XMOS raises $19m

XMOS has raised $19 million in a new financing round to support the company’s expanded global footprint, including new staff in its Hong Kong office. This investment will enable the company to capitalise on its position in the far-field voice interface market. The funding will also support the development of XMOS’s AIoT (Artificial IoT)  portfolio. This ...

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TI launches buck-boost converter family

TI has introduced a family of four buck-boost converters. The TPS63802, TPS63805, TPS63806 and TPS63810 DC/DC noninverting buck-boost converters offer input and output voltage ranges that scale to support multiple battery-driven applications, helping engineers simplify and accelerate their designs. Each of the devices in the family automatically selects buck, buck-boost or boost mode according to ...

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Lattice launches small, low-power FPGAs for multi-sensor vision systems

Lattice has introduced the CrossLinkPlus FPGA family for MIPI D-PHY based embedded vision systems. CrossLinkPlus devices are innovative, low power FPGAs featuring integrated flash memory, a hardened MIPI D-PHY and high-speed I/Os for instant-on panel display performance, and flexible on-device programming capabilities. Lattice provides ready-to-use IPs and reference designs to accelerate implementation of enhanced sensor and ...

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Wafer shipments down 6%

Wafer shipments are expected to fall 6% this year from last year’s historic high, says SEMI. However SEMI expects a new high to be reached in 2022. Forecast demand for silicon units through 2022 shows polished and epitaxial silicon shipments totaling 11,757 million square inches in 2019, 11,977 million square inches in 2020, 12,390 million ...

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Telefónica Deutschland chooses Infinera DRX for 5G preparations

Telefónica Deutschland, a Tier 1 operator in Germany, has selected the Infinera DRX series for its nationwide mobile transport network. The series is a disaggregated router family that combines a carrier-class white box portfolio with Infinera’s CNOS software. In the mobile segment, Telefónica Deutschland is responsible for over 45 million connections. With Infinera’s router series, ...

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Mouser signs global agreement with display module manufacturer Clairitec

Mouser Electronics has announced a global distribution agreement with Clairitec, a designer and manufacturer of graphic display solutions. Based near Bordeaux, the company has provided operated globally for 20 years. Through the agreement, Mouser will stock Clairitec’s capacitive and resistive intelligent displays. Clairitec’s capacitive intelligent displays and resistive intelligent displays are electromagnetic compatibility-compliant display modules ...

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Bulgin launches rugged fiber optic LC duplex connector

Bulgin has launched a LC duplex fiber optic connector specialised for use in harsh environments. The connector contains an additional optical fiber connection for applications where separate transmit and receive cables are required. In comparison to a simplex optical fiber cable and connector, the additional glass fiber on the duplex cable can also be used as ...

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Microchip simplifies proper security for small product runs

Microchip is offering high security IoT authentication to companies with no prior security knowledge, that are producing as few as 10 units. Authentication, in this case, is proving the identity of a device attempting to connect across a network using a secret number key only stored in two places – once on the device and ...

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Singapore-MIT integrate III-V into Si

The Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART), MIT’s Research Enterprise in Singapore, have developed a commercially viable way to integrate III-V devices into silicon ICs. “By integrating III-V into silicon, we can build upon existing manufacturing capabilities and low-cost volume production techniques of silicon and include the unique optical and electronic functionality of III-V ...

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Sponsored content: Coexistence of AC and DC in the Data Center

The consistent use of direct current in a data center makes sense, writes SCHURTER. Losses can be massively reduced. On the power side, the IEC has defined the frame with TS 62735-1. Now it is the turn of the device side. AC and DC are supposed to coexist in a transition phase.   SCHURTER GP21: ...

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Al batteries pursued by Chalmers.

Researchers from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, and the National Institute of Chemistry, Slovenia have come up with a new concept to increase the energy density of aluminum batteries which is currently half that of  lithium-ion batteries. Previous designs for aluminium batteries have used the aluminium as the anode (the negative electrode) – and graphite ...

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GloFo to IPO

After ten years of making losses, Globalfoundries intends to IPO in 2022, says CEO Tom Caulfield. GloFo has been selling off bits all year. Vanguard Bought GloFo’s Fab 3E in Singapore in January, ON Semi bought the East Fishkill fab, the mask-making unit was sold to Toppan, and the ASIC operation was sold to Marvell. ...

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Raspberry Pi-based streaming video backpack

Hackaday describes a plan to build a streaming video back-pack – something which normally costs $1000+ but which this build can do for $600. The plan: build a cheap, do-it-yourself version of the LiveU Solo ($995). This piece of equipment incorporates hardware channel bonding and real-time video transcoding for maintaining uninterrupted video quality while moving ...

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‘Chinese Tesla’ struggling

NIO, the Chinese electric EV maker dubbed ‘China’s Tesla’ is laying off another 1,000 workers after reporting a Q2 loss of $478 million which was 25% down on Q1. Deliveries slipped 10% q-o-q to 3,553 units. Earlier this year NIO laid off 300 employees and shut down its Silicon Valley office. The company says it ...

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EEVblog #1248 – INSANE! A 0.02% Process Meter for $9? WTF!

Dave found this crazy bargain of the century no-name $9 0.02% class multifuction process calibrator on Aliexpress.
Is it any good?
Actually, it’s an AIMOmeter AMPX1 that sells for over $200 on ebay, so what gives?
How can they possibly manufacture and sell a 0.02% class device for under ten bucks?
Teardown time.

