2019年12月31日 星期二

Neon – your new best friend

Your new best friend could be called Neon. In a pre-CES teaser Samsung says it will reveal an an “artificial human” called Neon at the show. ‘Have you met an artificial?’ asks the teaser, while company posts say it is an ‘artificial intelligence being’ and a ‘best friend.’ Samsung says Neon is unrelated to its ...

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Tong Hsing and Kingpark merge

Tong Hsing and Kingpark, the Taiwan  CMOS Image Sensor (CIS) packagers have agreed to merge in a deal which will make them one of the world’s largest packaging firms for the CIS segment, reports Digitimes. Target markets are  smartphone, advanced driving, IoT, IoV, VR and AR markets. 60% of the CIS market is for smartphones ...

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Zinc rechargeable battery gets UL verification

A zinc rechargeable battery, being developed by NGK of Nagoya, Japan, has acquired UL verification based on the UL 9540A standard. NGK’s battery uses zinc as the negative electrode, aqueous solution as the electrolytic solution, and an NGK ceramic separator as a barrier between the positive and negative electrodes. Batteries that employ zinc as the ...

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CES: Haptic VR glove

BeBop Sensors, the smart fabric sensor specialist, will display the Forte Data Glove – a VR haptic glove – at the show. It is designed for Oculus Quest, Oculus Link, Oculus Rift S, Microsoft Windows Mixed Reality, HTC Vive Cosmos, HTC Vive Pro, HTC Focus Plus, and Varjo VR headset technology. The gloves provide touch feedback and make ...

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Loongson CPUs made without 3rd party IP

Loongson, formerly known as Godson, the China CPU designer, says it has made CPUs that use no third party IP. Loongson’s latest quad-core 3A4000 and 3B4000 processors are claimed to have equivalent performance to AMD’s 2015-vintage 28nm Excavator processors. Both chips have the GS464V microarchitecture,  are made on ST’s 28nm FD-SOI process and come in ...

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New labs and cleanroom for Cardiff Cluster

BES of  Heywood has completed an £8.1 million project for the South Wales Compound Semiconductor Cluster to design, construct and commission an IS07-classified cleanroom along with a number of laboratory environments, including a photonics lab, a power electronics lab, an advanced packaging suite, an evaluation lab, a radio frequency lab and a high-power lab. All labs and ...

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Monzo looks to raise £50-100m

 Monzo, the four year-old cash-burning UK digital bank, is looking raise  £50-100 million to add to the £113 million it raised in June in a Series F round done at a valuation of $2 billion. So far Monzo has raised about £300 million. Monzo lost £50.7 million on revenue of £9.2 million in the 12 ...

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2019年12月29日 星期日

Japan Display in talks to sell main plant to Apple and Sharp

Japan Display Inc (JDI) is in talks with Apple and Sharp to sell its main Hakusan factory in Japan, reports the Nikkei. The price is said to be between $730 million to $820 million. Apple paid up-front for half the Hakusan factory’s $1.5 billion construction cost. It is said that Apple and Sharp are considering ...

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Huawei hits back at WSJ’s $75bn state aid claim

Huawei has responded to allegations in the Wall Street Journal that, over the last 20 years,  it has received $75 billion in state aid. The aid, says the WSJ, was made up of: $46 billion in loans, lines of credit, and other financing from state lenders $25 billion in tax breaks for tech companies $2 ...

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Parcel deliveries by drone get nearer

Parcel deliveries by drone are a step nearer with the CAA starting tests in February for the use of drones beyond an operator’s line of sight, which is currently illegal. “Enabling everyday drone flying beyond visual line of sight is a game changer, providing the opportunity for unmanned vehicles to monitor critical infrastructure, make deliveries ...

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Thin-film devices driving piezoelectric market growth

 “The piezoelectric market for sensors, actuators, and transducers is expected to reach $48.5 billion in 2024, with a 12.6% CAGR from 2018 – 2024 on comparable devices in bulk and thin-film technologies.» says Jérôme Mouly of  Yole Développement (Yole), ”thin-film piezo-based devices are driving the market’s growth, though market share is still in favour of ...

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Claims that China will begin 14nm production in 2020

China’s overall IC production capability will move to 14nm next year,  according to Digitimes Research. Both Yangtse Memories and ChangXin Memory are said to be expanding capacity and moving to more advanced nodes in 2020. ChangXin Memory (formerly Innotron Memory) says it will be China’s first DRAM company. It is running 20,000 wafers 19nm per ...

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Japan has 50% of flat panel manufacturing equipment market

Japanese companies supplied  more than 50% of  the market for flat panel display manufacturing equipment between 2017 and 2029, says IHS Markit. South Korean firms held about a 25%, Japan has maintained its leadership in equipment used to make FPDs, despite the fact that, in 2019, Japan accounted for just 5% of  FPD capacity, down ...

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2019年12月27日 星期五

EEVblog #1274 – Long Term Alkaline Battery Leakage Testing

Testing 7 different brands of AA Alkaline batteries in two different configurations over 10 months to see if they leak. Duracell, Energizer, Varta, Panasonic, Fujitsu, HVP70 High Voltage Probe: https://www.eevblog.com/product/hvp70/

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2019年12月26日 星期四

RIP: Chuck Peddle, designer of the 6502.

Chuck Peddle, designer of the 6502, has died at the age of 82 from pancreatic cancer. With Bill Mensch, who later founded the Western Design Centre, Peddle and five other engineers left Motorola in 1974 after being told to stop designing a low-cost processor and took the project to MOS Technology in Pennsylvania. There they ...

