UK designed quick-fit system adds smart monitoring to grid sub-stations

UK design house 42 Technology has developed a quickly-installed smart current monitor for the UK power grid. Branded FuseOhm, is self-powered data-logger that offers real-time measurement and recording of current (1A – 1,000A), voltage, phase angle and local temperature. Power dissipation is <6W. Sensing is resistive, and based on the firm’s existing ‘Triple Ohm’ intellectual ...

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UK scientists work on advanced accelerator at EU-based CERN

Engineers from the UK-based Cockcroft Institute claim to have made discoveries that could improve the design of next generation particle accelerators. Working closely with colleagues from around the world at CERN, the North West England based team has demonstrated that it is possible to create head-on collisions of proton beams using a crab-like motion.  Work ...

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Fan-less quad-core computer dedicated to Linux Mint

MintBox Mini 2 (MBM2) is the 4th generation of miniature fan-less PCs from Compulab and the folk behind Linux Mint – of each MBM2 sold, 5% is donated to Linux Mint. Processing comes from a quad-core ‘Apollo Lake’ Celeron J3455, and the machine ships with the Mint 19 ‘Tara’ Cinnamon installed. Other Mint variants, or other ...

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Comment: New business models on IoT hardware, by software

Software’s role in creating new business models around IoT hardware, with the use of snaps

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Wi-SUN sensor nodes can be powered by harvested energy

Eta Compute and Rohm Semiconductor are to create sensor nodes compatible with Wireless Smart Ubiquitous Network (Wi-SUN) – combining Rohm’s sensors and Eta’s microcontrollers to make nodes that can be powered by harvested energy. Wi-SUN is based on IEEE 802.15.4g and backed by the Wi-SUN Alliance. “Our partnership with Rohm gives our customers access to ...

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Green Hills supports Automotive Grade Linux with secure RTOS

Green Hills Software has announced that its Integrity Multivisor secure virtualization and advanced development tools now support implementation of Automotive Grade Linux (AGL) on different 64-bit automotive grade SoCs.  This means that AGL applications can be added to automotive systems meeting the ISO 26262 safety levels. So that AGL-based connected car applications will run in secure partitions ...

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Intel FlexRAN reference designs deployed in 5G infrastructure

California-based design firm Aricent is developing 5G networks software frameworks running on the Intel FlexRAN reference architecture. Aricent’s 5G framework will be integrated with the Intel FlexRAN reference architecture, supporting features compliant to 3GPP specifications for non-standalone modes. The firm’s 4G LTE framework based on Cloud-RAN (C-RAN) architecture also supports Intel’s FlexRAN. Harmeet Chauhan, president, ...

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GloFo to fab Socionext IC

 Socionext will fab the third and latest generation of its graphics display controllers, the SC1701, on GLoFo’s 55nm Low Power Extended (55LPx) process technology with embedded non-volatile memory (SuperFlash). The 55LPx platform enables several new features in Socionext’s SC1701 series including enhanced diagnostic and security protection capabilities, cyclic redundancy code (CRC) checks, picture freeze detection, ...

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Siemens to buy Austemper

Siemens is to buy Austemper Design Systems of Austin, Texas which specialises in IC design analysis, auto-correction and simulation technology which tests and hardens IC designs for functional safety in applications such as automotive, industrial and aerospace systems. ICs in these applications require three types of functional safety verification: for systemic faults, malicious faults and ...

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ADI integrates AFE, LEDs and a photodiode.

The ADPD188BI is an integrated optical module featuring two LEDs, photodiode, and analog front-end (AFE) integrated together in a single package. The AFE offers high ambient light rejection and reduces power consumption to support longer battery life. The two LEDs help reduce false alarms often caused by steam and dust. False alarms are a leading ...

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SEMI forms materials group

SEMI has formed the SEMI Electronic Materials Group (EMG), a new collaborative technology community

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‘Beaver thinking’ gets robot over obstacles

Some complex structure-building behaviour in animals is governed by simple responses to environmental cues rather than grand plans – known as ‘stigmergy’. Researchers at the University of Buffalo have turned to beavers to solve some robot problems. “When a beaver builds a dam, it’s not following a blueprint. Instead, it’s reacting to moving water. It’s ...

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Biggest ‘tiny’ AVR from Microchip

Microchip has created the most capable ‘ATtiny’ AVR microcontroller yet, with 32kword of internal flash and a host of analogue peripherals including two 10bit 115ksample/s ADCs (one of which can be used as a touch controller) and three 8bit DACs. Called ATtiny3217, the 24pin 4 x 4mm QFN chip runs up to 20MHz. There is ...

