Synopsys stops updates and sales to Huawei

Synopsys says it has stopped providing Huawei with updates to its software and has suspended sales of new software. The pressure is now on Cadence to follow suit.  Whereas Synopsys employees have been told not to engage with Huawei, apparently Cadence employees have not. Mentor Systems, now a Siemens subsidiary, could provide part of the EDA ...

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Q1 collapse in flash price

Q1 flash contract prices fell dramatically on Q4, says DRAMeXchange. Contract pricing for eMMC/UFS fell 15-20%; for Client SSD it fell 17-31%; and for Enterprise SSD it fell 26-32%. Samsung revenues fell 25%, Toshiba dropped 20%, Hynix fell 26%; Intel dropped 17%, Western Digital fell 26% and Micron fell 18%. “The weakening demand in 4Q18 ...

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Arm gives up control of IP to China

Arm has given up control of its technology to China, reports the Nikkei. A jv called Arm mini China which is 51% owned by Chinese interests, principally the Hou-An Innovation Fund, has taken control of licensing Arm IP to Chinese companies. “With this joint-venture, China expects to secure sources of technology, especially for some sensitive ...

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5G in UK

5G was unveiled in six cities in the UK yesterday. EE, the wireless subsidiary of BT, has opened a service in Belfast, London, Edinburgh, Cardiff, Birmingham and Manchester. For those living in not-spots, or with only a GPRS signal, the news will seem ironic. As with previous generations of cellular technology the initial roll-out is ...

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Wearables grow 55%

Q1 shipments of wearable devices reached 49.6 million units, up 55.2% y-o-y, according to IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Wearable Device Tracker. While wrist-worn wearables accounted for the majority of the market with 63.2% share, ear-worn devices experienced the fastest growth (135.1% year over year) and accounted for 34.6% of all wearables shipped. Shipments of wristwear – including ...

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MagnaChip offers eFlash

MagnaChip, the Korean analogue and mixed-signal foundry, is offering its second generation 0.13 micron embedded flash technology with 20V and 30V high-voltage options. The technology is specifically designed to address the needs for multi-function hybrid mixed-signal products, including touch ICs, fingerprint readout ICs and wireless power charger ICs. With the growing complexity of analog and mixed-signal ...

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Sensor and actuator sales grow slower, but to a record high, says IC Insights

Inventory corrections, slowing smartphone shipments, and pullbacks in purchase orders throttled sales growth in semiconductor sensors and actuators last year, resulting in a subpar 6% increase in 2018 to a record-high $14.7 billion after double-digit percentage gains in 2017 and 2016, according to IC Insights’ 2019 O-S-D Report—A Market Analysis and Forecast for Optoelectronics, Sensors/Actuators, ...

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RS Components offers Renesas’ power modules for servers

Encapsulated power modules from Renesas Electronics are now available from distributor, RS Components. The ISL8210M, ISL8212M, ISL82180M and ISL8282M power modules are single-channel, synchronous step-down power modules that provide PoL conversion for fpgas, dsps, asics and memory in servers, storage, optical networking, telecoms and industrial applications. The modules deliver 10A or 15A continuous current at PoL and ...

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Rutronik UK adds Nordic’s Bluetooth 5.1 SoC for navigation

Believed to be one of the first devices to support Bluetooth Core 5.1, Nordic Semiconductor’s nRF52811 SoC is now available from Rutronik UK The Bluetooth Core 5.1 specification was introduced early this year and adds tracking and location functions. The nRF52811 is a multi-protocol SoC that supports IEEE 802.15.4 for Thread and ZigBee and also Bluetooth Direction Finding ...

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Farnell adds MKR shields to Arduino line

Distributor, Farnell, has added four compact Arduino MKR shields to its Arduino product range. The accessories – three shields and a motor carrier – can be integrated into battery-powered IoT applications in industrial automation, environmental monitoring, agriculture, tracking and energy monitoring projects. The ENV Shield, RGB Shield and Therm Shield have a standard, modular design and are ...

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Cypress for sale

Cypress Semiconductor is on the block, reports Bloomberg. Following takeover interest, Cypress has hired advisers to explore options for selling the company. Cypress shares went up 13% yesterday after news broke of the move. The shares have gone up 36% this year. In Q1 the company reported a 5.5% drop in revenues but forecast a ...

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China in for ten years’ unprofitable slog

China is in for an unprofitable decade-long slog if it wants to catch up with the world’s best in chip technology. “This is an extremely challenging and brutal industry, heavily reliant on long term industrial accumulation,” said Jay Huang Jie, founding partner of Jadestone Capital and former Intel Managing Director in China, speaking in Hong ...

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Q1 was worst quarterly semi performance for 10 years

In Q1 the chip market posted its worst quarterly performance in 10 years, according to IHS Markit. Revenues fell to $101.2 billion in Q1,;down 12.9% from $116.2 billion in Q118. This represented the largest y-o-y quarterly decrease since the second quarter of 2009. Memory drove the sales plunge exacerbated by excess inventory and falling demand ...

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Sensor measures barometric pressure and temperature

Infineon has come up with a miniaturised digital barometric pressure sensor is capable of measuring both pressure and temperature. Available now, the sensor offers an ultra-high precision of ±2 cm and a low current consumption for precise measurement of altitude, air flow and body movements. This makes the DPS368 suitable  for mobile applications and wearable devices ...

