Cornish firm targets electronics business in the Middle East

Teddington, the Cornish engineering and manufacturing firm, has appointed Oman-based Defence Electronic System Integration (DESI) to represent its interests in the Gulf States. This is part of an international sales drive which will give Teddington a presence in the Middle East, with a particular focus on Oman, Bahrain, Iraq, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the ...

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6pin photo-relay offers 5A and 20mΩ at 30V

Toshiba’s DIP4 and DIP6 high-current photo-relays can now switch up to 5A – claimed to be industry’s highest rating in a DIP6 package. Other versions can handle 200V. With the internal mosfets fabricated in the firm’s U-MOS VIII process, there are five new devices – TLP3543A, TLP3545A, TLP3546A, TLP3556A and TLP3558A. Together they offer options with Voff ranging ...

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EEVblog #1067 – Analog vs Digital Multimeters!

Are analog multimeters still of any practical value compared to digital?
Only Dave can ponder that question for a half hour video…

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EEVblog #1066 – Uber Autonomous Car Accident – LIDAR Failed?

A self driving autonomous Uber car killed a pedestrian in Tempe Arizona. How did this happen?
It basically shouldn’t have.
TLDR; It looks as though the LIDAR and/or RADAR system failed to detect the pedestrian until fairly ideal practical circumstances.

A look at the newly released camera footage of the accident, the location, and the car LIDAR, RADAR, and camera sensor suites available to prevent such an accident.
Video footage
Location of accident
The same location at night with another dash cam
Inside Uber’s self-driving car mess
What a LIDAR sensor should show and detect (Google’s self driving car):

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O-S-D sales climb 11%, says IC Insights

Sales of  optoelectronics, sensors/actuators, and discrete semiconductors (known collectively as O-S-D) increased 11% in 2017—more than 1.5 times the average annual growth rate in the past 20 years—to reach an eighth consecutive record-high level of $75.3 billion, according to IC Insights’ new O-S-D market report. O-S-D sales growth is expected to ease back in 2018 ...

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BSI offers UK IoT security stamp of approval

The British Standards Institution has launched a compliance scheme and governance framework for IoT devices and applications, allowing them to be assessed against the UK Government’s proposed IoT code of practice – a code of practice that was announced earlier this month by the Minister for digital and the creative industries. Its IoT compliance scheme, ...

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Connector combines power, data and protection

Harting has designed a connector that combines high current capacity with signal transmission and tough environmental protection. The power contacts range of up to 630Vac and a maximum current of 28A. Called Han M23 Power and intended for industrial applications, its meets IP67 and IP69K in the closed position, while tool-free assembly makes it suitable ...

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EC Electronics opens new factory in Romania

EC Electronics, the Basingstoke manufacturing services company, has opened a second factory in Romania. The facility will be dedicated to cable assembly and overmoulding, providing opportunity to expand their capabilities to build even the most complex projects. This new site will also provide substantial space for future expansion. EC Electronics offers services such as PCB ...

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RF amplifier delivers 25W across 500MHz to 2.7GHz

Empower RF Systems is offering a 500-2,700MHz 25W solid-state amplifier. “The 1205/BBM3K5OEL is suitable for broadband mobile jamming, communications and general test,” said distributor Richardson RFPD, which is stocking the amplifier. “This module uses GaN devices that provide excellent power density, high efficiency, wide dynamic range and low distortion. Performance reliability and efficiency are achieved by employing broadband RF ...

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Always-on automotive PSU chip draws 3.5µA quiescent

Maxim has announced 40V load dump-tolerant dc-dc buck chips that “in peak current mode draw the industry’s lowest Iq, just 3.5µA in the low-power operating mode”, claimed the firm, “which is key to meeting OEM Iq consumption requirements of 100µA per module.”That said, this product page says “3.5µA quiescent current when in stand-by mode” Called ...

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Need to print a new speen?

Bio-printing is printing cells and other body materials using 3D printers to create approximations to various body tissues and organs or to create scaffolds in which to grow such tissues, for medical research, for example. Commercial printers designed for the job are expensive – costing over $10,000 – according to Carnegie Mellon University, where a ...

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NXP links with Alibaba’s AliOS for smart cars

NXP and AliOS, the IoT OS developed by Alibaba, have entered into a partnership to drive the development of smart cars in China. The partnership aims to install the AliOS system and NXP’s automotive infotainment products in millions of vehicles in China by 2020. “Alibaba and NXP share the new vision that in-vehicle experiences and ...

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NXP car radar processor gets hardware acceleration

NXP has introduced a radar processor for cars. Called S32R274, the microcontroller combines signal-processing acceleration with a multi-core architecture, and is aimed at  beam-forming and fast chirp-modulation radar systems. S32R274 offers a multifaceted solution for general software tasks and car bus interfacing,” said Mouser, which is stocking the part. “Combined with RF front-end technologies in RF ...

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Rohm certified for ASIL-D automated vehicle electronics

Rohm has been certified to create ISO 26262 functional safety standard automotive products, including those for driver assistance systems. Certified by TÜV Rheinland, Rohm can now develop automotive-grade devices that achieve the highest (ASIL-D) safety level. ‘In ISO 26262 Functional Safety Standard for Automobiles, demand is growing in recent years for a higher level of safety ...

