Binder extends 718 series to address M8 industrial automation

Binder is adding to its 718 product series with new field-wireable, overmoulded M8 cable connectors, which are designed for installations in sensor and actuator applications. In addition to 3 and 4 pins, they are now also available in 5- and 6-pin versions. The company has announced they come with either PUR or PVC cables, up ...

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Viewpoint: How to test and evaluate quantum technologies

How quantum technologies can be tested and evaluated for commercialisation is explained by Dr Rhys Lewis, Head of NPL’s Quantum Metrology Institute. The National Physical Laboratory (NPL) is the UK’s National Metrology Institute and home to the Quantum Metrology Institute (QMI). The QMI brings together all of NPL’s cutting-edge quantum science and metrology research and ...

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ST upgrades I2C interface performance in NFC tags

ST  has increased the I2C-interface performance in the latest generation of its ST25DV-I2C dynamic NFC-tag ICs, which let the host system access the tag’s on-chip EEPROM more quickly and easily. Writing to the EEPROM on the new ST25DV-I2C tags, via the I2C interface, is now as fast as standard EEPROM and allows flexible use of ...

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ICs for automotive pressure sensing systems

Renesas has introduced a family of ICs for automotive pressure sensing systems. The devices provide amplification and sensor-specific correction of signals in automotive xEV/EV/FCEV pressure sensing braking, transmission and HVAC systems. The RAA2S425x Product Family features high integration and advanced digital and analog functionality that significantly ease the design cycle and reduce customers’ system BOM ...

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EPC has 40V GaN fets for low-voltage servers

EPC has introduced a 40V 1.6mΩ GaN fet for high power density applications including servers running from 48 – 54V. Called EPC2069, it is “designed for the secondary side of the LLC dc-dc converter from 40 – 60V to 12V, which is becoming common for the new 48V – 54V input servers required for high ...

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Space-saving 2.5GHz antenna connector

Hirose has introduced a small 2.5GHz antenna connector for automotive use, smaller than its own GT5 series. VSWR is 1.5 or less from dc to 2.5GHz. Employing one-step crimp termination, it is called the GT21 Series. Coaxial wires up to 3.1mm across can be accommodated. “Crimp termination enables the cable assembly to be completed without touching the ...

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UK made: E3D 3D printing hot-end has tool-free nozzle change

E3D has announced a replacement for its much-copied V6 3D printing hot end, which will be made in-house rather than by sub-contractors. The UK-based company is a globally-significant hot-end producer, with companies including Prusa, Lulzbot and even Creality in China incorporating its products. The new hot-end is branded Revo, and it an ‘all-metal’ design, allowing ...

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Car companies feeling the pain

The shortage of semiconductors for automotive applications is getting worse, says Semiconductor Intelligence, In recent statements from major automakers: General Motors significantly cut production at eight North American plants earlier this month due to the semiconductor shortage. GM expects North American vehicle production in the second half of the year will be down about 100,000 ...

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Disaggregated BNG successfully tested

Vodafone,  Benu Networks, Casa Systems, Cisco and Nokia, have tested a new open architecture – disagggregated Broadband Network Gateway (BNG) – to enable the internet to work using separate software and hardware from multiple vendors. This is a step in opening up the current single-supplier, monolithic broadband gateways to greater technological innovation from a more ...

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TAITRONICS 2021 and AIoT Taiwan 2021 delayed to December

The in-person events TAITRONICS 2021 and AIoT Taiwan 2021 have been pushed back from October to 21-23 December, the organisers have announced. The change is due to concerns about COVID-19 infections in Taiwan. TAITRA – the Taiwan External Trade Development Council – are the organisers of the Taipei International Electronics Show, which encompasses these events. ...

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Silicon Catalyst UK and NMI hook up

SiliconCatalyst UK and the National Microelectronics Institute (NMI) are to collaborate to help IC startups. Silicon Catalyst has created a network that lowers the capital expenses associated with the design and fabrication of silicon-based IC’s, sensors, and MEMS devices by providing advanced design tools and services from a comprehensive network of In-Kind Partners (IKPs). Its ...

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Pico-ITX i.MX 8M Minisingle board computer

iWave has launched a single board computer based on NXP i.MX 8M Mini applications processor in a PICO-ITX form factor. Called iW-RainboW-G34S, it supports Linux 5.4.70, Ubuntu 20.04, Buildroot 2021.02 and Android 11. It is designed for multimedia processing with low power in embedded consumer and industrial applications. Arm Cortex-A53 cores up to 1.6GHz are ...

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Security software protects at pre-silicon stage

Pre-silicon security verification during the chip design stage can avoid time-consuming analysis and correction of security vulnerabilities for a manufactured device. It can also avoid potential re-spins and production delays, says FortifyIQ. The company has developed two software suites  which simulate some of the ‘popular’ methods of cyberattack. SideChannel Studio simulates side-channel attacks whereby cyber criminals measure ...

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Record Q1 M&A

After a surge in semiconductor M&A announcements in the second half of 2020, the strong M&A momentum carried into the beginning of 2021, with purchase agreements for chip companies, business units, product lines, and related assets reaching a total value of $15.8 billion in 1Q21, setting a record-high level for the first quarter of a ...

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Cambridge Quantum announces open source SDK

Cambridge Quantum (CQ) says that the latest version of TKET (pronounced “ticket”), its hardware-agnostic quantum SDK is now fully open-source. This will permit more transparency of the code, easier reporting of issues and more robust integrations. The quantum software community will be able to make their own contributions and develop their own extensions to the codebase under the permissive Apache 2.0 ...