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China pursuing CPU import substitution

China’s latest domestic chip boosting initiative – called 352 Project – intends to develop a PC CPU which will replace 30% of the CPUs used inside China-based PCs within a year. Within three years the aim is to have replaced 80% of foreign CPUs  used in China-based PCs to be shortly followed by 100%. In ...

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Etron and Lattice develop AI+DRAM platform

Taiwanese DRAM design specialist Etron Technology has joined Lattice Semiconductor to  develop a miniaturised AI+DRAM platform for applications to terminal edge computing, industrial robots, and multimedia such as AR/VR, says Digitimes. The platform contains Etron’s newly developed RPC (Reduced Pin Count) DRAM architecture (pictured) which has x16 DDR3 – LPDDR3 bandwidth but uses only 22 ...

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Q1 wafer orders up

Q1 wafer orders are up, says Doris Hsu chair of silicon wafer manufacturer GlobalWafers, as reported in Digitimes. The company has seen “ a substantial ramp-up in 12-inch wafer demand”, says Hsu. Meanwhile, and the supply of its epitaxial wafers has become tight. The increase in demand has come from Taiwan, Japan and Korea.  8-inch ...

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Graphics DRAM to lead DRAM price recovery

Graphics DRAM is expected to lead the DRAM sector into a price uptick in Q1, says DRAMeXchange. Graphics DRAM contract prices are projected to increase by over 5% QoQ, the highest among all memory products. As GPU and game consoles become higher-spec, demand for high-capacity GDDR6 rises In the graphics card market, the majority of ...

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Caring clothing

Holst Centre has developed several human-centric wearables for healthcare and wellbeing: MYSA – ‘Relax Shirt’   Due to chronic stress caused by high workloads, burnouts are a rising social and economic problem. MYSA is a “relax shirt” designed for daily use that reminds its wearer of taking regular breaks. During these breaks MYSA creates a ...

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LoraWAN growing unexpectedly fast

LPWA connections will grow to around 400m connections by 2025, according to Strategy Analytics. While initial expectations were very optimistic for unlicensed LPWA, especially given the wealth of low power requirements in IoT and first mover advantage for companies like Sigfox, the reality has been tempered by the exaggerated death of 2G networks, which have ...

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Detecting pets and children in hot cars

The University of Waterloo and Nidec Mobility aim to have a proof-of-concept prototype for detecting children and pets stuck in hot cars, ready in early 2020. Nidec Mobility intends to start mass-production of a radar sensor for the application in 2022. By combining the radar sensor with an in-vehicle camera, it becomes possible to distinguish ...

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2019年12月24日 星期二

AMS launches Nano evaluation kits for Arduino and Raspberry Pi

AMS has released the Nanovision and Nanoberry evaluation kits, providing a platform for development based on its NaneyeC miniature image sensor. The NaneyeC camera is an image sensor supplied as a 1x1mm surface-mount module. It can produce 100kpixel resolution up to 58fps. AMS suggests the module could be used for video applications in which the ...

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Nexperia gets new owner

Today Nexperia, the former Standard Products division of NXP, announced that Wingtech Technology – a Chinese computer and telecom equipment manufacturer – has obtained a controlling stake in Nexperia from Beijing Jianguang Asset Management Co. Ltd (JAC Capital). Headquartered in Nijmegen, Netherlands, Nexperia will stay an independent company, operating under Dutch law, and with the ...

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2019年12月23日 星期一

Atmosic raises $28.5m Series B

Atmosic Technologies, the low-power wireless IoT specialist, has raised a $28.5 million Series B. This investment, led by Sutter Hill Ventures – along with investments from Clear Ventures, Walden International, Dolby Family Ventures, and Arden Road Investments – brings the total amount of funding raised to $49.5 million since the company’s founding in 2016. This new ...

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EV start-up raises $3.5bn

Ten year-old EV start-up Rivian has become an investors’ darling having raised $3.5 billion – including four investment rounds this year. The latest round, yesterday, was for $1.3 billion. Amazon has invested $700 million in Rivian and Ford has invested $500 million. BlackRock is among the investors. Amazon has given Rivian an order for 100,000 ...

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US alliance for quantum computing

The US has launched the Quantum Information Edge alliance to advance quantum computing. Led by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and Sandia National Laboratories, the alliance includes  the University of Maryland, Duke University, Harvard University, the University of Colorado Boulder, UC Berkeley, Caltech, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, MIT, and the University of New Mexico. “We ...

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Server market recovers from trade war

The demand for servers has recovered with growth in demand from AWS, FB, Google and MS, says TrendForce, with Dell EMC, HPE, Inspur, Huawei, and Lenovo dominating the  market. AWS and FB were the main drivers of demand in 2019 increasing server purchases by 10% in 2019. Google and MS had a slight decline in ...

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November SEMI billings up 9.1% y-o-y

November billings of $2.12 billion by North America-based manufacturers of semiconductor equipment were 9.1% higher than the $1.94 billion billings posted in November 2018, says SEMI. The November 2019 billings are 1.9% up sequentially on October’s billings of $2.08 billion “Monthly billings of North American equipment manufacturers increased month-over-month for the second consecutive month,” said ...