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MRMC joins up with Chyron Hego

Mark Roberts Motion Control (MRMC),  the synchronised robotic camera specialist, has joined up with optical sports tracking specialist Chyron Hego. Chyron Hego works on broadcast graphics creation and real-time data visualisation. Its optical sports tracking system, TRACAB, identifies and follows players on the field and provides instant live game-play metrics. MRMC’s Polycam System enables real-time ...

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Knowles renames capacitor division as Knowles Precision Devices

Four years after the formation of Knowles Capacitors, made up of Dielectric Laboratories (DLI), Novacap, Syfer Technology and Voltronics, the division has been renamed as Knowles Precision Devices. The capacitor and passive device manufacturer also supplies RF and EMI filters, resonators, non-magnetic components, power dividers, oscillators and advanced dielectric materials. The company believes the name change will more accurately reflect ...

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Comment: Securing IoT devices before (and after) they ship

When it comes to IoT devices, you need to consider a security architecture risk analysis

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Survey: Choosing displays within your current design process

We want to hear your thoughts on choosing displays within your current design process.

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350W ac-dc PSUs for industry and healthcare

XP Power today announced the launch of series of rugged 350W AC-DC chassis-mount PSUs, intended for industrial, technology and healthcare applications. SMP350 supplies have a built-in cooling fan, screw terminal connections, low (class-B) EMI emissions, and come in a 92 x 178 x 43mm enclosure – equating to 13W/in3. The series has a 85 to 264Vac ...

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Finalists selected for PA Consulting’s Pi programming competition

Finalists for PA Consulting Group’s annual Raspberry Pi programming competition have been selected. The nine teams of school children will be presenting their inventions to nine expert judges on Tuesday, 17 April at the IET in London. PA’s annual competition aims to inspire the innovators of the future and challenges school children and college students ...

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Comment: Accelerating datacentre ICs could boost economy

Xilinx may be experiencing a seven-year ‘itch’ that could reinvigorate the global mojo. The programmable logic market, and its leader Xilinx, have had no growth these past seven years. However, two months after taking over, the new CEO of Xilinx has a plan to get growth going again. Not growth for the programmable logic market, ...

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200kHz current sensor aims at motor control

Allegro MicroSystems has announced a family of current sensor ICs for AC or DC current sensing with 200kHz bandwidth and 2.5µs response time – “the fastest response time of an IC ever offered in the custom CB package,” said the firm. “The response time enables over-current fault detection in safety-critical applications,” claimed the firm. Accuracy is ...

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Germany works towards compact optical components

German companies have pulled together to develop compact and low-profile optical components for applications such as head-up projection displays, camera flashes and display backlighting. “The consortium will investigate flexible design and manufacturing processes for space-critical applications for data visualisation or illumination,” said Osram Opto. “The planned reduction in the thickness of the optical elements and combination ...

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Renesas MCU Has 28nm Flash

Renesas is sampling an automotive MCU using 28nm flash memory. The RH850/E2x Series MCU incorporates up to six 400 megahertz (MHz) CPU cores, which deliver 9600 MIPS with a a built-in flash memory of up to 16MB. The RH850/E2x includes enhanced sensor interfaces necessary for precise automotive control functions. Demand for built-in large capacity flash memory ...

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UK made: IP68 waterproof connector and cable assembly

Cliff Electronics has announced a waterproof cable assembly with a non-reversible 2 pole plug with a current rating of 5A. Manufactured by Cliff in Surrey using an in-house three shot injection moulding process, Cliffcon 68 is an IP68 screw down ferrule connector supplied with 5m of cable terminated with tinned bare ends for connection to ...

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Arizona Governor’s Letter To Uber CEO

Following the death of a lady hit by a self-driving Uber car, the Governore of Arizona has written to the CEO of Uber stopping Uber testing autonomous cars on Arizona’s public roads. Here is the letter:  

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Nanusens raising crowdfunding money

Nanusens, the Barcelona VC-backed sensor start-up, is raising money via the crowdfunding site crowdtube.com. “We have venture capital firms already investing in this round that have been supporting us for a number of years as they believe in our novel technology,” says CEO Josep Montanya i Silvestre (pictured)  “I think we are one of the ...

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InAs chips could reach 200GHz

Russian scientists have measured magnetoresistance oscillations and the quantum Hall effect in InAs heterostructures, and are predicting potential 200GHz operation from the material. The material tested was n-In0.85Ga0.18As/In0.82Al0.82As, specifically grown for its high indium content to increase carrier speed. “Generally speaking, structures with quantum wells and high InAs content have already demonstrated excellent results in microwave ...

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EnSilica taps Logixx for route to volume automotive silicon

EnSilica, the Wokingham SoC designer, has tapped Logixx for a route to volume production of automotive silicon. “EnSilica has been growing rapidly over the past two years because we have extended our services from just design services to include managing the whole process of production manufacturing, packaging and testing,” says Ensilica’s David  Doyle,   “this soup to nuts service ...

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EU contemplates breaking up Google

EU competition commissioner Margrethe Vestager says she’s contemplating breaking up Google. “I think it important to keep that question open and on the agenda,” Vestager tells the Daily Telegraph, “we are not there yet but it is important to keep an awakened eye.” The breaking up of Google has been on the European agenda for ...

