2022年8月31日 星期三

Arm sues Qualcomm

Yesterday, Arm said it is suing Qualcomm for breach of contract. Arm’s lawsuit alleges that Arm-based designs by Apple spin-off Nuvia, which was bought  for $1.4 billion by Qualcomm in March, cannot be legally transferred to Qualcomm without permission from Arm. Arm says Nuvia’s Arm licences were terminated in March. Arm granted Nuvia a technology ...

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Cosworth and Ariel launch HIPERCAR

Cosworth and Ariel Motor Company, together with other key partners, have been developed an ultra high-performance electric road car known as HIPERCAR (High Performance Carbon Reduction). Following the completion of the APC (Advanced Propulsion Centre) government-funded programme HIPERCAR 2, the companies will be debuting the prototype vehicle at the Cenex-LCV2022 event in UTAC Millbrook from ...

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NAND set for rocky Q3

Despite slow consumer demand,NAND contract pricing increased by approximately 3-8% in 2Q22 due to Kioxia’s contamination incident, says TrendForce. However enterprise SSD purchasing has maintained strong momentum, offsetting sluggish consumer demand.  In 2Q22, supplier bit shipments decreased by 1.3% QoQ, while ASP increased by 2.3%.  Overall NAND Flash industry revenue reached US$18.12 billion, growing 1.1% ...

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Elektra 2022 University Research award launches – Cast your vote!

The University Research category for the Elektra Awards 2022 is launching, sponsored by Panasonic – with the awards in their twentieth year – and we are looking to readers to express their choice and help determine the winner. You are invited to select the university research project from the last year that you feel will ...

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Drone trials seek to improve Antarctic surveying and wild-fire spotting in Lancashire

The project, Protecting Environments with UAV Swarms, also includes the British Antarctic Survey and Lancashire Fire and Rescue. Its vehicle is Windracers’ 10 metre wingspan twin-engine UAV, which can carry 100kg across 1,000km. “It incorporates a high-reliability autopilot system provided by Distributed Avionics,” said Windracers, and “the entire aircraft has been developed using a zero-single-point-of-failure ...

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Win PiMassive

element14 has opened submissions for a chance to win PiMassive, a larger-than-life replica Raspberry Pi, which can be displayed as wall art. Applicants are encouraged to be creative in their application and express why they would like to own this unique prize.  PiMassive was created by Wesley Gardner for the element14 PiCasso Design Challenge, and ...

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2.5A industrial photo-coupler gate driver has automatic fault recovery

Toshiba has introduced a smart gate drive photo-coupler with automatic recovery from some fault conditions. Capable of driving ±2.5A into an IGBT or mosfet gate, it is called TLP5222, and is a partner to the TLP5212 announced earlier this month, which needs a signal on the primary side to initiate recovery from fault conditions. “TLP5222 ...

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Pouch-style supercapacitors reinforce batteries

Kyocera AVX has introduced a series of pouch-style supercapacitors for decreasing current surges in batteries. Called the SCP Series and branded PrizmaCap, they “can be used on their own as system power backup devices, replacing batteries in some cases, or they can be used in conjunction with primary or secondary batteries”, according to distributor Anglia, ...

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Renesas buys Steradian Semiconductors

Renesas is buying Steradian Semiconductors, a fabless semiconductor company based in Bengaluru, India, specialising in 4D imaging radar. The acquisition of Steradian’s radar technology will enable Renesas to extend its reach in the radar market and boost its automotive and industrial sensing solution offerings. With the advancements of ADAS in the automotive market, automotive sensor ...

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2022年8月30日 星期二

Structured air thermal insulation tape for extreme environments

Blueshift’s thermal insulation tape for extreme temperature environments, is being stocked by Digi-Key Electronics. The online distributor has announced it now sells a selection of RockeTape, which it describes as “a one-of-a-kind structured air thermal insulation tape for the world’s hottest and coolest spots”. This is through its Fulfilled by Digi-Key programme. The aerogel tape ...

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Crypto-Quantique selected for Intel Pathfinder

Crypto Quantique, a specialist in quantum-driven cyber security for the IoT, announces that the company’s QDID silicon IP block has been selected for the recently announced Intel Pathfinder for RISC-V integrated development environment. Intel Pathfinder enables RISC-V cores and other IP to be evaluated in FPGAs and simulator programs before committing to the final silicon design ...

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Micro-power voltage window detector for functional safety

Rohm is aiming at automotive and industrial equipment requiring functional safety with a 40V window voltage detector and reset IC. Called BD48HW0G-C, its supply pin is allowed up to 42V abs max, as are the two (40mA abs max) open-drain output pins. The inputs can handle a maximum of 7V – and maximum junction temperature ...

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CUI announces through-hole signal relays

The Relays Group of CUI Devices has introduced a line of signal relays for for low-level current switching in industrial, security, test and measurement applications. The will switch up to 2A or 3A in SPDT (1 Form C) or DPDT (2 Form C) form. The gold-silver overlay contacts are rated at 120/125Vac or 24/30Vdc at ...

