Broadcom overtakes Qualcomm in fabless listing

Broadcom overtook Qualcomm in Q2 to be the world’s No.1 fabless company, says TrendForce. Qualcomm’s upward momentum in 2Q20 was constrained due to the delayed release of Apple’s latest iPhones. New product releases by Apple during third quarters had typically contributed to Qualcomm’s Q2  revenues in the past. However, while Qualcomm had 6.7% revenue growth YoY ...

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Digital prototyping aids car development

Model-based development in the automotive industry has been advanced by Toshiba Digital Solutions Corporation (TDSL) which has announced its Distributed Co-simulation Platform which enables remotely operated, multi-company digital prototyping of automotive control systems. By using simulations of vehicular component models and external models that emulate various traffic conditions surrounding the vehicle, design engineers can accelerate automotive ...

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Dialog launches auto-grade DC-DC converters

Dialog has launched a new line of high-current, automotive-grade, step-down DC-DC buck converters. The DA913X-A devices require fewer external components than competing solutions, enabling a low system BoM cost and a reduced solution footprint. The devices operate at efficiency levels above 90%, reducing the thermal design challenges for powering high-current rails in a wide range ...

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SK Telecom shows Geovision applications

SK Telecom is introducing its Geovision big data-based real-time floating population analytics service at this week’s Big Data For Official Stistics conference organised by Statistics Korea (KOSTAT) and the United Nations Global Working Group (GWG). Geovision uses communication data between mobile phones and base stations to offer analytical insights in diverse areas including trade area analysis ...

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Sponsored Content: Addressing high-voltage current-sensing design challenges in HEV/EVs

Electrification has created a new paradigm in automotive power systems; whether the design is a hybrid electric vehicle (HEV) or fully electric vehicle (EV), there are new design challenges to address. This technical article highlights some of the primary challenges in high-voltage current sensing and shares additional resources to aid and simplify your design process. ...

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Gertie the AI pig

The irrepressible Elon Musk introduced the world to Gertrude (pictured) at the weekend After launching his car into orbit, perfecting the re-usable space rocket, driving his car company to be the most valuable on the planet and becoming personally worth $100 billion, Musk demo-ed a pig with an implanted chip which could solve many health ...

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Tektronix introduces 8 Series sampling platform

Tektronix has announced the 8 Series sampling platform, a disaggregated modular instrument series boasting parallel acquisition, with up to 4 channels per mainframe and the highest measurement accuracy for PAM4 optical signals on multiple inputs simultaneously. The 8 Series consists of the TSO820 Sampling Oscilloscope Mainframe, optical sampling modules, and TSOVu, a new software platform ...

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C&K expands snap switch portfolio

C&K has launched a silent, sealed, subminiature, snap-acting switch series that offers precise actuation in automotive applications. The compact ZMW Series snap-acting switch combines a long stroke with more than 2mm of over travel for reliable actuation. The ZMW Series is used in rugged environments including automotive, industrial, white good and other applications. The ZMW ...

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Q2 NAND revenues up 6.5% QoQ

Q2 NAND bit shipment and ASP both grew about 3% QoQ, says DRAMeXchange, while NAND revenue rose 6.5% QoQ to $14.5 billion. Positive drivers were increasing tenders for Chromebooks, stock-up activities related to the next iPhone series and SSD demand related to the upcoming game consoles.  New Chinese entrant Yangtze continues to expand its production ...

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Another China fab project stalled

Another China fab project has been halted, reports the South China Morning Post. Wuhan Hongxin Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (HSMC) has been building a $20 billion semiconductor production site in Dongxihu for two years but the local government has said that construction has been halted because the money has run out. HSMC intended to build a ...

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Noirlab report suggests mitigating effects for satellite constellations on astronomy

A newly-released NOIRLab report, by experts representing both astronomers and satellite operators, studies the way to reduce the effect large constellations on ground-based astronomy. It concludes that large constellations of bright satellites in low Earth orbit will fundamentally change ground-based optical and infrared astronomy and could impact the appearance of the night sky for stargazers ...

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Kneron AI chip delivers 1.5 TOPS at 1.2W

Four year-old Kneron of San Diego has launched an AI processor said to deliver 1.5 TOPS with an average power consumption of 1.2W. Based on the Arm Cortex M4, Kneron designates it the KL 720. “KL720 combines power with unmatched energy-efficiency and Kneron’s industry-leading AI algorithms to enable a new era for smart devices,” says ...

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Viewpoint: Why collaboration on the ground is vital for LEO satellite constellations in the sky

Dr Esen Bayer, CTO at ETL Systems, shares his vision to tackle the ground segment demands of a new generation of low earth orbit (LEO) satellites head-on. He and his team are creating a collaborative platform of completely new smart universal chassis’ designs, where the modules and habitat communicate with one another, interacting intelligently and almost ...

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Unit growth but falling ASPs for LiDAR

The LiDAR market is characterised by increasing volumes but decreasing unit prices, says Yole. The overall 2025 LiDAR market should reach $3.8 billion after a 19% CAGR between 2020 and 2025. The industrial market will show a moderate growth between 2019 and 2025, due to lower LiDAR unit prices The LiDAR market for automotive and ...

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Multi-device wireless charging for cars

NXP  claims to be first to deliver in-vehicle multi-device simultaneous wireless charging driven by a single MWCT controller. NXP has expanded its offerings to the  15W wireless power standard, enabling faster charging. The allows the passenger and driver to simultaneously charge wirelessly through one console. Based on the Qi standard, it supports all Qi enabled ...

