Atomera licensing transistor-shrinking tech

Atomera is licensing its Mears Silicon Technology Smart Profile (MST-SP) technology. MST-SP, an implementation of MST designed for use on 5V power and analogue ICs, is using a combination of atomic level engineering and material science to squeeze more capability and capacity out of today’s semiconductor processes. The resulting improvements in power, performance and area (PPA) ...

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Nvidia’s PC GPU share growing; Intel’s shrinking

Jon Peddie Research reports the growth of the global PC-based GPU market reached 101 million units in Q3’21. GPUs will have a CAGR of -1.1% during 2020–2025 and reach an installed base of 3,249 million units at the end of the forecast period. Over the next five years, the penetration of discrete GPUs (dGPU) in ...

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Astroscale raises $109m Series F for on-orbit servicing

Astroscale has closed its largest funding round to date, with the Japanese orbital debris removal company raising $109 million. The Series F round brings its total capital raised to $300m and the company says the latest investment will accelerate its on-orbit services technology development and enable it to take on more employees. The round was ...

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Fluke launches fibre-optic troubleshooting tool

Fluke has launched a handheld tool that detects invisible near-infrared (850-1625nm) wavelengths used in fibre-optic communication to troubleshoot cable, port, polarity and transceiver issues. Designed for one-handed operation, the FiberLertTM is an easy-to-use troubleshooting tool that allows technicians and engineers to simply test for the presence of near infra-red light without the need for complicated ...

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PCB Ethernet connector for rail and industrial use

Smiths Interconnect has created the Intercompact series, a signal + Ethernet PCB connector qualified for demanding rail and industrial applications. The series has PCB-to-PCB and floating mount rack and panel parts, with bodies made from liquid crystal polymer. There are 60 and 41 way signal configurations with ‘Hypertac’ hyperboloid contacts. Described as compact, face-on the connectors ...

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Touch control ICs for harsh electrical environments get automotive approval

TouchNetix has got automotive AEC-Q100-6 qualification for its AX112 touch controller IC, which also includes hover sensing, force sensing and the control of haptic response. “Touchscreens based on the AX112 can support features such as pre-select, zoom-on-approach, dial-on-display and integrated haptic feedback without the need for additional hardware,” said the company. It “also supports the operation ...

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Complete camera-to-cloud people counting eval kit

Analog Devices has introduced a evaluation kit for people-counting using one of its DSPs. In a case and designed to be attached to a ceiling looking straight down, the kit includes a camera and everything needed to get the counted data to the cloud. Its main ingredients are a particular DSP from its Blackfin range, ...

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Webinar: Digi-Key, Truphone talk eSIM technology for IoT

Digi-Key Electronics and Truphone, a connectivity and SIM software specialist, are hosting a webinar to showcase eSIM technology and how it can help IoT devices connect more quickly and efficiently. The free virtual webinar, entitled ‘Why is Cellular connectivity so important to IoT?‘, will be held on Wednesday 8 December at 5pm GMT (11 am ...

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Space to Connect 2022 opens for registrations

The Space to Connect 2022 event, which is hosted by the UK Space Agency (UKSA), has opened for registrations. Aimed at the UK space sector, it’s a free to attend event on Tuesday 1 February 2022. The location is the QEII Centre in central London, opposite Westminster Abbey. Exhibition stands will provide the opportunity for ...

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ST MCU integrates energy harvesting and dCVV connectivity

ST has come up with an MCU which integrates circuitry for energy harvesting and thenadditional connectivity used by biometric and dynamic card verification (dCVV) applications, enabling battery-free smartcards to provide enhanced user authentication in contactless and online transactions. Based on the latest-generation Arm SecurCore architecture for secure MCU, the ST31N600 meets EMV ISO 7816, ISO ...

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Yamaichi connector for high data rate vehicle applications

Yamaichi Electronics has developed a connector to cope with the increasing amounts of data being transmitted inside vehicles. Continuous loads of up to 20A and peaks >40A are not uncommon and clearly show the growing user profile. The “hot-plug” and “always-on” requirements have also been part of OEMs’ specifications for some time. Yamaichi  has developed ...

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Sony Semi joins Si Catalyst

Sony has become the ninth Strategic Partner of Silicon Catalyst. The others are: TI, ON Semi, Soitec, Bosch, Cirrus Logic, Arm, ST Micro and Matrix Capital. The partnership will expand Sony’s access to new innovations in sensing solutions development and facilitate Sony’s ability to create strategic relationships with pioneering young companies that are developing technologies ...

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On Semi’s Bluetooth MCU scores high on low power

On Semi has introduced a Bluetooth wireless microcontroller, which has topped the charts on two of EEMBC’s benchmarks. Dubbed RSL15, it has Arm’s secured Cortex-M33 processor running at 48MHz, plus Bluetooth Low Energy 5.2 wireless. “RSL15 was certified by the Embedded Microprocessor Benchmark Consortium,” said On Semi. “The ULPMark CoreMark measures the energy efficiency of microcontrollers ...

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IoT eval kit has cellular, LoRa, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, linked to cloud services

Murata and Pycom have created an IoT node evaluation kit to go along with Pycom’s cloud-based device management platform and a software development kit for managing devices, LPWAN networks and data feed “from commissioning through to deployment stages”, according to Murata. “Our collaboration with Murata offers a hardware and cloud platform that’s flexible through development, manufacture, integration, testing ...