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Reference design for AR/VR viewers

Qualcomm’s Snapdragon XR1 Smart Viewer Reference Design aims to to help decrease product development time of both AR and VR Smart Viewers.  “By distributing the workload and tapping into the compute power of host devices via tethering to users’ smartphone or PC, the reference designs’ additional features like eye tracking and 6DoF controllers unlock a ...

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SSDs store 2,048GB, have 3,180MB/s read and 2,920MB/s write

Next month Toshiba starts sampling its XG6-P solid SSD series, a derivative of its NVMe M.2-based XG6 Series offering up to 2,048 GB capacity. XG6-P SSDs are suitable for high-end workstation PCs and gaming systems, as well as cost-optimized data center and composable infrastructures. The SSDs use  96-layer BiCS Flash 3D TLC chips. The SSDs have ...

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Dialog CMIC for advanced cameras

Dialog is sampling its latest CMIC device which provides PSRR of 73dB at 1MHz and the output voltage noise of 10µV (rms). Each of the 7 channels from the LDO regulator provide from 475mA to 800mA output current capability, and a quiescent current of less than 1µA for the entire IC during shutdown. Working with the ...

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Your Dream Sensor Board

Element14 and Molex are providing an opportunity for people to design the sensor board of their dreams. The Dream Sensor Board exercise is for the element14 Community, comprised of makers, engineers and designers. The aim is to crowd-source the best combination of sensor modules. Molex will review the feedback to create a truly crowdsourced sensor board ...

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EEVblog #1217 – My Home Solar Power System FAILED!

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Steph McGovern hails the EW BrightSparks of 2019

Stephanie McGovern celebrates the the young talent on display at EW BrightSparks awards but also outlines the barriers to young people entering engineering.

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Marvell selling connectivity portfolio to NXP

Marvell is selling its wireless connectivity portfolio to NXP in an all-cash asset transaction valued at $1.76 billion. The portfolio includes Marvell’s WiFi Connectivity Business Unit, Bluetooth technology portfolio, and related assets. Wireless connectivity pulled in $300 million in in revenues in Marvell’s  2019 FY. The unit employs 550 people worldwide. NXP anticipates revenue associated with ...

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Cadence machine can prototype a 1bn gate SoC on FPGAs

For software development without final silicon, Cadence has launched FPGA-based hardware that can simulate SoCs with up to a billion gates. Called Protium X1, it is intended for debugging software intended to run on SoCs that have yet to be fabbed – for AI, 5G mobile and graphics processors, for example. It can run a 1bn ...

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Mouser’s Inventory Management Tool

Mouser has come up with a free Inventory Management Tool. The web-based inventory system helps organizations and individuals around the world to effortlessly manage and track their stock of electronic components and related supplies. The integrated iOS and Android apps enable users to scan barcodes as well as print bin labels directly from the application. Customers ...

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IC inventories at record high

IC inventories are at a record high, says Morgan Stanley. Q1 inventories for semiconductor companies, distributors and customers increased q-o-q and y-o-y says the company. “Total supply chain inventory is at record levels (25% above median), keeping us cautious about conditions into second half 2019,” said Morgan Stanley analysts Joseph Moore and Craig Hettenbach in ...

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DRAM ASPs and shipments continue to fall

DRAM  ASPs and volume fell in Q1, causing overall production revenue to drop by 28.6 % QoQ, says DRAMeXchange. The ASP for 8GB modules fell 20% to $34 in April and will fall by nearly 25% in Q2. Server DRAMs, which contribute to over 30% of DRAM shipments, are expected to face heavier price pressure. ...

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Did Elon Musk make $2.3bn last year or $0?

Elon Musk made $2.3 billion last year, says a report compiled by the New York Times and the executive compensation consultancy Equilateral. No he didn’t, says Tesla, Musk made nothing, $0, zilch. According to the NYT/Equilar report, Musk was awarded $2.3 billion last year, largely in the form of stock options. Under a March 2018 ...

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SWIR team raise $17m

Three year old Israeli startup TriEye, which has developed a Short-Wave-Infra-Red (SWIR) sensing technology able to see in adverse weather and night-time conditions, has completed a $17 million Series A funding round, led by Intel Capital. Other investors include Marius Nacht, co-founder of Check Point Software Technologies, and TriEye’s existing investor Grove Ventures, headed by ...

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Sony chip transmits with 60 mile range

  Sony is launching a proprietary IoT LPWAN called ELTRES using modules which transmit with a 100km range, while moving at 100 km/h and operating off a coin battery. Instead of WiFi or cellular signals ELTRES harnesses low-power wireless technology to transfer low-bit data across a wide area, with lower power consumption, making it feasible ...

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USB-C poised for auto market

The USB Type-C connectivity standard, which has seen rapid adoption in the consumer electronics space, is poised to make major inroads in automotive connectivity, says a report from Strategy Analytics. Availability of USB Type-C began in 2018, and the 2020 model year will see more than a dozen new models offering Type-C connectivity. Between 2017 ...

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EEVblog #1216 – PCB Layout + FPGA Deep Dive

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AI helps drones land quickly and smoothly despite turbulence

Artificial intelligence can help compensate for turbulence as a drone lands, according to the California Institute of Technology. “Complex turbulence is created by the airflow from each rotor bouncing off the ground as the ground grows ever closer during a descent,” according to Caltech. “This turbulence is not well understood nor is it easy to ...

