Three more chicks for incubator

Silicon Catalyst, the Silicon Valley incubator for startups, has taken in three early-stage companies – two at seed-stage and Silicon Catalyst’s first post-Series A company: • EcoCircuits BV (seed stage) based in Nijmegen, Netherlands Smart and efficient power management solutions • Mentium Technologies (seed stage) based in Santa Barbara, California Analog in-memory computation for AI • ...

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u-blox buys Rigado‘s Bluetooth modules unit

u-blox has bought Rigado’s Bluetooth modules business in an Asset Purchase Agreement. Rigado provides Edge-as-a-Service gateways for Commercial IoT, and began offering certified wireless modules in 2015. This acquisition will allow u-blox to extend their range of products in the area of BLE, Zigbee and Thread, as well as to access additional market segments and channels. ...

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Facebook working on non-invasive BCI

Facebook is working on a wearable brain-computer interface (BCI) which will allow people to type words by thinking them. At the moment, BCI is implemented by implanting electrodes in the brain. However Facebook has reached the point where it feels this can be usefully pursued using non-invasive techniques. “We’re a long way away from being ...

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Diving DRAM’s durable dominance

Despite a 38% sales decline expected this year, the DRAM market will remain the largest IC product category in 2019 with sales reaching $62 billion, down from $99.4 billion in 2018, says IC Insights. IC Insights believes the DRAM market will account for 17% of total IC sales in 2019, compared with 23.6% of the total ...

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THine chipset extends MIPI CS-2 transmission from 1ft to 15m

 THine, the Japanese serial interface and image signal processing specialist, has volume availability of a MIPI CSI-2 extension chipset which allows engineers to extend MIPI CSI-2 transmission from 1 foot to over 15 meters. These chips also enable designs that can receive 2 different video inputs simultaneously, as well as applications that can copy and distribute (simultaneously ...

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Stretchy stick-on monitor sends vital signs long-term

Long-term health monitoring of adults, babies and small children without concern for skin injury or allergic reactions is the aim of a project at Georgia Tech, which has produced a stretchy patch that can broadcast electrocardiogram (ECG), heart rate, respiratory rate and motion activity data. Connections are to gold skin-like electrodes through printed conductors that ...

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Next-generation floating tidal turbine gets one step closer

Orbital Marine Power has taken another step towards installing its 2MW floating tidal turbine off Orkney, by engaging Faun Trackway to manufacture the four steel anchor structures, plus bespoke mooring connectors, at Faun’s facilities on Anglesey. The turbine, called O2, will be installed in the Fall of Warness where Orbital has an existing berth, and a grid connection ...

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RS Components introduces auto-ranging power supplies

RS Components has announced a new series of 200W and 400W power supplies from Keysight Technologies. The E36200 series of single- and dual-output DC PSUs has been designed for applications that will require more power than that delivered by typical benchtop power units. Primarily targeting use by engineers who are designing and testing devices that ...

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Apple has $53.8 billion quarter and growing

Apple had calendar Q2 revenues of $53.8 billion of which iPhone contributed $26 billion, Services contributed $11.5 billion, iPad contributed $5 billion, Mac contributed $5.8 billion and Wearables and home appliances contributed  $5.5 billion. For calendar Q3 Apple expects revenue of between $61 million and $64 billion with a gross margin of between 37.5% and ...

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Bulgin bought by private equity

Bulgin has been bought by private equity fund Equistone Partners at an enterprise value of £105 million. Following Equistone’s investment, Bulgin will continue to be led by John Wilson, who will transition from the role of Executive Chairman to Chief Executive Officer, and its existing management team, who will acquire a minority shareholding alongside Equistone. ...

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AR/VR for Korean 5G users

SK Telecom has launched three 5G AR and VR services – ‘Jump AR’, ‘League of Legends Champions’ (LCK),  ‘VR Live Broadcasting’ and ‘VR Replay’ – to offer a more realistic and immersive experiences when watching eSports games.   ‘Jump AR’ is an augmented reality service that teleports users to an eSports stadium, LoL Park, through their ...

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Meet V-Bat – the VTOL drone

The US military is testing a VTOL drone which can be equipped with an 8 lbs. payload, travel for eight hours, has a speed of 90knots and has flown at 15,000ft. It is made by MartinUAV. V-Bat requires only a a 20×20 foot space from which it can embark and return. In one demo, the ...

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Trust toolset for ST 32-bit MCUs

ST has launched STM32Trust to guide designers’ efforts to build strong cyber-protection into new IoT devices leveraging industry best-practices. STM32Trust combines knowledge, design tools, and ready-to-use original ST software. These help designers take advantage of features built into STM32 MCUs to ensure trust among devices, prevent unauthorized access, and resist side-channel attacks. All this averts data ...

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Q3 server shipments to grow 12.8%

Q3 server shipments are expected to increase 12.8% sequentially but stay flat y-o-y, says Digitimes Research. Full year  shipments are likely to be down on 2018  due to a sharp shipment decline in the first half. In Q2 server shipments grew 9% sequentially but slipped 12.5% on year. From 2017 to H1  2018, most server ...

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Surveillance camera market growing 9.3%

The professional video surveillance equipment market is set to expand by 9.3% in 2019 to $19.9 bilkion driven by demand for improvements in security, public safety and business intelligence, says IHS Markit. This year’s growrh follows 9.3% growth in 2017 and an 8.7% expansion in 2018. This three-year growth spurt comes after weaker growth of ...

