The year 2020 sees Electronics Weekly celebrating its 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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The creator if the first MEMS device, Harvey Nathanson, has died. He built a resonant horizontal wand-like structure while working for Westinghouse in the 1960s. “Working out of the Westinghouse Research Labs in 1965 he conceived of a microscopic device used as a tuner for microelectronic radios,” according to this obituary by Ralph Schugar Chapel in ...
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NASA has confirmed its intention to buy seats on possible private space missions, to support its “low-Earth orbit commercialisation goals”. Specifically, it would be for short duration (taking up to 30 days) trips to the International Space Station. “The purchase of a private astronaut mission seat will directly support NASA’s low-Earth orbit commercialisation goals by ...
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The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has warned the decisions of a major radiocommunication conference may be too lenient to avoid an adverse impact on Earth observation satellite systems. The World Radiocommunication Conference 2019, organized by the International Telecommunications Union and attended by more than 160 nations, agreed on the allocation of bandwidths of the world’s ...
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5G handsets will account for 15% of the smartphone market next year with Chinese brands supplying 60% of them, reports TrendForce. Total production volume for smartphones in 3Q19 is estimated at 375 million units, a 9.2% growth QoQ. The top six positions are Samsung, Huawei, Apple, OPPO, Xiaomi, and Vivo, which accounted for 78% of global ...
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RISC-V will see 146.2% CAGR 2018-2025, forecasts Semico Research. Semico reckons that 62.4 billion RISC-V CPU cores will be shipped by 2025 of which the largest segment is industrial which is forecast to use 16.7 billion cores. Semico analysed data for 25 applications within five major end markets – computer, consumer, communications, transportation and industrial ...
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Daicel of Osaka is offering free samples of nanodiamonds in return for reports on how they work in the field. Nanodiamonds (NDs) are a nano-carbon material consisting of a diamond core and sp2 carbon layers like graphene and graphite with various oxygenic functional groups. Daicel sells nano-diamonds under the brand name DINNOVARE. The DINNOVARE range has ...
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RS Components has announced availability of the DRM40/B series of DIN rail mounted redundancy power modules from TDK-Lambda. Designed for automation and general-purpose industrial applications, the DRM40 and DRM40B power modules offer 20 to 40A current handling capability and can be used in N+1 redundancy systems and applications; alternatively, two supplies can be placed in ...
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Ranplan Wireless has been selected as a contributor to a €1.4m EU Horizon project, taking place over a four-year period starting 1 December 2019. Focused on realising the concept of network slicing in preparation for mass-market deployment of programmable 5G networks, this EU initiative brings Ranplan Wireless in partnership with CNR of Italy, Orange Labs of ...
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Even when the connections and weightings in a neural network are displayed for all to see, it is not clear how most of them actually achieve their results – they are trained black boxes that remain opaque under close scrutiny. Now scientist from Italian research institute SISSA and the Technical University of Munich have found ...
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Wisekey, ON Semiconductor and Tatwah have collaborated on a secure IoT beacon device. The device, claimed to be the first of its type, will be introduced at Trustech 2019, an event for payments, identification and security technology, held from November 26-28 in Cannes, France. It embeds the Bluetooth 5 RSL10 SIP from ON Semiconductor. The RSL10 family ...
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Aiming at powering LEDs in automotive applications, Taiwan Semiconductor has introduced a dc-dc controller chip that can be operated in boost, buck-boost and sepic topologies from rails between 4.5V and 42V. Operation is specified for discontinuous, continuous and boundary conduction modes. Diagram note: the single LED represents a series string of LEDs. Output regulation is based on ...
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Scotland’s Orbital Marine Power is ordering the final major parts for the 2MW O2 floating tidal turbine. The four blades, two for each rotor, will be made by A C Marine & Composites (ACMC) of Gosport in Hampshire. Each of the composite blades is 10m long, giving the machine a swept area of over 600m2, ...
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After 67 years Matsushita/Panasonic is quitting the chip industry. Between 1985 and 1990 the company was a top ten player. Now it is to be sold to Nuvoton Technology of Taiwan which is 61% owned by Winbond. Nuvoton is paying $250 million for the unit which designs power-management chips and sensors for smartphones, cars and security ...
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Today, at the end of the Space19+ meeting in Seville, the European Space Agency (ESA) will announce which countries have won participation in which projects under its new five year funding programme. Earlier this week, the UK said it is increasing the amount it will contribute to the European Space Agency by 15% taking the ...
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Amazon reinforced its lead in the smart speaker market with sparkling Q3 sales. Amazon shipped 10.5 million of its Echo smart speakers in Q3 2019, its second highest ever total for a single quarter as the company stretched its lead over its closest rivals. The global market for smart speakers grew 55% year-on-year to 34.9 ...