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UK-Singapore digital trade deals signed

A series of agreements have been signed during the first Future Tech Forum in London to help create new digital trade opportunities, remove barriers to cross-border trade and reduce costs for businesses. Three Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) were signed by UK Digital Secretary Nadine Dorries and her Singaporean counterpart, Minister for Communications and Information Josephine ...

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905nm IR laser for industrial lidar

Osram has introduced a laser diode for industrial lidar. SPL TL90AT03 emits 905nm infra-red and has been developed for short laser pulses – between 5 and 100ns – maximum duty cycle is 0.1%. Optical output is 65W from a 110µm aperture (20A 100μs 1kHz) – said to be an efficiency of 34%. There are three emitters ...

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Sponsored Content – High Reliability Underfills for Automotive Applications

Exceptional Thermal Fatigue Resistance for Automotive Applications with ALPHA® HiTech® CU21-3240 Underfill. Using standalone SAC solder joints in BGA and CSP assemblies does not provide the level of thermal fatigue resistance required by automotive, aerospace, military and semiconductor manufacturers. To ensure that these assembled components are able to withstand long periods of exposure in harsh ...

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Raspberry Pi looking to IPO

Raspberry Pi is expected to IPO in the Spring at a valuation of £370 million.  Bankers Stifel and Liberum have been hired to advise on a London float. In September, the Raspberry Pi Foundation sold stakes worth £33 million to Lansdowne Partners and the Ezrah Charitable Trust. Raspberry Pi made a profit of £11.4 million last ...

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Dyson’s Metaverse

  Sir James Dyson has come up with a new approach to retailing where you can try out products via a VR demo using an Oculus Rift head-set. “We have been harnessing powerful virtual reality technologies to engineer new products in our labs for many years, now we are applying those same technologies to re-invent ...

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Power module packaging market on a 12.5% CAGR 2020-6

The power module market will reach $9.5 billion by 2026, with a 10.5% CAGR between 2020 and 2026, says Yole Develeloppement. The related packaging market will have a 12.5% CAGR during the same period, to about $3.5 billion. The cost of raw materials for power module packaging represents about 33% of the total power module ...

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U.S. Army turns to ICEYE for SAR mission imagery

ICEYE, the Finnish satellite imagery specialist, has entered into an R&D agreement with the U.S. Army to advance the Earth observation technology supporting army missions. Specifically, the cooperative research and development agreement (CRADA) is with the U.S. Army’s Space and Missile Defense Technical Center (SMDTC). They will explore together low-cost, on-orbit, synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) related ...

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Harwin adds female contact to Datamate

Building on the program where the different elements of its 4mm-pitch Datamate Mix-Tek connectors can be sourced separately, Harwin now offers a new female contact option to its customer base. Like all Mix-Tek coax contacts, the M80-310 is designed for data carrying, with support for frequencies reaching up to 6GHz. This latest contact can be ...

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Super-squidgy gel is super-tough for soft robotics

The University of Cambridge has developed a squishy jelly with 80% water content that is unfazed by being run over with a car. “At 80% water content, you’d think it would burst apart like a water balloon, but it doesn’t: it stays intact and withstands huge compressive forces,” said Professor Oren Scherman who led the ...

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Small Nvidia Jetson industrial PCs for AI

Advantech has based a series of small AI inferencing computers around the Nvidia Jetson family. The AIR-020 series is 139 x 110 x 44.5mm, and the company sees them being used in automated guided vehicles (AGV), autonomous mobile robots (AMR), medical imaging, traffic monitoring, defect inspection and people counting. AIR-020X – Nvidia Jetson Xavier NX SoM embedded, up to ...

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AMD industrial motherboard from Kontron’s Fujitsu purchase

Kontron has announced a series of industrial mini-STX motherboards built around AMD’s Ryzen Embedded V1000 and R1000 processors, including Vega graphics. This is its first completely new motherboard since the acquisition of Fujitsu’s industrial motherboard division. Aimed at Windows 10 or Linux-64, and called D3714-V/R mSTX, they support up to four independent 4K displays for industrial PCs, medical ...

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Quantum systems can evolve forward and backward in time simultaneously

A team of physicists at the Universities of Bristol, Vienna, the Balearic Islands and the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI-Vienna) has shown how quantum systems can simultaneously evolve along two opposite time arrows – both forward and backward in time. The study necessitates a rethink of how the flow of time is understood ...

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Glasgow University building 6G test centre

The University of Glasgow is building a test facility for 6G communications systems after securing a £2.6m equipment grant. The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) have backed the University’s plans to expand the existing Microwave and Terahertz research lab at its Electronic Systems Design Centre with new equipment. Researchers from the University’s James Watt School ...

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October SEMI billings up 0.6% m-o-m

SEMI’s October billings figure was up 0.6% on September’s $3.72 billion at $3.74 billion, and 41.3% up on the $2.65 billings of October 2020. “Monthly billings of North America-based semiconductor equipment manufacturers showed continued strength in October,” said Ajit Manocha, president and CEO of SEMI. “The push towards digital transformation along with robust demand for ...

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ST joins A*STAR for SiC R&D

The Institute of Microelectronics (IME) at the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) and ST have started a SiC R&D announced collaboration for power-electronics applications in the automotive and industrial markets. The collaboration sets a foundation for a SiC ecosystem in Singapore and creates opportunities for other companies to engage with IME and ST ...

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Sierra Space raises $1.4bn Series A

Sierra Space – a recent spin-off from Sierra Nevada Corporation – has announced $1.4 in Series A funding, its first capital raise. It was, according to the company, the second-largest ever private capital raise in the aerospace and defense sector, globally. The investment was led by General Atlantic, Coatue and Moore Strategic Ventures, with participation ...