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Researchers demo CMOS-compatible SOT MRAM cell

Researchers at Tohoku University have announced the demonstration of a high-speed spin-orbit-torque (SOT) MRAM cell compatible with 300 mm Si CMOS technology. The demand for low-power and high-performance integrated circuits (ICs) has been increasing as AI and IoT devices become more widely adopted. With the present ICs, purely CMOS-based memories such as embedded Flash (eFlash) ...

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Arkwright Scholarship students celebrate at the IET

Last month, 415 students were awarded an Arkwright Scholarship, recognising their accomplishments in engineering study and providing funds to boost their further education. EW reporter Alex McCarthy attended the awards ceremony, held at the IET in London, and spoke with some of the recipients to find out their visions for the future of engineering. Now ...

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2019年12月22日 星期日

Arm looking to sell cyber-security unit

Arm and Gemalto, a subsidiary of Thales, are looking for a buyer for their loss-making cyber-security jv Trustonic. Last year Trustonic lost €8.3 million on sales of €9.3 million. Arm and Gemslto have made loans of  €8.4 million to Trustonic this year. Trustonic has 80 staff headed up by Ben Cade, formerly of Arm. Trustonic has ...

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Fab Decade For Chip Stocks

As the 2010s drew to a close,  a series of infographics from CNBC based on Factset data, show just how good the decade has been for chip stocks: First the SOX: Second: Top companies’ returns:   Third: Share prices  as a multiple of forward earnings:

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Record year for fab additions next year

A record amount of IC capacity is forecast to be added in 2021 with  new 300mm wafer fabs expected to open in 2020, two of them in China, reports IC Insights. IC Insights recently released its Global Wafer Capacity 2020-2024 report that provides in-depth analyses and forecasts of IC industry capacity by wafer size, by process ...

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On-chip light-source switches wavelengths and colours

Researchers from the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the Universities of Maryland and Colorado have developed an optical parametric oscillator (OPO) light source which can produce output light that is a very different colour, or wavelength, than the input light. In addition to creating light at visible wavelengths, the OPO simultaneously generates ...

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New substrate material for flexible PCBs

Toray Industries has created a polyphenylene sulfide (PPS) film that maintains the outstanding dielectric characteristics—or low dielectric losses of electrical energy—flame retardancy, and chemical robustness of that polymer while remaining thermally resistant at 40°C higher than conventional counterparts. The new film resists deformation and is dimensionally stable near its melting point. PPS is a super ...

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Ofcom reviews connected home

Full-fibre broadband is now available to around three million homesbut some rural areas are still behind towns and cities for coverage – new data from Ofcom shows. Ofcom’s annual Connected Nations report analyses the availability of broadband and mobile services across the UK and its nations. This year’s report highlights further progress from industry in ...

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Case for PoE HAT for Raspberry Pi mini PC

Raspberry Pi enthusiasts looking for a case that will accommodate the PoE HAT design for the Raspberry Pi mini PC may be interested in an extended case created by Thingiverse user “rrapier” earlier this year, reports geeky-things. The Raspberry Pi 4 PoE Texas Hat 3D printed case is now available to download and has been ...

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EEVblog #1273 – EMC Near Field vs Far Field Explained

An explanation of near-field vs far-field in relation to EMC compliance testing. H-field magnetic probes vs e-field electric probes. Explanation extraction from video #1176
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EEVblog #1272 – Mailbag

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31:34 Vintage Telecom telephone gear, and mechanical counters.
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48:27 JYE Tech DSO138 Oscilloscope Kit https://jyetech.com/dso-138-oscilloscope-diy-kit/

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2019年12月21日 星期六

2020 Vision – The hunt is on for new EW BrightSparks

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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2019年12月20日 星期五

Tencent and ST hook up for LoRaWAN

Tencent’s latest IoT operation system, TencentOS Tiny LoRaWAN, will run on the STM32 LoRaWAN software expansion package. TencentOS Tiny is an open-source compact IoT embedded operation system (OS). To simplify LoRaWAN migration and accelerate time-to-market for Chinese IoT developers, Tencent has expanded the TencentOS Tiny family and unveiled the new addition, TencentOS Tiny LoRaWAN. It is ...

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Jenax introduces non-flammable liquid electrolytes for battery safety

Jenax, manufacturer of thin lithium-ion rechargeable batteries, today announced a development in battery safety with non-flammable liquid electrolytes. The company says it has solved the problem of batteries catching fire or explode in extremely hot temperatures or when short circuited. This technology can be employed to improve safety in applications such as wearables and electric ...

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Arrow, Geniatech and ON Semi collaborate on multi-sensor device

Arrow Electronics has collaborated with ON Semiconductor and original design manufacturer Geniatech to develop Museon 1.1, a device for monitoring industrial workplace safety. Museon 1.1 is a multi-sensor online wearable device based on ON Semiconductor`s RSL10 dev kit. The platform features RSL10, a low power Bluetooth 5 radio SoC, and comprises five sensors that can ...

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Segger Systemview V3.10 adds data acquisition via UART and TCP/IP

Segger announces the release of Systemview V3.10, an update to its system verification tool for embedded systems. The update adds of real-time data acquisition via UAR¬T or TCP/IP. Any system with UART or TCP/IP connection, typically Ethernet, can now be monitored and verified. Version 3.10 comes with the target code required for integration as well ...

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Global growth of 2.5% expected next year

Global growth is expected to stabilise at 2.5% in 2020 before edging up 2.7% in 2021, says IHS Markit. The probability of a recession has decreased for 2020, and now stands at one in five. The U.S. economy is expected to expand at a rate of 2.1% in 2020, down from the average of 2.5% ...

