H-Link guides mmWave signals through plastic tubing

CEA-Leti has developed a hybrid, ultra-fast, ultra-low latency technology that guides mmWave radio signals through flexible plastic tubing. Called H-Link, the low-cost, energy-saving system ensures Gb/s broadband connectivity that also overcomes the limits of copper wire and optical fiber, such as oxidation of metal and brittleness. In addition to being flexible and less sensitive to ...

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Nordic launches tiny footprint nPM1100 power management IC

Nordic Semiconductor has launched a tiny footprint, ultra low IQ power management IC for nRF52/nRF53 Series SoCs – the nPM1100. It combines a USB compatible input regulator, 400mA battery charger and 150mA DC/DC buck voltage regulator in a 2.075 x 2.075mm WLCSP. The company’s first power management product, it is described as a generic PMIC ...

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binder locking clips meet demands for snap-in

The industrial circular connector specialist binder has announced locking clips for its 620 and 720 Series. The accessory provides extra security and safety for snap-in connectors. The 620 and 720 Series are subminiature and miniature connectors designed for use in automation engineering and medical applications. These markets are seeing a growing demand for fast-acting mating ...

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Melexis introduces Triaxis position sensor

Melexis has introduced the MLX90377 single- and dual-die (fully redundant) Triaxis position sensor for automotive and industrial applications together with a new PCB-less package for position sensors. The MLX90377 is a magnetic rotary and linear position sensor IC, which builds on the success of the MLX90371 and MLX90372 Triaxis sensors. Based on the Triaxis Hall ...

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Compact IRLEDs enable face recognition in mobile devices

Two infrared LEDs (IREDs) from ams Osram now not only enable user identification via facial recognition in laptops, but also slim displays because, with a lens, they measure 1.6 mm x 1.6 mm x 1.71 mm. ams Osram offers the IREDs in two wavelengths – 850 nanometers (SFH 4171S) and a 940 nanometer version (SFH ...

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Renesas claims smallest IGBT and IPM driver

Renesas has expanded its family of 8.2mm creepage photocouplers with three new devices designed for operation in harsh industrial automation equipment, solar inverter, and EV charger operating environments. Measuring 2.5mm x 2.1mm in an LSSO5 package they are claimed to be the world’s smallest optical isolated IGBT drivers and intelligent power module (IPM) driver. The ...

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Silicon and rhenium make transverse electricity from heat

A layered crystal of rhenium and silicon can produce electricity at right angles to heat flowing through it, according to Ohio State University. This is not the first time that ‘transverse thermoelectricity’ has been demonstrated but, according to the researchers, it is the first time it has shown notable efficiency. It works when the internal ...

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Shortage of NAND controller ICs impacting sales growth

Q1 NAND Revenue increased by 5.1% to $14.82 billion, according TrendForce. Bit shipments rose by 11% QoQ, while the ASP dropped by 5% QoQ. Although NAND  demand from notebook computer and smartphone manufacturers remained high, data centre clients showed weak demand with . contract prices for datacentre this showing a considerable QoQ drop. OEMs/ODMs of end ...

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Acer unveils Spatial Labs

Acer  has announced SpatialLabs aimed at giving  the virtual world a more physical dimension by delivering stereoscopic 3D experiences in a new  way. Content literally floats in front of the screen, allowing creators to examine their creations in real-time and 360 degrees—without the need for specialized glasses. Acer also announced the SpatialLabs Developer Program for ...

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8” wafer capacity to grow 17% 2020-24, says SEMI

Chip companies are on track to add 950,000 between 2020 and 2024 – an increase of 17%, says SEMI, to reach 6.6 million wpm. Spending on 200mm fab equipment spending is expected to reach nearly $4 billion in 2021 after passing the $3 billion mark in 2020 and hovering between $2 billion and $3 billion ...

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ESA signs UK’s Isotropic Systems for next-gen satellite connectivity

Isotropic Systems, a specialist in next-gen satellite connectivity, has been awarded a development contract with the European Space Agency (ESA), supported by the UK Space Agency (UKSA). The Reading-based company will receive €18.5m to develop its multi-beam, high-bandwidth broadband terminal technology. The agreement supports “the development of all major components of Isotropic Systems’ multi-beam terminals ...

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Compiler uses C code to write once and accelerate CPUs

Support for multi-threading acceleration for CPUs with multiple physical cores is provided by the CacheQ Compiler which takes a single-threaded C code and generates executable that can run on CPUs, accelerating executing by 486% on x86 processors with 12 cores, reports CacheQ Systems (based on benchmarks from the Black Scholes financial algorithm). There is no need ...

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Mosfets hit 550μΩ for 40V automotive and industrial

Nexperia has introduced a pair of 0.55mΩ Rds(on) 40V power mosfets in an 8 x 8mm packaging. BUK7S0R5-40H is for automotive use (AEC-Q101-qualified) PSMNR55-40SSH is for industrial applications Both are 500A 375W transistors operating across -55 to +175°C in 1.7mm tall high-reliability LFPAK88 (SOT1235) packages, which use a copper clip to improve heat flow. The 500A rating is ...

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Rohm plans 8V gates for 150V GaN power transistors

Rohm is claiming a first for an 8V-tolerant gate on a 150V GaN power transistor. One of the weaknesses of GaN HEMTs is the low voltage rating of their gates – generally ~6V – leaving them vulnerable to damage from transients, particularly as they need a drive of around 5V to operate. “Rohm succeeded in ...