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Multichannel RGB-LED driver

Melexis, the Belgian automotive IC specialist, Has introduced a multichannel RGB-LED driver. The MLX81116 supports the MeLiBu high speed communication IP to enable intelligent animated automotive lighting concepts. The technology is already being leveraged by leading global manufacturers to enhance the safety features of their latest models. An increasing number of car manufacturers are looking to ...

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EEVblog #1333 – Nano Diamond Self-Charging Battery DEBUNKED!

Dave debunks the marketing claims of self-charging Nano Diamond Batteries in the first 10 minutes using their own material. The rest of the video is cream on top. NDB Inc supposedly have a nuclear nano diamond self-charging battery that will revolutionise the energy industry and power electric vehicle and mobile phones.

TLDR; it’s no better than existing 100uW commercial betavoltaic batteries, but has an added graphene supercapacitor in the AA package.The rest is marketing BS.

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Betavoltaics presentation from City Labs: https://www.energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2015/08/f26/Cabauy%20Tritium%20Focus%20Group%20Presentation.pdf

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Sub-GHz wireless MCU for two-layer boards supports LoRa

STMicroelectronics has added a QFN48 package to its STM32WLE5 wireless SoCs. Called STM32WLE5Cx “the new 7mm x 7mm package option makes it suited to a simplified two-layer board design that eases manufacturing”, according to the company – ‘x’ decides how much flash is available. These chips combine an ARM Cortex-M4 STM32L4 microcontroller with Semtech’s SX126x ...

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Sensor for Pb ions finds pollution in muddy water

Lead pollution in rivers can be measured in minutes using a proof-of-concept sensor from Rutgers University in New Jersey. It is designed to work directly with sediment – in which Pb pollution tends to gather, and which gets disturbed during activities such as dredging. One of the time consuming parts of sensing in water with ...

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Alternative magnetic material for electric vehicle motors

Japanese scientists are proposing a new material for use in the permanent magnets of electric vehicle motors. The incumbent technology – neodymium-iron-boron, sometimes with dysprosium – works well, but Nd and Dy are considered minerals or strategic importance by nations which mine them, and are mostly found in China where exports are restricted. Working together, ...

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EEVblog #1332 – Facit Mechanical Calculator!

Teardown (partial) of a Facit C1-13 13 digit mechanical calculator from 1967. John Wolff’s mechanical calculator website: http://www.johnwolff.id.au/calculators/Tech/FacitC1-13/C113.htm

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eevBLAB #79 – Bunker Shelving Storage BUILD + Moving Labs!

Building more bunker storage. Plus discussion on moving the lab. https://storagesam.com.au/shelving

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EEVblog #1331 – BattLab One Review

Review of the BattLab One open source battery life estimator tool from Bluebird Labs. A tool that allow you to measure the current and power consumption of your product in active and sleep modes and do “what if” analysis on estimating product battery life.
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Government pushing councils to facilitate Gbit broadband and 5G

The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport is calling on local councils to help ensure people can access better broadband and mobile connectivity. Digital Infrastructure Minister Matt Warman and Local Government Minister Simon Clarke have today written to local authorities setting out how they can help boost gigabit broadband rollout and 5G mobile coverage. The ...

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China chip imports still at $300bn

China’s semiconductor import substitution efforts have not paid off for this year, reports Reuters. “China is the world’s largest importer of chips,” Wei Shaojun, vice-chairman of the China Semiconductor Industry Association, told the World Semiconductor Conference yesterday, “after 2013 our chip imports exceeded $200 billion. In 2018 it exceeded $300 billion and was still at $300 ...

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Inmarsat provides remote connectivity to LoRaWAN IoT networks

Inmarsat has teamed up with CPN Satellite Services and MinFarm Tech to launch the MF 400 IoT Satellite Bridge incorporating Inmarsat’s IsatData Pro (IDP) service. The IDP service allows data from IoT sensors operating on LoRaWAN  networks to be optimised for transmission over Inmarsat’s IDP service, which will bring much-needed additional connectivity to IoT devices deployed ...

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Invent for the Planet 2020 winners announced

The competition for engineering students, Invent for the Planet, has announced this year’s winning projects. The competition challenges young engineers to solve real-world issues such as microplastics in oceans, sustainable airline waste management and single use plastics. Over 800 students from 40 universities in 20 countries took part in this year’s competition, run by Texas ...

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High-performance fabric sensors survive washing machine

Re-usable flexible medical skin electrodes have been built by combining fabric and chemical engineering at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Technical performance is similar to commercial wet gel electrodes, while convenience is comparable to dry electrodes – which are easy to use but generally provide inferior signals to wet electrodes. Four of the electrodes have been ...

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Guerrilla to introduce ten PAs

Guerrilla RF is introducing ten new ¼ W linear power amplifiers over the next two quarters as part of the company’s expansion into the cellular market. These new InGaP HBT amplifiers were designed specifically for 5G/4G wireless infrastructure applications requiring exceptional native linearity over temperature extremes of -40°C to 85°C. The first of the ten ...

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MIPS lands up in China

MIPS has ended up in China, reports Reuters. It got there via a tortured series of deals starting with Imagination buying MIPS in 2013 followed by  China-backed Canyon Bridge buying Imagination in 2017. The US government insisted that MIPS must not go with Imagination to Canyon Bridge so MIPS was sold to Diosdado Banatao who ...

