Thin flexible bio-sensors are 3d-printed

Georgia Tech has developed a way to 3d print highly flexible bio-compatible battery-free wireless stretch sensors. A potential application is pressure sensing inside brain blood vessels damaged by aneurysms – floppy side bulges that can burst. ‘Aerosol jet’ 3D printing is the chose fabrication technique – in which a fine mist of droplets are blown ...

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Raspberry Pi implanted in a human body

Brian McEvoy at Hackaday tells this gruseome tale of implanting a Raspberry Pi in a leg – two legs actually. ”Earlier this month,” writes McEvoy, “ a group of biohackers installed two Rasberry Pis in their legs. While that sounds like the bleeding edge, those computers were already v2 of a project called PegLeg. I ...

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sureCore launches low power design service

sureCore, the Sheffield low power SRAM IP specialist,  has opened a new Low Power Design Service that offers its concept-to-tape-out low power mixed-signal design expertise to ASIC developers. sureCore’s Design Service targets the pervasive system-centric low-power design challenge through a comprehensive suite of low-power mixed signal services, including design and layout capabilities, technology porting, as ...

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Revenues shrink for IC design houses

Q2 revenues of the top five IC design companies all shrank y-o-y, is says TrendForce. This was due to the US-China trade war, mounting inventory levels along the supply chain and less-than-satisfactory global demand for consumer electronics, including smartphones, tablets, notebooks, LCDs, TVs, servers etc. NVIDIA registered the largest decline among the five: 20.1%. This is ...

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Toshiba claims fastest PCIe gen4 SSD

Toshiba claims to have the fastest-class PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSDs for enterprise applications with a sequential read performance of over 6.4GB/s. The CM6 Series SSDs support dual-port PCIe Gen4 x4 lanes and are NVMe 1.4 compliant. The family of enterprise NVMe SSDs will be available in a 2.5-inch form factor with capacity points from 800GB to ...

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Intel ships 10nm Agilex FPGAs

Intel begins shipments of the first Agilex FPGAs to early access program customers.

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Harwin invests in local skills with expansion to Portsmouth site

Harwin has formally opened its Apprentice Training Hub, along with an R&D Centre. Located at the company’s Portsmouth headquarters, construction and kitting out of the unit that will house both these operations has been completed and they are now ready to be staffed. “We started an academy program with a local college as part of ...

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Two more USB Type-C Power Delivery chips

Microchip has added two integrated circuits for implementing USB Type-C Power Delivery (PD) designs USB705x family is for fast device charging and introduces PD implementations called HostFlexing and PDBalancing (see below) – combined with 5Gbit/s SuperSpeed data rate from USB 3.1. UPD301A is a stand-alone USB Type-C PD with basic USB Type-C PD charging functions ...

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Crystals are tough for cars

Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) J2657 specification is the target Diodes is aiming at with its XRQ range of crystals for tyre pressure monitoring – now a mandatory safety feature for new cars marketed in territories worldwide, according to the firm. Infotainment, telematics, and driver assistance systems are other potential applications. The crystals are capable ...

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Ventec adds thermally-conductive thin isolation foils

Ventec has added two thermally-conductive thin isolation foil materials to its range of thermal interface materials under its distribution agreement with EMI Thermal. Both feature high tensile strength, designed to prevent cut through and electrical shorts, are UL94-V0 recognised and have no viscosity (see table below for characteristics). Intended applications include: PSUs, telecoms, visual devices, ...

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Cellular IoT prototyping platform includes GNSS and works near-globally

Thingy:91 is a cellular and GNSS IoT prototyping platform with world-wide coverage across 700MHz to 2200MHz, created by Nordic Semiconductor and Fractus Antennas. Based on Nordic’s nRF9160 SiP multimode LTE-M/NB-IoT system-in-package with GPS, the battery-powered Thingy:91 comes with a roaming SIM card, 16 sensors and a nRF52840 for short-range wireless communication with Bluetooth 5, Thread, Zigbee and ANT. ...

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CNT processor made by MIT and ADI

MIT and ADI have built a 16-bit processor using CNTs. 10 million CNTs were used to form 14,702 CMOS CNT field-effect transistors (CNTFETs), arranged in 3,762 digital logic blocks, that together operated as a 16-bit processor. The chip can fetch 32-bit instructions from memory, has a RISC-V register file, and can read and write 16-bit data ...

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Planning permission for 5G masts to be scrapped

Planning regulations are to be changed to allow 5G masts to be erected near existing masts without the need for planning permission. “We need to make it easier for industry to build, share and upgrade mobile infrastructure,” says digital minister Nicky Morgan (pictured) “this is means planning rules will be relaxed to enable existing ground-based ...

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China GPUs

Thanks to Mike Bryant for pointing out this Chinese GPU development. 13 year-old Jingjia Micro of Changsha City, China has two GPUs in development. The JM7200, is a 28nm part clocked at 1.2GHz with 4GB of DDR3 memory. It compares with an Nvidia GeForce GT 640 in performance terms. The  JM7200 has a 10W TDP, ...

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Ubuntu 19.10 OS for Raspberry Pi

Arne Exton has released a new version of his Ubuntu/Debian-based RaspEX GNU/Linux distribution for the Raspberry Pi 4. Based on the upcoming Ubuntu 19.10 “Eoan Ermine” operating system, due for release on October 17th, the new RaspEX release  includes packages from the GNU/Linux 10 “Buster” operating system series and the open-source Linaro software for ARM SoCs, and ...