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Arm enhances CPU for mobile computing; bases GPU on new architecture

Ahead of Computex 2019 in Taiwan, Arm has announced two processors for mobile computing. The Cortex-A77 CPU and Mali-G77 GPU target mobile computing for smartphones. The Cortex-A77 increases the instructions per cycle (IPC) of the previous Cortex-A76 CPU by 20%, to improve computing performance to meet the demands of untethered AR/VR and HD gaming. The ...

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ST ups digital power game with high-end peripherals in Cortex-M4 MCU

STMicroelectronics has created MCU peripherals for improved digital PSUs and motor control: hardware trigonometric and filtering accelerators, a high-resolution timer, a fast analogue comparator and a low-error op-amp. Silicon carbide and gallium nitride converters are a particular target market. Released today, they are all built into STM32G4, a 170MHz Arm Cortex-M4 cored microcontroller – rated ...

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Analyser software uses digital twin for aero certification

Software developed by Mentor is designed to help aircraft projects meet electrical load compliance. The Capital Load Analyzer software reduces risk in aerospace electrical compliance and certification. Anthony Nicoli, IES director of Aerospace and Defense, Mentor explained that the increased information and displays used in the aircraft cockpit for flight control and in passenger in-flight ...

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Cadence design and sign-oftools for 7nm Arm Cortex-A77

Cadence has announced design and sign-off tools for Arm’s new Cortex-A77 CPU on 7nm processes. The 7nm rapid adoption kit (RAK) provides an RTL-to-GDS flow using Arm 7nm POP IP libraries. “We worked with Arm to optimise our digital implementation and sign-off solutions for the Cortex-A77 so customers can create 7nm designs that meet PPA ...

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C&K adds to vandal-resistant switch range

C&K has added a smaller size to its range of vandal-resistant sealed switches for outdoor ATMs, ticket machines and security systems. Called ATP16, the push-buttons fit through a 16mm diameter panel cut-out – and join earlier ATP19 (19mm) and ATP22 (22mm) types. Construction is from a mix of stainless steel, aluminium alloy and the engineering ...

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PCIM 2019: Video Interview – Murata’s lithium coin batteries enable demanding apps

At PCIM 2019, we caught up with Mahoro Takahashi of Murata as part of our promotional coverage for the event. Mahoro discusses Murata’s new Micro Battery line-up – the company has released a range of small lithium coin batteries. She describes how new features enable longer battery life for demanding application with higher peak current ...

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MCU gets high-accuracy analogue front-end for precision industrial sensing

Renesas is claiming 10nV/°C offset drift, 1ppm/°C gain drift and 30nV RMS noise from the analogue front-end (AFE) of its latest microcontrollers “a level that could previously only be achieved by combining dedicated A/D converter circuits with high-precision operational amplifier ICs”, it said. Included monolithically alongside a 32MHz 32-bit RXv2 core, the AFE will appear in ...

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Raspberry Pi-based Home Cam Kit

HKCam uses a Raspberry Pi Zero W and a 3D printed enclosure to to create a security camera under $30. HKCam needs a Raspberry Pi Zero W with a power supply, the official Raspberry Pi camera module, a microSD card, and the 3D printed housing. If you don’t have a 3D printer, the HKCam’s developer, ...

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SK Telecom uses 5G to promote Smart City Strategy.

SK Telecom is leveraging its 5G leadership to sign deals for infrastructure projects with downstream customers. Earlier this month it signed deals with the Seoul Metropolitan Government to provide HD mapping, C2X and ADAS services via 5G and to livestream parts of a golf tournament. This week SK Has signed up the Daegu Metropolitan Government ...

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Camera captures four trillion frames per second

Feng Chen of Xi’an Jiaotong University in Shaanxi and Lidai Wang at the City University of Hong Kong have demo-ed cameras that can capture trillions of frames per second. The researchers use a method called ‘compressive sampling’ which allows the images to ‘overlap’ on a CCD. Their demo first sends a laser pulse containing a ...

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Sponsored Content: Pressure Sensors that Meet Harsh Environment Requirements

Sponsored content: Sensors have become one of the most critical elements of information collection where the demand for real-time data analytics is a major driver in the evolution of sensors and sensor networks. Self-diagnostics, network compatibility, small form factor designs and integrated signal conditioning are considered essential sensor features for new applications. Of particular importance ...

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Q1 semi market figures skewed by freak Huawei buying

The semiconductor market figures have been were skewed by exceptional buying from Huawei says CLSA (formerly Credit Lyonnais Securities Asia). Huawei was stockpiling to mitigate the effects of a possible US export ban on US ICs, says CLSA. CLSA estimates that this freak buying spree added 8% to Q1 semiconductor market growth worth $35 billion to ...

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ST joins CCC

ST has joined the Car Connectivity Consortium (CCC), a cross-industry organization advancing global technologies for smartphone-to-car connectivity solutions. ST’s automotive connectivity portfolio includes thevST25 NFC readers, ST33 Secure Elements, STA12 Accordo infotainment processors, STA13 Telemaco vehicle processors, and Stellar vehicle gateway/domain microcontrollers. ST is in the expanding market for NFC technology as a digital key ...

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EEVblog #1215 – $18,000 4K Monitor Teardown From 2001!

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Webinar: Goepel on Embedded JTAG Solutions, to reduce time and save costs

Electronics Weekly joins with Goepel Electronics to discuss Embedded JTAG Solutions - how to reduce time and save costs.