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SatADSL, MT partner on satellite comms for maritime sector

The Belgian satellite service provider SatADSL and satellite communications provider Milano Teleport (MT) are partnering to provide greater access to VSAT (very small aperture terminal) connectivity for maritime and terrestrial sectors. Under the terms of the agreement, MT will use SatADSL’s neXat platform to both provide capacity over Africa and deliver advanced maritime services worldwide. ...

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Deep red led light exposure in the morning makes your eyes work better for a while

Three minutes of 670nm exposure in the morning appears to make the eyesight of humans over 40 years old better for a week, according to Imperial College London. The improvement is shown in cone-mediated colour contrast thresholds, tested in people from 37 to 70 years old in this research. Improvements have been seen before, using light ...

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40V bi-direction GaN transistor for power rail switching

Chinese GaN device maker Innoscience is introducing a bi-directional transistor amongest its more conventional devices. Called INN40W08, it is a 40V device that can block in both directions (unlike single silicon mosfets where two are needed for bi-directional operation). Nominally it has a gate, two drains and no source. The company sees it being used in ...

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In-field programmer gets external branding options

Segger is offering custom versions of its Flasher Portable Plus stand-alone in-field programmer, “enabling corporations to supply their service technicians with a branded tool”, it said, Visual custom options include injection moulding the case in different coloured plastic and printign logos and slogans on the outside. The display content, for example changing the splash screen, ...

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Asahi Kasei green hydrogen generator to slash costs

Asahi Kasei, the Japanese materials and healthcare conglomerate, plans to market a generator for making green hydrogen at a third of the current cost in 2025, reports the Nikkei.  Hydrogen generators, each capable of producing 10MW, are already being tested. The company is working on linking systems to make 100MW units. The generators use electrolysis ...

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NAND Q3 revenues up 15% q-o-q

Q3 NAND Flash bit shipments increased by nearly 11% QoQ and ASP rose by nearly 4% QoQ, says TrendForce, while revenue was up 15% QoQ increase to a new record high of $18.8 billion in 3Q21. Q4 will see prices start to drop. Samsung’s NAND Flash bit shipment increased by only about 5% QoQ due ...

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Digi-Key, Seeed Studio, Machinechat introduce private LoRaWAN-in-a-Box

Digi-Key Electronics is partnering with Seeed Studio and Machinechat for what it describes as the industry’s first private LoRaWAN-in-a-Box solutions for affordable and secure IoT. It’s aimed at IoT developers and engineers, and it combines Seeed’s Studio SenseCAP gateways and sensors with the Machinechat JEDI Pro Seeed Studio Edition software. The aim is to quickly deploy ...

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Women In Defence 2021 awards celebrate female engineers

The prestigious Women in Defence Awards have been held at the Guildhall in central London, and engineers from Leonardo and BAE Systems were among the winners. Sarah Cooper, a Senior Hardware Engineer at Leonardo, for example, was announced as the winner of the ‘STEM in Defence’ award. She was selected from among some of the ...

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SL Power launches mission-critical AC/DC power supplies

SL Power  Electronics (SLPE), AC/DC power conversion specialist for mission-critical applications, has launched the NGB SERIES of high power density convection rated AC-DC power supplies. Intended for applications including medical, industrial, audio broadcast and LED lighting the NGB series is available in multiple formats and power levels including 250W, 425W, 660W and 1200W (with 150W & ...

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Flex Power Modules adds higher-power variants

Flex Power Modules has added two new higher power variants to its successful through-hole, digital BMR492 range of regulated, isolated bus converters. The BMR4920100/001 is rated at 10.4 V/67.4 A output over a 40-60 V input (80 V/100 ms), and can also deliver up to 950 W peak for less than 1 second. The BMR4920300/864 ...

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Arduino makes mini-sized Uno to celebrate 10 million shipped

Arduino has shipped 10 million of its Uno boards since its introduction in 2010, and has produced a collector’s item to celebrate. True you pay more (€40), but it comes in a nicer box, in a non-standard colour, and it also has a footprint that has never been seen before – a tiny (34.2 x ...

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IBM: Compute-in-memory beats GPUs by 10x, sometimes

IBM presented its ultra-low power AI processor at its Zurich technology meeting today. Called Hermes, the core is a scientific demonstrator made on 14nm CMOS that has scored a record energy efficiency of 10.5Top/s/W, plus a density of 1.59Top/s/mm2. The technology is mixed analogue and digital compute-in-memory, using multi-level phase-change memory – the latter added to ...

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High in-rush relay for solar and vehicle-to-home charging

Omron has launched its second high in-rush relay in a month, this time aimed at energy storage for solar panels or vehicle-to-home charging – the previous one was for smart lighting. Called G5PZ-X, it is a PCB-mount 200Vdc 20A SPST-NO relay with a 15.2 x 26.4mm footprint, and designed so that two can be connected in series to switch ...

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Correction receiver modules for centimetre GNSS positioning

u-blox is aiming at centimeter-level positioning for industrial navigation and robotics with a pair of GNSS (global navigation satellite system) correction receivers and a corresponding up-grade to its existing ZED-F9P high-precision GNSS receiver module. The correction receivers stream correction data from communication satellites. The “new correction service receivers offer broad geographical coverage across Europe, continental US ...

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Bill being introduced today to improve device security

Today the  government will introduce a Bill to ensure that consumers will be better protected from attacks by hackers on their phones, tablets, smart TVs, fitness trackers and other internet-connectable devices. The new law will require manufacturers, importers and distributors of digital tech which connects to the internet or other products to make sure they ...