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2019年12月19日 星期四

GaN-nanowires-on-Si process to make 3D LEDs for displays

TowerJazz and Aledia, which makes 3D LEDs on a GaN-nanowires-on-Si process for display applications, are putting Aledia’s process into volume production. The development uses Aledia’s IP and TowerJazz’s Transfer Optimization and Development Process Services (TOPS). “We are very excited to take our technology into its industrialization phase,” says Aledia CEO Giorgio Anania. Aledia’s 3D LED technology ...

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Global Wafer Capacity

Global wafer capacity broken down by geography and by node has been compiled by IC Insights in its Global Wafer Capacity 2020-24 report. Here is a synopsis:      

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Duratech in first commercial production of IME

DuraTech Industries, which provides custom label printing services, for customers has announced  its first commercial production of In-Mold Electronics (IME). IME combines all of the benefits of In-Mold Decorating with printed, conductive inks, creating a unique solution to user experiences. Watlow, a global supplier of industrial electric thermal solutions, has applied DuraTech’s IME technology to ...

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RS Components adds Confirmit Genius text analytics to VoC program

RS Components has expanded its Voice of the Customer (VoC) program with the addition of the Confirmit Genius text analytics. The program has run since 2014, with CX metrics forming one of RS’s top five corporate strategic KPIs. Following the deployment of Genius, RS has been able to achieve an 85% accuracy for sentiment and ...

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Sierra Wireless selects R&S ATS1800C test chamber 5G testing

Sierra Wireless has selected the compact antenna test range based Rohde & Schwarz (R&S) ATS1800C for mmWave frequencies testing. The transportable product features a CATR reflector with rolled edges and a smooth surface designed to minimize scattering and provide the precise results required for operation at high frequencies. One challenge of over-the-air (OTA) testing is ...

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Buck LED drivers from Diodes feature 4.5-40V input voltage range

Diodes has launched the AL8843Q and AL8862Q automotive-compliant DC-DC buck LED drivers, designed for single and multiple LED strings in and around vehicles. Applications include daytime running lights as well as fog lights, turn lights, and brake/stop lights. The devices’ supply voltage range 4.5-40V (AL8862Q up to 55V), in order to withstand voltage variations, such ...

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Chinese chip companies get the most government support, says OECD

Chinese semiconductor companies receive the most government support of any of their global peers proportionately to their revenue, states a report from the OECD. The OECD looked into public financial records of 21 international chipmakers which represent two-thirds of the global market. It found that Chinese companies receive higher government support relative to their revenues ...

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Micron calls the bottom

Micron says that it has reached the bottom of its financial cycle and an uptick will start next quarter. “Recent trends in our business give us optimism that our fiscal second quarter will mark the bottom for our financial performance,” says CEO Sanjay Mehrotra. Two things give it confidence – licences to supply some parts ...

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2019年12月18日 星期三

Si Catalayst gets five new chicks

Silicon Catalyst, the chip company incubator, has announced the admission of five additional companies. The newly admitted companies include: Beam Semiconductor MicroHorn™ 60/28 GHz Phased Array Transceiver Technology Offices in Rehovot, Israel and Toronto, Canada Digital Light High-speed Dynamic Light Field Sensors for the Age of AI Offices in Silicon Valley Dover Microsystems Delivering CoreGuard® technology, the ...

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Amazon, Google, Apple combine on Home Assistant interoperability

The top three Home Assistants are to be made interoperable. Amazon, Apple, Google are working with the Zigbee Alliance on a standard which, it is hoped, will  deliver interoperability by the end of next year. The project is called “Connected Home over IP”. The idea is to provide a standard to help build products that ...

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Medium power IGBT in EconoDUAL 3 package

Infineon is moving its  TRENCHSTOP IGBT7 into the medium power arena in the standard industry package EconoDUAL 3. In this technology, the 1200 V module provides a leading nominal current of 900 A enabling a 30 percent higher inverter output current for the same frame size compared with the former technology. While specific improvements of ...

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RS Components stocking Fluke IP67 industrial digital multimeter

RS Components has added the Fluke 87V Max true-RMS digital multimeter , IP67 rated for use by maintenance engineers in demanding industrial environments. An enhanced version of the 87V DMM, the 87V Max comes with an IP67 rated casing and doubled battery life, aiming at applications in motor drives, plant automation, power distribution and electromechanical ...

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Recom helps engineers design in with digital models on SnapEDA

In collaboration with SnapEDA, Recom has launched digital models for its entire product catalog to assist engineers with electronic component discovery and design-in. Over 20,000 symbols & footprints, the digital models necessary for circuit board design, are now available for free download via the manufacturer’s website. Recom says this will save engineers weeks of development ...

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Optoscribe launches OptoArray fiber alignment arrays

Optoscribe has announced a range of fiber alignment structures called OptoArray, which offers “unrivalled levels of optical performance through the precise alignment of optical fiber arrays”. The manufacturer says its product range can help reduce losses in optical circuits through the precise and stable alignment of fibers. This is particularly important given the demand for ...

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2019年12月17日 星期二

After the biggest fall for 18 years, it’s all going to get better, says SI

The  2019 semiconductor market will decline about 12% to 15% from 2018, the biggest drop since the 32% decline in 2001, eighteen years ago, says Bill Jewell’s Semiconductor Intelligence. However, the momentum is trending up.  According to WSTS the market began the year with a 14.7% plunge in 1Q 2019 from 4Q 2018.  The market ...