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PCIM 2019: Video Interview – Nexperia’s Bipolar Power Transistors in LFPAK packaging deliver high current ratings

At PCIM 2019, we caught up with Burkhard Laue of Nexperia as part of our promotional coverage for the event.

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First 60 satellites of Musk internet constellation launched

The first 60 satellites of what is intended to become a 12,000 satellite constellation were launched by SpaceX yesterday. The constellation is for Elon Musk’s Starlink high speed internet service for which, he says, he may be signing up customers as early as this year. For the moment, he has to see if all 60 ...

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Raspberry Pi-based server

The NODE Mini Server V2 is powered by a Raspberry Pi 3B+ and uses a 2.5-inch HDD or SSD for data storage. Some of the ports require desoldering from the Pi. Build details are supplied by NODE on its website along with source files for the case and PCB designs. In addition to the Pi, an ...

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Mouser Formula-E team 10th in Monaco; heads for Berlin

Following another top-ten finish at the Monaco E-Prix, the Mouser Electronics-sponsored GEOX DRAGON Formula E racing team heads to Germany for the Berlin E-Prix on May 25. At the Monaco E-Prix, driver José María “Pechito” López continued GEOX DRAGON’s successful season, coming in tenth. Mouser is sponsoring the GEOX DRAGONFormula E team throughout the 2018-19 ...

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OmniVision sampling AR/VR CameraCubeChip module

OmniVision is sampling  a camera module with 640×480 VGA resolution. Tere’s a version for AR/VR eye tracking, and a version for machine vision and 3D sensing in mobile facial authentication.  The OVM7251’s sleep current consumption is 5mA, and during active mode, the module’s global shutter enables fast image capture. This combination can result in extended ...

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Analogix design for connecting VR over USB-C

Analogix has produced a VirtualLink Reference Design which enables VirtualLink directly on the motherboard of high-performance gaming notebooks, allowing them to support virtual reality (VR) over the USB-C connector.   External accessories can also leverage the reference design to interface legacy graphics processing units (GPUs) to future VirtualLink-enabled VR head-mounted displays. Introduced by a consortium ...

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Supercomputer predicts better materials for solar and LEDs

Engineers at the University of California San Diego are using a supercomputer to design materials with prospects to improve solar cells and LEDs – finding 13 of the former and 23 of the latter The candidate materials, types of hybrid halide semiconductor, would be stable and exhibit excellent optoelectronic properties. They have an inorganic framework ...

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Why selenium makes CdTe thin film solar cells better

Selenium-alloyed cadmium telluride solar cells can achieve 22.1% solar cell efficiency, but why? asked a team from Loughborough and Colorado State Universities – particularly when cadmium telluride on its own can only hit 19.5%. The addition of selenium reduces the bandgap, but this is only part of the story, it appears. Cathodoluminescence – turning the ...

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TI unveils the fastest 12bit ADC ever

Texas Instruments has revealed the fastest 12bit ADC – the ADC12DJ5200RF – that can sample two channels at 5.2Gsample/s, that can be interleaved into a single 10.4Gsample/s channel. That is two channels of 12bit 2.6GHz instantaneous bandwidth, or one of 5.2GHz instantaneous bandwidth. “The design comes from our centre in Friezing Germany – they have been ...

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TT aims at trains and high-rel with high-speed data connector

TT Electronics has announced two connector products for high-speed data on rail and military vehicles, as well as telecommunication and industrial application: SteadiShield connector and OcTrain 10Gb Ethernet contact. SteadiShield (outside in photo) is a reverse bayonet connector intended for designs requiring one connector with multiple Ethernet screens. It has a metalised insert for screen termination ...

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Summer club coding challenge is latest STEM initiative

With the school summer holidays looming, element14 is launching the Summer Code Club Challenge to encourage parents, teachers and youth leaders to set up clubs to help students learn more about coding and access digital literacy resources and support. The online community for engineers has partnered with Kitronik, which develops educational project kits for this ...

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Toolchain supports RISC-V cores

Swedish  embedded software provider, IAR Systems, has recognised the increased adoption of RISC-V-based designs, with the introduction of a C/C++ compiler and debugger toolchain to support RISC-V cores. The first version of IAR Embedded Workbench for RISC-V has been internally tested and the company reports that the C/C++ compiler improves code density, compared to other tools ...

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Trio team up for secure IoT cellular connectivity

Arrow Electronics, Infineon and Arkessa have joined forces to provide connected devices for the IoT, based on the GSMA’s eSIM specification for secure communications. The agreement sees Infineon’s secured hardware controllers and Arkessa’s secured mobile data services provided by Arrow to OEMs, system integrators and enterprises for secure cellular services. Infineon’s SLM security controllers are based on ...

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Locking right-angle IEC mains plug fits in tight spaces

Schaffner has created a right-angled locking IEC C14 plug for space-constrained applications. Part of the firm’s IL13 family “due to its angled construction the connector can be used with devices standing next to a wall or in table-top applications”, said the firm. “All types are usable with any standard IEC C14 inlet, locking without any ...

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Farnell adds Osram Opto Semiconductors

Farnell has expanded its semiconductor range by adding the Osram Opto Semiconductor product portfolio to its global offering. The products include, amongst others, LEDs, infrared emitters, photodiodes and optical sensors. Ostam Opto Semiconductors has more than 40 years’ experience developing products in the fields of illumination, visualisation and sensor technology. The Osram range extends Farnell’s ...