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Deliberate on-line game tricks risk gambling-like addition

Addiction experts are pointing to in-game purchasing schemes as a trigger for potentially ruinous addiction. The University of Adelaide team particularly points at ‘loot boxes’ – mechanisms with which players can repeatedly buy a random selection of virtual items – something that the Belgian Gambling Commission declared an illegal form of gambling in April. “Players ...

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Mini radar and AI instead of finger-pricking for diabetics?

Instead of finger pricking, a miniature radar might one day tell diabetics what their blood-sugar level is, according to the University of Waterloo in Canada. “We want to sense blood inside the body without actually having to sample any fluid,” said engineer Professor George Shaker. “Our hope is this can be realised as a smart ...

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Farnell shipping TI robotics kit

Farnell element 14 is now shipping the TI Robotics System Learning Kit (TI-RSLK)

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UK distributor in search for engineers and sales staff

Anglia Components is recruiting staff as it continues a five year plan to grow UK electronic component distribution market share to 10%, with a turnover of £100 million.   The distributor is looking for field application engineers, field sales and head office personnel.   Steve Rawlins, CEO, Anglia, writes:  “Our biggest challenge is getting the additional ...

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European semi companies ask EU for $11.7bn

 The European semiconductor industry has asked the EU for $11.7 billion for R&D over the next seven years. 11 organisations, including Soitec, ST, X-FAB, Bosch, GlobalFoundries, United Monolithic Semiconductors, Infineon, ASML  Fraunhofer,  CEA-Leti and Imec, have submitted a proposal to EU digital affairs commissioner Mariya Gabriel called ‘Rebooting Electronics Value Chains in Europe’. It argues ...

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DAC: Cadence builds its cloud-based design world

Cadence Design Systems a cloud-based chip and system design tool portfolio which has both Cadence-managed and customer-managed environments. It brings the scalability of the cloud into play for developers allowing them to securely manage high complexity designs, with  scalable compute resources available in minutes or hours instead of months or weeks. The announcement was made ...

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Sponsored Content: LAYLA Opens Up The Asian Semiconductor Market To The West

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Facebook abandons internet drone project

Facebook is abandoning its plan to provide internet access via drones which will result in the closure of its drone building plant in Bridgwater in Somerset. The plant belonged to Ascenta, a UK drone building company bought by Facebook. The four year-old drone initiative, called Project Aquila, was seen as a way to bring internet ...

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DAC: Planning tools are based around unified hierarchical database

A relatively new company, Avatar, focuses on physical design implantation. It presented the Aprisa full functional block level place and route system, and Apogee, a top-down hierarchical prototyping floor planning and chip assembly tool. The tools are built on ATopTech technologies which were the subject of a lawsuit brought by Synopsys. Following that, the tools ...

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DAC: eFPGA core is optimised for AI

Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning were popular themes at the 55 th DAC, held at the Moscone Center West in San Francisco (24 to 28 June 2018). Flex Logix Technologies was one of the companies that announced a product suitable for AI, machine learning and deep learning applications. by Caroline Hayes at DAC The ...

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Ac-dc charger idles at 10mW for CoC Tier 2

Ac-dc PSU stand-by power can be as low as 10mW with STMicroelectronics’ STCH03 off-line power controller, aimed at mobile chargers, power adapters and auxiliary supplies. Energy-saving features include ‘zero-power’ high-voltage start-up circuitry, as well as burst-mode switching when the load is very low or disconnected (see below), are intended to help chargers meet legislation such ...

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Daimler chooses Xilinx for automotive neural network processing

Daimler has tied up with Xilinx to create automotive artificial intelligence hardware. “When Daimler started working on this programme, it had issues finding solutions that were technically capable of implementing artificial intelligence or a neural network on a device that combined price, power and availability, and was automotive qualified,” Xilinx marketing manager Stephan Janouch told ...

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Neural net helps robot grasp objects in busy moving environments

Roboticists at Queensland University of Technology are using neural networks to help robots quickly and accurately grasp objects in cluttered and changing environments. “We have been able to program robots, in very controlled environments, to pick up very specific items. However, one of the key shortcomings of current robotic grasping systems is the inability to ...

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Spider silk microphone also senses slightest waft of air

Seeking to create the most waft-able air movement sensor ever, that can detect sound as well as air movement, a US researcher has turned to spider silk and a 400V field. “The goal was to create a sensor that only resists gravity,” said Professor Ron Miles of Binghamton University. “The sensor needed to stay connected ...

