Toyota has patented a helicopter car, reports AutoGuide. The car wheels, attached to arms fixed to a pivot, can also act as helicopter rotors. When the car switches from ground to flight the arms incline upwards. Each wheel is powered by an electric motor. The vehicle is steered on the ground like a tracked vehicle – ...
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Imec and Scale-Ups.com are to set up a programme to help US and Asian companies access the European market. The programme is to start in Q2 2019. US and Asian scale-ups can sstruggle to enter the European market because they do not have access to a local network, lack market knowledge, or are unfamiliar with ...
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Side-stepping traditional laser local oscillator down-conversion techniques, Australian engineers are using acoustic interactions to retrieve frequency and phase information from Gbit/s modulated optical signals. “Our technique uses the interaction of photons and acoustic waves to enable an increase in signal capacity and therefore speed,” said Dr Elias Giacoumidis of the University of Sidney. “This allows ...
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A thin coating of a composite made from zinc ferrite and polyaniline absorbs microwave radiation in Ku band, according to researchers at Anhui University of Science and Technology in China. The composites were synthesised by a two-step hydrothermal and in-situ polymerisation method, with Zn ferrite (2-30nm particles) used to adjust the impedance matching and improve ...
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University of Surrey scientists have unveiled maths that predicts the behaviour of triboelectric nanogenerators (TENGs) – devices that harvest electricity from contact between two or more materials. “This study redefines the way we understand energy harvesting,” said researcher Ishara Dharmasena. “The tools developed here will help researchers all over the world to exploit the true ...
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Benchmarking consortium EEMBC has created a tool to measure the combined energy consumption of an IoT edge node’s sensor interface, processor, and Bluetooth LE radio interface. Part of the IoTMark benchmarking suite, it is called IoTMark-BLE benchmark. IoTMark-BLE models a node consisting of an I²C sensor and a BLE – radio through sleep, advertise, and ...
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Toshiba has launched an integrated dual H-bridge DC brushed motor driver IC
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nPERT cells feature a conversion efficiency of 23.03%, certified by Fraunhofer ISE CalLab
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Mouser has signed SSD and memory module specialist Virtiymnto a global distribution deal. The Virtiymnportfolio includes StorFlyband TuffDrive SSDs, memory modules and other industrial embedded solutions. The StorFly and TuffDrive SSDs are made for extreme conditions in industrial embedded applications, offering models with an available industrial temperature range of minus 40 to 85 degrees Celsius. The ...
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Production of electronic equipment is healthy based on July and August data, says Bill Jewell’s Semiconductor Intelligence. China, the largest electronics producer, showed three-month-average change versus a year ago (3/12) of 13.8% in August. Growth for China has been in the 12% to 15% range since January 2017, picking up from the 8% to 11% ...
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Zettler will be showing relays for electric vehicles, solar and more at Electronica in November. AZEV116 and AZEV132 are IEC mode 2 electric vehicle charging relays in development for release in 2019, and are designed to survive high momentary currents that may occur on short circuits without contact welding. They also have a potential monitoring ...
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The UK is a leader in understanding error rates in drug administration and pharmaceutical electronics will play an increasingly important role, writes Phil Simmonds of EC Electronics. Devices which assist the dispensing of pharmaceutical products serve two purposes: to reduce errors in medical prescribing and address unused or unnecessary medicine waste. Medtech machines which identify ...
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RS Components has introduced a portfolio of high-power connectors from Amphenol that are specifically designed for connecting up power cables used with electric vehicle (EV) drive systems. The MSD series of receptacles and plugs offers a tool-free solution for disconnecting an internal high-voltage battery pack and delivering short-circuit protection. The device uses a two-stage lever ...
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Molex has announced two families of FFC/FPC connectors designed to add high-reliability to small-pitch. Dubbed Easy-On FFC/FPC connectors they are available in 0.5mm pitch and 1.0mm pitch formats. Both formats have a double-bottom contact terminal which is designed to remove dust and contaminants from the connection better than single-bottom contact terminals. There is a vacuum ...
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With the severe conditions of industrial environments in mind, the 1554 flat lid and 1555 styled lid ranges of ABS and UV stabilised polycarbonate enclosures from Hammond Electronics provide IP66 sealing as well as mechanical protection. The light grey RAL 7035 enclosures are designed to house printed circuit boards or DIN rail mounted components. IP66 ...