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Taiwanese LED maker to open Cornish production line

Taiwanese LED and lighting maker Ledtech is to open a production line in Redruth Cornwall to support medium quantity manufacture in the UK and Europe. High-volume production remains in Taiwan and its recently-opened giant facility in China. “The addition of a direct facility adds a range of value-added manufacturing services, design-in support, volume availability and ...

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EU fines capacitor cartel

The EU has fined seven companies a collective €254 million for running a capacitor cartel. The seven are: Nippon Chemi-Con Corp, Hitachi Chemical, Nichicon, Rubycon, Elna, Tokin and Matsuo Electric. An eighth of the cartel, Sanyo Electric, was not fined because it acted as whistleblower reporting the cartel’s wrongdoings to the EU.   The EU ...

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Microsemi Switchtec PCIe Gen 4 available

Microsemi’s  Switchtec PCIe Gen 4 development platform is now available allowing customers to  begin PCIe Gen 4 system hardware designs based on the company’s PCIe Gen 4 switch. PCIe Gen 4 aims to find adoption in  datacentre and ADAS equipment using GPUs, CPUs, NVMe, SSDs, NICs storage controllers, automotive cameras and Infotainment. Applications such as artificial ...

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5G spectrum auction opens

The 5G spectrum auction has opened with a total of 150MHz of spectrum divided into 34 lots on the block. Two tranches of spectrum in the 2.3GHz and 3.4Ghz frequency bands are being offered. It is not expected to be a money-spinner, in fact some analysts suggest it may raise less than a billion compared ...

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Container-scale battery for grid support

Murata has developed a container-scale energy storage system for instantaneous voltage drop countermeasures, and will market it with Japan Facility Solutions. “A momentary drop in power system voltage such as due to lightning strikes to power transmission lines may have a large impact, such as the stoppage of production lines in factories,” said Murata. “Furthermore, ...

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Bendable OLED has performance of glass panel, says BASF

A new type of bendable OLED panel has been developed in Germany by lighting panel manufacturer, OLEDWorks and BASF’s Coatings division. The bendable panels, named Brite 3, will be introduced at the 2018 Light + Building exhibition in Frankfurt, Germany. The bendable design is possible due to the flexible barrier solutions from BASF. The encapsulation ...

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Imperial College demonstrates 24/7 room temperature maser

Diamond is the key to a room-temperature maser that can operate continuously, according to Imperial College London, which has made one. “This breakthrough paves the way for the widespread adoption of masers and opens the door for a wide array of applications that we are keen to explore,” said Imperial lead researcher Dr Jonathan Breeze. ...

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Students get chance to design IoT products

Farnell element14 has teamed up with Rohde & Schwarz to launch its “University IoT Challenge”, a competition for university students in electronics. The competition challenges students to come up with creative ideas using £5,000 worth of technology components to create an IoT-based product that could be used by individuals needing assistance in their everyday lives. ...

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500W 12 to 24V converter for tough environments

Gresham Power Electronics has introduced a 500W dc-dc converter for military and non-tactical vehicle mounted communications and security systems. Called GPD500 is now available from the Salisbury-based power supply maker, which accepts inputs between 10 to 20Vdc and delivers regulated 24Vdc output, designed to meet the requirements of MIL-STD 1275D. “Sophisticated electronics developed for military ...

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Hydrogen-powered street sweepers for Aberdeen

Hydrogen- powered roadsweeping has come to Aberdeen with this cleaner-sweeper truck (pictured) which has been adapted to run on both diesel and hydrogen. Emission savings of around 30% are projected from the Use of hydrogen. The sweepers are refuelled at the Aberdeen City Hydrogen Energy Storage (ACHES) hydrogen station, which makes hydrogen from renewable electricity, on ...

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Wearable quantum brain scanner developed by University of Nottingham

Brain scanning is not possible through a hat, according to the University of Nottingham. The technique used is magnetoencephalography (MEG), which senses the tiny magnetic fields created by electrical signals in the brain. Once, this would have required bulky super-cooled equipment because it needed ‘squids’ – superconducting quantum interference devices – as sensors. In these ...

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eCall mandatory for new EU cars from March 31st

eCall – a built-in automated emergency call for assistance in a road accident – will be mandatory for all new car and light commercial vehicle models in the EU from 31 March 2018. It will therefore be integrated in future in an estimated 20 million new vehicles annually. The aim of the eCall system is ...

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Undergraduate students demonstrate good EMC design techniques

A group of undergraduate students recently proved that good EMC design techniques, as outlined in EMC Standards’ “good EMC PCB design” textbook, prevent project delays, risks and costs. A practical laboratory exercise for undergraduate students was taken from: “Teaching EMC using an EMC demonstration unit”, a paper submitted for the 2018 APEMC/IEEE symposium in Singapore. ...

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Small system-on-module adds HDMI to quad ARM cores

SudoProc  is a quad-core HDMI-capable solderable system-on-module from Slovenian firm Sudo. Measuring 65 x 40 x 4.3mm, its processing centres around quad ARM Cortex-A14 CPUs (Rockchip RK3288), 4Gbyte DRAM (LPDDR3) and choice of on-board flash (eMMC4.5) between 32 and 256Gbyte. “Most Systems on Modules on the market aren’t solderable by default,” said Sudo. “This is ...

