At the G20 Summit the ban on selling components, equipment and services to Huawei appears to have been lifted with it possibly taking effect this week. The lobbying by the SIA and others appears to have been successful. However the US pressure not to buy Huawei switchgear still seems to be in place. “One of ...
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Toshiba’s NAND production glitch at Yokkaichi, plus Micron’s 10% cut in NAND production, will tighten NAND supplies and could affect Q3 contract pricing, reports TrendForce. Yokkaichi had a 13 minute power outage on June 15th and is taking longer than expected to fix. Western Digital says that 6 exabytes of NAND wafers were affected. TrendForce ...
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Seeed Studios has come up with what it calls “essential” accessories for Raspberry Pi 4. A micro SD Card with Card Reader-32GB(Class 10) $4.20 This kit contains a 32GB Class10 micro-SD card and a micro-SD card to USB reader. With only $4.20, you can get this 32GB super cost-effective micro-SD card!! There are two Micro-HDMI ...
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Silicon Catalyst, the only incubator focused exclusively on accelerating solutions in silicon, has added Rescale and S2C as the newest In-Kind Partner (IKP) members. Silicon Catalyst continues to work with key industry players to further develop a complete value chain that economically and effectively supports the semiconductor start-ups accepted in the incubator. These startups utilize ...
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HUBER+SUHNER has launched its high-performing 50 GHz SUCOFLEX 550S microwave cable assembly – a customisable solution for longer life-time. The SUCOFLEX 550S is available in tailored lengths with immediate availability for stock assemblies and a quick manufacturing turnaround on customised configurations. With a life-time of more than 100,000 flex cycles, the assembly is the latest addition ...
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Researchers uncover one of the mechanism that makes tin-based perovskite solar cells worse
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The REC15E-Z converters feature a 4:1 input-voltage range 1”x1” footprint with built-in protection. The choice of 9V-36V or 18V-75V input range lets REC15E-Z converters work with standard industrial bus voltages from 12V to 48V, as well as battery types such as lead-acid or lithium. Inputs are protected against transients up to 100V, and under-voltage lockout ...
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Arm’s top CPU architect Mike Filippo has left the company after ten years to join Apple. At Arm he was responsible the development of the Cortex-A76, A72, and A57, and Arm’s Hercules-AE automotive CPU. Before joining Arm, Filippo worked for AMD and Intel. The move is teported to be related to Apple’s plans to replace ...
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The semiconductor market is headed for a double-digit decline this year, after a Q1 fall of 15.6% from Q4, forecasts Bill Jewell’s Semiconductor Intelligence. Most recent semiconductor market forecasts reflect this trend. 2019 forecasts range from -7.2% from IDC to -15.0%, our latest Semiconductor Intelligence forecasts. Other forecasts are in the range of -11% to ...
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Semi capex wil fall 15% this year and 5% next year, says IC Insights. Figure 1 (below) shows the annual capital spending changes from 1983 to 2020. Over the past 34 years, there have been six periods when semiconductor industry capital spending declined by double-digits rates for one or two years (1985-1986, 1992, 1997-1998, 2001-2002, ...
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Sir Jony Ive is setting up LoveFrom – a new company which will have Apple as its first and main client. “Jony is a singular figure in the design world and his role in Apple’s revival cannot be overstated, from 1998’s groundbreaking iMac to the iPhone and the unprecedented ambition of Apple Park, where recently ...
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MagnaChip has announced today a new low-Rss(on) LV MOSFET with reduced chip size for smartphone battery PCMs. Inserted in the battery PCMs in LTE or 5G phones, this newly released MOSFET prevents over-voltage and over-current of the batteries and ultimately helps extend their life and resolve the overheating issue. The Rss(on) of this new product, ...
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UK Robotics and Autonomous Systems Network hosts the International Robotics Showcase 2019 in London
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The House of Commons’ environmental audit select committee has launched an inquiry into electronics waste and recycling, and is asking for advice. “The UK produces more e-waste than the EU average. We are missing EU targets and are one of the worst offenders for exporting waste to developing countries, who are ill equipped to dispose ...
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The research institute and manufacturer announced a five-year common lab to design components for 5G networks and harsh environments. Announced during Leti Innovation Days in Grenoble, the lab will develop low profile, millimeter-wave antenna solutions for backhaul/fronthaul applications. Figure 1: The backhaul refers to the network links between the radio base stations and the network ...