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OSAT revenues on a roll

Q3 OSAT (outsourced semiconductor assembly and test) revenues grew 31.6% y-o-y reachingb$8.89 billion, reports TrendForce, which is bullish on the performance of the OSAT industry in Q4. Market leaders ASE and Amkor registered revenues of $2.15 billion and $1.68 billion, which represent YoY increases of 41.3% and 24.2%, respectively, for 3Q21. SPIL’s Q3 revenue reached $1.04 ...

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Fleet Space finds funding for nanosatellite IoT

Fleet Space – the Australian startup looking to develop a global IoT nanosatellite constellation – has secured $26.4m (USD) of additional funding. The Series B capital raise – which gives a $126 million valuation for the company – was led by existing investors Artesian Venture Partners, Blackbird Ventures, Grok, and Horizons Ventures. New investors included Alumni ...

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Codasip uses Imperas reference models

Codasip, the RISC-V IP supplier, has included Imperas reference models in its DV testbenches to ensure a verification flow that accommodates a range of flexible features and options while scaling across the roadmap of future cores to enable confirmation of functional quality. RISC-V offers many different permutations of base instructions, standard optional extensions and custom instructions ...

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Sensor hub DSP IP gets auto qualification

CEVA says that its SensProTM sensor hub DSP IP has achieved Automotive Safety Integrity Level B random fault and ASIL D systemic fault-compliant certification. The ISO 26262-compliant functional safety standard’s ASIL certification is essential for automotive SoCs used in safety critical applications such as autonomous driving and advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) applications. The  sensor ...

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IBM: Quantum advantage coming into view

Quantum advantage, the point at which a quantum computer out-perform classical computers in some tasks, may only be two years away if improvements in error rate and qubit count continue as they have over the last two years. The figures were presented by IBM at a quantum computing event held at its Zurich research centre ...

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PSA-certified development kit helps meet cyber security standards

The first PSA-certified development kit from Arrow Electronics is the PSoC 64 IoT Security Workshop development kit. Jointly developed with Infineon, it is designed to support developers meet compliance with emerging IoT legislation, including NIST 8259A and EN 303 645. Included in the kit are the Infineon PSoC 64 Secure AWS IoT Pioneer kit, Arrow PSoC ...

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Thermal trips protect power semiconductors at 175°C

Schurter has added a low-trip-temperature variant to its RTS thermal fuse range, originally launched in 2018. Rather than >210°C, they are rated at >175°C. They have been developed to protect power semiconductors from over-heating – particularly from thermal-runaway when the semiconductors are in a confined space. In such an event, the thermal fuse interrupts the circuit, ...

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Picocom wins orders for first O-RAN chip

Picocom, the Bristol startup designing chips to enable Open RAN networks, has received Purchase Orders for its first chip. The chip goes into the Radio Unit and the Distributed Unit of an O-RAN mobile telecoms network. “It converts radio waves into bits,” is how Picocom founder and president Peter Claydon (pictured) describes what the chip ...

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Samsung to build $17bn foundry fab in Taylor, Texas

Tonight the Governor of Texas is expected to announce that Samsung will build a $17 billion foundry fab near the city of Taylor. Samsung is thought to be holding a board meeting today to sign off on the deal. Samsung already has a fab site in Texas – at Austin – and Samsung had been ...

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Rolls Royce electric plane smashes world speed record

RollsRoyce’s electric plane called  ‘Sprit of Innovation’  beat the existing speed record for electric planes by 132mph – hitting a top-speed of 387.4mph during a 1.9 mile flight over Boscombe Down last week. It also broke, by 60 seconds, the fastest record time to climb to 3,000 metres by doing it in 202 seconds. ‘Following the ...

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DARPA entangles BAE Systems in quantum technology for military antennas

DARPA – the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency – has awarded BAE Systems multiple contracts to develop quantum technology for radio frequency (RF) sensing. The goal is to break constraints to antenna designs that have persisted for more than a century, says BAE Systems, reducing size, and increase sensitivity and accessible bandwidth by several ...

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Embedded Workbench update for NXP S32K3

IAR Systems has added support for NXP’s new S32K3 automotive microcontrollers to Embedded Workbench for Arm. “IAR Embedded Workbench for Arm and is used by many large automotive part suppliers,” said IAR automotive director Kiyofumi Uemura. “Thanks to our collaboration with NXP, we have been supporting the S32K1 family since its launch in 2017.” S32K3 MCUs are ...

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More on: NXP S32K3 automotive MCU family

NXP has started production of its S32K3 automotive MCU family, built around Arm Cortex-M7 cores, and launched real-time software (called ‘Real-Time Drivers’) alongside it to support S32K3 and all S32 automotive processors featuring Arm Cortex-M or Cortex-R52 cores – so existing S32K1/S32G families too. Intended for body control, S32K3 family includes single, dual and lockstep M7 ...

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Connector sales surge

Business is booming in the UK connector market says the Interconnect Technology Suppliers Association (ITSA). ITSA member companies reported increases in sales  of between 8% to 20% y-o-y and UK orders are now up over 43% on 2020 and up 16% on 2019. 2021 ITSA members’ book to bill ratios are an average of 1.08:1. ...

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Trace and debug for NXP S32K3 automotive MCU

Programmierbare Logik & Systeme (PLS) is covering NXP’s new S32K3 automotive MCU family trace and debug in the latest version of its Universal Debug Engine (UDE). S32K3 MCUs are based on the Arm’s Cortex-M7 core in single, dual and lock-step configurations for ISO 26262 functional safety applications up to ASIL D. Devices are offered in a range ...