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Atos and Thales form big data jv

Atos and Thales have formed a jv called Athea that will develop a sovereign big data and AI platform for public and private sector players in the defence, intelligence and internal state security communities. Athea will draw on the experience gained by both companies from the demonstration phase of the ARTEMIS programme, the big data ...

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Farnell signs InkSmith

Farnell  has signed a global distribution agreement with InkSmith to enhance its educational product range and drive cross curriculum learning. The Climate Action Kit’s project-based learning experiences are designed to teach students how to apply technology to solve real world problems through the lens of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs). Every project ...

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Arm battens down the spending hatches

Arm has gone into cost reduction mode as it awaits the result of its takeover by Nvidia. According to The Register it has frozen hiring including a ban on backfilling jobs left vacant by departures, has put a stop on new engagements of  contractors and has cancelled its FlexPlot scheme which gave US employees $8,500 a ...

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ULEMCo joins ENGV to develop Australian hydrogen fuel market

ULEMCo, the UK hydrogen fuel pioneer, has signed an MoU with ENGV of Australia to collaborate on developing a market for its hydrogen dual fuel technology. The scope of the agreement extends across Australia and into commercial vehicles, particularly heavy-duty applications like refuse collection, urban trucks, buses and prime movers. In the effort to transition ...

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Code of Practice for off-road autonomous vehicles

Oxbotica and  the Transport Research Laboratory have piloted the use of  a Code of Practice for the deployment of autonomous vehicles in  off-highway environments, with a live trial conducted in a quarry using a number of off-road vehicles. The Code is available to download here The Code identifies the key elements for safe and efficient ...

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ESA appoints Surrey Satellite to lead Moonlight telecoms initiative

The European Space Agency has announced its Moonlight initiative, to provide telecommunications and navigation services for future missions to the Moon. Two consortia have been selected to create the necessary commercially viable constellation of lunar satellites, designed to enable sustainable space exploration. Surrey Satellite Technology will lead the first consortium, both through its lunar services ...

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More on: Vehicle motor needs no rare earths

German automotive part maker Mahle is developing an electric motor that does not require permanent magnets, and so does not need rare earth elements. Like a permanent magnet synchronous motor, favoured by many electric vehicle makers, Mahle’s motor is a synchronous machine, but instead of rare earth permanent magnets in the rotor it has electromagnets. To ...

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UK design: Pulsiv raises £620k and adds senior staff

University of Plymouth power supply spin-out Pulsiv has raised £620,000 in equity funding, bringing its total to £1.5m, and has appointed senior staff.  Darrel Kingham has become CEO having left Aixtron as general manager. He was formerly with Arm. The man behind Pulsiv’s technology, Dr Zaki Ahmed (pictured), has moved from his post at the University ...

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SPDT tact switch works for three million cycles

C&K has launched that rarest of things, a tact push-button switch with change-over contacts – which means it offers a normally-closed option too. Not only that, but the 6.0 x 6.1 x 3.45mm ‘TLSM’ switch is momentary in operation and mechanically rated for 3,000,000 cycles. Travel of the top-mounted soft actuator is 0.3 ±0.2mm with 2N ...

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Intel hangs on to No.1 rank in Q1

Intel hung on to its No.1 slot in Q1 although the gap with Samsung narrowed, reports ICInsights in its May Update to the 2021 McClean Report. The top-15 worldwide semiconductor (IC and O S D—optoelectronic, sensor, and discrete) sales ranking for 1Q21 is shown in Figure 1. It includes eight suppliers headquartered in the U.S., ...

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HyperRAM to be integrated with Apollo4

Winbond, the Taiwan memory producer, is collaborating with Ambiq, the MCU and real-time clock specialist, to combine Winbond’s HyperRAM and Ambiq’s Apollo4 SoC to deliver system chips for IoT endpoints and wearables. Several customers are in design with Ambiq’s Apollo4 and Winbond 256Mbx8 HyperRAM Hybrid Sleep Mode (HSM), with volume production expected in 2022. HSM ...

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7.2cm x 10cm SBC claims to be industry’s smallest

 Review Display Systems (RDS) of Westerham is shipping a Pico-ITX single board computer (SBC). The AAEON Pico-TGU4 SBC has by Intel’s  11thGeneration Core G processors (formerly Tiger Lake) The Pico-TGU4 offers users the choice of the Intel Core i7, i5, i3 and Celeron processors which support on-board TPM 2.0 and in-band ECC. The board features ...

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Scotland, Wales, Cornwall – we have Spaceport lift-offs

New regulations to be put in place by the UK government should officially pave the way for commercial space launches from UK soil, from spaceports in Scotland, Wales and England. The government has tabled legislation – The Space Industry Regulations – that it believes will “help propel the development of commercial spaceflight technologies”, from traditional ...

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European Space Agency extends deadline for astronaut applications

The European Space Agency has announced a three-week extension for applying to be an ESA astronaut. The move comes with agency officially welcoming Lithuania as a new Associate Member state. The application process for ESA’s first astronaut selection in over a decade began on 31 March 2021 and the deadline for entries is now 18 ...

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Sponsored Content: Packetize test data for no-compromise DFT

Bus-based scan data distribution architecture enables true bottom-up DFT flows, writes Geir Eide of Siemens Digital Industries Software. The dramatic rise in manufacturing test time for today’s large and complex SoCs is rooted in the use of traditional approaches to moving scan test data from chip-level pins to core-level scan channels. The pin-multiplexing (mux) approach ...