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Ofcom to make it illegal to sell locked phone

Ofcom plans to make it illegal to sell a locked mobile phone. “By freeing mobile users from locked handsets, our plans would save people time, effort and money – and help them unlock a better deal,” says Lindsey Fussell, Ofcom’s consumer group director. Ofcom said that their market research had shown that the need to ...

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Relief at narrowly-drawn US export restrictions

A sigh of relief from the US high-tech industry has met reports that the US Department of Commerce is drafting its export restrictions to China narrowly. One of the areas which may be restricted under rules currently being drafted is technology relating to gate-all-around transistors which could replace finfets as the building block of the ...

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Dialog looks to 2020

Dialog’s best and brightest have come up with their ideas of what will be important in 2020. Here they are: Digital car keys – Erik Peters: In 2020 we will see the first wave of digital keys hit the market. One of the biggest advancements in Bluetooth low energy (BLE) over the past year has ...

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Rugged SMA connectors for extreme conditions

Amphenol RF has introduced additional SMA connectors to the existing Amphenol Rugged Connector (ARC) series. This product series is specifically designed to offer superior performance in harsh conditions which makes them ideal for outdoor applications where extreme weather conditions may be a consideration. These interconnect solutions are rated IP67 in both the mated and unmated ...

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SiC isolated gate driver claims to improve power supply efficiency

Maxim’s SiC isolated gate driver MAX22701E claims to offer improved power supply efficiency to designers of high-voltage/high-power systems. The driver IC is intended for use in switch-mode power supplies within industrial communication systems for solar power inverters, motor drives, electric cars, energy storage systems, uninterrupted power supplies, data farms and high-power/high-efficiency power supplies. Many switch-mode ...

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Modbus TCP interface option added to programmable DC PSUs

TDK has announced a Modbus TCP interface option for the Genesys+ series of programmable DC power supplies. The option is available on all models ranging from the 1U high half rack GH1.5kW to the 3U high full rack GSP15kW. The Modbus TCP protocol is used for transmission of information between electronic devices for the supervision ...

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Dengrove adds “smallest 3W AC-DC” modules

Claimed to be the smallest 3W AC-DC power modules available to date, the RAC3 series by Recom is now available from Dengrove Electronic Components. The modules measure 28.5mm x 23.5mm x 17.9mm and deliver full load power from  -40°C to 60°C, and 2 Watts up to 80°C.  The modules also meet the latest European ErP ...

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Relec partners with Digiwise for any-angle displays

Viewing angles can be problematic for displays, especially if the person viewing is wearing polarised lens glasses. Addressing this problems, Relec Electronics and Digiwise have developed a quarter-wave retarder film for use over TFT displays used in industrial and municipal applications, such as transportation. The retarder film allows information to be clear and readable in ...

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Kioxia claims world’s first 3D semicircular flash memory cell structure

Kioxia claims to have developed the world’s first three-dimensional semicircular split-gate flash memory cell structure, twin BiCS flash, using floating gate (FG) cells. The firm says twin BiCS flash achieves superior program slope and a larger program/erase window at a much smaller cell size compared to conventional circular charge trap (CT) cells. These attributes make ...

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Charcroft quality department expanded with two apprentices

Charcroft Electronics has employed two apprentices who will become members of the distributor’s quality department. Addison Southwood-Evans and Owain Williams will undertake an extended training period to gain experience in each area of Charcroft’s business. This will give the apprentices a comprehensive overview of all activities within the distribution and manufacturing facilities. The apprentices will ...

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Fujifilm to buy Hitachi’s diagnostic imaging business for $1.55bn

Fujifilm is to buy Hitachi’s medical diagnostic imaging business for $1.55 billion. The idea is to gain the scale to take on Philips, GE and Siemens. Last year Fujifilm had 5.5% of the $42 billion diagnostic imaging equipment business. Hitachi had 2.9%. Siemens leads the market with a 23.1% share, followed by GE on 21.8% ...

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BMD-380 introduced for cost- and space-sensitive Bluetooth applications

In an extension of its BMD-3 series, U-Blox has announced a Bluetooth low energy 5.0 module, the BMD-380. Measuring 7.5×9.5mm including the ceramic antenna, its long range protocol is suitable for implementing communication in harsh radio environments. It also supports IEEE802.15.4 (Thread and Zigbee) and is designed for applications in industrial automation, healthcare, smart cities, ...

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Renesas power and timing support for Xilinx Versal ACAP

Renesas says its power and timing products support the Xilinx Versal ACAP devices featured on the Xilinx VCK190 evaluation kit and the Renesas VERSALDEMO1Z power reference board. Built on 7nm technology, Versal addresses the needs of a wide range of applications in data center, automotive, 5G wireless, and wired and defense markets. The Xilinx VCK190 is ...

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Imec tags communicate via any touchscreen

Imec, TNO, and Cartamundi have developed a flexible capacitive identification tag that communicates with standard touch screens (C-touch). C-touch tags can be integrated in a wide range of paper and plastic based objects such as tickets, certified documents, payment cards, realizing smart products. The connection to the internet is established by placing the tagged object ...

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Samsung Electronics Chairman jailed

The Chairman of Samsung Electronics has been sentenced to one and a half years in jail for anti-union activities. Lee Sang-hoon, the chairman (pictured), and 25 other defendants were found guilty of sabotaging the union operations of sub-contract workers in 2013. Seoul Central District Court found that Lee and other executives unearthed sensitive information about ...