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SK Telecom to deploy 5G and mapping for V2X

SK Telecom and Seoul Metropolitan Government have signed an MOU to develop and verify HD Map technologies for ADAS..   Under the MOU, SK Telecom and Seoul Metropolitan Government will cooperate for the development of real-time update technology for HD Map covering a total of 121 kilometers of public roads, which were designated by Seoul’s Cooperative-Intelligent ...

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Qualcomm licensing practices are illegal, says judge

Qualcomm’s shares fell 13% yesterday after a judge ruled that the company’s business practice of charging purchasers of its chips a separate fee to use its patents is an abuse of a dominant market position and illegal. “Qualcomm’s licensing practices have strangled competition,” said Judge Lucy Koh (pictured) the formidable judge who presided over the ...

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ST to help clean up India

ST is working with with Gaia Smart Cities Solutions to develop a citizen smart feedback system for the Swachh Bharat (Clean India) Mission. The joint effort aims to enable the smart transformation of enterprises and cities through real-time feedback collected at multiple points in the product and service delivery chain. The initial collaboration between ST ...

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OpEd: Astute Electronics – 30 years of growth

Astute Electronics is a exciting and bold success story – and a British one at that, says founder and md Geoff Hill (pictured). ‘There’s a long history of mergers and acquisitions within electronics distribution. Consolidation remains one of the easiest ways to grab new customers and inventory while diversifying your markets, but it also provides ...

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Toshiba photorelays have UL 508 certification

Toshiba’s high-current photorelays are now available with UL 508 certification. All nine devices in the series include low on-state resistance MOSFETs based upon Toshiba’s U-MOS VIII process that ensure high performance in a wide range of applications. All devices in the series (TLP3556A, TLP3558A, TLP241A, TLP3543A, TLP3545A, TLP3546A, TLP3547, TLP3548 and TLP3549) are now fully ...

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Optimising AI algorithms can save 10x power

Re-thinking neural network algorithms can deliver 10 times more performance from the same hardware, according to Lattice Semiconductor, which has overhauled its ‘sensAI‘ artificial intelligence-based vision processing intellectual property. SensAI is aimed at edge AI – always-on local pre-processing of images to decide whether more powerful remote processing resources need get involved – reducing the ...

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Seeed Studios releases Maixduino

Seeed Studios released Maixduino earlier this morning. Based on MAIX Module, the same as Grove AI HAT based, the Maixduino is a RISC-V 64 development board for AI + IoT applications. Different to other Sipeed MAIX dev. boards, Maixduino was designed in an Arduino Uno form factor, with ESP32 module on board together with MAIX AI module.

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SEMI billings up after three months of falls

SEMI’s billings figure for April was up on March after three consecutive months of sequential drops. April billings were $1.91 billion – 4.7% higher than the $1.82 billion of March, but 29% lower than the April 2018 billings level of $2.69 billion. “April billings of North American equipment manufacturers increased 5% when compared to the ...

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Q1 Test and Packaging revenues fell 11.8% y-o-y.

The Top Ten test and packaging companies saw y-o-y revenues fall 11.8% in Q1 to $4.71 billion, says TrendForce. Among the top ten, Amkor, Jiangsu Changjiang Electronics Tech (JCET), Tongfu Microelectronics (TFME), Tianshui Huatien (TSHT), Powertech and the United Test and Assembly Center (UTAC) all registered double digit declines in revenue for 1Q. ASE’s revenue ...

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Nokia late in 5G, says CEO

Nokia is late in 5G despite the market opportunities offered by the US campaign against Huawei 5G switchgear. “We are late in 5G by a few weeks to a couple of months,” Nokia CEO Rajeev Suri (pictured) told the company’s results meeting yesterday. Suri was reporting a monthly loss due to a delayed delivery of ...

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SiFive buys Innovative Logic

SiFive has bought Innovative Logic of Bengaluru, India and its USB IP. SiFive has hired the majority of Innovative Logic’s employees in Bengaluru. Innovative Logic’s India engineering team has been working in the USB IP domain for more than a decade, developing and implementing silicon-proven, certified USB IP. The team has led USB development from ...

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EEVblog #1214 – Insanely Fast Slot Cars!

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Q3 may bring growth, says IC Insights

Q3 may see a return to growth, reckons IC Insights. Over its 60 year history, the IC industry is well known for its cyclical behavior. Looking back to the mid-1970s, IC Insights cannot identify a period where the IC market declined for more than three quarters in a row. Assuming the 2Q19 IC market registers ...

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MEMS oscillators from SiTime enhance AEL Crystals’ IoT offering

MEMS oscillators from SiTime have been added to the range of IoT-targeted frequency control products available from AEL Crystals. The company explains that the IoT brings fresh challenges for frequency control manufacture as it requires products to accommodate multiple protocols, such as Bluetooth,  ZigBee, Z-Wave, 6LoWPAN, CSR Mesh / Bluetooth Low Energy, Sigfox and Thread. Designs are ...

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Fibre laser firm to set-up in Coventry with £15m

International fibre laser maker IPG Photonics is to spend £15m building a UK headquarters in Coventry. To open before next year on a 1.7ha site in Coventry’s Ansty Park, according to the West Midlands Growth Company (see below), it will create 30 jobs in electronic and mechanical production, robotics and laser processing. “IPG Photonics is ...

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Arduino SIM unveiled

Arduino has today launched Arduino SIM, a SIM-only service exclusively for IoT devices based on the Arduino platform, to give developers and manufacturers cellular access to the Arduino IoT Cloud platform from over 100 countries with a single data plan and competitive pricing. Arduino SIM aims to provide the simplest path to cellular IoT device ...