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STMicroelectronics has introduced an all-in-one multi-OS software tool for programming its Arm-based STM32 products. From now on, new STM32 products will be supported only the tool, to be called STM32CubeProg, so it obsoletes existing tools including: ST Visual Programmer (STVP) DFuSe USB Device Firmware Upgrade programmer Windows-only STM32 Flash loader software utilities for use with ...
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Developed in partnership with Google, the Arduino Science Kit Physics Lab is fully compatible with Google Science Journal. The kit is designed to provide students with a hands-on experience, enabling them to explore forces, motion, magnetism and conductivity with their classmates. Students will make their own hypothesis, check their assumptions, and log data using Google’s ...
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Power Integrations created an isolated gate drive system for up to four paralleled 1.7-4.5kV power modules – either IGBT or silicon carbide mosfet. Called Scale-iFlex, it is dual channel so, for example, independent control of high and low-side switches in a half-bridge is possible. “The system is optimised for the latest 1,700V to 3,300V rated ...
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London-based data-over-sound company Chirp has released an SDK for Arm Cortex-M4 and M7 processors. The SDK exists as a static library (~740kbyte), providing a software-defined data-over-sound solution optimised for Arm processors, with an API for sending and receiving data through existing audio chains between existing loudspeakers and microphones. The SDK implements the physical and data ...
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Israeli AI processor startup NeuroBlade has completed a $23 million round A to add to its prevoius capital raise of $4.5 million. The money will be used to scale up the company and bring its first chip to msrket. Founded in 2017 by Elad Sity, CEO and Eliad Hillel, CTO (pictured) NeuroBlade raised its initial ...
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Extreme Networks is to buy Aerohive Networks for $272 million which includes Aerohive’s cash of $62 million. The acquisition of Aerohive adds cloud management and edge capabilities to Extreme’s portfolio of end-to-end, edge to cloud networking solutions. It provides a subscription revenue stream and strengthens Extreme’s position in wireless LAN at a critical technology transition ...
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Hynix says it is in volume production of 128-Layer 1Tb TLC (Triple-Level Cell) 4D NAND Flash. The chip contains, says Hynix, over 360 billion NAND cells each of which stores 3 bits. Hynix will start shipping the 128-Layer 4D NAND flash from the second half of this year. The chip has a data transfer rate ...
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SK Telecom and LG have signed an MOU to develop and commercialise autonomous robots connected to a 5G cloud based platform to provide security and guidance services. “SK Telecom’s ICT such as 5G and AI will converge with LG Electronics’ robot-building expertise to realize innovative and attractive robot services,” says SK CTO Park Jin-hyo. Robots ...
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Dialog has launched the first Wi-Fi SoC since it bought Silicon Motion’s mobile communications product line in May. The FC9000 is targeted at battery-powered IoT devices such as smart door locks, video monitoring systems, smart thermostats, and wireless sensors enabling direct connectivity to Wi-Fi networks, while typically supporting a battery power lifetime greater than one year. ...
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The OCXO features high stability and low phase noise. The IQOV-220 delivers frequency stability performance down to ±0.5ppb (parts per billion) over the full industrial temperature range of -40 to 85 degrees C with a short term stability (Allan deviation) of 0.5ppt (tau=1s). With a holdover spec of 6µS over 24 hours, a close in ...
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Researchers at Stanford University are seeking ways to tell autonomous systems what to do, that reduce the chance of unintended consequences when the instructions are obeyed to the letter. “In the future, I fully expect there to be more autonomous systems in the world and they are going to need some concept of what is ...
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French connector maker Nicomatic has launched a series of 1.00mm pitch connectors for space-constrained applications in harsh environments such as aerospace and industrial equipment. AMM series connectors are available with five standard layouts, with 6, 10, 20, 34 or 50 contacts distributed over two rows. “The connectors have ingenious features such as the integrated guidance ...
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Inter-metallic bonding could remove unwanted carrier barriers from multi-junction solar cells assembled by stacking finished single-junction cells, according to North Carolina State University. “We want to create high efficiency solar cells at a reasonable cost,” said engineering professor Salah Bedair. “Silicon-based thin solar cells are very popular because the material has around 20% efficiency and the ...
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Pacific Laser Systems (PLS) tools are designed to assist industrial contractors and engineers involved in building construction, maintenance, and other industrial markets RS Components has announced availability of PLS-brand laser levels from Fluke. PLS became a Fluke company in 2015. The new series of PLS red- and green-line laser levels will replace some Fluke-branded products. ...
