Toshiba will ship Hi-Speed-compatible TransMemory USB 2.0 flash drives up to 128GB in Q4. The drives have a USB connector that retracts with the pull of a slide control. Available capacities are 16GB, 32GB, 64GB and 128GB. Based on Toshiba’s NAND flash memory technology, TransMemory U203 drives offer a USB Type A interface and are ...
Read full article: Toshiba to ship 128GB USB flash drive in Q4
Ericsson says it is introducing the industry’s first 5G NR-capable radio, called Ericsson AIR 6468. It features 64 transmit and 64 receive antennas enabling it to support the company’s 5G plug-ins for both Massive MIMO and Multi-User MIMO. The high-performance beamforming, required for Massive MIMO, is enabled through the use of a split Cloud RAN ...
Read full article: Massive MIMO for Ericsson 5G
Fujitsu Labs has found a better way to parallel graphics processors (GPU) for deep learning applications. Using ‘AlexNet’, 64 GPUs in parallel achieve 27x the speed of a single GPU for, as far as Fujitsu can determine, the world’s fastest processing. A conventional method to accelerate deep learning is to use multiple computers equipped with ...
Read full article: Better parallel performance for artificial inteligence
Hirose of Japan and Harting of Germany are to develop a miniature connection for 10Gbit Ethernet. “As a form of the Internet of Things, there is one thing that Industry 4.0 requires above all else: an Ethernet connection to each and every Industry 4.0 component,” claimed Harting chairman Philip Harting. “The standardisation and international norms ...
Read full article: Hirose and Harting to create mini 10G Ethernet connector
Products using the ULA (Ultra-Low Energy) networking standard will be on show at IFA in Berlin this week. ULA is a modified form of the DECT cordless phone standard, and is another wireless system vying to under-pin IoT communications. “Companies like Panasonic, VTech, Crow, Gigaset, and Sercomm have developed a range of new products such ...
Read full article: ULE wireless products on show at IFA in Berlin
Fujitsu Semiconductor and Mie Fujitsu Semiconductor have begun begun developing carbon nanotube based memory products based on Nantero’s CNT NRAM technology for multiple markets. The licensing agreement between Fujitsu and Nantero covers joint development and licensing of ultra-fast, ultra-high-density NRAM, non-volatile RAM using carbon nanotubes Fujitsu’s initial product will be a 55nm embedded memory based ...
Read full article: Nantero licensees prepare for CNT memory production
Atmel’s ATA8520D is a transceiver IC for 868MHz Sigfox proprietary networks, intended to be used for IoT and machine-to-machine comms over with Sigfox protocol. It has an RF front end for up and down-link , a digital baseband and a microcontroller in the same device. The transmit path uses a closed loop fractional-N modulator, while ...
Read full article: Sigfox chip integrates transmitter and receiver
Complete with substrate, an active matrix for a flexible display need only be 4μm thick, according to the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). The matrix of ultra-thin n-type transparent oxide thin-film transistors (TFTs) for the backplane were initially fabricated on a sacrificial laser-reactive substrate. Laser irradiation from the backside of the substrate ...
Read full article: Flexible circuit is only 4μm thick
Samsung Syas it is in mass production of the Exynos 7 Quad 7570 built on 14nm process technology for the budget smartphone market and IoT devices. It is Samsung’s first Exynos processor to integrate a Cat.4 LTE 2CA modem, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, FM and GNSS in one chip. Exynos 7570, with four Cortex-A53 cores in 14nm, ...
Read full article: Samsung in volume production of 14nm Exynos processors
TI says its reference design that adds Wi-Fi connectivity to an electric vehicle (EV) charging station is an industry first. EV owners will be able to remotely monitor and control the charging of their vehicles from just about anywhere with Wi-Fi, presenting dozens of potential use cases from home automation to checking the availability of ...
Read full article: TI adds WiFi to EV charging station
Lots of teardown mix in today’s Mailbag
And Windows 10 SBC action, along with Sony and the Russians.
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Latte Panda single board computer
Sony Pyxis IPS-30 GPS Teardown
Creative Zen music player teardown
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HP ESP128 hot swappable rack mount server power supply teardown
Zeo sleep monitor teardown
Russian Kvarts 404 transistor radio teardown
Russian calculator B3-14
Chemists at the University of Waterloo in Canada are claiming to have developed a long-lasting zinc-ion battery. It is said to use non-flammable non-toxic materials and a pH-neutral water-based salt, consisting of a water-based electrolyte, a pillared vanadium oxide positive electrode and a metallic zinc negative electrode. Inside, positively-charged zinc ions are oxidized from the ...