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WISeKey of Switzerland, ON Semiconductor and Tatwah claim to have produced the first secure IoT beacon. The beacon embeds the Bluetooth 5 RSL10 SIP from ON Semiconductor. The RSL10 family is supported by an SDK featuring an Eclipse-based IDE, mobile applications and support for FreeRTOS, FOTA and mesh networking. The beacon has tamper-resistant microcontrollers- the VaultIC405 and ...
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Mailbag time!
SPOILERS:
Automated Factory robot laser scanner teardown
Siemens & Schneider Electric safety timer switch teardowns.
18:54 HTC Vive VR Base Station Teardown
30:29 iFixit stuff!
iFixit Manta Driver Kit: https://amzn.to/2Qz8aBj
iFixit Pro Tech Toolkit: https://amzn.to/2Xt6Gu1
37:35 40W 180V Nixie tube driver: https://www.tindie.com/products/nexus/40-watt-high-voltage-nixie-power-supply/
https://neonkev.com/2019/10/15/success-201-boost-at-40-watts-without-a-transformer/
45:07 Hadou-CAN USB CAN adapter: https://www.tindie.com/products/suburbanembedded/hadou-can-usb-can-fd-adapter/
Forum: https://www.eevblog.com/forum/blog/eevblog-1263-mailbag/
Designing a flexible PCB adapter board for the uSupply project.
Discussion of rigid flex PCB design, layout, and manufacturing.
Plus a rant on ST Micro parts and USB Power Delivery.
PCBway Flexible PCB quote: https://bit.ly/2Xmphrs
Forum: https://www.eevblog.com/forum/blog/eevblog-1262-designing-a-flex-pcb-usupply-update/
Another LCD TV in the dumpster!
And what is Cinavision?
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Skeleton has had its SkelCap SCA0300 supercapacitor UL-certified so that they can be used in warehouse robotics and smart factories. “The growth of warehouse and fulfilment centre robotics is creating new opportunities for ultracapacitor-powered solutions in intra-logistics,” according to the firm. “Power quality requirements in manufacturing are driving the demand for ultracapacitor-based UPS [uninterruptable power supply] ...
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The wafer market expects to see CAGR of 5.7% through 2023, when it could be worth $21.3 billion, says BCC Research.. North America’s semiconductor wafers market should grow from $4.5 billion in 2018 to $5.8 billion by 2023 with a CAGR of 5.4% for the period of 2018-2023. EMEA semiconductor wafers market should grow from $4.0 ...
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Farnell/element14 is expanding the AI products and resources to help engineers leverage the technology by making available the BeagleBone AI single board computer and online resources. The BeagleBone AI, provides a route to embedded machine learning. The single board computer facilitates everyday automation for industrial, commercial and home applications and allows developers to have their designs ...
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Infineon has expanded its product portfolio of thyristor/diode modules. The Prime Block 50 mm modules feature solder bond technology and the 60 mm modules pressure contact technology. They are designed for highest performance when the desired current exceeds 600 A for a 60 mm footprint or 330 A for a 50 mm footprint. This avoids ...
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Wireless support is now a necessity for many embedded applications as customers increasingly look to access the benefits of the Internet of Things (IoT), writes Ankur Tomar of Farnell
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Intel has hired a financial company to find a buyer for its home connectivity group, reports Bloomberg. The group makes chips for home gateways and routers where it competes with Qualcomm and Broadcom. Sales of the group are said to be about $450 million annually. Intel has been in and out of many attempted diversifications: ...
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Q3 NAND bit shipment grew 15%, says DRAMeXchange and revenue rose 10.2% to $11.9 billion. Samsung’s bit shipment grew over 10% QoQ while limiting its ASP decline to 5% and recording a 5.9% revenue increase to $4 billion. Samsung’s second fab in Xian will start manufacturing in 1H20, while its second Pyeongtae-based memory fab is ...
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STM32WB50 Value Line wireless MCUs are a full and pin-compatible derivative of the STM32WB55 SoC created to serve cost-sensitive connected devices that need to support Bluetooth 5.0, ZigBee 3.0, or OpenThread. The devices offer a good link budget from 100dB in Bluetooth 5.0 mode up to 104dB in 802.15.4 mode. With the Arm Cortex-M4 to handle the user-application ...
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RS Components has introduced the Duracell Procell range of alkaline batteries, designed to replace the company’s industrial range used by OEMs and professional end users. The series offers higher capacity and longevity than Duracell’s previous industrial batteries of comparable size and format, resulting in fewer battery replacements and savings on associated operating costs. The Procell ...
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French optical firm Gaggione has proposed a way to compare the evenness of colour in ‘white’ light beams produced by LED lighting – generally that with separate RGBW die as light sources. It is an approximation technique, as is expected to be used in a similar way to other optical approximations such as ‘colour temperature’, ...
