2020 O-S-D sales set record high

Optoelectronics, Sensors/Actuators, and Discretes (O-S-D) sales set a record high in 2020, reports IC Insights. In a 2021 rebound, optoelectronics is expected to join sensors/actuators and discretes in strong growth. A broad-based economic rebound in 2021, fueled by pent-up demand and a steady recovery in global commerce after the 2020 outbreak of the Covid-19 virus ...

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Foxconn expects 10% output fall from IC shortages

Foxconn chairman Young Liu (pictured) says  the chip shortage will reduce the company’s shipments by 10%. “The first two months of this quarter was still ok, as our clients are all very big, but we started to see changes happening this month,” Liu told an earnings meeting. If even Foxconn’s customers are hurting there can ...

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Inmarsat takes on Dutch government over 5G spectrum allocation

Inmarsat has launched civil court proceedings in the Netherlands over 5G spectrum allocation. It is looking to protect its provision of maritime and aviation safety services from its ground station in Borum. The UK satellite operator says it is seeking a judge’s ruling on potential illegality of the country’s proposed National Frequency Plan. Basically, it ...

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NAND controller boosts SD Express card performance to 1700 MB/s with PCIe Gen 3 x2 interface

Silicon Motion’s latest NAND controller boosts SD Express card performance to 1700 MB/s with PCIe Gen 3 x2 interface  Silicon Motion Technology has announced that its flagship SM2708 SD Express controller solution now supports the latest SD 8.0 specification and backward compatibility to SD 7.1 specification. With PCIe Gen 3 x2 interface and NVMe 1.3, the SM2708 ...

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Oxford and UCL researchers demo quantum capabilities using standard ICs

Quantum Motion, a quantum computing startup led by academics from UCL and Oxford University, have demonstrated state of the art quantum capabilities using industrial-grade silicon chips, helping to set a blueprint for how quantum chips can be manufactured at scale using existing manufacturing processes. The discovery changes the dynamics in the development of quantum computing, showing ...

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2D fast-recovery gas sensor

Researchers at Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley have demonstrated a ‘2D’ sensor that works at room temperature thereby using much less power than conventional sensors. The sensor is selective to NO2 with only minimal response to other gases such as NH3, CH2O, and CO2. The highly sensitive, selective, stable, and reversible chemical sensor is based ...

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GaN on SiC MMICs for X-band phased array applications

Cree l Wolfspeed has introduced four new multi-stage GaN on SiC MMIC devices, extending its range of RF solutions for a diverse array of pulsed and continuous wave X-band phased array applications, including marine, weather surveillance and emerging unmanned aerial system radars. Using Wolfspeed GaN on SiC technology, these new devices deliver high power-added efficiency (PAE) ...

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Alps Alpine module for auto 5G

Alps Alpine  is shipping the UMNZ1 Series 5G NR module for enabling 5G in automobiles. Used in combination with V2X systems giving vehicles the capability to communicate and interact with everything around them, such as road infrastructure, other vehicles and pedestrians, 5G is expected to contribute to greater sophistication of IVI (In Vehicle Infotainment); for ...

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Bluetooth SIG outlines pandemic effect on Bluetooth growth

The effect of the Covid-19 pandemic on the growth in Bluetooth annual device shipments has been outlined by the Bluetooth SIG. Effectively, with total shipments remaining at the 4 billion mark, it sees growth in Bluetooth shipments shifted out by one year, A report it has produced predicts that some markets, including wearables and locating ...

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Arm introduces V9 – its first new architecture for a decade

Arm has introduced the Armv9 architecture – the first new Arm architecture in a decade. Armv9 aims to accelerate the move from general-purpose to more specialised compute across applications such as AI, IoT and 5G. To address security,  Armv9 introduces the Arm Confidential Compute Architecture (CCA) which shields portions of code and data from access ...

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UK standard for self-driving car safety oversight

UK national standards body BSI has published a standard covering automated vehicle trial data collection and management for incident investigation. It is the fourth publication from the CAV Standards Programme backed by CCAV, the government’s Centre for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles, and delivered with the Department for Transport, Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), Innovate UK and ...

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P-channel automotive mosfets get better

Aiming at automotive use with AEC-Q101-qualification, Vishay has combined a maximum on-resistance of 17.3mΩ with 52nC gate charge in an 80V p-channel mosfet. Both the above figures are with 10V drive to the gate. The device is the SQJA81EP, which comes in a 5.13 x 6.15mm surface-mount PowerPAK SO-8L (PowerPAK) package with gullwing leads – gullwings allow for increased automatic ...

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TT Electronics US plant gets FDA aporoval

The U.S. Federal Drug Administration (FDA) has confirmed TT Electronics’ registration for its Cleveland, Ohio manufacturing facility allowing it to manufacture finished medical instruments and devices, like imaging and diagnostic systems,in the USA. The registration follows TT’s earlier announcement of its new manufacturing facility in Asia which allows the company to further broaden its capabilities ...

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Reed relay handles multi-kV 100W switching

Pickering Electronics of Essex has added a change-over version to its Series 67 of high voltage PCB relays. The 67 change-over relay is rated at up to 5kV stand-off and 2.5kV switching at 100W maximum. “In applications where high voltage signals need to be routed to alternate points, polarity reversing, capacitor charge or discharge for ...

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element14 design challenge produces one square metre farm

element14 has announced the winners of its ‘One Meter of Pi’ design challenge. Members of the element14 Community were asked to create a high-tech, sustainable farm within one square meter, or about 10-11 square feet. To help participants succeed, element14 teamed up with Raspberry Pi to provide 20 applicants with a kit featuring a Raspberry Pi ...

