Mouser and Microchip have produced an eBook highlighting the value propositions and use cases for 8-bit MCUs entitled The Mighty 8-Bit Microcontroller. In automotive applications, 8-bit MCUs can be preferred in ...
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Designed for work in circuits with varied voltage levels. Until recently, a very common problem faced by electronic circuit designers was the difference in supply voltage standards between microcontrollers (e.g. ...
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Team αCentauri, part-sponsored by Power Integrations, has just completed the 3,022km Bridgestone World Solar Challenge in Australia. It was the 12th and final finisher, ahead of the many teams that ...
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We are very proud to announce the first ever Electronics Weekly Women in Electronic Awards, celebrating the notable achievements of women within the electronics industry. Taking place in Covent Garden, ...
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If countries A and B sign a treaty agreeing to put certain nuclear warheads into storage, how do they know the other is not cheating? German and US scientists think ...
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Researchers at the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have built a superconducting camera containing 400,000 pixels — 400 times more than any other device of its type. ...
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Delvitech is proud to announce and show a new generation of Automated Optical Inspection systems for the electronic and mechanical manufacturing. Electronic assembly process is moving towards more and more ...
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Murata’s novel soil sensor can now handle synthetic soils. “In recent years, the use of synthetic culture soil such as rock wool and coconut peat is popular for crops including ...
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To prevent intellectual property leakage, Segger has introduced a package that programmes microcontrollers securely at third party locations such as contract manufactures. Even the programmer-to-MCU connection is secured against ‘sniffing’, ...
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Western Digital and Kioxia have broken off merger talks after Hynix objected. Hynix was part of the Bain-led consortium which bought 55% of Kioxia in 2018 and gave Hynix convertible ...
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2023 wafer shipments are projected by SEMI to decline 14% to 12,512 million square inches (MSI) from the record high of 14,565 MSI in 2022 before bouncing back in 2024. ...
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Q4 contract prices for mobile DRAM are expected to rise 13–18%, says TrendForce, while the contract prices of eMMC and UFS NAND are expected increase by 10–15% . The rises ...
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United Monolithic Semiconductors has introduced a 24.25 – 30.5GHz combined output power amplifier, input low-noise amplifier and transit-receive switch. Called CHC6054-QQA, it is manufactured from AlGaN/GaN-on-SiC (gallium nitride on silicon ...
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The chip shortage tempted many manufacturers to go to non-traditional sources for components, taking the risk of acquiring counterfeit parts. Rob Moore, sales director at the electronic manufacturing services company ...
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China’s share of mature (28nm and older) process capacity is expected to grow from 29% this year to 33% by 2027, says TrendForce, while Taiwan’s is expected to fall from ...
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The European Space Agency (ESA) has awarded Tyvak International a €4.5 million ($4.7 million) contract for a “proximity operations and in-orbit servicing mission” that will deploy a nanosatellite spacecraft from ...
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AI represents 4.3GW of power demand today, according to an estimate by Schneider Electric, growing at a CAGR between 26 and 36%, to reach 13.5 to 20GW by 2028. 4.3GW ...
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Pragmatic Semiconductor, the Cambridge TFT manufacturer of flexible ICs, is reported by Sky to be close to securing a £200 million investment, Sources quoted as providers of the money are ...
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Rocket Factory Augsburg (RFA), the Bavarian rocket company, has announced a partnership with Yuri and ATMOS Space for the launch of ‘Eva’, an end-to-end service for microgravity life science research ...
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Socionext is developing 3nm SoCs for ADAS and AD (Autonomous Driving) using TSMC’s N3A process for production in 2026. The SoCs will support ISO26262 functional safety product development, AEC-Q100 and ...
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Novocomms, the UK antenna design and manufacturing specialist, has announced it is restructuring as part of growth plans for the next five years, including the establishment of three manufacturing divisions. ...
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Beams of electromagnetic radiation can be used to detect the rotation of distant objects if they have orbital angular momentum – known as ‘vortex waves’. It involves exploiting a rotational ...
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GlobalFoundries has been awarded $35 million in federal funding from the U.S. government to accelerate the manufacturing of GaN-on-silicon ICs at its facility in Essex Junction, Vermont. With the funding, ...
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We are very proud to announce the first ever Electronics Weekly Women in Electronic Awards, celebrating the notable achievements of women within the electronics industry. Taking place in Covent Garden, ...
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Researchers at the University of Otago in New Zealand can’t quite point to a patch of fee space and measure any microwave field that exists there, but they almost can. ...