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Huawei no longer needs US parts to make 5G base stations

Huawei can make 5G base stations without any US-sourced parts, says  founder and CEO Ren Zhengfei. “We carried out the testing in August and September, and from October on we will start scale production,” says Ren.. Initially Huawei will make 5,000 US component-free units a month. Next year the plan is to make 1.5 million ...

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BoW for chiplet-to-chiplet interconnect

Avera Semi and the Open Compute Project Foundation (OCP) today announced the availability of the Bunch of Wires (BoW) 0.7  specification for evaluation proposal to enable a broader understanding and participation in the development of the 1.0 specification. The BoW specification defines a chiplet-to-chiplet physical interconnect for power- area- and cost-efficient data transport between chiplets. ...

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Toray Precision offering laser system for making micro-holes

Toray Precision will begin taking orders in October for services using its laser processing system, which can accurately and swiftly create micro‐holes. The system’s laser oscillator employs a femtosecond laser delivering ultrashort pulses. An ultrashort‐pulse width generally ranges from an attosecond (one quintillionth of a second) to several picoseconds (several trillionths of a second) The ...

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Object recognition technology for ADAS cameras

Early next year Renesas and vision processing specialist  StradVision intend to market software for deep learning-based object recognition  for SoCs used in smart cameras for ADAS. ADAS implementations require high-precision object recognition capable of detecting vulnerable road users (VRUs) such as pedestrians and cyclists. At the same time, for mass-market mid-tier to entry-level vehicles, these ...

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2nd gen NAND for embedded applications

Toshiba has launched second-generation NAND for embedded applications featuring increased performance andcapacity. With support for high-speed data transfers, the new Serial Interface NAND products are SPI compatible. Sample shipments start today with mass production scheduled to begin from October onwards. With the devices getting smaller in IoT and communication applications, demand for large capacity flash ...

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Murata announces transformer for high power, high frequency applications

Murata has announced an HPHF (high power, high frequency) transformer technology that uses a proprietary winding technique, allowing designers to “efficiently reach power and frequency levels that were never possible with conventional winding methods”, the firm says. Murata’s patented pdqb winding technology makes it possible to construct high frequency transformers of up to and over ...

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Apple Britain’s best tech employer, Indeed data shows

Apple has been ranked Britain’s best tech company to work for, according to data released by Indeed. Indeed launched its top-rated tech employers category this year, based on reviews by employees past and present. The California-based manufacturer opened its first European store in London 15 years ago, and it now employs 2,500 people in the ...

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Industry group promotes 800Gbps connectivity

Broadcom, Cisco, Finisar, Intel, Juniper Networks, Marvell, Molex and Samtec are founder-promoters of an Multi-Source Agreement (MSA) group aimed at developing double-density quad small form factor pluggable (QSFP-DD800) modules to support 800 Gbps connectivity. The MSA group will help to address the increased global bandwidth consumption by enabling very high bandwidth interfaces.  The new QSFP-DD800 interface ...

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15m Raspberry Pis sold

Farnell reports that 15 million Raspberry Pis have been sold. Raspberry Pi’s most recent launch, the Raspberry Pi 4 Model B computer, has driven a significant increase in sales. Farnell stocks all Raspberry Pi models with a diverse ecosystem of accessories. Farnell has championed Raspberry Pi through its element 14  Community, creating a forum for its ...

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Apple driving smart watch market

Apple is driving the smart watch market, says TrendForce, 62 million smart watches will be sold this year, says TrendForce, and 80 million will be sold next year of which 34 million will be  Apple watches. TrendForce reckons that 113 million smart watches will be sold in 2022. Huawei, Samsung, and Xiaomi are the other ...

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China urging IC companies to list early on the Shanghai STAR market

China is trying to get its domestic chip companies to list on the Shanghai STAR market to encourage a flow of funds into the IC sector, reports the Nikkei. Among those companies reported to be lined up for an IPO on STAR  are: Horizon Robotics, an AI startup aimed at driverless cars; Bestechnic, a Bluetooth ...

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Huawei opens machine vision lab in King’s Cross

Huawei has opened an R&D lab employing 60 computer vision engineers at 1, St Pancras Square, King’s Cross (pictured) opposite the new Facebook and Google offices, reports Business Insider. It is reported that Huawei intends to increase the number of engineers on the site to 200 – working on AI as it relates to computer ...

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Big pay-back for TSMC capex

TSMC’s  heavy investments in advanced wafer-fab technology are set to pay off significantly as it continues the production ramp of 7nm ICs in the second half of this year, according to an analysis in IC Insights’ September Update to the 2019 McClean Report. Figure 1 provides an updated outlook for TSMC’s 2019 sales using quarterly ...

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Farnell enhances discounts for academic and research institutions

Farnell has enhanced its discount scheme for educational and research establishments, helping them maintain and improve their labs whilst managing their budgets. Up to 30% discounts are available from a growing supplier range which includes Tektronix, Keithley, Keysight Technologies, Fluke, Fluke Networks, Flir Systems, Aim TTi, Rohde & Schwarz, BK Precision, Sefram, Klein Tools, Pace and ...

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Flexible OLED pilot line

CPI, a UK-based technology innovation centre and a founding member of the High Value Manufacturing Catapult, is part of a consortium aiming to develop a flexible-access pilot line that will accelerate the adoption of flexible OLEDs. On 7thNovember, a workshop will take place at Fraunhofer FEP to showcase the outcomes of the LYTEUS OLED pilot ...