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Relec Electronics offers an optical bonding service for TFT displays

TFT displays can be integrated into a variety of installations, in industrial and commercial settings. Assemblies are typically made up of a touch panel or cover lens and the display, with an air gap between the two. When an external light source (natural sunlight or ambient lighting) enters the front of the assembly, the light ...

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Arm invests in edge vision startup

Arm has invested in the $7 million Series A funding round of eYs3D Microelectronics, which spun off from Etron Technology of Taiwan in 2016. Etron was founded in 1991 by Nicky Lu to pursue DRAM technology. EYs3D was set up to develop processors for vision at the edge. Apart from Arm, WI Harper the VC ...

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Compact development board encourages FPGA experimentation

SBC development kits available from Farnell now include the OrangeCrab r0.2 open-source FPGA development board from Good Stuff Department, the company responsible for open-source hardware, including the ArticKoala and ButterStick boards. This latest SBC is a xlim, compact Adafruit Feather form factor, measuring 22.86mm x 50.8mm. Despite its size, says the company, it can be used as to ...

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Active fly-back clamp shrinks GaN USC-C chargers

Power integrations has moved to active clamp fly-back conversion, zero voltage switching and a GaN transistor to shrink the size of its ac-dc USB-C charger circuits. The ICs implementing the circuit are InnoSwitch4-CZ and ClampZero, and consumer brand Anker announced products using them yesterday: 30, 45 and 65W USB-C Nano II chargers (photo). The active clamp, ...

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China chip industry grew 18% y-o-y in Q1

China’s IC had Q1 sales up 18.1% y-o-y at $27 billion according to theChina Semiconductor Industry Association. The sales values of the IC design and manufacturing sectors were $11.2 billion and $8.4 billion respectively, and the sales value of the IC packaging and testing sector rose 7.3% to nearly $7.5 billion. China imported 155.27 billion ICs ...

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UKESF Survey: Future Engineering Skills Needs in the Era of Digital and AI

The UK Electronics Skills Foundation (UKESF) is undertaking an industry-wide study into future skills needs, particularly around the use of AI. Titled Future Engineering Skills Needs in the Era of Digital and AI, you can take part online to help shape the findings. The organisation’s wider mission is to encourage more young people to study ...

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TWAICE raises $26m Series B

TWAICE, the Munich battery predictive analytics specialist, has raised $26 million in a Series B funding bringing its total backing to $45 million. The funds will be used to expand core capabilities such as the analytics platform and fuel international expansion to target electric vehicle and energy companies. “Our solution portfolio is now leveraged in ...

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Q1 smartphone sales up 37%

Q1 smartphone shipment revenue rose +37% y-o-y to pass $100 billion in wholesale terms. The lengthened iPhone 12 super cycle, supply shortages and component price spikes, faster-than-expected 5G adoption, and industry consolidation all combined to deliver a much-needed positive quarter. Apple and Samsung remain clear front runners; Vivo passed Huawei and took third place with ...

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Transient suppressors for CAN and CAN-FD in vehicles

STMicroelectronics is aiming to protect CAN and CAN-FD interfaces with a low-capacitance dual automotive-qualified transient voltage suppressor. Called ESDCAN03-2BM3Y, it has two bidirectional suppressors with a common connection in a 1.1 x 1.0mm package and can clamp as low as 33V with 1A 8/20µs transients, or 37V with a 16A transmission-line pulse – peak pulse rating ...

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More power over Ethernet for Raspberry Pi

Raspberry Pi will be delivering more power over Ethernet with a 802.3at-compliant version of its power-over-Ethernet add-on board, the ‘PoE+’ HAT. The new board will also eases a supply problem. “Unfortunately, the first-gen PoE HAT uses silicon that’s in short supply,” according to Raspberry Pi. “The old HAT will remain in production, but we are taking the ...

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precision 15Msample/s data acquisition module for hardware-in-the-loop

Analog Devices has introduced a 16bit, 15Msample/s data acquisition module for digitising fast transient signals in power analysis applications “enabling low latency digital control in hardware-in-the-loop or source measurement unit applications”, according to the company. Called ADAQ23875, it has differential input signal conditioning circuitry including 0.005% matched resistors to implement a ±2.048V input range with a 4.096V reference ...

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China in Newport Wafer Fab stealth grab

Newport Wafer Fab is under threat of being taken over by Chinese interests. Nexperia, the NXP standard products unit which, in 2016, was sold to Chinese financial companies  – Jianguang Asset Management and Wise Road Capital – has appointed two directors to the Newport Wafer Fab board after a contract dispute. In December 2029, WingtechTechnology ...

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£166m for UK green projects

The UK government is putting up £166 million to drive forward developments in technology needed for a green industrial revolution including carbon capture, greenhouse gas removal and hydrogen. The funding will create over 60,000 well-paid green jobs across the UK, cutting business costs and helping to revitalise industrial heartlands and meet the UK’s climate target ...

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Toray lifts heat dissipation of CFRP to match metals

Toray has developed a high thermal conductivity technology that lifts the heat-dissipating properties of carbon fiber-reinforced plastic (CFRP) to that of metals. Applying this technology to CFRP dissipates heat effectively from their sources through thermal conduction paths inside that material. This helps suppress battery degradation in mobility applications while boosting performance in electronic device applications. ...

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Neuromorphic technologies will meet AI workload demands

The neuromorphic sensing market is set to grow at a CAGR of 116% between 2025 and 2030 to reach $5 billion in 2030, says Yole Developpement, and the neuromorphic computing market will grow at a CAGR of 88% between 2025 and 2030 to reach $2 billion in 2030. The three main neuromorphic market segments will ...