Read full article: Zinc-ion cell lasts 1,000 cycles to 80%
Falls in the elderly can be predicted, three weeks early in some cases, according to the University of Missouri. “We have developed a non-wearable sensor system that can measure walking patterns in the home, including gait speed and stride length,” said Marjorie Skubic, who is both director of the University centre for elderly care and ...
Read full article: Sensors predict elderly falls, without wearables
Big data analysis of mobile phones is as good as existing survey techniques for town transport planners, but much cheaper, claims MIT and Ford. “Applying the system to six weeks of phone location data from residents of the Boston area, the researchers were able to assemble the kind of model of urban mobility patterns that ...
Read full article: Phone data is good for town planning
Korean process engineers have developed a chip packaging technology that creates flexible integrated circuits. The process starts with a flash memory wafer diced after thinning to ~100nm. These die are attached to a plastic carrier film, which allows them to be transferred to a roller and pressed onto a flexible PCB supported by a flat ...
Read full article: Korea develops roll-based packaging for flexible silicon ICs
Schaffner has expanded its range of common-mode EMC chokes. The current-compensated inductors now have horizontal and vertical mounting options for currents between 0.3 and 10A and the RN series is now rated up to 300Vac. RN dual chokes are available over 0.4 to 100mH operating over DC to 60Hz with common-mode resonance between 100kHz and ...
Read full article: Common-mode EMC chokes offer up to 10A
Heliatek has installed the second phased of organic photovoltaic solar cells on its Singapore pilot project. The opaque organic solar film was installed on the west façade of a building called Cleantech I on steel panels with 56 2m-long films and 45 films of 3.25m-long laminated into 15 glass sheets. Prior to this, 87 soar ...
Read full article: Organic solar cells face large scale tropical test
Maxim has developed an IoT development design to provide protection against counterfeit sensor data along the entire data chain, from transducer to the cloud. The rapid growth of IoT capabilities for industrial applications comes with legitimate concerns about data integrity, due to deliberate corruption of critical sensor data anywhere between a source and the cloud. ...
Read full article: Maxim offers data counterfeit protection for IoT
MCU, the IC industry’s original system-on-chip SoC product is expected to reach record-high annual revenues through the second half of this decade despite an overall slowdown in unit growth during the next five years, reprports IC Insights. MCU sales barely increased in 2015, rising less than a half percent, to set a new record high ...
Read full article: MCU to grow 4% to $16.6bn, says IC Insights
u-blox, the Swiss wireless and GPS IC specialist, has signed up with Digi-Key to distribute its products in the US. “We wanted to offer engineers, universities, and makers with a Digi-Key account the ability to bundle the purchase of our products with other components they are sourcing from Digi-Key,” says Nikolaos Papadopoulos, President of u-blox ...
Read full article: Digi-Key signs u-blox
Dialog will start sampling GaN power ICs in Q4 with a fast charging power adapter made on TSMC’s 650-volt GaN-on-Silicon process technology. The DA8801 together with Dialog’s patented digital Rapid Charge power conversion controllers will enable more efficient, smaller and higher power density adapters compared to traditional Silicon field-effect transistor (FET) based designs. Dialog is ...
Read full article: Dialogue enters GaN market
Turning a dumpster dive 50″ LG LCD TV into a light panel
Fun with a spectrometer, and light meter measurements.
Also looking at the diffusion and prism layers of typical LCD TV’s.
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LED LCD Panel Teardown VIDEO
3M Brightness Enhancement Films
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Ultra-wide-band pulsed radar is the key to scanning sewer pipes quickly, claim researchers from Louisiana Tech University. Fractures, deterioration and voids in surrounding soil can be detected in buried pipes, tunnels and culverts without intimate contact between the sensor and the pipe. Instead, the radar robot drives along the interior scanning the walls. “Our UWB ...
Read full article: Robot surveys sewers with UWB radar
Princeton University researchers have developed a new chip that promises to boost the performance of data centres. The chip, called Piton, would “substantially increase processing speed while slashing energy usage,” say the researchers. The chip architecture is scalable — designs can be built that go from a dozen to several thousand cores. Also, the architecture ...