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2019年12月16日 星期一

Arm-based challenge to x86 in the datacentre

The Arm architectural challenge to Intel’s virtual monopoly of data centre processors is joined by Nuvia – headed by Apple’s former chief processor architect Gerard Williams (pictured). Nuvia has raised a $53 million Series A and received the compliment of a writ from Apple which suggest they’re sore about the defection of Williams and his ...

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Long distance datacomms without repeaters

Researchers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology have partnered up with engineers from Corning and T8, Russia, and developed a system for high-throughput data transfer over great distances without the need for signal repeating along the way. Systems of this kind could be used to provide internet connection and other communication services in ...

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Farnell looks to 2020

“During 2020 we’ll be watching three key trends: modularisation, miniaturisation and AI,” says Rob Rospedzihowski, Farnell’s President of Sales for EMEA. “We expect to see a continuation of the trend for modular hardware solutions,” adds Rospedzihowski. “modular solutions provide design engineers with instantly available and affordable off-the-shelf hardware to speed up their product development time.” “This ...

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DRAM spot price rising; contract price may follow in Q1

DRAM spot prices are rising and contract prices are expected to rise in Q1, says DRAMeXchange. There has been an influx of downgraded 1Xnm chips in the spot market at rock-bottom prices due to product returns.  However, although they are still being returned, memory module makers and channel brokers have become willing to raise their ...

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UKESF female scholars attend WES student conference

For the fourth year in a row, the UKESF has supported final-year female scholars to attend the annual Women’s Engineering Society (WES) Student Conference with all-expenses-paid places. Attendance was sponsored by Enigma, a recruitment company that specialises in the UK technology sector. The University of Warwick hosted the annual conference, which took place between the ...

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Protected: Survey: The edge of tomorrow

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Intel pays $2bn for Habana Labs

Intel has bought Habana Labs, the Israel programmable deep learning accelerator specialist,  for approximately $2 billion. “Habana turbo-charges our AI offerings for the data center with a high-performance training processor family and a standards-based programming environment to address evolving AI workloads,” says Intel’s Navin Shevoy, “we know that customers are looking for ease of programmability with ...

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Toshiba 100V N-channel mosfets in SOP advance package for automotive

Toshiba Electronics Europe GmbH has launched 100V N-channel power mosfets for automotive applications, available in the surface mount SOP advance (WF) package. Designed for 48V system applications, the devices are suitable use in boost converters for integrated starter generators and LED headlights as well as motor drives, switching regulators and load switches. The XPH6R30ANB device ...

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Millennium Point opens applications for £20,000 STEM grants

Charitable trust Millennium Point has announced a STEM education funding pot of over £400,000, available in individual grants of up to £20,000. The funding is available to schools, charities and not-for-profit organisations across the West Midlands and applications are open until February 14 2020. Profits from the commercial activity of the Birmingham venue is invested ...

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2019年12月15日 星期日

Analogue approach to AI at the edge

TowerJazz and Technion (the Israel Institute of Technology – pictured), have developed an analogue approach to designing AI cores which, they claim, is the only way to get the processing power at the appropriate power levels to deliver AI at the edge. The TowerJazz/Technion approach uses  memristor devices with analogue memory storage using TowerJazz’s Y-Flash ...

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Deep Thinking Unit trains datacentres

Enflame, the Tencent-backed Shanghai AI start-up, and Globalfoundries have produced a deep learning accelerator  for data centre training based on a core called a Deep Thinking Unit (DTU), The DTU is based on GF’s 12LP FinFET platform with 2.5D packaging to deliver fast, power-efficient data processing for cloud-based AI training platforms. The DTU leverages GF’s 12LP ...

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Toray Industries opens R&D centre to tackle climate change

Toray Industries has opened an R&D Innovation Centre for the Future at its Shiga Plant where the company was founded in 1926. Toray president Akihiro Nikkaku said that the centre will address “climate change, water shortages and resource depletion.” The centre comprises two buildings. One will undertake integrated research to generate ideas for revolutionary materials, ...

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CutiePi coming soon

The 8-inch Raspberry Pi and Raspbian tablet is reported to be nearly ready for mass production. The layout and schematics of its motherboard have been finalised, it is has been OSHWA certified and the design files have been published on Github.   The Raspbian image and 3D printable case file will go live this month too.   For ...

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Leti improves performance of thin-film batteries

In a research result that potentially could expand the market for tiny energy-storage units in medical implantable, injectable and wearable solutions,  has fabricated all-solid, inorganic thin-film batteries (TFBs) that demonstrate better performance than existing devices.  “We demonstrate an areal energy density of 890μAh.cm-2, the highest reported so far for such devices,”  says Leti, “furthermore, we ...

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World’s smallest photocouplers claim

Renesas is shipping what it claims to be are the world’s smallest photocouplers. Its five 8.2mm creepage photocouplers are said to be the world’s smallest isolation devices for industrial automation equipment and solar inverters. The RV1S92xxA and RV1S22xxA photocouplers have a package width of 2.5mm. They meet the needs of the zero-energy house that requires ...

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2019年12月13日 星期五

RS Components stocks Bulgin 6000 Series fibre optic connector

RS Components has announced the availability of the 6000 series fibre optic connector by rugged connector manufacturer Bulgin. Specifically designed for use in harsh environments, the 6000 Series fibre LC duplex connector has IP69K and IP68-rated sealing caps, providing protection against dirt and water ingress. It can be fully submersed for up to two weeks ...

