ST had a disatrous year in the anslogue market last yeear slipping from bring the No.2 player to No.5 as its sales slumped by 13%, according to IC Insights. Infineon moved up one place in the rankings from No.3 to No.2, displacing ST. Skyworks moved up to No. The 2015 analog market grew 2% to ...
ST slumps 13% in analogue losing three slots in market rankings
C&K has introduced a three position push-button with a footprint of only 3.0 x 3.7mm (4.4 x 3.1mm including G-type terminations). Called KXT2, it is rated for 100,000 cycles. The manufacturer describes it as ‘double-action’ (see diagram): With no force, two of its four pins are shorted. Once 100g of force has been applied, three of its ...
Three-position switch shrinks to 3.7 x 3.0mm
Maxim has introduced battery energy measuring (‘gas gauging’) chips with SHA-256 anti-cloning authentication. The firm has developed its own gauging algorithm that does needs no host interaction. “ModelGauge m5 fuel gauges include an algorithm that converts raw measurements such as battery voltage, current, and temperature into accurate state-of-charge, absolute capacity in mAhr, time-to-empty, and time-to-full ...
Battery fuel gauge chips include anti-clone security
Today, the Euros 62 million European research project SemI40 (“Power Semiconductor and Electronics Manufacturing 4.0”) – in which 37 partners from five countries will carry out research into developing autonomous factories – was launched. SemI40 will focus on “smart production” and “cyber-physical production systems” in the next three years with secure data traffic playing a ...
SemI40 kicks off to develop robot factories.
The Aerospace & Defence Forum 2016 hosted by National Instruments takes place on Tuesday 14th June at the Royal Berkshire Conference Centre, Madejski Stadium, Reading, UK. It is a free-to-attend conference presenting trends and technologies for aerospace, defence, security and space systems. The programme includes: Morning keynote address from Dr. Marco Lisi, manager and scientist, ...
NI runs free aerospace technology forum in Reading
The BBC micro:bit educational controller module is to be commercially available in the UK for £12.99. Distributor element14 has a 15 month contract to manufacture and distribute micro:bit in the UK. It also has plans to sell the product overseas at some stage. Element14 is announcing pre-order facilities for consumers and will be the exclusive ...
BBC micro:bit goes on sale today for £12.99
GloFo is to equip a 300mm fab in Chongqing, China as a jv with the local government. “China is the fastest growing semiconductor market, with more than half of the world’s semiconductor consumption and a growing ecosystem of fabless companies competing on a global scale,” said GloFo’s CEO Sanjay Jha, “we are pleased to partner ...
GloFo to equip 300mm fab in China
World’s first unboxing of a lunar rover!
The Audi Lunar Quattro moon rover, which is an entry in the Google Lunar X-prize. Scheduled for launch in 2017.
Developed by PT Scientists.
With the head of electronics development, Karsten Becker.
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ARM has brought out Cortex and Mali processors to address upcoming smartphone features like augmented and virtual reality on 10nm processes. They will be in SoCs this year and in handsets in 2017. The Cortex processor – A73 – is the smallest 64-bit v8 core ARM has done – at under 0.65mm2 per core on ...
ARM launches cores for virtual and augmented reality.
Super-fast laser sensing has allowed UK researchers to study semiconductors without a magnetics lab. The work will feed into University of Cambridge research on AlGaN/GaN HEMTs (high electron mobility transistors). 30T magnetic coil at the heart of the system, developed by Professor Hiroyuki Nojiri at Tohoku University (see below) The test in question is cyclotron ...
UK universities replace magnetics lab with bench-top test
Australian researchers have increased photon absorption in a semiconductor to almost 99%, according to the University of Sydney. The absorber is a sub-wavelength thin-film semiconductor, and no complex nano-structures, meta-materials, exotic materials or difficult-to-create metal-non-metal combinations have been used. Instead, there are simple slots. When light falls on a thin film etched with narrow grooves, ...
Surface absorbs 98% of photons
A source of loss in Perovskite solar cells could disappear following the decoding of a mechanism that heals defects in the crystal lattice. Organic-inorganic metal halide perovskite solar materials are rapidly catching silicon in efficiency, and are showing promise as a mass produceable large scale technology. However, a lot of issues remain to be solved, ...
Perovskite solar cells yield another secret
The SEMI book-to-bill for April was 1:10, down from March’s 1:15. April orders were $1.59 billion – 15.6% higher than March’s $1.38 billion, and 1.3% higher than April’s $1.57 billion. April billings were $1.46 billion – 21.5% higher than March’s $1.20 billion, and is 4% lower than April’s $1.52 billion. “Bookings reached their highest levels ...
SEMI book-to-bill continues positive
James Webb Space Telescope assembly passed a critical step as NASA hoisted in the instrument package – the cameras and spectrographs that will record light from the huge golden mirror. So critical was this part of construction – the load is heavy, delicate, and had to be lowered into a confined box – that prior to ...
NASA builds James Webb space telescope
NASA has installed the instrument package into the James Webb Space Telescope. Consisting of cameras and spectrographs, it will record light from the telescope’s huge golden mirror, once it is in orbit. “This is a tremendous accomplishment for our worldwide team,” said project scientist John Mather. “There are vital instruments in this package from Europe ...