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Tektronix and Keithley Instruments have sponsored a university laboratory for London students Royal Holloway, University of London, has opened its Beatrice Shilling Building which includes teaching laboratories in partnership with Tektronix and Rapid Electronics. The building’s electronic engineering facility is home to these teaching and advanced research laboratories. Sponsor Tektronix says the laboratory enables instructors, ...
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Bunsei Kure, CEO of Renesas, appears to have paid the price for over-spending. Kure is being replaced as CEO and is leaving the Renesas board only three months after being re-appointed. The CFO, Hidetoshi Shibata, will take over. It is being said that the acquisitions of Intersil and IDT at a combined cost of around ...
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Aspinity, a start-up backed by Amazon’s $200 million Alexa Fund for developing voice processing technologies, has announced RAMP – a Reconfigurable Analog Modular Processor. The technology came from the University of West Virginia and Aspinity has full rights to it. The company is believed to have raised $3.6-7 million and have ten employees. RAMP takes ...
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While the SIA lobbies the US government for relief against US government restrictions on selling chips to China, one US company sees the Trade War as an opportunity. “The trade war has helped us a lot because it convinced China to do more chips inside the country and we are helping them do so,” says ...
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Mouser is adding 125,000 square feet to its Dallas distribution centre and a new 50,000 square foot office building on the 78 acre Dallas headquarter site. On completion, the global headquarters and massive distribution center will consist of 1 million square feet to accommodate Mouser’s vast inventory of 1 million unique SKUs for products and ...
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GradConn’s Nautilus range of waterproof coaxial cable assemblies and connectors is now available through Digi‑Key. Leveraging Digi-Key’s distribution expertise wil facilitate access to GradConn’s coaxial range, driving the IoT market trend requiring these types of connectors. “We share the same IoT vision as Digi‑Key and with the growing number of devices with connected functionality, GradConn ...
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Melexis has launched an angle sensor – part of its Triaxis rotary and linear Hall Effect position sensor family – which supports the PSI5 interface. The PSI5 (Peripheral Sensor Interface 5 is an open standard based on the technology used in millions of air bag safety systems. This responsive technology delivers a data bit rate ...
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Infineon’s NFC tags based on the SECORA Pay security solution have been approved under the NFC ForumCertification Program, confirming their compliance with the Type 4A Tag and the Type 4B Tag. The Type 4B Tag is the first product worldwide certified by the NFC Forum that supports the contactless Type B protocol. So far, NFC ...
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To test the possibilities of printing graphene inks in space, Graphene Flagship partners Université Libre de Bruxelles, University of Pisa and the University of Cambridge, in collaboration with the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Swedish Space Corporation (SSC) have launched a rocket into space from Kiruna, Sweden. The Materials Science Experiment Rocket (MASER) 14 ...
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The MPC5777C Power Architecture microcontroller, for industrial and automotive engine management, is available from Mouser Electronics. Three dual-issue, 32-bit CPU core complexes enable the microcontroller to support applications including electric DC motor control, aerospace engines, and Ethernet and CAN FD connectivity, plus automotive applications that require compliance with SIL-1 and ASIL-D functional safety requirements. The ...
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Rohm has announced a seismic detection module for applications requiring earthquake detection, such as automatic doors, unmanned transport vehicles and smart meters. Called BP3901, it is 11.8 x 8.6 x 2.5mm and integrates an earthquake detection algorithm, and a false detection prevention function that is “capable of accurately distinguishing between vibration due to earthquakes or ...
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Inclusion of robotics in school curricula may become important as the field’s influence grows in wider society For the 4th annual UK Robotics Week (20th-27th June 2019), the EPSRC UK Robotics and Autonomous Systems (UK-RAS) Network commissioned a poll to determine UK adults’ views on the integration of robotics in industry and daily life. One ...
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Maxim has introduced a bi-directional current sense amplifier with pulse-width modulation (PWM) edge rejection. Called MAX40056 it is intended to reduce vibration in motor drives. The claim is that it can reject PWM slew rates of >500V/µs and settles within 500ns to provide a 0.3% accurate (of full-scale) measurement of winding current “allowing motor control ...
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Farnham-based Delta Controls is to buy Emerson’s Slough-manufactured Mobrey line of measurement products. To be completed by the end of September, including the transfer of employees, inventory, intellectual property and product approvals, the deal is a two-step process, with Emerson already designating Delta Controls as the exclusive global distributor for Mobrey products. “The enlarged Delta ...