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GUC advanced-node designs use Cadence digital implementation

Cadence has announced that Global Unichip Corporation (GUC) deployed the Cadence digital implementation and signoff flow and delivered advanced-node (N16, N12 and N7) designs for AI and high-performance computing applications. Using the Cadence Innovus implementation system and the Voltus IC power integrity solution, GUC achieved first-pass silicon success and met the GHz performance target for ...

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Xinabox adds IoT and data logging functionality to BBC micro:bit

Xinabox has launched IoT and SD card based data logging capabilities to a community of over 4 million learners on the BBC micro:bit. Heavily utilised in STEM and natural science programmes across primary, secondary and third level educational institutions. Xinabox’s interface brings the functionality to connect micro:bit via Wi-Fi for IoT applications, sensor data gathering ...

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Mouser Electronics and TE Connectivity team up on IIoT eBook

Mouser has announced another eBook, this time in collaboration with TE Connectivity, focusing on functions and applications in industrial robotics and IIoT. In Solutions for Robots and Robot Control, engineers from Mouser and TE contribute articles on the latest robotics technologies in the manufacturing space. The eBook places its emphasis on the industrial Internet of ...

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Kionix announces accelerometer with built-in noise filtering function

Rohm Group company Kionix has announced the availability of two accelerometers, the KX132-1211 and KX134-1211, designed for high accuracy, low power motion sensing applications in the industrial equipment and consumer wearable markets. The KX134-1211 is a 3-axis accelerometer for machine condition monitoring. Advanced data path technology allows noise filtering and sensor signal processing normally carried ...

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2019年12月12日 星期四

Paragraf raises £3.4m

Paragraf, the Cambridge graphene specialist, has raised an additional £3.4 million to its Series A  round bringing the total to £16.2 million. Draper Esprit joined the investor team which was led by Parkwalk and included investment from IQ Capital, Amadeus Capital Partners, Cambridge Enterprise, the commercialisation arm of the University of Cambridge and Partners Investment ...

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Imec fabricates MoS2 devices

Imec has fabricated devices using MoS2 – a 2D material which can be grown in stable form with nearly atomic thickness and atomic precision. Imec synthesized the material down to monolayer (0.6nm thickness) and fabricated devices with scaled contact and channel length, as small as 13nm and 30nm respectively. These very scaled dimensions, combined with ...

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Leti integrates analogue neurons and RRAM synapses in SNN

Leti has fabricated a fully integrated bio-inspired neural network, combining resistive-RAM-based synapses and analogue spiking neurons.   The neural network implementation places the synapses close to neurons, which enables direct synaptic current integration.  Spiking neural networks are composed of bio-inspired neurons, which communicate by emitting spikes, discrete events that take place at a point in time, ...

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Q4 foundry revenue to grow 6%

Foundry revenue will geow by a sequential 6% in Q4; reports TrendForce. TSMC has been maintaining maximum capacity utilization rates for its 16nm, 12nm, and 7nm process nodes. TSMC’s revenue share from the 7nm process is increasing due to iPhone 11’s unexpectedly high sales, AMD’s  consistent wafer input at TSMC and  MediaTek placing wafer orders ...

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Nexeon adds to anode IP

Nexeon – the Oxfordshire company developing silicon materials for  lithium ion batteries – has acquired three sets of patents relating to the use of silicon in lithium ion battery anodes. This move increases the strength of the IP the company holds in the field of silicon for use in battery anodes. The 24 patents concern the ...

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14-channel PMIC

With features including four DC/DC buck converters, a boost DC/DC converter, and six low-dropout regulators (LDOs), the  STPMIC1 power-management IC (PMIC) addresses the complex power demands of highly integrated application-processor based systems. The chip is optimized as a companion PMIC for ST’s STM32MP1 heterogeneous multicore microprocessors, which target a broad range of applications by integrating ...

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Oxbotica links with ZF

Oxbotica, the Oxford University autonomous driving spin-out,  has signed an MoU with global automotive technology company, ZF, to integrate its autonomous driving software with ZF’s automotive-grade ProAI compute platform and sensor sets. As a first milestone, Oxbotica has completed integration and demonstration of its autonomous vehicle software with ZF’s ProAI, AI capable automotive-grade compute platform and ...

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ADI introduces quad-output dc-dc µModule regulators

Analog Devices has introduced the LTM4668 and LTM4668A µModule regulators, quad-output dc-dc regulators with up to 4.8A output capability. The devices integrate switching controllers, power FETs, inductors and support components, reducing power consumption and board space, ADI says. They are designed for telecom, networking and industrial applications. Operating over an input voltage range of 2.7V ...

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Christmas prezzies for engineers

As part of its annual Engineer and Maker’s Wish List for those seeking last-minute gift ideas, the element14 Community has selected a mix of products. The list is created for engineers, by engineers, and has gifts they’re sure to love. ·       All Purpose Bit Set: This all-purpose kit has everything needed for quick repairs at home ...

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Renesas launches 2.1mm high photocouplers for automation and inverters

Renesas has announced five 8.2mm creepage photocouplers, the RV1S92xxA and RV1S22xxA photocouplers. The devices feature a package width of 2.5mm, and are suitable for dc-ac power inverters, ac servo motors, PLCs, robotic arms, solar inverters, and battery storage and charging systems. The RV1S9260A 15Mbps communications coupler and RV1S9213A intelligent power module driver use LSSO5 packages ...

