Gilmour Space propels Eris rockets with $47m Series C funding

The Australian launch services company Gilmour Space Technologies, has secured AU$61 million (approximately $47 million USD) from a Series C round of funding. The round, which was led by US-based Fine Structure Ventures, included Australian venture capital firms Blackbird and Main Sequence, and Australian superannuation funds HESTA, Hostplus, and NGS Super. It is reportedly the ...

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Fujitsu upgrades COLMINA tools

Fujitsu has launched a new version of the Fujitsu Manufacturing Industry Solution COLMINA Digital Production Preparation VPS, a series of tools  to support the digital transformation of production preparation tasks in manufacturing. The latest version offers enhanced functions, including a feature that allows users to create a 3D bill of process (3D-BOP) (2) that links ...

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Lithium metal pouch cell reaches 600 cycles

Lithium-metal batteries can last for 600 cycles, according to the US Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. “It’s a big step forward for a promising technology, but lithium-metal technology is not yet ready for prime time. While the lithium-ion batteries used in electric vehicles today hold less energy, they last longer, typically at least 1,000 ...

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Boron arsenide spreads heat better than diamond

UCLA engineers have monolithically integrated a boron arsenide heat spreader into a GaN HEMT logic chip to improve cooling. At the same time they built similar chips with diamond and silicon carbide heat spreaders. The diamond and SiC circuits had hotspots at around 137°C and 167°C respectively, according to the university, while those in the BAs-cooled ...

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5A dc-dc chips from Rohm aimed at 60V, 48V and 24V rails.

Rohm has used its high voltage BiCDMOS power processes to create a pair of non-isolated dc-dc converters. BD9G500EFJ-LA can withstand 80V for 48V power systems (7 – 76Vin) and can output 5A from a 4.9 x 6 x 1mm package via its built-in high-side mosfet. Applications are foreseen in servers, charging stations, power amps for 5G ...

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Ignys expands in Nottingham, seeks engineers

Electronics design and software development consultancy Ignys is looking for engineering staff for its Nottingham base. “We are experiencing a high amount of interest from inventors and product managers, and the technology industry is experiencing a boom as businesses adapt to a new way of thinking and trying new things” said MD Richard Fletcher. “We need ...

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element14 low power design challenge

element14 Community members are invited to use Infineon technology to build a low-power IoT device that enhances industrial design. There are several industrial design applications that can benefit from a lower power and easier to use embedded solutions, ultimately saving companies time, money and operational bandwidth for optimized system power. Dedicated to improving industrial design ...

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IceMOS commits to long-term small diameter wafer production

IceMOS, the Belfast wafer  manufacturer, is ramping production of 200mm SOI and SiSi direct bonded wafers. The move adds to its sustained production capacity for 100mm, 125mm and 150mm bonded wafers and advanced engineering substrates. “We are the last man standing for the manufacturing of 100mm SOI and SiSi direct bonded wafers and we seen have ...

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Five year boom for chips

The chip industry is on a five year roll with a 2020-25 CAGR of 10.7% including this years’s growth  of 24%, says IC Insights. This year industry revenues are expected to be more than $500 billion. In 2023, the industry is forecast to top $600 billion. 32 of the 33 major IC market categories defined ...

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BAE Systems to deliver trusted GPS to Germany

BAE Systems has won a contract to deliver M-Code Military Global Positioning System User Equipment to Germany. Under a Foreign Military Sales contract, BAE Systems will deliver advanced Military Code (M-Code) GPS technology to the German military, enabling precise, resilient, and secure geolocation and positioning capabilities. BAE Systems will provide the first MPE-M receivers to ...

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CPI develops Battery-on-Circuit process

The Centre for Process Innovation (CPI) has completed  a collaborative project to develop low-cost Battery-on-Circuit technology for printed smart labels used to track assets. Dubbed POETICS, the project could help lower production costs and drive industrial growth within the printed electronics industry. Smart labels by London-based SME Reelables attach to objects like a sticker and can ...

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Maxim improves infra-red gesture chip.

Maxim has created a lensed version of its MAX25205 optical gesture sensor to increase sensitivity and signal to noise ratio. The result is the MAX25405 and, like its predecessor, it is intended to displace camera-based time-of-flight systems in automotive, industrial and consumer gesture recognition. “MAX25405 senses a wider proximity of movement and doubles the sensing range from ...

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Power supplies up to 1kW include a server for set-up

Siglent Technologies has announced 360, 720 and 1,080W ac-dc power supplies that can deliver up to 90A or 160V, or be connected together to deliver up to 3,240W – two series for 0 – 320V and three parallel for 0 – 270A. Called the SPS5000X series, there are 10 different single output versions, three dual output ...

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Tiny dot projector lets cameras get to grips with a 3D world

Osram has announced a tiny projector that sprays 4,700 random dots into space to allow stereoscopic cameras a measure a 3D environment. Called Belago 1.1, it combined a 940nm VCSEL infra-red laser with a micro lens array, all in a 4.2 x 3.6 x 3.3mm package. Two nominal drive currents are listed: 350 or 425mA, delivering ...

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Sunlight readable rugged LCDs

Data Modul is to stock ruggedised sunlight-readable TFT LCDs from Toppan, using VA technology to keep contrast high. “Thanks to the optimised mechanical design and the use of particularly robust components, the Rugged Series meets requirements ranging from extended temperature range to vibration resistance,” according to Data Modul. “They impress with their Blanview technology, which ...

