Power management for Sapphire Rapids server CPUs

Infineon has launched power management designs for Intel’s Sapphire Rapids server CPUs. “These combine our software-defined digital controllers with integrated power stage and point-of-load converters,” said Infineon marketing director Rakesh Renganathan. There are three Arm Cortex-M0 based transient phase controllers (XDPE15284D, XDPE15254D and XDPE152C4D) with proprietary control algorithms for managing peaky processor loads. Taking the XDPE15284D as ...

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24 to 47GHz 5G front-end chipset

Analog Devices, has introduced millimetre wave (mmW) 5G front-end chipsets spanning 24 to 47GHz. There are two 16-channel dual-polarisation beam formers and two single channel (one Tx + one Rx) up-down converters. ADMV4828 24 – 29.5GHz 16-channel beamformer >12.5dBm output at 3% EVM with 400MHz 64QAM 5G NR waveform 310mW/channel ADMV4928 37 to 43.5GHz 16-channel beamformer ...

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Synopsys launches pay-as-you-go chip design and verification tools on Azure

Synopsys has picked Microsoft’s Azure HBv3 cloud to offer pay-as-you-go on-line IC design and verification electronic design automation (EDA) tools, to be called Synopsys Cloud. “As more design flows incorporate AI, requiring even more resources, the virtually unlimited compute and EDA access we’re providing will deliver a flexible, secure chip development environment for future demands,” said ...

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President of European Young Engineers completes EW BrightSparks selection panel

We’re very pleased to announce another addition to the EW BrightSparks 2022 judging panel, with Nadja Yang – President, European Young Engineers (EYE) – agreeing to come on board. Nadja adds to what is an expertise-packed set of judges from across the industry, joining (alphabetically) Clive Couldwell (Group Editor, Electronics Weekly), Graham Curren (CEO, Sondrel), ...

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Samsung dominating booming smartphone display market

The global smartphone display panel market revenue rose more than 5% to $46 billion in 2021, according to Strategy Analytics, with Samsung dominating the market with 49% share. BOE is in 2nd place with 16% share, followed by LG with 8%. The top 3 had nearly 72% of the market. “OLED display panels saw increased ...

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GNSS receivers support Japan’s CLAS

Septentrio has launched three products which support Japan’s high-accuracy Centimeter Level Augmentation Service (CLAS) – mosaic-CLAS, AsteRx-m3 CLAS and AsteRx SB3 CLAS, These multi-frequency GNSS receivers support CLAS on a single device, thanks to the latest GNSS technology which receives the L6 signal, which transmits high-accuracy corrections from Japan’s QZSS** constellation. This technology was developed in ...

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MEMS analogue piezoelectric accelerometer

Vesper, a MEMS supplier of piezoelectric sensors, has launched the VA1210, Vesper’s 2nd generation analogue piezoelectric smart voice accelerometer. The VA1210 offers higher sensitivity (+17 dB) and higher (+6 dB) SNR than the 1st generation VA1200 in voice pickup. Additionally, new intelligent features of Wake-on-Voice (WoV) and hardware voice activity detection (HVAD) are introduced into ...

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Webinar: Digi-Key hails tipping point for “AI Anywhere”

Digi-Key Electronics is hosting a webinar, in collaboration with Analog Devices, entitled “AI Anywhere – ADI’s AI Accelerator IC Enables New Edge AI Use Cases.” As well as covering the challenges involved with implementing Edge AI, the webinar introduces the AI microcontroller MAX78000 and considers new use cases for AI. Presented by Kristopher Ardis, executive ...

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20W dc-dc converters with 1 x 1inch footprint for railways

P-Duke is aiming at rail and industrial use with a family of 20W 25.4 x 25.4mm dc-dc converters with wide input ranges. Depending on part, they take 9 to 75Vdc, or 14 to 160Vdc, and turn that into single or dual outputs of 5, 5.1, 12, 24, ±12 or ±15Vdc. “Using just one dc-dc model converter for ...

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IET’s Lizzie Truett boosts EW BrightSparks selection panel

Every year since 2017, when the first EW BrightSparks was hosted at the Houses of Commons, the IET’s prestigious Savoy Place has been the venue for the Awards Day, and the IET has been a big supporter of the programme. This is particularly true with Lizzie Truett, the IET’s Young Professionals Strategic Development Manager, who ...

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Toshiba motor drivers on Click boards

Mikroelektronika has releases a set of Toshiba bipolar stepper motor drivers on Click boards for evaluation and development. There are nine of them with integrated H-bridges are capable of driving up to 50V at 4A. The ICs are footprint compatible – although some have phase inputs, the others have step and direction inputs. The single-supply devices ...

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0.05% voltage reference for under a microamp

TI has introduced a voltage reference that typically runs from 680nA and yet has a max initial error of ±0.05% and a max temperature coefficient of 10ppm/°C across -40 to 125°C – and it will operate down to -55°C. Called REF35, it will run from up to 6V and different versions offer outputs of 1.024, 1.2, 1.25, 1.6, ...

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UK made: triple-channel X-band rotary joint

Link Microtek has released a rotary microwave joint with three X-band channels, one for transmit and two for receive signals. Called AMCORJD-3, it is for antennas rotating continuously “at in excess of 60rpm and typically exposed to harsh environmental conditions such as wind, rain and salt spray,” according to the company. “The design brief was that ...

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TSMC and Samsung seeking Chips Act money

TSMC and Samsung are looking for a share of the $52 billion which the US is planning to spend on US domestic chip production under the Chips Act. “Arbitrary favoritism and preferential treatment based on the location of a company’s headquarters is not an effective or efficient use of the grant and ignores the reality ...