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Fujitsu in mass production of an 8Mbit FRAM

Fujitsu in mass production of  an 8Mbit FRAM. The chip has  an SRAM compatible parallel interface, offering a much more efficient alternative to battery backup SRAM. Based on the unique features of FRAM as a non-volatile memory, such as fast overwrite at 150 ns and read/write endurance of 1013, MB85R8M2T can replace anSRAM and remove ...

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CEVA improves cellular IoT core

CEVA has announced its CEVA-Dragonfly NB2 core for  the cellular IoT standardCat-NB2 (3GPP Release 14 eNB-IoT). The licensable Rel14 compliant eNB-IoT core  is based on the CEVA-X1 DSP/control processor featuring an enhanced Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) and provides a unified processor environment for both physical layer and protocol stack workloads. The core also includes a worldwide enabled RF Transceiver, a PA and ...

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SiFive extends MCU core range

SiFive today announced the availability of its E2 Core IP Series, configurable low-area, low-power microcontroller MCU cores designed for use in embedded devices. The E2 Series extends SiFive’s product line with two new standard cores, the E21, which provides mainstream performance for MCUs, sensor fusion, minion cores and smart IoT markets; and the E20, the ...

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Microchip adds chip-level security to Arm microcontrollers

Microchip’s latest Arm Cortex-M23 core based 32-bit microcontrollers feature Arm TrustZone for Armv8-M. This is a programmable security environment that provides hardware isolation between certified libraries, IP and application code.  SAM L11 MCUs also have chip-level tamper resistance, secure boot and secure key storage. The aim is to protect IoT designs from both remote and ...

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dsPIC gets two fast 16bit cores to speed development of high-performance power and motor control

Microchip has announced a dual-core 16bit dsPIC for high-end embedded control applications. Intended to speed code development by removing dependence between user-interface and real-time code, the cores are largely independent, each with its own set of peripherals, and communicating with each other only via FIFOs and mail-boxes – data and address busses are not shared. ...

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This is what 350kW charging looks like

A fast charging station for electric cars, capable of delivering 350kW to each of several vehicles

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UltraSoc links with Imperas

UltraSoC will incorporate key elements of Imperas’ development environment into its tools offering, giving designers a unified system-level pre- and post-silicon development flow, dramatically reducing time-to-revenue and overall development costs. UltraSoC delivers the industry’s leading independent on-chip monitoring, analytics and debug technology, via a combination of semiconductor IP and associated software. Imperas’ virtual platforms approach ...

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Multi-sensor Bluetooth 5 node for IoT app development

Roki is a wireless multi-sensor node, designed for the evaluation of Bluetooth 5 communication in IoT applications. On-board are: 3-axis accelerometer Combination 3-axis accelerometer + 3-axis magnetometer Combination 3-axis accelerometer + 3-axis gyroscope 3-axis magnetometer Barometer And the following can be added: Optical heart rate sensor Ambient light sensor RGB colour sensor Magnetic hall effect ...

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Intel CEO resigns

Intel CEO Brian Krzanich has resigned following a relationship with an employee. Here is Intel’s statement: “Intel Corporation today announced the resignation of Brian Krzanich as CEO and a member of the Board of Directors. The Board has named Chief Financial Officer Robert Swan Interim Chief Executive Officer, effective immediately. “Intel was recently informed that ...

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Industrial monitors have 4K resolution at Amplicon

Amplicon of Brighton has introduced a range of industrial monitors, including high performance Full-HD and 4K displays.  Called Senses Industrial Monitors, that range comprises of SD displays for low-cost, less demanding applications, as well as, both Full-HD and 4K high-end displays. The Full-HD and 4K monitors are available with either resistive touch or 10-point projected ...

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UK adults becoming happier about robots

Robots and their potential to make an impact on society may be beginning to enter the psyche of the UK population. As UK Robotics Week begins, a new survey has found that nearly a quarter of respondents believed that there is potential for more robots to be included in everyday society. But robot-friendliness is taking ...

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Chalmers researchers develop graphene film

A Chalmers University spin-off is about commercialise a graphene assembled  film technology. Researchers at the Swedish university have developed a graphene assembled film that has over 60% higher thermal conductivity than graphite film – despite the fact that graphite simply consists of many layers of graphene. The graphene film shows potential as a novel heat ...