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Terahertz screening tech reduces airport throughput time

Sales of equipment used to screen people for explosives, weapons and contraband will grow at 6.6%  between 2018 and 2023, says IHS Markit. Emerging technologies, including millimeter and terahertz waves, are being used for passenger screening at airports. These technologies now promise to increase security in other applications and better protect visitors at large event ...

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Isolated 700mA quad smart switches aimed at industry

Silicon Labs is aiming at switching industrial loads with a family of quad 24V 700mA isolated 145mΩ switches for resistive or inductive loads – solenoids, relays or lamps, for example, in programmable logic controllers (PLCs). “The switches are capable of providing up to 0.5A of IEC61131-2 compliant continuous current in a quad channel configuration,” said ...

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18–31.5GHz low noise amplifier in plastic package from Macom

Richardson RFPD announced today the availability of and design support capabilities for a low noise amplifier from Macom Technology Solutions. The MAAL-011129 is a three-stage low noise amplifier with high gain and broadband 50Ω match. It is designed for operation from 18 to 31.5GHz and housed in a lead-free 2mm 8-lead PDFN plastic package. The ...

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Osram Oslon Pure 1010 LEDs housed in 1x1mm package

Mouser Electronics is now stocking Oslon Pure 1010 LEDs from Osram Opto Semiconductors. Housed in a 1×1mm real chip scale package, the LEDs offer a top-emitting surface with a 120-degree viewing angle and are designed for retail lighting, customized chip-on-board (CoB) designs, and small luminaire designs with narrow spotlight requirements. Osram’s Oslon Pure 1010 LEDs, ...

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Reset chip works on 24V rails and wastes only 300nA

Texas Instruments has introduced a reset chip for voltage rails between 1.5V and 10V, that can work on 24V rails with additional resistors (see below). Called the TPS3840 family, supply current is typically 300nA, and is 700nA max over temperature. Threshold voltage is fixed, and versions are available from 1.6 to 4.9V in 0.1V steps – ...

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The evolution of Raspberry Pi

Eben Upton has been telling IEEE Spectrum about the move to Raspberry Pi 4 and how the format is evolving. ”The last three Pis have all been made using the same  process,” says Upton (pictured), “so modifications have been limited, mostly putting in a larger ARM. If you look at the floor plan of the ...

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Ex-Waymo-Uber autonomous driving guru faces criminal charges

Anthony Lewandowski the former Waymo engineer who downloaded thousands of files of Waymo driverless car information before being employed in Uber’s driverless car project, has been charged with 33 criminal offences. A Waymo vs Uber civil lawsuit over the misappropriated files resulted last year in Uber giving Waymo $245  million of Uber stock to settle ...

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CMOS image sensor sales to hit all-time high

 CMOS image sensor sales are projected to rise 9% in 2019 to an all-time high of $15.5 billion, followed by a 4% increase in 2020 to $16.1 billion (Figure 1), according to IC Insights’ 2019 O-S-D Report—A Market Analysis and Forecast for Optoelectronics, Sensors/Actuators, and Discretes Figure 1 IC Insights is forecasting an 11% rise ...

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NGMN Alliance recommends common RF cluster connector for 5G

The Next Generation Mobile Networks (NGMN) Alliance has today announced that it recommends a common RF cluster connector for early 5G deployment. NGMN’s new white paper – Recommendation for RF Cluster Connector for use in 5G NR 8T8R TDD Deployment – describes the selection process and explores the features that make a common RF cluster ...

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Senseg launches roll-to-roll actuators

 Senseg, the 11 year-old Finnish specialist in electrostatic haptics, has come up with roll-to-roll manufactured actuators for use in both flat actuator applications and in wearables, soft robotics, VR/AR devices, and interior integrated sensors. Called Senseg ELFIAC (for Elastomeric Film Actuator), the product will deliver large-scale manufacturable actuators that are far less expensive to produce than ...

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1A buck boost dc-dc in 1.2 x 1.6mm offers 2.8µA Iq

Rohm is claiming 97% efficient operation with a 200mA load and 2.8µA quiescent current from a buck-boost dc-dc converter that produces 2.5V or 3.3V (selectable) from 2.0-5.5V. Up to 1A is available at 3.3V with the input above 2.7V (see bottom table). This is all from a 1.20 x 1.60 x 0.57mm 12pin WL-CSP UCSP50L1C package, including the four ...

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Pico Tech adds DALI decode to scope software

Pico Technology has added DALI decoding and analysis to its PicoScope software, with an update to version 6. “Networked DALI devices are at the heart of modern buildings management. Engineers and systems integrators developing modules and deploying DALI networks need tools to identify timing and signal integrity problems when they occur,” said Pico business development ...

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Zynq FPGA module has 38Gbyte/s memory bandwidth

Up to 38.4Gbyte/sec of memory bandwidth to the host FPGA is available from Enclustra’s Mercury+ XU9 module, which is built around on the Zynq UltraScale+ devices. To achieve that bandwidth, it is equipped with two memory banks: a 64bit wide DDR4 SDRAM (up to 4Gbyte) connected to the PL, and a 72bit DDR4 ECC SDRAM ...

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China’s IC efforts could be a waste of money

China could be wasting its money trying to develop a chip industry. SIA vp for global  policy Jimmy Goodrich (pictured) argues that the Beijing government may have misunderstood the apparent need for domestic self-sufficiency in chips which has driven its huge IC investment programmes. The key figure is $300 billion – the amount China spent ...

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China IC effort could be a waste of money

China could be wasting its money trying to develop a chip industry. SIA vp for global  policy Jimmy Goodrich (pictured) argues that the Beijing government may have misunderstood the apparent need for domestic self-sufficiency in chips which has driven its huge IC investment programmes. The key figure is $300 billion – the amount China spent ...