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CML Microcircuits of Maldon, Essex has introduced a user-programmable scrambler IC to prevent interference in multi-function audio systems, as well as handheld wireless/cellular equipment. The chip enables greater robustness against security breaches with a frequency inversion audio scrambler supporting full duplex operation Maintaining elevated levels of audio quality, it can rapidly switch between clear and ...
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SK Telecom of Korea and Deutsche Telekom have established a jv to pursue 5G technology development. The jv will develop new 5G technologies, including a 5G repeater and a 5G in-building solution, as well as a Multipath UDP solution to manage accesses for a seamless connectivity experience and MPEG Media Transport (MMT) technology for low ...
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The China government’s goal of sourcing 40% of its chips domestically by 2020 and 70% by 2025, is not going to be met, reports the Nikkei. TrendForce estimates that domestically designed ICs only accounted for 15% of the China market last year. China’s design industry has been growing at 20% a year since 2014, but ...
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Q1 smartphone display shipments fell 20% sequentially and will drop again in Q2 and Q3, says IHS Markit. Displays represent the most expensive component within smartphones. As a result, displays are the first sector to experience order reductions when smartphone brands and manufacturers undergo a softening in demand. Q1 shipments of 409 million units were ...
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Unex’s SOM-301 V2X module has been integrated into ST’s Telemaco3P Modular Telematics Platform (TC3P-MTP). The SOM-301 is a self-contained System-on-Module that integrates all V2X essential hardware and software components and features Unex’s V2Xcast technology. SOM-301 devices integrate ST’s Teseo III automotive multi-constellation GNSS chip and Autotalks’ CRATON2/PLUTON2 – a V2X chipset, capable of both DSRC and ...
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Bourns has announced a sulphur-resistant AEC-Q200 compliant thick film resistor family. Model CRxxxxA-AS chip resistor series is offered in eight different footprints from 0201 (0603 metric) to 2512 (6432 metric) with rated power from 50mW to 1W, and a resistance range from 1Ω to 20MΩ. “Bourns designed these resistors to operate in certain harsh environments ...
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Bridgetek has broadened the human-machine interface (HMI) development toolchain that accompanies its Embedded Video Engine (EVE) product portfolio. Several extra elements have been added, and there are upgrades to the existing tools. A core aspect of this toolchain is the EVE Asset Builder (EAB). This conversion utility is said to make HMI construction much more ...
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pi-top [4] adds functionalities to Raspberry Pi 4. “There are areas of endeavour that pi-top has been involved in, particularly around displays, keyboards, batteries and the like which we haven’t explored,” says Raspberry Pi founder and CEO Eben Upton, “it’s ’s been wonderful to see an organisation do that, take on those challenges and vanquish ...
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UltraSoC has raised £5 million in an equity funding round in which eCAPITAL and Seraphim Capital joined previous investors Indaco Venture Partners, Octopus Ventures, Oxford Capital, Techgate, and business angel Guillaume d’Eyssautier. The funding allows UltraSoC to recruit hardware and software engineers at its headquarters in Cambridge, and design centre in Bristol. Asked by Electronics Weekly if there would be other funding rounds, UltraSoc ...
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Raspberry Pi 4 has been revealed, as a far more powerful machine than even the Pi 3 Model B+. Three times the processing power and four times the multimedia performance are claimed. It has quad 1.5GHz Arm Cortex-A72 cores, Gbit Ethernet, 4Kp60 HEVC video decode and dual HDMI outputs to run twin 4K monitors – ...
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Chinese organisations involved in supercomputing have been added to the US Entity List of bodies barred from buying US technology. They include: Sugon, the Wuxi Jiangnan Institute of Computing Technology, Higon, Chengdu Haiguang Integrated Circuit and Chengdu Haiguang Microelectronics Technology. They all have alias names which have also been put on the Entity List. Four ...
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Billings among North American manufacturers of semiconductor production equipment registered another sequential increase in May. North America-based manufacturers of semiconductor equipment posted US$2.06 billion in billings worldwide in May 2019, says SEMI. The billings figure is 7.4% higher than the April 2019 level of US$1.92 billion, but is 23.6% lower than the May 2018 billings ...
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Electrocardiograph and seismocardiograph readings can be taken simultaneously by an e-tattoo, according to the University of Texas at Austin – seismocardiography (SCG) is a measure of chest vibrations associated with heartbeats. “We can get much greater insight into heart health by the synchronous collection of data from both sources,” said Austin engineer Nanshu Lu. The active ...