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Coventry University turns to Tektronix for teaching lab

Coventry University has built an 53 workstation electrical and electronic engineering laboratory in its Beatrice Shilling Building, named after the British electrical and mechanical engineer. Educational test equipment distributor of SJ Electronics supplied the instruments, all from Tektronix’ range. Intended for for first and second year students, each station has: TBS2074B 70MHz digital storage oscilloscope ...

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Renesas sampling ADAS power ICs

Renesas is sampling a power and functional safety chip-set for systems based on the R-Car V3H SoC for ADAS automotive front cameras and driver monitor cameras.   The chip-set comprises the RAA271050, a 42V synchronous buck ‘pre-regulator’ that accepts the vehicle’s 12V supply and steps it down to an intermediate supply voltage of 3.3V or ...

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IBM, Telefonica set up O-RAN network in Argentina

Telefonica and IBM have set up an O-RAN network in Argentina. IBM called it a proof-of-concept providing “an early proof point” for the technology. It connected 81,000 people in Puerto Madryn. IBM led the systems integration of equipment from multiple software and hardware vendors including Alitostar, Red Hat, GigaTera and Kontron. IBM said the initiative ...

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Companies to ask for European Sovereign Tech Fund

Today, in a virtual meeting with the EU’s Research and Innovation Commissioner, Mariya Gabriel (pictured), tech companies are to push the EU to set up a €100 billion European Sovereign Tech Fund, reports Bloomberg. 35 companies including  Blablacar, FacilityLive, Cabifyon, Adyen, Collibra and Supercell are  expected to participate. The companies are expected to argue that  a ...

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DATA MODUL adds E-Ink displays to product portfolio

DATA MODUL,  the display specialist, has added  E Ink, the ePaper developer, to its product portfolio. E-Ink is supplying is  both segment and active matrix displays. Available in sizes from 1.10″ to 42.0″, the displays are characterised  by a wide choice of colours and a diverse range of uses. The E Ink displays are available ...

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STMicroelectronics collaborates on MEMS mirrors for AR and sensing

STMicroelectronics has signed a deal with German MEMS mirror start-up OQmented to develop technology for augmented reality and 3D laser scanning. ST already makes MEMS sensors, actuators, drivers and controllers. OQmented has a patented way to vacuum-encapsulate MEMS using hermetic glass bubbles to eliminates environmental contaminants with minimal light-refraction – branded Bubble MEMS. “Vacuum sealing ...

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£1.3m for printed electronics in UK recycling pilot scheme

Cambridge-based flexible electronics company PragmatIC has been awarded a £1.3m by the UK Government Sustainable Innovation Fund for a recycling scheme based on NFC tags. “PragmatIC consider this to be a commercial pilot, with the next step being commercial rollouts with global partners,” company chief commercial officer Alastair Hanlon told Electronics Weekly. In the year-long scheme, ...

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Vehicle lighting RGB driver

Melexis has introduced a 16 channel RGB LED driver for vehicle interior lighting, capable of real-time colour drift compensation to a delta UV of <0.01% “to eliminate any distinguishable differences between LEDs”, claims the company. What measurement technique does the device, called MLX81117, use to get such close compensation? “It is basically a very exact ...

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Xilinx interview: Responding to platform-based embedded design

Clive Couldwell, the group-editor of Electronics Weekly, talks with Chetan Khona, Director Industrial, Vision, Healthcare & Sciences at Xilinx. They discuss how the semiconductor industry is responding to customer demands and the trends around platform-based embedded design. If you would like to listen to the audio on SoundCloud you can listen here or below: Complexity The trend ...

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Computer lip-reading could improve hearing aids

Lip movement and hand gestures could be combined with sonic information to improve hearing aids, according to a research project led by University of Wolverhampton and Edinburgh Napier University. As well as collecting information from a range of sensors to improve speech intelligibility, sensors embedded within the hearing aid could estimate listening effort, and its impact ...

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UK made: IP67 small enclosures

B0 enclosures from UK manufacturer BCL Enclosures are sealed to IP67 to keep the elements out – including water from immersion at 1m depth for 30 minutes. Construction is from ABS, and there are four sizes with either standard 53mm deep base or an extra-deep 78mm base. B01 – 80 x 73mm B02 – 80 x ...

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UK tech job vacancies at record high

UK tech job vacancies are at a record high with 110,000 live roles currently available according to jobs agency Adzuna, making up 13% of total UK job vacancies and with a 33% increase in vacancies since April 2020. The top 100 startups & scaleups have seen  a 68% increase in job vacancies since April ‘20 ...

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Top ten fabless grew 26% last year

The top three fabless  companies (Qualcomm, Broadcom, and Nvidia) all posted YoY increases in their revenues, says TrendForce, with Nvidia registering the most impressive growth, at a staggering 52.2% increase YoY, the highest among the top 10 companies. Qualcomm overtook Broadcom because of the demand surge for network devices and Apple’s decision to once again ...

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Melexis RGB LED driver supports MeLiBu comms IP

Melexis, the Belgian auto fabless specialist, has introduced the MLX81117, its latest multichannel RGB LED driver. This new product supports the MeLiBu high-speed communication licence-free IP which enables intelligent animated automotive lighting concepts. The technology is already being leveraged by leading global car manufacturers to enhance the safety features of their latest models. The MLX81117 ...