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European Commission conducts New Symphonie for broadband constellation

More than twenty European space companies have formed a consortium in response to a call for tenders from the European Commission. The call was entitled “New Space solutions for long-term availability of reliable, secure, cost-effective space based connectivity” and it is looking for “disruptive ideas to contribute to the definition of the system architecture of ...

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TI claims ‘smallest and most accurate’ DC/DC bias supply module

TI claims to have introduced the industry’s ‘smallest and most accurate 1.5-W isolated DC/DC bias-supply module’. The UCC14240-Q1 uses a proprietary integrated transformer technology to enable designers to cut their power solution size in half for use in high-voltage environments such as electric vehicles (EVs), hybrid EVs, motor-drive systems and grid-tied inverters. For more information, ...

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Researching offshore windfarms interference with military comms

The UK government has awarded contracts worth £3.8 million for Phase 2 of Windfarm Mitigation for UK Air Defence, a competition to develop technologies that reduce the impact of offshore windfarms on Air Defence surveillance. Seven projects, from six companies, have been awarded selected and the initiative will be funded through the Department for Business, ...

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Lightweight, compact AC/DC converters dig deep for EMC performance

Compact, DIN rail mounting ac/dc converters from Mornsun are energy efficient and offer superior EMC performance, says Relec Electronics, which has added the LIF Series to its line card. The LIF120 R2, LIF240 R2 and LIF480 R2 are all IEC/EN/UL62368, UL61010, UL508-approved, which means they are suitable for use worldwide. They have a universal input range ...

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Power integrity software provides full chip analysis

Believed to be the first electromigration/voltage drop (EM/IR) tool for both analogue and digital methodologies, mPower has been released by Siemens Digital Industries. The tool marks Siemens’ entry into the IC power analysis market, capable of power integrity analysis for analogue, digital and mixed-signal IC designs. It is also scalable and uses industry standard inputs ...

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Woven Planet buys Renovo

Woven Planet, the autonomous driving subsidiary of Toyota, has bought automotive OS developer Renovo Motors of Campbell, California. Renovo’s software will advance Woven Planet’s development of  programmable vehicles. The acquisition will add depth to Woven Planet’s resources, particularly for Arene, Woven Planet’s open vehicle development platform, by: bolstering their team with top-tier engineers who have ...

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SiPearl opens Grenoble design centre

SiPearl, the company designing the microprocessor for European exascale supercomputers, has opened a design center in Grenoble with the goal of recruiting 50 engineers on site by the end of 2022. Following Maisons-Laffitte, Duisburg, Barcelona and Sophia Antipolis, SiPearl’s Grenoble site is an important recruitment pool for semiconductor technologies and HPC. “It was obvious that ...

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Imec joins with Neurogyn for pelvic nerve stimulator implant development

Imec is co-developing with Swiss medtech specialist NeuroGyn an implantable device for peripheral nerve stimulation. NeuroGyn specialises in neurostimulaton and surgical solutions for pelvic nerve disorders. Leveraging Imec’s expertise in ultra-low power wireless communication and powering, the new implant aims at prolonging the lifetime of the device while lowering its cost, making it suitable at ...

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UK government publishes first National Space Strategy

The UK government has published what it describes as the UK’s first National Space Strategy. A joint initiative by the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) and the Ministry of Defence, it’s intended to outline a “national vision” to grow the UK’s space sector. For context, it points out that the global space ...

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Bridgeless PSU exceeds 80 PLUS Titanium standard

GaN Systems  has introduced a 3kW Bridgeless Totem Pole (BTP) PFC + LLC Resonant Converter Power Supply Unit (PSU) that exceeds the 80 PLUS Titanium standard. Switching from silicon-based PSUs to GaN-based PSUs reduces CO2 emissions on a set of 10 datacentre racks by 100 metric tons per year, says GaN Systems  and financially, GaN-based PSUs ...

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Lattice upgrades mVision stack

The Lattice  mVision stack now supports 4K video data processing and LPDDR4 memory to deliver higher quality image signal processing (ISP) performance. Highlights of the Lattice mVision solution stack version 2.1 include: Expanded support capabilities – the stack’s expanded capabilities include support for the LPDDR4 DRAM memory standard. With up to eight programmable SERDES lanes ...

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Seraphim backs Isotropic to unblock satellite comms bottleneck

Seraphim, a London-based investment group that has a focus on the Space sector, has announced a $25 million investment into Isotropic Systems. The UK company, which is based in Reading, is a developer of broadband terminal technologies for satellite communications. Its flat panel antennas will be capable of creating a mesh network by simultaneously connecting ...

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Space Forge gets £1.71m boost from the ESA.

Three year-old Cardiff startup Space Forge has picked up £1.71 million from the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Boost! programme, which is supported by the UK Space Agency, to support the design, development, construction and launch of a space-based manufacturing satellite named ForgeStar Orbital Vehicle (FSOV-1). To deliver the project, Space Forge will lead a consortium including ...

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Intel to announce new US site for eight fabs

Intel will announce, later this year, a new US site which will have eight new fabs, said CEO Pat Gelsinger (pictured on a digger) at the ground-breaking ceremony for its two new $20 billion Arizona foundry fabs. “As the only U.S.-based leading-edge chipmaker, we are committed to building on this long-term investment and helping the ...

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China bans cryptocurrencies

China has banned all existing cryptocurrencies as it prepares to launch its own state-backed cryptocurrency. China’s central bank has criminalised all cryptocurrency payments and services, including exchanging cryptocurrency for legal tender, providing information or pricing services, and trading in cryptocurrency derivatives.  China’s digital yarn is set to launch next year and the government does not ...