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Researchers at the University of Lancaster have created a non-volatile memory that might eventually store data for 1% of the energy required by DRAM and 0.1% that of flash – both modelled at 20nm. “Our device has an intrinsic data storage time that is predicted to exceed the age of the Universe, yet it can ...
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Coilcraft’s surface-mount common-mode chokes include 16 sizes for power line circuits up to 10A, suppressing noise up to 100MHz with >40dB attenuation in some cases. Consumer electronics and industrial applications are foreseen. “All EMI chokes feature a low-profile, toroidal construction in a surface-mount, magnetically-shielded package with footprints as small as 13 x 13 mm,” said ...
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Researchers at Nokia Bell Labs and AMBER, the Centre for Advanced Materials and BioEngineering Research at Trinity College Dublin, have created a formula for battery composition that claims to make batteries last 2.5 times longer than anything currently on the market. Increasing the energy storage capability of lithium-ion batteries necessitates maximization of their areal capacity. This requires thick ...
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A specialist customisation service for ABS enclosures with no minimum order quantities or set up fee is offered by BCL Enclosures, the 47 year-old Harrogate, UK-based specialist manufacturer of standard and custom plastic enclosures. The company prides itself on the breadth of its standard product range, which it is then able to customise to suit ...
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Seeed Studios delivers the Grove Base Hat for Raspberry Pi and Grove Base Hat for Raspberry Pi Zero, in other words, the whole Grove System of sensors, actuators and displays is now available for Raspberry Pi. The Grove Base Hat for Raspberry Pi Zero provides Digital/Analog/I2C/PWM/UART port to meet all your needs. With the help of ...
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Staff from RS Components have completed an epic charity cycle ride, covering 1,100 miles from Aberdeen to London, raising £230,000 for Children with Cancer UK. . More than 60 employees took part in the ‘Tour de Branch’, which called at the firm’s 16 UK branches over 12 days, finishing at its London HQ where participants were greeted ...
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A clever Hungarian adaptation of that great Hungarian invention, Rubik’s Cube, uses Raspberry Pi to power a six-sided display. The creators call it the Pixxl Cube. Each 32×32 pixel surface is capable of creating anything from words to scenes. It could be used as an advertising display orbas a party prop. Budapest startup Pirategames programmed ...
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Western Digital is extending its involvement in RISC-V with two initiatives. First is a partnership with PlatformIO Labs to engage in RISC-V development tools. The second is adding enhancements to its open-sourced RISC-V SweRV Core and cache-coherent fabric, OmniXtend. Together, the moves further the company’s support of RISC-V and boost its development of compute architectures ...
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TI has added communications capabilities to its C2000 MCUs. C2000 F2838x 32-bit MCUs enable designers to use a single chip to implement connectivity, including EtherCAT, Ethernet and Controller Area Network with Flexible Data Rate (CAN FD), in AC servo drives and other industrial systems. Systems with communication interfaces often require an external application-specific integrated circuit ...
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ST’s LSM6DSR MEMS SiP contains a 3-axis digital accelerometer and a 3-axis digital gyroscope with a specially extended full-scale angular rate of 4000 degrees per second for fast-moving gaming and sports applications. Compliant with major mobile OSes, and supporting S4S Synchronization for Sensors, the LSM6DSR is compatible with popular mobile platforms and provides real, virtual, ...
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According to the Nikkei, Apple has asked its supply chain to cost a move of 15-30% of its China production to other Asian countries. Apple has declined to comment. Although the immediate catalyst for the move is the trade war, the Nikkei reports several people saying Apple has been worried about its over-reliance in China ...
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Tomorrow, Thursday June 20th, Farnell is celebrating International Women in Engineering Day by hosting a ‘Women in Engineering’ event at its offices in Leeds, on Thursday 20 June. The event is free to attend, from 11.15am – 2pm, including a networking lunch – attendees must register in advance. Students and professionals from the engineering industry ...
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Imec has developed a solid-state Li-metal battery cell with an energy density of 400 Wh/liter at a charging speed of 0.5C (2 hours). Imec has started to upscale the materials and processes in a pilot line for fabrication of solid-state pouch cells at the EnergyVille Campus in Genk (Belgium) and is set-up in collaboration with the ...
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Infineon and biotech specialist Zwipe have extended their partnership through a long-term non-exclusive agreement. The agreement outlines technical and commercial collaboration between the two companies. The two parties will co-define and develop SoCs and card systems for the mass deployment of biometric smart devices, including payment cards and wearables. The cooperation is concentrating on so ...