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Ericsson buys Vonage

Ericsson is to buy Vonage for $6.2 billion in cash to beef up its cloud services business. Cloud communications services represent 80% of  Vonage’s $1.4 billion annual revenues. “The transaction builds upon Ericsson’s stated intent to expand globally in wireless enterprise, offering existing customers an increased share of a market valued at $700 billion by ...

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Glasgow to be home to hydrogen energy storage project

The government is investing  £9.4 million for a first-of-a-kind hydrogen project at the UK’s largest onshore windfarm near Glasgow. The project will look to produce hydrogen for storing energy and providing zero-carbon fuel.. The Whitelee green hydrogen project will develop the UK’s largest electrolyser, a system which converts water into hydrogen gas as a way ...

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2022 smartphone production to be back to pre-pandemic levels

1.39 billion smartphones will be built next year – 3.8% more than in 2021, says TrendForce, taking production nunbers back to pre-pandemic levels. Samsung’s smartphone production for 2022 is expected to reach 276 million units, a 1.1% YoY growth. Apple is expected to makeV243 million units, representing a 5.4% YoY growth and the second highest ...

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CEA-Leti claims smallest MEMS gyroscope

CEA-Leti scientists, in collaboration with researchers at Politecnico di Milano have developed the world’s smallest-footprint MEMS gyroscope that is capable of providing navigation-grade performance. The researchers were able to meet these specifications with a sensor footprint of only 1.3 mm by leveraging nano-resistive sensing. Combining CEA-Leti’s expertise in highly sensitive sensors based on silicon nano-gauges ...

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Viewpoint: OEMSecrets shares parts and components market insight

New data shows positive and increased opportunities in various industries even with shortage and price uncertainty still affecting the supply chain, says OEMSecrets, the people who power our EW-Compare tool. With the growing need for stable supply chain networks, OEMSecrets has identified four key trends that reflect a recurring theme in 2021. Tracking these trends, ...

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Gwangju researchers characterise SrTiO3 at atomic level

Researchers from the Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology in Korea have investigated the atomic structure of the perovskite material SrTiO3. The material is one of the most popular substrates for growing oxide films. The researchers used ambient pressure X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (AP-XPS), and low energy electron diffraction (LEED), to investigate how fabrication conditions (annealing ...

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SiC defect study could improve power bipolar transistors

Silicon carbide mosfets and Schottky diodes are both subject to the unipolar limit – the trade-off between breakdown voltage and specific resistance of the drift layer. Super-junction transistors bypass this limit, and bipolar transistor are not subject to it, but both require p-type semiconductor layers in otherwise n-type unipolar devices. To create p-type SiC, it ...

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Semi market ending the year with a flourish

The semiconductor market is finishing the year strongly, says Semiconductor Intelligence. Q3 revenue was $144.8 billion, according to WSTS, up 7.4% from the prior quarter and up 27.6% from a year ago. The strong year-to-year growth was a slight deceleration from 30.4% in Q2. The major memory companies reported very healthy 3Q21 revenue increases versus ...

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Law passed to enforce stripping out Huawei switchgear

The government has passed a law making it illegal for telecom network operators to retain Huawei switchgear in their networks where the government says it should be stripped out. The Telecommunications (Security) Act imposes new legal duties on telecoms firms to protect the UK’s telecoms networks and gives new powers to government to control the ...

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LIN RGB LED controller has 24 driver outputs

Melexis, the Belgian auto IC specialist, has launched a multi-channel LIN RGB LED controller with 24 LED driver outputs each capable of sourcing up to 60mA. Capable of driving eight RGB channels, the MLX81118 reduces the bill of materials and simplifies the design of cutting-edge interior and exterior lighting. The chip has a dual input-voltage ...

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Isotropic eyes hybrid satellite comms for trains

Isotropic Systems, the Reading-based specialist in satellite connectivity, has joined a UK Government and European Space Agency (ESA) consortium to test hybrid satellite communications for trains. The project will demonstrate the use of 5G in the area of transport and logistics. Specifically, it will explore how hybrid networks, based on multi-bearer 5G technology, could improve ...

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NGK, Ossia & Torex Semi hook up on wireless power transmission

NGK Insulators,  Torex Semiconductor and Ossia have started working together to spread the use of wireless power transmission/transfer (WPT) systems. The companies have developed a WPT power receiver development kit using a combination of NGK’s lithium-ion rechargeable batteries EnerCera, TOREX’s low-current-consumption power supply ICs and Ossia’s WPT technologies. Conventionally, powering IoT devices involved power cables ...

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Farnell launches embedded computing hub.

Farnell has launched an Industrial Embedded Computers online hub. The hub will provide design engineers with the latest information on industrial single board computers (SBCs). The hub  includes articles, application notes, guides, projects and training modules, videos and eBooks. The hub also provides access for Farnell’s range of online calculators, conversion charts and component selection ...

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Fleet of US coal power stations coverted to solar and batteries

In the US state of Illionois, nine coal power stations are being converted into batteries, some with local solar generation. The sites were aquired by a Texas company called Vista in 2018, and coal burning is being terminated for a variety of reasons including running costs and legal decision over pollution. Power station  Net coal ...

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sureCore memory IP in Semidynamics’ RIS-V chip

SureCore, the Sheffield low-power memory IP house, has designed a power and area efficient, high performance, multi-port, embedded memory solution for Semidynamics’ new RISC-V-based, tensor processing chip. Semidynamics is developing a high bandwidth, vector processing unit optimised for tensor processing aimed at AI applications. In order for AI to realise its full performance potential, the ...