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Satellite-based laser altimeters to capture accurate terrain models

A collection of Japanese organisations are to jointly conduct research to enhance the precision of three-dimensional mapping using laser altimeters (LIDAR) mounted on a satellite or other spacecraft. Specifically, those involved will be the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), the Japanese national aerospace and space agency, and NTT DATA Corporation, an IT services provider. They ...

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Samsung, Marvell deliver Massive MIMO RAN SoC

Samsung  and Marvell have produced an SoC for Massive MIMO radio access. They aim to start to ship in Q2. Technical details have not been revealed. Marvell also has 5G RAN collaboration deals with vendors Fujitsu and Nokia.

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Nottingham gets advanced motor research equipment

The UK government has sponsored the University of Nottingham to support the development of advanced electrical machines and drives for transportation and industry. In particular, Nottingham will install coil-winding equipment and instruments to characterise magnetic materials, using a grant from UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) via the ‘Driving the Electric Revolution’ part of the Industrial Strategy ...

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Young Woman Engineer of the Year

The IET announced the Young Woman Engineer of 2020 earlier this month. She is Ella Podmore (pictured), a materials engineer for super car maker McLaren Automotive. “Balancing her time between experiments and leading technical meetings, Ella created this [materials] department from the ground-up and plans to demonstrate the importance of materials in the automotive industry even ...

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SkyWater to IPO

SkyWater,  the US foundry supported by the Department of Defence, is to IPO. The DOD’s investment in SkyWater was made under the Trusted and Assured Microelectronics (T&AM) program which is developing enhanced sources of microelectronics for the Department’s unique needs. SkyWater’s foundry is an old Cypress fab in Minnesota, The T&AM program seeks to collaborate ...

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ADI develops O-RAN radio unit

ADI has announced an ASIC-based radio platform for O-RAN compliant 5G radio units that is designed to shorten time to market and meet the evolving needs of 5G networks. ADI’s radio platform includes all the core functionality needed in an O-RAN compliant 5G radio unit, including a baseband ASIC, software defined transceivers, signal processing, and ...

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February SEMI billings up 32% y-o-y

February’s billings for sales of semiconductor manufacturing equipment were up 3.2% on January’s $3.04 billion at $3.14 billion – a record high for the second consecutive month, says SEMI. The February figure was 32% up on the February 2020 billings $2.37 billion. “February billings of North America-based semiconductor equipment manufacturers once again exceeded $3 billion, powered ...

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Dual slot output modules added to Vox Power’s NEVO+ series

Vox Power is extending the range of medical applications for its NEVO+600 and NEVO+1200 series of power supplies with two new 300W output modules. The dual slot OPA2 and OPA3 modules provide manually adjustable output voltages of 4.5 to 15V at 25A and 9 to 30V at 15A respectively, Vox Power states. “Vox Power’s NEVO+ ...

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Attack of the Drones

Today, element14 is celebrating the fourth birthday of its monthly Project14 design competition with the launch of its “Attack of the Drones” competition. The competition is a homage to Sci-Fi and its influence on drone technology. Members can use their choice of hardware to design and develop a UAV drone such as a multi-rotor or ...

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Elektra Awards 2020 – The Winners

The event may have been virtual this year but it was still full-steam ahead for the Elektra Awards 2020, with the impressionist and comedian Jon Culshaw as the excellent host. Congratulations to all those who made the short-list, in what were crowded fields, and particularly well done to the winning individuals, organisations and companies. You can ...

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Electro-chromic displays find a market

Ynvisible has won a design-in for its electro-chromic displays – thin flexible displays that change colour through low power ionic transfer. The company teamed up with SpotSee to create a 91 x 59mm calibrated temperature indication label for cold-chain use: temperature-controlled shipment and storage of goods such as blood bags, high-end foods, biomaterials and medicines. “With the ...

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22MHz precision dual op-amp draws 3.4mA

Barely three months after its last new precision op-amp, STMicroelectronics has released another, this time with a gain-bandwidth of 22MHz, a slew rate of 11V/μs and a maximum input-offset voltage of 200µV (50µV typical at 25°C). Called TSV7722, it is aimed at high-speed signal conditioning and accurate current measurement in power-conversion circuits and optical sensors. Input ...

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GaN laser driver has LVDS logic inputs

EPC has announced a laser driver that integrates a 40V 10A GaN power switch with a differential input gate driver. Called EPC21603, its inputs are LVDS (low-voltage differential signalling) compatible – allowing it to be driven by an FPGA in applications where noise immunity is critical. The similar chip, the single-ended input EPC21601 was introduced last month. ...

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32bit MCU and Bluetooth 5.0 for 35µA/MHz

Renesas has introduced an ultra-low-power MCU with Bluetooth 5.0 for energy harvesting systems and IoT devices that need to operate for long periods from a battery. RE01B is a 32bit Arm Cortex-M0+ microcontroller made on the company’s ‘SOTB’ silicon on thin buried oxide process. Current consumption can be as low as 35µA/MHz during operation, and ...

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X-Fab adds photodiodes to 180nm process, from UV to near-IR

X-Fab Silicon Foundries has added a photodiode-specific process core module to its XS018 180nm CMOS sensor process – previously XS018 had been focused on the fabrication of multi-pixel CMOS image sensors. Through the new module, customers get access to six different photodiode options covering wavelengths from ultra-violet through to near-infra-red. Amongst the photodiodes, 40% quantum efficiency ...