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Mouser Electronics and XP Power sign distribution agreement

Through the agreement, Mouser now stocks XP Power’s AC-DC power supplies, DC-DC converters, high-voltage power supplies, and EMI filters. “With Mouser’s distribution expertise, we can expand our reach while also providing exceptional support and value,” said Steve Head, global marketing and distribution director, XP Power. “We’re very excited to be adding XP Power’s world-class power ...

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Tesla steps into modular grid-scale storage with Megapack

Tesla is developing a battery specifically for grid power storage – following on from it building the world’s largest lithium-ion battery in Australia. Called Megapack it is an assembled containerised 3Wh battery that includes 1.5MW of inverters. “Every Megapack arrives pre-assembled and pre-tested in one enclosure from our Gigafactory, including battery modules, bi-directional inverters, a thermal ...

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Mihika Sharma, 9 years old, wins Tech4Good award

Mihika has been recognised with the BT Young Pioneer award for her Smart Stick design, created to help visually impaired people walk safely and independently. Inspired by an incident which occurred while helping an older lady cross the street, Mihika began designing the Smart Stick when she was just 6 years old. It incorporates Bluetooth ...

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ELIoT to commercialise LiFi

Today, an EU consortium of businesses and academia announced the three-year project ELIoT (Enhance Lighting for the Internet of Things) aimed at developing mass market IoT implementations of  LiFi. “ELIoT forms a closed value chain with partners representing the components, chipsets, systems and applications sectors and research institutes, working together on the commercialization of LiFi ...

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Mouser signs global agreement with Formerica to stock Fiber Channel and 100G optical range

Following the signing of a global distribution agreement with Formerica Optoelectronics, Mouser announces that the former’s product range for data centres, enterprise IT, networking, 5G, IoT and broadcast applications are now available from the distributor. Mouser now stocks the company’s optical transceivers, active optical cables,Fibre Channel protocol products and serial digital interface (SDI) transceivers. The ...

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Need to print metal tracks on jelly?

It is possible to deposit metallic tracks on soft surfaces including jelly, as has been proved by Iowa State University. The key is a low melting point alloy – in this case Field’s metal (eutectic bismuth indium tin) – delivered by a novel technique created in the lab of Martin Thuo. By encapsulating tiny particles of the metal ...

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Versatile Nordic dev kit supports LTE standards, says Rutronik UK

Tools to evaluate and develop application firmware based on Nordic Semiconductor’s nRF9160 system in package (SiP) are provided in the nRF9160 development kit, which is now available from Rutronik UK. The single board kit is designed for cellular IoT development and supports 690MHz – 960MHz and 1710MHz -2200MHz for both M1 and NB-IoT standards. The ...

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Renesas MCUs in 64-pin BGA and LQFP packages

Renesas announces four new RX651 32-bit microcontrollers (MCUs) supplied in  64-pin BGA and LQFP packages. The MCUs expands Renesas’ RX651 MCU offering with a 64-pin (4.5mm x 4.5mm) BGA package that reduces footprint size by 59 percent compared to the 100-pin LGA, and a 64-pin (10mm x 10mm) LQFP that offers a 49% reduction versus ...

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Agile Analog awarded £1m grant

Agile Analog, the Cambridge analogue IP start-up, has been awarded £1 million by Innovate UK to accelerate their new product development. The project will be 45% funded by Innovate UK and will extend Agile Analog’s leading edge, AI-driven technology to address much higher complexity Analog IP, and result in a large expansion of products available to ...

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TSMC to hire 3000 more engineers and operators.

TSMC is to hire more than 3,000 new employees in Hsinchu, Taichung, and Tainan. TSMC’s fortunes turned dramatically in June when, after five successive drops in y-o-y revenues, it recorded a  y-o-y revenue rise of 21.9% – which was a 6.8% rise on May. TSMC forecast Q3 revenue growth of 18% to between $9.1 billion ...

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Rambus buys Northwest Logic

Rambus has bought PCIe and MIPI controller specialist Northwest Logic. Northwest’s PCIe and MIPI digital controller core IPs are used in both ASICs and FPGAs. Every SoC design that uses a Memory or a PCIe or a MIPI PHY also needs to use a controller associated with it. The combination of complementary digital and physical ...

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June SEMI billings down 2.5% on May and down 19% y-o-y

June billings for semiconductor manufacturing equipment were 2.5% lower than May at  $2.01 billion, reports SEMI. The figure is 19% down on the $2.48 billings of June 2018. “June billings of North American equipment manufacturers fell nearly three percent when compared to the prior month,” says SEMzi CEO Ajit Manocha,  “while billings weakened for the ...

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A safe way to bring down rogue drones

Forget nets, attack drones, or lasers – Korean researchers have found a way to coax rogue drones out of the sky – at least, most of those flying on GPS autopilot. “This technology can safely guide a drone to a desired location without any sudden change in direction in emergency situations,” according to national research ...

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Pb-free perovskite for solar is stable in air

US researchers have used a supercomputer to discover a candidate for Pb-free perovskite solar cells – most solar perovskites contain Pb-halides, and are unstable in moist air. KBaTeBiO6 is the material, a bismuth-halide double perovskite that was the most promising of 30,000 candidate bismuth-containing oxides postulated by a team of engineers at Washington University in St ...

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3-phase mains plus neutral filter for industrial machines

Schurter is aiming at industrial machines with a family of three-phase-plus-neutral EMC filters. Called Fmad Neo the family is “especially compact, the filter series is suited for use in today’s more portable industrial machines, designed to occupy less floor space in manufacturing plants”, said the firm. Looking at the data sheet there are several case ...

