Xilinx reports record revenues and searches for UK engineers

Xilinx has posted record revenues of $2.54 billion for the fiscal year 2018, an increase of 8% from last year. Revenues were $673 million for Q4 of FY 2018, up 7% from the prior quarter and up 10% from Q4 FY 2017. CEO Victor Peng attributes the growth to :a three-pronged approach”, focusing on data ...

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Andes adopts UltraSoC

Andes has adopted UltraSoC’s  embedded analytics technology for use in its AndesCore range of RISC-V processors. “We are collaborating with mutual customers on implementations which utilise the  V5 AndeStar architecture with the support of UltraSoC’s SoC analytics and debug IP, and processor trace, ” says UltraSoC CEO Rupert Baines (pictured). Andes will leverage UltraSoC IP ...

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EEVblog #1079 – Mailbag

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Brads Projects: https://bradsprojects.com/
Microelectronics Timeline Poster
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Big Clown IoT kit: http://igg.me/at/bigclown
USB TouchPad: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jacoburge/touchpad-the-arduino-compatible-customisable-keybo
Fluxgate compass teardown
Oregon Scientific temperature sensor teardown
CCES-33 Calculator Kit
The crustiest multimeter teardown in history
Alcatel 565 Mbit/s PDH mux

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EEVblog #1078 – World’s Thinnest Calculator Teardown!

A look at the amazing construction techniques used in the world’s thinnest calculator by Casio
Destructive teardown on the Casio SL800 credit card calculator from 1983.
It’s more interesting than expected!

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Imperial launches GraphicsFuzz bug-hunter start-up

Imperial Innovations, the technology commercialisation partner for Imperial College London, announces the launch of Imperial College London spinout, GraphicsFuzz, a software company which has developed a testing solution for graphics drivers. GraphicsFuzz was founded by Imperial researchers in the Multicore Programming Group at Imperial College London and is led by Alastair Donaldson, Hugues Evrard and ...

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Toshiba launches 256GB USB 3.0 drive

Toshiba has announced a 256GB USB 3.0 flash drive with a maximum read speed of 150MB/s in a retractable form factor. Four variants are available, with 32, 64 128 and 256GB of storage. The 256GB model can hold approximately 5 hours of 4K video or  715 five-minute songs of high-resolution 192 kHz/24bit stream audio. U365’s cap-less ...

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Qualcomm and partners demonstrate vehicle-to-everything comms

What is believed to be the world’s first demonstration for cellular vehicle-to-everything (C-V2X) direct communications technology operating across vehicles from different manufacturers took place in Washington DC, USA this week. Using Qualcomm’s C-V2X chipset in Audi and Ford vehicles, demonstrations showed how C-V2X communications can alert nearby vehicles to potential hazards when the driver’s view ...

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Memristor-based physically-uncloneable function for hardware security

US researchers have used memristors to create a copy-proof hardware security block for integrated circuits. The particular block is a ‘physically uncloneable function’ (PU) – a block with logic inputs and outputs that can be mass produced, with each individual item always booting-up with the same numerical characteristics, that are statistically unrelated to the numerical ...

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Osmium compound opens door to quantum spin liquid, and maybe quantum computing

A new material could sustain a quantum spin liquid, and be useful in quantum computing, according to Oregon State University wher it was invented. Lithium osmium oxide is the compound, where the osmium atoms form a honeycomb-like lattice, enforcing a phenomenon called ‘magnetic frustration’ that could lead to a quantum spin liquid predicted by condensed ...

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Harting adds wireless to MICA industrial computer range

Harting has upgraded its MICA industrial computer range to include the MICA 2, which offers three to five times the computing power of the MICA Basic for demanding data acquisition and processing. It has also introduced the MICA Wireless with 2G/3G/4G, 802.11a/b/g/n and Glonass for data acquisition and communication and the MICA Energy, which allows ...

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Arrow offers low power wireless node development

Arrow Electronics has added a development board  which uses the NXP Semiconductors Kinetis KW41Z multi-protocol wireless MCU for low-power design of connected devices. Dubbed the Tiger board, it is likely to be used for design of products like smart door locks, portable healthcare technology, wearable sports monitors and RF remote controls. The Kinetis KW41Z’s integrated ...

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Solar PV inverter market to decline over next four years

According to research by GlobalData, the global solar PV inverter market will decline from $6.3bn in 2017 to $3.7bn by 2022. The report Solar PV inverters – Update 2018 says that Asia Pacific, currently the leading market for solar inverters, with a market valued at £3.75b in 2017, will suffer the most and see its market share fall ...