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Digi-Key signs Mini-Circuits

Digi-Key has signed a global distribution partnership with Mini-Circuits for its MMIC (monolithic microwave integrated circuit) product line. Through the agreement, Digi-Key is now stocking its 50 GHz, LTCC filters, baluns and couplers, and patented reflectionless filters. Mini-Circuits is a specialist in radio frequency (RF), microwave and millimeter-wave components and systems. Its products are used ...

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Webinar: 2021 IoT Trends, from Farnell customer survey findings

Farnell is hosting, along with Nordic Semiconductor, an IoT webinar which considers these questions: What are the current top IoT applications? Do IoT solution engineers use AI in IoT designs? Farnell surveyed more than 2,000 customers from around the world for its latest IoT survey and will reveal some of its insights, to help shed ...

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Xerotech qualifies battery technology for ESA applications

Xerotech of Galway the lithium-ion battery systems specialist, has qualified one of its proprietary battery safety technologies for space applications with the European Space Agency (ESA). “This is a very exciting project with ESA under the Building Blocks General Support Technology Program (GSTP), that will enable Xerotech to stay at the forefront of battery pack ...

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Precision low-power op-amp works with up to 70V on its inputs

Looking like a handy thing to use at the front end of circuits in lively voltage environments, Analogue Devices has introduced a precision op-amp that can function with up to 70V on its inputs regardless of its own supply rails. Called ADA4098-1, its rail-to-rail input shows a strong Linear Tech legacy, and even carries ‘Over-the-top’ ...

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Cadence unveils next generation of transistor-level circuit simulator for verification

Cadence is claiming up to 3x transient simulation performance for its latest transistor-level circuit simulator, compared with its previous offering. Called Spectre FX Simulator, it is the next generation of the company’s ‘FastSpice’ branded products, aimed at pre and post-layout verification of large DRAM, flash, SRAM and transistor-level SoC designs. “Design teams can verify functionality, timing for sign-off in a ...

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Enter biphenylene, a flat conductive carbon alternative to graphene

European scientists have made biphenylene, a theoretically predicted two-dimensional carbon material similar to graphene, but made of octagons, hexagons and squares instead of just hexagons. It has metallic properties, with stripes of the network 21 atoms wide behaving like a metal while, according to Aalto University in Finland, while graphene is a semiconductor at this size. ...

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H.264 video streamer has four NTSC/PAL/RS-170 sources

Advanced Micro Peripherals has released a stand-alone, low latency H.264 video streamer with four NTSC/PAL/RS-170 composite sources. Called XStream-SD4, “this ruggedized SWaP-optimised solution is tailor-made for even the harshest military and industrial applications”, according to company founder and CEO Lee Foss. On-board is a dedicated hardware compression engine capable of encoding all four video channels ...

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Semiconductor strength underpins Applied’s Q2

Applied Materials had Q2 revenues  $5.58 billion with a gross margin of 47.5% for a profit of $1.58 billion. The company generated $1.19 billion in cash from operations and returned $952 million to shareholders including $750 million in share repurchases and $202 million in dividends. “Applied Materials’ record performance is underpinned by broad-based strength across ...

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Memory market to reach $155bn this year; $180bn next year

After a steep drop in 2019, sales of memory ICs rebounded 15% during 2020, says IC Insights in the April update to the the 2021 edition of The McClean Report—A Complete Analysis and Forecast of the Integrated Circuit Industry (MR21). Following up on that increase, stronger DRAM pricing is expected to lift total memory revenue 23% this ...

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Murata and Nowi pursuing Plug-and-Forget

Murata and Dutch energy-harvesting IC designer Nowi have partnered  to enable and simplify the development of sustainable energy autonomous IoT platforms for use in ‘Plug & Forget’ solutions. The objective is to bring to market reference platforms and designs which use Murata’s ultra-small, ultra-low power consumption LoRa modules, powered by Nowi’s extremely compact and efficient ...

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UK space sector generating jobs and growth – UKSA

The UK’s Space Agency (UKSA) has highlighted in its latest report that more than 3,000 jobs have been created as the space sector grows across the country. The ‘Size and Health of the UK Space Industry 2020’ update suggests a growth in both space-related jobs and revenue (a related infographic can be seen below). Commissioned ...

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Industrial sensors provide 3D position and motion to ±1m, ±0.2° and ±1°

Xsens has introduced two rugged 3D position sensing products which are “particularly well suited to use in harsh environments in maritime, mining and agricultural”, according to the company. They are: MTi-670G: GNSS + inertial navigation system module MTi-630R:  attitude and heading reference system (AHRS) Both are in 41 x 56 x 37mm IP68-rated aluminium enclosures ...

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Spintronic devices harvest Wi-Fi energy

Magnetic tunnel junctions can be used to harvest 2.4GHz RF energy and turn it into dc current, according to researchers at the National University of Singapore (NUS) and Tohoku University who have driven an LED for such a power converter. The devices in question are non-vortex uniformly-magnetised spin-torque oscillators (see diagram) Magnetic sensors have already ...

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Self-powered switch module is Bluetooth Low Energy or Zigbee Green Power

EnOcean has created a dual-standard radio module that operates with Bluetooth Low Energy or Zigbee Green Power radio standards. Called PTM 535BZ, the 2.4GHz device is designed to be combined with the company’s ECO 200 finger-press energy harvester to create battery-free wireless switches. An integrated NFC (near field communication) receiver is included to ease switching between ...