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IEEE updates IRDS

IEEE has announced the release of the updated IEEE International Roadmap for Devices and Systems (IRDS). The IRDS identifies industry indicators and trends to quantify technology and system requirements. These include defining requirements for mobile, Internet of Things (IoT), communications-networks, automotive and computing. The IRDS aims to provide stakeholders from academia, manufacturing, supply, and research a clear outline for a more coordinated approach regarding the development of electronic devices and systems. “To reflect the continuously ...

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GloFo sues TSMC

Yesterday GLOBALFOUNDRIES filed five lawsuits in the US and Germany alleging that semiconductor manufacturing technologies used by TSMC infringe 16 GLoFo patents. The lawsuits were filed with the U.S. ITC, the U.S. Federal District Courts in the Districts of Delaware and West Texas, and the Regional Courts of Dusseldorf and Mannheim. GloFo is asking the ...

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German distie sales weaken

For the first time in two years the falling orders for German component distribution have resulted in a slight drop in turnover. Sales of distribution companies under the umbrella of the Fachverband Bauelemente-Distribution (FBDi e.V.) dropped by 2% to €879 million. Orders further weakened to around €748 million, equating to a book-to-bill ratio of 0.85. ...

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DeepMind losses deepen

DeepMind, the nine year-old  London AI startup bought by Google in 2014 for £400 million, lost £470 million last year bringing its total losses to over £1 billion. The loss was 55% up on 2017’s loss.  Revenues doubled to  £102.8m in 2018 compared to 2017, but staff costs rose 70% to  £568.3 million on the ...

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£30m competition to promote rustic 5G

Digital Secretary Nicky Morgan has launched a £30 million UK-wide competition to promote rural 5G. Up to ten rural locations will be chosen to run innovative trials of 5G applications and stimulate commercial investment in 5G technology. The Rural Connected Communities competition is the latest wave of £200 million funding to pioneer 5G testbeds across ...

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5G infrastructure revenues to hit $4.2bn next year

5G wireless network infrastructure revenue will reach $4.2 billion next year, an 89% increase from 2019 revenue of $2.2 billion, according to Gartner. Gartner forecasts that investments in 5G NR network infrastructure will account for 6% of the total wireless infrastructure revenue of communications service providers (CSPs) in 2019, and that this figure will reach ...

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ELTEC expands auto LTE router range

ELTEC Elektronik has added to its family of wireless LTE routers with the CyBox RT 2-A, i.e. a dual LTE/WiFi system for automotive applications. The system combines a wireless router, access point and integrated switch in a compact and robust housing. This allows unlimited Internet surfing and data exchange with the control center for mobile ...

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Science Of Soldering© Class At Georgia Tech

Georgia Tech is offering an open registration Science of Soldering© course for individuals as part of its Professional Education Program.

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SEMI July billings flat

July billings for sales of semiconductor manufacturing equipment were 0.4% up on June’s but 14.5% down y-o-y, says SEMI. It is the ninth consecutive y-o-y decline. June billings were $2.03 billion and July billings were $2.38 billion. “Total billings of North American equipment manufacturers for July were slightly up over June billings,” says SEMI CEO ...

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Welsh put £1.3m into compound process technology development

The Welsh Government has announced a £1.3 million project to develop compound semiconductor process technologies and new materials. Part-funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), the ASSET project (Application Specific Semiconductor Etching Technology) is funded under the Welsh Government’s SMARTExpertise programme and is an industrially driven, collaborative project with partners across south Wales, including: ...

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Support for solar

The Science & Technology Committee has published a report on the Government’s Clean Growth Strategy in which it makes the following calls for solar power support: On large-scale solar policy: The Government must ensure that there is strong policy support for new onshore wind power and large-scale solar power projects for which there is local ...

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Power inductors for industrial and telecoms markets

TT Electronics has brought out two SMD power inductors: the HM66M series for use in high frequency power conversion systems and EMI filter applications, and the HM78M series for use in high density and high frequency DC/DC converter applications. The HM66M series power inductors are designed for the complex industrial and telecommunications markets. The HM66M is ...

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Link Microtek designs and manufactures complex microwave assemblies

Hampshire-based Link Microtek designs and manufactures microwave and RF subsystems and components. Its latest project has been a complex microwave feed assembly for a customer’s Ku-band mobile satellite-communications antenna system. It interfaces with the system’s transmit amplifier, conical feed horn and receive LNB, and incorporates a feed arm, transmit filter, receive filter, rotary joint and an ...

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UK pop-up EV charging point saves street clutter

Cheltenham-based design company Duku has developed a pop-up electric vehicle charge point, claiming it to be a world first. Six of them are on trial in Oxford. A pop-up design was adopted to reduce street clutter, but the amount of historical architecture and utilities under Oxford pavements meant minimal available underground space. “It’s an absolute mess ...

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Mapping on-line hate reveals team work is the only useful countermeasure

Policing on-line hate from within a single platform, such as Facebook, can make the spread of hate worse, and will eventually generate global ‘dark pools’ in which hate will flourish, is one of the findings the finding in a recent scientific paper in Nature. The paper was written after analysis using a “first of its ...

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Farnell launches solder tip selector

Farnell has launched a soldering tip selector. The soldering tip selector helps customers choose the right tip for over 100 different soldering systems and stations, from 1,500 tips. All are in stock and all available from Farnell for next day delivery. Soldering efficiency depends on the soldering station used, the soldering irons and tips, as well ...