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Melexis claims to have produced the world’s smallest medical grade FIR sensor. The device is assembled in a surface mount package for use in a variety of applications, including wearables and, in particular, in-ear-devices and clinical point-of-care applications where highly accurate human body temperature measurement is required. The MLX90632 is based upon Melexis’ established FIR ...
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DRAM prices are projected to decline by around 40% this year and are not likely to increase again until 2020, says Yole Développement. For NAND, hopes of a second-half 2019 market rebound are shrinking as the anticipated demand recovery continues to be elusive and supplier inventory levels remain elevated. DRAM and NAND account for 97% of the ...
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Toshiba has launched a lens reduction type, 5340-pixel by 3-line colour CCD linear image sensor for office automation and industrial equipment that realizes 24 lines per millimetre resolution for an A4-size document. More and more users want A4-size multifunction printers that can deliver the same high image quality and high-speed operation as A3-size models. This ...
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U.S. companies held 52% of the total worldwide IC market in 2018 followed by the South Korean companies with a 27% share, up three percentage points from 2017, says IC Insights. Figure 1 shows the 2018 IDM and fabless company shares of IC sales as well as the total worldwide share of the IC market ...
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Sometimes the simplest ideas at the best, and this surface-mount test probe pint from French form Nicomatic is certainly simple. Called the C12000 series, they are intended to present a mechanical test hook interface on an SMD PCB to allow an operator to clip on a test probe to the PCB, from an oscilloscope, for ...
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US fast FPGA maker Achronix has chosen Moortec’s 7nm embedded temperature sensor intellectual property for integration into its Speedster7t FPGAs. Based in Plymouth, Moortec is a provider of on-die PVT (process, voltage, temperature) monitoring sub-systems. “Achronix chose to use Moortec’s 7nm embedded in-chip temperature sensor in our Speedster7t FPGA devices based on their accuracy and ...
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Vicor’s 800V BCM4414 is a 1.6kW isolated 1:16 fixed-ratio bus converter module that can operate from a 500V to 800V input voltage, to deliver SELV output voltages with 97% peak efficiency. It will run alongside the firm’s existing 700V BCM4414, having the same 4.2kVdc reinforced isolation and bi-directional conversion capability. According to the firm, it ...
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Rohm has included a 1.7kVsilicon carbide mosfet in its latest ac-dc converter IC to allow operation from 400Vac industrial power rails. “Incorporating a SiC mosfet and control circuitry optimised for auxiliary power supplies for industrial equipment in a single package significantly reduces the number of parts required when compared to the conventional designs. It also ...
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Wireless charging pads fro phones don’t need to have dead-spots, if materials with unnatural electromagnetic properties – meta-materials – are used, according to University of Oxford spin-out Metaboards. The company has been set-up to exploit meta-materials in a variety of applications. “We will focus on wireless power and data, and then move on to other ...
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Announced at the end of last year, the Versal AI Core and Versal Prime adaptive compute acceleration processors are being shipped earlier than originally planned by Xilinx. The 7nm process adaptive compute accelerator platform (ACAP) is an integrated, multicore, heterogeneous compute platform that can dynamically adapt to meet workload demands in data centre, automotive, 5G ...
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The Q1 German component distribution market grew 4% to €922 million but the first signs of market stagnation are beginning to appear, says the German Association of Component Distribution (Fachverband Bauelemente-Distribution (FBDi). Q1 orders dropped by close to 17% to €832 million, which equates to a book-to-bill ratio of 0.9. “We’re currently witnessing a return to ...
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Facebook has announced a crypto-currency to be launched next year called Libra. It will be managed by founder members of the Libra Association of which there are now 28 but they want to increase to 100. Each member, including Facebook, has one vote on governance issues. Unlike JP Morgan’s recently launched crypto-currency, the Libra’s value ...
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In his entry for the 2019 Hackaday Prize, Craig Hissett has a project to build an all-in-one multi-effects stomp box. At the center of the box is a Raspberry Pi with an AudioInjector stereo sound card. The card takes care of stereo in and out, and passing the signal to the Pi. The software is ...
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14 years after Steve Jobs gave a famous Comnencement Address at Stanford University, his successor, Tim Cook, delivered the address to the Class of 2019. Cook quoted Jobs’ famous line urging the graduates to, live their own lives, not live according to anyone else’s template. He urged them to be builders, to create something while ...