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Infineon declines participation in EU chip project

Infineon has followed ST in declining to participate in the EU’s chip-making project to make advanced ICs and gain 20% of the world market. “We think Europe should focus on modern, but not state-of-the art technology,” says Infineon CMO Helmut Gassel (pictured). “The vast majority, if not all of the components, in a car today ...

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Kyocera gets a prize for its tiny crystals

Kyocera has be rewarded for the ultra-precise plasma processing technology it created to produce miniaturised crystal resonators – developed with Professor Kazuya Yamamura of Osaka University. The process, known as chemical vaporisation machining (CVM), involves a chemical reaction between neutral radicals in the plasma and the surface of the workpiece. It produces crystal wafers with ...

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650V and 1.2kV SiC FETs in D2PAK-7L

UnitedSiC has introduced silicon carbide FETs in D2PAK-7L surface mount packages. They cover 650V and 1,200V operation, and have on-resistances from 30 to 80mΩ (650V) or 40 to 150mΩ (1.2kV). “The D2PAK-7L SiC FETs [have] a Kelvin source connection improving gate drive return performance,” according to the company. “Through the utilisation of silver sintering, die ...

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30, 65 and 125W mains PSUs support 130% overload for 10 seconds

Luso is stocking ac-dc mains power supplies that can deliver 130% of their rated power for 10 seconds. TAD30-P, TAD65-P and TAD125 are nominally rated at 30, 65 and 125W respectively, and “can provide high peak power to meet needs of temporary high load situations in industrial and communication applications, such as electric tools, electric ...

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Farnell offers power supplies from Rohde & Schwarz for same-day shipping

For use as a bench power supply, product test, repair and education or used in racks for manufacturing test systems, the NGA100 power supply series is part of Rohde & Schwarz’s Essentials Portfolio. The supplies are available from  Farnell for same-day shipping. The power supplies have manual control and computer-controlled operation and are designed for entry-level ...

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TT Electronics selected as Telenor’s hardware partner

TT Electronics has been selected as hardware partner to Telenor, adding  TT’s connectivity devices and products to the Telenor IoT portfolio. “As different regions enter the era of 2G and 3G cellular sunset around the globe, millions of devices worldwide will need to be upgraded or replaced,” says TT’s Knell Karlsson, “Evolution is required, and IoT ...

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DIY chip for $10k

Efabless, a community chip creation platform, today announced the launch of its new chipIgnite program to bring chip design and fabrication to the masses. The chipIgnite program expands upon the SKY130- based open source chip manufacturing program sponsored by Google and supports private commercial designs that include non-open source IP. This initiative represents another step ...

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Raytheon licenses GaN-on-Si technology to GloFo

Raytheon will license its GaN-on-Si technology and technical expertise to Globalfoundries which will develop and commercialise the process  at its Fab 9 facility in Burlington, Vermont. The two companies anticipate using GaN for ICs handling 5G and 6G millimetre-wave Signals. This collaboration with Raytheon  is the latest of several strategic partnerships for GloFo.

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Q1 OSAT revenues grew 21.5%

Q1 revenues of the top ten packaging and test houses rose 21% y-o-y to $7.17 billion reports TrendForce, with most of the companies having double digit growth. End-device manufacturers have been aggressively procuring components since 2H20, in turn leading to a tight production capacity for actors across the semiconductor supply chain. Hence, OSAT (outsourced semiconductor ...

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BAE Systems wins $325m U.S. contract for jam-resistant M-Code GPS

BAE Systems has been awarded a $325.5 million contract by the U.S. Defense Logistics Agency to supply advanced Military Code (M-Code) GPS modules. They will provide reliable and secure positioning, navigation, and timing data with anti-jamming and anti-spoofing capabilities. The technology is intended to help warfighters conduct operations in what may be contested electronic environments. ...

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Performance of CNB conductive film doubled

Carbon nanomaterial company Canatu says it has more than doubled the performance of its Carbon NanoBud (CNB) transparent conductive film. Multi-year research and development program results in the best industrially applicable sheet resistance to optical transparency ratio ever seen in Carbon Nanotube (CNT) films. With sheet resistance of 35Ω/sq at 90% transmittance, Canatu CNB offers proven, high-performance material ...

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Push-in connector switches halve control panel assembly time

Foremost Electronics, the Essex importer and specialist distributor of electromechanical components, now offers a range of 22mm control panel switches from IDEC with secure screw-less push-in terminations which greatly reduce assembly time. Commonly used in control panel and machine building applications the Push-In termination technology option is available on the industry standard YW and HW series ...

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Verkotan offers 5G test services

Verkotan of Finland has turned to Anritsu for equipment to support its test services for manufacturers of 5G mobile devices. “With the roll-out of 5G networks, there is a need for performance tests for 5G devices,” according to Anritsu. “Verkotan is meeting this need using Anritsu`s MT8000A 5G communication tester, offering SAR [specific absorption rate] tests, ...

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Microchip puts its courses on-line

Microchip is offering on-line courses for engineers. Built around company products and under the umbrella of ‘Microchip University’, the courses and webcasts cover a range “diverse embedded design topics ranging from C programming to cryptography”, said the company. “Courses offer best practices for implementing a wide variety of systems such as the IoT, communication protocols ...

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DRAM replacement unveiled

Unisantis Electronics of Singapore has unveiled Dynamic Flash Memory (DFM) – a faster and denser technology than DRAM or other types of volatile memory. Unisantis, founded in 2008 by the inventor of flash technology Fujio Masuoka, has patented surround gate transistor (SGT) technology, a 3D transistor design which offers significant system design and performance advantages to the ...