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U-Blox has expanded its offering for both in-vehicle communication and industrial automation with the Jody-W2 module. The series comes in a 13.8×19.8mm footprint and operates from -40ºC up to 105ºC. The manufacturer says it’s also well suited for industrial applications. The module incorporates AEC-Q100-qualified wireless system-on-chip (SoC) technology. One variant (non AEC-Q100) is specifically targeting ...
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Recom’s Rem2 isolated dc-dc converters are now available at Dengrove Electronic Components. Aimed at medical applications, the converters can deliver up to 2W and 2MOPP/250VAC working voltage in an SIP8 package. The converters are certified to IEC/EN 62368-1 and 60601-1, and offer reinforced 5.2kVDC/1-minute isolation. They are also covered by a CB report to ease ...
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The four year-old RISC-V Foundation is moving from Delaware to Switzerland to allay foreign members’ fears of possible disruption to their continued development of the open-source technology. Although the non-profit foundation does not own the technology, Calista Redmond (pictured) the foundation’s chief executive, says foreign members of the foundation have said they’d be ‘more ...
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Applied Materials which has been the world’s largest supplier of front-end wafer processing equipment for nearly 30 years is about to be overtaken by ASML says The Information Network. “Applied Materials, which has been losing market share in the wafer front end (WFE) equipment market for the past three years, is poised to lose its ...
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Samsung reclaimed the No.1 slot in the global smartphone display market in Q3 as the company capitalized on record-high demand for AMOLEDs, says IHS Markit. Samsung grew is sharevfrom 21.3% in Q2 to 29% in Q3, says IHS. That was enough to drive Samsung past BOE Display to take the market lead for the first ...
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Arrow Electronics has announced its appointment as the first reseller for the Mindsphere program for IIoT (industrial internet of things) technology providers in the EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) region. Arrow will market Mindsphere hardware and software products, including Mindconnect IoT 2040 and Mindconnect Nano hardware. The program is a “cloud-based, open IoT operating ...
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A joint promotion between Raspberry Pi’s Code Club programme and Aardman Animations challenged primary school students across the globe to show off their coding skills with an animation based on the Shaun the Sheep films. The contest was open for seven weeks and any registered Code Club was eligible to enter. It closed with 683 ...
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Bridgetek, the Taiwanese subsidiary of Glasgow-owned FTDI, has branched out from chip-making into end-user products – not just individual end-user devices, but complete turn-key end-user systems. Each system, all branded ‘Panl’, is built around networked displays, with some including protocol-converting hubs and interface boxes. At the heart of the displays is the firm’s novel graphics controller ...
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Singapore is the No.1 country in the “IMD World Talent Ranking” of Asian countries mainly due to its high quality education. In the global talent rankings it come in 10th. The Swiss IMD (International Institute for Management Development) report evaluates the quality of a country’s talent pool as well as its efforts in developing local talent, ...
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A diagnostic device pictured) developed by Imec subsidiary miDiagnostics has been chosen by NASA is to check human blood samples in space. The miDiagnostics device can perform a complete cell blood count (CBC) from only drops of blood Imec will design test parameters and perform experiments in different gravity scenarios using one of miDiagnostics’ devices ...
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The decline in the outsourced assembly and test (OSAT) industry showed signs of a gradual halt in 3Q19, says TrendForce, since the drop in memory prices began to slow down, and smartphone sales steadily recovered. The top ten OSAT providers posted a total revenue of $6 billion in 3Q19, a 10.1% growth YoY and 18.7% ...
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Hong Kong X’tals is stocking its Global Navigation Satellite System Disciplined Oscillator (GNSSDO) of the K-Star series at Rutronik. The disciplined oscillator receives signals from satellites to generate one pulse-per-second output. It supports concurrent reception of signals from GPS, Glonass, Beidu and Galileo. The K-Star GNSSDO is available in a form factor of 155x165x55mm at ...
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The Design Museum has named an exposé of the human labour, data privacy and environmental impacts of a smart speaker, as the winner of the Beazley Design of the Year. By Kate Crawford of AI Now Institute and Vladan Joler, ‘Anatomy of an AI System’ is both a research project and a complex diagram (extract right) ...
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Cobham Wireless has announced that its idDAS (intelligent digital distributed antenna system) is now providing 4G coverage in Berlin’s U-Bahn for subscribers of all three of Germany’s major mobile operators. The news follows an initial deployment with Telefónica, which involved replacing legacy equipment with Cobham Wireless’ idDAS, and delivering 2G, 3G and 4G cellular coverage ...
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Arrows Electronics is offering R3 Communications’ Echoring wireless networking products in the EMEA region. Echoring is designed to support reliable, low-latency wireless machine-to-machine (M2M) communications systems. Both industrial IoT or Industry 4.0 require wireless networks with the performance and reliability of existing wired control networks. R3 says Echoring delivers real-time performance levels with latency down ...