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Intel holds onto No.1 slot

Intel held onto the No. 1 slot in 2021 despite flat revenues, reports Omdia. While Samsung overtook Intel in Q3 and Q4, Intel was the leader in Qs 1 & 2. Intel’s main revenue source, MPUs,  grew at 11% YoY last year – compared to the total semiconductor growth level of 24%.. Samsung significantly closed ...

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Binder cage clamps M12 connector series

The industrial circular connector specialist, binder, is offering cage clamp termination options for a large part of its M12 ranges. Helping to ensure a vibration-proof connection for applications subject to mechanical loads – the company cites machines that are exposed to vibrations caused by motors or manufacturing processes, for example – the cage clamp variants are ...

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SDK in mass production of single crystal SiC wafers

Showa Denko (SDK) has launched mass production of  6” SiC wafers for power ICs. SDK has been considering in-house production of SiC wafers, which are used as main material for SiC epitaxial wafers, aiming to improve the quality of its SiC epitaxial wafers and establish a stable supply system for them. From 2010 to 2015, ...

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20W ac-dc converters are OVC III rated to 2,000m

Hot on the heels of a 10W family of PCB-mount ac-dc converters, Recom is introducing 20W versions, once again with OVC III insulation. RAC20E-K/277 modules have a 53 x 28mm footprint and ate 23mm tall above the circuit board – with these E-K parts dimensionally the same as the company’s K series converters, “but with ...

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Government pursuing space-based solar power

The government is embarking on a programme to develop technologies for beaming power from space. The feasibility of Space-Based Solar Power (SBSP) was studied in a report commissioned last year by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. “Following the publication of this study, my department is developing a small-scale ‘no-regrets’ innovation programme to ...

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Wording of EU Digital Markets Act finalised

The EU’s Digital Markets Act, which was finalised late last week, could constrict the power of the big US tech companies. Three examples of the rules to be imposed are: In online searches, companies would not be allowed to rank their own products or services higher than those of others. A user’s personal data cannot ...

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Wyld Connect hybrid terminals support sensor-to-satellite IoT

Wyld Networks has announced 2H 2022 availability of a new range of Wyld Connect low-power, sensor-to-satellite LoRaWAN terminals and modules for the IoT, aiming at areas where there is little or no alternative connectivity. The full service will be available in the second half of 2022, says the company, with a partnership with Eutelsat enabling ...

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Isotropic gears up for multi-link antenna product launch

It’s been a busy seven days for Isotropic Systems, the specialist in satellite connectivity whose radio frequency optics enable multi-link ground antenna to simultaneously connect to satellites in multiple orbits. The Reading-based company has announced its mobile Ka-Band GM2000 Terminal Range for military forces, and partnerships with Teledyne and SpaceBridge to extend the options for ...

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Cable interconnect for 112Gbps PAM4

Yamaichi Electronics and Japan Aviation Electronics Industry (JAE) have jointly developed a prototype of high-speed jumper cable interconnect product which supports the 112Gbps PAM4 signal on the data networking systems. Performance enhancement demand of data transmission speed on the network equipment such as the routers and switches is increasing with the expansion of 5G network ...

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Top Ten Fabless 2021

2021 fabless revenues grew 48% y-o-y to $127.4 billion, says TrendForce. Nvidia overtook Broadcom to take the second position behind No.1 Qualcomm. Taiwanese companies Novatek and Realtek rose to sixth and eighth place, respectively. Qualcomm had growth of 51% in phone chips snd 63% growth in IoT chips. Nvidia had growth of 64% in gaming ...

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Digi-Key video series highlights “Revolutionizing Automation”

Digi-Key Electronics is launching a new video series called “Revolutionizing Automation”, which explores the cutting-edge of automation and control technologies. Sponsored by Omron and Siemens, the four-part video series highlights how Digi-Key itself processes 5.3 million orders annually, with the efficiency of the supply chain involving sensors, motors and controllers, robotics, connectors, power and RFID, ...

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TT adds to variable resistor portfolio

TT Electronics has aded  four new product families to its variable resistor portfolio. These include three new encoder lines and a new line of single turn potentiometers. These products are suitable for professional audio applications as well as medical and industrial applications, including machine controls and home appliances. The new encoder families (EN10, EN16AB, and EN18AB) ...

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Single Is More

Under the tagline ‘Single is More’, Harting, ADI and Würth Elektronik have joined forces to promote Single Pair Ethernet. In order to further strengthen the industrial use of the Ethernet variant, which was originally introduced in the automotive industry, the four companies have summarised their matching products on a joint landing page created with Mouser: https://ift.tt/mK9h5qB Additionally, ...

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APEC week: Novel feedback loop reduces dc-dc output capacitance s

Rohm is claiming to have improved load transient response in switching and linear power supplies by modifying the voltage feedback loop. Branded QuiCur, the technique is intended to reduce the amount of capacitance needed at the supply’s output, while navigating the balance between fast loop response for good load and line fluctuation response, and the ...

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5G marine testbed set up in Plymouth

The Smart Sound Connect Marine 5G Mobile Private Network, deployed by Vodafone in partnership with Nokia and operated by Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML), has been set up as is a 5G marine-focussed testbed. The testbed will be free to use for local and international businesses to create and develop marine 5G use cases. The first ...

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RS Grass Roots’ Isabella Mascarenhas strengthens EW BrightSparks selection panel

We recently shone a spotlight on new additions to the EW BrightSparks selection panel. Today, we’re very happy to announce a mainstay of the  judges will also be adding her considerable support: Isabella Mascarenhas, Vice President, Grass Roots & Shining Stars at RS Components. The UK-based distributor has been ever-present in its support of EW BrightSparks, from ...