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2019年12月11日 星期三

Dialog licenses FlexLogix eFPGA

Dialog is to license FlexLogix’ eFPGA technology for use in high volume ICs, and the EFLX Compiler to programme these eFPGAs. EFLX is a low-power fully functional FPGA that is integrated into SoCs, microcontrollers and other standard or custom ICs, rather than serving as a standalone chip. EFLX cores can be used to upgrade I/O ...

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US fabless companies take trade war hit

Thanks to the trade war, Qualcomm’s revenues were down 22% y-o-y in Q3, Broadcom’s were down 12.3% – a third consecutive quarter of losses, and. Nvidia’s were down 9.5%, reports TrendForce.   AMD and Xilinx were the only two among all U.S.-based fabless companies to display revenue increases. As a result of the continuing shortage of ...

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Imec route to sub-3nm logic

Imec has  presented  first standard cell simulation results of its forksheet device designed for sub-3nm logic technology nodes. Compared to nanosheet devices, the reduced n-to-p spacing results in a 10% performance increase. When combined with scaling boosters, the new device architecture will bring logic standard cell height down to 4.3 tracks, which combined with cell ...

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2019 equipment sales down 10.5%

IC manufacturing equipment sales will drop 10.5% to $57.6 billion in 2019 from last year’s historic peak of $64.4 billion but stage a 2020 recovery and set a new high in 2021, says SEMI. Next year equipment sales will have a 5.5% increase to $60.8 billion in 2020 and 2021 will have record revenues of $66.8 ...

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UK 4th in camera-to-citizen density

The US has nearly the same ratio of security cameras to citizens as China, according to IHS Markit. China in 2018 maintained its global lead in surveillance camera penetration, with 1 camera installed for each 4.1 people in the country. However, the U.S. was close behind, with a people-to-camera ratio of 4.6-to-1. Taiwan came in ...

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$20 IoT prototyping board

Renesas has launched a Fast Prototyping Board to enable rapid product development for IoT endpoint equipment. The board is based on the RL78/G14 MCU suitable for motor control in portable equipment and IoT sensors, as well as a wide range of IoT endpoint equipment, such as home appliances, industrial equipment, building automation, and health care ...

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EEVblog #1271 – 100kW WindWall Generator BUSTED!

A 100kW wind generator in only 7sqm? Less than 2% the size of traditional wind turbines! Basic physics and the whiteboard to the rescue! A look at the claims of the AmericanWind WindWall “turbine” wind power generator. http://americanwindinc.com/our-products-3/advanced-windwall/

And a Wind Power 101 tutorial on how wind turbine calculations work and pesky limitation of Betz’s law.

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The Patent: https://patents.google.com/patent/US9331534B2/en

Failed ducted wind turbine projects: http://www.wind-works.org/cms/index.php?id=637

Wind powered car! https://alcse.org/the-american-wind-powered-car/

A commercial efficient 100kW wind generator: https://en.wind-turbine-models.com/turbines/1682-hummer-h25.0-100kw

Fluxgate Condensor T-Shirt: https://teespring.com/shop/fluxgatecondenser?pid=2&cid=2397&sid=front

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Dr. Frederik Schulze Spüntrup joins BrightSparks judging panel

For its fourth year, the EW BrightSparks programme, in partnership with RS Components, sees Dr. Frederik Schulze Spüntrup join its illustrious judging panel. Frederik Schulze Spüntrup is the elected president of the European Young Engineers, a European umbrella organization representing the voice of more than 350,000 young engineers, fostering mobility, education and the awareness of ...

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IoT and semi investor joins Crayfish.io China-focused accelerator fund

Shenzen-based DB investment management (DBI) has joined the Crayfish.io accelerator as the second anchor investor opening up further opportunities for UK and European semiconductor and IoT companies to join the programme and get ‘China-ready’. Two months since its launch, the ‘China-ready’ investment programme for UK and European companies has increased by £2.33m. DBI’s investment focus ...

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Pyreos TO-39 quad detectors for multi-gas and food detection

Pyreos has announced its taking orders for a range of four channel (quad) pyroelectric detectors in TO-39 packaging and will ship the first samples this month. The detectors are targeted at gas and food analysis applications such as refrigerant detection, anaesthesia, exhaust gases, carbon monoxide and hydrocarbons. A pre-configured list of 30 filters is now ...

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Renesas and Minebea Mitsumi collaborate on stepping motor

Renesas and Minebea Mitsumi have announced the joint development of resolver-based (angle sensor) stepping motor and motor control solutions for use in robots, office automation (OA) equipment, and medical/nursing care equipment. These applications require motors with precision control, miniaturized form factors, and resistance to environmental influences. For its part in the collaboration, Minebea Mitsumi has ...

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Southampton Uni spin-off reduces 5G latency by 16x

AccelerCom, the Southampton University spin-out, has announced general availability of the 5G NR LDPC version of its error correction software which reduces latency up to 16x to support numerology 4 in 3GPP 38.211 and also results in significant power savings for mobile networks with lower order numerology networks. The company’s LDPC IP is optimized and configurable ...

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2019年12月10日 星期二

Tieto and ST combine on OTA auto firmware upgrades and V2X

Tieto and ST are to develop Central Control-Unit (CCU) software for ST’s Telemaco Platform. Over-the-air update needs have led ST to develop the Telemaco family of automotive, multi-processor SoCs  and its associated Telemaco3P Modular Telematics Platform (MTP), which provides an open development environment for prototyping advanced Smart Driving applications. The Telemaco3P automotive SoC embeds an ...

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