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TT Electronics expands Bedlington facility

TT Electronics today announced the expansion of its  facility in Bedlington, UK. The recent work completed increases TT’s manufacturing and operational capability to support the enhanced production of the microelectronics, sensors and specialist components designed and developed on site. The opening of the new, ISO 7 clean room, which measures over 1,000 sq. m, represents ...

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Imagination sets up IMG Labs

Imagination has announced IMG Labs, a specialist division tasked with developing innovations fundamental to new semiconductor products. IMG Labs’ mission is to understand and accelerate future trends in the semiconductor industry, translating these into new licensable technologies that will enable world-leading products for Imagination’s partners. Headed up by Tim Mamtora, IMG Labs’ initial focus is ...

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Graphcore in Supermicro servers

Graphcore customers can now specify Supermicro servers as part of their IPU-POD configuration from Graphcore elite partners, following the successful qualification of the first Supermicro Ultra system.  The AS-1124US-TNRP, which is the first of Supermicro’s highest performance enterprise-class Ultra servers to be approved for use in IPU-POD systems, features the latest third-generation AMD EPYC (TM) ...

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Samsung adds HKMG DDR5 512GB DRAM

Samsung has expanded its DDR5 DRAM memory portfolio with the industry’s first 512GB DDR5 module based on High-K Metal Gate (HKMG) process technology. Delivering more than twice the performance of DDR4 at up to 7,200 Mbps, the new DDR5 will be capable of orchestrating the most extreme compute-hungry, high-bandwidth workloads in supercomputing, artificial intelligence (AI) ...

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40A PoL converter in 5 x 7mm package

Vishay has added a 15, 25 and 40A family of synchronous buck regulators in 5 x 7mm thermally-enhanced MLP34-57 packaging. Input voltages from 4.5 to 20V can be handled by SiC45x regulators, as they will be known, which beats the company’s earlier regulators for power density and transient response. “The high power density of the ...

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Qualcomm goes farming

Qualcomm is to engage in 5G RuralDorset’s agritech trials. Qualcomm is supplying high frequency, 5G mm wave modules to the project in order to test their efficacy in 5G connected robotic farming. “Alongside the 5G RuralDorset project and backed by our £200 million trials scheme, we will explore innovative uses for 5G millimeter wave spectrum to revolutionise the agricultural ...

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Menlo Micro switch with IP3 linearity >95dBm

Menlo Micro is shipping a switch in its Ideal Switch range with an IP3 linearity of greater than 95 dBm, enabling significant reductions in distortion for RF systems. Intermodulation distortion is a key industry metric in determining the linearity of an electronic switch. The third-order intercept (IP3) is the extrapolated point where the ideal linear ...

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Liverpool to launch drone test and development initiative

Drone Major Group and the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority (LCRCA) have initiated a drone technology ‘Test and Development Area’ project in the Liverpool City Region. The initiative, dubbed Phoenix I, is the first in a series of interconnected projects developed by Drone Major Group, with several regional partners, to deliver, for the first time, commercially viable, scalable and environmentally sustainable drone services across all environments (surface, underwater, air & space), and in all the ...

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Lockheed Martin, Omnispace exploring 5G from space

Lockheed Martin and Omnispace have agreed to jointly explore developing 5G capability from space to extend terrestrial offerings. The proposed global 5G standards-based non-terrestrial network (5G NTN), say the companies, would offer both commercial and government devices “ubiquitous communications worldwide”. The idea is that a hybrid, space-based 5G global network would enable users to easily ...

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ETSI reveals emergency comms plugfest results

ETSI’s international emergency communications interoperability plugfest revealed that 87% of 285 test pairings were interoperable. The remote event was a cooperation between ETSI, EENA (European emergency number association) and NENA (9-1-1 association) – this was the first time the European event partnered with NENA’s US ICE 9 event. “Crossing borders and oceans, the event helped to ensure ...

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Zero to 10A in 500ns from tiny power regulator

Empower Semiconductor is claiming the world’s fastest transient response for a regulator that can work through a zero to 10A load step in 500ns with <15mv droop, with no output capacitors. The part is the EP7010, a single-output regulator in 5 x 5 x 0.75mm package that can be programmed to deliver 400mV to 1.31V ...

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DFRobot kits and SBCs for IoT development

Farnell is aiming at IoT device development with a range of single board computers (SBCs), shields, modules and sensors from DFRobot – including LattePanda processor boards. The company will stock more than 140 DFRobot products, including: Gravity Series: Solderless modular plug-and-play electronics toolkit with expansion modules compatible with Ardunio and micro:bit. Modules include the Ardunio moisture ...

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Active diodes for bridge rectifiers cut that pesky 0.6V drop

Alpha and Omega Semiconductor has announced a family of active diodes which can reduce the 1.2V forward drop of 600V bridge rectifiers. Branded AlphaZBL, the first two parts are: AOZ7200 in SOT-23 for external mosfets (right) AOZ7270 in DFN 5×7 with internal 600V 190mΩ super-junction mosfet (below) “Both products are self-powered from the AC line ...

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Long life ac harmonic filter capacitors

Cornell Dubilier has released a range of long-life film capacitors optimised for ac harmonic filtering on the input and output of inverters. Called the ALH series and with a 1,500 hour rating (see below) “this new series is designed with construction to meet the challenges of harsh environments,” according to distributor New Yorker Electronics, which is ...

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Tiny 6A PoL will run from 9 to 36V

Flex Power Modules has announced an analogue non-isolated point of load (PoL) regulator that works with inputs across 9 to 36V – covering 12V and 24V systems. Called PNA2405S3S, the converter comes in a 13 x 12.35 x 6.2mm LGA package and its single output can be adjusted from 0.9 to 5.5V at up to 6A ...