Read full article: Princeton open sources 25-core server chip
ON has received the US FTC’s blessing to proceed with its $2.4 billion takeover of Fairchild on condition that it sells off the Ignition IGBT business. There is now a 30-day period for public comment after which the Consent Order will come into force. The FTC states: “The merged company would have a combined share ...
Read full article: ON Cleared To Buy Fairchild
CAMBRIDGE, MA—Researchers at the Self-Assembly Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are developing a mobile phone that can put itself together.
After Uber announced it would launch driverless taxis in Pittsburgh by the end of the year, a start-up called nuTonomy has said has launched a driverless taxi service in Singapore. The only snag is that the driverless taxis require both a computer-watcher and a back-up driver. The Lidar-equipped cars will be provided by Renault and ...
Read full article: nuTonomy beats Uber to self-driving taxis
Nano Dimension, the Israeli 3D printer specialist, has supplied the first DragonFly 2020 system designated for 3D circuitry and PCBs to a leading defense company in Israel. To date, Nano Dimension has proven its capabilities of printing multilayer electric circuits in lab conditions. With the first supply of the DragonFly 2020 system for testing, Nano ...
Read full article: Nano Dimensions ships first 3D printer for PCBs
Adesto Technologies, the CBRAM developer, has teamed with board supplier Embedded Masters to help developers of Adesto-based products get products to market faster. Adesto and Embedded Masters wrote and tested native low‐level Flash firmware drivers and application programming interface (API) software routines for a range of Adesto memory IC breakout boards with the Silicon Labs ...
Read full article: Adesto and Embedded Masters link for IoT
NXP’s MRF1K50H is a 1,500W LDMOS transistor, following on from the 1,250W MRFE6VP61K25H. 1.5kW continuous wave is available at 50V, and the device works over 1.8–500MHz. The transistor is characterised from 30-50V. “It operates up to 500MHz for applications from laser and plasma sources to particle accelerators, industrial welding machines, radio and VHF TV broadcast transmitters, and ...
Read full article: RF transistor handles 1.5kW
The pure-play foundry market is expected to jump 9% this year, up from 6% growth in 2015, says IC Insights. In 2014, the pure-play IC foundry market grew 17%, the largest increase since 2010 and eight points greater than the 9% increase in the worldwide IC market. In 2015, the pure-play foundry market showed a ...
Read full article: Foundry to grow 9%, says IC Insights
Movidius will incorporate UltraSoC’s semiconductor IP into its next-generation low-power machine vision systems-on-chip (SoCs). Movidius will combine UltraSoC’s monitoring and analytics IP and tools, with its own MoviDebug technology, to create a chip-wide debug and communications infrastructure that will support its end-to end product development flow. “We’re expecting immediate gains from the ability to use ...
Read full article: Movidius to use UltraSoC IP
SEMI’s July book-to-bill was 1.05. July bookings were $1.79 billion – 4.7% higher than June’s $1.71 billion, and 13.1% higher than the July 2015 order level of $1.59 billion. July billings were $1.71 billion – 0.6% lower than June’s $1.72 billion, and is 9.6% higher than the July 2015 billings level of $1.56 billion. “Monthly ...
Read full article: SEMI’s July book-to-bill was 1.05
Linear Tech has brought out two synchronous current mode buck-boost converters that deliver up to 600mA of continuous output current from a wide variety of input sources, including single- or multiple-cell batteries as well as solar panels and supercapacitors. The 2.4V to 25V input voltage range of the LTC3130 and 3130-1 and their 1V to ...
Read full article: LTC launches two synchronous current mode buck boost converters
Teardown of the vintage Sony VAIO UX Series Handheld Micro PC
using the Intel Core Solo processor
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Intel 82945GM
Intel Core Solo Processor U1400
PCI8412
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Elektor Magazine
Elektor Uno R4
4D Systems uLCD Gen4 LCD modules
Adler 805 1970’s Calculator
5 1/4″ floppy drive Apple II teardown
SolderDoodle USB Rechargeable soldering iron
Open Source Gossen Multimeter USB serial interface
Sony Vaio VGN-UX280P Pocket computer
Epipahn AVIO 4V USB 3.0 video capture teardown
ADV7619
NBN fibre optic modem and UPS teardown
300baud modem teardown
Tektronix 500 series plugin tab replacements
For automotive leds arrays, Allegro MicroSystems Europe has announced two adjustable linear current regulators. AEC-Q100 qualified A6274 and A6284 are pwm dimmable and include a driver circuit that can control an optional external p-channel mosfet which extends output power capability by dropping any voltage headroom not required for led regulation. “This eliminates the need for ...