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SMD antenna covers multiple IoT bands

Fractus Antennas has focussed on antennas for NB-IoT, LoRa, Zigbe and SigFox IoT with an application note. The note studies the effect on ground plane size (across 40×20 to 75x54mm) on the effectiveness of its 3x12mm (2.4mm high) FR01-S4-224 surface-mount antenna, operating in this case in the 863-928MHz band. “IoT could be anything around and the challenge ...

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Wilma is AI finalist

Wilma, the AI system developed by  Shropshire agritech start-up Small Robot Company, is a finalist for Computing’s Big Data Excellence Awards. The Small Robot Company harnesses the power and precision of robots and Artificial Intelligence (AI) to improve the way that food is produced and minimise chemical usage. Wilma will work alongside Small Robot Company’s ...

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20mm circular connectors now range from 2 to 12 ways

Bulgin has extended its 4000 series of miniature circular power connectors, adding 2, 4, 6 and 10-pole versions to the existing 3, 8 and 12-pole types. “These additions to our 4000 series connectors give designers more options when selecting rugged connectors for their designs,” said Bulgin engineering team leader Christian Taylor. “Not only does having the exact ...

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Autonomous cars will be drivers’ eyes and ears

The University of Warwick’s Warwick Manufacturing Group (WMG) will contribute connected, autonomous driving systems skills to the AutopleX project to develop autonomous vehicles that can “see” around corners and through obstacles. The £4.7m project is funded by Innovate UK and led by Jaguar Land Rover, to combine connected and live mapping technology for fully- and semi-automated vehicle technologies. As ...

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Digital indicator works with up to eight sensors

A single UM33A digital indicator from Yokogawa can receive, process, and sequentially display data from up to eight RS-485 Modbus RTU field sensors. “In recent years, there has been a growing need to strengthen the monitoring of data from field sensors,” said the firm. “For safety and other reasons, operators need the ability to remotely ...

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Manchester and Shandong collaborate on nanoscale transistor for flexible displays

Researchers developed a fast nanoscale oxide semiconductor-based TFT.

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Pressure sensor built over finished CMOS

Fraunhofer IMS has developed a way to build pressure sensors on top of finished CMOS wafers, saving chip area over the alternative side-by-side approach, claimed the institute. “Due to the specially developed sensor process steps, which run at temperatures below 400°C, the circuit and sensor production can be decoupled from each other,” said the Fraunhofer, ...

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TTI stocks Panasonic’s power choke coil and hybrid capacitors

Power choke coils and conductive polymer hybrid aluminium surface mount capacitors from Panasonic are now available in Europe from TTI. The LP-series power choke coils and ZE series capacitors (pictured) have a high ripple current (up to 2.0A) and a low ESR value. The rugged LP power choke coils offer inductance stability over a broad temperature range, have low ...

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MICA enhancements boost computing power

At this year’s Hannover Fair, Harting announced new models for its MICA (Modular Industry Computing Architecture) industrial computer platform. The first is MICA 2, which offers three to five times the computing power of the Basic version to meet data acquisition and processing demands for industry 4.0 and other computing applications. There is also MICA ...

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Amplicon offers Cisco Ethernet switch for extreme environments

Amplicon has introduced as Cisco premier partner the IE 4010, an industrial rackmount Ethernet switch designed for extreme industrial environments. The ethernet switch offers 24Gbit PoE/PoE+ capable ports, making it suitable for use as access switches in industrial environments to connect high definition IP cameras, Access Points and IP phones.  These switches provide high-bandwidth switching (Layer ...

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Würth Elektronik offers tiny step-down DC-DC converter

Würth Elektronik eiSos has expanded its range of power modules with a high power density step-down converter with variable output voltage. Called the MagI³C-VDMM (variable step down micro-module), it comes in a small LGA-6EP package with dimensions of 3.2 × 2.5 × 1.6mm. The input voltage range VIN for the step-down converters extends from 2.75 ...

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Millimetre-wave research lab at Queen’s University Belfast gets Keysight testers

A new millimetre-wave research lab at Queen’s University Belfast has been equipped by test system supplier Keysight Technologies. The lab, which can accommodate 60 researchers, students and engineers, is located in the Centre for Wireless Innovation at the University’s Institute of Electronics, Communications and Information Technology (ECIT). Professor Vincent Fusco, Chief Technical Officer of ECIT and ...

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Rad hard 12bit ADC spreads 6Gsample/s over four channels

Teledyne e2v has released its most advanced ADC yet, with four 12bit 1.5Gsample/s converters that can be mixed and matched across one to four inputs – allowing single-channel 6Gsample/s operation. Called EV12AQ600, it is offered in a radiation-tolerant version, “making it the first quad-channel ADC suitable for space applications”, said the firm. “Customers can design systems ...