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SK Telecom gets a million 5G subscribers

SK Telecom today announced that it became the first mobile operator in the world to have more than a million 5G subscribers. The company’s 5G subscribers now take up more than 3.5 percent of its total subscriber base of 28 million.  It has taken 140 days since the launch of the 5G service to attracted the ...

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Semi industry more bullish on AI than other industries

The semiconductor industry is the most bullish about adopting AI and understanding the impact it will have on their industry, according to Accenture Semiconductor Technology Vision 2019. Three-quarters of semiconductor executives surveyed for the report (77%) said they have adopted AI within their business or are piloting the technology. In addition, nearly two-thirds of semiconductor ...

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Xilinx claims world’s largest FPGA

Next autumn Xilinx plans to expand its 16nm Virtex UltraScale+ family to include a 35 billion transistor FPGA called VU19P. Claimed to be the world’s largest FPGA, Xilinx says it will provide the highest logic density and I/O count on a single device ever built. The VU19P has 9 million system logic cells, up to ...

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Integrated fuel gauges for battery protection

Battery protectors with with integrated fuel gauges from Maxim offer configurable settings for battery safety and allow the fine tuning of voltage and current thresholds based on various temperature zones. The newest 1-cell, pack-side ICs in this portfolio are the MAX17301 and the MAX17311. These ICs also offer a secondary protection scheme in case the ...

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CML modulator simplifies transmit design

CML Microcircuits has brought out the CMX7146, a flexible data modulator that simplifies the design of transmit-only solutions using BPSK (binary phase shift keying) and differential BPSK modulation (also referred to as PRK, phase reversal keying, or 2PSK). The CMX7146 generates precise baseband analogue in-phase and quadrature signals with programmable signal filtering. This generates with ...

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Raspberry Pi gets MIT’s Scratch 3.0

Scratch 3.0, a visual language programming language from MIT Media Lab, can now run on  Raspberry Pi’s Raspbian. OS. The Pi people have been working with MIT ever since Scratch 3 was released in January to develop an offline, installable version for Raspberry Pi 4. It’ll probably need a Raspberry Pi 4 with 2GB of ...

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Top 15 Semiconductor Vendors In H1

The top-15 worldwide semiconductor (IC and O-S-D—optoelectronic, sensor, and discrete) sales ranking for 1H19 is shown in Figure 1. It includes six suppliers headquartered in the U.S., three in Europe, and two each in Taiwan, South Korea, and Japan. Figure 1 Intel replaced Samsung as the number one quarterly semiconductor supplier in 4Q18 after losing ...

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TDK Ventures makes first VC investment

TDK Ventures, the $50 million VC fund set up by TDK Corp in July, has made its first investment. The money goes to autonomous delivery service startup, Starship Technologies. Starship will, says TDK, leverage TDK Corp’s expertise in sensors, robotics and IoT, and IoT to expand operations, meet  demand and advance its technology.  TDK’s investment ...

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Hardware trust anchors

Connected applications and smart services need hardware-based trust anchors. Infineon’s  OPTIGA Trust  M  single-chip producr securely stores unique device credentials and enables devices to connect to the cloud up to ten times faster than software-only alternatives.  It is suitable for industry and building automation, smart homes and consumer electronics. As cloud connectivity and AI-based applications ...

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Segger Embedded Studio adds support for 3rd party debug probes

Segger Embedded Studio V4.20 adds configurable support for debug probes using the GDB protocol. This version can be used with any debug probe that comes with a GDB server. It is included in all editions: ARM, Cortex-M, and RISC-V, on Windows, macOS, and Linux 32- and 64-bit platforms. Embedded Studio can automatically launch the 3rd ...

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‘Cloud kit’ links sensors to Amazon for secure IoT

Renesas aiming at those evaluating and prototyping sensor-based IoT end-points with secure links to the cloud – with the RX65N Cloud Kit, which connects Wi-Fi, environmental, light and inertial sensors, FreeRTOS and Amazon Web Services (AWS) . “The kit gives embedded designers a fast start and secure connection to AWS,” said Renesas. “Using Renesas’ e2 studio IDE, IoT applications ...

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Mems optical phased array forms beams suitable for automotive lidar

Micromachining can be used to create a infra-red beam-forming phased array, according to engineers at Berkeley University of California who have made a 160 x 160 array on a 3.1 x 3.2mm die that can be switched in 5.7μs (resonance is at 55kHz). “It is capable of providing about 25,600 rapidly steerable spots within its ...

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Automation investment gives distributor a lift

Intelligent, automated lifts have been installed at Vanilla Electronics as part of a £200,000 investment in the Thetford-based distributor and manufacturer’s technology centre. The company supplies manufacturing services, such as customised design, component supply, kitting, box-build manufacturing and supply chain services. The company has installed two 9.6m tall intelligent automated tower storage units (Lean lifts) ...

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Wafer scale is back

Wafer scale is back with US start-up Cerebras Systems unveiling an 8 inch by 9 inch wafer scale device designed for AI applications. Co-founder and Chief Hardware Architect of  Cerebras,  Sean Lie, shows off the device below: In AI, chip size is profoundly important, says Cerebras. Big chips process information more quickly, producing answers in less ...

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Woodford sells stake in Ultrahaptics

Neil Woodford, who controversially locked investors into his Equity Income fund, has sold his 20% stake in ultrasound haptic touch specialist Ultrahaptics. Woodford invested in Ultrahaptics’ £10.1 million Series A funding round in 2015. It is being reported that he sold his stake for £20 million. Last year Ultrahaptics raised £35 million in a funding ...