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X-Fab mixed-signal design Kit for Siemens’ Tanner tools

Chip foundry X-Fab has announced a reference design kit for its XH018 180nm modular mixed-signal high-voltage CMOS process and Siemens’ Tanner analogue and mixed-signal (AMS) EDA software. “The kit is based on silicon-proven circuitry, providing coverage of the flow to design and simulate analogue and mixed-signal ICs,” according to X-Fab which “provides its customers reference design ...

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Sub-metre accuracy claimed for indoor Bluetooth positioning kits

U-blox is claiming sub-metre indoor accuracy with development kits for Bluetooth direction-finding and positioning. “Recognising the growing demand for more accurate indoor positioning solutions,” according to u-blox, “Bluetooth SIG released Bluetooth Direction Finding, offering a major improvement over previous receiver signal strength-based [‘RSSI’] solutions.” It works with mobile tags and ‘anchor points’, which are fixed detectors. ...

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Farnell bringing feel-good factor

Farnell is seeking to bring a feel-good factor to customers this summer with the launch of its Escape Game challenge. Customers across Europe have the chance to test their skills and get creative by taking on a series of challenges to ‘escape to better days’. Participants can also win exciting prizes and access a wide ...

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19 new fabs being started this years

Construction of 19 new high-volume fabs will have started by the end of this year, says SEMI’s World Fab Report, and next year construction will start on another 10. China and Taiwan lead with eight fabs each, followed by the Americas with six, Europe/Mideast with three, and Japan and Korea with two each (Figure 1). 300mm ...

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Crypto-Quantique verifies PUF immunity

Crypto Quantique, a specialist in quantum-driven cybersecurity for the IoT, has announced independent verification that its CMOS semiconductor IP for second-generation, physically unclonable functions (PUFs) is immune to side-channel attacks when used to create unique, immutable and unforgeable fingerprints for CMOS chips. A 3-month study was conducted by eShard, an independent cybersecurity testing house. @Our ...

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UK-EU data-flows get go-ahead

A deal was agreed yesterday to permit data-flows between the UK and EU. Formal adoption of the decisions under the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and Law Enforcement Directive (LED) allows personal data to flow freely from the EU and wider European Economic Area (EEA) to the UK. The decisions mean that UK businesses ...

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FAA greenlights Virgin Galactic licence to fly customers

The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA”) has updated Virgin Galactic’s existing commercial space transportation operator licence to allow the spaceline to fly customers to space. The spaceflight company, for private individuals and researchers, says it marks the first time the FAA has licensed a spaceline to fly the paying public. Virgin Galactic has held a ...

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TI designs humidity sensor for accuracy and low drift

Texas Instruments has introduced a low-drift humidity sensor, the first in a family. For the device – HDC3020, or HDC3020-Q1 for the automotive version – the company is claiming “<0.21% relative humidity accuracy drift per year and less than 5% relative humidity drift from temperature and humidity stress, tested up to 85% relative humidity and 85°C”. Again ...

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US company looks to Cornwall to step into Europe

Progranalog of Oregon has opened its European office in Cornwall, at the Tremough Innovation Centre in Penryn. “Cornwall offers us an alternative way to access the European technology market without relocating to the city,” according to Progranalog head of UK operations Rob Misselbrook. “We’re paying almost a quarter of what we would for office space in ...

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Power inductor for digital audio

Sumida is aiming at filtering in digital audio amplifiers with a series of shielded high-power inductors. Called DEP1623 and measuring ~27 x 17 x 23mm, “this inductor is wound by flat wire and assembled with the Mn-Zn ferrite core. It is typically used in digital amplifier filters in home theatre and large LCDs”, according to ...

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Tech Jobs Hiring Day Today

Hundreds of tech jobs will be up for grabs with some of Britain’s best-known employers during a one-day hiring event hosted by the UK’s largest job site Indeed. Household names BT and Asos, as well as the financial giants HSBC and Lloyds Banking Group, are among those interviewing candidates – and potentially making on-the-spot offers ...

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Panasonic sells stake in Tesla

Panasonic has sold its stake in Tesla making a profit of nearly $3 billion on the holding. When Panasonic and Tesla entered into a battery supply agreement in 2010, Panasonic bought 1.4 million Tesla shares valued at around $730 million. Tesla shares were worth around $21 at that time and peaked at $900 last Spring. ...

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ReRAM integrated with an OTS selector.

Weebit Nano claims to have created the industry’s first commercial integration of an oxide-based ReRAM (OxRAM) cell with an ovonic threshold switching (OTS) selector, a critical step in the company’s commercialisation path for the discrete memory market. This is a significant step towards broadening Weebit’s target market beyond embedded non-volatile memory to include discrete memory technology, ...

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Rakuten, Intel and NEC demo 640Gbps for UPF

Rakuten Mobile, NEC and Intel have achieved a performance of 640 Gbps per server for the containerised User Plane Function (UPF) on the containerised 5G SA core network. Containerized UPF performance is crucial to maximize the value of 5G deployment because the control plane (C-plane) and user  plane (U-plane), which were historically collocated, are completely ...

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SatixFy, SWISSto12 team up for software-defined satellite payloads

SatixFy and SWISSto12 are teaming up for the development and commercialisation of end-to-end MEO (Medium Earth orbit) and GEO (geostationary orbit) telecom satellite payloads. According to the announcement, the companies are working together on multiple advanced payload programmes and opportunities for telecommunication satellites. SatixFy is a UK manufacturer of electronic systems for communications over satellite based ...