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Skyports raises $23m in first close of Series B funding round

Skyports, the electric air taxi and drone drone services provider, has raised $23 million in the first close of its Series B funding round, with capital coming from new and existing investors. Specifically, all existing institutional shareholders participated in the round including Deutsche Bahn Digital Ventures, Groupe ADP, Solar Ventus, Irelandia and Levitate Capital. These ...

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APEC week: Mostly-GaN charger delivers 240W

EPC has announced a GaN transistor based 240W charger. Called EPC9171, it converts 90 – 265V universal ac mains to up to 5A dc, adjustable across 15 – 48V. Claimed power density is ~1.1W/cm3 – the design is 84 x 84 x 26mm Inside there is a silicon mosfet active bridge rectifier front-end, followed by ...

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LDO accepts 60V for consumer products

Diodes has introduced an LDO that works from5 to 60V and has PSRR (power supply rejection ratio) of 70dB at 1kHz. Called AP7387, ground current is typically 2µA (Vin = 12V, no load), typically staying below 8μA (60Vin 125°C is worst case). There are four versions, with ±2% fixed outputs of 3.0, 3.3, 3.6 or ...

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Glasgow transistor improves margins in DRAM

“More than 50% reduction of the statistical variability compared to bulk mosfets with identical dimensions”, is the claim of Glasgow-based Semiwise for its ‘flat field transistor’, which “is complemented by 30% performance increase and 5% reduction of the manufacturing costs compared to the equivalent bulk CMOS technology transistors.” The company is aiming its flat field ...

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Innoscience 140W GaN-on-Si power suppky

Innoscience Technology, the eight year-old GaN-on-Si power specialist, has announced a  140W power supply that uses the company’s high- and low-voltage GaN HEMT devices to achieve efficiencies of over 95% (230VAC; 5V/28A). Measuring  60x60x22mm (2.4×2.4×0.9in) the PSU has a class-leading power density of 1.76W/cm3(29W/in3). “By using GaN switches for both the high- and low-voltage functions ...

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SpaceX offers OneWeb route back to satellite launches

OneWeb, the low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite communications company that is partially owned by the UK government, has entered into an agreement with SpaceX that will enable it to resume satellite launches. The first launch with SpaceX, the company founded by Elon Musk, is expected to be within the year. “We thank SpaceX for their ...

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Yamaichi tough connectors

The RJ45 series Y-Con from Yamaichi Electronics was developed for the toughest industrial applications and is a flexible, modular and expandable product line. It meets the requirements of protection ratings IP20, IP67, IP68 and IP69K, among others. Within the product line, the Y-Con Cover-40, which has been established for years, has now been replaced by ...

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PFC ICs with integrated 750V GaN switch

Power Integrations has announced the HiperPFSTM-5 family of power-factor-correction (PFC) ICs with an integrated 750 V PowiGaNTM gallium-nitride switch. With efficiency of up to 98.3 percent, the new ICs deliver up to 240 W without a heat sink and can achieve a power factor of better than 0.98. HiperPFS-5 ICs are suitable for high-power USB ...

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APEC: Fabless UK GaN company reveals easily-driven power transistors, with current sense

UK fab-less semiconductor company Cambridge GaN Devices has finally revealed its initial product range, at APEC in Houston. The company is using monolithic GaN integration, branded ‘ICeGaN’, to modify the gate behaviour of GaN power transistors, without using cascode-pairing,  to make them compatible with drivers made for traditional silicon mosfets. At the same time, it ...

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Design service supports increased video output applications

Video output is increasingly used in medical equipment and CCTV surveillance systems, as well as automotive, defence, marine and broadcast applications. Relec Electronics has announced a display design service to integrate video output using medium to large TFT displays. The service is intended to help developers fit a display into a thin form factor into systems ...

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APEC week: 3.3kV mosfet and Schottky

Microchip has unveiled a 3.3kV silicon carbide mosfet and mating Schottky diodes. MSC025SMA330 is the 25mΩ mosfet in a four-lead TO-247 package, and MSC090SDA330 is the 90A diode in a similar two-lead ‘T-Max’ package. Both are also available in die form. Further data on the mosfet is sadly not public at the moment, but the diode data ...

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Founder of AFBE-UK boosts EW BrightSparks selection panel

We’re very pleased to announce another addition to the EW BrightSparks judging panel with Dr. Ollie Folayan, the co-founder of AFBE-UK (Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers) and chair of its Scottish arm, agreeing to join us this year. The organisation promotes higher achievement in education and engineering, particularly among people from the black ...

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NXP and Hitachi collaborate on SIC power stage for vehicle traction inverters

NXP and Hitachi have co-designed a gate driver evaluation board for Hitachi’s 1.2kV RoadPak SiC mosfet half-bridges. The half-bridges are ~75 x 70mm and come in 580, 780 and 980A versions which are liquid-cooled – one side having a pin-fin array (just visible right) which has to be sealed into a water-glycol filled cooling manifold. Junction ...

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Softbank Vision Fund sells Cruise stake to GM

GM is buying the Softbank Vision Fund’s stake in Cruise for €2.1 billion. GM will also put another $1.35 billion into Cruise which had been pledged by Softbank. GM will end up with 80% of Cruise. GM bought Cruise in 2016 for a price thought to be between $500 million and $1 billion.. In 2018, ...