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Imec battery spin-off raises €4m

Battery start-up LionVolt, a spin-off from Imec affiliate Holst Centre, has closed a seed round of €4 million, bringing its total funding this year to more than €5 million. The round was led by thevVC  Innovation Industries and joined by Brabantse Ontwikkelingsmaatschappij (Brabant Development Agency, BOM) and  Sake Bosch. LionVolt spun off last year from ...

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Top 25 semi companies’ sales to grow 23%

The annual revenue growth of the top 25 semiconductor companies is to rocket, says IC Insights, driven by AI, ML and 5G. AMD, MediaTek, Nvidia, and Qualcomm lead the growth with declines at Intel and Sony. The semiconductor market is forecast to increase 23% this year.  A 20% increase in unit shipments coupled with a ...

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NEC to be systems integrator for disaggregate networks

NEC has joined the Telecom Infra Project’s (TIP) Phoenix initiative which is developing a 400G transponder for open and disaggregated high-capacity DWDM networks. NEC will take the role of a system integrator within the OOPT Project Group and the Phoenix initiative to realize a fully disaggregated architecture.Optical transmission systems are used in backhauls that connecttelecommunications carriers’ base stations with core communication ...

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Net Zero Space initiative launches from Paris conference

Eutelsat and Arianespace are among the companies and organisations that have grouped together for a “Net Zero Space” initiative, to help achieve a sustainable use of outer space by 2030. Including satellite operators, launchers, space agencies, academic and civil bodies, those taking part are committed to taking concrete actions to tackle reducing the debris orbiting ...

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Toray sampling film for transparent 5G components

Toray Industries of Tokyo says it is sampling a new film for making 5G devices with good transparency, heat-resistance, flame-retardancy, and dielectric performance. Applications include transparent 5G antennas, transparent flexible PCBs, transparent heater substrate materials, and other electronic components. They would also encompass construction materials that benefit from the film’s transparency and flame retardancy, and process ...

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Digital audio amplifier delivers 8+8W stereo from one Li-ion cell

Diodes has introduced a digital stereo audio amplifier with built-in boost converter that allows 8+8W to be delivered from one Li-ion cell and 12+12W from two cells in series. Called PAM8965, more detailed figures are: One cell (Vbatt = 3.7V) 8W/channel at 10% THD+N (6Ω load 1kHz) 6.4W/channel at 1% THD+N (6Ω load 1kHz) 20mA ...

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TI to build two new 300mm fabs

TI is to start building two new 300mm  fabs in Sherman, Texas next year. The Sherman site has the potential for up to four fabs to meet demand over time. “TI’s future analogue and embedded processing 300-mm fabs at the Sherman site are part of our long-term capacity planning to continue to strengthen our manufacturing ...

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Computer-on-modules get RTOS for functional safety and cybersecurity

Congatec and RTOS company Sysgo have teamed up to provide Arm and x86 platforms tailored for functional safety and cybersecurity requirements. “This cooperation makes great sense for both partners, now that the latest platforms from NXP and Intel make it possible to develop functional safety-critical systems without additional hardware,” said Congatec marketing director Christian Eder. ...

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Electrically-conductive elastomer gasket CAD models

Chomerics has released 11,000 CAD models of its electrically-conductive elastomer gaskets. “Modelling a complex profile in 3D gives design engineering teams an opportunity to run simulations of the gasket’s performance in the enclosure,” according to the company. “With designs and profiles becoming smaller and enclosures requiring greater performance, the ability to spec-in a profile utilising ...

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1% Zeners from Nexperia

Nexperia has announced ±1% Zener diodes from 1.8 to 75V in E24 steps. BZT52H-A SOD123F 2.6 x 1.6 x 1.1mm (plus leads) and BZX384-A SOD323  1.7 x 1.25 x 0.95mm (plus leads) are described as the company’s ‘A-selection’, hence the suffix in the name. “By replacing B- or C-selection devices with pad compatible A-selection Zener devices, ...

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Mythic launches PCIe card for analogue processor

Mythic, the analogue processor specialist for Edge AI, has unveiled a PCIe card with four M1076 Mythic Analogue Matrix Processors (AMPs), delivering up to 100 TOPs of AI performance and supporting up to 320 million weights for complex AI workloads at less than 25W of power. The MP10304 PCIe card is suitable for edge AI ...

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Digi-Key Makes AR app to support 2021 Boards Guide

Digi-Key Electronics has partnered with Make – the publishers behind the maker magazines and books – to release an augmented reality (AR) app to accompany its 2021 Boards Guide. Divided into sections for microcontroller (MCU), single-board controller (SBC) and field programmable gate array (FPGA)-based boards, the guide helps students, makers and professional engineers navigate the ...

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Heriot-Watt hooks up with Si Catalyst

Silicon Catalyst  and Heriot-Watt are collaborating to drive the development and launch of semiconductor companies. They have shared strategic objectives which focus on transforming  Scottish-based semiconductor ventures into scale-ups. Through GRID, Heriot-Watt is focused on global research, innovation and discovery. A major focus of GRID is on commercialising high-impact research that delivers economic and social ...

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TTElectronics launches 700W medical power supply

TT Electronics has launched its new 700 watt medical-grade enclosed power supply, the TAAM700. With a 6.7 inch x 3.66 inch footprint, the TAAM700 provides 17.8W per cubic inch and a wide operating temperature range from ‐30°Cto +70°C for thermally challenged environments. Coupled with its compact size, TAAM700’s industry leading power density is ideal for space-constrained ...