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Cellular IoT market will ramp in 2023

The cellular IoT market will ramp up in 2023, says Yole Developpement. Products will be low-volume and high-cost modules for 5G and high-volume and low-cost modules for NB-IoT and LTE – M applications. The latter will replace the 2G/3G devices currently deployed.  This growth will lead to a market value of over $800 million at ...

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1tps optical switch

An international research team led by Skoltech and IBM has created an energy-efficient optical switch that could replace electronic transistors in computers. In addition to direct power saving, the switch requires no cooling and operates at 1 trillion operations per second, it is between 100 and 1,000 times faster than today’s commercial transistors. The device relies on ...

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OneWeb completes acquisition of TrustComm

OneWeb has completed its acquisition of TrustComm – creating a US government-focused subsidiary. The deal enables it to offer its Low Earth Orbit (LEO) network and connectivity services to U.S. government clients. In corporate terms, TrustComm will become known as OneWeb Technologies Inc, a wholly owned subsidiary of OneWeb, and will be led by its former ...

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Automotive chip shortage gets worse

Car-makers will lose $210 billion in sales this year because of the chip shortage, according to a report from AlixPartners, who reckon that 7.7 million vehicles will not get built this year because of lack of chips. It is AlixPartners’ third estimate this year. In January, it estimated that lost car sales would be worth $61 billion ...

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NEC and Xilinx hook up for O-RAN RUs

Xilinx and NEC are co-operating on  5G radio units (RUs) for deployment in 2022.  Xilinx will be contributing its 7nm Versal AI Core series devices, which are currently shipping. These latest NEC 5G massive MIMO RUs utilise digital beamforming for more efficient communication and wider bandwidth. Designed to address worldwide markets, NEC RUs will support ...

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Danish drones guide OneWeb’s antenna testing

OneWeb, the satellite company partially owned by the UK government, is using drones to carry out an antenna validation campaign at the Telespazio teleport in Scanzano, Italy. The low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite communications company has turned to QuadSAT, a Danish startup that does the test and measurement of satellite antennas by the use of ...

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NASA selects Aerojet Rocketdyne for Orion spacecraft engine propulsion

NASA has chosen Aerojet Rocketdyne, the aerospace and defence rocket engine manufacturer, to build the primary propulsion element for its Orion spacecraft, the Orion Main Engine (OME). Under the terms of the contract, which runs to April 2032, with a maximum value of $600 million, Aerojet Rocketdyne will deliver up to 20 new OME engines ...

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Prototyping and development boards for NeoMESH networks

NeoCortec, the Copenhagen manufacturer  of  bi-directional wireless mesh network modules, has announced a family of breakout prototyping and development boards that provide a simple and easy way for designers to begin working with NeoMESH, the self-forming wireless mesh network. Designed to operate either as a stand-alone development board, or in Feather Wing mode for compatibility ...

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NVIDIA and Open Robotics accelerate ROS 2 performance

NVIDIA and Open Robotics have entered into an agreement to accelerate ROS 2 performance on NVIDIA’s Jetson edge AI platform and GPU-based systems. These initiatives will reduce development time and improve performance for developers seeking to incorporate computer vision and AI/machine learning functionality into their ROS-based applications. Open Robotics will enhance ROS 2 to enable ...

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Farnell ships Arduino Nano and Raspberry Pi Pico development boards

The recently released Arduino Nano RP2040 Connect and Raspberry Pi Pico development boards are available from stock at Farnell. They are designed to accelerate development time and time-to-market. They are also competitively priced for deployment in production systems, adds Farnell. The new-to-market Arduino Nano RP2040 Connect and Raspberry Pi Pico provide differentiated development platforms for ...

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UK AI strategy

The UK has launched its first National Artificial Intelligence (AI) Strategy  with plans to launch a programme to support R&D, publish a white paper on the governance and regulation of AI to build confidence in its use and support organisations to capitalise on the power of AI technologies. The UK is ranked third in the world for ...

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Q4 DRAM ASPs head down

The Q4 DRAM ASP will likely drop 3-8% q-o-q, says TrendForce. PC DRAM is expected to drop 5-10% as  notebook production of  is expected to decline in 4Q21, propelling the sufficiency ratio of PC DRAM to 1.38%. The current spot prices of PC DRAM modules are far lower than their contract prices for 3Q21. Server ...

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Glasgow Prestwick Spaceport signs Astraius for horizontal launches

Glasgow Prestwick Spaceport has secured a launch partner for its development: the UK-based ‘horizontal’ launch service provider Astraius, which is promising to provide state of the art launch facilities. A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) has been signed with Astraius for the organisations to collaborate for the orbital launch of small satellites from 2023. They will ...

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Inmarsat researches Covid-19 impact on Industrial IoT

Inmarsat is highlighting research that suggests a rapid increase in adoption of industrial IoT in 2021 across global supply chains. According to its report, “Industrial IoT in the Time of Covid-19”, this applies in agriculture, electrical utilities, mining, oil and gas, and transport and logistics sectors. The company is involved in this area through its ...

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NevadaNano shrinks gas sensor

NevadaNano, has brought out the MPSTM Mini –  a miniaturised version of the Molecular Property Spectrometer (MPSTM) Flammable Gas Sensor. The sensor claims to be the world’s most accurate hydrocarbon sensor in its class and eliminates the need for maintenance during its 10+year lifetime. The sensor measures the thermodynamic properties of the air-gas mix and ...