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UK could be cashless by 2030

Between January and May there were 8.7% fewer cash withdrawals in London than in the same period last year; in the South East the decline was 7.9%; in the South West the drop was 7.7%, and in the North-East the decline was 3.7%, says LINK the UK’s biggest ATM network. Total cash withdrawals measured both ...

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24GHz radar transceiver CMOS ICs shipping

UnitedDS Semiconductor (UDS), UMC’s design affiliate, and Taiwan design house TeraSillC  are shipping 24GHz radar transceiver ICs reports made on UMC’s low-power CMOS process,  reports DigitTimes. Called  Orthrus, the chips come in 1T1R (one transmitter one receiver) and 1T2R specs. TeraSillC’s CTO S. A. You says the Orthrus radar transceiver integrates all the sub-systems required ...

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Raspberry Pi air quality monitor

A Raspberry Pi air quality monitor was described in  Hackspace magazine issue 21. It can use any Raspberry Pi and is said to be easy to wire wrap using a SDS011 sensor . The Raspberry Pi Foundation explains why they’d selected the SDS011. “Firstly, it’s cheap enough for many makers to be able to buy ...

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Huawei makes 70% cut in US R&D staff

Huawei is cutting 600 jobs – 70% of its total workforce – at Futurewei its US R&D arm. Huawei gave as the reason the “curtailment of business operations” as a result of the US DoC putting it on the Entity List of companies with restricted access to purchasing US tech components and services.  Under Entity ...

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Power Integrations adopts GaN

Power Integrations has added GaN devices to its range of ac-dc power chips. “The ICs feature up to 95% efficiency across the full load range and up to 100W in enclosed adaptor implementations without requiring a heatsink,” according to the firm. “This increase in performance is achieved using an internally developed high-voltage GaN switch technology.” ...

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Alibaba chip unit designs RISC-V core

Alibaba has produced its first semiconductor IP – a RISC-V processor core. The core was developed by Alibaba’s IC unit called Pingtouge and called Xuantie 910. Pingtouge says Xuantie 910 is available for licensing and related code will be released on GitHub. Pingtouge says that Xuantie 910 is the most powerful RISC-V core ever developed ...

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Softbank launches Vision Fund 2

Earlier today SoftBank announced Vision Fund 2 saying it has MOUs from investors totalling $108 billion. Vision Fund 1 raised $97 billion. Softbank says it will invest $38 billion in VF2 and that others investing are Microsoft, Foxconn, Apple, the National Bank of Kazakhstan, Standard Chartered Bank, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group , Sumitomo Mitsui Financial ...

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Intel has $16.5bn Q2; sells modem unit to Apple

Intel had Q2 revenue of $16.5 billion, down 3% YoY. Operating profit was $4.6 billion and net profit was $4.1 billion. was Data-centre revenue of  $5 billion was down  7% YoY. PC-related revenue of $8,8 billion was up 1% YoY. IoT revenue was $986 billion up 12%. Mobileye revenue was $201 million up 16% Memory ...

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IC market to track GDP more closely

 The 2018-2023 global GDP and IC market correlation coefficient will reach 0.88 (0.94 when excluding memory), up from 0.87 in the 2010-2018 time period., says IC Insights. The increasingly close correlation between worldwide GDP growth and IC market growth through 2018, as well as its forecast through 2023 is shown below: Figure 1 From 2010-2018, the ...

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Record revenues at Xilinx

Xilinx had $850 million revenues for calendar Q2 up 3% from calendar Q1 and up 24% y-o-y for a net profit of  $241 million (GAAP) or $249 million (non-GAAP). Calendar Q2 Financial Highlights (in millions of $) Po “I am pleased to report that we were able to achieve the mid-point of our revenue guidance for the ...

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What Elektra judges want

For 17 years the Elektra Awards has celebrated the innovation, skills and sheer verve of the electronics industry. Here’s how to be part of it. Make sure you are a part of the industry’s glittering gala evening and enter one or more categories for a chance to be recognised by the influencers and leaders of ...

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Advent buys Cobham

UK defence and aerospace contractor Cobham has been bought by US private equity fund Advent for £4 billion. Cobham has been struggling to get back on track after incurring very large debts on takeovers. It needed a £500 million rights issue when it ran into trouble on a USAF contract. Cobham CEO David Lockwood called ...

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ST expects 15% Q3 sequential revenue growth

ST had Q2 revenues 0f $2.17 billion; a gross margin of 38.2%; an operating margin of 9.0%; and net income of $160 million. H1 net revenues are $4.25 billion with a gross margin 38.8%, an operating margin ofb9.6%, and net income of  $338 millio. “As planned, in the second quarter we returned to sequential revenue ...

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SOX soars

The SOX gained 2.2% yesterday after TI’s optimism about Q3 gave the market reassurance. TI’s own shares went up 8%. Although TI’s Q2 revenues were down y-o-y at $3.67 billion, the company forecast Q3 revenues of $3.65 billion to $3.95 billion. Asked about China sales, CEO Rich Templeton replied there was “nothing unusual” about them. ...

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Mouser signs Wilcoxon

Mouser has signed a global distribution agreement with Wilcoxon Sensing Technologies to distribute its vibration monitoring and sensing products. The Wilcoxon product line includes a range of general-purpose, hazardous-area certified, and Highway Addressable Remote Transducer (HART)-enabled sensors, plus intelligent vibration transmitters and cost-effective enclosures. Wilcoxon’s 786 series sensors are available in a wide range of sensitivities and options including low ...

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Fraunhofer brings out QuaDRiGa 2.2

The Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute has released QuaDRiGa 2.2, a comprehensive update of the open-source radio channel model. QuaDRiGa, short for “QUAsi Deterministic RadIo channel GenerAtor”, is mainly used to generate realistic radio channel impulse responses for use in system-level simulations of mobile networks. These simulations are used to determine the performance of new technologies ...