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Osram has introduced a high luminance LED for projection headlamps using DMDs – digital mirror devices – to change headlight beam shape – and more, according to Osram. “Each headlight achieves a resolution of more than one million pixels, offering car drivers not only classic illumination but also optional support from information projected onto the ...
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Siemens PLM Software and STMicroelectronics will present keynotes at next month’s DVCon Europe 2018. The event for chip architects, design verification engineers and IP integrators is sponsored by Accellera Systems Initiative. This year’s keynotes reflect the design and verification methodologies and standards for the IoT, machine learning, and automotive safety. On the first day of ...
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MACOM has announced is MASW-011102 SPDT non-reflective switch. Building on MACOM’s GaAs-based SPDT MASW Series switches, the MASW-011102 is for use in test and measurement, EW and broadband communication systems. The switch supports broadband operation from DC to 30 GHz, with low insertion loss of 1.8 dB and high isolation of 40 dB at 30 ...
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The forecasts for the Q4 DRAM prices are getting lower faster, with DRAMeXchange expecting a 5% drop for Q4 on Q3. PC DRAM and server DRAM showed only a 1~2% price hike QoQ in Q3 while mobile DRAM was flat and graphics DRAM fell, Spot prices have been sliding since the beginning of this year and ...
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Imec has developed a thin-film tandem solar cell consisting of a top perovskite cell developed by imec and a bottom CIGS cell from the Centre for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research (ZSW, Stuttgart, Germany which achieves a record efficiency of 24.6 percent. The perovskite top cell in the tandem uses light in the visible part ...
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Imagination Technologies and Global Foundries are to collaborate to offer low-power baseband and RF functions – Bluetooth Low Energy and IEEE 802.15.4, for example – to mutual customers. The deal combines Imagination’s Ensigma radio IP with 22FDX from GF – its 22nm FD-SOI process. “22FDX is an appealing option for customers designing cost-sensitive devices,” said ...
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The University of Utah turned to Raspberry Pis when it need to equip four homes with smart sensing for clean air research. The Pis controlled the heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system in each house, based on data from three off-the-shelf wireless particulate pollution sensors added to each house, two inside rooms and one ...
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2018 foundry sales into in the US, Japan and Asia-Pac will be flat with last year, reckons IC Insights, while foundry sales into Europe will be up 9% this year on last, but foundry sales into China will be up 51% in 2018 compared with 2017, which means that China will account for 19% of ...
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Mouser has signed microcontroller board specialist What’s Next to a distribution agreement. Mouser now stocks eight unique, Arduino-compatible What’s Next microcontroller boards — including the Yellow, Red, Green, and Orange boards. Thee entry-level Yellow and Red boards are based on a Microchip ATmega328 microcontroller. Each board provides 20 digital input/output (IO) pins (with up to ...
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A low-power SRAM IP application-centric, customisation service
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Analog Devices has announced a two-phase boost controller whose phases can be arranged in multiple topologies, including one in which the output of the first channel can feed the input of second channel allowing output voltage to exceed several hundred volts. Called LTC7840, each output works with its own external mosfet. There is no option for a ...
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Continuous monitoring of health parameters by wrist-based devices is enabled by Maxim’s Health Sensor Platform 2.0. This rapid prototyping, evaluation and development platform, delivers ECG, heart rate and body temperature to a wrist-worn wearable. Data can be stored on the platform for patient evaluation or streamed to a PC for analysis later. The data measurements ...
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Imagination and GloFo are to collaborate on baseband and RF solutions for BLE and Zigbee. The combination uses Imagination’s Ensigma connectivity IP on GF’s 22nm FD-SOI process. Imagination has joined GF’s FDXcelerator Partner Program. Ensigma on 22FDX provides a complete IP solution comprising analogue RF/AFE as a hard macro complete with a fully synthesizable baseband ...
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Renesas has announced an alliance with Alibaba’s IoT developers to accelerate the growth of China’s IoT market. The collaboration includes embedding AliOS Things IoT operating system (OS) in the Renesas RX65N/RX651 microcontroller (MCU) lineup, expanding online sales channels, and Renesas joining Alibaba’s IoT ecosystem. Following the recent launch of the 16-bit RL78 MCU Family supporting ...
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Maxim’s Health Sensor Platform 2.0 enables ontinuous monitoring of health parameters by wrist-based devices
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Continuous monitoring of health parameters by wrist-based devices is enabled by Maxim’s Health Sensor Platform 2.0. This rapid prototyping, evaluation and development platform, delivers ECG, heart rate and body temperature to a wrist-worn wearable. Data can be stored on the platform for patient evaluation or streamed to a PC for analysis later. The data measurements ...