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Harwin appoints specialist in socially responsible supply chain

With the growing importance of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in the sourcing of raw materials, connector and shielding manufacturer Harwin has appointed Ottawa-based regulatory software and services firm Assent Compliance. Assent will be involved in carrying out any required investigations across Harwin’s global network of suppliers with regard to RoHS and REACH environmental directives, as ...

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Electric vehicle-to-grid charging project gets go-ahead

Aston University, and Birmingham-based design consultancy ByteSnap Design have been awarded a two-year collaborative project to develop a communications and control platform for UK’s electric vehicle charging infrastructure. The project called VIGIL (Vehicle-to-Grid Intelligent Control) will develop and an off-vehicle system that controls how, when and the rate at which electric vehicle batteries are charged/discharged ...

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Selection panel for BrightSparks 2018 deliberates

The EW BrightSparks 2018 ‘Judges Morning’ was held at RS components’s Kings Cross HQ yesterday to deliberate on the excellent entries we have received for the programme. Thank you to one and all who took the time to enter and who made the final selection process so difficult. The Selection Panel had the difficult job ...

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£100m for commercial expansion of Oxford Nanopore

Real-time DNA sequencer firm Oxford Nanopore Technologies has raised £100M to support its next phase of commercial expansion, including building a 34,000sqft bespoke high-volume manufacturing facility on the Harwell Science and Innovation Campus. “This new facility represents a significant increase in Oxford Nanopore’s manufacturing capabilities, replicating and growing the manufacturing processes developed over the years within ...

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Small Robot Company brings Rachael to Hong Kong

Small Robot Company of Shropshire, the agri-tech start-up, will showcase its prototype Rachael robot at the GREAT Festival of Innovation in Hong Kong. Rachael has all the core technology needed for the company’s  forthcoming Tom, Dick and Harry arable farmbots. This includes autonomy, geolocation, obstacle avoidance, navigation and the ability to accurately position objects on a ...

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In-house APs to take 30% of smartphone sockets in 2018

In-house-developed apps processors by Apple, Samsung, and Huawei (Hisilicon) will take almost 30% of the smartphone AP market in 2018, says Digitimes Research. Digitimes Research reckons that  total shipments of smartphone APs will grow 1.5% on year to 1.67 billion units in 2018, and to 1.77 billion in 2021. Qualcomm will remain No.1 with MediaTek ...

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Low-noise LDOs for Hi-Fi circuits up to 1A

Rohm has introduced ‘high-fidelity’ power supply ICs aimed at audio devices requiring high-resolution audio play-back. Above the quality of CD audio, it sees high-resolution audio sources typically playing back at “greater than 96kHz and 24bit”. Called the BD372xx series, the regulators have a newly-developed fast error amp circuit and low-noise architecture. “Multiple parameters that were ...

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Unexpected spintronics reaction stores data

Data has been stored using a unexpected spin phenomenon. Now called ‘zero field switching’ (ZFS), it could be used in compact lower-power memory and computing devices, according to Johns Hopkins University and the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The team discovered that magnetisation in a cobalt-iron-boron layer (see diagram) could be flipped ...

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Tuneable quantum dots ride on graphene and BN

Researchers in Austria have created quantum dots using two 2-d materials: graphene and hexagonal boron nitride. “For many applications in the field of quantum technologies one requires a quantum system were electrons occupy two states; on and off, similar to a classical switch, with the difference that quantum physics also allows for arbitrary superpositions of ...

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Congatec and Luxoft develop auto reference platform

congatec and  Luxoft Holding have introduced an automotive reference platform with SMARC 2.0 Computer-on-Modules. Launching with the conga-SA5 as the first official supported module, the Automotive Reference Platform (ARP), co-developed by Intel and Luxoft, makes digital cockpit designs of next-generation vehicles smarter. Theplatform enables clustering of previously separately managed functions such as head unit display, ...

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Samsung sampling 8TB SATA SSD

Samsung is sampling an 8TB datacentre SATA SSD incorporating  LPDDR4 DRAM modules and features a 6.0-gigabits-per-second (Gbps) 2.5-inch SATA interface. “Our 64-layer V-NAND-based technology, allows us to double the capacity of current SATA storage,” says Samsung’s  Jim Elliott. The SSD uses  16Gb LPDDR4 DRAM based on 1xnm. A  SATA 3.3-compliant Power Disable (PWDIS) feature allows power ...

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Seeking perfect partners in the defence sector

Manufacturing in the defence sector is rising to the challenges presented by new demanding environments

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Cypress details contribution to Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+

Cypress Semi is providing the new Wi-Fi and bluetooth chip in Raspberry Pi’s Model B+, released last week. The chip is the CYW43455, which can operate 802.11ac Wi-Fi at 2.4 and 5GHz, as well as simultaneous Bluetooth and Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE). Prior to this, Raspberry Pi used the firm’s CYW43438 802.11n 2.4GHz Wi-Fi and Bluetooth combo. ...

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Bosch aims 6 axis inertial chip as VR and AR headsets

Bosch has launched a 6 axis MEMS inertial measurement unit with a 3 axis 16bit accelerometer and 3 axis, 16bit gyroscope in a single package. Called BMI085, it is intended for virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) applications as well as navigation, body motion tracking and gaming. “Its ultra-precise instantaneous detection of head movements reduces ...