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Digi-Key to host Private LoRaWAN for IoT webinar

Digi-Key Electronics, along with Machinechat and Seeed Studio, will host a webinar on Private LoRaWAN projects, dubbed ‘How to build and deploy a private LoRaWAN IoT project within days’. Taking place on Thursday 31 March 31, at 11 a.m. (CST) it will be presented by Daryl Miller, head of solutions engineering for Machinechat. You can ...

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EiceDRIVERs upgraded

Infineon is sampling a new EiceDRIVER 2EDN product family. The  2EDN family is now able to drive the power switch device performance in applications such as servers, telecom, DC-DC converters, industrial SMPS, EV charging stations, motor control, low-speed light electric vehicles, power tools, LED lighting, and solar energy systems. The  family comprises robust dual-channel low-side ...

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MathWorks updates MATLAB and Simulink

MathWorks has released 2022a of the MATLAB and Simulink product families. Release 2022a (R2022a) offers hundreds of new and updated features and functions in MATLAB and Simulink along with five new products and 11 major updates. New capabilities in MATLAB include new apps and App Designer functions, graphics enhancements, and the ability to customize Live Editor tasks. Simulink updates enable users ...

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ESA suspends ExoMars mission due to Ukraine war

The European Space Agency (ESA) has announced it is suspending ongoing cooperation with the Russian state space corporation Roscosmos on the ExoMars rover mission, the second-half of which which was planned to launch this year. The joint ESA-Russian mission features the ExoMars rover, which was to be the first rover used to directly search for life ...

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Flex Power Modules adds to portfolio

Flex Power Modules has introduced a range of encapsulated, through-hole, 2 W DC/DC converters in the industry-standard SIP-7 format. The series includes nominal 12 V, 15 V and 24 V inputs and a selection of dual, unregulated outputs are available, suitable for asymmetrical positive and negative gate drive voltages for a wide variety of semiconductor ...

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Skyrora opens rocket engine testing facility in Midlothian

UK rocket company Skyrora is progressing its preparations for an orbital launch, announcing the opening of a new rocket engine testing facility in Midlothian, Scotland. The Edinburgh-headquartered space company describes it as a state of the art facility and the UK’s largest such engine testing facility. The site was commissioned and brought into service within ...

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PUF security updated

Intrinsic ID, the Physical Unclonable Function (PUF) security IP specialist,  has announced the newest release of its flagship hardware IP product, QuiddiKey.  The new release targets advanced process nodes. QuiddiKey 4.x provides additional security countermeasures, extended testability, and requires less non-volatile memory than previous versions. It is available immediately. “The need for trusted, transparent, and ...

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Some neural networks will always be unreliable

Some neural networks can exist, but cannot be trained to be reliable, according to mathematicians at the Universities of Cambridge and Oslo. “Many AI systems are unstable, and it’s becoming a major liability, especially as they are increasingly used in high-risk areas such as disease diagnosis or autonomous vehicles,” said Anders Hansen of Cambridge’s department ...

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APEC: TI reveals low-noise dc-dc converters and an

A low-noise dc-dc converter and a low-noise LDO are debuting on TI’s APEC stand, alongside an 11kW 800V GaN three phase inverter design. LMQ66430 is a 36V 3A buck converter that includes two input bypass capacitors and one boot capacitor and includes the company’s ‘dual random spread-spectrum’ jittering technique, “enabling engineers to easily meet CISPR 25 Class ...

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Germany paying $5.5bn for Intel fab

Germany is prepared to stump up over $5.5 billion in subsidies to secure the Magdeburg site for its $18.7 billion 2nm fab, reports Bloomberg. Intel’s plan is to start building the fab next year and have it on-stream in 2027. Whether or not additional funds are available from the EU is not known. The European ...

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UK network slicing trial completed

Vodafone and Ericsson have completed the UK’s first 5G standalone (SA) network slicing trial. Network slicing is a new service for business customers and application developers, enabled by the deployment of 5G Standalone (SA) networks. The service allows mobile operators to create multiple virtual network slices which operate across the same physical network. Each slice ...

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Viewpoint: How Bluetooth LE Audio can empower the hearing-loss community

David Hollander, of the Bluetooth SIG, considers how Bluetooth LE Audio enables those suffering from hearing loss to take advantage of the same benefits enjoyed by users of standard wireless headphones and earbuds. Over 5% of the world’s population are affected by hearing loss – by 2050, nearly 2.5 billion people are projected to have some ...

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QuadSAT drone performs antenna tests on 15m antenna

QuadSAT, a Danish startup that uses drones for the test and measurement of satellite antennas, has scaled up its ambitions: it reports successfully completing a measurement campaign of large antennas – measuring up to 15m – at the Kiruna Earth Station in Sweden. The company highlights that its the first time a drone-based system has been used ...

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Secured Cortex M4F MCUs run at 4μA/MHz

Sub-threshold IC company Ambiq has announced two low-power microcontrollers for IoT end-points, one with Bluetooth. They are Apollo4 Plus and Apollo4 Blue Plus, both with an Arm Cortex-M4 core (up to 192MHz, with floating point), up to 2Mbyte MRAM (4μA/MHz operation executing from MRAM, with cache) and up to 2.75Mbyte of SRAM. The ‘Blue’ version also has ...

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Tough automotive wirewound resistor for electric vehicles

Vishay Intertechnology has introduced an AEC-Q200 qualified charging resistor “that is the industry’s first such device to feature hybrid wire-wound technology in a standard package size”, it said. “Typically, designers must utilise several thick film resistors to meet the high pulse requirements of these applications.” The parts, called HRHA, can handle 6kJ for 300ms and operate ...