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Toshiba is sampling a 4-channel power amplifier for automotive audio applications that claims to be highly resistant to the power surges typically found within vehicle electronics. The chip delivers 50W of output power per channel into a 4Ω load. The device includes built-in mute and standby functions as well as protection functions such as offset detection ...
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3D NAND has become the dominant flash type, reports Digitimes. Micron’s 3D output is 90% of its total NAND output. Samsung’s 3D NAND manufacturing is 85% of its total NAND chip output. Toshiba’s 3D NAND output is 75% of its NAND output. Hynix’ 3D NAND output is 60% of its total NAND output. The price ...
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NXP has introduced new RF power transistors designed for smart industrial applications, featuring 65 V laterally diffused metal oxide semiconductor(LDMOS) silicon technology. With more power density, a lower current level and wider safety margins than previous RF power solutions, 65 V LDMOS enables more integrated and reliable Industry 4.0 systems. The MRFX series of 65 ...
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FlexLogix says its EFLX4K Logic and DSP eFPGA IP cores are now in design for the 14nm process at GloFo’s New York fab. Boeing is the first company to license the EFLX4K eFPGA 14nm cores. eFPGA can also be ported to any fab so manufacturing can be in a location preferable to the customer. An eFPGA ...
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Pickering Interfaces of Clacton-on-Sea has launched new four and six channel LXI 50Ω microwave multiplexers in 1U and 2U rack-mount form factors. The 60-801/60-802 high-performance microwave switches feature excellent RF characteristics and repeatability to within 0.01dB. A choice of up to 16 multiplexer banks with any combination of 6GHz, 18GHz, 26.5GHz and 40GHz bandwidths can be ...
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Seven new Prosperity Partnerships projects that will build links between the UK’s research base and leading industry partners such as AkzoNobel , AstraZeneca, Oxford PV, Google, Rolls-Royce, Tata Steel, and Weir Group will be unveiled today by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). This EPSRC £20.4 million investment has leveraged in £16.8 million ...
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STMicroelectronics to manufacture GaN-on-Si power transistors, based on a process developed by French research lab Leti, ST and IRT Nanoelec. The process will be transferred from Leti’s 200mm R&D line to an ST-operated 200mm-wafer pilot-line, operational by 2020, which will allow ST to address high-efficiency, high-power applications – ST singles out: automotive on-board chargers for ...
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Ampleon has announced a rugged high-power transistor for broadcast across 88 – 108MHz for FM radio applications. The device, called BLF189XRA, can deliver 1,600W CW (continuous wave transmission) from a standard 50V power rail and can operate at >82% power efficiency. “Being capable of delivering such power levels from a single SOT539 package reduces the ...
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Theorem Solutions of Tamworth, Staffordshire have released the latest JT to 3D PDF product from its Publish 3D range, with support for JT 10.x. Theorem’s Publish 3D – 3D PDF products enable the publishing of JT data directly into the interactive 3D PDF document format. The published PDF document contains embedded interactive 3D representations of ...
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The University of Glasgow has used CMOS chip to analyse concentrations of four body chemicals that are indicators of disease, and has achieved results similar to standard NHS tests. The 3.4 x 3.6mm chips were designed on Cadence Virtuoso and fabricated at Austria microsystems on a 350nm triple-well process. On these, the active area is a ...
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Today another tranche of US tariffs on China imports into the USA takes effect. The 10% tariff is expected to apply to $200 billion worth of Chinese manufactured goods. The scope of the tariffs on electronics goods is confused. The government order imposing tariffs cites: “Machines for the reception, conversion and transmission or regeneration of ...
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Later today a group of tech and financial companies will meet US government representatives at the White House to discuss ways to drive the US effort in quantum computing. Quantum computing “will enable us to predict and improve chemical reactions, new materials and their properties, as well as provide new understandings of spacetime and the ...
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Alibaba is to set up a semiconductor company, reports Digitimes. The company, to be called Pingtogue Semiconductor, is to target AI SoCs and embedded processors. The idea is to use Pingtogue proprietary ICs in Alibaba’s cloud and IoT activities. Pingtogue will start off as an amalgamation of C-Sky Microsystems, the China design house acquired by ...
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Fujitsu is reported by the Nikkei to have developed 1000:1 image-compression technology. Fujitsu reckons it will be useful in autonomous driving and ADAS applications. A commercially available implementation of the technology is planned for 2021. The technology is said to have been a spin-off from its 4k and 8k video development. As well as having ...