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It may not look like a truck but this is Tesla’s electric pick-up truck announced yesterday in Los Angeles. Called the Cybertruck it costs $40/50/70k depending on spec. The top spec model has a 500 mile range. Production is scheduled for late 2021. “The top three selling vehicles in America are pickup trucks, said ...
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Three new centres to train the next generation of engineers could be built on Hereford’s Enterprise Zone after the Marches LEP agreed a £5.66 million funding package for the city’s proposed new university. The decision follows a submission of a business case to the LEP from the New Model in Technology and Engineering (NMiTE) ...
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It’s rare for Intel to apologise for anything and then, like London buses, two come along in quick succession. In October 2018 Intel’s CEO wrote to customers apologising for the shortage of CPUs which had been getting worse all through that summer. ”We’re taking the following actions,” wrote Bob Swan, ‘we are investing a record $15 billion ...
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Renesas has developed the R-IN32M4-CL3 IC for Industrial Ethernet (IE) communication with support for CC-Link IE Time Sensitive Networking (TSN), a communication standard for Ethernet TSN technology. The chip satisfies the specifications of less than one-millionth of a second time synchronization accuracy between applications, accelerating TSN support for applications such as AC servos, actuators, and vision ...
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UltraSoC, the Cambridge on-chip analytics IP specialist, has joined the Open Hardware Group (OpenHW) to further the adoption of open source processors for high volume SoCs. UltraSoC will contribute its experience and IP in system-level debug and processor trace. The OpenHW Group has announced a range of cores, dubbed CORE-V, based on the RISC-V open ISA. ...
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ST is sampling 4Mbit serial EEPROMs made on ST’s 110nm process. The memories can write 512 bytes in 5ms. The chips come in 8-pin SO8N and TSSOP8 packages with the option of an 8-bump WLCSP package. The EEPROMs, designated M95M04, have a supply range of 1.8V to 5.5V. Data retention is 40-years. ST sees the chips ...
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Mouser Electronics is stocking the S32K ISELED enabled microcontrollers from NXP Semiconductors. Part of NXP’s family of S32K automotive-qualified microcontrollers, these devices offer the same feature set in addition to the ISELED communication protocol. The protocol avoids external processes and targets well-balanced light parameters with tight calibration and processing control for RGB LEDs. The microcontrollers ...
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Planning application is submitted for the development of the National Manufacturing Institute Scotland (NMIS)
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The distributor wants to grow its DesignSpark community and has introduced a quarterly prize draw as part of a referral scheme. The scheme encourages members to introduce friends and colleagues to the engineering platform, which offers access to resources such as free MCAD and ECAD design software, CAD neutral libraries as well as the 850,000+ ...
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Netherlands energy harvesting chip firm Nowi has added further cash to its Series A funding – from Disruptive Technology Ventures (DTV), which also injected money with the Dutch Government in 2018. “This new $10m series A round of funding enables Nowi to further grow the team and complete the transition from start-up to a mature organisation, ...
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European semiconductor distribution revenues fell by 8.9% in Q3 2019, reports DMASS, a non-profit organisation which monitors the European semiconductor distribution industry. Yet the UK is bucking the trend with – albeit it modest – growth of 1.6% in the same period. The largest market, Germany’s semiconductor distribution revenue dropped 12.9% to €618m, Italy’s fell ...
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Engineers Without Borders UK has launched the 2020 cycle of the Engineering for People design challenge, in partnership with the organisation’s South Africa and USA chapters. The competition calls on first and second-year university students to consider the social, economic and environmental impact of their engineering and tasks them to propose a solution that could ...
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Rohde & Schwarz has announced a test system for automotove radar, consisting of the ATS1500C automotive radar test chamber, according to the firm, plus the AREG100A automotive radar echo generator for radar target simulation at various distances. “Together, they form an indirect far-field testing solution for verification of radar sensors throughout the R&D and validation ...
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TT Electronics has announced the latest series to be added to its green thick-film chip portfolio – the GBCN, a thick-film chip array which is free of Pb (lead) and lead compounds. As environmental regulations become increasingly stringent, the GBCN series allows designers to achieve exemption-free compliance with the EU’s Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) ...
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In the first three quarters of 2019, total US electronics imports have dropped 6% versus the first three quarters of 2018 with imports from China dropping 12%, although China still accounted for 54% of US electronics imports in 1Q-3Q 2019, says Bill Jewell’s Semiconductor Intelligence. The second largest source, Mexico, dropped 3%. Two countries benefiting from ...
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Denchi Group, the battery specialist, is adding a development hub in St Ives, Cambridgeshire to its existing engineering facilities in Thurso, Scotland. At St Ives, focus will be placed on making major advances in battery and charger design. It will leverage the expertise that the company has built up in mission-critical defence and aerospace applications, ...