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Sponsored Content: Confidence in every component

Written by Markus Fabich, Strategic Marketing Manager at Olympus Europa   Advancing microscopy for electronics inspection Microscopes have formed an integral part of electronics inspection for decades, and are used along the supply chain to check that finished products or individual parts are within specifications. And as products and specifications have evolved, so have modern industrial ...

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Sponsored Content: LS and DRB power supplies by TDK-Lambda

Compact and cost-effective solutions for professionals. LS and DRB power supplies by TDK-Lambda LS series – modular, switched-mode power supplies Universal DIN rail-mounted DBR series power supplies In industrial and other professional applications, the power source plays a key role. Its unreliability is one of the most frequent causes of equipment failure. A power supply ...

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Intel Unleashed

Intel is back, said CEO Pat Gelsinger (pictured) in an enthusiastic presentation entitled ‘Intel Unleashed’ yesterday. “We’re bringing back the execution discipline of Intel – the Grovian culture,” said Gelsinger who spent the first 30 years of his career at Intel under its first three CEOs: Bob Noyce, Gordon Moore and Andy Grove.” Gelsinger has ...

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SatixFy ASIC to support OneWeb’s inflight Wi-Fi network

The ESA has highlighted a deal between OneWeb and SatixFy, a UK manufacturer of electronic components, to deliver Wi-Fi on aircraft via low-orbit telecommunications satellites. OneWeb, the satellite communications service provider, and SatixFy, a UK multibeam antenna and terminal design specialist, signed the agreement at the end of last week. They will develop a new ...

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Voltage on MEMS oscillator configurable between 1.62V and 3.63V

SiTime’s SiT8008 MEMS oscillator, now being sampled, can operate at any voltage between 1.62V and 3.63V. With this feature and the additional programmable features such as frequency and drive strength programmability, the SiT8008 offers millions of possible configurations. Industrial and medical applications such as factory automation, seismic sensing, and data acquisition all use many clock ...

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Amphenol RF adds isolated connectors and adapters

Amphenol RF has introduced isolated connectors and adapters to its  12G BNC and HD-BNC portfolio. These 75 Ohm products give system designers additional options for grounding and signal layout, specifically in smaller or densely packaged applications, by providing additional signal isolation. 12G isolated connectors are suitable for 4K and Ultra-HD broadcast applications. 12G isolated BNC ...

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More scope for RIGOL

RIGOL has expanded its UltraVision II technology platform with the introduction of the DS8000-R Rack-Mount Digital Oscilloscope. This oscilloscope provides up to 2 GHz Bandwidth and the same jitter and real-time eye analysis, power analysis, and serial decode as RIGOL’s proven MSO8000 Series oscilloscope. The space saving DS8000-R oscilloscope is designed for instrument synchronization for ...

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Whitepaper: Considerations for safe load ecoSWITCH operations

There is a new ON Semiconductor whitepaper available on our site for readers, entitled Considerations for Safe Load Switch Operation: The OFF to ON Transition Read this whitepaper from ON Semiconductor » Integrated ecoSWITCH products deliver an area reducing solution that includes over temperature protection, short circuit protection, soft start, and extremely low RON series resistances ...

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LinkSwitch-TN2 simple ac-dc chips now deliver 575mA

Power Integrations has upped the output power if its LinkSwitch-TN2 ac-dc converter family with a device that can output 575mA – previously the top end was 360mA. “These new LinkSwitch-TN2 ICs are pin-to-pin compatible with previous generations, making it simple for customers to upgrade to higher-power designs,” according to the company. “A buck converter can ...

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Google to make custom server SoCs

Google is to build custom SoCs for its server farms, says Amin Vahdat (pictured) Google Fellow and Vice President of Systems Infrastructure ‘Custom chips are one way to boost performance and efficiency now that Moore’s Law no longer provides rapid improvements for everyone,” says  Vahdat. Vahdat references Google’s TPUs and VPUs without which, he says, ...

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1.5kW medical and industrial PSUs from 5V to 48V

Cosel has introduced 1,500W power supplies for medical and industrial applications with a serial interface for monitoring and control. Called PCA1500F, it has a universal input working across 85 to 264Vac and comes in 5, 12, 15, 24, 32 and 48V output versions. “All output voltages can be adjusted to near zero volts and operated in ...

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High-rel industrial and aerospace RAM is non-volatile

Infineon has announced a second-generation of its non-volatile static RAMs (nvSRAM). “The new generation of devices are qualified for QML-Q and high-reliability industrial specifications to support non-volatile code storage and data-logging in harsh environments, including aerospace and industrial applications,” according to the company. “Both 5V and 3V versions support boot code, data logging and calibration ...

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Demo: 400 Gbps Transmission over 800km in a 75 GHz-spaced DWDM System

NeoPhotonics says it has demonstrated that its 400ZR+ QSFP-DD coherent pluggable transceiver can effectively transmit at a 400 Gbps data rate over a distance of 800 km in a 75 GHz-spaced DWDM system with more than 3.5 dB of OSNR margin in the optical signal. This 400ZR+ coherent pluggable transceiver module is based on NeoPhotonics high ...

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2020 materials revenues up 4.9% for record high

The global semiconductor materials market grew 4.9% in 2020 to $55.3 billion in revenue, surpassing the previous market high of $52.9 billion set in 2018, reports SEMI. For the eleventh consecutive year, Taiwan, at $12.4 billion, was the world’s largest market for semiconductor materials on the strength of its large foundry capacity and advanced packaging ...