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Made Smarter fund puts more cash into the UK’s North West

Made Smarter Adoption programme in the North West has added five more manufactures of electronics to its tally of funded companies, making its total “161 businesses with £3.9m of matched funding for 201 projects, leveraging £10.5m of private sector investment”, according to the programme. “This technology adoption is forecast to create 990 jobs, upskill 1,845 ...

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Configurable automotive LDOs include functional safety features

STMicroelectronics has introduced a pair of  LDOs with eight selectable fixed-output voltages and diagnostic features for functional safety, and high thermal performance. Each has three pins that allow the output to be set to 0.8, 1.2, 1.5, 1.8, 2.5, 2.8, 3.3 or 5V “more accurately than with an external voltage divider using three external selection ...

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Stainless steel options take waterproof SMA cables to IP69K

GradConn’s has added stainless steel corrosion protection to its already very waterproof range of SMA cable assemblies. With stainless steel (303) SMA connectors, the assemblies are rated to IP67 and IP68 and, for the first time in the Nautilus range, IP69K against high-pressure and high-temperature wash-down. “The SMA interface makes it one of the smallest ...

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Melexis adds current sensors for auto power conversion

Melexis, the Belgian fabless automotive IC specialist, has revealed new current sensors for automotive power-conversion applications. The advantages they deliver include increased resolution, optional 3.3V or 5V operation, and integrated over-current detection circuitry. The MLX91219 is a conventional hall current sensor. Using a ferromagnetic C-core, currents can be measured in the ranges of 200A to ...

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Microsoft brings its cybersecurity intelligence to Space ISAC

Microsoft is joining the Space Information Sharing and Analysis Center (ISAC), which is intended to protect space-based critical assets by responding to detected vulnerabilities, incidents, and threats. It has become the Space ISAC’s newest founding member and the company highlights that it is “the first hyperscale cloud service provider to join this member organization” and says ...

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LEDs specific to plant-growing

ams-OSRAM has added an LED specifically for growing plants. There is an ideal light recipe for each plant that includes “ingredients” such as the required wavelengths, intensity, average illumination duration and much more. Operators of greenhouses and so-called indoor farms naturally want to be as energy-efficient as possible in addition to maximizing yields and ams-Osram’s ...

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Harwin has rear panel mount cable connectors

To provide customers with greater choice and increase design flexibility, Harwin now offers rear panel mount cable connectors for both its 2mm-pitch Datamate and 1.25mm-pitch Gecko high-reliability (Hi-Rel) series. These will complement the company’s existing front panel mount solutions, broadening the scope of how connector housings are attached to an enclosure or panel. The clear ...

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Prism Electronics celebrates 30 years in Cambridgeshire

Cambridgeshire-based Prism Electronics is celebrating 30 years manufacturing PCB assemblies. Based in St Ives, Prism’s products are using in instrumentation, medicine, transportation, communications, security, telemetry and industrial applications. It was established in 1991 when David Aspinall and Richard Walton arranged a management buy-out of their employer’s manufacturing division. “Contract electronics manufacturing was not yet well ...

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Segger adds an IoT operating system: emPower OS

Segger has created an operating system for industrial and IoT products, building it on its existing tool portfolio. “The emPower OS software package includes all core components: RTOS, GUI and file System, and communication software: TCP/IP, USB device, USB host and Modbus, as well as IoT Toolkit, security and compression modules,” according to the company. ...

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5kV 3 phase PSU for industry

XP Power has announced a series of three-phase 5kW ac-dc power supplies aimed at industrial electronics, process control, semiconductor fabrication, medical devices, LED lighting, water treatment, test and burn-in. Designed to run from inputs across 180 to 264Vac with full load, the supplies need an earth connection but not, the company emphasises, a neutral connection. ...

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Tower to share ST Agrate fab

Tower Semiconductor, the Israeli foundry, is to share a 300mm fab with  ST in Agrate. “The key parameter for industrial and economic performance of a fab is its utilization,” says ST CEO Jean-Marc Chery (pictured),  “with Tower we have a great partner for analogue, power and mixed-signal volume manufacturing that will enable us to qualify ...

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University of Cambridge micro-LED company gets £3m

University of Cambridge micro-LED spin-out Porotech has raised £3m towards the development of its production technique and to develop its own supply chain ecosystem to help develop and produce products. Despite only spinning out in January 2020, Porotech claims to have been generating revenue for 10 months and be “working with some of the biggest global names in ...

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UK O-RAN lab opens today

A new lab to speed up the development of 5G communication kit and help Britain diversify its supply chains will be launched today. The government-backed £1 million SONIC Labs will help accelerate the adoption of ‘Open RAN’ technology which is a major pillar of the government’s 5G Diversification Strategy.  The strategy aims to build a ...

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UK satellites get a lift on SpaceX Falcon Heavy

Monitoring and tackling climate change and tracking endangered wildlife are among the features of three UK-built satellites set to launch on a SpaceX rocket tomorrow. UK companies have received nearly £15 million from the UK Space Agency, through the European Space Agency’s Pioneer Partnership Programme, to develop the trio of satellites due to lift off ...

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Fujitsu offers commercial simulations on Fugaku

Fujitsu says it has used the world’s fastest supercomputer, Fugaku, to demonstrate the feasibility of high performance, large-scale, very high-definition analyses with commercial applications widely used in the industrial field for simulations including fluid dynamics. The trials were conducted in collaboration with a number of application vendors between November 2020 and May 2021. Fujitsu and ...