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Resettable fuse carries 20A for Li-ion batteries

Bourns has introduced a series of miniature resettable thermal cut-off (TCO) devices for dense, high capacity lithium-ion battery packs. The Model AC series offers five trip temperatures: 72, 77, 82, 85 or 90°C (all +/-5°C) – the latter of which “is capable of carrying up to 20A at 60°C, making it the highest current-carrying TCO ...

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Partner in Imagination’s owner convicted of insider trading

A co-founder and partner in Canyon Bridge, the China-backed private equity firm which took over Imagination, has been convicted of insider trading by a New York federal court. The insider trading relates to Canyon Bridge’s failed attempt to buy Lattice Semiconductor in 2016. Benjamin Chow was found guilty of passing details of the proposed deal ...

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Tandem organic solar cells reaches 15% efficiency

Researchers at the University of Michigan have found a way to stack solution-processed organic solar cells on top of vacuum-processed cells, creating an tandem solar cell with 15% efficiency. “For the last couple of years, efficiency for organic photo-voltaics was stuck around 11 to 12%,” said Michigan physicist Xiaozhou Che. The top solution-processed non-fullerene-acceptor cell ...

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Manchester thin-film oxide transistor hits 1GHz

The university of Manchester has made a 1GHz thin-film transistor from amorphous IGZO – indium gallium zinc oxide. The devices, created with Shandong University in China, are made on a high-resistance silicon substrate using Ta2O5 gate dielectric. The material is 80% transparent, opening the door to display applications. “Making a high performance device, like our GHz ...

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Picture Gallery: PA’s Raspberry Pi Competition 2018, in picture form

The theme for this year’s PA Consulting’s Raspberry Pi Competition 2018 was Sustainability. More than 100 schools were challenged to build projects around the credit card-sized computer that could help to ‘save the planet’. And these entries were whittled down to the nine finalists judged at the IET, at Savoy Place, last week. The imaginative ...

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Sound shaping technology to be funded by RAEng

A professor at the University of Sussex has been given the job of making the UK a world-leader in sound shaping technology. Professor Sriram Subramanian has been named a Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng) chair for the development of novel acoustic interfaces. This is one of a ten areas of development emerging technology being created ...

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Internal magnet means Hall sensor detects plain steel

Allegro MicroSystems precision programmable Hall sensor IC that includes differential Hall elements and an internal rare-earth magnet to allow it to detect ferrous targets that are not themselves magnetic. Called ATS344, it is intended for automotive applications requiring high resolution detection of long stroke (>5 mm) linear motion. “The ATS344 is well-suited for applications that require ...

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Blighter wins first radar sale into India

Cambridge-based Blighter Surveillance Systems has made its first sale into India for its Blighter B400 series ground surveillance radar. The contract was awarded by system integrator Tata Power following a trial organised by India’s border management organisation in Gwalior in 2016. Blighter radars will be deployed by Tata during 2018 as part of the Indian ...

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1,200W Class-D audio amplifier has 130dB SNR and built-in mains PSU

Designed with a whisper-quiet noise floor – <30μV (130dB SNR), 1200AS is a family of high power Class-D audio amplifiers from ICEpower of Copenhagen. Intended for PA speakers, line arrays and professional single or dual sub-woofers, they are based on the firm’s own ICEedge chip-set and include a universal mains switch mode power supply with ...

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Queen’s Awards recognise Cambridge IC, and others

This year Queen’s Awards for Enterprise as usual feature many electronics companies. One such is Cambridge IC, maker of rotary and linear position sensing chips, which was awarded a ‘Queen’s Awards for Enterprise – International Trade’. “Our international trade has increased 5x over the last four years,” founder David Ely told Electronics Weekly. “Almost all ...

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Tiny PC spectrum analiser for serial busses

Ikalogic has introduced four-channel USB logic analysers, primarily for debugging serial data busses. Protocol decoding for 30 busses including I2C, SPI, RS232, CAN or 1-Wire are available. Called ScanaQuad, the devices are 50x50mm in size and operate with the firm’s ScanaStudio software running on a host Windows PC, Linux PC or Mac.   “The software lets ...

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House of Lords raises space concerns

The House of Lords EU Internal Market Sub-Committee has written to Sam Gyimah MP, Minister of State for Universities, Science, Research and Innovation, to raise concerns about the progress of, and the Government’s commitment to UK space programmes after Brexit. The letter calls on the Government to act quickly to achieve an agreement that preserves UK ...