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Yokogawa is claiming the highest accuracy yet available from a power analyser, for its new WT5000. On ac measurements, accuracy is 0.03% – made up of 0.01% of reading plus 0.02% or range (44-66Hz). Power factor influence is 0.02% of S. It is slightly less accurate on dc: 0.02% of reading plus 0.05% of range. The ...
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element14.com has launched the Sixth Sense Design Challenge to create a small remotely-operated or autonomous vehicle, such as a drone, robot or a tunnel exploration device. As an added twist, the project should showcase a “sixth sense” by displaying the capabilities of STMicroelectronics and TE Connectivity products to improve remote vehicle sensing and data collection. Ideas ...
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August billings for semiconductor manufacturing equipment were $2.24 billion – down 5.9% on July’s billings of $2.38 billion but up 2.5% on the $2.18 billion billings of August 2017. “Global billings of North American equipment suppliers declined in August when compared to July, although they remain above August 2017 billings,” says SEMI CEO Ajit Manocha, “industry ...
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Molex and Ixia to use Ixia’s K400 QSFP-DD to generate and receive 400 Gigabit Ethernet line rate traffic over Molex’s 3-meter Direct Attached Cable (DAC). Real-time analysis on K400 will showcase test results of pre-FEC (forward error correction) per lane BER (bit error rate) of around E-9. The superior performance of the “inherent” BER of the ...
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Murata has added extra functionality to its ‘SimSurfing’ ( https://ift.tt/2xr55ZW ) tool for simulation of the company’s capacitor, inductor and filter components. The previous version of the tool allowed visualisation of individual component performance characteristics for impedance, transmission and reflection variation, with frequency and other operating conditions. The new tool features simulation of the application circuits, ...
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Wurth has come up with a neat idea for those in need of shielding on their PCB, but without time to order a custom part. For prototyping, ShielDIY is bend-it-yourself shielding made from 0.2 mm thick metal sheet with pre-embossed fold lines at 5mm intervals. “To produce an individual shielding cabinet of the required shape, ...
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ROHM is aiming to power the sensors in self-driving cars with a family of compact dc-dc converters. Called the BD9S series, the parts support output currents from 0.6 to 4.0A and come in 3x3mm packages, and operate at up to 90% efficiency (3.6Vin 1.8Vout). Switching is current-mode, resulting in fast load transient response, and fixed 2.2MHz ...
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Analog Devices has announced multi-phase 98% efficient bi-directional buck-boost switching regulator controller can mediate between any combination of 12, 24 and 48V batteries. Intended for cars, self-driving cars, for example, the LT8708-1 “operates between two batteries and prevents system shut-down should one of the batteries fail,” said the firm. “It can also be used in ...
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Arm has launched a Bluetooth Low Energy software stack, claiming it to be “the world’s first open-source, fully-qualified and production-ready”. Called Mbed Cordio Stack, it appears to be the existing Cordio BLE stack integrated into Mbed OS – Electronics Weekly has asked for clarification. “For silicon partners, the solution gives them access to a full-featured, ...
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Cypress has added support for Alibaba’s ‘AliOS Things’ embedded IoT operating system to some of its microcontrollers. “PSoC 6 MCUs have passed the advanced certification for AliOS Things with Alibaba Cloud connectivity,” said Cypress. “Developers can now streamline connections to Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing arm of Alibaba, and design products with PSoC microcontrollers and ...
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IoT is what gets Silicon Labs CEO Tyson Tuttle up in the morning. “This is a big deal, not just meaningful technology, it’s why we get up in the morning – it’s actually changing the world,” Tuttle (pictured) told the Publitek pre-Electronica meeting at Tegernsee this morning. Tuttle reckons that IoT will deliver a $10 ...
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Component distributor Mouser has introduced Arduino-compatible MCU boards in bright colours, including one with a 32bit ARM core. Sourced from What Next, it is stocking eight single-board computers. Yellow and Red boards are based on a Microchip ATmega328 microcontroller. Each provides 20 digital IOs – including up to six PWM outputs and six analogue inputs ...
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Fujitsu has developed a technology that offers both high speed data-processing and high-capacity storage in distributed storage systems, in order to speed up the processing of ever-increasing volumes of data. This is in response to a growing need in such technologies as AI and machine learning for the analysis and utilization of rapidly growing volumes ...