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EEVblog #1247 – DDR Memory PCB Propagation Delay & Layout

When does PCB propagation delay matter in PCB layout?
Dave goes down the rabbit hole from DIY TTL processor design to DDR memory design and layout.
DDR memory termination.
What is a timing budget? When is it important?
How does signal integrity matter?
When do you have to do serpentine PCB traces to match trace and differential pair lengths?

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Phones can have laser time-of-flight auto-focus

Ams is claiming operation through smudged and dirty glass for a miniature time-of-flight auto-focus sensor intended for phones. “TMF8801 maintains high accuracy through use of its on-chip histogram processing”, according to the firm. It comes in a  a 2.2 x 3.6 x 1.0mm package and works at ranges from 20mm to 2.5m Inside is an ...

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Robust IR thermometer works from 0 to 1,000°C

RS Components has added a 0 to 1,000°C non-contact infra-red thermometer to its RS Pro range. “Maintenance engineers often ask RS for a small temperature sensor that can fit into tight spaces, and that shows the measured temperature in situ, so they do not have to return to the control room to check it,” said ...

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First silicon for Flex Logix validation chip

Flex Logix says it has received working first  silicon of its validation chip for the EFLX 4K eFPGA IP cores running on GLOBALFOUNDRIES (GF) 12nm Leading-Performance (12LP) FinFET platform and newly announced 12LP+ solution. A validation chip consisting of 4 EFLX cores (2 DSP and 2 Logic, for a total of 14K LUT4s and 80 ...

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CSEM puts CMOS radar mmWave IP on GloFo 22nm.

CSEM, the Swiss non-profit R&D body, is developing ultra-low power Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), CMOS radar mmWave IP and embedded machine-learning accelerators on GLOBALFOUNDRIES’ 22nm FD-SOI process. The combination of GF’s 22nm FD-SOI and CSEM’s “IcyTRX” dual mode Bluetooth Low Energy and Bluetooth classic RF is expected to achieve 50% lower power and 50% lower ...

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Power supplies for medical applications

XP Power has released two series of external power supplies that are intended for modern medical applications, including safety approvals for home-based healthcare, and IT applications where energy efficiency and international safety approvals are critical. Typical efficiencies for ALM150 models reach 93%, and 92% for the ALM200 models. All of the new PSUs meet Energy ...

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Pico links vector network analyser

PicoVNA Interface Wizard links Pico Technology’s PC-based vector network analyser National Instruments’ AWR Design Environment. It allows: Controlling and viewing PicoVNA output from inside a design environment One-click measurement transfer to electronic design automation (EDA) software Comparison of ideal, modelled and measured component through to subsystem data between test and simulation environments Extension of measured data ...

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Smart pill from Cambridge Design Partnership takes sample en route

Aiming at improved dog food,Cambridge Design Partnership has created a smart pill for dogs that both senses and samples. Mars is the customer, and trails were at the Waltham Centre for Pet Nutrition in Melton Mowbray. “It was certainly an unusual request and a major challenge,” says Will Bradley, who led the project for CDP. “Mars ...

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480W SMD laser for automotive lidar

Two high-power infra-red lasers are available for lidar from Osram – AEC-Q102 qualified four-channel and a single-channel pulsed lasers. Output is 125Watt/diode, 40A/diode, and efficiency is up to 33%. 480W total is possible with the quad diode device. Packaging is surface-mount: 3.35 x 2.45 x 0.65mm for the quad (SPL S4L90A_3 A01) and 2.0 x ...

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WiFi/LoRa white paper shows new use cases

A white paper released today by the Wireless Broadband Alliance(WBA) and the LoRa Alliance  titled  Wi-Fi & LoRaWAN Deployment Synergies: Expanding Addressable Use Cases For The Internet of Things illustrates new business opportunities that are created when Wi-Fi networks are merged with LoRaWAN networks. Massive IoT applications are less latency sensitive and have relatively low throughput ...

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TE Connectivity buys Silicon Microstructures

TE Connectivity is buying Silicon Microstructures from Elmos Semiconductor. The acquisition of Silicon Microstructures will expand TE’s capabilities in pressure sensing technology, particularly in medical, transportation, and industrial applications. The transaction brings together SMI’s MEMS sensor technology design and manufacturing capabilities, with TE’s operational scale, customer base and existing sensors technologies into a more comprehensive ...

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Electronics Weekly reveals Elektra Awards 2019 shortlists

Electronics Weekly is proud to reveal the shortlists for this year’s Elektra Awards, recognising technical and business achievements within electronics.

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Cyber security startup raises $8m

Crypto Quantique, the London IoT cyber security startup, has raised an $8 million seed round led by ADV with Entrepreneur First and  others. The company claims its technology can deliver a single chip which can generate multiple, unique, unforgeable cryptographic keys on-demand – these cryptographic keys are never stored, are resistant to most side-channel attacks, and can be ...

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Raspberry Pi powers IIoT gateway

Farnell is now shipping the Raspberry Pi-powered Avnet SmartEdge Industrial IoT Gateway for use in a range of applications including: building management, vehicle monitoring, industrial automation and predictive maintenance. The gateway, with connected by Avnet’s IoTConnect platform, gathers, analyses and provides actionable, real-time data visualisation-all at a best-in-class price. IoTConnect runs on Microsoft Azure, a ...