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MCU is suffering most

MCUs are suffering the most among major IC product categories in the Pandemic, according to the Mid-Year Update of IC Insights’ 2020 McClean Reporton integrated circuits. The mid-year forecast shows worldwide MCU sales falling 8% in 2020 to $14.9 billion after dropping 7% in 2019, when the weak global economy lowered the microcontroller market from ...

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Ant set to raise $30bn

Ant, Jack Ma’s fintech company, is to list on the Shanghai and Hong Kong stock markets in an IPO which could raise $30 billion and give Ant a valuation of $300 billion. It is expected that Ant will put 10- 15% of its shares up for sale delivering a valuation of  $200 to $300 billion. ...

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16.7% YoY decline for smartphones in Q2

Smartphone production of 286 million units in 2Q20, was up 2.2%, but down 16.7% YoY, says TrendForce, which is the largest quarterly YoY drop in history. Smartphone production for 3Q20 is expected to reach 335 million units, a 10.1% decrease YoY. Although this figure falls short compared with the same period last year, it still ...

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Security image sensor for 1080p mainstream cameras

Omnivision is sampling a security image sensor for mainstream, high-volume security cameras requiring 1080p resolution and low-light pixel performance. The OS02G10 offers low-light captures via a 2.8 micron pixel built on the OmniPixel3-HS architecture. Compared with OmniVision’s prior-generation mainstream security sensor, it has a 60% better SNR1 and 40% lower power consumption. OmniVision is using ...

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Hanover Displays Deploys its Second Lot of Cobots

LEWES, UK—Hanover Displays Ltd. recently completed the installation of a second batch of cobots to improve manufacturing and quality control processes.

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Expanded US Sanctions Against Huawei May Impact its Production of Smartphones, 5G Base Station Chips

WASHINGTON—The U.S. Department of Commerce announced last week that suppliers are prohibited from providing semiconductor products and components manufactured with U.S. equipment and software to Huawei and its subsidiaries.

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‘Open source hardware’ no longer vague as DIN pins down the definition

German national standards body DIN (Deutsche Institut für Normung) has defined exactly what ‘open-source hardware’ is, and what it isn’t. This should mean an end to ‘open-washing’ – marketing partially or completely closed-source hardware as ‘open-source’. The definition is laid down in document ‘DIN Spec 3105 Open source hardware’, which has been written in English. ...

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Fast and steep recovery at TSMC

TSMC is  “preparing for a fast and steep recovery,” said Maria Marced president of TSMC Europe  (pictured) at the company’s  virtual symposium this morning. Although the IMF is predicting a 4.9% fall in world GDP this year, the semiconductor industry is expected to be flat or slightly up,  pointed out Marced, while customers are showing ...

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Two separate inductors in one package for Class-D automotive audio

Vishay aims to save space in automotive Class-D audio amplifiers with two independent inductors in the same package. Built into a 2525 case size (under 8 x 8 x 8mm), the AEC-Q200 qualified IHLD-2525GG-5A inductors are intended “to provide noise filtering in Class D amplifiers”, they “consists of two IHLP inductors with operating temperatures up ...

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OpenNESS edge software tool-kit integrated into ENSCONCE platform

Altran, the French consultancy company, is integrating Open Network Edge Services Software (OpenNESS) – an open-source toolkit developed by Intel – into its ENSCONCE edge computing platform. The platform combines accelerators and frameworks for the development of multi-access edge computing (MEC) solutions. As a result of the integration, infrastructure resources will be able to increase computing ...

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Chip market showing surprising strength, says SI.

Despite early expectations of a big fall, the semiconductor market  has shown surprising strength so far this year, reports Bill Jewell’s Semicinductor Intelligence. WSTS reported the 2Q 2020 semiconductor market was only down 0.9% from 1Q 2020. The top semiconductor companies had mixed results for 2Q20. Nvidia’s acquisition of Mellanox and Infineon’s acquisition of Cypress ...

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Q3 foundry revenues to grow 14%

Q3 foundry revenue is projected to growth by 14% YoY, says TrendForce. While TSMC’s 3Q20 revenue benefits from 5nm mass production, GlobalFoundries is expected to have the Q3 greatest YoY decrease in the top 10. TSMC’s Q3 revenue is projected to grow by 21% YoY, with its 7nm process technology contributing to most of the ...

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July SEMI billings up 27.6% YoY

July billings of $2.6 billion for US manufacturers of semiconductor manufacturing equipment were up 11.8% on June’s $2.32 billion and 27.6% up on July 2019’s total of $2.03 billion. “The second half of 2020 has started strong with double-digit billings growth for North America-based semiconductor equipment manufacturers,” says SEMI CEO  Ajit Manocha,  “the strength reflects ...

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Ambiq and Feitian hook up on biometric payment cards

Ambiq, the Austin, Texas  MCU, SoC, and Real-time Clocks (RTC) specialist, has joined with Feitian of Beijing, a provider of online user authentication and payment transaction security to deliver biometric  payment cards. The partnership, encompassing both hardware integration as well as continuous education, applies to Feitian’s biometric cards, OTP (one-time password) display card, as well ...

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TDK backs Exo

TDK Ventures is investing in Exo (pronounced “Echo”), an ultrasound imaging specialist. Exo produces handheld ultrasound devices to help medics triage, diagnose and treat patients at the point-of-care by delivering imaging for the cost of a smartphone. Exo calls its technology Piezoelectric Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducer (pMUT). It leverages advances in nano-materials, signal processing, sensor fusion, ...