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Yangtze River Memory Technology Corporation (YMTC), China’s multi-billion dollar memory start-up, will break the unhealthy monopoly of the big memory players, according ot its general manager Simon Yang. “These products have been monopolized by some international giants, which creates imbalance in the field and is unhealthy,” says Yang. China now has 55% of global IC ...
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Renesas said today that it is expanding access to its portfolio of IP licenses. Renesas has incorporated a broad range of IP into its MCUs and SoCs , CPU IP, communication interface IP, timer IP, memory IP, and analogue IP. Effective today, Renesas is offering customers access to its IP portfolio. The first batch of offerings ...
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The new IQXO-597 range of clock oscillators recently launched by IQD has an ultra-high frequency range of between 1GHz and 2.2GHz. Housed in a 14.0 x 9.0 x 3.3mm, 6 pad, this surface mount package has an FR4 base with a non-hermetically sealed metal lid. The IQXO-597 is available in three different outputs; Sine, Differential ...
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Hyundai is teaming up with H2 of Switzerland to supply 1,000 hydrogen fuel cell powered trucks to the Swiss market in the next five years starting at the end of next year. The timing schedule beats Tesla which plans to supply EV trucks to the country in 2020 and Daimler which plans to introduce them ...
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TI has introduced two USB Type-C and USB Power Delivery (PD) controllers with integrated power paths designated TPS65987D and TPS65988. The controllers source 100 W and 200 W of power, respectively, to support computing applications and enable the benefits of USB Type-C in applications such as cordless power tools, gaming and virtual reality headsets. The ...
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A look at the recent EEVblog meetup and the projects people bought along to show off. And you won’t believe which companies advertised at the event! 
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The new official Power Over Ethernet (PoE) hat for the Raspberry Pi 3 B+ has been reported to fail with an overcurrent error when powering USB devices.
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Insight SiP has launched an RF module that can add Bluetooth low-energy and ANT protocols to existing or new products. It is Bluetooth 5.0-ready. Dubbed ISP1507-AL, it is based on Nordic Semiconductor’s nRF52 series of chips and “offers a complete wireless connectivity solution, with an embedded antenna, integrated DC-DC converter, and includes both radio and synchronisation crystals,” ...
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French research lab Leti has launched a consortium to develop mid-infra-red photonic ICs for portable optical sensors that analyse gases and liquids, initially for the petrochemical and dairy industries. The ICs, integrated on millimetre-size CMOS silicon chips, will “create extremely robust miniature systems, in which discrete components are replaced by on-chip equivalents”, said Leti. “This makes them easier ...
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In Q1 2029, Cadence intends to license a Tensilica processor IP which can do many AI inferences on the device rather than the cloud. Compared to doing AI inferences in the cloud the DNA 100 processor reduces latency, independence from poor connectivity and privacy. The core is said to deliver up to 2,550 fps and ...
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Harwin has extended the scope of its Gecko (Gecko-SL) 1.2 mm pitch connectors – mainly aimed at avionics, military and autosport deployment. “We are the market leader for small pitch rectangular connectors that must not fail,” Harwin’s Andrew McQuillen told the Publitek pre-Electronica meeting in Tegernsee this morning. A reverse fix orientation has now been ...
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The ‘clipping method’ is the best route to creating virtual sound source in an arbitrarily-shaped room, according to researchers at Brigham Young University. The aim is to use multiple loudspeakers (see photo) and time-reversal signal processing to focus waves sound to a selected location, which then converge in all directions from that location – effectively creating a ...
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The added value of a distributor in the future will depend on its exploitation of the internet as a communications platform, said Frank Behiens of RS Components (pictured) at Publitek’s Pre-Electronica meeting in Tegernsee this morning. “The internet is not just a platform for ordering goods it’s a communications platform and we need to drive this ...
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Dialog has demo-ed Stereo High Fidelity (HiFi) quality audio streaming over BLE. Dialog has developed an implementation of True Wireless Stereo audio over BLE running on its SmartBond SoC’s. “It’s necessary to have less than 100 microseconds latency between the earbuds to avoid unwanted sound effects and our solution delivers 1 microsecond latency,”said Dialog’s Mark ...
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Ultrahaptics have announced the launch of STRATOS Inspire, a plug-and-play haptic module based on its STRATOS platform. The STRATOS Inspire has been created for businesses and design agencies wanting to create more immersive and engaging digital experiences and touchpoints by adding tactile sensations. Designed for applications such as digital signage, location-based entertainment or interactive touch ...