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NASA selects landing site for Artemis lunar robotic rover, Viper

Nasa has announced the destination for its Artemis lunar robotic rover, which is dubbed Viper (Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover). The site, to be explored in 2023, is the western edge of the Nobile Crater near the Moon’s South Pole. The region features areas permanently covered in shadow as well as areas that are bathed ...

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Sponsored content – How to provide the best ESD protection for automotive A/V interfaces

Drivers and vehicles now rely more heavily on Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS). While the use of systems such as radar and lidar will be important here, ADAS in vehicles also relies heavily on high-quality video imagery. As vehicles become more autonomous, the quality of these video streams will be more important. From a design ...

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Foundry sales set for 23% increase

Robust demand for advanced processors used in networking and data center computers, new 5G smartphones, and ICs used in other high-growth market applications such as robotics, self-driving vehicles and ADAS, AI, ML and image recognition systems, is forecast by IC Insights  to lift total foundry sales to $107.2 billion in 2021, a 23% increase that ...

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Renesas brings out R-Car SDK

Renesas has brought out the R-Car SDK, a software platform in one package that enables quicker and easier software development and validation for smart camera and automated driving applications used in passenger, commercial, and off-road vehicles.   Optimized for use with Renesas’ state-of-the-art R-Car V3H and R-Car V3M system-on-chips (SoCs), the new R-Car SDK is ...

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Semi market to grow 17.3% this year, says IDC

IDC expects the semiconductor market to grow by 17.3% this year after a 10.8% rise last year. The industry will see normalisation and balance by the middle of 2022, says IDC, with a potential for overcapacity in 2023 as larger scale capacity expansions begin to come online towards the end of 2022. Growth is driven ...

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Northrop Grumman plans Blackjack positioning, navigation and timing LEO payload

Northrop Grumman has been awarded a DARPA (US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) contract for a low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite payload. It’s part of DARPA’s Blackjack programme. Specifically, a contract for “Phase 2 development” of an advanced, software-defined positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) payload. The contract includes options to build units destined for space ...

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3D printing e-book from element14

element14  has put out an eBook that offers insights into the history and the reality of 3D printing, including the processes, materials, and applications — as well as what the future holds of this advancing technology. The 3D printing industry has been developing rapidly over the past two decades, and has moved beyond large corporations ...

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13.3in TFT display for industrial and medical use

Review Display Systems (RDS) has introduced a 13.3in TFT display module for industrial use. Made by Tianma, the P1330FHF1MA00 is an HD display 1,920 x 1,080 pixels, 16:9 aspect ratio) with in-plane switching. “Tianma P-series display modules have been designed and developed to deliver exceptional optical performance and meet the requirements of the industrial and ...

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100V mosfet relay leaks only 1pA at 80V

Omron has released 100V and 800mA versions of its low-leakage ‘T-configuration’ mosfet relay modules. “T-modules offer the reliability and durability of solid state relays combined with an exceptionally low leakage current of just 1pA or less, allowing their use in measurement and other applications where mechanical relays have previously been preferred,” according to the company. G3VM-101MT ...

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Unconventional suppliers adding to fake chip problem

With the shortages, desperate OEMs are looking to unconventional suppliers and that raises another problem  – fakes.  Oki Engineering, a subsidiary of Oki Electric, has been providing a chip verification service since June, reports the Nikkei. The service is designed, says Oki, “to verify the performance and reliability of semiconductors for users willing to buy ...

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Deep Vision raises $35m Series B

AI processor developer Deep Vision has raised $35 million in a Series B financing round, led by Tiger Global. When combined with its existing revenue streams, the funding proceeds will help Deep Vision expand the capabilities of its AI processor and software tools and support its rapidly growing customer base. Tiger Global is joined by ...

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Hydrogen-powered 5G network proposed for UK

Stratospheric Platforms (SPL) of Cambridge has been working on wide area 5G telecommunications systems since 2016. Backed by Deutsche Telekom, it has developed a a HAP (High Altitude Platform) which can provide uninterrupted 5G connectivity direct to consumer smart phones across areas as wide as 140km and at the same time, direct broadband connectivity to ...

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Digi-Key partners with Tomorrow Lab for “Potentially Genius” video series

The distributor Digi-Key Electronics is launching a new video series called “Potentially Genius”. In monthly episodes, a team of designers and engineers will dedicate 16 hours of time toward solving an everyday problem, following the four stages of product invention: discovery, ideation, prototyping and presentation. It will be done in partnership with Tomorrow Lab, a ...

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Melexis IC integrates DMS with driver localisation

Melexis, the Belgian auto IC specialist, and in-cabin auto analysis software company, emotion3D, are offering a 3D ToF demonstrator. The chip combines the driver monitoring system (DMS) with high-precision 3D driver localization, to dynamically align augmented reality head-up displays (AR HUD) objects. Melexis and emotion3D’s DMS covers all basic functions such as driver drowsiness and attention ...

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Low-noise medical chip acquires ECG, respiration, blood oxygen and pulse

Analog Devices is aiming at wearable patient monitoring devices with an analogue front-end for four vital signs: electrocardiogram, heart rate, blood-oxygen saturation and respiration rate. The chip, MAX86178, does this with three channels, one each for: photodiodes (optical PPG for blood oxygen and heart rate), voltages (electrocardiogram (‘ECG’ or ‘EKG’) and alternative heart rate) and bio-impedance ...