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Maxim addresses hearables and wearables

Maxim claims that its in-ear heart-rate monitor and pulse oximeter is the smallest fully integrated solution that delivers heart-rate and SpO2 measurements from hearables and wearables. The MAXM86161 has an integrated analogue front-end (AFE) which eliminates the additional AFE typically needed to procure a separate chip and connect to the optical module. The MAX30208 digital ...

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GaSb/AlAsSb SAM-APDs detects X-rays and gamma-rays

GaSb/AlAsSb ‘separate absorption and multiplication avalanche’ photodiodes (SAM-APDs) can be used to selectively detect high-energy electromagnetic x-ray and gamma-ray radiation, according to the University of California, Los Angeles. Its research team has built such detectors, that can observe well-defined X-ray and gamma-ray photo-peaks from an americium 241 source (1.55GBq) at up to 59.5keV with a full-width half-maximum ...

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Nicomatic to debut miniature and rectangular connectors at DSEI

Nicomatic will give a UK debut to developments in its ranges of miniature and rectangular connectors at the Defence and Security Equipment International exhibition in September. 1mm AMM series connectors are designed for space-constrained applications in harsh environments. Capable of carrying up to 4.8A (PCB to cable, 20 pins at 25°C) or 2.5A (PCB to ...

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RS Components introduces Makerbot Method 3D Printer

RS Components today announced it is shipping the Makerbot Method 3D, which has been designed to bridge the gap between industrial and desktop 3D printing. The unit targets engineers and designers who use 3D modelling software and need to create product prototypes rapidly for a range of purposes, such as to accelerate product development or ...

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LED for torches and worklamps

Osram is aiming at torches and work lamps with a long-life 160 lm LED. Called Osconiq P 3030, it is build around a 1 x 1mm die that can be driven at 1.3A and comes in a specially-developed 3 x 3mm (1.63mm high) SMD epoxy package with lead-frame heat spreading and a silicone lens. “Compared with ...

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IQE starts VCSEL production for second major customer

IQE, the compound semiconductor specialist, has  announce the commencement of initial VCSEL production for a second major customer at the Newport Mega Foundry and further positive qualifications. Initial production has now commenced with a second major customer, serving the Android supply chains, and several more are in advanced stages of qualification. Performance data from the ...

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Huawei grows 30% in H1

Despite its States-side woes, Huawei increased revenues by a third in H1, reports Bloomberg. That is better than H1 2018 but showed Q2 softness after Q1 grew 39%. Huawei is said to have kept its momentum running by a major selling push on 5G networking gear. Clearly Huawei had either stockpiled enough component supplies to ...

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Arrow signs Sensera

Sensera, the Australian provider off real-time location and location-aware smart wireless sensor products has signed a global distribution agreement with Arrow. Arrow’s IoT group will provide consultancy, and will assist with designing and delivering solutions based on Sensera products, including system integration and deployment. The agreement covers Sensera’s IoT Solutions division and its MicroDevices division. ...

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May SEMI billings up 7.4% on April

May semiconductor manufacturing equipment billings of $2.06 billion were up 7.4% on April’s $1.92 billion but 23.6% down on the May 2018 billings of $2.69 billion, reports SEMI. “Billings of North American equipment manufacturers increased for the second consecutive month,” says SEMI CEO Ajit Manocha,  “expanding end-market applications continue to fuel demand for advanced semiconductors ...

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XMOS delivers voice interface dev kit

XMOS has announced its VocalFusion dev kit for Amazon AVS – a far-field 2-mic solution optimised for smart TVs and STBs. The new dev kit is based on the XMOS XVF3510 voice processor, which delivers a big performance at a cost of $0.99 enabling manufacturers to embed a voice interface into mass-market smart TVs and ...

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Vox Power power supplies available from Digi-Key

Vox Power and Digi-Key Electronics have announced a distribution agreement that will provide worldwide, 24-hour availability of configurable power supplies. “We are delighted to extend our product offering globally through Digi-Key,” said Marco Prinsloo, CEO of Vox Power. “Our modular products offer customers the freedom and flexibility to configure a custom power solution for virtually ...

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SiTime sampling rugged MEMS timers

 SiTime, the MEMS timing market leader, is sampling its Endura MEMS timing solutions for aerospace and defense applications such as field and satellite communications, precision GNSS, avionics, and space. Volume production is scheduled for Q4. The Endura products are engineered to offer unmatched performance in harsh conditions – such as severe shock, vibration, and extreme temperature – that ...

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Smallest and lowest power RTC?

Maxim is claiming industry’s smallest package, and longest battery life, for its latest real-time clock (RTC) chip – at 2 x 1.5mm and <180μA. The chip is called MAX31341B. “Systems that use microcontrollers for accurate timekeeping waste battery life, which is unacceptable in wearable applications. MAX31341B is designed with power-management circuitry that remains on during ...

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Slamcore aims to democratise robotics manufacturing

London start-up Slamcore has developed algorithms that could slash the costs of robotics navigation. Electronics Weekly reporter Alex McCarthy visited the company’s offices to find out more. EW saw a controlled demonstration of Slamcore’s simultaneous localisation and mapping (SLAM) technology. For autonomous robots performing tasks in dynamic environments, SLAM technology is described as a baseline ...