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MCU for entry-level vision AI

Entry-level AI-based vision is the target for a microcontroller from Renesas. As part of the RZ/V Series, the new RZ/V2L has the company’s ‘DRP-AI’ artificial intelligence accelerator, with operating frequency and memory interface scaled for entry-level applications. The DRP-AI provides real-time inference and image processing with camera support such as colour correction and noise reduction. In this ...

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Machine learning assistance for Infineon PSoCs

Infineon has announced machine learning extensions to its ModusToolbox for deep learning workloads on its PSoC microcontrollers. “Enabled by TinyML, ‘artificial intelligence of things’ is a natural evolution, where acting on data locally helps manage data privacy, latency and overall system reliability,” said Infineon v-p IoT Steve Tateosian. “ModusToolbox bridges a gap between machine learning ...

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ST celebrates IEEE Milestone award

Following the award of an IEEE Milestone for its process technology combining the high-precision analogue transistors from a Bipolar process, with the high-performance digital switching transistors from a CMOS process, and with the high-power DMOS (BCD) transistors onto a single chip, a ceremony in honour of the achievement was held in Agrate this morning. Giambattista ...

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Secure Thingz adds hacking protection through NXP MCU PUF

Secure Thingz has tied up with NXP to secure the storage on LPC55S6x microcontrollers equipped with a physical unclonable function (PUF) – secure development tools C-Trust and Embedded Trust, as well as the secure prototyping and production platform Secure Deploy, now cover the MCU family. Embedded Trust and C-Trust are integrated with the IAR Embedded Workbench ...

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5 x 6mm power stage delivers up to 70A

AOS has created smart power stages in 5 x 6 QFN packaging that can deliver up to 70A. There are three base parts: AOZ5279QI  3 – 25Vin 60A output AOZ5277QI  3 – 20Vin 60A output AOZ5273QI  3 – 20Vin 70A output All can deliver up to 100A for 10ms and up to 150A for 10µs and are ...

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BF-rated 2x MOPP 150W power supplies

TrumPower is aiming at medical and IT applications with a range of single-output ac-dc mains power supplies capable of delivering 100W with convection cooling and 150W with 10 CFM forced air cooling. Called TWM150, they come in three styles: 51 x 76 x 30mm open frame 66 x 91 x 38mm u-channel 66 x 91  ...

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NevadaNano adds three European distributors

NevadaNano, the gas detection sensor specialist, has signed three European distributors. The companies will provide local support and sales to NevadaNano’s customer base for its Molecular Property Spectrometer flammable gas sensors. They are: Maritex Company, based in Gdynia, Poland is one of the largest, fast-developing wholesalers of electronic equipment on the Polish market. The company supports ...

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ST buys assets of Cartesiam

ST is buying the assets, including the IP portfolio, of five year-old Toulon AI specialist Cartesiam and taking on its employees. Cartesiam’s team includes data scientists and embedded signal processing experts. Its flagship product, NanoEdge AI Studio, allows embedded systems designers without prior knowledge in AI to develop specialised libraries integrating machine-learning algorithms directly into ...

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IC lead times growing

Lead times are stretching out, according to the trading and investment group Susquehanna. “All major product categories up considerably,” says Susquehanna analyst Chris Rolland, particularly instancing PMICs and analogue, “these were some of the largest increases since we started tracking the data.” According to Rolland average lead times went up by a week in April ...

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Arduino Nano RP2040 Connect builds on Raspberry Pi silicon

Following on from the Arduino Portenta comes another new board from Arduino – the Nano RP2040 Connect, which was first announced back in January. The board builds on the Raspberry Pi RP2040 microcontroller and is described by Arduino as “a small board with big features”, working within the tiny footprint of the Nano format. Nano ...

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Vishay awards Digi-Key EMEA

Digi-Key has received the Catalog Distributor of the Year 2020 award from Vishay, the manufacturer of discrete semiconductors and passive electronic components. The award recognises Digi-Key’s contributions to Vishay’s European revenue, growth, customer count and more over the past year, the company said. “The Catalog Distributor of the Year award is a great milestone in ...

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GlobalPlatform expands Trusted Execution Environment

Technical standards organization, GlobalPlatform has expanded its Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) security certification scheme to enable evaluation of discrete technologies that come together to make up a complete TEE implementation. Stakeholders at different stages of the TEE value chain – like silicon, component and OS vendors, or device OEMS – can now certify their individual ...

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Viavi’s Auto-Test for L3 Harris radios

Viavi has brought out Auto-Test for the L3Harris Technologies’ XL Connect 95P, single-band XL-185M, multi-band XL-200M, and Unity XG-100M radios on the VIAVI 3920B Radio Test Platform and 8800SX Digital Radio Test Set. The VIAVI 3920B and 8800SX radio test systems enable automated test and alignment of these best-in-class L3Harris P25 and public safety two-way ...

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Danisense joins ZES ZIMMER for DC meter testing in EV charging stations

Danisense, the current sense transducer specialist, has booked up with German power instrumentation company ZES ZIMMER to deliver DC meter test systems. Comprising the Danisense DS600 current sense transducer paired with the LMG600 power analyser from ZES ZIMMER, the system is already being used by renowned German standards organization, VDE, to calibrate and certify DC ...

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Cars that hear sirens in the distance

Infineon has teamed up with Reality AI to give vehicles a sense of hearing. “This solution enables cars to ‘see’ around the corner and to warn about moving objects hidden in the blind spot or approaching emergency vehicles, cars and other road participants, even if they cannot be seen by driver or detected by the ...