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China has ordered its first EUV, machine, reports Digitimes. It will be used to make 7nm geometry ICs. The purchaser is SMIC. ASML’s sales in China are not subject to the Wassenaar Arrangement on Export Controls for Conventional Arms and Dual-Use Technologies, says Shen Po, President of ASML China. ASML will be shipping the ...
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Seven product categories will exceed the 16% growth rate expected from the total IC market this year, says IC Insights. For the second consecutive year, the DRAM market is forecast to top all IC product segments with 39% growth. Overall, 13 product categories are forecast to experience double-digit growth and 28 total IC product categories ...
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French lab Leti will attempt to bring model predictive control (MPC) algorithms to microcontrollers and low-cost DSPs, teaming up with automotive parts firm EFI Automotive. According to Leti this will allow equipment to perform better than is possible with standard control techniques like PID (proportional integral derivative) feedback. However, MPC requires complex computing – solving ...
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Keysight has introduced what is claims is the world’s fastest oscilloscope, operating at 256Gsample/s on signals up to 110GHz. It is also claiming better noise and jitter than any previous fast scope. Called the Infiniium UXR-Series, it is is aimed at designers of high-speed serial links and electro-optical interfaces – for example DDR, USB, PCIe, ...
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Renesas has introduced an integrated open image signal processor (ISP) solution to help the development of automotive smart camera applications based on the Renesas R-Car V3M and R-Car V3H System-on-Chips (SoCs). Integrating the ISP on the R-Car V3x SoCs and leveraging MM Solutions’ Automotive Camera Development Kit (AutoCDK), the open ISP solution on R-Car SoCs enables ...
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Farnell element14 is shipping the Ultra96 an ARM-based Ultra96 development board jointly created by Avnet, Xilinx, and 96Boards. The development board, based on the Linaro 96Boards Consumer Edition specification, features the Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC and provides developers with an environment to simplify machine learning. The 96Boards’ specifications are open and define a standard board layout for development ...
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oneM2M, the IoT interoperability standard, today announced the publication of Release 3, its third set of specifications. On the menu: dramatically enhanced 3GPP interworking – in particular cellular IoT – and new capabilities to unlock value in industrial and smart home applications. 3GPP, the world’s global standards-setting organisation for cellular wireless, has been adding IoT-centric ...
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Theorem Solutions, of Tamworth, Staffordshire UK, has released it latest Visualize 3D Adapter for CATIA V5 to Creo View users supporting up to and including CATIA V5-6R2014-2018. For those that need to work with, or share, visualization data as part of design and manufacturing processes, the Theorem Visualize 3D suite of products offers direct translation ...
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Infineon has got together with the CyLab Security and Privacy Institute at Carnegie Mellon to form the Security Research Group to identify and address requirements for robust, reliable security solutions that IoT users can trust. The Security Research Group focus will range from innovations in smart cards, identity documents and computer security, to methods for securing ...
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Mouser has signed a global distribution agreement with Marvell covering Marvell Fast Ethernet and Alaska Gigabit Ethernet PHY transceivers. The octal Fast Ethernet PHY family, including the 88E3082 and 88E3083 devices, features power consumption under 150 mW per port, enabling network systems manufacturers to decrease system costs by reducing both power supply and fan requirements. The Alaska Gigabit Ethernet ...
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Youtube isn’t suggesting Fran Blanche’s channel any more, what’s going on?
Does Youtube not suggest de-monetised content?
Global fab equipment spending will increase 14% this year to $62.8 billion and is expected to rise 7.5%, to $67.5 billion, in 2019, marking the fourth consecutive year of spending growth and the highest investment year for fab equipment in the history of the industry, according to the latest World Fab Forecast Report published today ...
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Powersolve has added a charger to its range, designed specifically for 36V, 10 cell lithium-ion battery packs. PFY105-42-2 operates from a wide (90-264Vac) input with a 2.5A output at 42V (±500mV). “At 105W, the charger will effortlessly charge Li-ion battery packs as well as the LiFeP04 variants that are popular today,” said the firm. The ...
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Reserve a date in your diary for a Linux and Security training day in September, run by Doulos and Electronics Weekly.
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Cypress is claiming better audio from all-wireless earbuds – headsets without a wire between the transducers. According to the firm, which is sadly not naming names or numbers, the solution features a link budget that is 6dB better than competetors, resulting in up to twice the range – with the extended range improving cross-body performance ...