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GaN transistor with integrated driver for 45W chargers

GaN power IC maker Navitas has revealed an un-announced product in a photo of a Samsung phone charger, the NV6014 mains voltage power switch and driver. “NV6014 is a new device, fully-qualified and in mass production but not yet available to the broader customer base,” a spokeswoman for Navitas told Electronics Weekly. Details of the ...

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Intel to invest €80bn in Europe

Intel is to invest €80 billion in Europe over the next decade with a new fab site in Germany, an expansion to its Irish fab site, a possible packaging plant in Italy, an R&D centre in France and  additional space at its lab facilities  in Poland. The German fab site, at Magdeburg, will cost €17 ...

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$30bn for flash capex this year

Flash capex  is expected to rise 8% to $29.9 billion this year as producers prepare for 200+ layer devices, says IC Insights in its 1Q Update to the 2022 McClean Report.  Flash capex soared in 2017 when the industry transitioned to 3D NAND and has topped $2 billion every year since. Figure 1  $29.9 billion represents ...

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SiTime sampling Elite X Super-TCXO

SiTime is sampling the Elite X Super-TCXO for critical timing problems in  edge networks such as data centers, 5G front haul, connected cars and industrial IoT,  enabling the  delivery of new services. “Twenty-two million autonomous vehicles on the road by 2025, the rapid adoption of 5G, and the continued growth of data centers will require ...

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Bill Gates funding to boost Kymeta’s antenna manufacturing

Kymeta, a satellite communications company that specialises in flat panel antenna technology, has announced new funding of $84 million, which was led by Bill Gates and also involved South Korea’s Hanwha Systems. The investment will allow Kymeta to expand its manufacturing capacity, it said, to meet antenna demand. The company also said it will continue ...

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Self-setting crankshaft and camshaft sensors for hybrid vehicles

Allegro MicroSystems has released two automotive magnetic sensors, one for crankshafts and one for camshafts, both using the giant magnetoresistance (GMR) effect. Although both come in a simple three-pin single in-line package, they are sophisticated digital processing ICs, and system-in-packages as they also incorporate a bias magnet and EMC protection components. Crankshaft The ATS16951 crankshaft sensor ...

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Q4 Top Ten foundry sales grew 8.3% q-o-q

The Top Ten foundries had Q4 sales of $29.5 billion – up 8.3% q-o-q, reports TrendForce.   Constrained capacity and rising ASPs drove the increase. The 5 foundries account for nearly 90% of global market share. TSMC had 4Q revenue of $15.75 billion, a QoQ increase of 5.8%. Samsung had 4Q revenue of $5.54 billion, ...

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Shenzhen shuts down

Shenzhen, a city of 17.5 million people, has been locked down because of 66 Covid cases. The lockdown is expected to last a week. A city health official, Lin Hancheng, told a press conference: “If prevention and control is not strengthened in a timely and decisive manner, it could easily become large-scale community transmission.” The ...

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German effort to build quantum computer

Germany’s Federal. Ministry of Education and Research has allocated €76.3 million to building a quantum computer. 24 German research institutions and companies and the Fraunhofer Institute for Photonic Microsystems (IPMS) will  collaborate on the project, named QSolid, which will be coordinated by Forschungszentrum Jülich.  The first demonstrator is expected to go into operation in mid-2024.. ...

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UK government funding Rolls-Royce space power station

A Rolls-Royce space reactor programme is among 13 projects that will receive UK government funding totalling £2m, the UK Space Agency (UKSA) has announced. The project lead by Rolls-Royce – with £249,000 of funding – involves developing a power station, for use in space, that could power the generation of water, breathable oxygen and fuels ...

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IAR Systems supports 64bit RISC-V with Embedded Workbench

IAR Systems is supporting 64-bit Risc-V and the RV64I base instruction set with Embedded Workbench. ‘Embedded Workbench for Risc-V’ version 3.10 is a C/C++ compiler and debugger IDE with code quality analysis tools, supporting RV64 cores from Andes, Codasip, Microchip, Nuclei and SiFive. “64bit support is an important milestone for our investment in the RISC-V technology ...

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600V super-junctions in DFN8x8 for servers

Alpha and Omega Semiconductor is aiming at servers with a pair of 600V super-junction mosfets in 8 x 8 x 0.9mm DFN8x8 packaging, with a Kelvin source. AONV110A60 has 110mΩ on-resistance, and AONV140A60 has 140mΩ. “Years ago, we could hardly imagine high voltage DFN8x8 devices widely adopted for server systems above 400W. People used packages such as TO-220(F) ...

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Alphawave to buy OpenFive

Alphawave is buying the OpenFive business unit from SiFive Inc. (“SiFive”). All definitive agreements have been completed and the transaction is expected to close in H2 2022 pending customary regulatory approvals. OpenFive brings a high-speed connectivity SoC IP portfolio to Alphawave and a team based in India and Silicon Valley that has been delivering custom ...

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Lead times rising

IC lead times were 25.8 weeks in February, according to Susquehanna Financial Group. It is the longest lead time recorded in the past five years. February’s figure was a six day increase from November. “The rate of lead time expansion has been choppy, but picked up again in December,” says Susquehanna’s Chris Rolland, “lead times ...

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Tiny linear vibration motors

Nidec is claiming it has developed a series of linear vibration motors with the smallest-class diameters in the world. Smartphones and smartwatches are sometimes equipped with a vibration motor to vibrate in a certain pattern to notify users of an incoming message. The motor can also be used is to control vibrations to make users feel ...