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Nottingham prints molecular 3D memory

The University of Nottingham has 3D printed materials that contain molecules that reversibly change state in response to stimuli – demonstrating the concept by developing a photo-active molecule that changes from colourless to blue when irradiated with light, then back by exposure to oxygen from the air, and a tailor-made polymer to support it. “We ...

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Laser tunes like chameleon skin

A team from the US Northwestern University has developed a laser that changes colours using the same mechanism as chameleons. “Chameleons can easily change their colours by controlling the spacing among the nano-crystals on their skin, which determines the colour we observe,” said Professor Teri Odom. “This colouring based on surface structure is chemically stable ...

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This is what a crypto currency mining machine looks like

Coolisys Technologies has announced a line of crypto-mining units, called ‘SuperMiner’. The first of the line, built around a 10nm mining chipset jointly developed by Samsung and Innosilicon, is called ‘AntEater’ and can operate at 17.2T hash/s. “We wanted to push the envelope by developing the AntEater based on a 10nm chip because it was the ...

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Toshiba changes SSD game

Toshiba  has unveiled what it describes as a ‘game-changing’ category of SAS SSDs expected to replace SATA SSDs in server applications. The RM5 12Gbit/s value SAS (vSAS) series features capacity, performance, reliability, and manageability and data security advantages – at a price that obsoletes SATA SSDs, claims Toshiba. A homogeneous SAS environment has long been ...

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SEMI billings up 19.2% y-o-y

SEMI’s May billings were 0.6% higher than April’s at $2.70 billion and 19.2% higher than the May 2017 billings level of $2.27 billion. “May 2018 monthly global billings of North American equipment manufacturers exceeded last month’s level to set yet another record,” said Ajit Manocha, president and CEO of SEMI. “Demand for semiconductor equipment remains strong on ...

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RF signal generators stretch to 6GHz

Describing them as mid-range and compact, Rohde & Schwarz has introduced the SMB100B analogue RF signal generator and the SMBV100B vector signal generator, aiming them at RF semiconductor development, telecommunications, aerospace and defence. They are available in various configurations, with frequency ranges from 8kHz to 1GHz, 3GHz or 6GHz, customers can choose among three different ...

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Functional safety position sensor has two devices in one package

Magnetic angle sensing with 12-bit resolution, and a maximum non-linearity error of ±1° is available from either or two completely separate sensors in a common package for use in functional safety systems, such as in the gear shifters and pedals in automotive electrified power-train applications such as shift-by-wire, as well as potentiometer replacement in knobs and ...

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TI aims at automotive and industry with high-performance ~30V op-amps

TI has revealed early fruits from the latest in its long-running series of BiCom advanced bipolar processes: the 27V 200MHz low-noise OPA2810 and the 36V zero-drift 14MHz OPA189, which are aimed at signal conditioning in automotive and industrial environments. “These are the first few of many other amplifiers focussed in this area, the beginning of ...

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Laser scan mooted as alternative to x-ray mammography

Novel laser scans could scan breast for cancer without x-rays, if research at Caltech proves fruitful. Photoacoustic computed tomography, or PACT, works by shining a near-infrared laser pulse into the breast tissue, which is absorbed by oxygen-carrying hemoglobin molecules in red blood cells, causing the molecules to vibrate ultrasonically. Those vibrations travel through the tissue and ...

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Flexible micro-LED array could open door to TV screens

Korean research lab KAIST has created a flexible array of thin-film blue micro-LEDs, following-on form a similar red array. The team transferred thousands of <2μm-thick blue vertical micro LEDs onto plastic in one go. Electrical connections are via silver wires. Optical power density around 30mW/mm2 was demonstrated. claimed by KAIST to be three times higher that ...

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Anritsu claims first for 5G downlink carrier aggregation test certification

Anritsu has announced that the LTE-Advanced RF Conformance Test System ME7873LA has obtained PTCRB certification for RF Conformance Tests of 5 Downlink Carrier Aggregation (5DL CA) forming a key LTE-Advanced technology. With 5 Downlink Carrier Aggregation (5DL CA) when used with MIMO downlink throughput speeds of 1Gbit/s will be possible as 5G enters commercial service ...

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Yuasa industrial Pb-acid batteries from Gresham

Gresham Power Electronics of Salisbury is stocking two series of high-reliability low-maintenance industrial Pb-acid batteries from Yuasa. ENL range is suited to general use and has a 15 year design life in standby conditions. EN series provide high rate discharge performance and a life of over 12 years. Both are part of Yuasa’s Endurance Range, which ...