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RS launches DesignSpark Marketplace

RS Components (RS) has unveiled a beta version of a new platform called DesignSpark Marketplace which enables makers, pro-makers, start-ups and small businesses to promote and sell their own inventions and product creations to a wide audience of fellow makers and engineers, including more than 650,000 members of the RS DesignSpark engineering and maker community. ...

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End-to-end sub-GHz kit from Farnell

Farnell element14 has launched the element14 development kit for the TI SimpleLink Sub-1 GHz Sensor to Cloud Linux Gateway. M The kit provides an end-to-end tool to enable a Sub-1 GHz sensor network with an Internet of Things (IoT) gateway and cloud connectivity. In the growing industrial IoT market, there is a need for connecting ...

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EEVblog #1077 – Dumpster PC Repair

Power supply repair attempt on an i7-2600 Dell Optiplex 990 dumpster PC.
An update on previous dumpster PC’s.
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6A SMD IDC connectors are only 2.55mm high

AVX has released surface-mount insulation-displacement wire-to-board connectors that are a mere 2.55mm high. Rated at 300V and 6A (22AWG wire – 24AWG is 5A, 26 is 4A) and known as the 9176-800 Series, operation is across -40°C to +125°C. 28AWG versions are in development. The metal part is fatigue resistant phosphor bronze and the wire can ...

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Design Automation Conference reflects emergence of AI alongside EDA

The 55th Design Automation Conference (DAC) programme reflects the changes in the design industry, with artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, the IoT, storage and security listed as conference topics, alongside the more ‘traditional’ EDA, IP and embedded system design sessions. Alongside EDA companies, Cadence Design Systems, Siemens’ Mentor Graphics and Synopsys, will be NEC, IBM, ...

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Toshiba shipping gate driver optocoupler in SO8L package

Toshiba has launched  of a new gate driver photocoupler housed in a low-profile SO8L package. The TLP5832 delivers 2.5A peak output current (IOPH,IOPL) and can directly drive medium-class IGBTs and MOSFETs in applications such as inverters for industrial, air conditioning and solar applications as well as servo amplifiers. Adoption of the SO8L package delivers a ...

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Nexperia raises $800m

Nexperia, the former standard products division of NXP which was sold to China, has raised $800 million. Bank of America Merrill Lynch and HSBC co-ordinated the fund-raising from nine  banks. Nexperia’s  two main shareholders are the Chinese investment funds JAC Capital and Wise Road Capital. “This is the first time that Nexperia has approached the financial ...

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Microsemi and MathWorks support FPGA-in-the-loop verification

Microsemi and MathWorks launched  hardware support for FPGA-in-the-loop (FIL) verification workflow with Microsemi FPGA development boards. The integrated FIL workflow with HDL Coder and HDL Verifier from MathWorks enables customers to automatically generate test benches for hardware description language (HDL) verification, including VHSIC Hardware Description Language (VHDL) and Verilog, providing rapid prototyping and verification of ...

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Molex announces Squba

Molex has announced the  Squba 1.80mm-Pitch Sealed Wire-to-Wire Connector System, designed to fit in small spaces and provide protection against liquid, dust and dirt. The connectors carry up to a 6.0A current and provide an IP67 NEMA rating on the seals. Seals are retained with caps to provide manufacturers of sensors, lighting, vending machines and ...

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New twist on old technique could extract electricity from low-grade heat

Pyroelectricity could extract energy from heat sources below100°C, offering an alternative to thermo-electric generators (TEGs). TEGs make electricity through the Seebeck effect, where different conductive materials in contact develop a potential difference across the contact point. Pyroelectric materials, in contrast, develop a potential across a crystal of one material due to electrons shifting as a ...

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Telonic Instruments announces Kikusui’s benchtop power supplies

The UK release of the Kikusui PWR-01 series of programmable benchtop DC power supplies

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Waterproof wire-to-wire connectors for up to 6A

Squba is a 1.80mm-pitch sealed wire-to-wire connector system from Molex, designed to fit in small spaces and provide protection against liquid, dust and dirt. The connectors carry up to a 6A and provide an IP67 NEMA rating on the seals – seals are retained with caps to provide manufacturers of sensors, lighting, vending machines and ...

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Eval kit for blood pressure wearables

Renesas has launched a blood pressure monitor evaluation kit including a circuit board, pressure sensor, arm cuff, pump, electronically-controlled valve, LCD panel and software. The PCB is based around a dedicated RL78 core-based chip (RL78/H1D) that includes the analogue functions needed for blood pressure measurement. Reference software is included, as is graphical user interface (GUI) ...