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Achronix adds 7nm FPGA IC to 7nm eFPGA core

Achronix has followed the Q4 debut of its 7nm Speedcore eFPGA with the launch of its 7nm Speedster FPGA IC. The 7nm Speedcore IP helped boost Achronix’ IP revenues by 250% last year and the promising thing about the 7nm Speedster is that it’s targeting the same hot market as Speedcore  – AI/machine learning. Asked ...

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GloFo sells ASIC unit to Marvell

Globalfoundries continues its programme of divestment with the sale of its seven month old ASIC unit, called Avera Semiconductor, to Marvell. Avera was only set up last November.  Marvell will pay GloFo $650 million for the acquisition plus a further $90 million if certain business conditions are met. The agreement includes the transfer of Avera’s ...

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D Series connectors an alternative to autoclave-compatible connectors

Smiths Interconnect has announced D Series connectors as a high reliability alternative to premium priced autoclave-compatible connectors. Medical environments typically require products to be suitable for autoclave sterilisation whilst also offering scalability to support design-in applications with a wide range of device styles and sizes. The medical device industry continues to develop more disposable and ...

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SIA responds to Huawei’s chip ban

SIA CEO John Neuffer has responded to the US government’s ban on companies selling ICs to Huawei. “We are troubled by the recent setback in U.S.-China negotiations and the escalation of tensions on both sides, but remain hopeful a mutually beneficial agreement is still within reach,” says Neuffer, “too much is at stake for the ...

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EEVblog #1213 – The Oscilloscope Interpolation Trap!

Oscilloscope Sin X/x Interpolation can be a trap for young players, find out why.

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Lattice puts high-grade security into small FPGAs to boot larger systems securely

Lattice is focusing on system security with small FPGAs that have their own root-of-trust alongside other security features that can protect processors, GPUs, other FPGAs, and their associated memories. “This is the first small FPGA designed to be compliant to SP 800-193 – as a chip, and enabling our customers to build compliant products,” said Lattice ...

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HPE buys Cray

HP Enterprise is to buy 47 year-old Seattle supercomputer manufacturer Cray for around $1.3 billion net of cash. The price is 17% above Cray’s last closing price before the deal.  “Answers to some of society’s most pressing challenges are buried in massive amounts of data,” says HPE CEO Antonio Neri, “only by processing and analyzing ...

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Raspberry Pi bundle addresses bitcoin mining

Mining bitcoin is the last thing you’d associate with Raspberry Pi but a £34 pack which claims to make you a Pi Master delivers an understanding of this and more. The Raspberry Pi Mastery Bundle on the Inverse Shop offers: Explore the nexus of hardware and software with Raspberry Pi Learn to program and design for ...

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Imec chip monitors fetal health

Imec, and it’s spin-off Bloomlife, have prototyped a wearable 5-channel ECG chip to continuously  monitor fetal heart rate and mobility, two important indicators of a baby’s wellbeing. With the development of this chip, a major hurdle has been taken in the creation of a wearable ECG system that can accurately measure the fetal ECG as ...

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China to get second 5G modem source

China may soon have its second-proprietary 5G modem with the news from Digitimes that the Tsinghua Unigroup subsidiary  Unisoc has had its design validated by TSMC. After Intel pulled out of the 5G modem market, the USA has only one supplier – Qualcomm. With the addition of Unisoc to HiSilicon as a supplier, China has ...

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RSE takes majority stake in Saftronics

RSE of Muir and Ord  (previously Ross-shire Engineering) a subsidiary of Envoy & Partners which supplies engineering services to UK utilities, has bought a majority stake in  40 year-old Leeds switchboard and controls manufacturer Saftronics. Saftronics specialises in motor control centres, process control systems and low-voltage switchboards. It employs 110 people and operates from a 2,400m² ...

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Kit converts Raspberry Pi into Alexa-type home automation system

Raspberry Pi can be used as an Alexa or Amazon Echo type of home automation device thanks to a $29 kit from the Geek Shop. The Geek Shop calls the kit ‘The Complete Raspberry Pi and Alexa A-Z Bundle’. The bundle contains four courses which demonstrate how to make a range of home automation tools. ...

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Intel regains No.1 slot

Intel replaced Samsung as the number semiconductor supplier in 4Q18 after losing the lead spot to Samsung in 2Q17. While Samsung held the full-year number one ranking in 2017 and 2018, Intel is forecast to easily recapture the number one ranking for the full-year of 2019, a position it previously held from 1993 through 2016. ...

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Trade War will hit Apple hardest of all the phone manufacturers

The global smartphone production volume for 1Q19 totaled 311 million units, showing a YoY decrease of 9%, says TrendForce. The outlook for 2Q19 indicates that smartphone demand will stabilize, and the traditional busy season for stock-up activities will arrive in the latter half of the second quarter. So global smartphone production volume in 2Q19 is ...

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TUM develops water splitting catalyst

Chemists at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have developed an efficient water splitting catalyst. The catalyst comprises a double-helix semiconductor structure encased in carbon nitride. It is perfect for producing hydrogen economically and sustainably. An inorganic double-helix compound comprising the elements tin, iodine and phosphorus (SnIP) forms the core of the structure. It is ...