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China’s soaring renewables

In the last ten years China’ wind power electricity generating capacity grew 22x and its solar power capacity grew 700x, says the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA). Worldwide, in the same time-frame, the increase was 5x for wind and 33x for solar. Last year, China accounted for about 30% of worldwide renewables. The US accounted ...

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Innodisk SSD has MS Azure Sphere integration

Innodisk has brought out an SSD with native Microsoft Azure Sphere integration. Calked InnoAGE, it enables multifunctional management for smart data analysis and updates, data security, and remote control through the cloud. “The InnoAGE SSD is the first and only hybrid solution designed solely with the AIoT architecture in mind, utilizing data analysis, data security, and ...

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X-capacitor discharger for IEC60335 home appliances works up to 6µF, and wastes

Power Integrations is aiming at larger home appliances needing to meet IEC60335 with an X-capacitor discharger that can empty 6µF in under a second. X-capacitors are part of the EMC input filter of power supplies (see diagram right), that are essentially connected directly to the appliance’s mains plug and, uncontrolled, are left with up to ...

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A-level results indicate engineering will remain male-dominated

More girls are studying science at A-level, but a lack of interest in physics indicates the gender demographics of engineering are likely to remain stable for now. Exam results for UK students have been released, showing a drop in the proportion of A*-A marks awarded, but stable passing grades compared to recent years. Statistics from ...

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Softbank takes £380m write-down on satellite investment

Softbank has taken a £380 million hit on its 47% stake in UK satellite companyOne Web.  OneWeb plans to launch a 600 satellite constellation to deliver internet services. It has so far launched six. From December onwards it plans to launch 30 satellites a month. Softbank invested $1 billion in OneWeb in 2016 and, in ...

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Chinese companies exiting China

Not only are US companies making moves to exit China-based manufacturing operations but Chinese companies are following suit, reports the Nikkei. 33 companies since June  have given notice to the Beijing and Shanghai stock exchanges that they are looking for foreign production locations, says the Nikkei. Companies are reacting both to the the trade war ...

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Fujitsu maths models predict flooding

Fujitsu has developed a technology that draws on mathematical models built with data on rainfall and water levels to create flooding predictions for rivers. The solution leverages Fujitsu Human Centric AI Zinrai, which uses Fujitsu’s AI technologies, and uses a model that incorporates insights from hydrology to produce an AI that achieves predictions with greater ...

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RaspArch Build for Raspberry Pi 4

RaspArch Build 190809 is available for the Raspberry Pi 4 Model B computer, which features a Quad-Core 1.5GHz 64-bit ARM Cortex-A72 CPU, up to 4GB RAM, and on-board dual-band 802.11 b/g/n/ac Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 5.0 (BLE). Pi 4 supports up to 4K video resolutions via two micro HDMI ports. The computer has two USB 3.0 ...

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More on: GaN at Power Integrations

At the end of July, Power Integrations revealed that it has been quietly using GaN power transistors  in some of its products for months. This followed the work of analyst TechInsights, which de-capped an InnoSwitch3 IC from the PI and found a GaN part inside. Shortly after this, now armed with the correct search terms, it became ...

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ULVAC PZT piezoelectric sputtering tool advances MEMS manufacturing

ULVAC is shipping PZT piezoelectric thin-film sputtering equipment which advances the development of MEMS devices. It used to be impossible to fabricate PZT piezoelectric thin films, which constitute the key technology in sensors and actuators, using a low-temperature process with the conventional coating method (Sol-Gel). However, in 2015, ULVAC developed the technology for forming PZT ...

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Applied takes China hit

Applied Materials’ China sales were 32% down y-o-y in Q2 – with China contributing only  31% to overall sales compared to 39% in Q2 2018. The China-US trade war has stopped Applied supplying chip manufacturing equipment to several Chinese customers including the Fujian Jin Hua DRAM plant. Applied’s sales fell 14% to $3.56 billion in ...

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A CutiePi for Christmas

CutiePi, an open source Raspberry Pi-based tablet, is being built by the CutiePi team with a completion date by the end of the year. The CutiePi team call it  “a complete Raspberry Pi in a tablet form factor, minus the trouble of connecting monitor or power supply.” CutiePi has an 8-inch display in a 209 ...

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Micron in volume production of 16Gbit LPDDR4 DRAM

Micron says it has begun volume shipments of its  16Gb low-power double data rate 4X (LPDDR4X) DRAM made on what it calls 1nz nm process (a.k.a. 1.? nm) Micron LPDDR4X is also shipping in volume in a UFS-based multichip package (uMCP4). Currently eight die can be stacked in a package. The LPDDR4 has clock speeds ...

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Mellanox stalking Intel in Ethernet adapter market

Mellanox was within five percentage market share points of market leader Intel in the Q1 Ethernet adapter market, says IHS Markit. Demand from cloud service providers (CSPs) is boosting Mellanox’s market share which climbed 3 percentage points in Q1 to reach 20% which compares to a 25% market share for Intel. CSPs have been the key ...

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Arrow Electronics announces AI Experience tour for EMEA

Arrow Electronics has announced a series of events, called the AI Experience tour, that will focus on the design and deployment of AI (artificial intelligence). Starting in September, the AI Experience tour aims to demonstrate how AI is being used in commercial applications today and help attendees to understand how they can leverage AI in their ...