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Xilinx to accelerate the datacentre

  Xilinx is going full tilt for the datacentre market with a new class of product which will tailor the server to the workload to minimise opex. “Datacentre is our overall target area – our highest priority segment today,” says Xilinx’s new CEO Victor Peng (pictured). Peng, a designer of CPUs, GPUs and ASICs in ...

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Server DRAM moves to 16Gb

The Big Three DRAM producers will be putting 16Gbit parts into mass production in H2, says DRAMeXchange. The Koreans will be moving to 16Gbit die in Q3 which will deliver 64GB modules. Although China’s demand for servers will grow 20% in Q2, total server demand will grow in dingle digits, says DRAMeXchange. Q1 server DRAM ...

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Philips Lighting morphs into Signify

Philips Lighting is has changed its name  to Signify. ‘The choice of our new company name originates from the fact that light becomes an intelligent language, which connects and conveys meaning,’ says Philips/Signify. The company will continue to use the Philips brand. The new company name satisfies the company’s contractual requirements under the Company Name ...

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EEVblog #1065 – Soldering Iron Power Delivery Explained

A further clarification to the previous video on the Hakko FX-888D vs the JBC direct heat CD-2B soldering station. And the differences between applied power, tip design, sensor design, control loop design, and power delivery to a ground plane.
Power measurements and DaveCAD explanations.

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Jacobs off Qualcomm board

Paul Jacobs (pictured), son of Qualcomm co-founder Irwin Jacobs, who stepped down as execurive chairman last week, will not be re-nominated to the Qualcomm board when it meets for the company’s AGM on March 23rd. jacobs told the board that he was looking at taking Qualcomm private and had talked to various possible sources of ...

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Tiny charge pump supports n-channel power rail switching

Toshiba has launched n-channel mosfet drivers for power switching the positive rail in rapid-charging and other load switching applications. Designed to drive a pair of back-to-back power mosfets (to block power flow in both directions), the devices include a charge-pump to provide gate drive above the positive rail. There are two parts, identical except for ...

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Tesco names former Airbus exec as CTO

Tesco has appointed Guus Dekkers as chief technology officer. Dekkers joins the supermarket giant from Airbus and he succeeds Edmond Mesrobian who is retiring. The role of CTO at Tesco has developed greatly as the supermarket firm translates rapidly evolving technological and digital capabilities into its retail operations. Dave Lewis, Tesco Group CEO, writes: “Guus ...

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Comment: US and China lead Europe in the 5G race

If the UK and Europe don’t get their act together on 5G regulation the industrial IoT could stall.

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Jacobs said to be taking Qualcomm private

Richard Jacobs is moving to take Qualcomm private, says the FT. Jacobs, son of Qualcomm co-founder Irwin Jacobs, stepped down as executive chairman of Qualcomm last week but remains on the board. It is reported that Jacobs has approached Softbank for financing for the move. Five years ago Michael Dell took Dell private in a ...

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Avnet names two European presidents

Avnet has announced a leadership change at the top of its European organisation. With the retirement of Miguel Fernandez, the distributor has divided responsibilities for the European presidential role between EBV Elektronik head Slobodan Puljarevic and Mario Orlandi who runs Avnet Silica. The change will reduce a level off management in the distributor’s European operation. ...

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Government allocates new money for gigabit fibre broadband

The Chancellor’s Spring Statement has allocated the first wave of funding for improving broadband optical fibre communications across the country. Around £95m will come out of the Government’s £190m Local Full Fibre Network (LFFN) budget for 13 areas across the UK. This represents the government’s attempt to address the disappointing level of access to gigabit-capable ...

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EEVblog #1064 – Soldering Irons OLD vs NEW

What are the differences between the “old” style soldering iron tips like used on the low cost Hakko and Weller et.al low cost irons, and the more expensive integrated tip type?
An apples to oranges comparison of the Hakko FX-888D and the JBC CD-2B stations.
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Shropshire robot company wins IET award.

Small Robot Company, a British agritech start-up, today announced it has won a prestigious Horizontal Innovation Award from the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) and the High Value Manufacturing Catapult (HVMC), sponsored by Innovate UK. The Company harnesses the power and precision of robots and Artificial Intelligence (AI) to improve the way that food ...

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Tin Whiskers 101

A video from the archives.
David Hillman from Rockwell Collins giving a talk on Tin Whiskers and the dangers of shorted contacts on PCB’s and other electronic circuits caused by using lead free solder.

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Glasgow Uni makes bendy chips

A new method of creating bendable silicon chips could help pave the way for a new generation of high-performance flexible electronic devices, say Glasgow University researchers. The researchers have described how they scaled up the established processes for making flexible silicon chips to the size required for delivering high-performance bendable systems in the future, and ...

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Qualcomm shipments to fall as in-house APs take over.

Smartphone AP units will grow 1.5% this year to 1.67 billion units in 2018, says Digitimes Research. The slowing growth in the smartphone market means global smartphone AP shipments will grow slowly in the next few years, reaching 1.77 billion units in 2021. Qualcomm remains No.1 with MediaTek No.2, In-house-developed chips by Apple, Samsung and ...

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Raspberry Pi 3 gets faster, better Wi-Fi, and PoE-ready

Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ is the highest performance Raspberry Pi yet, with its Brodcom BCM2837 now clocked at 1.4GHz instead of the Pi 3’s 1.2GHz. What has allowed the extra speed, according to Farnell, which has stock and is ready to ship the new board, is new flip-chip packaging for the main processor which, ...