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1.2kV dual gate driver for SiC mosfets

Microchip has announced a 1,200V dual digital gate driver for electric transport. Called AgileSwitch 2ASC-12A2HP, “the gate driver provides multiple levels of control and a higher level of protection for silicon carbide mosfet-based power systems,” according to the company. “Key performance attributes include the ability to dampen drain-source voltage overshoots and slash switching losses”. The driver ...

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Intersolar: Delta to show 3-phase 250kW 1.5kV solar inverter

Delta has announced a three-phase 250kW solar string inverter with an input range of 550 to 1,500Vdc “specially designed for huge ground-mounted photovoltaic plants in the upper megawatt range”, according to the company. “Features such as anti-PID and pro-electroluminescence detect problems with PV modules.” Called M250HV, up to 30 dc strings can be connected to its ...

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Industrial-grade single-axis MEMS accelerometers

Silicon Designs has introduced two series of industrial-grade single-axis MEMS capacitive accelerometer chips Model 1521 is offered in eight standard ranges from ±2g to ±400g. Each has a ±4V differential output and comes in a choice of 20pin LCC or J-lead surface mount packages, both of which are nitrogen gas-damped, hermetically sealed and RoHS compliant. “The ...

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Anglia Unicorn connects dots for tech start ups

Anglia Components has broken ranks with other distributors targeting the UK’s start-ups and entrepreneurs and has launched a dedicated division, Anglia Unicorn, to put academic start-ups in touch with financial seeders and both in touch with skilled engineers who can make the vision a reality. Named after the mythical creature which eludes capture, a Unicorn ...

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Uncle Clive

Sir Clive Sinclair, who has died at the age of 81, led an age of entrepreneurism in the UK electronics industry. Before Sinclair, UK electronics was seen as the province of big companies. After Sinclair, anyone thought they could start an electronics company. He inspired a generation. He had a pioneer’s grasp of where the industry ...

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Chips are changing the car market, says Yole

In 2035, C.A.S.E. (Connectivity, ADAS, Sharing, Electrification) will be a $318 billion market, says Yole Developpement. The semiconductor value in a car will reach $78.5 billion in 2026, with a 14.75% CAGR 2020-2026.  A car has today, on average, $450 worth of semiconductors. In 2026, it will be $700. Future V2X communication platforms for 5G implementation ...

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Altering the properties of materials

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory have seen a new kind of wave pattern emerge in a thin film of metal oxide known as titania when its shape is confined. Confinement, the act of restricting materials within a boundary, can alter the properties of a material and the movement of ...

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OneWeb gets halfway to constellation completion

With the successful launch of 34 satellites by Arianespace from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, at the end of last week, OneWeb has reached the halfway mark for its low Earth orbit (LEO) comms satellite constellation. The company was bought from bankruptcy by the UK Government and the Indian company Bharti Global for $1 billion in June ...

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CAT6a data line and PoE EMI filters

ITG Electronics of New York has introduced Cat6a and Power-over-Ethernet EMI filters for shielded MRI rooms. Called F2780Y001L-001 (see photo), it is 200mm long and has RJ45 male connectors on each end for easy connection to switches, routers and computers. Inside are eight identical two-stage CLCLC filters (see diagram), offering noise attenuation of 50dB from 30 ...

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50+GHz coax relays for 5G

Teledyne Relays has added to its range of 50+GHz coaxial switches, adding transfer switching, terminated, and normally-open models. The new parts are: CCR-38U – SP4way or SP6way dc-52GHz normally-open CCS-37U – DPDT dc-52GHz latching transfer switch CCRT-50U – terminated SPDT dc-53GHz latching CCT-38U – terminated SP4way or SP6way dc-52GHz normally-open CCT-39U – terminated SP4way or SP6way, ...

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Non-magnetic RF inductors for medical imaging, and other tricky magnetic environments

Gowanda Electronics has introduced a series of non-magnetic RF thru inductors for medical imaging equipment – MRI and some x-ray machines – and other applications where magnetic materials must be avoided. Called 28MG, there are 60 devices spanning 1.2 to 18µH with resistances between 79mΩ and 4.15Ω, and carrying capacity of 315mA to 2.4A. They are all ...

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260W mains PSU for IT equipment can run at 170W with no fans

Cincon Electronics has introduced a baseplate-cooled ac-dc power supply for IT equipment that can deliver 170W without blown assistance and 260W with. Called CFM260SxxxB, the LLC topology PSU is 116 x 51 x 39 (‘2x4inch’) and includes power-factor correction. Efficiency is as high as 93.5%. Input can range across 100 – 240Vac and 47 – 63Hz, and ...

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Infineon opens thin wafer power fab

AEarlier today, Infineon opened its fab  for power electronics on 300mm  thin wafers at its Villach site in Austria. At €1.6 billion, the investment made by the semiconductor group represents one of the largest such projects in the microelectronics sector in Europe. The Villach site is one of the world’s most modern fabs and was ...

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Q2 y-o-y fabless growth of 60.8%

Fabless revenues grew 60.8% y-o-y in Q2 to reach $29.8 billion, reports TrendForce. AMD had nearly 100% y-o-y growth while MediaTek and Novatek had y-o-y growth of 95%. Thanks to its acquisition of Inphi, Marvell leapfrogged Xilinx and Realtek in the rankings to go from 9th place in Q1 to 7th place in Q2. No.1 ...

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Digi-Key highlights power efficiency with Power Integrations tie-up

Digi-Key Electronics has joined with Power Integrations to offer the InnoSwitch3 IC family, as part of its Power Focus campaign. The distributor is highlighting rising demand for higher-efficiency, in applications, with stronger thermal performance from GaN (Gallium Nitride) replacing silicon. PowiGaN, which features with InnoSwitch3 chips, is Power Integrations’ GaN technology for reducing switching losses. ...