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OneWeb shows its satellite network paces to U.S. Government

OneWeb has announced it has successfully demonstrated its satellite-based communications system to the U.S. Department of Defense for the first time. Aiming to provide connectivity services from November 2021 onwards, OneWeb’s system will feature an initial network of 648 Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites, global gateways and air, maritime and land user terminals. During the ...

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How do you use your SBC?

Farnell has  launched a new global survey to understand how single board computers (SBCs) such as Raspberry Pi, Arduino and BeagleBone are being used in professional design to speed up product development and reduce time to market. To take part go to https://ift.tt/3tJns6U The survey provides an opportunity for product designers, system engineers and makers ...

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Tricky lifting job? Just add more drones

Georgia Institute of Technology has developed a way for drones to co-operate when carrying heavy parcels. According to the university, controlling a group of robots connected together to lift a package is in many ways more complex than controlling a swarm of robots that fly independently. “For us, the challenge is that the vehicles are being ...

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Isolated ΣΔ modulators for industrial mains

STMicroelectronics has created isolated second-order sigma-delta modulators for industrial applications. They convert an analogue input signal up to ±320mV full-scale into a 1bit digital data stream at up to 25Msample/s. Resolution is 16bit (ENOB typically 13bit) and signal-to-noise ratio is 86dB. “The embedded galvanic-isolation technology of these devices eliminates the degradation associated with converters, as well ...

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FlexLogix raises $55m Series D

FlexLogix, the eFPGA and inference acceleration specialist,  has closed a $55 million oversubscribed Series D funding round. Mithril Capital Management led the financing with significant participation by existing investors Lux Capital, Eclipse Ventures and the Tate Family Trust. Flex Logix’s inference architecture is optimised for low latency operation required by edge megapixel vision applications. It combines numerous ...

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UK made: Cliff adds front + rear mounting versions to ‘Slims’ connector range

Cliff has added versions to its ‘Slims’ range of connectors that can be either front or rear mount. Slims (photo right) fit into a standard hole pattern, and are a variant of the company’s FeedThrough range where dozens of different connector types are built into housings for the standard ‘XLR connector’ hole pattern (below left). ...

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Digi-Key launches Part Tracing for traceability and verification

Digi-Key has launched Part Tracing for printing information to appear directly on cut tape products. It will also enable engineers to better organise their components and make it easier to visually verify them, says the company. The following information is available to be printed on 8 mm-wide paper carrier tape products: sales order, invoice, line ...

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Crowdfunding Watch: A playful LED cube for the Raspberry Pi

This'll catch your eye - an interactive LED cube for the Raspberry Pi - the LumiCube, by Abstract Foundry - which is now on Kickstarter.

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Veggies perk up li-ion batteries

A 3D-printed battery which uses electrodes made from vegetable starch and carbon nanotubes could provide mobile devices with a more environmentally-friendly, higher-capacity source of power. A team of engineers led from the University of Glasgow have developed the battery in a bid to make more sustainable lithium-ion batteries capable of storing and delivering power more ...

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Optomechanical ultrasound sensor on SiP IC has unprecedented sensitivity

Imec has made an optomechanical ultrasound sensor on a silicon photonic chip that has an unprecedented sensitivity due to an innovative optomechanical waveguide. Because of this high-sensitivity waveguide, the 20-µm small sensor has a detection limit two orders of magnitudes better than piezoelectric elements of identical size. The low detection limit of the sensor enables ...

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Q2 server processor shipments to jump 21%

Intel had a 92% market share of the x86 server processor market at the end of 2020, says TrendForce, with AMD’s share rising to nearly 8% in 4Q20 which represents a 3% growth compared to 4Q19. Other server solutions, based on non-x86 architectures, comprised an insignificant portion of the market. TrendForce projects total server shipment ...

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Tower adds galvanic capacitor process

Tower, the Israeli foundry, has developed a galvanic capacitor technology integrated with its 0.18um power management and mixed signal platforms, enabling  up to 12kV isolated gate driver and digital isolator ICs. The technology offers a cost and size advantage thanks to the integration of the galvanic isolator, saving the need for an additional device. Lead ...

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Ultrasound sensing module market growing at 5% CAGR

The ultrasound sensing module market is expected to grow at 5.1% CAGR 2019-25 to reach $6.2 billion in 2025, says Yole Développement (Yole). Bulk sensors (PZT, quartz) are still the conventional technologies and remain the standard in several applications with PMUT3 technologies taking a dominant position in consumer applications. TDK Chirp has proposed their MEMS ultrasonic ...

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Fountain of youth for nickel-rich Li-ion cells

Nickle-rich Li-ion cells don’t have to die young, according to the University to Advance Science and Technology in South Korea, where a room temperature process has been invented to infuse electrode particles with a protective layer. “Nickel-rich materials are considered promising cathode materials, as they can deliver higher capacity at lower costs,” said UNIST. “However, ...

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Dye sensitised solar cells get another boost in efficiency

Dye-sensitised solar cells can be improved by a new dye formulation, according to researchers at Swiss institution EPFL, where such cells were invented by Brian O’Regan and Michael Grätzel  in 1991. Dan Zhang and Marko Stojanovic in Grätzel’s have developed a dye (combining a carrier donor and acceptor) called MS5 that can increase open circuit ...