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Filtronic re-shores China manufacturing operation

Filtronic, the RF, microwave, and mmWave specialist, says it has re-shored from China to the USA the manufacturing of a critical communications product for the US public safety market. Working with its leading OEM client, Filtronic was able to re-shore product assembly and supply chain from China to Salisbury, Maryland, USA to improve equipment lead-times. “Reshoring ...

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ESA invites mobile app developers to Space App Camp 2021

An invitation from the European Space Agency (ESA) – it is looking for applications to join its Space App Camp 2021. It is inviting up to 25 mobile app developers and specialists in artificial and machine learning related to observing Earth from space to sign up for its annual Space App Camp programme. It will ...

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Memory protection instructions defend against hackers

Engineers at Columbia University are defending memory against hackers by adding defensive commands to processor instruction sets. “Memory safety has been a problem for nearly 40 years and numerous solutions have been proposed, according to Columbia computer scientist Simha Sethumadhavan. “We believe that memory safety continues to be a problem because it does not distribute the ...

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IAR Systems adds support for AndeStar V5 Risc-V

IAR Systems has added support for AndeStar V5 Risc-V Performance Extension to Embedded Workbench for Risc-V. The toolchain supports all 32bit Andes V5 Risc-V cores, including N22, N25F, D25F, A25, A27, N45, D45 and A45. Risc-V Packed SIMD/DSP extension specification (RVP draft) and the corresponding intrinsic functions as well as Andes DSP libraries are supported. “AndeStar ...

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Silicon 600V 12A diodes push back against SiC for PFC

Power Integrations has announced a 600V 12A diode with a typical reverse recovery charge (Qrr) of 14nC at 25°C, claiming this as an industry best. “The Qrr of these new Qspeed diodes is half that of the next best ultra-fast silicon diodes, resulting in high system efficiency,” according to company marketing manager Edward Ong. “This is particularly ...

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Xilinx adds machine learning optimisation to Vivado to accelerate design cycle

Claiming to be able to reduce design compile times by a factor of five, Xilinx has launched the Vivado ML Editions tool suite. The latest addition to the company’s Vivado tool suite is believed to be the first FPGA EDA tool suite based on machine learning (ML) optimisation algorithms. In addition to faster compile times, ...

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Rise in numbers for women in engineering

On International Women in Engineering day (23 June), EngineeringUK reports a 12% increase in the number of women working in engineering compared with 2018. The starting point was quite low, however, just 12% of the workforce in Q2 2018, compared with 14.5% in Q2 2020. The data is taken from the Labour Force Survey Q3 ...

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Capex and capacity

Semiconductor manufacturers are expanding capital spending in 2021 and beyond to help alleviate shortages, writes Semiconductor Intelligence. In addition, many governments around the world are proposing funding to support semiconductor manufacturing in their countries. The United States Senate this month approved a bill which includes $52 billion to fund semiconductor research, design, and manufacturing. The ...

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GloFo to build new $4bn fab

Globalfoundries is to build a new $4 billion fab on its Singapore campus. The Singapore Economic Development Board and co-investments from committed customers have helped to fund the fab, With worldwide semiconductor revenue projected to increase 2.1 times in the next eight years, according to GloFo, the company has planned capacity expansions at all its manufacturing sites in the U.S., ...

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ADI and Keysight hook up on O-RAN

ADI and Keysight Technologies are to accelerate network interoperability and compliance testing for Open RAN radio units (O-RUs). The companies are collaborating to create a robust test bench to verify the interoperability of a new O-RU that includes ADI’s low-PHY baseband, software defined transceiver, power and clock integrated with an Intel©FPGA. Applying Keysight’s Open RAN emulation, ...

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Sales of MEMS sensors and actuators to grow 16% this year

MEMS  sensors and actuators made are expected to grow about 16% in 2021 to a record-high $15.9 billion after an 11% increase in 2020,  according to IC Insights’ 2021 O-S-D Report—A Market Analysis and Forecast for Optoelectronics, Sensors/Actuators, and Discretes. Total sales of MEMS-based pressure sensors, microphone chips, accelerometers, gyroscope devices, and actuators are expected ...

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SiFive’s highest performance Risc-V IP

SiFive has announced its highest performance implementation of a Risc-V core yet. Called the Performance P550, the intellectual property is said to deliver a SPECInt 2006 score of 8.65/GHz, “making it the highest performance Risc-V processor available today, and comparable to existing proprietary solutions in the application processor space” according to the company. THis is ...

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APEC 2021: Critical conduction mode totem pole PFC controller

ON Semiconductor is introducing a critical conduction mode ‘bridge-less’ totem-pole PFC (power factor correction) controller, claiming it to be industry’s first dedicated IC. Bridge-less in this case is a misnomer. It indicates no front-end diode bridge (saving the diode drops), which is instead replaced with a bridge of four transistors- two in a totem-pole operating at ...

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UK made: pancake motor rescues weather balloon tracker

Printed Motor Works of Hampshire is making a replacement servo motor for a weather balloon tracker made by South African company InterMet, after the original became unobtainable. “The discontinued motor had a very low profile which enabled it to fit within the base plate of the antenna’s turntable mount,” according to PMW. “It also had ...

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350W medical PSU peaks at 1kW

TDK-Lambda has introduced a series of ac-dc mains power supplies rated at 350W convection, 500W with forced air and 1kW peak. Called CUS350MP, the PSUs have medical and industrial safety certifications. Input can vary across 85 to 265Vac (with leakage current <300µA). Four output voltages are available: 24, 30, 36 and 48V, plus a 5V 300mA isolated stand-by voltage – ...