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Firmware tool aims to speed STM32-based IoT sensor design

STMicroelectronics’ AlgoBuilder tool is designed to simplify firmware development by letting users build sensor-control algorithms graphically with library modules, ready to compile and run on an STM32 microcontroller. To build algorithms designers can drag and drop selected functions, connecting the blocks, and configuring properties. The tool validates all design rules and automatically generates C code ...

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Comment: Measure distance with ST’s VL53L1X distance sensor

Tam Hanna considers STMicroelectronics' VL53L1X laser-based distance sensors, which are ideally suited for drone landing.

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Drones co-operate to defend against adversaries

Non-centralised mutual control is key to a team of drones that can defend a place against attack, according to researchers in Saudi Arabia. Performance of the scheme was judged in a capture-the-flag game, where the team of defender drones worked together within a defined area to intercept a human-controlled intruder drone and prevent it from reaching ...

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Computer predicts human behaviour minutes ahead

Computer scientists from the University of Bonn have developed software that can predict human behaviour a few minutes into the future, demonstrated by asking ‘what happens next’ when people make salads. The training data included 40 videos of people making different salads, each around six minutes long and containing 20 different actions on average, lasting ...

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Woman engineer debunks myths about working in industry

The theme for International Women in Engineering Day (INWED) 2018, which takes place on 23 June, is to raise the bar for women in engineering.  It sees a need to heighten expectations for female engineers, there are still a plenty of myths and misconceptions to quash about working in the industry.  So Emma Cygan, design ...

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Smiths Interconnect has space-qualified coaxial cable assemblies

Smiths Interconnect has introduced a range of flexible coaxial cable assemblies which are pre-tested and qualified for the space orbit environment. The SpaceNXT Q series are available as cut to length and dual-terminated assemblies. The range currently consists of the 105Q, 190Q, and 200Q cable models which cover key performance characteristics at various frequency bands ...

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Samsung commits to 100% renewable energy by 2020

Samsung Electronics has  announced today its plan to commit to 100% renewable energy in the United States, Europe and China by 2020. This major commitment – the first by an electronics manufacturing company in Asia – comes after months of campaigning and global protests calling on Samsung to urgently set a clear renewable energy goal ...

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Farnell

Farnell has launched a five-week competition for customers in Europe to celebrate the summer of football 2018. Customers in Europe can visit football.farnell.com to guess the score in key games, test their football predictions against friends and colleagues on a live leader board and tell Farnell element14 about their top-scoring products to get the chance ...

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IGBT power interfaces have electro-optic conversion for high isolation

Harting develops range of miniaturised IGBT power interfaces with integrated electro-optical conversion

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Keysight offers USB-based VNA, AWG and InfiniiVision scopes

Keysight Technologies has introduced a range of USB-based instruments including a vector network analysers (VNA), oscilloscope and an arbitrary waveform generator (AWG). The supplier says it can now offer user test repeatability across USB, modular, or benchtop form factors. Controlled via PC through a USB connection, these new instruments come in  small small rack size ...

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Recom has 385VDC surge protector has railway specs

Recom has added the RSP-168 surge protectors to their portfolio, which allow DC/DC converters to meet both RIA12 and NF F 01-510 surge immunity specifications for railway applications.  Three versions cover a range of railway certified DC/DC converters from 20W up to 240W.  The modules are designed to protect railway DC/DC converters from excessive voltage ...

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DCMS adds Brazil and South Africa to tech hubs

New tech hubs to connect businesses in the UK with those in emerging digital markets will be launched in Brazil and South Africa, DCMS Secretary of State Matt Hancock announced during London Tech Week. The Brazil and South African tech hubs will be formed of locally-engaged teams based in the respective British Embassy and High ...

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Supercaps used in 2.5kW UPS

Powerbox has used 29F of supercapacitors in a 2U chassis to deliver 2.5kW of back-up power to an industrial controller, as an example of its S-Cap Boost technology which uses supercaps as the main storage element of un-interruptable power supplies for special environments. S-Cap Boost is intended for industrial and medical applications, offering “a solution ...

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GloFo to cut 5% of workforce

Globalfoundries is to cut 5% of its 18,000 global workforce. “In the coming weeks, we will be initiating a targeted workforce reduction specifically designed to improve our global cost structure and minimize redundancies that have accrued from previous mergers and acquisitions,” says a GloFo statement, “this limited action will impact approximately 5 percent of our global headcount, ...