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2.5A 5kV isolated gate driver is just 2.3mm high, with 8mm creepage

Toshiba’s TLP5832 gate driver photo-coupler delivers 2.5A peak output current from an SO8L package only 2.3mm high – approximately 50% lower than the firm’s current SDIP6 and DIP8 packages. “In spite of its small size, the IC offers an isolation voltage [BVS] of 5,000Vrms and guarantees creepage and clearance distances of minimum 8.0mm, making it suitable for applications ...

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Nordic supports concurrent Zigbee and Bluetooth for smart homes

Nordic Semiconductor has a Zigbee protocol stack to its nRF52840 multi-protocol system-on-chip, which now supports concurrent Zigbee and Bluetooth (5.0 and LE) operation. “Nordic’s multi-protocol solution for nRF52840 enables use cases that take advantage of several wireless technologies,” according to the firm. “Examples include interaction with a Zigbee smart lighting network from a smartphone via ...

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Farnell element14 adds 160MHz ARBs from Aim TTi

Farnell element14 has added  Aim TTi TGF3000 series of dual channel arbitrary function generators to its instrumentation range. The TGF3000 series initially consists of two models, the TG3082 (dual channel, 80MHz, 14 bits / 400MS/s) and TG3162 (dual channel 160MHz, 16 bits / 800MS/s), with two channels that can operate as independent generators or in ...

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Large hadron collider beams – made in Switzerland, monitored by Germans

Over 140 digitiser cards from Spectrum Instrumentation are being used to protection systems in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. The needle-like particle beams within the LHC contain huge amounts of energy – 350MJ, about as much as the Flying Scotsman at full speed – and cannot simply be turned off. Instead, each is ...

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Renesas develops blood pressure evaluation kit

Renesas is selling a blood pressure monitoring evaluation kit including a pressure sensor, arm cuff, pump, electronically controlled valve, LCD panel, and a reference board that incorporates an RL78 MCU-based ASSP  that includes analogue functions required for blood pressure measurement. Reference software and graphical user interface (GUI) development tool are also part of the new evaluation ...

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Intel closes New Devices Group

Intel is closing down its New Devices Group, which developed AR  and  wearables. “Intel is continuously working on new technologies and experiences. Not all of these develop into a product we choose to take to market,” said Intel. Intel’s  AR spectacles, Vaunt, will not now be marketed. “We are going to take a disciplined approach ...

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Qualcomm to start job cuts

Qualcomm is reported by Bloomberg to be about to cut 1,500 jobs in California. The company has 33,800 full-time and temporary employees. Severance packages have been offered. “Qualcomm is conducting a reduction of our full-time and temporary workforce,”  says a spokesperson. During its fight with Broadcom, Qualcomm told investors it would make $1 billion in cost ...

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UK and India ink tech deal

The UK-India Tech Partnership, established yesterday between Theresa May and Indian PM Narendra Modi is expected to identify and pair businesses, venture capital, universities and others to provide access routes to markets for British and Indian entrepreneurs and small and medium enterprises. The UK will initially invest £1 million to pilot the approach and potentially ...

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Semi packaging materials market reaches $16.7bn

The semiconductor packaging materials market reached $16.7 billion in 2017, report SEMI and TechSearch International. While slower growth of smartphones and personal computers – the industry’s traditional drivers – is reducing material consumption, the slowdown was offset by strong unit growth in the cryptocurrency market in 2017 and early 2018. Flip chip package shipments into ...

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Nano-C raises $11.5m

Nano-C has closed an $11.5 million funding round of which Ray Stata, the co-founder and chairman of Analog Devices, invested $3 million. Nano-C is the company providing the new materials (carbon nanotubes and fullerenes) to Nantero for NRAM memory, Merck for Solar, Irresistible Materials for EUV photo-Resist, and a major display company to be announced. ...

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UHF harvester powers retail tag over 2m gap

US energy harvesting firm Powercast has developed a battery-free retail price tag that can be changed from 2m away using a hand-held UHF programmer. Key to the tag is the firm’s PCC110 UHF-to-dc harvestign chip and an Eink display that only needs power to change, retaining its display after power is removed. “Powercast developed the ...

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Two-channel power system monitors current, power and energy

LTC2972  is a 2-channel power system manager, featuring current, power and energy monitoring around an intermediate bus and point-of-load (POL) converter. Monitoring circuit board power and energy use is a prerequisite for managing, optimizing and reducing their consumption in order to lower server rack and data center cooling and utility costs. The LTC2972 relieves the ...

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Guerrilla RF closes $3.8m Series E

Guerrilla RF, closes a Series E funding round with participation from multiple angel investors

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Plessey gets UK greenhouse lighting design-in

Sterling Suffolk will install Plessey LED grow lights in its 54,400m² greenhouse. The model is the Hyperion 1750, Plessey’s latest, and has a maximum light output of 1,750 micromole/s (equivalent to a 1kW SON-T, the incumbent discharge lamp technology – Plessey introduced the 1000 micromole/s Hyperion 1000 in 2017, equivalent to a 600W SON-T. All ...