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Slingshot Aerospace raises $25m Series A for space situational awareness

Slingshot Aerospace, a space simulation and analytics company has announced it raised $25m in Series A-1 funds, in addition to the $9.6m Series A funds previously raised in October 2020. The investment will be used to speed the commercialisation of its Slingshot Beacon product, said the company, which it describes as a “collision avoidance collaboration ...

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Boost for IPOSIM

The Infineon Power Simulation platform (IPOSIM) is offering an automated service that allows lifetime estimation of components according to usage and application requirements. IPOSIM is used for calculating losses and thermal behavior of power modules, discretes and disc devices. The platform provides  access to analysis for single working points and user-defined load profiles. For industrial ...

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MEMS electrostatic relay switches 25W across dc to 18GHz

  Menlo Micro has released another MEMS electro-mechanical relay, this time a single-pole four-throw (SP4T) dc-18GHz switch. MM5120 will handle 25W (150W pulsed), according to the company, though its 5.2 x 4.2mm LGA package. Insertion loss is typically <0.6dB at 12GHz. IP3 linearity is said to be >95dBm. Contact movement is though electrostatic attraction, with the necessary ...

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Large sky blue perovskite LED, perhaps for lighting

Large-area sky-blue perovskite LEDs have been created at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The precursor, a CsPb(Br0.84Cl0.16)3 solution using a custom solvent blend, was blade-coating onto a substrate where the substance crystallised into grains – halide amine additives controlled he growth of perovskite grains and passivate ...

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Government looking to facilitate digital identities

Following a public consultation, the government has announced it will introduce legislation to make digital identities as trusted and secure as official documents such as passports and driving licences. Digital identities, which are a virtual form of ID, reduce the time, effort and expense that sharing physical documents can take when people need to provide ...

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Guerrilla adds to UWB gain block portfolio

Guerrilla RF is sampling the GRF3012 and GRF3016 – two new ultra-UWB gain blocks targeting broadband applications like instrumentation, microwave backhaul, and general-purpose RF and microwave amplification. Each device covers multiple octaves, with frequency ranges extending from near-DC to up to 12GHz, and overall coverage extending across the HF, VHF, UHF, L, S, C and ...

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Lacuna’s IoT network to offer LoRaWAN direct-to-satellite connectivity

Lacuna Space has announced an agreement with Omnispace to collaborate on an IoT service that will use LoRaWAN to enable direct-to-satellite communications for a IoT devices, the companies have announced. The idea is for satellite coverage to fill connectivity gaps in hard-to-reach areas that are without cellular or Wi-Fi signals. It is planned for the service ...

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Shrunk AFE for Bioz Monitoring

ADI’s MAX30009 BioZ AFE  claims to reduce the size and extends the life of bioimpedance (BioZ) remote-patient monitoring (RPM) devices. For developers of small, battery-powered, continuously wearable devices, this AFE on a chip offers clinical-grade vital sign measurements of bioimpedance analysis for patient health assessment for wellness wearables and medical-grade patches. The device  monitors a ...

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Tesla acknowledges its cars require “constant monitoring”

Tesla has acknowledged that its ‘Full Self-Driving’ and Autopilot’ modes require the “constant monitoring and attention of the driver.” In a letter replying to concerns raised by US Senators Richard Blumenthal and Ed Markey, Tesla director Rohan Patel wrote that both FSD and Autopilot “require the constant monitoring and attention of the driver.”  Patel said ...

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Wearables have record Q4

The worldwide wearables market hit a new record high in Q4 as shipments reached 171 million units, up 10.8% from Q420, according to IDC. New products and continued demand for health and fitness tracking products along with hearables helped the market maintain its momentum. Shipments for the full year 2021 totaled 533.6 million units, an ...

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Hyperstone sampling SD and microSD card controllers

Hyperstone is sampling the S9 family of Secure Digital (SD) and microSD memory card controllers. The controller’s FlashXE ECC and hyReliability feature set guarantee extended endurance, data integrity and power fail safety coping with demanding applications in markets such as industrial automation, telecom, networking, and medical equipment. With the hyMap flash translation layer, the S9 ...

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NASA begins assembly of its Jupiter bound Europa Clipper

Destined for Jupiter’s icy moon Europa, NASA has begun assembly of the Europa Clipper spacecraft at its Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California. Engineering components and science instruments, from both the US and Europe, are expected to be assembled before the year’s end. The first science instrument to be completed, an ultraviolet spectrograph – one of ...

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BAE buys military specialist Bohemia Interactive Simulations

BAE Systems has completed the acquisition of Bohemia Interactive Simulations (BISim) in a deal valued at $200 million.   The Orlando, Florida-based company – a specialist in military simulation and training – will join BAE Systems as a wholly-owned subsidiary, joining the BAE Systems Intelligence & Security sector. The global market for military training and ...

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Semtech adds to Tri-Edge portfolio

Semtech is sampling additions to its Tri-Edge clock and data recovery (CDR) transmitter ICs for data centre long reach (LR) optical links. The GN2555 is a quad channel PAM4 CDR with integrated directly modulated laser (DML) drivers. The GN2556 is a quad channel PAM4 CDR with integrated externally modulated laser (EML) drivers. The GN2555 and ...

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Arduino’s professional machine learning vision building block

Arduino is aiming at professional machine vision and edge computing with an intelligent camera board that can run TinyML for artificial intelligence. Called Nicla Vision and measuring 23 x 23mm, it is intended to stand-alone, image processing on the edge. “The STM32H747AII6 at the heart of Nicla Vision supports image-processing through its dual processor, including ...