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Billings for semiconductor manufacturing equipment reached a 14-month high of $2.11 billion in October 2019, according to SEMI. The billings figure is 7.7% higher than September’s $1.96 billion and 3.9% above October 2018 billings of $2.03 billion, SEMI said. “Monthly billings of North American equipment manufacturers registered their first year-over-year increase since October 2018,” said ...
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Maxim has introduced solid-state blood-pressure monitoring technology with a reference design containing an integrated optical sensor module, a microcontroller sensor hub and a sensing algorithm. The MAXREFDES220 optical blood-pressure trending solution can be embedded into smartphones or wearables. It enables users to place their finger on a device for 30-45 seconds while resting to measure ...
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Charcroft Electronics of Lanwrtyd Wells has invested in a specialist manufacturing facility to work on prototyping and product development. Best known as a specialist distributor, Charcroft is now extending its in-house value-add engineering capabilities. In addition to the existing manufacturing capabilities, Charcroft has created a new department of engineers to address bespoke manufacturing projects including: ...
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Japanese researchers created an optical modulator using a thin layer of water, and got surprisingly good results. The Tokyo University of Science team was trying to find a way to exploit the large Pockels effect discovered in water by some of the same scientists in 2007. This effect is the linear change in refractive index with ...
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Climate change will be the biggest challenge facing the engineers of tomorrow, according to recipients of the Arkwright Engineering Scholarship surveyed at a recent ceremony. Nearly half of the teenagers, who are taking their first steps in an engineering career, think climate change is the biggest challenge facing UK scientists and engineers over the next ...
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Toshiba has announced a range of eFuse IC products. The range comprises six products in the TCKE8xx series which support various protection functions for power supply lines. Unlike traditional fuses, eFuses are resettable. They also offer over-current limit accuracy of ±11%, overvoltage protection, and over-temperature protection in addition to short-circuit protection. Offered in a 3x3mm, ...
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Mouser Electronics has announced a global distribution agreement with sensor manufacturer Amphenol SSI. Through the agreement, Mouser stocks Amphenol SSI products including pressure sensors and gauges, drum liquid level gauges, and combination temperature and pressure gauges. Amphenol SSI P51 pressure Mediasensor and P61 pressure and temperature Mediasensor families are micro-machined sensors designed to measure harsh ...
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Farnell is launching its Winter Games competition, giving customers access to weekly offers from suppliers and online games where participants can win e-vouchers as well as the Winter Games Grand Prize, a Go Pro Max 360° Camera. The Winter Games consists of three Olympic sport disciplines including ice hockey, bobsleigh and curling. The competition is ...
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Renesas is sampling what it claims is the first IC to implement the ASi-5 (Actuator Sensor Interface version specification version 5) standard for industrial network equipment. Mass production is planned for March 2020 ASi-5 offers superior performance and usability over ASi-3, delivering 1.27 ms cycle time, 200m cable length and 96 slaves per segment. The ...
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Yesterday, at its analyst day, Qualcomm said there will be between 175 million and 225 million 5G smartphones in 2020, more than 450 million in 2021 and over 750 million in 2022.. 5G adoption will be faster than 4G, says Qualcomm, because of demand from China. Qualcomm is expected to have an integrated 5G modem ...
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It is expected that WeWork will lay off 4,000 staff with another 2,000 possibly to go later. This is the email about the cuts which WeWork chairman Marcelo Claure (pictured) sent to staff on Monday: WeWork Team, This coming week is an important one in the future of WeWork. We are marking our 10th anniversary ...
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UltraSoC has added high-speed communications capabilities to its embedded analytics architecture, supporting debug and performance optimization in datacentres, high-performance computing, AI and storage applications. The addition of PCIe and gigabit Ethernet connectivity gives developers and users access to fine-grained information about the real-world behavior of such products, both in-lab during product development, and in-life after ...
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Marvell has announced Nvidia GPU support on its ThunderX family of Arm-based server processors. Following Nvidia’s June announcement to bring Cuda to the Arm architecture, Marvell has collaborated with Nvidia to port its Cuda-X AI and HPC libraries, GPU-accelerated AI frameworks and software development tools to the ThunderX platform. The computational performance and memory bandwidth ...
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Rohm has announced the availability of 200V low-IR Schottky barrier diodes (SBDs) designed for automotive applications including powertrains, industrial inverters and various types of power supplies. The RBxx8BM/NS200 expands on the RBxx8 lineup of SBDs enabling high temperature. This series offers low leakage current characteristics to achieve withstand voltage of 200V. Replacing fast recovery diodes ...
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ST Microelectronics has extended its multi-year silicon carbide wafer deal with Cree, taking it to over $500m in total value. Cree will supply 150mm bare and epitaxial silicon carbide wafers to ST over “several years”, according to Cree. “Expanding our long-term wafer supply agreement with Cree will increase the flexibility of our global silicon carbide substrate ...