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Premier Farnell has signed power supply specialist MEAN WELL to a global distribution agreement. MEAN WELL is the world’s largest manufacturer of power supplies, providing both DC-DC and AC-DC products. Premier Farnell will stock over 1,400 lines globally including DC-DC Converters, AC/ DC Converters, DIN Rail Mount Converters, Enclosed Output Converters, LED drivers and more. ...
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SK Telecom has signed MOUs with Ericsson, Nokia and Samsung Electronics, respectively, for joint R&D in advanced 5G and 6G mobile network technologies. “Through strengthened cooperation with Ericsson, Nokia and Samsung Electronics, SK Telecom will be able to secure the world’s best 5G quality and lead the way towards 6G mobile network communications,” says SK ...
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Infineon is to raise $1,68 billion via a private share placement with institutions to help towards the funding of its $10 billion purchase of Cypress announced earlier this month.. The share capital of Infineon will be increased by 10% by issuing new no‐par value ordinary registered shares against cash contributions under the exclusion of shareholders’ ...
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TowerJazz is offering a 140V low Rdson power platform, claimed to provide significant high power efficiency at high voltages. This offering expands the company’s 90V technology platform, specifically designed to address the increasing demand for cost-competitive, higher voltage integrated power management solutions for the consumer, industrial, computer, and automotive markets. “We are excited to announce the ...
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UltraSoC has joined the Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA) IoT Security Working Group and will be participating in the upcoming IoT Security Workshop, as part of the 2019 GSA Silicon Summit. The group has recently identified automotive security as a key area for focus – an area where UltraSoC will draw on its experience in embedded analytics ...
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Ricoh has launched two VFM mode Buck DC/DC Converters RP514 and RP515, designed for use in wearable devices and applications for the IoT requiring ultra-low current consumption to extend battery life. These devices come with an integrated battery voltage monitor to make it possible to measure the remaining charge left in the battery. The additional battery monitor ...
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ST has enlarged its GNSS product offering with the Teseo-LIV3R ROM-based module. The competitively-priced module provides ST’s full GNSS algorithm capability for cost-conscious tracking and navigation devices. The module provides odometer functionality with three trip counters and reached-distance alert, along with geofencing capabilities with up to eight configurable circles and crossing-circles alarm. Support for real-time ...
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Analog Devices has consolidated its UK sales offices into a single site, at what was the EMI record factory at Hayes, west of London, which has been refurbished into office space. “We really think the UK is one of the places to be”, said ADI v-p of EMEA sales Mike Britchfield at the facility’s official ...
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Infineon is shipping a monolithically integrated linear Hall sensor developed to the safety standard ISO26262 for automotive applications. The XENSIV TLE4999I3 enables the development of fault-tolerant systems that have to meet the highest level of functional safety (ASIL D). These include, for example, electric steering systems, electric throttle control systems, and pedal applications. Infineon will present ...
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The SIA has approached the US government to try and get a partial reprieve on the chip sales ban to China. “For technologies that do not relate to national security, it seems they shouldn’t fall within the scope of the order. And we have conveyed this perspective to government,” says SIA global policy vp Jimmy ...
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Yesterday Intel announced an innovation initiative in Israel called Ignite. It is intended to spur development in between ten and fifteen start-ups operating in AI, autonomous systems and other data-centric technologies. Intel will provide 20 weeks of mentoring and expert guidance to these companies but is not, at this stage, thinking about investing in them. ...
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Imec has demonstrated field-free switching operation of spin-orbit torque MRAM (SOT-MRAM) devices – eliminating the need for an external magnetic field during write operation. The concept is manufacturing-friendly and does not compromise the reliability and sub-ns writing performance of the SOT-MRAM devices. The new field-free switching concept opens possibilities for the further development of MRAM-based ...
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China’s attempts to build a chip industry are being hamstrung not only by limited availability of manufacturing equipment, but also by limited knowledge of how to use the equipment, says a report from China’s state-controlled securities broker Everbright Securities. “The manufacturing process relies on equipment, and US firms such as AMAT, LAM, KLA and Teradyne ...
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Universal access to fibre broadband by 2025, is pledged by Tory leadership front-runner Boris Johnson. “ It is a disgrace that this country should suffer from a deep digital divide, so that many rural areas and towns are simply left behind,” says Johnson, “they can’t rely on teleconferencing. They can’t skype properly. Sometimes the coverage ...