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Inclinometer chip with machine learning

STMicroelectronics has introduced a two-axis digital inclinometer for use in industrial automation and structural-health monitoring. It includes a programmable machine-learning core and 16 independent programmable finite state machines intended to save power for battery operation and reduce data transfers from edge sensors to the cloud. Called IIS2ICLX, the device has selectable full-scale of ±0.5, ±1, ±2 ...

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Schneider re-opens Telford electrical safety training centre

Schneider Electric has reopened its dedicated electrical safety training centre in Telford.  Due to the growing complexity of power systems in operation today, electrical outages are a greater risk than ever. If mismanaged or not effectively maintained, they can lead to a loss in revenue, or in a worst-case scenario, serious injury. Therefore, training staff to ...

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Photorelays have trigger LED current of 1mA

Toshiba has introduced two photorelays in  4-pin SO6 packages, for security systems, building automation and other industrial equipment. The devices, designated TLP170AM and TLP170GM, have a trigger LED current of 1mA, which reduces input side power loss by increasing the sensitivity of the photodiode array. Using these photorelays for ON/OFF control in battery-powered security devices ...

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UCL breaks data transmission speed record

The world’s fastest data transmission rate has been achieved by a team of UCL engineers who reached an internet speed a fifth faster than the previous record. Working with two companies, Xtera and KDDI Research, the research team led by Dr Lidia Galdino (UCL Electronic & Electrical Engineering), achieved a data transmission rate of 178 ...

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Breakthrough in blue quantum dot reasearch

Researchers using the Canadian Light Source (CLS) at the University of Saskatchewan have made a breakthrough in blue quantum dot fluorescence. Quantum dots are nanocrystals that glow and, when they glow, they creates very pure light in a precise wavelength of red, blue or green. Blue-glowing quantum dots have proved particularly challenging for researchers. However, ...

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Very smart facemask

Human ingenuity knows no bounds especially when it’s responding to a challenge. Japanese startup  Donut Robotics has produced a face mask which amplifies the voice and can transcribe speech and translate it into eight different languages.  

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Raspberry Pi and OpenCanary track hackers

Hackers causing havoc, demanding ransomeware and stealing information can be tracked by the combination of Raspberry Pi and the open source programme OpenCanary, says Another Maker on YouTube. The notification system sends email alerts when it detects potential threats. The  information shows what IP address was used and where the potential breach took place.   ...

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Shoot for the moon

Christie’s is holding an online auction of meteorites: https://ift.tt/2YK65pJ The prices expected are pretty steep. If you want something special then the biggest chunk of the moon on earth is for sale: https://ift.tt/2Qg17My Here’s a picture of the moon rock:

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Google pens Digital Ink Recognition API for machine learning apps

Google is adding a Digital Ink Recognition API for both Android and iOS to allow developers to create apps where stylus and touch act as primary inputs. In June, in the realm of machine learning, the company announced updates to its ML Kit’s APIs, which are built for tackling common challenges in the Vision and ...

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Object detection in low-light conditions

Socionext and the Osaka University Institute for Datability Science have developed a method of deep learning, which enables image recognition and object detection in extremely low-light conditions. By merging multiple models, the new method enables the detection of objects without the generation of huge datasets, a task previously thought to be essential. Socionext plans to ...

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Q2 DRAM revenues up 15.4% QoQ.

DRAM revenue rose 15.4% QoQ in 2Q20 to $17.1 billion, says TrendForce However full inventories and slow orders from buyers of enterprise servers lead TrendForce to expect a flat Q3 in units ans a decline in ASPs.   Samsung, Hynix, and Micron, posted strong revenue results for 2Q20, while their respective market shares remained largely ...

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UK space projects for sustainability get government cash boost

The UK Space Agency has announced £3.4 million of new funding for 10 space-related projects. They involve UK academics using space to tackle global development problems, from the spread of malaria to human trafficking and forced labour. Among the ten projects are ones that will help protect wildlife habitats in Kenya and will improve resilience ...

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Dual SATA HAT for Raspberry Pi

Seeed Studio has come up with a dual SATA HAT for Raspberry Pi 4. This is a Pi Hat for Raspberry Pi 4 with SATA port which can insert HDD/SSD for extra storage. Up to 2x HDD/SSD´s – 2.5 or 3.5inch storage is supported Utilizes two independent USB3 buses on Raspberry Pi 4 Type C power ...

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MEMS capacitive accelerometers for zero-to-medium frequency applications

Silicon Designs of Kirkland, Washington which manufactures rugged commercial- and inertial-grade MEMS capacitive accelerometers has announced its Model 2276 Series for zero-to-medium frequency aerospace and automotive testing, industrial vibration monitoring and robotics instrumentation applications. Available in eight standard ranges from ±2 g to ±400 g, the single-axis Model 2276 Series combines an integrated low-noise, nitrogen-damped, ...

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Covid-19 takes its toll in Q2

The latest report from DMASS shows a downturn in the European semiconductor business across Europe in Q2 and directly links the fall of over 20% to the effects of the global pandemic and ensuing lockdown. The report records a fall in sales of 20.7% to €1.82bn in Q2 compared to the first three months of ...

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Functional safety intelligent power switches are fast

STMicroelectronics has introduced fast-starting intelligent power switches for safety-instrumented systems. They are designed to meet IEC 61131-2. “With power-on delay time of less than 60µs, the IPS160HF and IPS161HF satisfy standardised requirements for interface types C and D in Safety Integrity Level (SIL) Class 3 applications,” according to the company. They will drive complex resistive, capacitive and ...