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Thin phobic layer neatly guides metal deposition for sensors and solar cells

Metal film features from 1μm to 10cm across can be formed by a process developed at the University of Warwick, which exploits the characteristics of a cheap organofluorine compound, and needs no toxic chemicals. It is a vacuum deposition process that works with copper and silver, and exploits the different ‘condensation coefficient’ (‘C’) of two materials. ...

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Mouser brings rich graphics to mobile devices with NXP processors

Fully-depleted silicon on insulator (FD-SoI) technology i.MX7ULP applications processors from NXP Semiconductors are now available from Mouser Electronics. They support low power graphics operation and include 2D and 3D graphics processing units (GPUs) for graphics applications in portable medical devices, wearable products, smart home controls, gaming accessories and portable printers and scanners. The processors are ...

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Fast high-voltage PSU for Pockels cells

Highland Technology of San Francisco has released the model T850 driver for Pockels cell optical modulators. Pockels cells are fast high voltage devices with a capacitive load characteristics. “T850 incorporates a new architecture that greatly increases electrical efficiency and reduces driver size and cooling requirements,” according to the firm. “The 7.5ns electrical output pulse is ...

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MCU market to fall 6%

The MCU market is expected to contract by 6% this year because of an overall slowdown in electronic systems, a fall off in car purchases, and the U.S.-China trade war, says IC Insights. After reaching record-high sales in the last two years, the MCU market slid lower in the first half of 2019 because of ...

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IBM Tops US Patent Haul For 26th Year Running

For the 26th year running, IBM has topped the rankings of the companies which were granted the most US patents. According to the Intellectual Property Owners Association. IBM was granted a total of 9,088 patents for inventions in fields ranging from artificial intelligence and cognitive computing to cloud technologies and cyber security. Second came Samsung ...

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Kit for smart buildings LoRa deployments

Semtech has produced a  Smart Building Reference Kit, a collection of tools designed to accelerate the development of smart building solutions based on LoRa devices and the LoRaWAN protocol, and facilitate a portable demonstration of these solutions. The kit allows users to monitor doors and windows, desk and room presence, environmental conditions, and detect water ...

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More on: Rockley Photonics’ technology

Rockley Electronics is a silicon photonics start-up that recently raised $52m in a funding round, bringing its total to $165. With all this investor interest, it was time to find out exactly what the company is offering, so Electronics Weekly spoke to its founder and CEO Andrew Rickman – and industry veteran with some history in photonics. ...

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Third funding round for cyber security

The third round of funding through the Cyber Skills Immediate Impact Fund (CSIIF) has been launched today by Cyber Security Minister Nigel Adams. “This latest round of funding demonstrates our commitment to make sure the UK’s cyber security industry has a skilled and diverse workforce and, through our new Cyber Security Council, there are clear ...

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EE is fastest UK mobile operator

EE is the best performing UK mobile network according to RootMetrics which tests mobile network speeds across the UK. EE, owned by BT,  delivered median download speeds of at least 30 Mbps in 15 metro areas compared to the 11 it recorded in the previous round of testing (2H 2018).It also recorded speeds faster than ...

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GloFo sells mask-making assets to Toppan

Globalfoundries has sold some of the manufacturing equipment at its photo mask facility in Burlington Vermont to Toppan Photomasks and will be transferring more mask manufacturing tools to the Advanced Mask Technology Centre (AMTC) jv owned by Toppan and GloFo in Dresden. Over the next several months, Toppan and GLoFo will work to transition the ...

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Panasonic expands conductive polymer capacitor range

Panasonic has added a  long-life surface mount type series to its product line of OS-CON Conductive Polymer-Aluminum-Solid Capacitors. Available with a rated voltage of 2.5VDC, 6.3VDC and 16VDC, SVPT products benefit from huge capacitance values (100µF up to 560µF) and low ESR characteristics (15-24mΩ max.). The components are able to withstand +105°C for up to 20.000 ...

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Russell Group says UK recruitment of European academics is dropping

The Russell Group of 24 leading UK universities says that although the number of EU academics working in the UK increased by 4% in 2017/18, this was the lowest level of growth for more than a decade. The slowing of growth appears to have started in 2014/15, when year-on-year growth dropped to 8% compared to 12% ...

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Imagination may need cash injection

Imagination says it may need another cash injection from its Chinese-owned private equity owner Canyon Bridge. ‘The continuing uncertainty over Imagination’s relationship with Apple, and the level of cash receipts that will be received in the future from Apple, may result in the company requiring financial support from Canyon Bridge,’ said Imagination. Imagination had 2018 ...

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Apple takes Euro hit

Q2 iPhone shipments in Europe fell to 6.4 million from 7.7 million in Q2 2018, says Canalys, accompanied by a reduction in European market share from 17% to 14.1% in 12 months. Samsung’s unit shipments rose from 15.3 million to 18.3 million between Q2 2018 and Q2 2019 for a 40% market share in Europe. ...

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Engineering graduates among highest-earning

Research carried out by Satsuma has revealed engineering graduates are among the highest-earning professionals three, five and ten years after graduation. Engineering graduates are listed alongside medicine and dentistry, economics, mathematics and pharmacology graduates at the top of the earnings rankings. Conversely, the lowest compensated graduates are those who studied creative arts, agriculture, humanities, sociology, ...

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Chirp announces integration of data-over-sound for Arduino boards

Chirp and Arduino have announced the first official integration of data-over-sound on Arduino’s range of boards. The integration allows Arduino-powered projects to send and receive data wirelessly through soundwaves alone, using just microphones and loudspeakers. The partnership between Chirp and Arduino aims to support developers when building projects that combine the companies’ technologies. It will ...