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China leads in 6G patents

China is responsible for 40.3% of 6G patent filings, followed by the U.S. with 35.2%. Japan  with 9.9%, Europe with 8.9% and South Korea with 4.2%, reports the Nikkei. The Nikkei and the Cyber Creative Institute to survey around 20,000 patent applications for nine core 6G technologies, including communications, quantum technology, base stations and AI. ...

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Oracle to invest in Oxford Nanopore IPO

Oracle is to invest £150 million into next month’s IPO of Oxford Nanopore. The 16 year-old Oxford Nanopore provides pocketable kits to analyse RNA/DNA samples and supplies coronavirus testing kits to the NHS. The company is expected to be valued at £3 billion in the LSE IPO when it aims to raise £300 million. “Ever ...

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Asset tag has five year battery life

onsemi’s  RSL 10 Asset Tag offers an battery life of up to five years. The battery life is made possible by the low power consumption of the RSL10 Bluetooth 5 radio SoC  with firmware enhancements, Alongside the RSL10, the platform features a 3-axis accelerometer and environmental sensors (motion, pressure and temperature) to provide valuable data and insights ...

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Battery monitor for non-rechargeable cells charges supercapacitors too

Analog Devices has created a battery monitor for primary (non-rechargeable) cells that counts coulombs and can handle a pair of output supercapacitors. Called LTC3337, “the patented infinite dynamic range coulomb counter tallies all accumulated battery discharge,” boldly claimed ADI, Coulomb counter accuracy is constant down to no load.” However, Coulomb counting accuracy, according to the data ...

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Surrey Satellites to provide first commercial link to moon

A UK satellite company will provide the first commercial link between Earth and the Moon, allowing us to explore the lunar surface further thanks to funding from the UK Space Agency. The satellite, named Lunar Pathfinder, will be vital for the planned return missions to the Moon. Built by Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) and supported ...

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Imec backs $12m Axelera AI seed round

Axelera AI has closed a seed investment round of $12 million backed by Imec, Bitfury and Innovation Industries Fund. Axelera,  led by CEO Fabrizio Del Maffeo (pictured), was incubated by Bitfury Group in 2019, formerly operating as Bitfury AI until the company came out as an independent entity this year. Axelera joined forces with imec in ...

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Melexis integrates IRBP filter with ToF camera

Melexis, the Belgian automotive IC specialist, has developed a new version of its time-of-flight 3D camera MLX75026 with a fully integrated infrared bandpass (IRBP) filter. By integrating the IRBP, it is no longer required to include a separate IR filter in the lens or sensor assembly. This solution is unique in the industry. It reduces ...

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Google lays subsea cable for growing UK tech sector

What do Bude and Bilboa have in common? They are the landing points for a new subsea cable laid by Google to connect New York with Western Europe. It’s named Grace Hopper – after the computer science pioneer – and Google has announced the successful completion of the trans-Atlantic 16-fibre pair cable. The company says ...

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BAE Systems buys In-Space Missions

BAE Systems has acquired In-Space Missions, the UK company that designs, builds and operates satellite systems. BAE says the move will combine its own experience in secure satellite communications with In-Space Missions’ full lifecycle satellite capability, “to make a compelling sovereign UK space offer”. Founded in 2015, and based in Hampshire, In-Space Missions has more ...

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Ampere-based 80-core server-type module

ADLINK   has introduced the COM-HPC Ampere Altra,  an 80-core COM-HPC server-type module. The module targets edge platforms that process compute intensive workloads, and claims to eliminate bottlenecks and restrictions typically caused by memory caches and system memory limits on edge devices. The COM-HPC Ampere Altra core is an Ampere Altra SoC  using the Arm Neoverse ...

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EU wants Chips Act

The EU wants a Chips Act to rival the USA, said EC president Ursula von der Leyen earlier today in Strasbourg. The hope would be to co-ordinate R&D, funding and a ‘state of  the art ecosystem’ across member states. The EU needs to “be bold again” she said  in taking on such  “a daunting task” as ...

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Arm Soafee: Web-native development for automotive functional safety

Arm has got together with the automotive supply chain to create a web-native development environment for functional safety and real-time software. To be called Soafee, for Scalable Open Architecture for Embedded Edge, it is the result of automakers, system integrators, semiconductor, software, and cloud technology companies coming together to define an open-standards-based architecture for the ...

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Positive update for the semiconductor industry

As the world’s economies emerge from the Covid-19 pandemic, showing good growth and strong support from governments, the semiconductor industry is forecast to an annual growth of 22-25.5% in 2021. Future Horizons forecast a growth of 24.5%, for a total market value of $546.65bn, in its Mid-Term Semiconductor Industry Update. For next year, there remains ...

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Peering into the finer details of hydrogen fuel cells for trucks and busses

Fuel cell control systems will need to be highly sophisticated if the technology is going to find its way into transport, according to German hydrogen and fuel cell research centre ZBT, which is developing it for trucks and busses. In hydrogen fuel cells, hydrogen is fed to the anode while air is fed to the ...

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Siemens partners with Digi-Key for Automation and Control products

Digi-Key Electronics has signed a distribution deal with Siemens for its range of automation and control products, the companies have announced. The partnership will cover products such as power supplies, human-machine interface (HMI) technology, programmable logic controllers (PLCs) and heavy duty switches. Sectors addressed include automotive manufacturing, data centers, electronics manufacturing, healthcare. “We are proud ...