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Rugged UltiMate connectors from Fischer

Fischer Connectors has extended its flagship series of rugged harsh-environment connectors with: UltiMate 80, a field-ready NATO STANAG 4695-compatible connector (right) Size 15 connectors in the standard Fischer UltiMate range (below) with 2, 4, 8, 4+12 or 27 signal and power contacts “Intermateable with other NATO STANAG 4695 connectors, the field-ready UltiMate 80 connector comes in ...

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3D magnetic sensor measures rotation and translation in many ways

Allegro has created a 3d magnetic sensor that can perform rotary and translation motion measurement both on-axis and off-axis (see diagram). Called A31315, it includes configurable signal processing, linearisation and angle calculation allows it to resolve the absolute rotary or linear position of a moving magnetic target. It has “excellent native angle error over temperature in any ...

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Sub-nanosecond phase coherence wins Spectrum a place in mini-MRI machine

Quick tech support and sub-nanosecond phase coherence won German data acquisition card maker Spectrum a place in a mini MRI machine that has been designed for babies. Start-up Neoscan is behind the machine. “We we used this route of standard cards providing a platform to run our software on. This meant that we could focus ...

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GaN power adapter reference design

Transphorm,  the GaN power conversion specialist, and Silanna Semiconductor have brought out a GaN power adapter reference design. The design is for an open frame, 65W USB-C Power Delivery (PD) charger that combines Transphorm’s SuperGaN Gen IV platform with Silanna Semiconductor’s  Active Clamp Flyback (ACF) PWM controller. Together, the technologies yield a peak efficiency of 94.5 percent with an ...

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Rakuten Mobile and NEC sign O-RAN MoU

Rakuten Mobile and NEC have signed an MoU to promote O-RAN. In Japan, NEC is currently providing 5G radio units  for Rakuten Mobile’s fully virtualized cloud-native mobile network. The two companies are also jointly developing Rakuten Mobile’s containerized 5G Stand Alone (SA) core network (5GC). Under the MoU, Rakuten Mobile and NEC will expand upon ...

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Qorvo adds to programmable PMICs

Qorvo has expanded its family of multi-time programmable PMICs  with the launch of the company’s first Constant-On-Time (COT) PMIC to feature 13 voltage rails and 25 amps of power across all outputs in a 3.8 x 3.8 mm package. The product’s flexibility, small form factor and low quiescent current (LQC) address power, performance and size challenges ...

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IceMOS awarded NASA contract to develop novel power transistor

IceMOS Technology of Belfast has been awarded a NASA project to begin work on developing a novel radiation-hard high voltage power transistor. Improvements in power semiconductor devices are critical to power supply applications required in long-term NASA space programs such as “Moon to Mars” which aims to send humans to the surface of the Moon by ...

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Aphawave shares remain below offer price

Alphawave, the Canadian wired connectivity semiconductor IP specialist which IPO’d last week has not recovered from the crash which saw its shares dip 21% below the 410p offer price hit 369p yesterday.  Before the public offer, BlackRock and Janus Henderson had committed to take $510 million worth of shares. The company, led by Tony Pialis ...

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81% y-o-y Q1 notebook growth

Q1 notebook shipments grew 81% y-o-y, says Strategy Analytics. “Chromebooks continued to dominate the education sector as primary education sector demand is still high in developed markets,” says SA’s Chirag Upadhyay, “the SMB (Small and Medium Business) market is also responding well to the cost competitiveness and manageability of the Chrome ecosystem, giving the OS ...

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Integrated test product for pluggable 800G transceivers

VIAVI claims to have produced the industry’s first fully integrated test product for pluggable 800G transceivers that utilize 100G electrical lane speed, with integrated test applications. 800G represents the current peak of practical optical networking speeds, and as network traffic continues to surge, it is fast becoming part of operators’ upgrade plans. Enterprises are accelerating ...

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Cambridge UK: Agile Analog closes $19m funding round

Agile Analog of Cambridge has closed a $19m funding round led by Canadian pension company Omers Ventures, and backed by existing investors Delin Ventures, firstminute capital and MMC Ventures. “What excites us about Agile Analog is the potential for scale,” said Omers partner Henry Gladwyn. “Every other analogue IP supplier is restricted to selling a ...

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Board turns a stepper into a servo

Trinamic Motion Control claims to be making the “smallest single-axis servo controller-driver module with integrated motion control”. TMCM-1321, as it is known, controls two-phase bipolar stepper motors and includes a magnetic encoder and digital inputs for an optical encoder. It is a 28 x 28mm module, although it needs more space than this because “it ...

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Hynix looking to buy Key Foundry

According to the Korea Economic Daily newspaper, Hynix is in talks to buy Key Foundry of Korea – the eight inch foundry spun off from MagnaChip last year. Among other things Key Foundry specialises in automotive ICs of which there is a massive world shortage with soaring prices. Last February MagnaChip started running wafers on ...

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Government asks for views on supply chain security

The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) is calling for views on a number of measures to enhance the security of digital supply chains and third party IT services, used by firms for things such as data processing and infrastructure management. “We’re seeking views from firms that both procure and provide digital services, ...

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Chip shortage hitting auto jobs

The chip shortage is taking an ever deepening toll among the car companies. Stellantis, the car company formed by the merger of Fiat and Peugeot, says it will cut over 1600 jobs at its Illinois Jeep plant when it cuts the second shift at the plant in July. The chip shortage is expected to cost ...