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1U 3 x 5in 350W PSU, from FiDUS

Fidus Power has announced a 3in x 5in power supply that outputs 250W when convection cooled, or 350W with a 12cfm fan – there is an optional 12V 100mA fan output. Height is 1U for rack-mounting. Called SUF350, it meets safety approvals EN/IEC/UL 623681-1 (2nd Ed), FCC Part-15, CISPR-32, EN55032 class B emission limits and EN55024 with no ...

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15Mbit/s optocouplers for harsh industry

Renesas has introduced a family of 15Mbit/s optocouplers for harsh industrial applications. “The trend toward higher voltage compact systems is driving stricter international safety standards that require smaller ICs with lower power consumption,” said the firm. “The RV1S9x60A family meets this need with low threshold input current ratings.” RV1S9160A – SO5 package – operates at ...

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Lords weigh pros and cons of digital tech’s effects on democracy

The House of Lords Committee on Democracy and Digital Technologies has launched its call for evidence to seek the public’s views on both the benefits and negative impact of digital technologies on democracy. The Committee is seeking evidence on the impact of digital technologies on political campaigning, the electoral process, our understanding of the truth ...

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Market for VCSELs in smartphones to top $1bn this year.

Market revenue for VCSELs used by cell phones utilising 3D sensing is projected to reach $1.139 billion this year, says TrendForce. “For 2019, besides Apple, who will be implementing 3D face recognition in its iPhones wholesale, Samsung, Huawei and Sony have also scheduled implementations of world-facing 3D sensing in flagship devices in 2H,” says TrendForce’s ...

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2019 semi sales to fall 9.6%, says Gartner.

2019 semiconductor sales will fall 9.6% to $429 billion from last year’s $475 billion, says Gartner. “The semiconductor market is being impacted by a weaker pricing environment for memory and some other chip types, combined with the U.S.-China trade dispute and lower growth in major applications, including smartphones, servers and PCs,” says Gartner’s Ben Lee. ...

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SlothBot, the slow but efficient robot, with a cunning mechanism

Georgia Tech is aiming at environmental monitoring, precision agriculture, and infrastructure maintenance with an aerial robot that trades speed for energy-efficiency. Called SlothBot, it is intended linger for months, hanging at height from a network of wires, measuring chemical concentrations or other parameters that can only be recorded by a long-term presence. Being wire-suspended allows ...

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Anglia to stock Mascot chargers and power supplies

Anglia has added battery chargers and power supplies to its product line up following its appointment as UK and Ireland distributor for Mascot. David Pearson, technical director at Anglia Components, commented “Mascot is a company with an outstanding pedigree in power supplies and we are proud to add their range. Mascot utilises cutting edge design ...

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CEVA buys Hillcrest Labs

CEVA has bought Hillcrest Labs, the sensor processing specialist,  from InterDigital. Hillcrest Labs specilises in the fusion of data from multiple sensors to enable intelligent systems. Hillcrest Labs’  MotionEngine software supports a broad range of merchant sensor chips and is licensed to OEMs and semiconductor companies that can run the software on CEVA DSPs or a ...

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Kontron buys Fujitsu’s German industrial motherboard business

Kontron has bought Fujitsu’s Augsburg-based industrial motherboard business from Fujitsu Technology Solutions GmbH. The transfer of the operational business from Fujitsu Technology Solutions to Kontron is planned to start in October. “The acquisition of the embedded motherboard business of Fujitsu Technology Solutions is a strategic step to expand these products with its own IoT software technology,” ...

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Hylec launches 5 pole screwless in line junction box

Hylec-APL has announced the launch of Debox SL2, a tool-free in-line junction box which comes complete with five approved lever connectors. Hylec claims Debox SL2 is the smallest junction box with five poles on the market and the only product supplied complete with 5 screw free terminals: each individual 32A lever connector can take up ...

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Raspberry Pi cap films the past

A Pi-based camera that will record what you’ve just seen at the touch of a button has been designed by Johan Link and put it on a cap. It consists of a Raspberry Pi 3B, combined with a 1080p USB webcam and a 5000 mAh power bank. These are attached to a baseball cap in ...

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Guerilla brings out its first InGaP HBT PAs

Guerrilla RF has brought out its first two InGaP HBT power amplifier products. Both devices deliver 60% saturated efficiency, with high gain and high output power – making them ideal choices for the final stage of applicable transmit chains. GRF5504is a high efficiency power amplifier that delivers up to 3.5 W at Psat, with Vcc ...

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A STAR is born

The Shanghai Stock Exchange has opened a market for domestic tech firms called STAR. Share prices of the initial 25 companies in the STAR market soared earlier today with some rising over 500%. Every company in the STAR market more than doubled its opening share price. China has modeled the STAR market on the Nasdaq. ...

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Gou loses presidential primary

Foxconn founder and former chairman Terry Gou (pictured), Taiwan’s richest man, has lost his party’s  primary election to be the next president  of Taiwan. Gou resigned as chairman and CEO of Foxconn earlier this year to make his run for the presidency. Gou was looking to win the nomination of Taiwan’s opposition party Kuomintang (KMT) ...

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AI not yet smart enough to moderate on-line content

Ofcom asked Cambridge Consultants if AI can be used to moderate web content and the answer appears to be No. ‘Overall, it is not possible to fully automate effective content moderation. For the foreseeable future the input of human moderators will continue to be required to review highly contextual, nuanced content,’ says Cambridge Consultants’ report, ...

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ANPC topology used for SiC and IGBT hybrid power module

Compared with traditional 3-level neutral-point-clamped topologies, the advanced neutral-point-clamped (ANPC) inverter design supports an even loss distribution between semiconductor devices. Infineon utilizes the ANPC topology for its hybrid SiC and IGBT power module EasyPACK 2B in the 1200 V family. Optimizing for sweet spot losses of the CoolSiC MOSFET and the TRENCHSTOP IGBT4 chipsets respectively, ...