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Built using Texas Instruments low power, 45nm RFCMOS process, the AWR1843 is the latest wideband mmWave sensor available from Mouser Electronics. It is AEC-Q100-qualified for automotive design, where its small form factor is suitable for radar systems in vehicles. According to the distributor, the RFCMOS process enables a monolithic implementation of a system with three ...
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Taiwan Semiconductor has introduced 45V and 60V trench Schottky rectifiers in a TO-277A-compatible SMPC4.6U package, and qualified to AEC-Q101 for the automotive market. The surface-mount package is only 1.1mm high and has wettable flanks for automated optical inspection. The parts are TSUPxM45SH or TSUPxM60SH, depending on whther the current rating is 45A or 60A, and the ‘x’ ...
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Nexperia has announced its entry into the GaN FET market with the introduction of the 650V GAN063-650WSA, with a gate-source voltage (VGS) of +/-20V and a temperature range of -55 to 175°C. The GAN063-650WSA features a low RDS(on) – down to 60 mΩ – and fast switching for efficiency. The company is targeting applications including ...
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Netherlands lighting firm has unveiled facilities for 3d printing light shades and luminaires in Europe, and plans to establish 3D printing factories in the US, India and Indonesia. ” We are the first lighting manufacturer to produce 3D printed luminaires on an industrial scale. The company has perfected this flexible, more sustainable form of manufacturing, using ...
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Accucode 3D is to offer 3D printing of electronics for prototyping and low-volume manufacture from locations in Colorado and Texas. This is claimed to be the world’s first service bureau for 3D printing of electronics, by Isreal-based Nano Dimension, whihc has provided the two DragonFly printers that Accucode will be using. “With the DragonFly system’s ...
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TT Electronics is to buy Excelitas Technologies the Californian power supply manufacturer for $17.7 million. The acquisition enhances TT’s US presence in power electronics for aerospace and defence, providing access to growth programmes with sole-source positions. The acquisition will add a number of blue-chip US defence primes. ‘This acquisition will help us move up the ...
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Intel is expected to be back on top of the semiconductor league table in 2019, regaining the crown it lost in 2017, predicts IC Insights, while Sony is expected to be the only top 15 company to grow year. The top-15 worldwide semiconductor (IC and O-S-D—optoelectronic, sensor, and discrete) sales ranking for 2019 is shown ...
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Q3 DRAM revenue rose 4% ending three quarters of QoQ decline as server and smartphone customers pulled shipments forward, says DRAMeXchange. However profit margins were reduced as ASPs fell 20%. Samsung increased Q3 bit shipments by 30% and quarterly revenue by 5% QoQ but its profit margin fell to 33% from 41% in Q2. Hynix ...
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With typical temperature-reading accuracy of 0.25°C and low operating and standby current, ST’s STTS22H enhances temperature and heat-flow monitoring in asset trackers, shipping-container loggers, HVAC systems, air humidifiers, refrigerators, building-automation systems, and smart consumer devices. The chip is I2C and SMBus 3.0 compliant, and supports flexible operating modes including configurable output data rate (ODR) down ...
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Hot electron capture would be one way to improve the efficiency of Perovskite solar cells, by directing the energy of those electrons to the external circuit, rather than allowing it to become heat within the semiconductor. Now a team from University of Groningen in the Netherlands and Nanyang Technological University in Singapore think they have ...
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Supplyframe subsidiary company SamacSys has completed an integration with Cadence Design Systems’s Allegro and OrCAD PCB design tool suites. This collaboration expands on the Cadence OrCAD Capture Cloud and the Allegro System Capture electrical engineering design platform by directly integrating the SamacSys platform of free design resources, including PCB footprints, schematic symbols and 3D models ...
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Wayve, a London-based start up which designs artificial intelligence software for self-driving vehicles, has announced a $20m series A funding round to launch a pilot fleet of vehicles in central London. The investment was led by Eclipse Ventures, with participation from Balderton Capital and existing investors Compound, Fly Ventures and firstminute capital. End-to-end machine learning ...
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The USA has nothing to fear from China’s chip industry, said Tsinghua Unigroup chairman Zhao Weiguo (pictured) in Beijing at the weekend. “There’s no need for the United States to feel jittery,” said Zhao, “we’re trailing far behind, not posing any threat to the U.S. in the competition.” Zhao said that it will take at ...
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The Q4 DRAM contract ASP is undergoing a 5% QoQ decline while unit volumes have seen considerable QoQ growth, says DRAMeXchange. Inventory levels may mean that suppliers will no longer need to cut prices to encourage further sales leading to stable and recovering prices in 2020. DRAMeXchange believes that Samsung will not increase its wafer ...
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Researchers from Holst Centre have uses spatial atomic layer deposition (sALD) to create both the semiconductor and dielectric layer in a thin-film transistor (TFT) backplane. Using a low-temperature, large-area process for the backplane, the team created a 200 ppi QVGA display demonstrator. The process allows TFTs to be produced on cheaper, transparent plastic foils, significantly ...