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4.5GHz real-time spectrum analyser from Rigol

Rigol has introduced a 4.5GHz spectrum analyser with 10MHz of real-time analysis bandwidth, which can be upgraded to 40MHz at any time, and there is an optional tracking generator. The instrument is part of a new family, called RSA3000, which also includes a 3GHz version and follows on from the higher spec RSA5000 family announced earlier ...

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Arm buys Stream

Arm has bought Stream of Glasgow the 18 year-old M2M connectivity specialist for an undisclosed sum. “Stream’s core products and services can be split into two parts,” says Nigel Chadwick, CEO of Stream (pictured). “One is the connectivity part, which enables data to be transferred from sensors and devices, out there in the environment, on ...

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NXP expands GaN and Si-LDMOS portfolio for 5G networks

NXP is expanding its cellular infrastructure portfolio of GaN and silicon laterally diffused metal oxide semiconductor (Si-LDMOS) for 5G networks. Spectrum expansion, higher order modulation, carrier aggregation, full dimension beam forming, andother enablers of 5G connectivity will require an expanded base of technologies to support enhanced mobile broadband connectivity. With spectrum usage and network footprints, multiple-input, multiple ...

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500MHz scopes from Rigol

Rigol has introduced scopes with up to 500MHz bandwidth and a 10.1in colour touch display. There are eight instruments in the DS7000/MSO7000 family, all with four channels and rated at either 100, 200, 350 or 500MHz. MSO versions also have 16 digital channels. Memory up to 500Mpoints is available. Sampling, which is at up to ...

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Gateway opens its doors to Europe with ferrite centre

Specialist component distributor, Gateway Electronic Components, has opened a ferrite core gapping and machining centre at its Cheshire facility, offering surface grinding and machining, test equipment, hardware and software support.   The ferrite and magnetic material distributor holds franchises for TDK, Ferroxcube and Fair-Rite and now extend its value-added services into the ferrite core gapping market, having identified ...

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US grabs back supercomputer crown

Summit, the worlds most powerful computer, with peak processing at 200Pflop/s, has been unveiled at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the US. “For certain scientific applications, Summit will also be capable of 3.3Eop of mixed precision calculations per second,” said the lab. The IBM AC922 system consists of 4,608 servers, each containing two 22 core ...

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Dropping NAND prices could lead to industry re-shuffle

NAND flash prices will continue to drop in Q3, says Digitimes, quoting industry sources NAND flash demand has not kept up with supply and over-supply will continue into Q3, says Digitimes. Q4 will see the over-supply grow larger with suppliers holding high inventory levels from Q3 onwards. Suppliers built high inventories at the beginning of the ...

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MIT watches people walk through walls

MIT is using radar and artificial intelligence to sense people’s postures and movement, even through a wall. Led by Professor Dina Katabi from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). the project, ‘RF-Pose’ can mimic a real person as they move, creating a dynamic stick figure that walks, stops, sits and moves its limbs. ...

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Teleportation

Leicester University graduate students have published a paper on teleportation in the university’s Journal of Physics Special Topics. Every human that is teleported will need to be represented in transferable data, say the students. At a basic level, the transferable data of a human would be represented by the DNA pairs that make up genomes (which ...

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R+S scope hits 8GHz and a million waveform per second

Rohde & Schwarz has introduced a high-end four-channel oscilloscope family with up to 8GHz bandwidth, and an acquisition rate up to a million waveforms per second – aiding the detection of sporadic errors. Maximum sample rate is 20Gsample/s and maximum memory is 2Gsample. Called ‘RTP‘, it includes real-time compensation for transmission losses between the signal ...

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Soaring servers

Q1 server market revenues  increased 33.4% y-o-y and shipments grew 17.3% y-o-y, says Gartner. North America and Asia/Pacific grew revenues 34% and 47.8%, respectively and unit shipments by 24.3% and 21.9% respectively. EMEA grew 31.2% in revenues and 2.7% in units. Japan had a decline in both shipments and revenue (-5.0% and -7.3%, respectively). Latin ...

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Tough connector integrates into clothing

LP360 is the first of the Fischer Freedom series of connectors which have been designed to integrate with clothing. Designed for easy connection, the key-less plug and socket can be presented to each other as any angle around the mating axis “ensuring that the cable can always go straight to the device. No more twists ...

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3A buck converter in 1 x 2 x 3mm package

Texas Instruments has introduced a 3.8 to 36Vin synchronous dc-dc buck regulator in a 1 x 2 x 3mm thermally-enhanced quad flat no-lead (QFN) package – with wettable flanks for post-solder optical inspection. Called LMR33630, and capable of delivering up to 3A, 75mΩ and 50mΩ power switches are integrated, efficiency is up to 92% and switching ...