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SiTime unveils Timing Essentials Learning Hub

 SiTime has unveiled its  Timing Essentials Learning Hub. The Learning Hub enables engineers to expand their timing knowledge and use it to produce better electronics. The Hub offers educational courses that range from fundamental to advanced timing. Taught by industry experts, this skills-building platform offers both on-demand and live classes to meet the needs of all audiences, ...

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Integrated auto camera system

Renesas and OmniVision have introduced an integrated reference design for a High Definition automotive camera system. The  design features Renesas’ recently introduced Automotive HD Link (AHL) technology that transmits high-definition video over low-cost cables and connectors. The AHL components in the design pair with OmniVision’s OX01F10 1.3MP SoC.   The  RAA279971 AHL encoder and RAA279972 decoder ...

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Tunable FMCS laser module for LiDAR

NeoPhotonics has announced a tunable high power FMCW (frequency-modulated continuous-wave) laser module and high power semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) chips. Both components are optimized to enable long range automotive lidar and high resolution industrial sensing applications. The FMCW Laser is C-band tunable and can be directly modulated to provide >21dBm (126mW) fiber coupled power and ...

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Synopsys unifies its reliability analysis workflow

Synopsys has unified the workflow through its existing reliability analysis tools for analogue, mixed-signal and custom IC designs – integrating them into its PrimeWave design environment, along with PrimeSim Continuum that announced in April. The unified workflow is to be called PrimeSim Reliability Analysism and is an umbrella for its CKK, Custom Fault, AVA, SPRES, EMIR ...

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8th gen Intel Core processor industrial edge IoT PCs

 Aaeon has introduced an industrial IoT edge PC with a choice of 8th generation Intel Core (Whisky Lake) processors. It comes in two versions: VPC-5620S IS industrial (right) VPC-5620S VS in-vehicle (below) With up to 64Gbyte of memory, the PCs can be used in intelligent visual analysis applications for smart factories or security, said the ...

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Telefónica and NEC in four-country O-RAN trials

Telefónica and NEC have agreed  to conduct O-RAN  pre-commercial trials in Telefonica’s four core global markets: Spain, Germany, the UK and Brazil. Telefónica is an early adopter of open networks and one of the major European operators that signed the O-RAN MoU in January this year, committing to the implementation and deployment of O-RAN solutions aimed ...

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6mΩ 750V SiC FET from UnitedSiC

A 6mΩ 750V SiC transistor is amongst nine devices announced by UnitedSiC. The company decribes the transistors as ‘FETs’, although each is a co-packaged cascode pair of a depletion-mode high-voltage SiC JFET and a low-voltage silicon mosfet. “At a Rds(on) of less than half the nearest SiC mosfet competitor, the 6mΩ device also provides a short-circuit ...

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High-volume SiN photonics foundry capacity in Europe

X-Fab and Ligentec have teamed up to offer “Europe’s largest capacity foundry service for integrated photonic circuits”, said X-Fab. In particular, they are talking about silicon nitride photonics, which Ligentech specialises in. “Silicon nitride offers superior performance to manage the light in the chip circuitry, with unprecedented low propagation losses and high-power handling,” said Ligentec ...

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Silicon photonics yields integrated automotive lidar chip

Tower Semiconductor has officially announced an optical automotive lidar integrated circuit made using its PH18 silicon photonics platform. PH18 uses silicon and silicon nitride waveguides to create and link optical building blocks including couplers, interferometers, radiators, modulators and photodetectors. Its low-loss silicon nitride waveguides are capable of handling the optical powers necessary for lidars. The IC was ...

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Digi-Key highlights “Winning Combinations” of Renesas-Dialog merger

Digi-Key Electronics, following the completion of Renesas’ acquisition of Dialog, is highlighting what it calls Winning Combinations. These are designs to showcase the complementary product portfolios of the two companies, for Embedded Processing, Analog, Power, and Connectivity. Specifically, Digi-Key highlights a 100 W Adapter with Power Delivery and Wireless Charger, a Smart Asset Tracking Label, ...

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TSMC to build 6/7nm fab in Kaohsiung

The southern Taiwan port of Kaohsiung is to get its first TSMC fab, reports the Nikkei. Up to now, TSMC has built its fabs in the northern city of HsinchuTSMC and the central city of Taichung where it has a 7nm fab. In July, TSMC got permission to build a 2nm fab in Hsinchu in ...

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Superconductivity found in CeH9 and CeH10

Researchers from Skoltech of Moscow and Jilin University Of Changchun, China have experimentally shown superconductivity in cerium superhydrides CeH9 and CeH10. The road to superconductivity, an extremely attractive physical property of some materials that do not lose energy to heat because they have zero resistance, lies through tough terrain. It requires either extremely low temperatures (135 K, or minus ...

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In-Space Missions spotlights Titania’s optical communications

In-Space Missions recently won a £9.5m UK Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL) contract to build the new “Titania” satellite undertaking research on military space communications. The company has now shared more details of the satellite project that will support the ‘Titania Operational Concept Demonstrator’, exploring the military usefulness of Low Earth Orbit (LEO), direct-to-earth, ...

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Lanyard release for Yamaichi push-pull connectors

Yamaichi Electronics’ Y-Circ P series of push-pull circular connectors from is being expanded with a release system which operates by pulling a lanyard. This helps the user to gain full advantage of push-pull connectors, especially within tight mounting spaces. Pulling on the lanyard unlocks the connectors making them useful in more applications without affecting their ...