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Moortec In-Chip Monitoring IP on TSMC 5μm

Moortec has availability of its latest In-Chip Monitoring IP Subsystem on TSMC’s N5 and N5P process technologies. A global acceleration in cutting-edge technologies including 5G, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning and Data Centre High Performance Computing is fuelling the demand on TSMC’s 5nm FinFET process technology. Such devices are required to operate at the highest ...

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Industrial IC market to grow 5.8% CAGR 2019-23.

The industrial semiconductor market grew 10.8% to reach $52 billion in 2018, says IHS Markit. Fast-growing applications for industrial chips in 2018 included networking devices, commercial and military aircraft, LED lighting, digital signage, digital video surveillance, climate control, smart meters, traction, photovoltaic (PV) inverters and human-machine interface systems. Various types of medical electronic devices also ...

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Imec demo-es SiPho building blocks

Imec, and it’s research labs at Ghent University – IDLab and the Photonics Research Group – have demonstrated silicon photonics (SiPho) building blocks which help pave the way for 400Gb/s and beyond optical links as well as for co-packaged optics in next-generation datacentre switches – key enablers for data transmission in future data centers. Highlights ...

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Cree plans world’s largest SiC fab

Cree plans to build the world’s largest SiC fab in March, New York State. It will be a brand new, state-of-the-art, automotive-qualified, 200mm power and RF wafer fabrication facility which will be complemented by its materials factory expansion currently underway at its Durham headquarters. The new fab, part of a previously announced project to increase capacity for ...

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Integrated point-of-load DC-DC voltage regulator

Infineon has introduced the  OptiMOS IR3826(A)M integrated point-of-load DC-DC voltage regulator. It is a fully integrated device in two versions (IR3826AM for 16 A and IR3826M for 23 A) for applications such as netcom router and switches, datacom, telecom base stations, server and enterprise storage. The voltage regulator can operate from an input voltage of 12 ...

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ISELED Alliance reaches 28 members

With the addition of five new members –  Everlight, the Dräxlmaier Group, the Xingyu Car Light Company and Techniplas – the number of  members in the ISELED Alliance aimed at standardizing an LED lighting approach has reached 28. “The broad spectrum of the Alliance’s members gives ISELED technology ever greater dynamism and enormously expands its ...

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InP lasers directly attach to silicon photonics waveguide

NeoPhotonics has general availability  of its non-hermetic 30-40 mW DFB laser sources for use in Silicon Photonics 100G per wavelength CWDM4 FR4 and 1310 nm DR1 and DR4 transceivers. These lasers are available with and without integral Spot Size Converters (SSC). NeoPhotonics low-loss SSC technology enables direct attachment of the Indium Phosphide laser to a ...

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Foremost to distribute Neutrik connectors

Foremost Electronics of Essex, the specialist distributor of electromechanical components and sub-assemblies, has signed a UK Distributorship agreement with  circular connector specialist Neutrik Industrial Connectors. Neutrik also announced two significant new cable and chassis connector series which meet connectivity requirements where the need for complete data signal integrity is critical. Neutrik’s etherCON is a ruggedised and ...

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Google warms to biggest renewable energy deal

Google is claiming to have made the biggest renewable energy deal in corporate history, in terms of solar and wind sources.

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Oxbotica claims self-driving car software analyses 150 vehicles-per-second

Self-driving vehicles on London’s complex and congested streets are required to make 150 independent vehicle detections every second and detect traffic lights in 1/2,000th of a second – faster than the human eye, according to Oxbotica, autonomous vehicle software provider. The Oxford-based company is using its software system in cities, mines, airports, quarries and ports. ...

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BeagleBone gets artificially intelligent

Artificial intelligence in BeagleBone AI comes from two Texas Instruments C66x DSPs and four ’embedded vision engine’ (EVE) cores with TI Deep Learning (TIDL) support – an TIDL machine learning OpenCL API with pre-installed tools. Up to thirty-two 16 x 16bit fixed-point multiplies are available per cycle All of this hardware is the main SoC, a TI ...

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Munich team’s winning Hyperloop vehicle

Technical University of Munich used eight electric motors with a combined power of 320kW to win SpaceX Hyperloop Pod competition in Los Angeles. Taking place on an aluminium rail within SpaceX’ mile-long evacuated tube, the 76kg carbon fibre chassis vehicle accelerated at almost 2g and reached 463km/h – before coming to a controlled halt, as the ...

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Diodes flash LED driver for dual- and quad-channel applications

Diodes Incorporated has announced the AL3644, a dual-channel flash LED driver designed to support camera flash and torch functionality. Its features include independently controlled output currents configured through an I2C-compatible interface and the ability to combine two devices (with different device identification addresses) to drive four LEDs up to 6A for quad-channel applications. The AL3644 ...

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Osram plans 25,600 pixel headlamp LEDs for automotive

Osram is to create an LED automotive headlamp light source with 26,500 pixels over a 40mm2 die on a 40μm pitch, introducing it to the market in 2023 if all goes to plan. Branded Eviyos 2.0, the device – essentially an addressable power LED – is aimed at active headlights that can create arbitrary beams ...

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Taiwan loses its Trump

The question being asked about Foxconn founder Terry Gou pulling out of Taiwan’s presidential election is: Was China behind it? Gou was defeated in the primary to be the candidate of the pro-China Kuomintang (KMT) party. He then said he might run as an independent. On Wednesday, he said he wouldn’t. The speculation in Taiwan ...