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AMD Ryzen Threadrippers now have 64 cores and 128 threads

AMD has announced workstation processors with up to 64 ‘Zen 3’ cores and 128 threads. All within the Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5000 WX series. there are five devices, from the top-end PRO 5995WX down to the 12 cores and 24 thread PRO 5945WX (see table). “Enterprise security features, manageability and scalability, higher frequencies and an enhanced ...

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12mm circular connectors are waterproof for tough Ethernet

CUI has introduced waterproof M12 sized circular connectors for 1Gbit Ethernet. The CDM12 family offers male or female versions with a choice of 3, 4, 5, 8 or 12 pins. The panel-mount A-coded connectors are IP67 rated once mated to deal with harsh industrial and factory automation environments. Operation is over -25 to 80°C. PCB pin, solder ...

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Tiny photo-relay for test and measurement

Omron is aiming at test and measurement with a miniature 200V 350mA mosfet opto-relay. In a 3.4 x 2.1mm P-SON (power small outline no lead) package and operating across -40 to +110°C, “this device can realise a current load of 75% higher than a comparable SOP4 type relay”, said the company, justifying this with the figure ...

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HDMI connector/cable assembly accelerates display response

Several HDMI standards are integrated in the Adam Tech high speed HDMI 2.1 connector/cable assembly, available from Omni Pro Electronics. The distributor is a New Yorker Electronics company. The assembly provides uncompressed 8K video with HDR, and support bandwidth speeds up to 48Gbps. In addition to support for 4K video, the assembly has eARC (enhanced audio ...

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Level 2+ and Level 3 automated driving for 2024 car production

Renesas has announced what hardware it thinks will be needed for Level 2+ and Level 3 automated driving – intended for cars (automobiles) sold in 2024 and onwards. “We expect to see ADAS adopted in all vehicle types, from mid-range to entry-level,” said company automotive v-p Naoki Yoshida.” In its Level 2+ and Level 3 ...

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GloFo sets up GF Photonics

 GlobalFoundries has set up a dedicated photonics unit called GF Photonics. GloFo is collaborating with Broadcom, Cisco Systems, Marvell, NVIDIA and photonics specialists Ayar Labs, Lightmatter, PsiQuantum, Ranovus and Xanadu, to deliver the advantages of photonics.  GloFo says it has active design wins with major customers, significant market share today and expects its growth in this segment to outpace the market.     GF ...

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January semi sales up 50.7% y-o-y

January semiconductor sales of €50.7 billion were up 26.8% on January 2021’s sales of $40 billion but 0.2% down on December sales of €50.9 billion, reports the SIA. “Following record sales and units shipped in 2021, global semiconductor sales remained strong at the beginning of 2022, reaching the second-highest-ever monthly total in January,” says SIA ...

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PCB sockets with right-angled design

Cliff Electronic manufactures PCB mount 4mm shrouded sockets which can mate with both safety shrouded and unshrouded plugs. The right-angled design reduces strain between the PCB and the lead, increasing reliability and product lifetime. The sockets are suitable for a  range of applications including automotive diagnostic, industrial, medical, music industry, instrumentation, education, and bench and hand-held electrical ...

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ADI invests €100m in Limerick

Analog Devices is to invest €100 million in a Europen research centre in Limerick, over three years. ADI Catalyst will be a 100,000ft2 custom-build its campus on the Raheen Business Park in Limerick. “ADI Catalyst is a state-of-the-art collaboration accelerator where ecosystems of customers, business partners and suppliers engage with ADI,” according to the company. “This ...

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GaN 650V power transistors for space, and a 100V GaN driver

Teledyne e2v HiRel is screening 650V 60A GaN power transistors to NASA Level 1 flow for space use, and has released a 100V high-speed GaN or silicon gate driver. The transistors (right) are both enhancement-mode, top-side-cooled GaN-on-silicon hemts. “The parts go through NASA Level 1 screening flow and can be brought up to full Level 1 conformance ...

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Sponsored Content: Tackle power first for best place-and-route results

Optimizing first for best power instead of best timing delivers better results all around. Among the key targets in place-and-route—performance, power, and area (PPA) — performance has traditionally been the primary focus. Low power has been gaining in importance though, particularly at today’s advanced process nodes. Of course, no one wants lower-performing chips, so place-and-route ...

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Luminous raises $105m

Four year-old Californian photonics start-up Luminous has raised a $105 million Series A. Bill Gates was among the investors which included Gigafund, 8090 Partners, Third Kind Venture Capital, Alumni Ventures Group and Strawberry Creek Ventures. Luminous got  $1 million pre-seed funding in 2018 and  $9m seed funding in 2019. The company employs 90 people and ...

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Imec develops UWB transmitter IC drawing 10mW and delivering 1.66Gb/s

Imec has developed a impulse-radio UWM transmitter IC measuring 0.155mm², with a power consumption of less than 10 milliwatt (mW), fabbed in 28nm CMOS. The chip can accommodate data transfer rates of 1.66Gb/s. This is 50 times the speed supported by today’s UWB standard The chip’s performance strengthens researchers’ belief that UWB is perfectly capable ...

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Self-drive cars double test mileage

Self-drive cars put in twice as many miles on Californian roads last year as in 2020 with 22 companies driving over four million miles last year, according to the California Department Of Motor Vehicles (DMV) which licenses driverless car tests on public roads. The DMV has licensed 50 companies but only 22 actually tested cars last ...

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Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, York Space win contracts for space network

The US Space Development Agency (SDA) has awarded three American companies contracts, worth up to $1,774 million, to produce a constellation of 126 LEO (low-Earth orbit) satellites, for a space-based mesh satellite communications network. Each will produce 42 satellites by 2024, operating in two near-polar low Earth orbital planes (21 space vehicles, or satellites, for ...