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ADI claims widest bandwidth RF transceiver

ADI claims to have  the industry’s widest bandwidth RF transceiver with  a single radio platform IC to deploy 5G, sustain 2G/3G/4G coverage, and simplify phased array radar design. The ADRV9009 RF transceiver delivers twice the bandwidth (200 MHz) of previous generation devices and replaces as many as 20 components, cutting power in half and package size ...

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Researchers discover unique spin-orbit interactions in silicon

Researchers from  from Purdue University, the Technological University of Delft, Netherlands and the University of Wisconsin-Madison have discovered that silicon has unique spin-orbit interactions that can enable the manipulation of qubits using electric fields, without the need for any artificial agents. “Qubits encoded in the spins of electrons are especially long-lived in silicon, but they ...

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iPhone X is world’s best-selling phone

The iPhone X was the biggest selling smartphone in Q1 says IHS Markit, with  12.7 million units shipped in a 345.5 million unit msrket. iPhone 8 ranked second, shipping 8.5 million units, followed by the Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime Plus, iPhone 8 Plus and Galaxy S9 Plus.  

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Memristors key to nano-scale analogue/digital adaptive hardware

Adding analogue processing to digital hardware is the key to adaptability and maximum battery life in the nano-scale age, according to the University of Southampton, which is advocating memristors and charge-based processing as the way to do it. Memristors are non-volatile electrically-adjustable resistors. Made from metal oxides, they scale well and are proposed as memory ...

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UK tech sparkles, says DCMS

Figures published by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) show 2016 exports of goods by the UK digital sector were  up 7.3% y-o-y and worth more than £15 billion “These new statistics show our tech sector is in demand from businesses and consumers around the globe, with exports up by a fifth,” ...

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Infineon revises long-term strategy

Infineon is seeing strong long-term growth drivers in its target markets – automotive, industrial, IoT and security applications – where business momentum is gathering pace and is therefore realigning its target operating model, which sets target values for revenue growth, segment result margin and the investment-to-sales ratio over the cycle. “A broad range of structural ...

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Imec makes CMOS 140GHz radar-on-chip

Imec claims to have developed the the world’s first CMOS 140GHz radar-on-chip with integrated antennas in standard 28nm technology and is looking for partners to exploit it. Applications include building security, remote health monitoring of car drivers, breathing and heart rate of patients, and gesture recognition for man-machine interaction. Radars are extremely promising as sensors for ...

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Sound wave coupling enables all-silicon laser

Yale scientists have uses sound waves to amplify light in a new type of silicon laser for photonic ICs, side-stepping the problem of silicon’s indirect bandgap. “Silicon’s intrinsic properties, although very useful for many chip-scale optical technologies, make it extremely difficult to generate laser light using electrical current,” said Yale scientist Nils Otterstrom. “It’s a ...

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Frequency hopping once per bit foils hackers

MIT researchers have developed a novel transmitter that frequency hops for each individual 1 or 0 bit of a data packet – so once per microsecond for 1Mbit/s, “which is fast enough to thwart even the quickest hackers”, according to MIT. The system can protect against selective jamming. For example, explained the University, Bluetooth LE ...

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Mouser Formula E team goes to Zurich

DRAGON team gearing up for the tenth round of the 2018 ABB FIA Formula E Championship

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Imagination launches neural net cores

Imagination has launched two  neural network cores, the AX2185 and AX2145, based on the company’s neural network accelerator (NNA) architecture. The Series2NX AX2185 targets the high-end smartphone, smart surveillance, and automotive markets, where neural network acceleration has a significant impact in areas such as image categorization and driver assistance systems. Featuring eight full-width compute engines ...

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Samsung extends chip lead

Samsung has widened the gap with Intel and is likely to be the No.1 semiconductor company for the second year running, says IHS Markit. Samsung has now been No.1 for three successive quarters since Q3 2017. In Q1, Samsung had semiconductor revenues of $18.6 billion which is 45.4% up on Q1 2017 for a 16.1% ...

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Matchbox-sized atomic clock for commercial space

Microsemi has launched a radiation-resistant matchbox-sized atomic clock for commercial applications such as low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites. applications, the device provides the accuracy and stability of atomic clock technology while achieving significant breakthroughs in reduced size, weight and power (SWaP) consumption. Called SA.45s, it draws less than 120mW and fits in 17cm3 (41 x 35 x ...