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EEVblog #1076 – KRK Textile Dome Tweeter Teardown

QUICK teardown of the failed KRK Rokit 6 textile (soft) dome tweeter.

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Raspberry Pi gets IP40 protection from Phoenix Contact

Phoenix Contact has introduced a housing for Raspberry Pi minicomputers which are designed to provide Raspberry Pi B2 and B3 models with mechanical and physical protection. The UCS-RPI series of light grey or black housings offer IP40 degree of protection are available in the sizes 125 mm x 87 mm and 145 mm x 125 ...

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Distributors prepare for the worst on US-China tariffs

“We need to prepare for the worst and hope for the best,” says ECSN and IDEA chairman Adam Fletcher, following the announcement that US proposes an additional tariff of 25% on electronic components produced in China and imported into the US. The list of electronic components included contains over 1,400 products includes all tantalum, aluminium, ...

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Huawei gets Cyber Essentials Plus certification.

Huawei has achieved Cyber Essentials Plus certification. The Cyber Essentials scheme, which was launched by the UK Government in 2014 and is part of the Government’s National Cyber Security Strategy, involves an independent assessment of security controls that businesses need to have in place to mitigate risks from common cyber threats. By taking part in ...

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Brushed motor driver handles up to 50V 9A

Toshiba has created a motor driver for brushed electric motors used in, for example, domestic robotic vacuum cleaners, banking terminals and cash dispensers. Called TB67H420FTG, it can separately control two 50V motors running at up to 4.5A, or via a separate mode the bridges can be combined to power a single 50V 9A motor. The internal mosfets ...

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Scorpion Automotive sponsors motorcycle racing

Lancashire electronics manufacturer Scorpion Automotive is sponsoring a team in the British Superbike Championship, through its specialist motorcycle brand Datatool. The team is Team WD40 of GR Motosport, and Datatool logos will be seen on motorcycles ridden by Mason Law, Alastair Seeley and Liam Delves throughout the 2018 Championship Series. “Our sponsorship of GR Motorsport is a great opportunity ...

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Mouser to sponsor NXP Cup for autonomous vehicles

Mouser will be the lead distribution sponsor for the NXP Cup, a global competition where student teams build, program, and race model cars around a track. The EMEA finals of the NXP Cup will take place at the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits (IIS) in Erlangen, Germany. The NXP Cup challenges student teams from around ...

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Dc-dc supports 48V GPUs in 12V data centres for 1,000A GPUs

Vicor has announced a 12-48V non-isolated up converter to support 48V high-performance GPUs in data centres with legacy 12V power distribution. NBM2317S14B5415T00 converts 750W continuously (1kW peak) through a 23 x 17 x 7.4mm surface-mount SM-ChiP package with >98% peak efficiency. “The NBM supports state-of-the-art 48V input GPUs using power-on-package [PoP] modular current multipliers [MCMs] driven ...

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EDA industry reports 10% growth 2016-2017

The Electronic Design System Design (ESD) Alliance reports increases in industry revenue from Q3 2016 to Q4 2017, and eight consecutive years of growth. Overall industry revenue increased 10.7% to $2218.6m in Q4 2017, from Q4 2016’s $2455m. The highest growth was in the Americas, where revenues increased 19.5% in the period, followed by Asia-Pacific region ...

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Mouser takes on Altitude

Mouser has signed Altitude Technology to a global distribution agreement. Altitude is designer and supplier of intelligent sensorbtechnologies for the smart home and IoT markets. As part of the agreement, Mouser Electronics becomes an authorized distributor of Altitude Tech’s line of IoT Bit HAT modules and accessories, which integrate with the Raspberry Pi single-board computer ...

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Alliance is formed to address 48V conversion

Four companies, Artesyn Embedded Technologies, Bel Power Solutions, Flex and STMicroelectronics have formed the Power Stamp Alliance with the aim of defining a standard footprint for 48V DC/DC modules with a designated pin-out. The Alliance will mean there is no single source for the modules which will combine DOSA (Distributed power Open Standards Alliance) and ...

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Luxoft launches open source automotive software development platform

The automotive division of Luxoft Holding has launched PELUX 1.0, a base development platform designed to provide the building blocks for automotive software development projects, which is now available on Open Source. PELUX 1.0 was developed from Luxoft’s PELUX software suite which, for over four years, has helped carmakers and tier one suppliers to develop ...