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Accelerator card claims it will provide 12x more compute per dollar

Intensivate, the datacentre acceleration specialist,  says that, early in Q1 2020, it will have first silicon  of a chip-scale coherent fabric for a PCIe card which will provide 12x more compute per dollar on platforms such as Hadoop, Kafka, Spark, NoSQL databases and other custom applications running on clusters. First shipments of the accelerator card ...

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Intel shipping Stratix 10

Intel is shipping  Stratix 10 DX FPGAs which are designed to support Intel Ultra Path Interconnect (Intel UPI), PCI-Express (PCIe) Gen4 x16, and a controller for Intel Optane memory to provide acceleration.  Stratix 10 DX FPGAs with the new interfaces include the option to support select Intel Optane DC persistent memory DIMMs. They  increase bandwidth and ...

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micro:bit becomes super:bit in Norway.

Farnell, which manufactures and distributes the BBC micro:bit, is rolling out a programme called  ‘super:bit’ in Norway. The project is a collaboration between the national science centres in Norway. The rollout provides a classroom kit of technology to each of the 2,400 secondary schools in Norway, over two years, starting in September 2019. Since its launch in 2016 Farnell has ...

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Engineers Without Borders UK celebrates 15 years of campaigning

Engineers Without Borders UK, the environmental engineering charity, has celebrated its 15th anniversary with a special evening for its members, partners and trustees. Held at the London headquarters of its sponsor Anglo American – in St. James’s – the event aimed to bring together those that had played a key role in the organisation’s history. ...

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Analog Devices claims widest continuous RF output range

Mouser Electronics is now stocking Analog Devices Inc’s ADF4371 and ADF4372 microwave wideband synthesizers. The ADF4371 delivers a continuous RF output range of 62MHz to 32GHz, the widest currently available according to the firm, while the ADF4372 operates at 62MHz to 16GHz for designs that don’t require the higher frequency. Analog Devices’ ADF4371 and ADF4372 ...

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Flex Power Modules adds active current sharing to DC-DC converter

Flex Power Modules has announced the BMR490 DC-DC converter with active current sharing. This feature enables two or more converters to be used in parallel for demanding datacom applications, thus delivering higher power on a single rail or creating redundancy. The BMR490 is a non-isolated DC-DC converter in the quarter-brick form factor 58.4×36.8×14.5mm. It can ...

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Binder gets 12 contacts into M8 connector

Binder is aiming at factory automation with a 12 contact version of its IP67 (once coupled) Series 718 connectors that mount through an 8mm hole using an in-built M8 thread. “The UL-approved screw coupling M8 connectors give installers a high degree of flexibility as they are quick and simple to install,” according to the firm. “The ...

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Samsung updates PCIe Gen4 SSD software

Samsung has added software updates to its PCIe Gen4 solid state drive (SSD) series. The three software innovations are: 1) ‘fail-in-place (FIP) technology’ that ensures a ‘never-die’ SSD, 2) ‘virtualization technology’ that provides independent virtual workspaces for multiple users, 3) ‘V-NAND machine learning technology’ that utilizes big data to accurately verify data validity even when ...

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Imec call for startups

Imec’s business accelerator program, imec.istart, has put out a call for applicants which is open until Oct. 1, 2019. Start-up projects with technological inventiveness, an initial proof-of-concept, and the potential and ambition to be a global company are encouraged to apply. Selected startups in the year-long acceleration program receive €50,000 (~$55,000) as pre-seed funding, tailored coaching and ...

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Elektra 2019 – Vote for the University Research Readers’ Choice award

We are looking for readers’ votes in the University Research category, sponsored by RS Components.

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M&A speeds up again

After slowing in the past couple of years, semiconductor M&A activity strengthened in the first eight months of 2019 with the combined value of about 20 M&A agreement announcements reaching $28.0 billion for the purchase of chip companies, business units, product lines, intellectual property (IP), and wafer fabs between January and the end of August. ...

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In-circuit programmable sub-PMICs switch at 4MHz

Dialog has introduced a power management product family of four sub-PMICs that offer in-circuit digital programmability. The product family of Buck converters, which consists of the DA9217, DA9220, DA9121 and the DA9122, represents Dialog’s first sub-PMIC family with a 4MHz switching frequency that reduces inductor size and height to allow use of smaller external components. The ...

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Nichia and Infineon to develop HD light engine.

Nichia  and Infineon  are developing a high-definition (HD) light engine with more than 16,000 micro-LEDs for front light applications. The intention is to have a product for sale in 2023. Unlike current HD solutions, the new device will provide high resolution light to the entire field of view of the driver. “Our new LED matrix ...

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TT moves on New England

TT Electronics has allied with manufacturers’ rep Coakley, Boyd and Abbett to market TT’s Power Partners brand. The partnership broadens TT Electronics’ reach with best-in-class, quality AC/DC power supplies and DC/DC converters, making a wider variety of products available throughout the New England market, both directly and via distribution. “By relying on the expertise of the ...

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Stanley Electric, presumes Mouser

Mouser has inked a distribution partnership with Stanley Electric an industry pioneer in automotive lighting. Next year is Stanley Electric’s centenary year. It was founded in 1920 by Kataharu Kitano who named the company after the American explorer Henry Morton Stanley because Kitano thought that Stanley brought light to dark countries and  his ambition was to bring light ...