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Power grid sub-stations get their own secure gateway

Need to integrate existing Modbus, IEC 60870-5-101/104, or DNP3 TCP serial devices into an IEC 61850 MMS network? Maybe for a power grid sub-station? Then Moxa’s MGate 5119 secured gateway might be just what the doctor ordered, and it can be used as a master on all the former networks, to collect data and exchange it with an ...

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Ukraine invasion fallout blocks OneWeb satellite launches

OneWeb, the satellite company partly-owned by the UK government, is involved in a Ukraine-related row with the Russian-operated Baikonur spaceport, which has been used for launching its constellation. The board of OneWeb has decided to suspend all launches from the site (which is actually located in Kazakhstan) it has announced. The decision was taken in ...

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Graphcore adds WoW to IPU.

By moving its 7nm  IPU to TSMC’s Wafer-on-Wafer technology, Graphcore has increased its performance by up to 40% and its power efficiency by 16%, says the company. WoW stacks two flipped  wafers together, connects them through TSVs and bonds them  before dicing. Graphcore says this is the first commercial use of the technology. In the ...

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800Gbit/s optical demo by AMD and Ranovus

Aiming at data centres, Ranovus and AMD are demonstrating 800Gbit/s optical comms at OFC 2022. The optical interface and its fibres, emerging from under the aluminium block The optical module co-packages Xilinx Versal ACAP (adaptive compute acceleration platform) and Ranovus’ Odin 800Gbit/s ‘CPO 2.0′ module. Odin is a protocol agnostic optical engine build around Ranovus’ 100Gbit/s/λ ...

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Open standard for RISC-V verification is announced at DVCon

At this year’s (virtual) functional design and verification conference, DVCon US 2022, the RISC-V Verification Interface (RVVI) was announced by Imperas Software. The interface is available at github. The draft open standard defines “a number of interfaces required to bring together several of the subsystems required for RISC-V processor design verification”. Components based on the open ...

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Ice Lake-D on COM Express basic type 7

Kontron has adopted Intel Ice Lake-D processors for a COM Express basic type 7 computer-on-modules, and has an evaluation carrier board to go with them. Called COMe-bID7, they will be available with Xeon D-1700 processors scaling from 4 to 10 cores and accommodates up to 4x SO-DIMM sockets for a maximum of 128Gbyte of memory. ...

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Chiplet consortium to develop packaging standard

Intel, TSMC, Samsung, Qualcomm, ASE, AMD, Arm, Google Cloud, Microsoft and Meta are to pursue a die-to-die interconnect packaging standard  calked Universal Chiplet Interconnect Express (UCIe). Nvidia is not in the consortium, although the members say they are prepared to accept new members. The  UCIe standard is aimed at developing a die-to-die interconnect standard allowing chips ...

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1.5W and 3W non-encapsulated dc-dc converters

TDK-Lambda has extended its CCG series of dc-dc converters further downward with the introduction of 3W and 1.5W models – in 2015 there were 30W CCG converters, reaching 15W the next year. The two new types have a lot in common. Firstly, they share a 15.7 x 10.4 x 11.5mm plastic case, with through-hole or surface-mount ...

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Onsemi sells two fabs

onsemi has sold its South Portland, Maine fab to Diodes following the closure of its Oudenarde, Belgium fab last month. “The proposed divestitures show that we are well on our way to achieve an optimized manufacturing network while supporting our customers with long-term assurance of supply,” says CEO  Hassane El-Khoury, “the transactions provide employees at ...

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Ten steps to designing an SoC

Sondrel has come up with a ten step guide to designing an SoC. They are: Break the problem into stages using a divide and conquer methodology? As the level of detail increases at each stage, consider fewer options for exploratiion Focus resources as process progresses Avoid wasted simulation time Reduce data-set to be analysed Reduce ...

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$11.6bn invested in packaging last year

Last year, CapEx investments of about $11.6 billion were made in packaging  by the top players, reports Yole Developpement. Intel is the top investor, with $3.5 billion. Its 3D chip stacking technology – Foveros – consists of stacking a die on an active silicon interposer.  An embedded multi-die interconnect bridge is its 2.5D packaging solution, ...

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Siglent ups its AWG game

Siglent has introduced its most powerful arbitrary waveform and function generator. In the SDG7000A series, they are dual channel with either 350MHz, 500MHz or 1GHz bandwidth. The two independent channels can be combined to simulate interference on the main signal, or to generate modulated signals including FM, AM and PM as well as optional digital IQ ...

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Normally-closed e-relay is

Panasonic is to squeezed a single-pole normally-closed mosfet relay into a 1.95 x 1.8 x 0.8mm TSON package. An extension of the company’s CC series, “we are pretty certain that our 1FormB TSON type is currently matchless throughout the industry as far as size and current consumption are concerned”, said Panasonic’s Michael Renner. “With just an ...

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Thick resin 3D printing for tough end products

Barcelona-based 3D printer maker BCN3D has developed a process to build objects from highly viscous resins: “50x more viscous than the industry standard”, it claims, allowing chemists to formulate materials that print into tougher end-products – for example incorporating long chain oligomers or fillers such as fibres (even abrasive fibres) or elastomer particles. “Without a ...

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Framework simplifies specification model based on uvm

At DVCon US this week, Breker Verification Systems has announced SystemUVM, a framework which simplifies specification model composition for test content synthesis. It uses a universal verification methodology (uvm) /SystemVerilog syntactic and semantic approach to drive test content synthesis and uses AI planning algorithms for deep sequential bug hunting in existing uvm environments, said the ...

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