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Glitch-free power-up from Maxim

Designers can now enhance system reliability in low-voltage IoT applications with the Essential Analog MAX16162 nanoPower supervisor with glitch-free power-up from Maxim. This supervisor IC claims to be the industry’s first to fully assert a system reset through the entire system power supply ramp; thereby eliminating low-voltage glitches during power-up and delivering higher system reliability. ...

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The National Space Propulsion Test Facility is rocket testing

A UK rocket test facility has been unveiled by the Science Minister Amanda Solloway – the National Space Propulsion Test Facility (NSPTF), located at the Westcott Space Cluster in Aylesbury. The centre is designed to allow companies and universities to test state-of-the-art propulsion engines which are used to move small satellites in space. It could ...

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Cliff adds multi-fibre push-on connector

Cliff Electronics have added a MTP/MTO (multi-fibre push on) connector to their FeedThrough connector range which allows through-panel connection of standard 12-72 multimode optical fibre cables. Demand for MTP/MTO connectivity is being driven by the development of 40G and 100G transceivers with MPO ports commonly used for data transmission over short distances to connect ports ...

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ON Semi drivers for developing LED luminaires

ON Semiconductor has announced two LED drivers which allow manufacturers to develop LED luminaires with light-based positioning technology and visible light communication. By adding data intelligence and accurate positioning (up to 30 cm), these solutions will revolutionize lighting in a variety of spaces including supermarkets, warehouses, hospitals, and airports. The NCL31000 from ON Semiconductor is ...

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Intel and Cellwize hook up for vRAN

Cellwize Wireless Technologies (Cellwize) will enable its CHIME technology on Intel Xeon Scalable processors with built-in AI acceleration and Intel FlexRAN reference software in order to propel deployment of automated AI-driven 5G vRAN networks. As cellular networks progress from RAN to vRAN, implementing a scalable cloud-like architecture in 5G networks is important for operators. “This collaboration ...

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Intel and Qualcomm looking to combine strengths

Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger (pictured left) and Qualcomm CEO-elect Cristiano Amon (pictured right) are looking at areas of co-operation as compute and comms converge. “We are the unquestioned compute leader, and Qualcomm’s the unquestioned comms leader – compute meets comms –  right – a lot of new use cases,” Gelsinger told CNBC, “between these two ...

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624m 5G phones to be sold in 2021

624 million 5G smartphones will  be sold this year up from 269 million in 2020, says Strategy Analytics. Q1 5G phone shipments were 135.7 million. Apple was top brand in Q1 on 40.4 million units; Oppo second on 21.5 million (up from 1.2 million in Q1 2020) and Vivo third with 19.4 million (2.9 million) ...

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Imaging and sensing component market on 14.5% CAGR 2020-26

The global 3D imaging and sensing market is expected to grow to $15 billion in 2026, with a 14.5% CAGR 2020-2026, says Yole Developpement. Mobile & consumer is the main segment representing 46% of the total 3D imaging and sensing market in 2026. It is followed by the automotive and industrial segments, which will both ...

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Digi-Key launches myLists consolidated list management system

Digi-Key Electronics has launched a way – dubbed myLists – to make it easier for customers to manage their component sourcing lists in one place. The idea is to streamline customers’ BOM management, price and availability checking and repeat favorites into one system. The tool also includes an attrition calculator to plan for overages that ...

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512Mb NOR flash supports 166MHz SPI clocks.

Winbond has added to its SPI NOR Flash portfolio with a monolithic 1.8V 512Mb SPI NOR flash that can support up to 166 MHz standard/dual/quad SPI clocks. Apart from the existing 3V 512Mb W25Q512JV, the new 1.8V W25Q512NW SPI NOR Flash also features pin-to-pin compatibility, enabling customers to upgrade to higher flash storage capacities without having ...

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A better PEEK

Glasgow University researchers have used 3D printing to  add new properties to polyether ether ketone (PEEK) which result in lightweight, impact-resistant plastic-based ‘honeycomb’ structures which can sense when they have been damaged. PEEK’s mechanical properties and resistance to high temperatures and chemicals have made it useful for a wide range of applications in the aerospace, ...

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UK made: VPX video frame grabber and streamer

Advanced Micro Peripherals of Cambridge has released two 3U video boards for VPX backplanes. XStream-VPX is a 40ms latency H.264/H.265 video streamer with eight PAL/NTSC inputs, one HDMI/DVI, RS343/RGB/STANAG, and one HD-SDI input AVC-VPX (pictured) is a multi-channel frame grabber with eight PAL/NTSC inputs, eight raw digital video streams to VPX host and live video ...

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ICs push industrial Ethernet over 1.7km of cable

ADI has introduced a pair of industrial 10BASE-T1L Ethernet (IEEE 802.3cg) ICs which can operate over 1.7km of single twisted pair with 10Mbit/s 1Vp-p or 2.4Vp-p signalling. “By providing long-reach industrial Ethernet solutions that adhere to the 10BASE-T1L Ethernet standard, we’re making it possible for our customers to achieve reliable communications over much longer distances, ...

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Logic level 1.5mΩ 30V mosfet has low gate charge

Vishay has introduced a 30V n-channel mosfet with an on-resistance of 1.5mΩ (typ) at 4.5Vgate while achieving a 29.8mΩnC gate figure-of-merit (FoM). “The SiSS52DN’s FoM represents a 29% improvement over previous-generation devices, which translates into reduced conduction and switching losses to save energy in power conversion applications,” according to New Yorker Electronics, which is stocking ...