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Clicky keyboard switch is 3.5mm tall for high-end notebooks and desktops

Cherry MX, the German keyboard switch company, has created a mechanical keyboard switch only 3.5mm tall and ~70% smaller than its own Low Profile range, introduced in 2018. Called the Ultra Low Profile, it is aimed at high-end thin notebook and desktop keyboards. The company “is moving toward the current limit of technical feasibility with ...

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Flexible, printed, rechargeable, solid-state batteries for sensor systems

Innovation Lab, the printed electronics specialist,  has hooked up with Evonik, the specialty chemical company, to enable the first fully printed, flexible, rechargeable, solid-state, batteries for integration in printed sensor systems. Combining the benefits of TAeTTOOz  printable battery materials from Evonik, and InnovationLab’s printed electronics, the two companies are opening new application areas to ultra-thin printed batteries.  ...

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GeoChip raises $13m

GeoChip, the Chinese RF startup,  closed a €13 million fundraising round earlier this month. GeoChip received funding from the investment firms China Elite Capital (CEC), YMC Investment, Rockchip and the Hangzhou Future Sci-Tech City, an innovation and venture complex run by the local government GeoChip co-founders, Wu Ruili and Chen Junjie, previously worked at Qualcomm. They ...

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Healthy growth for electronics production

Electronics production has recovered strongly from slowdowns due to the pandemic, says Bill Jewell’s Semiconductor Intelligence. Most major Asian electronic producers reported double-digit increases in early 2021. The chart below shows three-month-average change versus a year ago for electronics production. The data is from each country’s official statistics and is in local currency. China, by ...

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Three consecutive record years for fab equipment sales

The fab equipment  industry is on track to register three consecutive years of record highs in fab equipment spending with a 16% increase in 2020 followed by forecast gains of 15.5% this year and 12% in 2022, says SEMI in its World Fab Forecast report. Fabs worldwide will add about $10 billion worth of equipment in ...

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Smallest 100W dual USB-C intelligent PD GaN charger claim

GaN Systems claims the industry’s smallest 100W dual USB-C intelligent PD GaN charger. This turnkey reference design is claimed to achieve the highest power density of any 100W charger on the market while being the smartest. The charger can balance and appropriately power a variety of plugged-in device power level combinations from a single 100W ...

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JAXA progresses inter-satellite optical communication in space

The Japanese Space Agency (JAXA) has announced progress in the development of its LUCAS system, involving inter-satellite optical communication in space using invisible laser light. It has successfully established laser acquisition and tracking between an Optical Data Relay Satellite and an Optical Ground Station, it highlights. LUCAS stands for “Laser Utilizing CommunicAtion System”. Under development ...

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Sondrel designing first rad-hard chip

Sondrel is designing its first rad-hard chip for a customer which is due to tape out shortly. The satellite modem will be used in communication satellites and therefore has to be able to withstand the challenges of the high levels of ionising radiation found in orbit that can cause glitches. Graham Curren, Sondrel’s CEO, said, ...

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Japanese AI processor firm picks Risc-V for partner CPU

ArchiTek has licenced a risc-V processor core from SiFive to complete its AiOnIc proof-of-concept artificial intelligence processor. “SiFive E3-Series Core IP enabled us to hit our performance, power, and area targets, while SiFive Core Designer and SiFive partner DTS-Insight helped reduce our development time,” said ArchiTek CEO and CTO Shuichi Takada. AiOnIc’s architecture, called ‘aIPE’ is designed ...

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6kV isolated silicon carbide gate driver

STMicroelectronics has created a pair of isolated gate drivers for silicon carbide mosfets. Called STGAP2SiCS, they are capable of producing a gate-driving voltage up to 26V, and there is a 15.5V under-voltage lock-out to prevent under-driving. Dual input pins provide a choice of gate-drive signal polarity. Inputs are compatible with CMOS and TTL logic down to ...

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Lensless IR spectral microscope identifies cancer

Scientists in France have demonstrated a lens-less infra-red spectral-imaging system for medical diagnostics, obtaining simultaneously morphological and biochemical information. Images at different wavelengths differentiate tumour cells “The combination of a set of lasers and lens-less imaging with an uncooled bolometer matrix allows biochemical mapping over a wide field of view,” said Grégoire Mathieu of Grenoble ...

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Adjustable non-isolated 300W buck-boost with 16th brick pinout

TDK Lambda has announced 20A 300W adjustable non-isolated dc-dc converters. i7C2W 20A models can step up and step down, with inputs ranging across 9 to 36V and output adjustable across 8 to 24V. “The converters seamlessly transition from buck to boost mode operation without disruption in performance,” according to TDK. They “can derive additional high ...

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Cambridge niobium anode start-up appoints CCO

Cambridge battery technology start-up Nyobolt has appointed Mark Newman as chief commercial officer and head of strategy responsible for developing commercial partnerships. Newman previously spent 11 years as MD and senior analyst at Bernstein focussing on batteries, electric vehicles and semiconductors. He was lead author of Bernstein Blackbooks: The Battery Bible, Electric Revolution and The ...

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Farnell signs Micron

Farnell has signed an international distribution agreement with Micron Technology. Farnell’s in-stock range of Micron’s  products include: SLC NAND devices which claims to offer the lowest cost-per-megabit of embedded code storage flash. Micron’s SLC NAND devices provide up to 100,000 P/E cycles for endurance and faster throughput than competing MLC and TLC NAND technologies. The ...

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Stefanie Tompkins chosen to lead DARPA

DARPA – the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency – has appointed Stefanie Tompkins as its 23rd director. She has previously worked at DARPA for eleven years and was a former military intelligence officer in the U.S. At the end of 2017 she had served as the acting deputy director of the agency. Following this, ...