Successor to Hubble telescope is going well, says NASA
Excessive internet use contributes to the development of school burnout. School burnout, in turn, may lead to excessive internet use or digital addiction, according to research by the Academy of Finland. The findings show that, via school burnout, adolescents’ excessive internet use can ultimately lead to depression. Exposure to digital addiction is most likely to ...
Internet addiction and school burnout feed each other
Texas researchers have created a liquid catalyst for lithium-air batteries, perhaps bringing this weight-saving technology nearer, writes Steve Bush. “There’s huge promise in lithium-air batteries. However, despite the research being done by groups all over the world, those promises are not being delivered in real life,” said professor Kyeongjae Cho. “Our collaboration team has demonstrated ...
Liquid catalysts boost efficiency of lithium-air batteries
IoT devices come in all shapes and sizes, so this is wireless connected product design in 10 steps, writes David Griffin The internet of things (IoT) promises a huge range of possibilities from industrial asset tracking to agricultural monitoring, from home security to chronic disease monitoring. Some IoT products are complements to existing businesses, others ...
“Is this the end of the the semiconductor success story?” asked Infineon CEO Reinhard Ploss at ITF2016 in Brussels this week. “”As Moore’s Law is stalling an overall system optimisation is required to achieve further value-add,” argued Ploss. “The physical limits may be pushed further but commercial limits provide a hard ceiling,” said Ploss, adding ...
ITF2016: Infineon CEO looks to progressive integration
Texas Instruments has unveiled a dc-dc topology, for which it is claiming industry’s highest current density: 50A/cm3, for a 12V 10A 10MHz converter. The target was to shrink a high-current dc-dc converter; and the best known path to small size is to increase switching frequency to reduce the need for large inductors and capacitors. However, ...
More on: TI’s unique 10MHz dc-dc topology
The Royal Society is commissioning a study to understand the challenges faced by teachers delivering computing and computer science and share best practice which can be adopted more widely. Professor Stephen Furber, from the School of Computer Science at the University of Manchester, will lead the research study which is part of a wider action ...
Teaching of computing in schools faces big changes
GlobalFoundries is aiming to take industry process technology leadership at the 7nm node. One step in that direction is a 60% shrink in the 14nm to 7nm transition, Gary Patton, the company’s CTO and svp for R&D, told EW. Asked by EW how this was achieved, Patton replied: “We’re shrinking the pitches pretty aggressively.” For ...
ITF2016: Globalfoundries goes for process leadership
The semiconductor learning curve is one of the most perfect curves ever devised, Mentor CEO Wally Rhines told this week’s ITF2016 in Brussels, and even if Moore’s Law ends, as it must one day, the learning curve will live on. Adjusted for inflation, the curve has been consistent for 40 years, said Rhines, and the ...
ITF2016: Learning curve goes on when Moore’s Law ends
Imec and its partner Solliance, presented today the first-ever semi-transparent perovskite PV-module, achieving power conversion efficiencies up to 12%. The technology enables for semi- transparent PV-windows which are a key towards Zero-Energy Buildings. Moreover, combining these semitransparent perovskite modules with Si solar cells, an unprecedented 20.2% in power conversion efficiency for a perovskite/Si stacked solar ...
ITF2016: Imec and Solliance present first semi-transparent perovskite PV-module
Imec, Holst Centre and Barco Silex are to collaborate to implement data security into sensors for wearables and IoT. Trust is key for a broad adoption. The smart society can only become a reality when the sensor technology is trusted by their users and the privacy of the users’ data is guaranteed at all time. ...
ITF2016: Imec, Barco Silex seek IoT security
Luc van den Hove, CEO of Imec, opened ITF2016 in Brussels this morning on the theme of ‘daring to take a different view’. He instanced companies which have taken a different view e.g: The company which provides the most taxi rides in the world does not own any taxis; the company which rents more rooms ...
ITF2016: The Future Is Good, says Imec
This morning, in Brussels, at Imec’s ITF2016, Imec and Infineon announced a cooperation in CMOS sensor chip development. Infineon and Imec are working on highly integrated CMOS-based 79 GHz sensor chips for automotive radar applications. Imec contributes its advanced expertise in high- frequency system, circuit and antenna design for radar applications thus complementing Infineon’s radar ...
ITF2016: Imec, Infineon team for 79GHz CMOS auto radars
Imec and Holst Centre presented a wide-area (LPWA) multi-standard radio chip today at Imec’s annual technology forum in Brussels this morning. The new radio chip is a best-in-class product, which can operate with a lower level of power consumption than any other radio chip technology released to date for long range connectivity in sensor networks. ...
ITF2016: Imec presents sub-GHz LPWA radio chip
Dave takes a look at the Orange Pi One $10 single board 4 ARM Cortex A7 processor computer and compares it to the Raspberry Pi 2.
Coving the install of the ARMbian flavour of Debian.
Beware the security bug!
And what is the power/watt efficiency between the two?