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Arqit’s Federated Quantum System promises satellite-based encryption

A UK company, Arqit, which specialises in quantum encryption technology involving satellite links, is at the centre of a newly announced international consortium of companies and government organisations. Aimed at edge devices and cloud computing, the quantum encryption technology uses a federated system concept and is dubbed the Federated Quantum System (FQS). News of the ...

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Outdoor air quality sensor

Renesas has expanded its ZMOD4510 Outdoor Air Quality (OAQ) gas sensor platform with an IP67-qualifed waterproof package and a new AI-based algorithm that enables ultra-low power selective ozone measurements. The enhanced ZMOD4510 claims to be  the industry’s first fully calibrated, miniature digital OAQ sensor solution with selective ozone measurement capabilities, offering visibility into the air ...

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Entry-level Atomic Force Microscopes

Hitachi High-Tech Corp has launched its AFM100 and AFM100 Plus systems – entry-level and intermediate-level models of Hitachi’s Atomic Force Microscopes (AFM). These tools are designed to offer ease of use and superior reliability for high-throughput R&D or quality control applications. AFM100 Plus The AFM is a type of the Scanning Probe Microscope (SPM) that ...

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Amphenol RF adds cable assembly options to MCX series

Amphenol RF has expanded its MCX product series to include additional cable assembly options on RG-174 cable. These 50 ohm assemblies are available in plug to plug configurations in an extensive range of standard lengths from six inches to three meters. MCX cable assemblies are suitable for a number of applications including global positioning systems, ...

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Siemens acquires Supplyframe for a ‘digital transformation’

The recent component shortage has highlighted the fragility of current supply chains, asserted Siemens, as it announced the acquisition of electronics Design-to-Source platform, Supplyframe. The transaction is expected to close at the end of this financial year. The acquisition is part of Siemens’ digital transformation said AJ Incorvaia, senior vice president, Siemens Digital Industries Software, Electronic ...

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Structure thins silicon capacitors to

Murata has announced a new generation silicon capacitor process which builds devices less than 40µm thick and up to 1.3µF/mm2. Made using semiconductor lithography techniques, the capacitors are intended for high-end applications such as in-package power supply decoupling for mobiles and high-performance computing. The main change in the process is a different 3D structure with ...

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Fusion demo plant to be built at Culham

Today, UKAEA and General Fusion of Canada  have announced an agreement under which General Fusion will build and operate its Fusion Demonstration Plant (FDP) at UKAEA’s Culham Campus. General Fusion will enter into a long-term lease with UKAEA following construction of a new facility at Culham to host the FDP.  The FDP will demonstrate General ...

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1.7kV SiC ac-dc converter ICs now in surface mount

Rohm has introduced surface-mount versions of its ac-dc converter ICs that include a 1,700V silicon carbide mosfet – opting for the 10.2 x 4.4 x 15.5mm TO 263-7L package, which can be automatically mounted in production. Called BM2SC12xFP2-LBZ, the series (table below) implements a quasi-resonant topology and is aimed at industrial auxiliary power supplies – for example ...

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OpenRoaming to bridge gap between cellular and WiFi

The Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) today announced the launch of WBA OpenRoaming  Release 2, which enables network and service providers, including MNOs, Cable Operators and ISPs to offer enhanced services. OpenRoaming frees users from the need to constantly re-register or re-enter log-in credentials, allowing seamless and instant network access, enterprise-grade security and a carrier-grade Wi-Fi ...

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UK made: 1U modular RF distribution chassis for satcomms

ETL has introduced a 1U version of its Genus-brand modular RF distribution chassis for ground-segment satcomms, adding to its 2U, 3U and 4U version. GNS-101-1U can accept up to 17 of the company’s RF modules, mixed and matched from BUC/LNB power supply’s, frequency converters, matrices, RF-over-fibre, redundancy switches or test loop translators. It has dual-redundant hot-swappable power ...

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PIC32MZ added to interchangeable MCU development boards

MikroElektronika, has introduced a SiBrain interchangeable board MCU board for Microchip’s PIC32MZ1024EFF144 microcontroller, giving access to its 144 pins, 1Mbyte flash memory and 262kbyte of ram. The core in the processor is a 32bit 200MHz (330DMIPS) Warrior M-class from MIPS. The Serbian company is the one behind ‘Click board’ interchangeable peripheral boards which have a standard footprint and ...

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Nexperia to invest $700m

Nexperia is to invest $700 million over the next 12-15 months at its European wafer fabs, assembly factories in Asia and global R&D sites. The investment will boost manufacturing capacity at all sites while supporting R&D  into areas such as GaN-based wide bandgap semiconductors and PMICs. “Nexperia reported robust product sales of $1.4 billion in 2020, ...

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Vodafone goes for 5G Standalone

Vodafone is partnering with Ericsson to deploy a cloud-native dual-mode core for its 5G Standalone network where where all products and solutions are designed to run independently from previous generations of network equipment and technology. The deployment of a dual-mode core, also known as Single Packet Core, will enable 5G Standalone, 5G non-Standalone and 4G ...

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Memory in a good place

Combined DRAM and NAND revenue in 2020 was US$122 billion, up 15% from 2019, says Yole Developpement. Together, DRAM and NAND represent 96% of the stand-alone memory markets.  DRAM and NAND revenues are expected to grow with 15% and 8% CAGRs between 2020 and  2026 respectively.   .After the substantial oversupply in 2019 – with ...