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Chip drives 200V GaN half-bridge at up to 50MHz

Texas Instruments has introduced a gate driver that can a 200V half-bridge pair of GaN transistors at up to 50MHz. Called LMG1210, it is designed to work with enhancement mode GaN and has a 10ns propagation delay. “The device provides a low switch-node capacitance of 1 pF, with user-adjustable dead-time control which helps improve efficiency,” ...

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Commons Science and Technology committee seeks suspension of facial recognition tech

The use of automatic facial recognition technologies should be suspended says a report from the House of Commons Science and Technology committee. The committee says there are concerns over accuracy and bias and the use of the tech needs to be regulated. “It is unclear whether police forces are unaware of the requirement to review custody ...

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DCMS asks tech industry how to simplify on-line verification of ID

The Department for Digital, Culture, Media  and Sport (DCMS) is calling for views from the tech industry on how to make it safer for people to confirm their identity online. A pilot scheme is to to be launched to help organisations check people’s identity for services such as loan or credit card applications The DCMS thinks the ...

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Comment: Bluetooth as the smart building protocol of choice

David Hollander, of the Bluetooth SIG, considers how Bluetooth is becoming the smart building protocol of choice.

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Japan ban on exports to Korea pushes up memory makers’ share price

 The DRAM spot market price has risen 15% in a week, says DRAMeXchange, thanks to the Japanese threat to withhold supplies of photoresist and hydrogen fluoride to Samsung and Hynix. Analysts are warning of further large price rises if the hobbling of supplies continues for long. Samsung is looking for non-Japanese suppliers but it is ...

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TSMC on a roll

After a spectacular y-o-y revenue rise of 21.9% in June – which was a 6.8% rise on May – TSMC is forecasting Q3 revenue growth of 18% to between $9.1 billion and $9.2 billion. The June leap in revenues came after five successive months of y-o-y revenue falls. May revenues were 0.7% y-o-y and April’s ...

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Underwater connectors tested to 5 metres.

Smiths Interconnect’s waterproof circular M23 connectors for demanding industrial applications underwater are qualified to perform at depths of 5 metres. The connectors are equipped with Hypertac hyperboloid contact technology and are designed for applications that encounter rough and corrosion-prone conditions in the food and beverage, chemical, maritime, and medical industries. Recently industrial applications in underwater environments ...

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Kali Linux flavour of Debian tests with Raspberry Pi 4

Penetration testing specialists update Kali Linux to support the latest Raspberry Pi 4.

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Qualcomm fined €242m for Icera gambit

The EC has fined Qualcomm €242 million for abusing its market dominance in 3G baseband chipsets. Qualcomm sold below cost, with the aim of forcing its competitor Icera out of the market. Icera, of Bristol, founded by Stan Boland with Nigel Toon and Simon Knowles who now run Graphcore, was sold to Nvidia for $367 ...

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Electronic fuel injection reference design for small engines

With increasingly tight global pollution standards for even small engines, STMicroelectronics and Arrow Electronics have produced am electronic control unit (ECU) reference design for single and twin-cylinder fuel-injected petrol engines. Called SPC5-L9177A-K02, the ECU reference design is aimed at motorcycles, scooters, and three wheelers – particularly those which must satisfy Euro 5, Bharat Stage VI (BSVI), and China ...

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Turkey dominates student avionics and aeronautics competition in Texas

Turkish universities dominated the annual global ‘CanSat’ avionics and aeronautics competition, getting first, second and fifth places. Held this year in Texas, the competition has nothing to do with satellites, but it does involve rockets, payload deployment, telemetry and, this year, autogyros. In a nut shell, CanSat 2019 required students to construct a two-part payload that ...

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UltraSoC Gets £2m grant from Innovate UK

UltraSoC has been given a  £2 million grant by Innovate UK for a project that will improve the safety and security of tomorrow’s connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs). The project, a collaboration between UltraSoC, the Universities of Southampton and Coventry, and cybersecurity specialist consultancy Copper Horse, aims to improve the security and safety of citizens and infrastructure by developing the ...

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Toshiba Memory to change its name

Toshiba Memory will re-brand in October, from whence it will call itself ‘Kioxia’ – pronounced ‘kee-ox-ee-uh’. “I am delighted to take the next step in our company’s evolution,” said Toshiba Memory Holdings executive chairman Stacy Smith. Toshiba Memory Europe GmbH will become Kioxia Europe GmbH on 01 October, and the name Kioxia will be adopted for the ...

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Samsung ramping 12Gb LPDDR5 mobile DRAM

Samsung has begun mass producing 12Gb LPDDR5 mobile DRAM, which has been optimized for enabling 5G and AI features in future smartphones. Samsung also plans to start mass producing 12-gigabyte (GB) LPDDR5 packages later this month, each combining  eight of the 12Gb chips. “With mass production of the 12Gb LPDDR5 built on Samsung’s latest second-generation ...

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170wph for EUV as ASML sees another growth year

ASML had Q2 net sales of €2.6 billion, net profit of  €476 million and a gross margin of 43% The company  Q3 2019 sales of around  €3 billion and a gross margin between 43% and 44% (Figures in millions of euros unless otherwise indicated) Q1 2019 Q2 2019 Net sales 2,229 2,568 …of which Installed ...

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Four centres opened to develop EV charging systems

Schneider Electric and  Edmundson Electrical have combined to open four EV Centres of Excellence.in Manchester, West Bromwich, Glasgow and Twickenham to develop expertise in smart, interoperable EV charging systems. This will support contractors in meeting growing EV infrastructure and energy demands. As EV charging systems scale in size and complexity, the opening of the centres ...