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Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has announced that its digital skills programme, IT Futures, has engaged 570,000 students, across the UK, registering a sharp increase in participation by young girls. TCS’ IT Futures Programme focuses on young people in schools, colleges and universities, as well as their influencers – teachers, parents, and peers. It’s administered by ...
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Controversy over this morning’s Labour Party initiative to connect every house in the country to fibre and provide broadband services to everyone free of charge, is growing. The head of BT has said Labour’s £20 billion costing is half what the real cost will be. Owners of private networks like Virgin have asked where does ...
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Nvidia’s Q3 revenue was down 5% y-o-y at $3.01 billion and the company expects Q4 revenue of $2.95 billion. Gaming chip revenues were down 6% y-o-y at $1.66 billion but up 26% sequentially. Nvidia says it sees growth in chips for conversational AI. “This quarter, we have laid the foundation for where AI will ultimately ...
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Stealthy, three year-old, processor start-up Groq says it has developed a single chip architecture which can deliver 1PetaOps/sec performance. Groq calls its architecture Tensor Streaming Processor (TSP). Two years back it said it had recruited eight of the ten people who developed Google’s Tensor Processing Unit ((TPU). The company has raised $62.3 million in funding. ...
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iFixit has completed a teardown of the Huawei Mate 30 and this is what it found: 6.53″ OLED display with a resolution of 2400 × 1176 (~409.29 ppi) Huawei Kirin 990 processor with 8-core CPU, 16-Core Mali-G76 GPU, and Neural Processing Unit Quadruple rear cameras—40 MP ƒ/1.8, 40 MP ƒ/1.6, 8 MP ƒ/2.4 with 3x optical zoom, ...
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Applied Materials had calendar Q3 revenue of $3.75 billion with a margin of 43.5% and operating income of $864 million. For its full fiscal year to September 30th, Applied generated revenue of $14.61 billion with a gross margin of 43.7% and operating income of $3.35 billion. “Applied Materials’ fourth quarter results reflect a healthy uptick ...
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Motorola’s Razr has been resurrected. Here it is folded: And here it is unfolded: And these are the underwhelming specs: Main internal folding screen: 21:9 aspect ratio, 2142 x 876 pixels, 6.2-inch POLED (plastic OLED) Front screen: 4:3 aspect ratio, 800 x 600 pixels, 2.7-inch GOLED (glass OLED) 16MP main camera, f/1.7 aperture (no ultra-wide ...
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US engineers have used a remotely-piloted drone to survey power lines without visual or radar contact. Flown as part of the Kansas Department of Transportation’s unmanned aircraft pilot program, the drone used automatic on-board detect-and-avoid systems to make this beyond-visual-line-of-sight (BVLOS) operation possible. “This marks the first true BVLOS flight in the nation and is ...
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Job site Monster and Stemettes, are touring an event called Monster Confidence which aims to show the next generation “girls do STEM too,” and give them the tools and confidence needed to secure a job. Since launching the events in 2016, over 2,000 young women have attended to receive encouragement and guidance from industry experts ...
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Factory automation products in the Festo range from RS Components now include the SOOD and SOOE photoelectric sensors. The distributor has also added VUVS pneumatic solenoid valves. The Festo SOOD and SOOE laser and LED opto-electronic sensor product lines include diffuse sensors with background suppression, through-beam sensors, retro-reflective sensors, retro-reflective sensors for transparent objects, and ...
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A company that claims to be the fastest growing provider of Bluetooth wireless connectivity, Searan, has signed a global distribution deal with Mouser Electronics to supply its royalty-free software development kits (SDKs) for developers of consumer, medical and industrial applications. The SDKs support devices from semiconductor manufacturers, including STMicroelectronics, Texas Instruments, Microchip Technology, Marvell Semiconductor ...
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Allegro has introduced a dc-dc converter designed for keep-alive duties in cars. Automotive AEC-Q100 qualified, it will operate with inputs from 3.5 to 36V (withstanding 40 V load dump surge) and draws just 8μA when maintaining 3.3 or 5.0V on the output. Called ARG81800, two versions are available: 500 mA and 1 A, to allow smaller PCBs ...
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Nordic Semiconductor has announced the the first member of its next-generation nRF53 wireless microcontroller SoCs, a multi-protocol-capable device intended to work with Bluetooth 5.1, Bluetooth Low Energy (LE), Bluetooth mesh, Thread, and Zigbee. Building on the nRF51 and nRF52 series, the part is the nRF5340 and offers dual Arm Cortex-M33 cores with Arm’s CryptoCell-312 and TrustZone as ...
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RS Components has expanded its Festo range to over 17,000 individual items for customers in Benelux, France, Germany, Italy and the UK. The introductions span of Festo’s pneumatic and electrical device families, including cylinders, actuators, valves and pneumatic air preparation products. RS will now offer Festo’s latest technology releases, such as SOOD and SOOE photoelectric ...