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Imec demoes integrated forksheet FETs for 2nm processes

Imec has demonstrated for the first time fully functional integrated forksheet FETs, with short-channel control (SSSAT=66-68mV/dec) comparable to GAA nanosheet devices down to 22nm gate length. Dual work function metal gates are integrated at 17nm spacing between n- and pFETs, highlighting the key benefit of forksheet devices for advanced CMOS area scaling. The forksheet device ...

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10% growth for telecoms equipment market this year

The telecom equipment market grew 15% in Q1 y-o-y, says analyst Dell’Oro Group. The equipment included is: Broadband Access, Microwave & Optical Transport, Mobile Core & Radio Access Network and SP Router & Switch. The collective global share of the leading suppliers remained relatively stable between 2020 and 1Q21, with the top seven vendors comprising ...

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ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer begins environmental testing

ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer – dubbed Juice – has begun its environmental testing, having moved into the ‘Large Space Simulator’ (LSS) at ESA’s test centre in the Netherlands. Located in Noordwijk – in the European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC) – LSS is described as Europe’s single largest vacuum chamber. It’s a cylindrical ...

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Transformers for 60W and 90W PoE++

Würth has added PoE++ transformers to its Mid-PoE power-over-Ethernet transformer series. These surface-mount devices are suitable for fly-back or active clamp forward converters that comply with the IEEE 802.3bt: the four-pair power-over-Ethernet known as 4PPoE or PoE++. “Demand for more power in PoE devices has risen due to advancements in smart and IoT applications,” according ...

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Finish autonomous bus software tested with Panasonic IMU

Panasonic has teamed up with Sensible 4 of Espoo, Finland, to test Panasonics latest inertial measurement unit (IMU) in autonomous vehicles. Sensible 4 develops software for all-weather autonomous vehicles, building on 30 years of work with mobile robotics. “The IMU is employed to rectify the point cloud and thus impacts the accuracy of lidar data,” said Sensible 4’s ...

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JEP181: JEDEC standard for thermal simulation

JEP181 from JEDEC is a neutral file XML-based standard for thermal models. The file format is called ECXML for ‘electronics cooling extensible mark-up language’. “The standard was created to meet a challenge for electronics manufacturers: the absence of a uniform format for the exchange of thermal simulation data throughout supply chains has created unnecessary duplication of ...

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Single channel USB power delivery for space and cost-constrained sockets

Aiming at cost or space-constrained applications, FTDI Chip has introduced single-channel USB Power Delivery and Type-C controllers in QFN packages. Called the FT23xHP series (table below) “they support operation across one channel and benefit from elevated levels of power delivery via their USB ports,” according to the company. “At the same time, data can be transferred ...

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Small Cell Forum releases updated 5G FAPI PHY and RF specs

The Small Cell Forum (SCF) today announced the release of its updated 5G FAPI PHY and RF specifications, as well as an updated 5G network FAPI specification and a testing framework for S-RU and S-DUs. The updated specifications and new test support paper developed by the SCF membership demonstrate maturity and ongoing support for the ...

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IC market to grow 24% this year, says IC Insights

IC Insights has raised its 2021 worldwide IC market forecast to +24% The  IC market is expected to exceed $500 billion for the first time. The 24% increase will be driven by a 21% jump in unit shipments and a 2% increase in ASP. A growth rate of 24% would be the third largest increase ...

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Government in talks with six EV battery makers

The government is in talks with Samsung, Ford, Nissan, LG, Britishvolt and InoBat Auto about setting up factories to make EV batteries, reports the FT. The Brexit trade deal makes it essential for the UK to invest in EV battery production, according to Andy Palmer, who is vice chairman of InoBat and was formerly CEO ...

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Cohere Technologies and VMWare combine on O-RAN

Cohere Technologies and VMware  are developing an O-RAN offering to help CSPs (Communication Service Providers) improve network and spectrum efficiencies and deliver new and differentiated services and experiences for their customers. “The RAN is by far the most costly and complex part of a CSP network as workloads that run there require ultra-low latency and ...

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Menlo Micro and X-Microwave deliver RF prototyping block

Menlo Micro has partnered with X-Microwave to deliver an X-MWblocks modular building block that enables developers to rapidly prototype RF systems based on Menlo Micro’s MM5130 switch.  X-Microwave provides a  modular building block ecosystem of RF and microwave drop-in components, as well as test and prototyping accessories. The X-MWblocks module featuring the MM5130 switch is ...

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PAYG 5G ASIC design service

EdgeQ of Santa Clara has introduced what it calls the  industry’s first 5G chipset-as-a-service model. The EdgeQ ASIC design service tailors cost to features – scaling price, performance, and features as a function of need and use. With 5G expected to address multiple end points, the traditional silicon approach of a highly leveraged, single priced design for all markets is no longer viable, argues ...

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Pressure sensor which eliminates need for water cooling

Piezotronics has brought out a pressure sensor for combustion testing and thermoacoustic pressure measurements which eliminates the need for water cooling and has  a temperature rating of 1400 °F (760 °C). The device measures combustion dynamics as well as gas turbine measurements, thermoacoustic measurements, rocket motor combustion instability or any high temperature, dynamic gas pressure ...

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Wisa Woodsat wooden CubeSat heading to Earth’s orbit

A wooden satellite is being prepared in Finland, the Wisa Woodsat, to test the applicability of wooden materials, especially WISA-Birch plywood, in spacecraft structures. The proposed nanosatellite is based on the CubeSat standard, measuring roughly 10 x 10 x 10cm. It will be exposed to extreme space conditions – heat, cold, vacuum and radiation – ...