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ADI creates internal silicon PCB for system-in-package ADCs

To increase system-in-package integration density, Analog Devices is stacking die on a passives-on-silicon substrate using technology developed at its Limerick design centre. Dubbed iPassive, “this is a new thing in system-in-package”, ADI field application engineer Thomas Tzscheetzsch told Electronics Weekly at Embedded World in Nuremberg. “The passives are in the silicon, not in poly, real ...

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The Guild of Makers to launch in Birmingham

The Guild of Makers is a new craft guild for the UK, aiming to help engineer a multi-million pound 'Maker' industry in the UK.

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QuickLogic joins RISC-V Foundation

QuickLogic has joined the RISC-V Foundation, the open, free instruction set architecture (ISA) consortium. QuickLogic says there is strong synergy between the company’s embedded FPGA (eFPGA) (left) initiative, its membership in the GlobalFoundries FDXcelerator Partner Program for 22FDX SoC design, with faster migration to FD-SOI from bulk nodes such as 40nm and 28nm. eFPGA customers ...

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Qualcomm and China – according to Broadcom

In the war of words between  Broadcom and Qualcomm, Broadcom has released an infographic showing Qualcomm’s involvement with Chinese organisations. The infographic is in response to the CFIUS investigation as to whether a successful takeover of Qualcomm by Broadcom would lead to China getting its hands on Qualcomm’s 5G technology. Meanwhile  executive chairman Paul Jacobs, ...

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Sanjay Jha leaves GloFo

After more than four years as CEO of Globalfoundries, Sanjay Jha (pictured)  is resigning and Dr. Thomas Caulfield is taking over. Caulfield joined GF in 2014 after 17 years at IBM where he built and ramped the company’s new 14nm production facility in upstate New York. In 2015, GloFo  acquired IBM’s microelectronics business, bringing a ...

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On-chip inductors get smaller with graphene and electron momentum

US researchers have made on-chip inductors smaller by adding ‘kinetic inductance’ to conventional magnetic inductance. The work cuts the size of 10-50GHz inductors by a third. Kinetic inductance arises from the physical momentum of charge carriers resisting the change in current direction associated with a change in electric field, according to the team, from the ...

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Call for clarity in on-coming GDPR data regulations

Pick your data security standards carefully when responding to the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) that will be in force in May, was the message UK memory firm Integral Memory bought with it on its first trip to Embedded World in Nuremberg. “GDPR has brought the issue of data security into sharp focus,” said Integral ...

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Knowles offers EMI filters for space and medical

Syfer-branded EMI filters from Knowles Precision Devices are being targeted at medical implantable devices and the space sector. Designed for replacing conventional array filters in medical implantable devices is the SYFER E03 (X2Y) range. Available in case sizes from 0805 to 2220 these are integrated passive devices featuring both common and differential mode capacitors in a single ...

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Legal challenge to US FCC net neutrality ruling

Following  legal challenges by 22 US States’ Attorneys-General to the US FCC’s February 22nd order to overturn net neutrality rules, the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict litigation says that the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court in San Francisco will hear the consolidated challenges. The San Francisco court has 24 judges, of which 18 were appointed by ...

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Legal challenge to US FCC net neutrality ruling

sFollowing legal challenges by 22 US States’ Attorneys-general to the US FCC’s February 22nd order to overturn net neutrality rules, the  U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict litigation says that the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court in San Francisco will hear the consolidated challenges. The San Francisco court has 24 judges, of which 18 were appointed by Democratic ...

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Toshiba still intends to sell memory unit

Despite reports that Toshiba may walk away from the proposed sale of  its memory business to a Bain-Hynix led consortium, the head of the  memory unit says the deal is going ahead. At the moment the deal is awaiting tegulatory approval from China. A clause in the sale agreement says that if regulatory approvals are ...

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EEVblog #1062 – Trezor Model T Hardware Wallet Review

Unboxing and review of the new Trezor Model T cryptocurrency bitcoin hardware wallet. And comparison with
Crypto Currency:
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Embedded World: Wi-Fi chip runs from a battery for months

Silicon Labs revealed a Wi-Fi transceiver which consumes so little that it can be used in battery powered IoT sensor nodes, for example. Revealed at Embedded World, the WFM200 system-in-package (SiP, 6.5 x 6.5mm LGA52) consumes 200µA (average, delivery traffic indication message (DTIM)= 3). “We’ve delivered the first low-power Wi-Fi portfolio designed specifically for the ...

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Embedded World: NXP tackles edge processing with Arm-based processors

NXP was aiming at edge computing – data processing before transmission to the cloud – when it introduced the i.MX 8M family CPUS at Embedded World. Made on a 14LPC finfet process, versions with single, dual, and quad Arm Cortex-A53 running up to 2GHz were announced. The chips also include Cortex-M4 real-time processing at 400MHz. ...

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Jumping January reports afdec

Component sales through distribution in the UK and Ireland increased by 21% in January compared to December and by 14.5% y-o-y, says afdec, part of ecsn.  “Compared to the same period 2017, semiconductors sales increased by 16% in January”, and sales of “Passives” also showed a 16% increase”, says ecsn chairman Adam Fletcher, “Electro-mechs increased ...