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The European Space Agency (ESA) has been conducting a technology demonstration of a wheeled robot for precise sample collections without human intervention. The reddish terrain is in Stevenage, not yet ...
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Rohm has developed a range of five 100V dual mosfets for single-phase or three-phase bridges in fan motor drives. Four of them are dual n-channel in 5 x 6mm or ...
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Dracula Technologies, the French indoor lighting energy harvesting specialist, has set up a “Green MicroPower Factory”. The 2500 m² factory in the Rhone Valley in Ardèche will produce up to ...
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ST has created a dual precision op-amp for automotive sensor signal conditioning, with 20µV input offset voltage and 100nV/°C drift, and operation over 4 to 36V and -40 to 125°C. ...
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Rochester Electronics is presenting a webinar on avoiding re-designs caused by premature semiconductor obsolescence. The free webinar takes place online on 5 December 2023 at 10am (GMT), and the presenters ...
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Ittia has ported its DB IoT database for microcontrollers to a sub-set of the STM32 MCU family, via the STM32CubeIDE integrated development environment. “Real-time data capture and edge analytics are ...
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The International Counterfeit Electronics & Materials Symposium and Workshop, on 4-5 March 2024 in Coventry, will be jointly hosted by the Anti-Counterfeiting Forum, CALCE and SMTA. The organisers aim to ...
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For grid-scale energy storage, the search is on for durable batteries made from low-cost materials. Aqueous zinc-iron batteries are one suggestion, where storage is though the reversible plating and stripping ...
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CXL solutions could transform today’s server memory challenges into a $15 billion opportunity by 2028, says Yole Developpement. By 2028, DRAM will constitute most of the CXL market revenue, with ...
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Avnet Embedded has come up with the compact MSC OSM-SF-IMX93 OSM computing modules compliant with the new OSM* 1.1 standard (Size-S) “Small” with dimensions of 30 x 30mm. The scalable ...
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SiFive has announced a pair of high-end RISC-V cores for AI and machine learning in consumer, automotive and infrastructure markets. “Performance P870 and Intelligence X390 offer a new level of ...
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Aaeon is aiming at industrial automation and digital signage with tiny stripped-down PCs built around Intel’s ‘Processor N-series’ (Alder Lake N) CPUs. Measuring 92 x 64 x 45.2mm ‘Up 7000 ...
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Nordic Semiconductor is aiming at Bluetooth, Thread and Matter with a secured wireless microcontroller built around a 128MHz Arm Cortex-M33 processor with 1.5Mbyte of non-volatile memory and 256kbyte of ram, ...
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SatVu has received the first high resolution thermal imagery from its recently launched satellite HOTSAT-1, which the company describes as a world-first. HOTSAT-1, pictured right, is the first of a ...
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Panasonic has created a pair of miniature opto-mosfet relays that can handle well over an amp and need little diode current. Both have back-to-back output mosfets, so they can switch ...
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Nexperia is aiming at protecting high-speed automotive data lines with ESD protection diodes whose capacitance is as low as 0.28pF. With stand-off voltages in the 18 – 32V range and ...
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Recom has built an isolated 5V output dc-dc converter that will work from 9 – 36Vdc. Measuring ~32 x 21 x 10mm, the through-hole pin-out of REC5K-2405SRW/H4/A is based on ...
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onsemi has brought out an image sensor family for doorbells, security cameras, AR/VR/XR headsets, machine vision and video conferencing. The Hyperlux LP family has a stacked architecture design that minimises ...
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Rigol Technologies has added 12bit oscilloscopes to its line-up, with a compact design which is flexible to use for both on-site and desktop testing”, according to the company. DHO900 oscilloscopes ...
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Microchip has created a PIC32 family with a 300MHz 32bit Arm Cortex-M7 processor and hardware security, for industrial and consumer devices. “Application designers must consider implementing security functionality in their ...
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Samsung Electro-Mechanics is aiming at automotive powertrains and safety systems with a 10µF 50V MLCC (multi-layer ceramic capacitor) in 3.2 x 1.6mm 1206 packaging. “Thanks to the application of proprietary ...
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Picocom, the 5G Open RAN baseband semiconductor and software specialist, today announced that it has collaborated with Texas Instruments (TI) on a complete 5G Open RAN small cell radio unit ...
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Astroscale UK is highlighting the space sector’s contribution to the wider UK economy, in terms of job creation and regional development. The company – a specialist in space debris removal ...
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Korean engineers and scientists have developed a soft gripper that can be used to lift 100kg, while weighing only 130g. The device is inspired by weaving and can be made ...