Schematic HERE
Allwinner H3 datasheet
Open source Allwinner H3 community
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Texas Instruments has unveiled a new dc-dc topology, and with it is claiming industry’s highest current density for a 12V, 10A, 10MHz dc-dc converter at 50A/cm3. Similar to a two-phase buck converter, the added series capacitor allows the switching transistors to operate at half the input voltage, more than halving switching losses, TI energy systems ...
New topology gives TI 10MHz dc-dc converter
GloFo has enhanced its 130nm RF SiGe process to deliver 5G performance. The technology is optimized for customers who need improved performance solutions for automotive radar, satellite communications, 5G millimeter-wave base stations and other wireless and wireline communication network applications. GLoFo’s SiGe 8XP technology is the latest extension to the company’s 130nm high-performance SiGe family ...
GloFo enhances 130nm SiGe RF process
ARM, AMD, Huawei, IBM, Qualcomm, Mellanox and Xilinx have joined forces to bring a high-performance open acceleration framework to data centers. The companies are collaborating on the specification for the new Cache Coherent Interconnect for Accelerators (CCIX). For the first time in the industry, a single interconnect technology specification will ensure that processors using different ...
ARM, AMD, Huawei, IBM, Qualcomm, Mellanox and Xilinx team up on datacentre,
Socionext, the Panasonic-Fujitsu SoC jv, has introduced an evaluation package for its 360° Wrap-Around View (WAV) system. The package combines the hardware, software and support services necessary for initial evaluation and development of the WAV system. Customers lacking resources to evaluate the system themselves can now develop their own customized systems with this new solution. ...
Socionext evaluation kit for 360deg WAV system
Microchip has released LoRa wireless evaluation kits, claiming them to be the first on the market. They provide all the components needed to create a low-power 10 mile range network for North America (915MHz, kit DV164140-2) or for Europe (868MHz DV164140-1). Each kit includes two wireless sensors (‘motes’) based on Microchip’s RN2483 or RN2903 LoRa ...
LoRa eval kit aimed at metro area networks
Indiegogo and Arrow Have created a crowdfund-to-production platform aimed at supporting technology entrepreneurs. Through this partnership, crowdfunded companies will be able to scale faster than ever before to bring their products to market. Arrow is already supporting some of the Indiegogo campaigns, such as : · Solar Roadways, the project to turn roads into renewable ...
Arrow and Indiegogo harness ideas and execution
Scientists from MIPT explain how the giant magnetoelectric effect occurs in bismuth ferrite A team of scientists from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT), the National Research University of Electronic Technology (MIET), and the Prokhorov General Physics Institute have proposed a theoretical model that explains the unexpectedly high values of the linear magnetoelectric ...
Moscow researchers explain very strong magnetoelectric effect in bismuth errite
Electric vehicles will have electric suspension and other once mechanical systems which means a bigger market for power electronic devices, says market analyst IDTechEx. Electric vehicles are being designed with two motors per car not one now and that means many more motor controllers. Each vehicle has a charger and a battery management system on ...
Electric vehicles use electronics for more that motor control
MIT and Harvard scientists have found a way for tiny robots to cling to ceilings. They have created a 1.7cm2 ‘sucker’ is a flexible disc that works electrostatically. It has two concentric ring electrodes only 200nm thick, sandwiched between compliant plastic layers. When the robot need to temporarily grip underneath something, 1,000V is connected between ...
Moth-like robot can perch on the ceiling
ST and Arduino have agreed to bring STM32 microcontrollers and ST’s full portfolio of sensing, power, and connectivity technology, closer to the Arduino maker community. The first product of the STAR (ST and Arduino) programme is the STM32F469-based STAR Otto baseboard. Now, IoT developers and other makers can build high-performance graphics into their smart devices ...
ST and Arduino tie-up for makers
Semiconductor capex will rise 3% in 2016, says IC Insights, going from $64.8 billion in 2015 to $66.8 billion this year. “Intense rivalry in the foundry business will push capital spending in this semiconductor manufacturing segment to nearly $23 billion, which will break the previous record high level of $22.1 billion set in 2014,” says ...
Rohm has announced an multi-function power chip (PMIC) for NXP’s i.MX 7Solo and i.MX 7Dual processors. Called BD71815GW, it has five low-quiescent current buck regulators, seven LDOs, a JEITA-compliant 1S charger, a fuel gauge with Coulomb Counter, an LED driver and a real-time clock (RTC), alongside extensive monitoring and protection circuits. All possible processor power ...
Rohm feeds NXP MCUs with multi-output power chip
Google wants to see the Android OS embedded directly into the car and it is working with semiconductor firm Qualcomm to achieve this. The functions of a concept car were demonstrated at Google I/O in California today. They ran on a Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 automotive processor. The plan is to have a series of Automotive Development Platforms (ADP) ...
Google and Qualcomm demo Android embedded in a car
Infineon has launched a sensor pilot line in Dresden under the EU R&D project IoSense which is part of ECSEL. “With an increasingly networked world, the demand for such sensor solutions will see a dramatic rise,” says Infineon CEO Reinhard Ploss. IoSense is is designed to further strengthen Europe in the production of cost-effective sensors ...
Infineon launches sensor pilot plant