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Imagination opens GPU IP to RIOS Lab collab

Imagination has opened up select GPU IP to the RISC-V International Open Source Laboratory (RIOS Lab). This collaboration supports PicoRio, the first RISC-V development platform released by the RIOS Lab. It will enable the RIOS Lab to build a complete development platform and open-source ecosystem for RISC-V single-board computers. Collaborating on the PicoRio platform enables ...

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Semtech, AWS and TensorIoT combine on LoRaWAN For IoT

Semtech has today announced a collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and TensorIoT to simplify and enhance asset tracking and smart buildings using LoRaWAN.  The two reference kits are out-of-the-box solutions designed to reduce design in time and to allow remote users to locate assets and monitor via the cloud. With Semtech’s LoRa devices and ...

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DIN rail ac-dc PSUs deliver 24V at 36, 60 or 90W

Puls Power has introduces a series of DIN rail ac-dc power supplies. Part of the Piano series and called Piano-PIM, they are intended for “use in industrial applications which only require a basic power supply so that customers do not have to pay for unnecessary control and communication facilities”, according to the company. Input range ...

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Farnell extends Raspberry Pi range

Farnell has extended its range of Raspberry Pi accessories with the addition of  five new language variants of the Raspberry Pi keyboard, a 10.1” touchscreen from Multicomp Pro and a new range of HATs (hardware-attached tops) from Pimoroni allowing designers, educationalists, makers and hobbyists to add more functionality to their projects. These new product introductions ...

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Cincon DC-DC converters have 8:1 input range, says Relec

The CQB75W8 75W quarter-brick and CHB150W8 150W half-brick DC-DC converters both have an input range 9V – 75V dc, making them suitable for all common battery and bus voltages and 12V, 24V, 36V and 48V systems. They are intended for use in distributed power architectures, telecommunications, battery operated equipment and industrial applications, as well as demanding ...

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Subaru launches Levorg model with stereoscopic camera ADAS

The vehicle has been launched in Japan this week with an enhanced version of EyeSight, the vehicle manufacturer’s vision-based ADAS. The Levorg’s EyeSight is powered by Xilinx’s automotive-qualified (XA) 16nm Zynq UltraScale+ multiprocessor SoC (MPSoC). According to the company, it delivers the high-performance, ultra-low latency, and functional safety (ASIL) capabilities to accurately depict and react ...

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Arduino IoT Cloud officially sees light of day

Arduino has announced the official release of Arduino IoT Cloud, an “Internet of Things Application Platform” enabling you to easily develop and manage IoT apps. The system first emerged back in February. Previously, Arduino boards would require programming via a sketch, but the Arduino IoT Cloud now provides an alternative route. It will, says Arduino, quickly ...

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DRAM capex to fall 20%

DRAM capex is expected to decline 20% in 2020, says I C Insights, despite a modest market recovery. The DRAM market is poised for a modest recovery in 2020, but suppliers are being very cautious, strategic, and thorough in their analysis of market conditions before they consider any further upgrades or decide to move ahead ...

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Huawei building a fab

Huawei is said to be building a fab. It is reported that it will be running 45nm wafers by the end of the year. Huawei is supposed to have called the fab project ‘Tashan’ meaning courageous or daring. It is certainly that. Reports say that the 45nm line can be finalised without using US manufacturing ...

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Apple cracks $2trn

Five months ago, Apple was worth under $1 trillion. Now it’s worth $2 trillion. Although Apple had a good Q2 with revenues of nearly $60 billion, and has had a successful tilt towards services and has the  launch of its first 5G phone imminent,  the current share price says more about the market than about ...

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Isolated defects in thin film for ultra-high energy density caps

The most commonly used capacitors have low energy densities compared to batteries or fuel cells, which in turn cannot discharge and recharge rapidly without sustaining damage. Now,  researchers have found the best of both worlds. By introducing isolated defects to a type of commercially available thin film in a straightforward post-processing step, a team led ...

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Small plastic enclosures, made in Harrogate

BCL Enclosures of Yorkshire is offering the BC range of hand-held cases for measuring instruments, wireless communication devices, and control and data recording devices. BC2 has a belt/pocket clip and integral PP3 battery compartment with a removable cover and clip-in terminals as standard. Four internal location pegs and sockets hold a PCB in place without ...

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EEVblog #1330 – Mailbag

Mailbag with new guest lab backdrops!

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SPOILERS: 00:00 – Inside fellow Youtuber Ian Johnston’s Lab! https://www.ianjohnston.com/
03:16 – Err, Nothing…
04:49 – Google Nest Mini Teardown, ripoff Airpods teardown, Bose speakers.
12:14 – Sinclair C5 Brochure
18:08 – Inside Yunus KURBAN’s Ecay Geophysical Solutions Lab https://www.ecay.com.tr/
20:39 – IBM bank magnetic card reader teardown, weather station transmitter teardown
28:08 – Old School Archer Radio Shack dry etch PCB transfer symbols. SPO-256-AL2 speech synthesis chip.
34:45 – 5 dollerydoo’s
35:31 – CrowPi 2 Kickstarter with Sagan! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/elecrow/crowpi2-steam-education-platformand-raspberry-pi-laptop
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Schottky junction turns a neutral crystal piezoelectric

Adding a Schottky junction to certain crystals can turn them into piezoelectric or pyroelectric crystals, even if they were unaffected by deformation or heat before, according to the the University of Warwick, where the research was done. The subjects were ‘centrosymmetric’ semiconductors. niobium-doped strontium titanium oxide crystals niobium-doped titanium dioxide crystals niobium-doped barium strontium titanium ...