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Solar cells tend to work better with an anti-reflection coating, and perovskite solar cells are no exception. Planar magnesium fluoride anti-reflection coatings work on perovskite cells, but could the nano-scale ...
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For Nvidia Jetson Orin system-on-modules, E-con Systems has created a rugged waterproof camera aimed at autonomous mobility applications such as delivery robots and agriculture vehicles. SturdeCam31 is a 3Mpixel camera ...
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Quub, a US-based 3D printing microsatellite company, is launching an office in the UK for its Earth Observation business. Quub UK will be based in London, and its Executive Director ...
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Aiming at industrial and automotive applications, Diodes has introduced a portfolio of Hall-effect sensors for measuring linear and angular speed and direction. Called AH39xxQ, “they also have a 40V absolute ...
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BEC Distribution is stocking LinkCom Transformer products. This range includes balun transformers for impedance matching, which are also suitable for DOCSIS3.0 and DOCSIS3.1 for data-over-TV-cable, and transformers for Qualcomm’ HomePlug. ...
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Teledyne e2v is developing a fully radiation-tolerant (RT) space computing reference design, enabling high-speed data routing in space applications. Based on an Arm Cortex-A72, and with multiple high-speed interfaces, it ...
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Bosch Quantum Sensing has revealed a photo of its quantum magnetometer prototype (right). “In terms of its measurement accuracy, the Bosch sensor prototype is the smallest currently available – about ...
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The University of Tokyo has demonstrated a near-autonomous drone-based system to identify the perfect day to pick a crop. “Harvesting a field as little as a day before or after ...
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For coastal and mountainous terrain, Anritsu has added an up-link interference measurement to its some of its portable 5G and LTE TDD testers. At issue are stray signals carried long ...
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Baumer has created an inductive position sensor that is only 6mm think but detects objects a up to 12mm. IF250 sensors have a plastic body with a 25 x 52.4mm ...
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XCAM, the Northampton-based imaging specialist, has secured a £200,000 grant from the UK Space Agency’s (UKSA) Centre for Earth Observation Instrumentation (CEOI). The funding is to develop and evaluate an ...
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Cornell Dubilier Electronics is aiming at harsh environments with a series of X2, EMI-RFI suppression capacitors. “The MXH series is AEC-Q200 qualified and has been temperature, humidity and bias (THB) ...
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Ideal Power is aiming to compete with smart IGBT modules with a 1.2kV 160A (100°C, 240A at 25°C) power module built around its novel ‘B-Tran’ bi-direction semiconductor switch. Called IPA01216DFx-HS, ...
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Electronics Weekly has extended the deadline for entries to EW BrightSparks 2023 – our awards to celebrate the achievements of young engineers – for two more weeks. We’ve had a ...
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Nexperia has teamed up with Kyocera AVX to develop an industrial 650V 20A silicon carbide rectifier module. It is aimed at “high frequency power applications ranging from 3kW to 11 ...
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Qualcomm is to create RISC-V based silicon for wearables, working with Google to optimise it for Google’s Wear OS. “We are excited to extend our work with Qualcomm Technologies and ...
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Open Cosmos, the UK space tech data specialist, and the European Space Agency (ESA) have announced plans for the launch of the MANTIS satellite aboard the upcoming SpaceX Transporter-9 mission. ...
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The theme for the 69th IEDM taking place on December 9-13 at the San Francisco Union Square hotel is: “Devices for a Smart World Built Upon 60 Years of CMOS”. ...
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Vishay has squeezed point-of-load buck regulators into a 10.6 x 6.5 x 3mm package, including one that accepts inputs across 4.5 to 60V and can deliver 6A continuous at voltages ...
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Schneider Electric is to expand operations at its site in Leeds UK with a £7.2m upgrade, 110 jobs are expected to be created over the next five years. “This investment ...
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Kayhan Space, a specialist in automated satellite operation, has raised $7 million to speed the arrival of its Pathfinder 3.0 spaceflight safety platform. It describes this as the “industry’s first ...
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STMicroelectronics has combined two LDOs, a CAN FD transceiver, four PWM-able high-side switches, a watchdog timer and a LIN transceiver into a single automotive-grade power IC. Called SPSB081, its aim ...
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Texas Instruments has announced a 220V (or ±110V) analogue switch with 16 channel of single-throw switching. It has logic-level (1.8 to 5V) control inputs, with thresholds set by the separate ...
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Binder, the industrial connector specialist, has created a new power bayonet connector, the PBC15. Suitable for power supply and signal linking of devices via one cable, the PBC15 – in ...
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