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Qualcomm is reported to have started a big lay-off programme. Layoff.com profile, a site which claims to represent affected Qualcomm employees, reports jobs being moved to India. Official announcements are anticipated at the October financial reporting round. Having failed to buy NXP, and incurring a $2 billion break up fee, Qualcomm is now looking light ...
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EM Microelectronic of Marin has announced its next generation family of Bluetooth beacons with longer battery life, longer range, over-the-air customizations and modular certification. The first beacon of the family, the EMBC22, is an upgrade and replacement of EM’s EMBC02 BLE beacon. The new beacon is easier to install or deploy thanks to the over-the-air ...
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Go-Jek of Jakarta, Indonesia’s motor-bike hailing service, which was valued at $5 billion in its last funding round when it raised $1.5 billion, is in talks to raise another $2 billion, reports Bloomberg. Current backers include Tencent, Temasek and Warburg Pincus. Earlier this month it started a motor-bike hailing service in Hanoi. It plans to ...
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OmniVision, Leopard Imaging and TI have developed an HD automotive camera module reference design using OmniVision’s OX01B40 image sensor plus image signal processor (ISP) system-in-package (SiP), as well as TI’s DS90UB933-Q1 or DS90UB935-Q1 serializer chip and TPS65000-Q1 power management integrated circuit (PMIC). All four components are AEC-Q100 Grade 2 qualified, with an operating range of -40 ...
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Hydrogen fuel cells are still very much a challenger to electricity as the successor to the internal combustion engine, says Hyundai Motor vice chairman Woong-chul Wang (pictured), “Hydrogen has been talked about as the ultimate solution for zero emissions in the auto industry for decades,” says Wang, “there was reluctance because the technology of fuel-cell vehicles ...
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Hitachi has developed a SiC-based ‘TED-MOS’ (Trench-Etched-Double-Diffused MOS) device using a fin-structured trench MOSFET based on the conventional DMOS-FET. An energy saving of 50% over a DMOS-FET was confirmed as the structure reduces the electric field strength, an index of durability, by 40% and resistance by 25% compared to a DMOS-FET. Hitachi intends to apply ...
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Taoglas has announced the first three antennas a range of narrowband IoT (NB-IoT) antennas called ‘Extensis‘, including what it claims are the world’s smallest ceramic NB-IoT antenna that covers Bands 5, 8 and 20 simultaneously with a single matching configuration. There is also a thin, flexible multi-band antenna that supports all LTE bands—including the new ...
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Link Microtek has introduced a compact integrated rotary joint and slip-ring assembly (RJSA) for use in the stabilised antennas of commercial and military Ka-band satellite-on-the-move (SOTM) communication systems. “By combining the functions of the microwave rotary joint and slip ring into one device, the AM28RJDSR assembly helps SOTM system manufacturers minimise the height of ...
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Panasonic is expanding its conductive polymer hybrid aluminium electrolytic capacitor range with its ZF series rated at 1,000 hours at 150°C, enabling devices to support power train and engine-mounted applications in the automotive sector. Besides the high temperature rating, ZF Series hybrid capacitors are the first available in Through Hole Technology. Hybrid capacitors are one of ...
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Intel has bought San Jose SoC design tool and interconnect IP specialist, NetSpeed Systems. The NetSpeed team is joining Intel’s Silicon Engineering Group (SEG) led by Jim Keller. NetSpeed co-founder and CEO, Sundari Mitra (pictured centre front row) will continue to lead her team as an Intel vice president reporting to Keller. “The challenge is ...
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Birmingham University researchers see a way to swap the lithium in lithium-ion batteries with sodium. Lithium is expensive and resources are unevenly distributed across the planet. Large amounts of drinking water are used in lithium extraction and extraction techniques are becoming more energy intensive. With the ever increasing demand for electric cars, the need for ...
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ACEINNA of Massachusetts has brought out OpenIMU – a professionally supported, open-source GPS/GNSS-aided inertial navigation software stack for low-cost precise navigation applications. Whether you are developing autonomously guided vehicles for industrial applications, autonomous cars, factory or industrial robots, drones, ROVs, any kind of smart machine which needs to move – fast or slow, on land, in ...
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Molex has shrunk its Fit family of wire-to-PCB connectors – to 3.5mm pin-pitch to produce the Ultra-Fit range – the size of the one pictured, looking straight into the pins, is 10 x 14mm. For single row parts (2-8pins) capacity is 14A per pin in tin plate versions and 12A for gold. In dual row ...