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Newcastle touch-screen maker wins tough-screen contact in Italy

Newcastle-based Zytronic is to supply rugged 55inch custom touch screens to Italian vending machine maker PharmaShop24. These are huge machines, that vend 255 over-the-counter medicines from what amounts to a small robot-automated warehouse. To fit more product into a fixed space, PharmaShop realised that the traditional vending mechanism, where customers view products directly, was no ...

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Laser-cut graphite sheet aids flow battery research

Flow batteries are energy storing structures that store chemical energy as liquid electrolytes in tanks, and pump those liquids to a reaction site – a membrane-electrode assembly (MEA) – when electricity must be produced or re-charge is needed. This separates the number of watts a flow battery can produce from the number of joules it can ...

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Parabolic antennas cover 600MHz to 6.5GHz for 2G, 3G, 4G and 5G

Raltron has developed a parabolic antenna series that provides continuous coverage from 600MHz to 6.5GHz. There are two antennas in the ‘RGP’ series: RGP-MBF4-825-17F-TA-001 820mm round, 215mm deep Heavy duty version – one-piece dish RGP-MBF4-6099-17F-TA-001 ~0.6 x 1m rounded rectangle, o.4m deep Two-piece dish Both cover the whole frequency range, but can be optimised for ...

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Moortec migrates IP to TSMC N6

Moortec,  the in-chip monitoring IP specialist, has migrated its sensing fabric onto TSMC’s N6 process         Moortec’s embedded sensing technology enables the assessment of key chip parameters both during production test and the measurement of real- time dynamic conditions during mission mode. In-chip sensing continues to be an essential element to achieving ...

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DARPA 3DsoC CNFET project moves towards commercialisation phase

Skywater, the US government trusted fab partner, and MIT  have announced that the DARPA Three Dimensional Monolithic System-on-a-Chip (3DSoC) programme, has entered its second phase. After completing the program’s initial phase, focused on transferring the Carbon Nanotube Field Effect Transistor (CNFET)-based 3DSoC technology into SkyWater’s 200 mm production facility, phase two will focus on refining manufacturing ...

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US and Japan to launch 1000 missile defence satellites

Japan and the US  plan to launch 1,000 miniature low-orbit observation satellites to detect incoming missiles, reports the Nikkei. The satellites cost about $5 million each. 200 of them will have heat-detecting IR sensors for missile defence. The whole programme will cost $9 billion and will be completed in the 2020s. The move comes as ...

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Gartner Hype-Cycle adds 20+ new technologies

Gartner has added over 20 new technologies to its Hype-Cycle. The five to watch, says Gartner are: Social Distancing Technologies, Composable Enterprise, AI-Assisted Design, Differential Privacy and Biodegradable Sensors. Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies, 2020 Source: Gartner (August 2020) Health passports and social distancing technologies, both related to the coronavirus, are taking the fast track ...

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Skylo and Sony Semi team up for NB-IoT ICs

Skylo, the San Francisco satellite company, and Sony Semiconductor Israel (formerly Altair Semiconductor)Have formed a partnership  to develop and deploy cellular chipsets that can connect over geostationary satellites networks by taking advantage of  NB-IoT protocols. “This partnership ensures our ability to continue to quickly scale the manufacturing and deployment of connector Skylo Hubs to our ...

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Server shipments slipping

Q3 server shipments will be 4.9% down QoQ following a switch by customers from buying servers to buying cloud services, says TrendForce. Major server OEMs, including Dell, HPE, Huawei, and Inspur, are expected to each show a near-double digit QoQ decrease in server shipment. Dell’s transfer of high-grossing production lines to Taiwan and aggressive expansion ...

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DfT starts consultation process for driverless cars

The Department for Transport has issued a call for consultation on the use of Automated Lane Keeping System (ALKS) on Great Britain’s motorways, including: an overview of ALKS ensuring the safe use of ALKS questions around fair delegation and residual responsibility questions around the performance of other activities ALKS is vehicle technology designed to control ...

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Compact n-channel mosfets for vehicle ECUs

Toshiba had developed n-channel mosfets for automotive applications, based on its U-MOSVIII-H process. XPN3R804NC (40A abs max) and XPN7R104NC (20A) are rated for 40V operation XPN6R706NC (40A) and XPN12006NC (20A) are rated for 60V operation “They all exhibit extremely low on-resistance values,” according to the company, “reaching down to 3.8mΩ for the XPN3R804NC at 10V, ...

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dc-dc converters have 8:1 input range for military, industrial and rail

Cincon has a pair of dc-dc converters with an 8:1 input range, intended for applications in industrial and military environments. They are: CQB75W8 75W quarter-brick 10mA no-load power consumption 3,000Vac input to output isolation CHB150W8 150W half-brick 1,500Vdc input to output isolation “Both have an input range 9V – 75Vdc, making them suitable for all common ...

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Arm-based edge IoT gateway

Taiwan-based Aaeon has introduced an edge IoT gateway built around an 800MHz Arm Cortex-A8 processor. Called SRG-3352, “this innovative processor reduces the energy requirements of the system, saving electricity costs and allowing the system to be deployed with solar power or battery operated. With very little heat output, the system can operate in a wide ...

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Uber may “shut down for a while” in California and U.K.

Uber boss Dara Khosrowshahi says that Uber “will shut down for a while” in California if a Californian appeals court upholds a ruling that its drivers are employees and not independent contractors. The same may apply in the UK  where the Supreme Court is deciding a similar issue. If the courts decide against Uber, the company ...