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Low-power battery charge chip suits many chemistries, including EnerCera

Rohm has created a battery charge IC for small low-powered products such as wireless ear buds and smart displays – its package is only 400μm tall. Called BD71631QWZ, it is a general purpose linear chip that can be powered from 2.9 to 5.5V and be resistor-programmed to deliver from 2 to 4.7V. “In recent years the need ...

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XMOS launches voice processors for smart devices

Bristol-based XMOS has introduced a pair of two-microphone voice processor chips for smart home devices. They are the XVF3610 (demo board right), and an Amazon wake-word-enabled variant called XVF3615. According to XMOS, Amazon’s Alexa includes the earlier XVF3510. “The designs mark an evolution of the XVF3510 voice, and provide audio echo cancellation and interference cancellation algorithms to ...

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Rubidium at the heart of signal generator

Anritsu has introduced a signal generator family with a rubidium local oscillator option that works across 9kHz to 43.5GHz. Branded ‘Rubidium’, internal time base aging is <±2×10-8/year with option 0003 (low phase noise kit) or <±1×10-9/year with option 0056 (rubidium local oscillator). “This frequency stability is achieved either by an optional internal rubidium reference or by ...

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Raspberry Pi OS updated: camera and video access simpilfied

Raspberry Pi OS, the custom operating system for Raspberry Pis, has had a major upgrade. It is now based on Debian Bullseye, Linux which has replaced two year old Debian Buster. “Debian Bullseye has relatively few major changes which are visible to users,” according to Raspberry Pi. “There are some under-the-hood changes to file systems ...

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Solar-powered UAV delivers broadband to smartphones

Airbus and NTT Docomo have shown that the UK-built solar-powered Zephyr High Altitude Pseudo-Satellite  (HAPS) can deliver wireless broadband connectivity direct to smart phones. Zephyr was conceived, designed and built by Qinetiq in the UK.   In 18-day stratospheric flights Zephyr’s radio transmitter provided a datalink  to simulate future direct-to-device connectivity. Tests included various bandwidths ...

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New cyber rules for IT service providers

IT service providers could be required to follow new cyber security rules such as the National Cyber Security Centre’s Cyber Assessment Framework as part of new proposals to help British businesses manage the growing cyber threat. Other plans to protect the country’s digital supply chains include new procurement rules to ensure the public sector buys ...

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Lattice buys Mirametrix

Lattice  has bought Mirametrix, a computer vision software specialist. Combining Mirametrix’s expertise with Lattice FPGA aims to deliver an end-to-end  computer vision product offering. “Providing easy-to-use application-specific software solution stacks continues to be a key part of our strategy to make it easy for customers to adopt Lattice and get to market quickly. Adding Mirametrix’s proven ...

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Measuring size and health of 2021 UK Space Industry

The UK’s Space Agency (UKSA) is beginning to collect data for its annual report on the size and health of the UK space industry. The 2021 the survey – which is now open for entries – will be carried out by BryceTech and it is is open to responses from space sector organisations across the ...

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Data centre accelerator card

Xilinx has introduced the Alveo U55C data centre accelerator card and an API-driven clustering solution for deploying FPGAs at scale. Purpose-built for HPC and big data workloads, the card offers the highest compute density and HBM capacity in the Alveo accelerator portfolio. Together with the Xilinx RoCE v2-based clustering solution, a broad spectrum of customers ...

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Triboelectric clothing is breathable for comfort

Electro-spun fibres are a promising candidate for cloth-based tribo-electric nanogenerators (TENGs) according to the University of Fukui. Electro-spinning involves drawing solutions of polymers into fibres using electrical charge. The researchers have developed an all-fibre composite layer TENG that can be integrated with normal cloth. “With our work, we are aiming to provide a new point of ...

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Infineon improves 100V mosfets with OptiMOS 6

Infineon is aiming at high switching frequency applications dc-dc converter applications such as telecom and solar with its OptiMOS 6 family of 100V mosfets. Compared with OptiMOS 5, the company is claiming: Rds(on) better by 18% Qg x Rds(on) better by 29% Qgd x Rds(on) better by 42% “In a 600W, 36-60V to 12V zero-voltage switched buck-boost converter, OptiMOS 6 in SuperSO8 ...

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UL Approved cables from Northamptonshire

Nicab of Northamptonshire can now UL-certify the cable and wire harness assemblies that it makes in-house. To do this it achieved UL ‘traceability accreditation’, joining other companies that are audited four times a year to maintain authorisation to put UL Certification labels on product packaging. “We are incredibly proud of this achievement, which is a continued ...

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Liquid metal pump works by surface tension

A drop of metal that is liquid at just above room temperature can be used as a pump in microfluidics, according to researchers at the University of New South Wales Sydney. Gallium and gallium alloys are suitable. These “are attractive materials due to their unique electrical, thermal and fluidic properties,” according to the university. They ...

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IBM builds 127qubit chip

IBM has developed a 127 qubit chip called Eagle which, it claims, can’t be simulated by a traditional supercomputer.  To simulate Eagle you would need more classical bits than there are atoms in every human being on the planet, says IBM. ‘We had to combine and improve upon techniques developed in previous generations of IBM ...

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Government expected to announce new probe into Nvidia-Arm tomorrow

Tomorrow, the government is expected to announce a Phase 2 investigation into the Nvidia-Arm takeover reports the Sunday Times. The Phase 1 probe by the Competition & Markets Authority reported that it had “serious competition concerns” about the proposed deal. As well as competition concerns there are national security issues to be resolved. The EU ...