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Diodes has announced a hot-swap chip for I2C and SMBus connections that prevents the corruption of data and clock lines during hot-swap in rack-based systems – for PCI, cPCI, VME or AdvancedTCA systems, for example. “These critical systems need to deliver upwards of 99.999% availability, which makes prolonged maintenance and unplanned downtime unacceptable,” said the ...
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Photonic sensors are increasingly being used in healthcare, lidar for autonomous vehicles, high performance computing (HPC) and networking, yet layout design is typically slow. Mentor, a Siemens business, aims to reduce development time with the introduction of the LightSuite Phototonic Compiler. The automated layout tool is a unlike any other Mentor tool, said Tom ...
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We are very pleased and proud to announce the commencement of EW BrightSparks 2019.
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RS Components has unveiled a range of heavy-duty industrial connectors – particularly for robotics and machinery, and in sound and lighting applications. Called RS Pro the range includes rugged housings and inserts, that includes screw terminals and cage-clamp terminals with UL approvals – including UL90V0 flammability. Inserts come in contact-number sizes including 3 PE, 4 ...
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US researchers have found a way to double heat extraction from a transistor made from 2D materials. “In the field of nano-electronics, the poor heat dissipation of 2D materials has been a bottleneck to fully realising their potential in enabling the manufacture of ever-smaller electronics while maintaining functionality,” said University of Illinois at Chicago engineer ...
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Researchers at the University of California San Diego have created a coin-sized flexible stick-on ultrasonic phased-array that allows blood pressure to be measured in arteries below surface layers. The patch is 240μm thick and stretches with strains up to 60%. “Wearable devices have so far been limited to sensing signals either on the surface of ...
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Premier Farnell has added tools to their test & tool product range, including those from Flir, Fluke, Pico Technology and Weller. Recently added to Premier Farnell’s range are: Weller WT2M 2-Channel Soldering Station: Packing 150W of power and maximum versatility, the WT2M 2-channel soldering station is the latest addition to Weller’s high-performance WT Line, offering ...
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MCU revenues are forecast by IC Insights to grow 11% this year to a record $18.6 billion, followed by 9% growth in 2019 to about $20.4 billion. The IC Insights’ five-year growth projection of MCU sales is a CAGR of 7.2%, reaching nearly $23.9 billion in 2022, with unit shipments increasing by a compound annual ...
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A white paper from Plextek RFI reviews some recent MMIC designs that demonstrate how highly accurate MMIC performance predictions can be achieved. Close agreement between measured and modelled performance is exhibited across a wide range of circuit functions, operational frequencies and process nodes, and all designs were first pass successes. Insight is also given into ...
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ST and Biricha Digital Power have developed a workshop to show power-supply engineers why – and how – to quickly move to a digital implementation. The workshop, aimed at analogue PSU (Power Supply Unit) designers and embedded-system engineers who need to build high-performance, stable digital power supplies and Digital PFCs (Power Factor Corrections), will be ...
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Who saw it coming?, Fontus have filed for bankruptcy!
The infamous “self-filling water bottle” that raised $340k on Indiegogo has gone bankrupt and delivered nothing.
You ‘canna beat the laws of physics Captain!
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Gav “The Mechatronics Guy” explains circular polarised light and demonstrates his physical laser cut models to help understand this concept in his quest to make a pixel mapped polarised light camera.
How do 3D shutter glasses work?
The latest in the series from the team behind OEMSecrets, which powers our EW-Compare component price comparison system, considers power supplies and parts from Weidmüller and Traco Power. Power supply design has always been a bit of a topic – long-term followers of the OEMsecrets article series know that repairing TMI usually starts out with power supply ...
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Renesas Electronics has seen OpenSynergy’s COQOS hypervisor run Android P as a guest OS on its R-Car H3 automotive system-on-chip (SoC) device. The hypervisor makes it possible to execute both the instrument cluster functionality, including safety-relevant display elements based on Linux, and the Android-based in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) on a single R-Car H3 SoC chip. The ...
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Imec.xpand, Imec’s early-stage VC fund, has closed its first fund at €117 million in committed capital. The amount raised exceeds the initial target of EUR 100 million and positions imec.xpand as a major player in the deep tech venture capital ecosystem. Imec.xpand is an early stage and growth fund with a approach to turn hardware ...
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UK test gear company Siretta has improved its phone-sized portable cellular reception quality analyser and antenna tester, adding data logging and removing the need to pay for a SIM card – the latter without sacrificing function. Called Snyper-LTE Graphyte, it works on 2G, 3G and LTE networks and is intended to be used in the ...
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