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OSAT companies have 26.6% Q2 y-o-y revenue hike

Revenues of the out-sourced assembly and test (OSAT) industry leapt 26.6% y-o-y in Q2 to reach $6.325 billion reports DRAMeXchange.   Market leader ASE recorded quarterly revenue of $1.379 billion in 2Q20, an 18.9% increase YoY. Although ASE’s growth in 2Q20 tempered somewhat compared with 1Q20, the company’s upward momentum remained steady, thanks to increased ...

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Big Q2 gains by notebook vendors

Robust demand for notebooks in Q2 saw the leading suppliers record significant revenue gains, reports Strategy Analytics.   The biggest surprise of the quarter was the robust demand generated from consumers buying their own devices for work, studying, and play despite tough economic headwinds, says SA. Gaming proved to be an effective distraction in a ...

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Vishay reveals 1.7mΩ p-channel mosfet in SO-8

Vishay has introduced a 30V p-channel power mosfet with an on-resistance of 1.7mΩ at 10V, claiming it to be the first ever. Called SiRA99DP, it comes in a thermally-enhanced SO-8 package and uses the company’s fourth-generation TrenchFET process. “Combining this low Rds(on) with a gate charge of 84nC, the SiRA99DP delivers best-in-class gate charge times on-resistance of ...

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13 two-dimensional materials identified for FETs, some are new

Swiss scientists have had a computational look at two-dimensional materials, like graphene, to see which will make the best transistors. From 100 candidate compounds, 13 show promise – in some cases more promise than the predicted trend of silicon finfets. The team, from ETH Zurich and EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), modelled current versus voltage characteristics ...

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SiFive founds business unit to mix Risc-V and Arm cores on silicon

SiFive has launched a self-contained and autonomous business unit to build silicon with Arm, RISC-V and other instruction set architectures (ISAs) for heterogeneous mixed-ISA designs. It is to be called OpenFive and is described as “ISA-neutral and Risc-V agnostic,” by SiFive: “Put simply, SiFive will deepen its focus on Risc-V IP, while OpenFive expands the opportunity for ...

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Metallised polyester capacitors for general purpose use

Streamline Avionics (formerly Elpac Capacitors) has a series of general purpose metallised polyester film capacitors for filtering, coupling or bypassing in high or low impedance circuits within ac or dc applications. Called Z Series, they are available in three forms – axial oval wrap-and-fill, axial round wrap-and-fill and radial moulded box. They can be used in “applications ...

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Large-scale automotive Li-ion battery plant could be built in Wales

Start-up Britishvolt and the Welsh Government have signed a memorandum of understanding over plans to develop a 30GWh battery manufacturing plant and 200MW solar farm at a former RAF base (Bro Tathan) in the Vale of Glamorgan. Nominally called the ‘GigaPlant’, it will be situated in 80 hectares of industrial park, “with a production capacity ...

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X-ray sensors for inspection in tough environments

Waygate Technologies (was GE Inspection Technologies) has launched two portable X-ray direct radiography detectors. DXR75P-HR has a 7” x 9” detector with 75μm pixel resolution. It supports ISO 17636-2 class B for weld inspection. DXR140P-HC is 14” x 17” with 140μm pixel resolution. It can be used with X-ray as well as isotopes, and is aimed at corrosion monitoring. Both detectors ...

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Memory prices to fall for rest of the year

Over-supply will drive memory prices 10% lower in Q4, says Digitimes, with weakening prices expected to continue into Q1. Memory is on course to take a 10% hit in Q3. The Q3 market is estimated to be 2.6% over-supplied and the Q4 market is estimated to be 7.8% over-supplied. Although a reduction in output is ...

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IBM launches Power10 processor

IBM today revealed the next generation of its IBM POWER CPU  –  the POWER10 (pictured). Designed for enterprise hybrid cloud computing, the IBM POWER10 processor is made on Samsung’s 7nm process. It expects an improvement of up to 3x greater processor energy efficiency, workload capacity, and container density than the IBM POWER9 processor. Designed over ...

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Two birds with one stone

A method of  recycling plastic waste into a material for making supercapacitors has been developed  by Scientists at UC Riverside. “Thirty percent of the global car fleet is expected to be electric by 2040, and high cost of raw battery materials is a challenge,” says Mihri Ozkan, UCR professor of electrical engineering,  “using waste from ...

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Drone can be controlled from anywhere

A system allowing drones to be controlled from anywhere in the world using only an intrrnet connection has been developed at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory run by the US Department of Energy. The technology is being licensed by Horizon31, of Knoxville, Tennessee. The founding team of Horizon31 developed the technology at Oak Ridge. “To ...

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Biometric contactless payment cards

Infineon and Fingerprint Sensors have combined to make biometric payment cards with integrated fingerprint sensors. This allows contactless cards to remain in the hands of the cardholder throughout a payment transaction, while eliminating the need for PIN entries or signatures to authorize even high-value payments. The fingerprint information is stored on the card’s embedded secure ...

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Avnet develops Raspberry Pi sensor HAT

Avnet is shipping a specialised sensor HAT for Raspberry Pi. The Avnet-designed evaluation, development and quick-prototyping tool is intended for engineering professionals who need quick development of commercial, industrial, and heating, ventilation and air conditioning products requiring advanced indoor air quality measurement capabilities. The HAT has an on-board calibrated Renesas ZMOD4410 sensor that measures the ...