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SMIC to build 28nm fab

SMIC, the Shanghai foundry, and the Chinese municipality of Shenzhen are to invest $2.35 billion to build a 28nm fab in Shenzhen. 28nm was first used in the industry  in 2011. SMIC will take a 55% stake and the city will take 23%. The remaining 22% appears to be up for grabs. “The company and ...

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Welding diodes from Infineon reach 14,000A

Infineon has announced a housing-less diode family is designed for medium frequency resistance welding and high current rectifier applications. 38 mm, 46 mm, 56 mm and 65mm diameters with a blocking voltage of 600 V: 38DN06B02 600V, 5.8kA* (100°C), 6.5 kA (85°C) 960mV (4.5kA), 38mm, dia 4mm thick 46DN06B02 5.1kA (118°C) 46mm dia, 4mm thick 56DN06B02  600V, ...

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Socionext and Inova sign fourth generation APIX licence deal

Socionext has licensed a fourth generation of APIX technology from Inova Semiconductors for its next next-gen smart display controllers. Socionext was the first manufacturer to license the APIX interface for its smart display controller and a number of other products and subsequently was also the first licensee of APIX2 and APIX3. Socionext has continuously expanded ...

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Q2 DRAM ASP to grow 13-18% q-o-q

Q2 will see larger q-o-q DRAM ASP increases, says TrendForce.   Datacentre purchasers will resume large-scale procurement in Q2 and DRAM buyers across different application segments will be under pressure to stockpile. After experiencing QoQ increases of 3-8% for 1Q21, the average contract prices of different kinds of DRAM products are forecasted to rise more significantly ...

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Nexperia and UAES hook up on GaN auto apps

Nexperia and United Automotive Electronic Systems (UAES) are combining on GaN power semiconductor devices with a focus on power systems for EVs with the aim to jointly develop automotive applications using GaN technology. The electrification of cars, the increasing high power requirements of telecommunication equipment for 5G and the rise of Industry 4.0 require power ...

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Micron cans XPoint

With immediate effect, Micron will cease development of 3D XPoint and shift resources to focus on accelerating market introduction of CXL (Computer XPress Link)-enabled memory products. Micron has determined that there is insufficient market validation to justify the ongoing high levels of investments required to successfully commercialise 3D XPoint at scale to address the evolving ...

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AMD claims most powerful server processor ever

AMD is claiming “the world’s highest performing server processor” for the EPYC 7003 series. The record claim is for the EPYC 7763 which has 64 2.45GHz ‘Zen 3’ cores (3.675GHz boost) with 256Mbyte of cache running two threads per core. The fastest version runs at 3.7GHz (4.1GHz boost) and has 8 cores running 16 threads ...

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650V drivers for mosfet half-bridges

Infineon has used a silicon-on-insulator process to create a pair of fast 650V half-bridge drivers on small-outline packages for its EiceDriver portfolio. 2ED2110 (images below) is a ±2.5A driver in 16pin DSO-16W packaging 2ED2101 (and ..03, ..04, image above)  are +290mA -700mA drivers in 8pin DSO-8 packaging The company emphasises transient immunity for all devices: ...

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High-end data acquisition for Nvidia Jetson

German data acquisition specialist Spectrum is offering driver software for Nvidia Jetson single board computers. There are various Jetson boards, with Arm CPUs and Cuda-based GPUs for fast parallel processing. The drivers work with Jetsons that have a spare PCIe slot. “The driver package means that any of Spectrum’s digitisers, arbitrary waveform generators or digital ...

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Quad band satellite simulator for Earth stations

Atlantic Microwave has launched a quad band satellite simulator for multiple frequency loop-back testing at satellite earth stations. Working over C, X, Ku and Ka bands simultaneously, it permits earth station set-up without the need for a satellite to connect to. “The Quadband Satellite Simulator makes testing multiple frequencies easier as up to four ground ...

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Farnell stocking Google AI kits

Farnell is stocking a selection of complete AIY project kits and Coral USB accelerators from Google, allowing engineers, designers, and manufacturers to build on-device Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) inferencing into projects and products and take application ideas from prototype to development much faster. These new Google products simplify the development of intelligent ...

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TT Electronics announces Reflective Object Sensors for challenging applications

TT Electronics has announced its OPB735 series Reflective Object Sensors for challenging industrial automation and safety applications. This reflective sensor features hermetically sealed components offering designers a wide operating temperature range of -55°C to 100°C to suit almost any factory setting. Designed to produce extremely low cross talk or noise signal, this product provides users ...

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Samsung and TSMC set for world domination

Without extremely quick and decisive action by other IC producers or governments, Samsung and TSMC are well on their way to world domination of leading edge IC process technology – the cornerstone of all of the advanced consumer, business, and military electronic systems of the future, says IC Insights. Can governments like the EU, U.S., and ...

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Heriot-Watt teams up with ASML

Heriot-Watt University has teamed up with ASML to develop new light sources. In a five-year collaboration partly funded by ASML, Professor John Travers’ research into fundamental physics will be accelerated, creating a direct route from lab to market for new laser technologies. The partnership has resulted in a new laboratory at Heriot-Watt University which will ...

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SEAKR dealt next phase of Blackjack Pit Boss space programme

DARPA – the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency – has awarded a $60.4m contract to SEAKR Engineering, for Phase Two and Phase Three of the Blackjack Pit Boss programme. The company – a specialist in electronics for space applications – is based in Centennial, Colorado, which is where the work will be carried out. ...

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