IQD has launched a range of AEC-Q200 qualified clock oscillators released to TS16949 for industrial and automotive applications. The IQXO-540 AUTO series is housed in a 2.0 x 1.6 x 0.8mm ceramic sealed package with frequencies available in the range from 4.0 to 50MHz. With stabilities down to ±25ppm over -40 to +85 degrees C ...
Read full article: IQD clock oscillators for extreme applications
Tektronix has announced an analyser that characterises semiconductor devices and materials. Following on from the Keithley 4200-SCS, the 4200A-SCS has a new graphical user interface and helpful self-learning tools such as instructional videos embedded into the instrument – cutting test set-up times by half, claims the company, which said: “Usability is particularly important for applications such ...
Read full article: Semiconductor characterisation from Tektronix
Infineon has produced a chip to power an NFC payments ring which works lik a contactless card. The ring is made by NFCring. “Proximity payments based on NFC technology are clearly on the rise – and payment solutions with smart wearables will accelerate this trend,” says Infineon’s Thomas Rostek. The global standard EMVCo facilitates worldwide ...
Read full article: Infineon enables NFC payment ring
Tsinghua is reported to be be talking to Korean semiconductor SMEs with a view to acquisition, according to the Korean media site Biz Chosun, Tsinghua, which bid for Micron and a number of US and Taiwan companies, is looking at small and mid-sized South Korean chip firms with specialty technologies. Companies named as having been ...
Read full article: Tsinghua turns to Korea for acquisitions
ZHENGZHOU, China—Contract manufacturer Foxconn said on Monday that two workers at its assembly facilities here died last week, even as the company made efforts to improve labor conditions that came under scrutiny after a spate of suicides in recent years.
Renesas is reported by the Nikkei to be buying Intersil for $3 billion, about $1 billion more than its current market cap. The deal could be finalised in a couple of weeks. This weekend Renesas said that foreign acquisitions are one of the options it is considering. Intersil is not denying the reports, but not ...
Read full article: Renesas may buy Intersil
Cambridge Innovation Capital plc (CIC), the 13 year-old Cambridge University investment initiative, has raised £75 million of new capital giving it a total fund of £95 million to invest. CIC was founded by ARM and Lansdown Partners in 2003 with an initial capital of £50 million. With Cambridge Enterprise, the commercialisation arm of the University, ...
Read full article: Cambridge fund raises £75m
Uber rival Lyft is reported to be up for sale but no one’s buying. Apparently the company has been offered to Google, Apple, Microsoft and GM which is an investor. Last time it had a funding round Lyft got a valuation of $5.5 billion but an Uber exec told Bloomberg that it’s not worth more ...
Read full article: Lyft for sale
RFEL the Isle of Wight imaging specialist, is to announce an HD-SDI and Generic Vehicle Architecture (GVA) compliant military driver vision aid. TRAILBLAZER improves driver and crew effectiveness by extending the field of view beyond the normal spectrum, even in adverse weather and low-light conditions. It offers a new, best-in-class driver camera sub-system for military ...
Read full article: RFEL to launch military driver vision aid
An MIT spin-out is preparing to commercialise a novel re-chargable lithium metal battery that it claims will double capacity. According to the firm, called SolidEnergy, its products will be in drones this November, followed by phone and wearables batteries in early 2017, and at electric cars in 2018 “Several customers are using drones and balloons ...
Read full article: MIT spin-out proposes Lithium metal anodes for Li-ion
Analogix is to sample in Q4, its ANX7440/30 family, the first integrated solution capable of switching DisplayPort version 1.3 and 1.4 at 8.1 gigabits per second (Gbps), as well as USB 3.1 Generation 2 (Gen2) 10 Gbps signals to support a single USB-C™ port. The family includes: ANX7440 – integrated 10 Gbps re-timer and USB-C ...
Read full article: Analogix chip-set helps enable AR/VR
Turmoil in the China mobile phone market in Q2 saw Xiaomi’s shipments fall 38% y-o-y and its y-o-y market share down from 16% to 9.5%, reports IDC. Similarly, Apple saw a y-o-y slump of 32% and a y-o-y market share decline from 12% to 88%. Benefitting were Huawei, OPPO and VIVO whose shipments and market ...
Read full article: Turmoil in China handset market hits Qualcomm