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European test service for CMOS image sensors up to 12in in diameter

Creating uniform illumination over a large area makes testing wafer-scale CMOS image sensors tricky, according to San Jose-based Presto Engineering, which has just revealed its computer-controlled solution that illuminates sections of the wafer in turn – working for arrays of large sensors, or even single sensors filling a 12in wafer. “An entire wafer can be ...

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Leti writes ‘unbreakable’ security code on to the chip

Leti, the French microelectronics research centre, says it has developed a way to encrypt individual chips with a security code. Working with lithography equipment supplier Mapper Lithography, Leti says it has perfected a way to generate a non-falsifiable code using a new chip design that leverages direct multi-beam writing in a process that fits in ...

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Farnell element14 signs RF connector deal with Amphenol

Farnell element14 is to sell Amphenol SV Microwave connectors in Europe. This agreement, which is part of a global deal, will extend the distributor’s RF connector, adapter and cable assembly product ranges to include higher frequency microwave bands up to 100GHz. Application areas are likely to include 5G as well as military/aerospace. Doug Snader, international ...

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Harting designs low profile 250A connector for railways

Offering a high-current connector for tight spaces on rail vehicles, Harting has added a low profile high-current connector for up to four 250A contacts to its Han HPR connector series. Design for high current motor connections in rail vehicles the connector was originally developed for a tram project in Vienna. In this project the design brief required ...

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Embedded World: Pico’s data logger software gets complete re-design

UK test equipment maker Pico Technology revealed a ground-up redesign of its data logging software at Embedded World. Designed to work with all of the firm’s PC-based data acquisition hardware, the PicoLog 6 is functionally-identical running on Windows, Linux or MacOS. Record limits are up from the 1Mpoints of PicoLog 5, and are now only ...

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Cobham Wireless delivers massive MIMO to China Mobile

Cobham Wireless has delivered its massive MIMO  test solution to China Mobile Research Institute, to enable the operator to benefit from the capacity and performance gains of digital Massive MIMO technology. The concept of digital Massive MIMO has been introduced in 4.5G technology, vastly improving network capacity and energy efficiency by increasing the number of ...

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Embedded World: Renesas builds Ethernet controller into RJ45 socket

Renesas is aiming at industrial controllers by building an entire Profinet interface inside an RJ45 connector. EtherCAT and EtherNet/IP versions will follow once associated software is ready. The hardware is accompanied by software to support the industrial Ethernet protocol stacks. Dubbed I-RJ45, there are single and dual port versions “which simplify integration for industrial Ethernet ...

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Webinar: MagicClick – The other way to an AOI test program

Make a note for your diary, for a new Electronics Weekly webinar – MagicClick: The other way to an AOI test program Electronics Weekly is joining forces with Goepel Electronics to discuss the way that an automatic AOI test program can be generated, by using MagicClick. On Thursday 15 March at 15:00pm (GMT), it will ...

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Glasgow’s CST samples lasers for 10G optical networks

CST Global, the Glasgow semiconductor laser manufacturer, says it is sampling its 1270nm, 2.5Gbit/s asymmetric and 10Gbit/s symmetric, DFB lasers for 10G PON (passive optical network) applications. The firm is currently beta sampling its asymmetric 2.5Gbit/s lasers and alpha sampling its symmetric, 10Gbit/s lasers. The asymmetric beta samples, which are undergoing ITU-GR468 reliability testing, are ...

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EU digital single market exit would be a big mistake, says head of web firm

Theresa May’s decision to take the UK out of the EU’s Digital Single Market (DSM) has sent a shockwave through the country’s digital community. The fear is that the technology sector will faces a prolonged period of commerial and trading uncertainty. The head of one the UK’s larger internet hosting firms UKFast believes leaving the ...

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System-in-package-on-module eases industrial Linux computer design

To ease the layout of industrial Linux computer PCBs, at Embedded World in Nuremberg Microchip announced a complete processor, memory and comms sub-system in a 40 x 38mm module. The module is single sided, and can be soldered straight to a PCB via its 0.8mm interconnect. “There is a great deal of design effort and ...

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APEC: Microsemi samples 1.2kV SiC mosfets

Microsemi is sampling the first of its next-generation 1.2kV silicon carbide mosfets, the 40m[Ohm] MSC040SMA120B, plus 1.2kV SiC Schottky barrier diodes to go with it. For rugged operation in industrial, automotive and commercial aviation, the SiC mosfet family is avalanche-rated and offers a high short circuit withstand rating. Additional members of the product family will ...

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APEC: Production for Helix switched capacitor dc-dc

MxC200 is a configurable 15W dc-dc power IC from fabless chip firm Helix Semiconductors. Previously known as HS200, MxC200 is a switched capacitor converter with three voltage halving stages, accepting 12-48V at the input. The three stages have separate inputs and outputs and can be mixed and matched in several configurations. When configured as a ...

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APEC: Synchronous rectifier controller saves secondary-side power

Diodes has announced ZXGD3113, a synchronous rectifier controller intended to work with a mosfet to replace the voltage drop associated with a Schottky diode on the secondary side of an isolated power converter such as ac-dc power supplies – potentially removing the need for secondary-side heatsinking. “ZXGD3113 controls an external MOSFET, such as the 100V ...

