on board with NASA’s Artemis moon exploration programme

Countries such as Australia, Canada, Italy and Japan had already signed up for NASA’s Artemis programme previously, but now the UK is on board with America’s next-generation plan for Moon and Mars exploration. Artemis involves a new space station orbiting the moon and supporting material extraction and also proving a basis for further exploration to ...

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Smiths Interconnect expands Suzhou Qualification and Test site

Smiths Interconnect has expanded  its Qualification and Test laboratory at its site in Suzhou, China. The lab now offers a one-stop shop for critical qualification and testing of Smiths Interconnect’s semiconductor test products manufactured in China. The test lab area was re–designed and additional test capabilities were added including: – A 67GHz Vector Network Analyzer to validate ...

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Aceinna hooks up with Point One for GNSS cloud correction service

Aceinna, the inertial based guidance and navigation systems specialist,  and positioning specialist Point One Navigation have hooked up to combine Point One’s Polaris GNSS cloud correction service with Aceinna’s OpenRTK330 hardware and software solution for developers in agriculture, construction, mapping, surveying, robotics and trucking. The GNSS correction service market shows great promise yet is presently ...

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DC/DC converters with built-in digital interfaces

Flex Power Modules is extending its portfolio of high-density DC/DC converters with built-in digital interfaces by launching two variants of its BMR491 series. Aimed at deployment in  data centres striving to meet increasingly stringent efficiency benchmarks, these advanced converters include versions that leverage the company’s proprietary hybrid regulated ratio (HRR) technology. Through this they are able ...

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