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Farnell provides coding kits for youngsters

Farnell element 14 is helping to create the next generation of digital engineers by providing kits and support to help youngsters to learn the fundamental skills of coding. The company offers educational aids targeted at tomorrow’s coders and application developers including products such as Codebug, BBC micro:bit, Raspberry PI and the newly launched Arduino CTC101 ...

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Socionext prototypes AV1 implementation

Socionext, the Matsushita-Fujitsu SoC jv, has developed a prototype implementation of video encoder functionalities of the latest video compression format AV1 onto Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)F1 Instance. Utilizing F1, Socionext was able to complete the development and achieved high performance in just one and a half months. Based on this result, Socionext will ...

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TI tops industrial semi rankings

Industrial semiconductor revenues grew by 11.8% last year reaching $49.1 billion, according to IHS Markit. The industrial electronics equipment market is expected to have a CAGR of 7.1% through to 2022. Texas Instruments (TI) maintained its position as the largest industrial semiconductor supplier in 2017. The acquisition of Linear Technology catapulted Analog Devices into second ...

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Derby winner funds 36 space-based research projects.

36 research grants have been announced by a new funding platform which invests in projects without the involvement of a committee or outside influence. The platform, called Guaana, has an unusual way of working. All eligible proposals were distributed among applicants who then evaluated each other’s proposals in a two-stage double blinded peer-review based on the criteria ...

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Arm loses leg

Softbank has sold 51% of ARM’s China operation for $775 million to local investors, according to Reuters. ARM gets about a fifth of its $1.4 billion annual revenues from China. Under the deal the 51% share will be owned by a consortium led by the Hou An Innovation Fund which is jointly managed by ARM ...

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Teledyne e2v’s European first for aerospace DLA certification

New DLA certification for manufacturing both hermetically and non-hermetically sealed Flip-Chip microcircuits

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PCIM: Rohm and GaN Systems join forces for gallium nitride power

Rohm and GaN Systems have agreed to develop form, fit, and function compatible products using GaN semiconductor dies in both GaN Systems’ GaNPX packaging and Rohm’s traditional power semiconductor packaging. “GaN Systems and Rohm customers will now have the advantage of having two possible sources for package-compatible GaN power switches, presenting the widest selection of ...

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Plessey micro-LEDs selected for AR glasses

Plessey has tied up with Vuzix to develop augmented reality glasses, combining Plessey’s ‘Quanta-Brite’ micro-LED arrays and Vuzix’ expertise and IP in smart glasses and optics. Plessey is offering a light source for illuminating DMD (digital micro-mirror device) or LCoS (liquid crystal-on-silicon) display engines, based on monolithic arrays of micro-LEDs, claiming that the resulting optical system ...

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Using PXI gets more intuitive, says NI

NI says its latest release of the InstrumentStudio software for PXI modular instruments improves system interactivity and makes debugging while running tests more intuitive.  InstrumentStudio can now create a multi-instrument environment, so engineers can capture screenshots and measurement results in one view from their suite of instruments.  Also it is possible to save project-level configurations ...

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Queen’s Belfast creates cyber security lab for local community

Queen’s University Belfast is investing £500k in a cyber security research lab at the Centre for Secure Information Technologies (CSIT). An aim of the facility is to work with global companies, start-ups and SMEs to form a strong response to cyber security attacks. The CSIT Test lab includes a high-speed network interconnected via a multi-gigabit ...

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Auto IC market to grow 18.5% to hit $32.3bn this year

The automotive IC market will grow 18.5% this year , says IC Insights, driven by systems monitoring and control, safety, ADAS, convenience, and the growth of autonomous driving. Systems that improve vehicle performance, that add comfort and convenience, and that warn, detect, and take corrective measures to keep drivers safe and alert are being added ...

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Toshiba finalises chip sale

Toshiba says it has completed the sale of its chip business to a consortium comprised of Bain, Hynix, Apple, Dell, Seagate and Kingston Technology. Under the new ownership structure of  the memory unit, Toshiba and optical products specialist Hoya, will have a 50.1% stake in Toshiba Memory with Toshiba having 40.2% and Hoya having 9.9%. Bain ...

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Toshiba finalises chip sale.

Toshiba says it has completed the sale of its chip business to a consortium comprised of Bain, Hynix, Apple, Dell, Seagate and Kingston Technology. The saga of Toshiba’s attempt to sell the unit has gone on for well over a year. Foxconn is said to have made a $30 billion bid for the business which was ...

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