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Dell, Nvidia, VMWare launch integrated datacentre AI platform

Dell, Nvidia and VMWare have launched an integrated hw/sw product for data centres. It combines Dell PowerEdge servers built on Nvidia GPUs and DPUs with VMWare’s vSphere 8 enterprise software. Billed as “a comprehensive, cloud-native suite of AI and data analytics software”, Nvidia AI Enterprise is optimised to enable organisations to use AI on familiar ...

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Renesas aims 750V and 1.2kV IGBTs at electric vehicle inverters

Renesas is aiming its next generation of IGBTs at electric vehicle inverters, and is making them on 300mm wafers. Behind them it its new ‘AE5’ process. “The silicon based process achieves a 10% reduction in power losses compared to the current-generation AE4 products,” said Renesas, “In addition, the new products are approximately 10% smaller while ...

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650V SiC mosfets get better Rds(on) and Qg

Toshiba is claiming better improved on-resistance and gate charge for its third generation of industrial 650V enhancement-mode silicon carbide mosfets. The “third generation SiC process optimises the cell structures used in second-generation devices,” according to the company. “As a result, the product of Rds(on) and Qg, that represents both static and dynamic losses, has improved ...

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Honda and LG to build EV battery plant in Ohio

Honda and LG Are to build a jv EV battery plant in Ohio, reports the Nikkei. Construction is due to start next year with  mass production in 2025. It will be Honda’s first EV battery plant. LG also has battery manufacturing jvs with GM and Stellantis. It is the second biggest EV battery maker after ...

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EC will not appeal against decision to quash fine on Qualcomm

The EC will not appeal against the EU General Court’s  decision to quash an antitrust fine of €997 million imposed on Qualcomm, reports Reuters. The EC had alleged that Qualcomm paid Apple to exclusively use its cellular chip-sets. In June, the General Court stated: “A number of procedural irregularities affected Qualcomm’s rights of defence and ...

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ST introduces fast-starting high-side power switch

ST has introduced a fast-starting high-side power switch for use in safety systems that require minimal power-on delay time. The IPS1025HF responds to turn-on and turn-off signals in less than 60µs even considering the Vcc power-on and off, enabling protective systems to ensure a specified safety-integrity level (SIL). Featuring a very wide input-voltage range from ...

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2022年8月29日 星期一

Folding phones to take 1.1% of 2022 market

Folding mobile phones will represent 1.1% of the market in 2022, says TrendForce. Folding phones have been launched by Samsung, Xiaomi, and Motorola. TrendForce divides them into three classes:  into easy to carry, vertical flip-top folding, and horizontal folding. An inward fold requires an extra secondary screen and the outward fold  is lighter in weight ...

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Britishvolt CEO resigns

UK EV battery startup Britishvolt had announced the resignation of co-founder and CEO Orral Nadjari. A previous co-founder, Britishvolt chairman  Lars Carlstrom, resigned in 2020 after it was found he had a tax fraud conviction in Sweden. Deputy CEO Graham Hoare will become acting CEO. Britishvolt has just been granted £100 million by the governments ...

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Anaphite raises £4.1m

Bristol-based Anaphite, which is developing technology for EV batteries using graphene, has raised £4.1 million. The company is creating patent-pending self-assembly technology to develop graphene-enhanced cathodes and novel coating methods for EV batteries, in particular Li-ion batteries. Investors in the latest round were Blue Wire Capital, OION, Zero Carbon Capital, Silicon Roundabout Ventures and Deeptech ...

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Semtech sampling CopperEdge 400G/800G data centre interconnects

Semtech is sampling its CopperEdge product portfolio for use in next generation 400G (4x100G) and 800G (8x100G) data center interconnects using copper cable and backplane interconnects. The CopperEdge GN8112 is a quad channel 112Gbps PAM4 linear equalizer and is the first product sampling in the portfolio. As next generation data center interconnects transition to 112Gbps ...

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2022年8月28日 星期日

M12 panel mount connectors with L-coding and dip solder contacts

Binder has announced the new 823-series M12 panel mount connectors with L-coding and dip solder contacts. According to the industrial circular connector specialist, the 823-series products are suitable for hand soldering, wave soldering, and reflow soldering on printed circuit boards (PCBs) in automation applications that are typically subject to installation restrictions. There, they can serve ...

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2022年8月26日 星期五

Schaffner adds to IEC range

Schaffner has added the C14/C20 IEC dual locking power connector to its IEC range offering a way to prevent accidental disconnection in data-centres, PDUs, servers, industrial equipment, medical devices, audio/broadcast and other critical power systems. The C14/C20 IEC dual locking connector was designed to enhance Schaffner’s locking connector functionality with two locking mechanisms incorporated into ...

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Menlo Micro adds SP4T switches

Menlo Micro has announced the formal qualification and production release of its MM5120 single-pole/four-throw (SP4T) DC-to-18 GHz switch and MM5140 DC-to-6 GHz SP4T switch. The two switches are for RF switching applications, 5G network infrastructure, and test and measurement equipment. MM5120 and MM5140 SP4T switches offer 25W power handling, ultra-low insertion loss and highlinearity, significantly ...