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APEC: more on: TI’s three-level buck converter battery charger

To save space in battery chargers, Texas Instruments has introduced a 6A three-level buck converter, the bq25910, aimed at phones, tablets and electronic point-of-sale devices. Charging single Li-ion or Li-polymer cells, 95.4% efficiency is available at 1.5A from a 5V input, or 93.3% at 3A from 9V. As well as four switching fets, there is ...

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Nexperia opens assemly and test plsnt in Guangdong

Nexperia, the former NXP standard products divsion, has opened an assembly, test and warehouse site in Guangdong covering 72,000 square meters, adding an extra 16,000 square meters of production space. This will enable the factory in Guangdong to produce 90 billion parts annually, representing an increase of around 50% depending on product mix, and supporting Nexperia’s ...

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Cree buys Infineon RF power business

Cree has acquired the assets of Infineon’s RF power business  for approximately € 345 million. The transaction expands the Cree Wolfspeed business unit’s wireless market opportunity. Infineon continues to drive key growth areas such as electro-mobility, autonomous driving, renewables and technologies for a connected world. The transaction has closed and is effective today. “The acquisition ...

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Off-line switcher can be reconfigured live, and supports USB PD 3.0 + PPS

Power Integrations has added digital control to its ac-dc controller range, in the form of InnoSwitch 3-Pro. The InnoSwitch range is unique in that it includes primary and secondary controller chips in the same package, data-linked within by isolated inductive coupling to eliminate the need for external opto-isolator feedback – that can be used to ...

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Bumper crop for EW BrightSparks 2018

Thank you to all those who took the time to enter EW BrightSparks 2018 before the deadline.

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Embedded World: FRAM for critical data logging

Cypress announced an FRAM non-volatile memory family for mission-critical data capture at Embedded World in Nuremberg. With a serial interface, the Excelon family offers high-speed data recording in harsh operating environments over wide temperature ranges. Excelon Auto offers automotive-grade 2 to 4Mbit storage in AEC-Q100 options with ISO 26262 functional safety compliance Excelon Ultra offers 4-8Mbit ...

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EEVblog #1061 – Data IO Programmer REPAIR – Part 1

Repairing the Data IO universal programmer.
Will it be a happy ending?

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EEVblog #1060 – $35,000 DataIO Unisite Universal Programmer Teardown!

Marty! This is the big one, the one I’ve been waiting for all my life!
Teardown of the classic Data IO Unisite Universal Programmer from the 1980’s, with a typical configuration selling for $35,000
It stayed in production for over 20 years.

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UPDATE: From one of the original designers!

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Qualcomm postpones AGM and shareholder vote on composition of board for 30 days.

Qualcomm, which was due to hold a vote of its shareholders tomorrow on whether to elect six Broadcom-nominated directors which would give Broadcom a majority on the Qualcomm board, has postponed  the vote for 30 days This is Qualcomm’s statement justifying the move: “Broadcom Limited’s response to the order from the Committee on Foreign Investment in the ...

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Embedded World: Supermicro’s Skylake-D, IoT edge PCs and 20 NVMe SSDs in 1U

Supermicro was showing several new products amongst its existing range of servers and edge PCs at Embedded World in Nuremberg. Based on Intel’s Xeon D-2146NT 8 core 16 thread processor is the SYS-5019D-FN8TP rackmount server that, into a 1U high chassis, squeezes two 2.5in or four 2.5in drivesand up to 512Gbyte of ECC LRDIMM memory ...

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Embedded World 2018: In picture form…

Embedded World 2018 is over now, but check out these images captured from the show floor in Nuremberg. And don’t forget – for all our show coverage, simply view: www.electronicsweekly.com/tag/embedded-world/ And for all the video interviews captured at the show – from Elatec, Rohde & Schwarz, Arrow Electronics, SensiEDGE, Lattice Semiconductor, Analog Devices, Harwin and Broadcom ...

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Cypress adds Arm secure firmware to PSoC6

Cypress Semiconductor has implemented Arm’s Platform Security Architecture (PSA) Trusted Firmware-M reference example on Cypress’ PSoC 6 MCUs. “PSA is a set of threat models, security analyses, hardware and firmware architecture specifications, and an open source firmware reference implementation,” said Arm. “It provides a recipe, based on industry best practice, that allows security to be ...

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Most popular Pi accessories

Farnell element 14, which has sold over 10 million Raspberry Pi boards, has drawn up a list of the Pi’s most popular a. Essories. “The Raspberry Pi is one of the great building blocks for makers today and can be found in the modern day tool shed of just about every maker, designer and engineer,” ...

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Mobile World Congress: New Radio standard triggers early 5G launch

The mobile industry’s decision at the end of 2017 to agree on millimetre-wave frequency bands for 5G has provided the trigger for an acceleration in 5G network development At Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week, mobile operators said the ratification of the 5G New Radio (NR) standards will mean they can aim for a ...

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NI brings TSN to CompactRIO

NI’s latest CompactRIO Controllers include NI-DAQmx and Time Sensitive Networking (TSN) to support deterministic communication and synchronised measurements across standard Ethernet networks. TSN has evolved from the IEEE 802.11 Ethernet standard, and it can be used to synchronise distributed systems across networks, which eliminates the need for additional synchronisation cables. A design challenge for industrial ...

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