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Raspberry Pi prizes for element 14 coding competition

element14.com is offering ten Raspberry Pi Starter Kits as prizes in its Summer Code Club Challenge, in association with educational project kit developers Kitronik. The Summer Code Club Challenge aims to empower parents, teachers and STEM ambassadors to set up summer code clubs in their local communities, helping young people access coding and digital literacy ...

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Bipass QSFP-DD module cooler takes the path to 112Gbps

Molex’  BiPass thermal management configuration cools QSFP-DD modules up to 20W with a 15 degree Celsius change from the ambient temperature. BiPass allows higher wattage modules to be cooled and will help designers on the path toward 112 Gbps. As the industry is readying for the launch of next-generation copper and optical QSFP-DD transceivers, thermal management strategies ...

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Mems detects THz radiation at room temperature

The University of Tokyo has created a thermo-mechanical micromachine that can sense terahertz electromagnetic radiation, without the need for cryogenic cooling. THz cameras is a possible application. The device is a beam suspended across a gap, coated with a resistive nickel-chromium (NiCr) film. The film absorbs THz radiation, that transfers as heat to the beam, ...

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Nissan follows Tesla in ruling out Lidar for autonomous EVs

NIssa has followed Tesla in saying Lidar is not necessary for self-driving cars. “At the moment, Lidar lacks the capabilities to exceed the capabilities of the latest technology in radar and cameras,”  says Tetsuya Lijima, general manager of advanced technology development for automated driving. Elon Musk recently called Lidar a “fool’s errand”. He says Tesla’s autonomous ...

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Bluetooth LE module expands Mouser RF offering

Based on Toshiba’s TC35680 chip controller, the PAN1762 is the latest RF module from Panasonic that is now available from Mouser. The low power Bluetooth Low Energy (LE) 5.0 module is designed for used in the IoT, beacon and mesh networks to transmit large amounts of data wirelessly. The single-chip controller has an Arm Cortex-M0 core with a serial ...

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‘Most dexterous robot’ unveiled, by Cambridge Consultants

Hank, the three-fingered robot arm, is claimed to be the most dexterous yet by its makers, Cambridge Consultants, which is aiming at commercial applications. Its “flexible, human-like fingers are able to pick up small, irregular and delicate items, enabling full warehouse automation for the first time”, according to the firm. Its soft fingers are controlled ...

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Renesas MCU for motor control scores 1,160 CoreMark

Renesas has added a hardware motor control accelerator to 32bit microcontrollers that already achieve a 1,160 CoreMark from EEMBC – the highest score for a 5V MCU operating at 200MHz, claims Renesas. Within the RX72T group, as the chips will be known, the accelerator enableshigh-speed position control and speed control calculations required for implementing servo ...

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US puts Huawei on Entity List

The US government has put Huawei on its Entity List which means US companies have to get the government’s permission to supply Huawei with their products. ZTE is already on the list. At the same time, Huawei switchgear has been banned from US networks. Huawei said that  “restricting Huawei from doing business in the U.S. ...

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EEVblog #1212 – Dumpster Diving PC Motherlode!

EEVblog #1211 – Apple’s Most Beautiful Failure

EEVblog #1210 – Sony Waterproof Earphones Teardown

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EEVblog #1207 – ARM Dev Boards Falling From The Sky!

EEVblog #1206 – Repair: Sony NEX VG30 Video Camera

European Perovskite Initiative founded

The European Perovskite Initiative (EPKI) for the development of Perovskites based solar technology has been launched. Perovskite-based solar cells have made tremendous progress over the last decade achieving outstanding lab-scale efficiencies of 24.2% early 2019 in single-junction architecture and to an astonishing 28% in tandem (perovskite associated with crystalline silicon), turning it into the fastest-advancing ...

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Spectrum puts 8 AWG channels on 168mm long PCIe card

Spectrum Instrumentation has created a solution for customers wanting multi-channel AWGs. Having 8 AWG channels on a single PCIe-card only 168 mm in length offers great new opportunities for very compact and affordable test systems. The addition of the two new 8-channel-cards to Spectrum’s latest “65” series of PCIe Arbitrary waveform generators means that, using ...

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Leti develops GaN MicroLED fabrication technology

Leti has developed a new technology for fabricating GaN microLED displays for applications ranging from smart watches to TVs with no size limit. The approach fabricates elementary units of all-in-one red, green, blue (RGB) microLEDs on a CMOS driving circuit, and transfers the devices to a simple receiving substrate. The units are fabricated with a ...

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Picture Gallery: EW BrightSparks 2019 – Celebrating the engineer

On a lovely sunny day in Central London at the IET we honoured the EW BrightSparks class of 2019. See EW BrightSparks selection panel chooses the 2019 cohort As in previous years, in partnership with RS Components, we were looking for young engineers who are already making a difference in the first years of their working ...

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Mentor tools for 5nm TSMC finfet process

TSMC has certified a suite of Mentor Calibre nmPlatform design tools for its 5nm finfet process, including nmDRC, nmLVS, YieldEnhancer, PERC (pictured) and Analog FastSPICE (AFS) Platform software. “For example, Calibre PERC reliability verification solution on TSMC’s 5nm FinFET technology is engineered to help enhance product reliability by making leakage checks available for full chip designs,” said ...

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Infineon gets better audio with multi-level Class-D amplification

Infineon is claiming efficiency and audio quality benefits for multi-level Class-D audio amplification. Branding its multi-level products Merus, “Infineon is the first company to apply multi-level switching technology to class D audio amplifier products, improving amplifier parameters compared to traditional class D amplifiers  – power consumption, solution size, audio performance, electromagnetic interference, and BOM cost, it said. ...