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Poll: Readers’ Choice for Elektra 2019 Consumer Product Innovation award

Please take part in our poll and have your say on the destination of an Elektra 2019 Award. For the Consumer Product Innovation category, sponsored by Avnet, we are looking to readers to express their choice.

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Molecules connected to graphene for future sensors

Molecular electronics can include graphene, following a project by international scientists. “Graphene and graphene-like molecules are attractive choice as an electronic component in molecular devices, but up till now it has proven very challenging to use them in large scale production of molecular devices that will work and be robust at room temperatures,” according to ...

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GaN specialist Transphorm now at Mouser

Mouser Electronics has signed a global distribution agreement with Transphorm, manufacturer of gallium nitride (GaN) transistors for high-voltage power conversion applications. Mouser will distribute Transphorm’s lines of JEDEC- and AEC-Q101-qualified GaN FETs and evaluation tools. Philip Zuk, vice president of worldwide technical marketing and North America sales at Transphorm says “The agreement provides us with ...

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Siemens offers selected engineering students £3000-a-year

Siemens has launched a new undergraduate sponsorship programme designed to “discover, inspire and nurture” the next generation of engineering students. The Digital Academy will pay selected students £3,000-a-year from the second year of university and offers up to 12-weeks paid summer placement throughout the duration of their studies within a Siemens business. Digital Academy is ...

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Singapore R&D for mmWave phased array technology for 5G

A*STAR of Singaporevand arQana Technologies are to jointly develop capabilities in mmWave Phased Array System for 5G cellular infrastructure, drone detection radar, and satellite communication on the move (SOTM). The three-year collaboration will see an investment of S$10M by arQana to develop differentiating performance factors that are currently missing in the industry such as greater ...

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Imec.istart selects nine startups

Imec has chosen nine new tech startups for the imec.istart accelerator programme. In addition to a pre-seed funding of €50,000, they will receive one year of tailor-made coaching for their specific market, in order to make the transition to the market easier. The rising trend in the number of promising international start-ups applying is also ...

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16 synchronous digital lines added to digitiser

Spectrum Intrumentation has released an optional module for its latest range of 16-bit digitizers and AWGs that adds 16 synchronous digital lines to the analogue data. The additional digital lines extend the four multi-purpose XIO lines that are already standard on these digitizer and AWG cards. This makes, in total, 20 fully programmable XIO lines ...

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Raspberry Pi supercomputer

Oracle has built a supercomputer from 1060 Raspberry Pi’s. It runs on Oracle Autonomous Linux. The Raspberry Pis are connected to a series of  Ubiquiti UniFi Switch 48s and uplinked  with SFP+ 10GbE transceivers. They are powered by USB power supplies. A 1U Xeon server acts  as a central storage server for the supercomputer. Custom, ...

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2020 looking good

2020 seniconductor sales are forecast to rise 5-7%, reports SEMI. Yesterday, Future Horizons forecast that the 2020 market rise would be 4%. SEMI blamed the cloud service providers’ capex cutbacks for the memory market downturn this year, which will lead the industry to a 15% fall in 2019, according to Future Horizons.. Chipmakers remain trapped ...

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Vision at the edge

CEVA has announced  its second-generation AI processor architecture for deep neural network inferencing at the edge called  NeuPro-S. CEVA also introduced  the CDNN-Invite API, an industry-first deep neural network compiler technology that supports heterogeneous co-processing of NeuPro-S cores together with custom neural network engines, in a unified neural network optimizing run-time firmware. NeuPro-S, along with ...

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New capabilities for MATLAB and Simulink

MathWorks has  introduced Release 2019b with a range of new capabilities in MATLAB and Simulink,including those in support of artificial intelligence, deep learning and the automotive industry. In addition, R2019b introduces new products in support of robotics, new training resources for event-based modeling, and updates and bug fixes across the MATLAB and Simulink product families. Release highlights ...

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Lack of engineering uptake linked to lack of knowledge, research indicates

Research from EngineeringUK has revealed some 76% of 11-19 year-olds lack knowledge of what a career in engineering actually entails. The Royal Academy of Engineering warns of “far-reaching implications”. 52% of the same group, when surveyed, suggested they would “probably or definitely” not want to become an engineer. This trend is thought to contribute to ...

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Rohm’s automotive-grade backlight LED driver optimized for LCD panels

Rohm has announced the BD81A76EFV-M, an LED driver IC optimized for LCD backlight in instrument cluster, center information displays and car navigation. The IC provides 6 channels of output (with 120mA per channel) that can support LCD panels of up to 10-12” class.  Buck-boost control ensures compatibility with both small and large LCDs using a ...

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TI claims lowest ever Iq for LDO

Texas Instruments has announced a low-dropout (LDO) linear voltage regulator, with what it claims it “industry’s lowest quiescent current of sub-25nA. The regulator features low Iq control at light loads even in dropout conditions”. Called TPS7A02, it can accept inputs across 1.5 – 6.0V and is available with fixed outputs between 0.8 and 5.0V (50mV steps) ...

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Organic solar cells tuned for indoor light

Swedish and Chinese scientists are aiming indoor photovoltaics with organic materials for flexible solar cells. A 1cm2 cell made from them converted 1000 lux light at 26.1% efficiency, and delivered above 1V for more than 1,000 hours under ambients between 200 and 1,000 lux. A 4cm2 version, created by blade coating, maintained 23% efficiency. Chemically, the researchers ...