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Imec jv said to be supplying photoresist to Samsung

Samsung has found a source of photoresist from a Belgian company believed to be EUV Resist Manufacturing & Qualification Center – an Imec-JSR jv set up three years ago, reports the Nikkei. The Japan government has put restrictions on the export of photoresist to Korea as part of its trade war. It is thought that, because ...

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Rover PDA has Raspberry Pi brain

Hackaday reports on  a Pi-based personal assistant robot  built by Saral Tayal. The robot listens to his voice and recognizes his face. The body of the robot is the “Rover 5” platform, to which Saral added a number of 3D printed parts. A forklift-like sled gives the robot the ability to pick things up. The Logitech webcam ...

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Harmony

Huawei’s new OS, originally called HongMeng but now called Harmony, is being released as an open source platform. The first use by Huawei will be in smart TVs but it can be used across the spectrum of electronic devices from IoT to computers. It is suggested that Huawei is considering putting Harmony in a Mate ...

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Fast-track visa for foreign scientists by the end of this year

The PM’s idea of fast-tracking tech talent coming to the UK is being implemented by the Home Office and the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy  working  with the scientific  community. The visa is expected to be offered later this year. “To ensure we continue to lead the way in the advancement of knowledge, we ...

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NEC demo-es flying car

NEC  and Cartivator, with backing from the Japanese government, have demo-ed a flying car. The Japan government is said to be planning for drone-based delivery services by 2023 and taxi drones by 2030. The drone has four propellors each 4-5 foot across.

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Diodes to buy Lite-On Semi

Diodes Inc is to buy Lite-On Semiconductor of Taiwan for a 32% premium over its closing price on the day before the bid. The purchase price is $424 million. The 29 year-old Lite-On is the world’s largest AC/DC GPP bridge supplier. It also makes components for switching power supplies and system power supplies. Lite-On had revenues ...

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Programmable mixed signal mop-up chip for automotive

Dialog has automotive-qualified one of its GreenPak family of one-time-programmable chips with multiple analogue and digital functions – intending it to replace multiple devices in navigation, infotainment and driver assistance systems, as well as display clusters and body electronics. Called SLG46620-A, it comes in a 6.4 x 6.5mm TSSOP-20 and is AEC-Q100 Grade 2. “In today’s automotive ...

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42 Technology advocates Rust for secure IoT

UK consultancy 42 Technology has ported a Rust programming language application to a single-chip IoT device, claiming it as a world first. “Rust is a very-high-performance alternative to systems programming languages such C and C++, which avoids the memory safety issues that plague those languages, and without the complexity and overhead of Java,” according to ...

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Theobroma Systems now at Mouser

Mouser Electronics has announced global distribution agreement with Theobroma Systems, an Austrian company providing embedded engineering services and module devices that incorporate embedded systems. Through the agreement, Mouser is now offering the RK3399-Q7 system-on-module (SoM), a Qseven module featuring Arm Cortex-A72 cores. Theobroma Systems’ flagship product, the RK3399-Q7 SoM, features 70×70mm Qseven form factor. Based ...

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Rogol’s 2GHz scope for serial data analysis and signal integrity

Rigol Technologies has introduced a 2GHz oscilloscope series with a jitter and real-time eye analysis package for serial data analysis and signal integrity applications. Called MSO8000, it is part of the firm’s UltraVision II range, built around its 2017 Phoenix chip-set, and therefore also includes logic analysis, protocol analysis, spectrum analysis and waveform generation. “Jitter and ...

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Robotics module enables vision, control and sensor applications

Sundance Multiprocessor Technology has launched the Sundance VCS-1 for precision robotics incorporating vision, control and sensor applications. The  VCS-1 has been developed and under the EU’s H2020 ‘Fast-Track-Innovation’ pilot program (FTI – Project ID: 737669). The VineScout delivers a precision robotics solution designed to better facilitate the collection of real-time data in vineyards from which ...

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Uber loses $5bn in Q2

Uber has announced a Q2 loss of $5.2 billion of which $3.9 billion was a one-off liability for stock-based compensation expenses related to the company’s IPO in May. The $1.3 billion loss from operations was almost double the loss of Q2 2018. The company has now lost $14 billion since it was set up.  It ...

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DRAM revenue down 9% in Q2 and Q3 prices continue the dive

DRAM revenue fell 9% in Q2 compared to Q1, says DRAMeXchange and the  contract price continues to fall in Q3. Server DRAM prices fell 35% in the quarter. Mobile DRAM prices fell by 10-20%. The ASP for 8GB modules hit $25 after being at $31 in Q1. Samsung’s bit shipments were up 15% q-o-q but ...

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Samsung narrows the gap with Intel

Intel, which lost its industry leadership crown to Samsung in 2017, has led Samsung for the the third consecutive quarter with Q2 revenues of $15.5 billion compared with Samsung’s Q2 revenues of  just under $13 billion, reports IHS Markit. Samsung held onto the crown in 2018 but, by Q4 of 2018, Intel had taken the ...

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Q1 royalties sink 8% but revenues grow 9.7% at Arm

Arm’s Q2 revenues grew 9.7% year-on-year to $418 million for the quarter although royalty revenue fell 8% due to dampening smartphone demand. Arm Q1 2020 (quarter ending 30 June 2019) revenues (Source: SoftBank Group) Arm said it sold 28 licenses in Q1 including two licenses for unnanounced technologies. 19 Nineteen licensees were for iCortex-M. Q1 ...