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Socionext encoder generates live 8K video streams

Socionext, the video data processing specialist, has developed a streaming encoder unit – the “e8 – which generates live 8K video streams for expanding the use of HD high-quality video. It will be available worldwide in September 2019. The e8 is equipped with Socionext’s multi-channel, real-time encoder SoC, the MB86M31. It is capable of real-time encoding of 8K/60p ...

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Mouser-Phoenix e-book for IIoT connectors

Mouser and Phoenix Contact have brought out an e-book offering an in-depth look at connector designs and their importance in the  Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). In Trusted Connection, Trusted Design, experts from Phoenix Contact provide guides on PCB design, locking systems, and new connecting technologies, offering readers valuable insights on how to leverage connectors for more reliable ...

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Average semi content of electronic systems to fall to 26.4%

If IC Insights’  forecasts for the electronic systems market and the semiconductor market are right, then the average semiconducor content in an electronic system will drop to 26.4% after reaching a record 31.1% last year. IC Insights forecasts that the 2019 global electronic systems market will grow 4% to $1,680 billion. IC Insights’ forecast for ...

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Secure MCU for e-banking and e-identification – contact and contactless

ST microelectronics has introduced a secure microcontroller that includes a 13.56MHz RF interface for contactless operation and a serial interface for contact operation. Called ST31P450, it is built on a 40nm flash process and is aimed at contactless and contact applications in banking, identity, transportation and pay-television. The RF interface includes an RF UART for contactless comms ...

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Isolated push-pull dc-dc converter delivers 1W from SOT23-6

Chinese chip maker Mornsun has created a push-pull dc-dc converter chip IC with integrated mosfets that can deliver up to 1W through an isolation transformer – and the firm offers a selection of transfomers. “To maximise the reliability, the chip design has incorporated three key technologies: a soft start function, output short-circuit protection and integrated over temperature protection,” ...

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Ad astra in retro

Millions witnessed the moon landing in July 1969. Caroline Hayes looks at space technology then and in the 21st century. Six years after he opened the Labour Party conference with his rousing “white heat of technology” speech, Harold Wilson was prime minister of the UK and Neil Armstrong and Edwin (Buzz) Aldrin walked on the ...

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Samsung explores non-Japanese suppliers of hydrogen fluoride

Samsung is testing hydrogen fluoride photoresist etching gas from non-Japanese companies, reports the Nikkei, as Japan’s government puts export curbs on Japanese suppliers. Samsung currently buys its photoresist from Stella Chemifa, Morita Chemical Industries and Showa Denko. The company has now approached companies in Taiwan, Korea and China abourt sourcing the gas from them. Last week ...

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Traxens raises $22.7m Series C

Traxens, the assets tracking specialist, has closed a Series C funding round worth $22.7 million led by the Itochu Corporation, Bpifrance and Supernova Invest (Crédit Agricole Innovations et Territories Fund). This financing will enable the company to launch a global large-scale sea-land fleet of IoT tracking solutions on vessels operated by its partner shipping companies, including ...

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Bourns buys Slovenian over-voltage protection specialist

Bourns has bought KEKO-Varicon of Slovenia – a  manufacturer of overvoltage protection products that include varistor and EMI suppression products. KEKO-Varicon brings a strong employee base, superior overvoltage protection technologies, expanded R&D, and production facility assets as part of the acquisition. “The acquisition allows Bourns to gain a significant strategic advantage in the range of ...

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216% CAGR predicted for 5G computing devices between 2019-23

45 million PCs and tablets  will have 5G connectivity by 2023, forecasts Strategy Analytics. The majority of 5G computing devices will be Tablets and Detachable 2-in-1s Asia-Pacific will account for more than 40% of 5G devices in use, North America 29% and Western Europe 21% (2023 projections) Sales of 5G computing devices will grow at ...

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LED drivers integrate MOSFETs

Maxim’s LED driver,  the MAX25610A/B, integrates MOSFETS, delivers 90% efficiency, and passes CISPR 25 EMI specs. The synchronous buck, buck-boost LED drivers/DC-DC drive up to eight HBLEDs directly from the automotive battery and integrate many external components to save on BOM costs and space, making them suitable solutions for automotive lighting systems as well as industrial ...

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Lattice reference design for Cross Link FPGA for video bridging

Lattice Semiconductor has produced a reference design involving the Lattice CrossLink FPGA for video bridging applications. The SubLVDS to MIPI CSI-2 Image Sensor Bridge reference design provides industrial device customers with a way to connect  APs with many of the image sensors currently used in today’s machine vision applications for industrial environments. Many industrial machine ...

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EEVblog #1229 – Mailbag

600V three-phase gate driver with smart shut-down

STMicroelectronics is aiming at all-n-channel three-phase bridges with a 600V six-channel gate driver IC. Called STDRIVE601, it is intended to operate with mosfets or IGBTs and is protected against negative voltage spikes down to -100V, and responds to logic inputs in 85ns. It has what the firm describes as smart-shutdown circuitry, turning off “the gate-driver outputs immediately ...

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Arm makes IP access easier

Today, Arm initiates a new model  for customers to access and license its IP. Called Arm Flexible Access, the model allows IC designers to initiate projects before they license IP and pay only for what they use at production, giving designers more freedom to experiment, evaluate and innovate. “By converging unlimited design access with no ...

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5G Rail Next to test infotainment service for Seoul Metro.