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Chip delivers both auto rear view and surround view

OmniVision is sampling a 1.3MP OX01F10 SoC in a  1/4” optical format package, which integrates a 3 micron image sensor and an image signal processor (ISP), providing the automotive rear view camera (RVC) and surround view system (SVS) on one PCB. OmniVision’s dual conversion gain (DCG) technology is employed in this SoC to achieve a high dynamic ...

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CEVA adds system awareness to AI inference processor

The company introduced the second-generation NeuPro architecture for edge devices. NeuPro-S processors address the need to scale up its NeuPro architecture to work in heterogeneous systems, explained Yair Siegel, director of segment marketing. There are three processors available, targeting the mobile, home and automotive markets, all have safety standards enabled, added Siegel. Launched at this ...

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Minus 15% semi forecast by Future Horizons

This year’s semiconductor market will “probably be minus 15%”, said Malcolm Penn CEO of Future Horizons at the company’s Annual Semiconductor Industry Update in London this morning. The scale of probability is minus 14% to minus 16%. “The first quarter is what killed it,” said Penn, “a very bad first quarter pulled the rug from ...

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Buck-boost LED driver qualified for automotive

AL8871Q is an LED driver qualified to AEC-Q100 Grade 1 and supporting the automotive PPAP (production part approval process). Its buck-boost topology allows it to operate from supplies across 8 – 60V while driving strings up to 60V – 15 LEDs in series. Start-up is actually at 5.4V, and it will operate down to 5V with ...

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Brainy MCUs for cars

Infineon and Synopsys are collaborating on integrating into Infineon’s AURIX MCUs an AI accelerator called Parallel Processing Unit (PPU) that will employ Synopsys’ DesignWare ARC EV Processor IP. AI and neural networks are useful for future automated driving applications such as object classification, target tracking and route planning, and they optimise engine auto-calibration and reduce the ...

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IR LEDs for smartwatch face recognition

Osram is aiming two infra-red LEDs at smartwatch face recognition. SFH 4170S (850nm) and SFH 4180S (940nm) are the the smallest biometric products by the Munich firm. The specially-developed package, dubbed Oslon P1616, is 1.6 x 1.6 x 0.85mm. Despite this small size, power is 1150mW at 1A and a radiation intensity of 280mW/sr. The ...

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Win an e-van

Schneider Electric and Rexel are offering customers the chance to win an electric van and charging point, worth £30,000. To enter the competition, electricians have to spend £50 on any Schneider Electric products at Rexel. Products on offer include the Easy9, Acti9 Isobar P, PowerPact 4 and iKQ circuit breakers. Additionally, with every £50 spent, entrants will be re-entered into the competition ...

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Qualcomm takes total ownership of RF360

Qualcomm has bought out TDK’s interest in their RF filter jv called RF360. The RF front-end (RFFE) filters made by RF360  enable Qualcomm to deliver complete 4G/5G RFFE solutions. With the acquisition, Qualcomm is able to provide an end-to-end solution from modem to antenna. The Qualcomm Snapdragon 5G Modem-RF System, including commercial 5G NR sub-6 ...

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3D capacitors printed with additive manufacturing process.

NanoDimension has developed 3D printed capacitors with its DragonFly additive manufacturing system. These capacitors are embedded in the body of the additively manufactured printed circuit boards (PCBs), saving space and eliminating the need for assembly. Nano Dimension’s testing with capacitors of different 3D dimensions have deliverd repeatability results which show less than 1% variance. The technology uses the same ...

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RS Components introduces power supply series for industrial from TDK

RS Components has announced availability of the RWS-B power supply series, an AC-DC embedded switch-mode range from TDK-Lambda. The series comprises 10 models, each with an isolated 5V 1A standby voltage option. This feature makes the series suitable for markets such as industrial, communications, test and measurement, LED signage equipment, and alternative-energy applications. The additional isolated ...

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Arm to offer access to its R&D

Early next year, Arm intends to launch an access programme to its R&D called Arm Flexible Access for Research. The programme will provide the academic research community with access to a wide range of IP without any fees or costs, using a simple click-through end-user licensing agreement (EULA) and thus providing accelerated access to Arm ...

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Raspberry Pi-powered IIoT Gateway

Farnell is shipping the Avnet SmartEdge Industrial IoT Gateway; the low-cost industrial gateway powered by Raspberry Pi. Since the launch of the product at Embedded World Germany in February 2019, there has been significant demand for the gateway for use in a range of applications, including: building management, vehicle monitoring, industrial automation and predictive maintenance. The ...

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Isolated gate driver has dual-strength output to vary switching speed

Analog Devices has launched an isolated gate driver with a choice of output strengths for on-the-fly control of mosfet (or IGBT) switching speed. “Previously, the typical solution was to choose a gate driver strength that would enable adherence to electromagnetic regulations at all operating points, meaning systems were often over-engineered and under-utilised,” claimed ADI director ...

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UltraSoC opens design centre in Poland

UltraSoc, the Cambridge analytics IP specialist, has opened a design centre in  Warsaw and started the process of recruiting a team of software engineers and data scientists to support the growth of its embedded analytics business worldwide. The new team, which is headed up by Director of Systems Engineering Marcin Hlond, will be located at ...

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Recom surface-mount isolated DC/DC converters available at Dengrove

Dengrove Electronic Components is now stocking Recom R2SX 2W isolated DC/DC converters, which measure 15.24×10.7×8.0mm and are designed for bus isolation and general industrial power applications. The open-frame surface-mount modules are available with standard isolation rating of 1kV/second or in a high-voltage 3kV/second version. Customers can choose a nominal input voltage of 5V with unregulated ...