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Digi-Key Electronics is now an authorised distributor for GCT’s connector range. Core GCT product lines such as USB, SIM and Memory Card connectors are now currently in stock at Digi-Key. This includes products such as the SIM8060 hinged nano SIM connector with card detection and the USB4085 Power focused Type-C connector engineered to be a ...
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Yorkshire-based PCB manufacturer, GSPK Circuits, believes it is the first in the UK to install an EPAG finish line. EPAG (electroless palladium autocatalytic gold) is a new direct palladium surface finish process with an optional gold layer. The thicker gold finish enables it to be used in gold wire bonding assembly as well as soldering. ...
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The idea that China can catch up with the leaders of the chip industry anytime soon is a fallacy, reports IC Industry. For instance,mChina’s first indigenous DRAM supplier, Changxin Memory Technologies (CXMT), is due to sample its first DRAM products by the end of this year. Changxin has a few thousand employees and a capital ...
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The House of Lords has today agreed to appoint a new special inquiry committee to investigate the impact of digital technologies on democracy. The Committee, which will be Chaired by Lord Puttnam will look at how the growth in digital technology has changed the way politics functions and what this means for the future of ...
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Q2 foundry revenue is down by about 8% on Q2 2018 to $15.4bn, says TrendForce. The top 5 in 2Q19 foundry rankings were unchanged from Q2 2018. PSC fell from seventh to ninth due to declining foundry demand for memory and display driver chips; VIS was overtaken by H-Grace falling down to eighth place, ...
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A Quantum Technology Leadership Group to represent industry in evaluating the commercial impact of quantum technologies has been set up. The group will be co-chaired by Dr Trevor Cross, group chief technology officer at Teledyne e2v and Dr Graeme Malcolm, CEO and co-founder at MSquared Lasers. Experimental quantum science is set to become a commercial ...
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Imec reports improved performance for both Ge-based n-type FinFETs and Ge-based p-type gate-all-around (GAA) devices. For Ge n-type FinFETs, pre-gate stack process optimization dramatically improved reliability and performance, with 100 percent improvement in positive bias temperature instability (PBTI) and improvement in GmSAT vs. SSSAT benchmark. For the Ge-based p-type GAA device, excellent short-channel control and ...
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One of the keys to unlock the potential of spintronics lies in the ability to quickly and efficiently magnetize materials.
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Passive components from Yageo are now available from RS Components, following the signing of a global franchise agreement. The portfolio of chip resistors includes general-purpose thick-film components and thin-film high-precision high-stability resistors, automotive-grade components, current sensing devices, resistor array networks, high-voltage and surge resistors, RF attenuators and sulphur-resistant devices. Yageo supplies commodity and speciality versions of resistors, capacitors ...
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Three-phase inverter modules from Infineon, are now available from Mouser Electronics. The CIPOS Tiny series of intelligent power modules (IPMs) offer high power density for variable-speed motor drives in washing machines, range hoods, room air conditioning and commercial and industrial fans. They are based on Infineon’s Trenchstop IGBT 6 and have a footprint that is 33% less than the earlier ...
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Able to detect human body, face and hands, and estimate the gaze, blink, age, gender and facial expressions such as happiness, surprise, anger and sadness, the Human Vision Component is an imaging sensing unit, comprised of a camera module and a separate main board that can be installed on the edge of a flat display. ...
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Digi-Key Electronics has signed a distribution agreement with connector specialist, GCT (Global Connector Technology). The distributor will stock USB, SIM and memory card connectors, including the SIM8060 hinged nano SIM connector with card detection and the USB4085 Type-C connector that is an alternative to MicroUSB for power charging mobile devices. All GCT products are supported ...
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The town of Kempten in southern Germany has extended its experiment in buffering locally-generated renewable energy, installing a sixth grid storage battery to increase capacity to 3MW and 2MWh. “The number of days each year when wind and solar energy production around midday exceeds consumption is steadily increasing. By now the figure has reached 153 ...
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Renesas has developed an AI accelerator that performs CNN (convolutional neural network) processing at high speeds and low power to advance embedded AI (e-AI) in endpoint devices. A Renesas test chip featuring this accelerator has achieved the power efficiency of 8.8 TOPS/W which is the industry’s highest class of power efficiency. The Renesas accelerator is ...
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Strawberry4Pi is hoping a Kickstarter campaign will allow it to launch their new IoT control system in the form of the Strawberry4Pi 2 Raspberry Pi HAT and companion smartphone application which enables you to control projects from your smartphone in just a few minutes. The IoT control system is now available on Kickstarter with early ...
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