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NEVs, BEVs and PHEVs

Total global sales of NEVs (New Energy Vehicles) for the first three quarters of 2021 (January-September) reached 4.2 million units, with BEVs (Battery Electric Vehicles) in particular accounting for 2.92 million units, a 153% YoY growth, according to TrendForce. Total sales of PHEVs (Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles) on the other hand, reached 1.28 million units, ...

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Imec and Glaxo hook up for bio-manufacturing

A collaboration between Glaxo Smith Kline, the pharmaceuticals giant, company, and Imec aims to create disruptive new solutions for the pharmaceutical sector. The partnership follows a year of explorative collaboration and research leading to promising preliminary results. It will focus on specific R&D and biomanufacturing projects. In R&D, Glaxo and Imec will explore how nanotechnology ...

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Kymeta, Intelsat demo satellite-enabled 5G services

Kymeta, a satellite communications company, has partnered with Intelsat, the satellite services provider, to demo satellite-enabled 5G connectivity for mobile comms. The demonstration involved Kymeta’s electronically steered flat-panel u8 antenna using Intelsat’s integrated satellite and terrestrial network. The companies described it as the first test of its kind in a mobile environment. The demonstration was ...

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Menlo Microsystems announces second switch.

Menlo Microsystems has announced the formal qualification and production release of  its double-pole/double-throw (DPDT) switch for differential switching applications, including AI, ML,  GPzu/CPU, datacentre, ATE device interface boards and high-speed computer peripheral interfaces. “The MM5600 is an enabling technology for the production test and characterization of a broad number of next-gen high-speed digital interfaces,” says ...

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GaN power transistor drivers for military and high-rel

Teledyne e2v HiRel has introduced pair of isolated 650V 4A gate drivers aimed at GaN power transistors, offering 2.5kVrms isolation and 100% ac-dc testing at -55 to 125°C. TDGD271 is a single channel driver in 8pad SOIC, while TDGD274 is a dual channel driver in 16pad SOIC. “The TDGD27x family devices are ideal for isolated mosfet, ...

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Astroscale and New Zealand partner on space sustainability

Astroscale Holdings – which specialises in satellite servicing and space debris removal – has announced it will partner with the New Zealand government on matters relating to space safety, debris mitigation and on-orbit servicing in general. The Japanese company has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with New Zealand’s Ministry of Business Innovation & Employment (“MBIE”). ...

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Layered rocksalt a better material for li-ion cathodes

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has developed a material for cathodes in  li-ion batteries called Layered-Rocksalt Intergrown Battery Electrode Material which ensures high capacity, fast charging time and energy transfer, and superior cycling and thermal stability. The material can be synthesised under ambient atmosphere, easing processing and reducing production costs. Its thermal stability and minimal gas release reduce fire ...

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UKSA backs Northumbria University for FSO CubeSats

The UK Space Agency (UKSA) has awarded £650,000 to Northumbria University to continue its work to develop what it describes as the first commercially available laser-based inter-satellite communications system. Their CubeSats use lasers, instead of radio frequency, for data transmissions with more capacity and security. And the aim is to develop an “off the shelf” ...

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Bulgin adds to RF connector portfolio

Bulgin has added to its portfolio of RF connectors with versions delivering multi-GHz operation, impedance levels of 50Ohm, and insulation resistance values greater than 5000MOhm to minimize the losses experienced. The 1.85mm format connectors feature M7 threads, with a frequency range that spans all the way through to 65GHz. Alongside them there are the 2.4mm ...

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5G beamformer dual-polarisation mmWave ICs

Renesas has expanded its 5G beamformer IC family with two new dual-polarization mmWave devices optimized for 2×2 antenna architecture for 5G and broadband wireless applications at n257, n258, and 261 bands. The F5288 and F5268 transmitter/receiver (8T8R) chipsets sit on a small 5.1mm x 5.1mm BGA package and feature the industry’s highest Tx output power ...

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Data hitches a rides on fast neutrons

Enginees at Lancaster University have transmitted, received and decoded data sent over a fast neutron stream. The proof-of-concept involved modulating neutrons from a calfornium 252 source using an Arduino-controlled mechanical shutter built from high-density polythene. Detection involved a one litre tank of scintillating meterial, a photo-multiplier and a ‘mixed-field analyser’ (made by Hybrid Instruments, based at ...

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Crypto Quantique hooks up with BT Labs

Crypto Quantique, a specialist in physical-unclonable-function (PUF) cybersecurity for the IoT, is engaged with BT Labs to explore applications for its Q:Architecture, IoT security platform. Q:Architecture comprises QDID hardware IP that generates on-demand random, unique, unforgeable identities and cryptographic keys in silicon, and the QuarkLink security platform for provisioning, onboarding, and managing IoT devices throughout their ...

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Battery monitor chip daisy-chains over novel bus for high voltages

Renesas has introduced a battery pack monitor for long strings of cells that uses an ac-coupled bus to solve the thorny problem of passing data up and down the line. At the same time, it revealed a high-side battery protection and monitoring IC for 4S to 16S cell battery packs. RAA489204 for long strings Stackable ...

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GaN transistor in 100W USB PD charger reference design

Power Integrations has used GaN switching to in a reference design for a 100W USB Power Delivery (PD 3.0) charger and USB programmable power supply (PPS). From 90 – 265Vac in can deliver 5A at 5, 9, 12, 15 or 20V, or 3.3 – 21V at 5A (up to 100W). The design, DER-937, contains: specification, schematic, PCB layout, bill ...

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