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$50bn new fab spend next year, says SEMI

Fab investment next year is expected to reach $50 billion, says SEMI, up from $12 billion this year. Fifteen new fab projects with a total investment of $38 billion will have started construction by the end of 2019 with 18 more fab projects forecast to start construction in 2020. Of the 18, 10 fab projects ...

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Flat-style electrolytic capacitors offer up to 24,000µF in 3.2mm thick case

Cornell Dubilier has released ‘ultra-flat’ aluminium electrolytic capacitors, intended to replace arrays of surface-mount capacitors. PCB terminations are flat ribbon-lead surface-mount types, whose flexibility allows the body to be mounted remote from the PCB. The bodies are 62 x 42mm, and either 2.2mm (max, ‘DA’ case) or 3.2mm (max, ‘DB’ case). Weight is 17g (DA) or 22g (DB). ...

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Sponsored Content: Experience true macro-to-micro observation and guaranteed measurement accuracy with digital microscopy

Olympus’ DSX1000 breaks barriers in industrial microscopy, writes Olympus.

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EEVblog #1246 – Dumpster TV to Retro RGB Monitor Conversion

EEVblog #1245 – A Most Excellent REPAIR: IBM PCjr Keyboard

EEVblog #1244 – Mailbag

EEVblog #1243 – Sony Boombox REPAIR and Teardown

EEVblog #1242 – Memory LCD+Supercaps+Low Power Design

EEVblog #1241 – Power Up Display Counter Project – Part 1

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SIA pushes for export permits for Huawei sales

The SIA has written to US Department of Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross to try and get permits for sales to Huawei approved. There have been 130 requests for permits but none have been granted. Huawei is on the US Entity List which bans sales to it by US companies but the SIA has asked for ...

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ICs for secure quantum networks

Imec and the National University of Singapore (NUS)  (pictured) are to collaborate on developing chip-based prototypes for secure quantum communication networks. In this five-year agreement, Imec and NUS will jointly develop scalable, robust and efficient technologies for quantum key distribution and quantum random number generation, which are amongst the basic building blocks of a truly ...

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Card enables encoding acceleration of 8K video

Socionext  is enabling an encoding acceleration feature of 8K resolution video with the company’s ‘M820L’ media accelerator card. The ‘M820L’ is a media accelerator card that can be attached to a server system to accelerate codec processes without changing existing users’ server configuration. The card is the combination of a firmware update and an 8K ...

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Soil sensor increases crop yields and quality

Murata has come up with a  soil sensor which aims to increase the yield and quality of crops while experiencing lower costs associated with reduced water and fertilizer usage. Murata has initiated projects using the soil sensor with partners all over the world. One example is a collaboration with Vietnam’s Can Tho University which began in ...

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Components for high heat applications

Components developed specifically for commercial and domestic appliances that operate at high heat are available at Hylec-APL of Wellingborough. Screw to tab terminal block models with between 2 and 7 poles are available in the FV Series, which operates at temperatures from – 5degC to +150degC.  Voltage is 450V, and current between 25A and 41A ...

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2020 Vision – The hunt is on for new EW BrightSparks

The year 2020 sees Electronics Weekly celebrating it's sixtieth year in the electronics industry, but we're still focused on looking forwards and nothing exemplifies that more than the EW BrightSparks programme, which we run in partnership with RS Components.

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Huawei offers its 5G technology to the US

Huawei  will offer its 5G technology to US companies in a bid to get its switchgear accepted in Western markets. Huawei’s founder and CEO Ren Zengfel (pictured) says he’ll sell patents, licences, production engineering know-how, code and designs to companies wanting to get into the 5G infrastructure business. Zengfel says he is “open to sharing ...

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Qualcomm and Ericsson make 3GPP 5G Release 15 connection

Qualcomm and Ericsson have completed a 5G New Radio (NR) data connection compliant with global 3GPP 5G NR Release 15 specifications in Standalone (SA) mode of operation. The connection was achieved on band n41 at Ericsson’s lab utilizing 5G commercial base stations from the Ericsson Radio System portfolio, its standalone NR software and its Cloud ...

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HCL to buy Sankalp Semi

HCL Technologies of Noida, India is to buy mixed signal IC design house Sankalp Semiconductor. Sankalp brings  capabilities in analogue, digital and mixed signal chip design for the Automotive, Consumer, IoT, Medical Electronics, Networking and Wireless markets Sankalp’s capabilities will help HCL sustain its position in the semiconductor space within the Engineering and R&D Services industry. ...

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SEMI billings down 20% y-o-y

Q2 chip manufacturing equipment billings reached $13.3 billion in the second quarter of 2019, down 20% y-o-y same and down 3% from Q1, reports SEMI. The data are gathered jointly with the Semiconductor Equipment Association of Japan (SEAJ) from more than 80 global equipment companies that provide data on a monthly basis. The quarterly billings ...

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Cost-effective dual channel and multi-standard TV demodulator

Socionext has brought out a digital TV dual channel demodulator, the SC1502AF-02. The SC1502AF-02 has been developed as a cost-effective dual channel and multi-standard model. It is a successor to the SC1501A, claimed to be the world’s first demodulator compatible with both ISDB-S3 and J.183, and now supports other standards including DVB-T and DVB-S to serve the ...

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