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Surface brain waves tapped at UC San Francisco

Flexible thin-film electrodes developed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have been used at UC San Francisco to record human  brain activity on the surface of the brain’s hippocampus area. “We’ve developed an enabling technology for demonstrating a phenomenon that wasn’t really possible before,” says LLNL’s Implantable Microsystems Group Leader Razi Haque, “this challenge required creation ...

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Sony expands its vision for Camera Remote SDK

Sony has expanded the functionality of its Camera Remote SDK, in version 1.04, and increased the range of compatible models. Aimed at applications involving photogrammetry, speed cameras and mapping systems, the updated SDK now allows up to 20 cameras to be synchronised, via USB or Ethernet connectivity for greater distances. As well as the Sony Alpha ...

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Fluke clamp meters aim at technician safety

Fluke has launched a family of clamp meters that aim to make electrical measurements safer for servicing and maintenance technicians. The Fluke 377 and 378 are non-contact voltage True-rms AC/DC clamp meters that allow technicians to make rapid electrical tests without the danger of coming into contact with hazardous live parts. The Fluke 377 and ...

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Shortages will last until Q2 2022 says Gartner

Chip supply and demand won’t be in balance until Q2 2022, according to Gartner. ‘The foundries are increasing wafer prices and chip companies are increasing prices,” says Gartner’s Kanishka Chauhan. The chip shortage started with PMICs, display drivers and MCUs, fabricated on legacy nodes at 8-inch foundry fabs, which have a limited supply. The shortage ...

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GaN 1.5kW bidirectional 48-to-12V dc-dc demo board for automotive

EPC is aiming at mild hybrid vehicles and battery back-up Units with a 1.5kW gallium nitride bidirectional power converter demonstration board. Nominally 48 to 12V and back, it can produce 12 at 125A from 20 to 60V, or 48V at 29A from 12 to 15V. Peal efficiency is 97%. “The design of this demonstration board is ...

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‘Smallest’ Gen 2 RFID chip is 125 x 245μm

“As far as we can tell, it’s the world’s smallest Gen2-compatible RFID chip,” according to Paul Franzon, a professor of electrical engineering at North Carolina State University. He was talking about a 125 x 245μm integrated circuit die presented at the IEEE International Conference on RFID. It has -2 dBm sensitivity in the 860-960MHz band and its small ...

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GaN demo board delivers 24V 250W

STMicroelectronics has GaN-based 250W industrial power supply demonstration board – the first for its MasterGaN power devices. Called EVLMG1-250WLLC, it is designed to produce 24Vdc 10A from a nominal 400Vdc supply with maximum efficiency above 92%. The main component is a MasterGaN1, an IC-like package containing a half-bridge driver and two normally-off 650V GaN transistors – ...

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Shrink wrap is compostable

Cortec has created a packaging shrink film that can be composted. It is called EcoShrink Compostable Film. “EcoShrink takes both the beginning and the end of the shrink wrap product life cycle into account,” according to Cortec. “It is sourced from certified commercially compostable resins and contains 45% biopolymers. After use, it can be disposed ...

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RS upgrades PCB design software to v10.0

RS Components introduced version 10.0 of its two PCB design packages: DesignSpark PCB and DesignSpark PCB Pro. Changes to free-of-charge DesignSpark PCB include: disconnect from signal nets option component-to-component SMT check output drill data to Gerber library item time stamps improvements to the new component wizard Pay-for DesignSpark PCB Pro gets those changes, and also: intelligent ...

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ESCATEC buys JJS Manufacturing

EMS specialist ESCATEC is to buy JJS Manufacturing. The acquisition adds electro-mechanical production facilities in the UK  and Czech Republic to ESCATEC’s manufacturing locations. The deal allows ESCATEC, to supply OEM brands requiring products to be manufactured or assembled in the UK or Central Europe. ESCATEC’s  production capacity in Europe has been centered on a design ...

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China falling behind in chip manufacturing equipment tech development

A survey conducted by the Nikkei at Semicon in Shanghai finds that Chinese chip manufacturing equipment makers are falling behind in their technology development. Difficulties in getting parts and materials from abroad were cited.  “Our mainstay lithography machines are 90 nanometer models. Our 28 nm and 14 nm models have room for improvement in terms ...

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Tesla is No.1 for BEVs; BMW for PHEVs

Total NEV (New Energy Vehicle, which includes both BEV (Battery Electric Vehicle):and PHEV (Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle, but excludes HEV (Hybrid Electric Vehicle) sales for the 1Q21 period reached 1.09 million units, according to TrendForce. Of this figure, BEVs accounted for 750,000 units in sales, a 153% growth YoY, while PHEVs accounted for 340,000 units ...

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One Web buys TrustComm for U.S. government focus

One Web, the Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite communications company that is part owned by the UK government, is looking to buy the US company TrustComm. OneWeb says the acquisition of the Texas-based company – creating a US government-focused subsidiary – will enable it to offer its Low Earth Orbit (LEO) network and connectivity services ...

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Optical devices address 96 Gbaud and above systems

NeoPhotonics is shipping initial quantities of Class 60 versions of its Coherent Driver-Modulator (CDM) and Intradyne Coherent Receiver (Micro-ICR) which address 96 GBaud and above systems, to multiple customers. The devices are mechanically compatible with their  Class 40 counterparts and provide an upgrade path to higher baud rates supporting data rates that include 800G applications. Optical ...

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Vehicle motor needs no rare earths

German automotive part maker Mahle is developing an electric motor that does not require permanent magnets, and so does not need rare earth elements. “The central feature of the new motor is the inductive and thus contactless power transmission – this allows the motor to operate wear-free and particularly efficiently at high speeds,” said the ...

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