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Arduino strips video fromn Portenta H7 for lower cost industrial IoT

Arduino is offering a stripped-down version of its high-end Portenta H7 computer board, without the video output, with one secure element rather than two, and with no Bluetooth or Wi-Fi. Called Portenta H7 Lite and part of the organisation’s ArduinoPro industrial IoT family, it sees it being used in AI applications and low-latency control projects “for ...

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Flexy-to-PCB connector offers 20 x 1A connections for automotive

Panasonic has introduced 20 pin version of its automotive-grade flexible printed circuit (FPC) to rigid-PCB connector. Called CF2, the two-part connector has two rows of 10 pins (custom arrangements possible) and is rated for 125°C, 44m/s2 (20 – 200Hz vibration and 981m/s2 (6ms) shock. Capacity is 1A/pin and 50Vdc – it builds upon the early ...

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Non-magnetic 2-d materials yield designer magnetic properties for spintronics

Scientists in Australia have opened the door to self-assembling controllable nano-scale electronic and spintronic devices by discovering how magnetism arises in 2-d ‘kagome’ metal-organic frameworks. Kagome materials have repeating pattern of hexagons and smaller triangles, with the hexagons touching at their tips (images below). The word is Japanese, relating to a basket weaving pattern. In ...

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BAE Systems wins contract for E-2D Advanced Hawkeye’s IFF capabilities

BAE Systems has won a $26 million contract to support Identification Friend-or-Foe (IFF) capabilities for the U.S. Navy’s E-2D Advanced Hawkeye aircraft it has announced. Under the terms of the contract, the company will provide Beamforming Networks (BFNs) – an integral part of antenna control for the AN/APX-122A IFF Interrogator system – onboard the carrier-capable ...

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Imagination looking at IPO or sale

Imagination Technologies has engaged investment bank Lazard to look at options for selling or IPO-ing the company, reports Bloomberg. Imagination’s owners are the Chinese-backed private equity company Canyon Bridge which bought Imagination in 2017 for about $760 million. Imagination’s share price had been slashed in 2017 when Apple, which was providing half its revenues, announced ...

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Q3 looking good, says IC Insights

Q3 earnings  outlooks look good for most leading chip companies, says IC Insights. For the third quarter of this year (ending in September), sales growth outlooks for the top-25 suppliers range from 16th-ranked Sony’s 34% increase at the high end, to Intel’s 3% decline on the low end. Third-quarter growth expectations for the top-15 suppliers ...

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Socket for Array Area and Peripheral Package Test.

Smiths Interconnect has brought out its Galileo test socket for Area Array and Peripheral Package Test. Galileo is a test socket engineered to support today’s high performance Digital and RF applications. It leverages proven interposer elastomer technology and advanced 3D printing manufacturing to provide a high- performance solution for BGA, LGA, QFP, SOIC, or QFN ...

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Connectors for 32+ Gb/s applications

TE Connectivity has brought out its Mezalok High-Speed Low-Force (HSLF) XMC connector to support data rate speeds up to 32+ Gb/s for improved signal processing on embedded computing applications. The enhanced HSLF Mezalok connector joins TE’s family of rugged connectors designed to meet the growing demand for higher data rates. Designed specifically for mezzanine applications, the ...

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ST makes multi-zone ToF sensor for consumer and industrial applications

ST has announced a multi-zone FlightSense ToF  sensor to be offered for general-purpose applications, bringing sophisticated distance sensing to the full spectrum of consumer and industrial products. The VL53L5CX sensor provides up to 64 sensing zones with multi-target detection, distance measurement up to four meters in each zone, and a wide square-edged field of view ...

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Nexeria SMD power package accepted by automotive Tier-1

  Nexperia’s CFP15B clip-bond surface-mount power package has passed automotive board-level reliability (BLR) testing by a “leading”, said the company, tier-1 supplier. Initially, it will be used in an engine control unit. “BLR verification is an important milestone,” said Nexperia product manager Guido Söhrn. “CFP15B represents the latest generation of thermally-enhanced thin surface-mount devices. Its ...

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Isolated drivers for traction IGBTs up to 3.3kV

Power Integrations has introduced single version of its dual-channel Scale-iFlex gate-drivers for IGBT modules up to 3.3kV – sized to fit 100 x 140mm ‘new dual’ IGBT modules. Applications are foreseen in light-rail and renewable energy generation. “Scale-iFlex Single gate-drivers fit the outline of the latest standard IGBT power modules including the Mitsubishi LV100 and HV100, Infineon ...

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UK made: CEM Kasdon moves into new 20,000ft building

West Midlands-based contract manufacturer Kasdon Electronics has moved into a new 20,000ft2 building in Willenhall, allowing it to consolidate operations that were previously spread over two other buildings in the town. The new facility houses the company’s five production lines: one for high volume, two for runs up to 1,000 off and one for prototyping ...

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L3Harris becomes Space ISAC’s newest founding member

L3Harris Technologies, the aerospace and defence specialist, has joined the Space Information Sharing and Analysis Center (ISAC) as its newest founding member. Praveen Kurian, Space Superiority general manager in the company’s Space and Airborne Systems segment, will serve on the Space ISAC board of directors. The mission of Space ISAC is “to disseminate timely and ...

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SkyWater to fab Weebit Nano ReRam

Weebit Nano’s ReRAM is to be mass-produced by SkyWater, the Minnesota Foundry. SkyWater intends to offer it to customers as embedded, non-volatile memory (NVM) IP on the company’s 130nm CMOS process. SkyWater’s 130nm process is a sweet spot for a broad range of applications such as analog, power management, automotive, IoT and rad-hard designs. In these ...

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