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New Elektra Award introduced, and Elektra Awards 2019 website goes live

To reflect the increasing role of communication and marketing efforts in the electronics arena Electronics Weekly has introduced a new category to the Elektra Awards for 2019.

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Farnell adds GW Instek range

Farnell has expanded its test and instrument portfolio by adding GW Instek’s products which include programmable power supplies, electrical safety testers, signal sources and power analysers, GW Instek products to be stocked by Farnell include: The APS-7050 programmable linear AC power source – Offering output ratings of 500 VA, 310 V RMS, 2.1 A and ...

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Plessey signs LED micro-display supply deal

Devon-based LED maker Plessey has announced a display device design and long-term supply agreement with smart glasses and augmented reality (AR) company Vuzix. It will support the development and production of AR products that combine Plessey’s “micro-LED light source technology”, according to Plessey, with Vuzix’ expertise and intellectual property in smart glasses and essential optics ...

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SK Telecom to stream golf coverage using 5G

SK Telecom of Korea says it will stream coverage of part of a golf tournament using 5G. The third, fourth and ninth holes of the golf course at Incheon being used for the SK Telecom Open 2019 will be covered by caneras fitted with 5G modules. SK Telecom says it will be the world’s first ...

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Psion inspires Raspberry Pi laptop

Raspberry Pi has inspired numerous laptops and two here show a very neat exploitation of  the computer.   nokton35mm’s “RasPSION” Pi laptop build  has the Raspberry Pi 7″ display as well as a Bluetooth keyboard, 5V battery pack and the Pi camera.  It has a laser cut case, and its pivoting hinge mechanism is the bit ...

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Power transistor sales grew 14% last year becoming a $16bn market

Sales growth in power transistors was up 14% in 2018 reaching a record $16.3 billion after setting the previous record in 2017 with an 11% increase, according to IC Insights’ 2019 O-S-D Report—A Market Analysis and Forecast for Optoelectronics, Sensors/Actuators, and Discretes. Strong growth momentum in power transistor sales carried into Q1  with worldwide sales ...

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Here comes China

Yangtze Memory will be making enough NAND next year to  impact supply and prices on the global memory market, says DRAMeXchange. DRAMeXchange says YMTC is sampling 64-layer NAND, has completed the Wuhan fab, and is planning to ramp production to 60k wpm  in 2020. Although small compared to competitors’ 200k wpm capacities, 60k wpm is ...

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SiTime moves into Elite production

SiTime is in volume production of its Elite Platform of temperature-compensated oscillators (TCXOs) that provide high stability and dynamic performance at 105°C for IEEE 1588-based synchronization in 5G/4G+ radios and enable wireless service providers to begin their network overhaul. “5G is expected to revolutionize the data economy but first it is re-writing the rules for wireless network ...

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Alps adds force sensor for styli.

6Alps has brought out a Force Sensor which enhances impact resistance in a form factor of 2mm × 1.6mm × 0.66mm while offering  high linearity and high resolution, making it suitable for use in stylus pens and other input devices. Stylus pens, or styli, contain force sensors that trace the trajectory of the pen tip and ...

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ON sensors for ADAS.

ON Semiconductor’s portfolio of sensors for automotive applications include an RGB-IR image sensor solution for in-cabin applications and the Hayabusa family of CMOS image sensors for advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and viewing automotive camera systems. Designed to meet growing demand for in-cabin occupancy monitoring cameras, the 2.3 Megapixel (MP) RGB-IR sensor achieves up to 120 ...

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University of Essex turns to Rohde & Schwarz for student lab test gear

Rohde & Schwarz has been chosen to supply test equipment for the newly refurbished electronic engineering teaching laboratory at the University of Essex. “We have made a considerable investment in our main teaching laboratory and created a facility that we are truly proud of, which fully meets the expectations of our new cohorts of students,” ...

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Hailo-8 tackles deep learning at the edge

Hailo is sampling a deep learning processor called Hailo-8 which, it claims, enables edge devices to run deep learning applications that could previously run only on the cloud. Hail sayscits rethinks the existing pillars of computer architecture – memory, control, and compute – and incorporates a key SDK co-developed with the hardware. The company claims that ...

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TI stalwarts return to Bedford

Last Saturday over 300 former staffers at TI’s Bedford held a re-union at the fab site which operated from 1960 till 1993 and was once Bedford’s biggest employer. “Working at TI was like being part of a family, we were family and testament to that fact is seeing all these old faces here today,”  Ken Sanders, the ...

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Plessey demonstrate GaN-on-Si HD monolithic micro-LED display

Plessey has revealed its first GaN-on-silicon HD monolithic micro-LED with an active silicon backplane. “This is a momentous milestone in the development of our monolithic micro-LED display technology,” said Plessey director of epitaxy Dr Wei Sin Tan. “To the best of our knowledge this is truly a world first, and we are extremely proud of ...

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BASpi – Raspberry Pi-based BAS controllers

Contemporary Controls  has come up with the BASPi series of building automation controllers powered by Raspberry Pi. The first design is a 6-universal input, 6-relay output, BACnet server, Sedona-programable board which mounts on top of the Raspberry Pi’s GPIO header as a HAT. With the installation of  the free BASpi firmware and the  HAT/daughterboard, you ...

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