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Perovskite light-emitting diodes get brighter

Perovskite materials could make a splash in light emission as well as solar power generation, according to researchers at Tokyo Tech who have engineered associated charge transport layers to achieved a significant performance boost. The result is a green ∼500,000cd/m2 33 lm/W perovskite (CsPbBr3) LED,  a 20,000cd/m2 CsPbBrI2 red LEd and a CsPbBrCl2 blue one. The same CsPbBr3 green perovskite ...

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Light Fixation Revolutionizes Two-Part Epoxies

Two-component epoxies are suitable for structural bonding and protective potting. For many industrial applications, the time lapse before reaching initial strength has been deemed a major disadvantage, until now.

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Electronic procurement boosts efficiency, says Conrad Electronic

Products and services can be sourced electronically, saving B2B customers time and money, increasing efficiency and productivity, says Conrad Electronic, as it introduces eProcurement and Smart Procure.  The eProcurement services comprise a product search facility, the Open Catalogue Interface (OCI) webshop, electronic catalogues, with around 800,000 product descriptions. The company’s entire catalogue program or catalogues ...

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Mouser Electronics and Superior Sensor Technology sign global distribution agreement

Through the agreement, Mouser will add Superior Sensor Technology’s differential low-pressure sensors to its sensor line card. The Superior Sensor Technology product line available from Mouser Electronics includes the HV Series family of sensors and corresponding evaluation kits. Designed for industrial heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) applications, the HV Series is available in three ...

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Kyocera opens R&D centre in Yokohama

Kyocera has opened its Minato Mirai Research Centre in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. The centre was created with the aim of promoting open innovation and developing new business technologies. “Expansion of our current businesses and creation of new businesses are necessary for the Kyocera Group to reach its target of 2 trillion yen in sales ...

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Quad 1000Base-T transformer is SMD

Würth is offering a surface-mount quad transformer for 1000Base-T Ethernet LAN connections. “WE-LAN AQ transformer convinces in an exemplary fashion in terms of crosstalk, insertion loss, return loss, differential and common-mode rejection,” claimed the firm, without giving figures. Inside, there are transformers and (smaller) common-mode chokes However, this data sheet gives the numbers as: crosstalk (1-100MHz) ...

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Electric vehicle battery monitor chip is accurate for 15 years, and works with 420 cells

Renesas has announced its fourth-generation lithium-ion battery management IC for electric vehicles – promising “unmatched lifetime accuracy”, which it quantifies as ±6mV (at ±6σ) 15-year board level accuracy. Called ISL78714, the chip monitors and balances up to 14 series connected cells with ±2mV accuracy (14bit ADC) across automotive temperature ranges, and can be using in stacks ...

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Japan Display gets China bail-out

Japan Display, the much bailed-out Japanese LCD manufacturer, is to receive a $756 million investment  from China’s Harvest Tech Investment Management, Oasis Management of Hong Kong and other investors. Japan Display, which was formed in 2011 by putting together the LCD  operations of Sony, Toshiba and Hitachi, will also borrow $180 million from its main ...

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China’s UniSoc aims to have integrated 5G modem and apps processor next year

UniSoc, the Tsinghua Unigroup subsidiary put together from Spreadtrum and RDA Microelectronics, plans to launch its integrated apps processor and 5G modem for mobile phones in H2 next year, says the Nikkei. Qualcomm says it will be launching its first integrated apps processor and 5G modem in H1 next year. Mediatek says it will launch ...

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Semtech and Murata sampling LoraWAN modem

Semtech and Murata are sampling a  modem based on Semtech’s LoRa devices and the LoRaWAN protocol. The modem uses Semtech’s LoRa Cloud Device and Application Services – a set of services that provide device configuration, status monitoring and application support; and LoRa Cloud Join Server a network independent service which simplifies the provisioning of devices across ...

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GloFo tapes out 3D DFT test chip

GLOBALFOUNDRIES says it has taped-out a 12nm LP FinFet Arm-based 3D test chip for computing, AI/ML and wireless applications. The chip has Arm’s mesh interconnect technology in 3D that allows data to take a more direct path to other cores, minimizing latency while increasing data transfer rates as demanded by data centers, edge computing and ...

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76% of IC product categories to see flat or negative growth

Three quarters of all IC product categories are expected to see flat or negative growth this year, says IC Insights. After flying high for two years, DRAM sales growth is forecast to rank last in 2019, worst among all IC categories. The NAND flash sales decline puts flash close behind. IC Insights recently released its ...

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Marvell expands NVMe-oF portfolio

Marvell has expanded its  NVMe over Fabrics (NVMe-oF) portfolio: Toshiba Memory’s native NVMe-oF Ethernet solid state drive (SSD) has been matched with Marvell’s NVMe-oF SSD converter controller, delivering direct-to-Ethernet SSD. The Marvell NVMe-oF Ethernet SSD controller has been optimised to expedite SSD makers’ time to market and drive broad data centre adoption of Ethernet Bunch ...

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SVF Holdco (formerly Arm Holdings) saves Softbank $5.6bn

Arm’s owner Softbank paid no tax last year thanks to a transfer of 25% of Arm to Softbank’s Vision Fund, claims the Nikkei.   The transfer of 25% of Arm Ltd to the zvision Fund saved Softbank around $5.6 billion, says the Nikkei. Arm’s parent company, Arm Holdings, has been renamed SVF Holdco. On March ...

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EEVblog #1235 – DSO Alternate Trigger Trickery

Most modern DSO’s don’t have Alternate Triggering, but Dave shows you how to do it anyway!
This allows you to trigger on and view and anaylse two otherwise asynchronous time un-correlated signals on the screen at once.
Also a look at Dual Time Base oscilloscopes.

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