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Lindsley Ruth, CEO of RS Components, talks about the value EW BrightSparks can bring to UK electronics.
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Flex Power Modules has announced the PKJ7200 and PKJ7300 series of power modules for railway rolling stock equipment. The modules are designed to meet the demands of the EN 50155 standard for railway applications, including a wide input voltage range, surge protection, power interruption and backup, wide operational temperature range, and resistance to shock and ...
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Following trials at sites across Switzerland and China, ABB has launched Neogear, a low-voltage switchgear. The device deploys ABB’s laminated bus plate technology, which replaces traditional horizontal and vertical busbar systems. Neogear provides safety for operators by eliminating any exposure to live parts. It features a compact physical footprint along with efficient cooling and condition ...
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Hyperstone is aiming at reliable industrial flash with X1, a memory controller chip that can operate 3d NAND in SLC mode. “The X1 has been rigorously tested in sudden power fail situations and for reliability, offering superb FIT rates,” claimed the German firm. “The industrial flash controller with full SATA compliance is now in mass ...
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Vishay is aiming at position tracking in virtual reality headsets and augmented reality glasses with a set of surface-mount infra-red LEDs. They are: VSMY5850X01 (850nm) VSMY5890X01 (890nm) VSMY5940X01 (940nm) and deliver 30% greater radiant intensity than the firm’s prior-generation devices, and operate over -40°C to +110°C. “Ideal for position tracking in virtual or augmented reality ...
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Mouser has signed a global distribution agreement with Bluetooth specialist SEARAN. The SEARAN product line, now available from Mouser Electronics, provides developers with the company’s royalty-free software development kits (SDKs), which support devices from semiconductor manufacturers, including ST, TI, Microchip, Marvell, and Renesas. SEARAN’s wireless audio player software (Linux or FreeRTOS) and wireless speaker software ...
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Kioxia-Toshiba, is sampling a 512GB UFS JEDEC Version 2.1 embedded memory module. The device supports a temperature range of -40°C to +105°C , meets AEC-Q100 Grade 2 requirements and offers the extended reliability required by various automotive applications. The memory the company’s existing lineup of Automotive UFS, which includes capacities of 16GB, 32GB, 64GB, 128GB, and ...
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While Level 5 ADAS – full autonomous driving on all roads in all conditions – gets the attention, the reality of the technical capability is ‘Level 2+’, says the CEO of Infineon Reinhard Ploss (pictured). “With regard to the increasing pervasiveness of advanced driver assistance systems, we are observing an acceleration of Level 1 and ...
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The 2018 market for racks grew 3.4% to reach $1.5 billion, while the rack power distribution unit (rPDU) segment expanded by 8.9% to total $1 billion, says IHS Markit. Cloud and colocation service providers deployed racks and rPDUs at the fastest growth rate among all purchasers, with near double-digit growth relative to 2017. On-premises data ...
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Mouser has released Prototyping with Purpose, the second eBook from Engineering Big Ideas, the newest series in Mouser’s Empowering Innovation Together programme. In the new eBook, experts from Mouser and the electronics industry walk through the design process, discussing tools, software methodology, circuit design, and the final integration into a solid prototype. “The prototype stage is ...
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Rutronik and Shenzhen Minew Technologies have entered a worldwide distribution agreement. Founded in 2007, Minew’s customers span 100 countries and include Google, Here, Huawei, and Alibaba. The agreement encompasses all of Minew’s products. Rutronik founded its wireless competence center in 2005. By adding Minew’s products to its range, Rutronik has expanded into several segments – ...
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Marvell has announced that Microsoft is now deploying internal, production-level servers for Microsoft Azure based on its ThunderX2 server processor portfolio. Marvell has collaborated with Microsoft and Ingrasys on the design and implementation of the ThunderX2 platform that is compliant with Project Olympus, Microsoft’s next cloud hardware design. The Project Olympus platform is open-sourced through ...
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Is this FNIRSI-5012H 100MHz bandwidth 500MS/s Handheld pocket oscilloscope any good?
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Six O-S-D product categories will have record sales in 2019, says IC Insights. Despite a slowdown, combined revenues for optoelectronics, sensors/actuators, and discrete semiconductors are expected to set a 10th consecutive record high in 2019, followed by gradual strengthening in 2020 and 2021, says the Scottsdale analyst company. With the global economy slowing and the ...
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RS Components has produced a view of the future – looking at which countries will lead the way in production. Using WEF data, RS evaluates which countries are driving production by judging them on six criteria:‘Technology & Innovation’, ‘Human Capital’, ‘Global Trade & Investment’, ‘Institutional Framework’, ‘Sustainable Resources’, and ‘Demand Environment’. The U.S. takes the ...
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