5G RailNext, a consortium led by Cisco which includes Soluis and Ampletime of London, Strathclyde University and Glasgow Council, has won a competition to see how 5G can best provide infotainment services across the Seoul Metro system (pictured). The project will deliver Augmented Reality (AR) and Mixed Reality (MR) content – including travel information, video ...

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SK Telecom first to introduce 5G roaming

SK Telecom says it started the world’s first 5G roaming service today through a strategic partnership with Swisscom,  Swisscom started to roll out its 5G network on April 17 and provides 5G service in 110 cities and villages including Zurich, Geneva and Bern as well as rural and touristic areas.  SK Telecom’s customers using Samsung ...

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China growth falls to 27 year low

The Trade War is biting with China’s Q2 growth hitting 6.2%  – the slowest since 1992, says China’s National Bureau of Statistics, It was down from Q1’s 6.4%.   In H1, China GDP grew 6.3% – 0.5% down on H1 2018. The National Bureau pointed to ‘new downward pressure’. H1 industrial production increased 6% – ...

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TI claims lowest quiescent current for power switching regulator

TI has introduced a switching regulator and claimed it has the industry’s lowest operating quiescent current at 60 nA – 1/3 that of the nearest competitive device. The TPS62840 synchronous step-down converter delivers very high light-load efficiency of 80% at 1-µA load. The new DC/DC converter’s wideinput voltage (VIN) range of 1.8 V to 6.5 ...

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SD-WAN enables mobile and remote employees

In Q1 the market for SD-WAN (software defined WAN), including appliance and control and management software, rose 8% on Q4, says IHS Markit. VMware led the SD-WAN market with a 20% share of revenue, followed by Cisco at 13% and Aryaka at 12%. “Financial enterprises are rearchitecting their legacy WANs with SD-WAN to utilize traffic-routing ...

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SiC photonics resonator has Q=160,000 for CMOS

Silicon carbide can be used to add telecoms-wavelength (1.55μm) emission to CMOS, according to researchers at MIT and Singapore University of Technology (SUTD), who demonstrated an amorphous SiC ring resonator with a Q of 1.6×105, claimed to be the highest quality factor achieved in a SiC micro-ring resonator. “We are able to show one order of ...

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DFMA lets engineers focus on what they do best

Raptor Performance in Concord, NC, designs and manufactures custom electronics for racing motorcycles and automobiles. The company's products are not for hobbyists, these are professional-grade parts.

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Trade War costs $41bn so far

After a year of the US-China Trade War the figures are in for the damage. Chinese exports of tariff-hit goods to the US dropped 14%  or $18 billion –  representing 3% of China’s total annual shipments to the U.S. American exports of tariff-hit goods to China dropped 38%, or $23 billion – representing  15% of ...

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Russia offers hydrogen fluoride supplies to Korea

Following Japan’s hobbling of supplies of photoresist and hydrogen fluoride to Korea’s chip industry, Russia has suggested that it may be able to fill the gap. According to Korea’s Hankyoreh newspaper: “Russia recently communicated to the government through a diplomatic channel that it may be able to supply its hydrogen fluoride to South Korean businesses.” ...

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It’s GaAs GaAs GaAs

RF front end component manufacturers are turning to GaAs as their main material of choice, says TrendForce, while 5G will double the number of components needed compared to 4G. Since the frequencies used for telecommunication between phones in the 4G era have already moved to the 1.8-2.7 GHz range, traditional 3G Si RF front end ...

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Tiny power module delivers 100A

The ‘power by linear’ LTM4700 µModule regulator from Analog Devices is now available from Mouser Electronics. The step-down switching mode regulator combines high power with energy-efficient performance. LTM4700 µModule regulator is a dual 50A or single 100A step-down DC/DC regulator that incorporates analog control loops, mixed-signal circuitry, power MOSFETs, inductors and supporting components. The module’s ...

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Single-crystal perovskite solar cell beats 21% efficiency

Single-crystal perovskite solar cell efficiency has exceeded 21% at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Saudi Arabia, which is working on methylammonium lead-triiodide perovskites. The cell is part of a project to harness single-crystal growth as a way of avoiding the defects and restricted charge-carrier diffusion length associated with the polycrystalline thin-films ...

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Semiconductor research centre for Swansea University

Swansea University is to get a facility for semiconductor science and engineering, part-funded with £30m from the UK Research Partnership Investment Fund (UKRPIF), plus cash from local industry and Welsh Government sources. To be called the Centre for Integrative Semiconductor Materials (CISM), it will be built at the University’s Bay Campus. The University describes it as: a hub ...

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Lenovo takes No.1 PC vendor slot

Q2 PC shipments grew 4.7% y-o-y to 64.9 million units, reports IDC, as Lenovo became the No.1 vendor. Improved supply of Intel CPUs helped boost the figure while some companies shipped early to avoid possible future tariffs. Another boost came from the January 2020 end-of-service date for Windows. The US saw high single-digit growth, Canada ...

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Cambridge memory start-up aims to boost performance 1000x

Blueshift Memory of Cambridge has a memory architecture that can speed up data processing performance a thousand times. Blueshift has implemented the architecture in an FPGA and have found it can speed up database searches by 100x. Google searches can be speeded up by 1000x. Blueshift looked at algorithms used to solve complex data problems ...

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June bustin’ out all over at TSMC

June saw TSMC sales leap 21.9% y-oy. June revenues were 6.8% up on May at $2.78 billion. TSMC is giving no reason for the sudden rise. YTD revenues for TSMC are $14.5 billion – down 4.5% on the first six months of 2018. The June sales leap comes after five months of y-o-y sales contraction. ...

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