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Finnish battery start-up raises €500,000

One year-old lithium-ion diagnostic startup Akkurate of Turku Finland, which specialises in the testing, optimising, and analysing of lithium batteries, has raised €500,000. Investors include Finnish Lifeline Ventures, Suffice International from Hong Kong and the Lappeenranta University of Technology investment company Green Campus Innovations.  The start-up was born out of Microsoft’s takeover of Nokia. “The ...

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Step-up µModule regulator in a 6.25mm x 6.25mm x 2.42mm BGA package.

The Power by Linear LTM4661 is a low power step-up µModule regulator in a 6.25mm x 6.25mm x 2.42mm BGA package. Only a few capacitors and one resistor are required to complete the design, and the solution occupies less than 1cm² single-sided or 0.5cm² on double-sided PCBs. The LTM4661 incorporates a switching DC/DC controller, MOSFETs, inductors and ...

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Farnell signs Nordic

Farnell has signed Nordic Semiconductor. “Farnell’s profile matches Nordic Semiconductor’s requirement to make its Bluetooth 5 and other low power wireless connectivity solutions available to the widest audience” says Nordic’s Geir Langeland, “through the partnership, Nordic’s range of nRF51 and nRF52 Series multiprotocol SoCs, RF protocol stacks and development tools are now even more accessible ...

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EEVblog #1072 – KRK Rokit 6 Studio Monitor Speaker Repair

Repairing a KRK Rokit 6 powered near field studio monitor speaker.
You won’t believe what caused the fault!

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EEVblog #1071 – (UPDATED) Dumpster Dive HP Envy Touch PC REPAIR

Repair of a HP Envy 23″ Touch PC found in the dumpster.
Blank screen and doesn’t boot. Troubleshooting and repair to getting it booted again.
New content at 20:00
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February semi sales up 21% y-o-y

February’s semiconductor sales were 21% up on the $30.47 billion sales of February 2017 at $36.8 billion, but 2.2% down on January’s $37.6 billion, according to the SIA. “The global semiconductor market continued to demonstrate substantial and consistent growth in February, notching its 19th consecutive month of year-to-year sales increases and growing by double-digit percentages ...

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KEMET expands ceramic capacitor series

KEMET  has expanded its ESD rated ceramic capacitor series into a complete product portfolio. Automotive and commercial grades are now available in EIA 0402, 0603, 0805 and 1206 case sizes with voltage ratings of 16 to 250 VDC. These devices provide miniaturization and enhanced flexibility to optimize ESD suppression, RF filtering, blocking, sensing, and circuit ...

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Kyocera sues Preh for haptic feedback patent infringement

Kyocera is suing German automotive component supplier Preh for infringement of its haptic feedback patents. The lawsuit, in a Dusseldorf court, says that Kyocera has been creating haptic technologies through its own R&D efforts since 2008. Kyocera says that, utilising ergonomics and virtual reality technology that Kyocera has developed over the years as well as its ...

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Imec fabs p-GaN power devices on thermally matched substrates.

 Imec and fabless specialist Qromis, have developed  enhancement mode p-GaN power devices on 200mm engineered Coefficient of Thermal Expansion (CTE)-matched substrates, processed on Imec’s silicon pilot line. The substrates are offered by Qromis as commercial 200mm QST substrates as part of their patented product portfolio. Today, GaN-on-Si technology is the industry standard platform for commercial GaN ...

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IoT Security Foundation launches professional membership

The IoT Security Foundation (IoTSF) has created a professional membership category for developers and iT staff with an interest in cybersecurity in applications of IoT. This is a response to the expectation that IoT increases the potential attack surface, providing adversaries with more opportunity too. The scale of applications bring an ever-increasing state of security ...

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Leti silicon photonics PDK available on Synopsys.

Leti’s silicon photonics PDK for photonic circuits is available in the Synopsys PhoeniX OptoDesigner suite. Leti’s integrated silicon photonics platform has been developed for high-speed optical transceivers and highly-integrated optical interposer applications. The PDK contains the design rules and building blocks for multi-project wafer and custom runs on Leti’s Si310 platform. It also includes a ...

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LED street light controller is LoRaWAN compliant

Nordic Automation Systems an LED street light wireless luminaire controller compliant with the LoRa wide area network (WAN) standard. Also compliant with the Zhaga Book 18 LED luminaire interface standard, the Zhaga 18 Luminaire Controller is designed for small size and measures just 40 x 19mm. “With the rise of new street lighting models, the ...

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Chip manufacturing equipment sales leapt 37% last year.