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Fume extractor gets smarter for better data for analytics around laser part marking and engraving

Portable fume and particulate extraction equipment maker BOFA is aiming at high volume laser marking and engraving processes with an intelligent extractor operating system. Called iQ2, it will be seen in the company’s AD Oracle iQ2 extraction system. To guide filter replacement, it provides visual overview of whole system status in real-time on a multi-language colour touchscreen ...

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High-reliability SMD fuses in 0603 and 1206

Bourns has introduced two series of high-grade surface-mount fuses, rated to 150°C. SF-0603SA-M and SF-1206SA-M have slow-blow characteristics, conducting for at least four hours at rated current, and clearing within 5s at room temperature and 2.5x rated current. They come in EIA 0603 and 1206 footprints respectively, and are of multilayer ceramic construction with protection against thermal ...

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UK grass health robot company wins investment

Robot grass measuring company E-Nano has raised “a six-figure sum” with University of Sussex backed investor matching service Suss Ventures. “Support from Suss Ventures was key to put us in front of an early-stage fund that could act as lead investor,” according to E-Nano co-founder Christian Von Scheidt. “Their team has been professional all the way ...

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ST strips down NFC transceiver to make IC for passive peer-to-peer, card-emulation and reader use

ST Microelectronics has striped down its flagship ST25R3916 NFC reader to create a lower cost IC for identifying accessories for power tools and personal healthcare devices, for example. Called ST25R3918, it works with the company’s ST25 tags, and can be used as an NFC-A/B (ISO 14443A/B) card reader up to 848kbit/s, an NFC-V (ISO 15693) reader ...

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12bit 1.6Gsample/s quad ADC qualified for space use

Teledyne has qualified its four channel 12bit 1.6Gsample/s EV12AQ600 ADC for space use, describing it as “industry’s first four-channel analogue-to-digital converter to be qualified for space deployment”. It now meets NASA and ESA requirements, complying with MIL-PRF-38535 (QML-Y) and ESCC 9000. The most recent testing was to evaluate total ionising dose (TID) tolerance, where it scored ...

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Xilinx acquires Silexica and its C/C++ tools

Xilinx  has acquired German C/C++programming tool provider, Silexica.  The privately held company produces C/C++ programming and analysis tools for automotive, aerospace and defence,  wireless comms, robotic and financial markets. Its SLX FPGA tool suite is used to manage the HLS  (high level synthesis) design flow. In February this year, Silexica and Xilinx co-presented at the ...

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5G delivering 100Mbps+ downloads in four UK cities

5G network testing by RootMetrics in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Cardiff and Nottingham has shown that while Vodafone and O2 delivered strong 5G median download speeds, EE is the leader when it comes to providing consistently broad availability plus fast speeds. RootMetrics uses a measure it calls  “Everyday 5G” performance which is a combination of results recorded ...

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Graphcore hooks up with SiPearl

Graphcore has hooked up with Euro-processor developer SiPearl  to develop integrated hardware and software technology. The companies say that combining AI and HPC will accelerate the evolution of simulation and prediction models enabling developers and users to design new generations of data flows and application tasks that are both more efficient and easier to programme ...

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Samsung starts mass production of DRAM/NAND memory module

Samsung has begun mass producing its latest smartphone memory – the LPDDR5 UFS-based multichip package (uMCP). Samsung’s uMCP integrates the fastest LPDDR5 DRAM with the latest UFS 3.1 NAND flash. “As 5G-compatible devices become more mainstream, we anticipate that our latest multichip package innovation will accelerate the market transition to 5G,” says Samsung vp Young-soo ...

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Microrobots degrade plastic

Self-propelled microrobots that can swim, attach to plastics and break them down, have been proposed by researcher’s at Prague’s University of Chemistry and Technology. The smallest  microplastics – less than 5 mm in size – are hard to pick up and remove. In addition, they can adsorb heavy metals and pollutants, potentially harming humans or ...

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UK gov funds nanosatellite competition for decarbonisation

The UK government will be launching a competition for nanosatellite designs that can help support and monitor the UK’s decarbonisation targets. Dubbed LaunchUK Nanosat, it’s aimed at younger people (16+) – the “next generation of British space scientists” – to design a nanosatellite. Transport Secretary Grant Shapps was at Goonhilly Earth Station in Cornwall when ...

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Infineon adds to three-phase gate drivers

Infineon has expanded its EiceDRIVER product portfolio of three-phase gate driver ICs with the 6EDL7141. The fully programmable solution for advanced motor control applications is packaged in a 48-pin VQFN with a 7×7 mm² footprint, delivers higher power density and improves overall system efficiency. Combined with the company’s power MOSFETs, customers are now able to ...

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USB-C male-female connecting cable

Cliff Electronics has introduced a USB-C male – female connecting cable which supports Power Delivery (PD) charging at 60 watts (20v/@3A), USB 3.1 (Gen 1) 5Gb/s data transfer speeds, and can be used as a video cable for 5k@60Hz video output (Thunderbolt 3) and for audio transmission.  When used in a system equipped with Cliff FeedThrough ...

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Voltage monitor and reset chip has BIST for ADAS

Aiming at functional safety requirements, Maxim has added self-test to a voltage monitor and reset IC for driver assistance systems. Called MAX16137, it has two forms of BIST (built-in self-test): one that checks the chip at power-up and a second that checks on-demand. Just like any reset chip, it holds its reset output low a power-up ...

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