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Blaize launches edge AI products

Blaize, the Californian AI developer, has launched its first products called Pathfinder and Xplorer. “Blaize AI edge computing products overcome limitations of power, complexity and cost to unleash the adoption of AI at the edge,” says CEO and co-founder Dinakar Munagala. The Blaize embedded and accelerator platforms are built on the the Blaize Graph Streaming ...

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Intel targets 20% performance increase without a node switch

Intel is saying that its next generation CPUs will have a 20% performance improvement over the current generation. The increase in performance will come not from process but from two design improvements – a new material for the capacitors and the use of what Intel calls SuperFin transistors. “It is 20%, the largest intra-node jump ...

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Researchers find new phase of nanoconfined water

Researchers at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology,  the Shubnikov Institute of Crystallography, the A M. Prokhorov General Physics Institute of RAS, Skoltech, the Sobolev Institute of Geology and Mineralogy, Novosibirsk State University, Stuttgart University, the Prague Institute of Physics, and the University of  Tokyo have discovered a new phase of nanoconfined water: separate water molecules that are ...

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Singapore scientists combine skin-like electronics with computer vision

Scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have developed an AI system that recognises hand gestures by combining skin-like electronics with computer vision. The recognition of human hand gestures by AI systems has been a valuable development over the last decade and has been adopted in high-precision surgical robots, health monitoring equipment and in ...

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EEVblog #1329 – Magnetic Field Shielding DEMONSTRATED

A demonstration of near-field magnetic interference and how to shield it. Near-field vs far-field EMC explained.

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3d printable polymer can take a battering under the bonnet

Intended for under-bonnet automotive applications, amongst others, Arnilene AM6001 GF (G) is a glass-filled polypropylene material for fused granulate fabrication 3d printing from Royal DSM in the Netherlands. “Popular for its thermal, mechanical and chemical performance, polypropylene is the second most used polymer worldwide in traditional manufacturing,” according to the company. “Despite broad adoption of 3D printing, no ...

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Self-driving vehicle watches human to cope better in strange environments

Self-driving vehicles can learn from human drivers, then sometimes out-drive them, according to US Army research. The team designed an algorithm that allows an autonomous ground vehicle to improve its existing navigation systems by watching how a human driver remote-controlled the same vehicle, calling the approach ‘adaptive planner parameter learning from demonstration’ – APPLD. The approach ...

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Automotive always-on dc-dc controllers need only a few µA

Renesas has introduced a pair of automotive dc-dc converter chips with low operating current for ‘always-on’ applications. Both are designed to work with external mosfet power stages. ISL78264 is a 50W-200W synchronous dual buck controller intended to manage the intermediate first stage dc-dc conversion, stepping down the 12V battery system to 5V and 3.3V to ...

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G2 looms

Foxconn, which assembles most of Apple’s iPhones, sees a world split into two markets – one dominated by China the other by the USA, reports the Nikkei. “The global trend toward a G2 is inevitable. How to serve the two big markets is something that we’ve always been planning for,” said Foxconn chairman Young Liu ...

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Lattice Guard protects Sentry

Lattice Semiconductor has launched the Lattice Sentry solutions stack and the Lattice SupplyGuard supply chain protection service. The Sentry stack is a combination of customizable embedded software, reference designs, IP, and development tools to accelerate the implementation of secure systems compliant with NIST Platform Firmware Resiliency (PFR) Guidelines (NIST SP-800-193). The Lattice SupplyGuard service extends the ...

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Wideband amplifier has gain of 24 dB with a noise figure of 5 dB.

Richardson RFPD is supplying a wideband low-noise amplifier from ERZIA Technologies. The ERZ-LNA-1800-4200-24-6 provides a gain of 24 dB with a noise figure of 5 dB. The device’s compact size and modularity make it ideal for a wide range of applications, including industrial, SATCOM, aerospace and military. Additional key features of the ERZ-LNA-1800-4200-24-6include: Frequency range: ...

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Bridge chip links one-wire bus to ten I2C or SPI peripherals

Maxim has introduced a chip to interface devices equipped with I2C or SPI bus connections to its ‘1-wire’ bus. Called DS28E18, it is intended to knock cost out of networks that connecting I2C and SPI sensors to a host by reducing the number of copper wires needed for up to 10 nodes to two wires. ...

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‘Short’ bodied USB A connector saves PCB space

GCT has launched a short body style USB 2.0 type-A connector to cut PCB footprint to 131mm2. Called USB1125, shell depth has been cut to 10mm, although predicted rated life has been kept high – 5,000 mating cycles – through work on the six sprung retention tabs. 5,000 cycles gets the connector a ‘high-durability’ rating ...

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EEVblog #1328 – uCurrent OPA189 Measurements

Part 3 of designing a better uCurrent series. Measuring the noise and consumption of the OPA189 compared to the MAX4239 using a dynamic signal analyser and an oscilloscope.

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Software defined radio offers 16x 1GHz bandwidth up to 18GHz

Per Vices has introduced a wide-band software defined radio (SDR) offering up to sixteen independent Rx and Tx chains, with 1GHz rf bandwidth on each chain, up to 18GHz. Called Cyan, it is a direct conversion quadrature transceiver built around an Altera Stratix 10 FPGA with an on-chip quad-core Arm Cortex-A53 MPCore processor, “providing the highest ...

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Hanover installs more collaborative robots in Sussex

Sussex-based Hanover Displays has installed a second lot of collaborative robots – ‘cobots’. Collaborative robots are designed to work alongside and interact with humans in shared space. They differ from traditional robots which, have to be separated from people for safety and are designed to operate without physical human interaction. Hanover first cobot was installed in ...

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