Sales of chip manufacturing equipment rose 37% to $56.6 billion last year, says SEMI. 2016 sales were $41.24 billion. Korea claimed the largest market for new semiconductor equipment for the first time, shattering all previous regional spending records with $17.95 billion in equipment sales. Taiwan fell to the second position with sales of $11.49 billion. Annual ...

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Cisco backs Nantero

Cisco has invested in Nantero the CNT memory company. The investment brings to eight the number of strategic partners backing Nantero. The others are: Schlumberger, Dell, Kingston Technology, CFT Capital and three undisclosed. The amount of capital raised by Nantero now tops $120 million. “Having global leaders such as Cisco Investments and Dell Technologies Capital invest ...

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Farnell shipping Keithley DMM6500 this month

Farnell Element 14 is offering customers in Europe the opportunity to pre-order the new 6½ digit Keithley DMM6500 for immediate shipment on 16 April 2018.  The DMM6500 is a modern Bench/System digital multimeter (DMM) ideally suited for design engineers and production test engineers, delivering more measurement functionality, best-in-class measurement insight and a price that will ...

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Toshiba will still sell chip unit to Bain/Hynix if China approves

Toshiba will sell its chip unit to a consortium headed up by Bain and Hynix if it gets Chinese regulatory approval, but not if it doesn’t. This seems to be the stance of new CEO Nobuaki Kurumatani. “We will maintain our stance and wait unless drastic changes occur,” says Kurumatani. Asked what he meant by ...

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Consumer groups call for action on driverless cars

US consumer groups are calling for stricter safety standards on driverless cars being tested on public roads. The AV START Act, currently before the US Senate, could be used to incorporate standards says consumer group Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety. It is proposed that there should be performance standards set up, that there should ...

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Intel sells Wind River to TPG

Intel has sold its IoT software subsidiary Wind River to private equity outfit TPG.. Wind River President, Jim Douglas, and his existing executive management team will lead the newly independent Wind River after the transaction closes. “Our technology team is focused on backing strong, market-leading companies in growing industries,” said Nehal Raj, Partner and Head ...

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ST Crolles employees to strike from Thursday

 The French labour union, the Confédération Générale du Travail (CGT),and the ST employee union CAD-ST have  called for industrial  action at ST starting on Thursday April 5th. The CGT has proposed strike action for two hours for the following days: Thursday for day employees, shift team 1 and 2 employees from 11h45 to 13h45 Thursday ...

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Industrial power supplies withstand harsh automation environments

For industrial applications, Recom has introduced the REDIN/3AC series of two- and three-phase AC/DC DIN rail power supply units (PSUs). The central supply units are designed to be stable for harsh automation environments, operating from mains voltages of 320 to 575V AC even when one phase fails. The power supply series delivers 120, 240, 480 or 960W at a stable 24V output (trimmable ...

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Optical rotary torque sensors have self-diagnosis for status report

Optical rotary torque sensors designed for low torque and high bandwidth measurements have been released by Sensor Technology. The digital TorqSense ORT 230/240 series sets new benchmark performance standards for optical rotary torque transducers, claims the company. They are intended for applications when the demand is for low torque and/or high bandwidth, for dynamic measurement of rotary and ...

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Leo Li appointed CEO of Imagination

[Leo Li, former CEO of Spreadtrum now owned by Tsinghua Unigroup, has been made CEO of Imagination, now owned by China-backed private equity group Canyon Bridge. Li is Chairman of the GSA with over 30 years of semiconductor experience. He grew  revenue from $100 million to $2 billion at Spreadtrum, and increased the company’s market ...

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Semiconductor industry reports “substantial and consistent” growth

Positive figures from the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) showed the industry achieved 19 consecutive months of year-to-year sales increases. The Americas saw 37.7% growth, followed by Europe (21.7%), China (16.4%), Asia Pacific (16.2%) and Japan (15.5%) February 2017 to February 2018. Worldwide semiconductor sales increased from $30.4bn in February 2017 to $36.8bn for the month of February 2018, an ...

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Next-Gen SCARA Robots

Robot sales in North America hit record highs in 2017 in terms of both units sold and total sales. Manufacturers purchased 34,904 total units, representing $1.9 billion in total sales, according to the Robotic Industries Association (RIA).

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EEVblog #1070 – What The Hack? Dumpster Hacking!

HUGE news!
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EEVblog #1069 – Mailbag

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EEVblog #1068 – Autonomous Uber Incident Update

An update on the autonomous self driving Uber Volvo XC-90 involved in the pedestrian fatality.
It is being reported that Uber disabled the Intel Mobileye collision avoidance sensor that is factory fitted in Volvo XC90.
Intel have ran the dashcam footage of the accident through the Mobileye system and said that even with the dark footage it would have detected the pedestrian a second before the incident.

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