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Astrobotic’s CubeRover wins Nasa backing to survive harsh lunar nights

Astrobotic, a lunar logistics company based in Pittsburgh, has won financial backing from Nasa to develop its CubeRover platform. Specifically, it has been selected by NASA’s Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Sequential Phase II program to develop, test, and fly “lunar night survival and communication technologies” on CubeRover. This will culminate in a commercial flight ...

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2022年8月25日 星期四

850mA output automotive switcher IC does not need heatsink

Power Integrations has announced a high-current member of its LinkSwitch-TN2Q automotive switcher IC family which provides up to 850 mA of output current without the need for metal heatsinking. The ICs support a wide input voltage of 30 to 550 VDC, enabling the devices to start up and operate below the required Safety Extra Low Voltage (SELV) ...

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Imagination’s GPU and neural processor on Alibaba Risc-V AI chip

Alibaba Group’s T-Head chip design company has adopted Imagination Technologies B-Series GPU and Series3NX neural network accelerator for an artificial intelligence IoT SoC. The Hertfordshire company joined T-Head’s ‘Wujian platform alliance’ in 2019 . “Imagination has been collaborating with T-head to build a heterogeneous GPU-NPU architecture based on Xuantie C910,” said Imagination. Yesterday, Wujian 600 ...

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±20ppm 32kHz crystals as small as 2 x 1.2mm

Epson has introduced a ±20ppm (25°C, 12pF) 32.768kHz crystals in 2 x 1.2mm (FC2012AN) packaging. ESR is typically 35kΩ at 25°C. Operation is over -40 to +105°C, with ESR typically 50kΩ max -40 to +85°C in the smaller size, and 60kΩ max -40 to +105°C. Consumption is 319nA in a given situation, compared to 395nA ...

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Culture Won – an insider’s view of how Arm changed the tech industry

“Culture eats strategy for breakfast,” said the business guru Peter Drucker, and Keith Clarke, a former Arm VP and 25 year Arm veteran, endorses Drucker’s view in his book ‘Culture Won’. There was, of course, a bit more to it. If Arm ever adopted a motto it would be: “I can do better than that” ...

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Flosfia looking to mass produce Ga2O3 PMICs

Flosfia, a Japanese spin-off from Kyoto University, backed by Mitsubishi, Denso and the Development Bank of Japan, is about to move into mass production of gallium oxide-based PMICs, reports the Nikkei. Flosfia claims these gallium oxide devices reduce  power loss by 70% compared with current devices, and can reduce EV power consumption by 10%. Flosfia ...

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Infineon adds to SiC wafer suppliers

Infineon and II-VI have signed a multi-year supply agreement for SiC wafers. The  first deliveries have already taken place. Infineon’s CoolSiC ICs are used in photovoltaic converters and industrial power supplies.  SiC power semiconductors are used in the main inverters for e-vehicle drive trains, in onboard battery charging units and in charging infrastructures. II-VI and ...

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2022年8月24日 星期三

ESA signs up for more space on smarter European roads

The European Space Agency (ESA) is looking to extend the use of space-related technology along European roads. It has has finalised a Memorandum of Intent with ERTICO, the organisation for the European Road Transport Telematics Implementation Coordination, a public-private partnership for the development of intelligent road systems. Specifically, the ESA’s Navigation Directorate finalised the agreement ...

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Elastomer engineering finally gets deep images from skin patch ultrasound

Engineers at MIT have found a way to get sub-mm resolution and deep penetration from a stick-on ultrasound patch that can be worn for at least two days and peels off at the end of monitoring without leaving residue. In a proof-of-concept, they demonstrated sub-mm resolution images in the first centimetres of tissue, allowing blood ...

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Intel finds new way to finance fabs

Yesterday Intel and Brookfield Asset Management of Canada said they have developed “a new funding model the capital-intensive semiconductor industry.” The companies will pay for the two fabs previously announced by Intel in Chandler, Arizona on a 51-49% basis with Intel taking the 51% share plus operating control. “Our agreement with Brookfield is a first ...

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Three years of double digit capex increases

Semiconductor capex is on pace To rise 21%  to a fecord $185.5 billion this year, says IC Insights, which will mean that 2020-2022 will be the first 3-year period of double-digit capex growth since 1993-1995. Figure 1 Wafer fab utilization rates at many integrated device manufacturers (IDMs) remained well above 90% through the first half of this ...

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OKdo to make and distribute ROCK SBCs and SoMs

OKdo, part of RS, is to manufacture and distribute ROCK SBCs and ROCK System on Modules (SoMs). ROCK SBCs are designed to enable professional engineers, developers, and students worldwide to create products by making use of versatile hardware with a flexible design service model. Its small form factor provides many features as standard to enable users ...

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Second stage engine test moves Skyrora towards UK launch

Edinburgh-based rocket company Skyrora has successfully completed a static fire test of the second stage of its flagship Skyrora XL orbital rocket. Discover Space UK, at the Machrihanish Airbase on the Kintyre peninsula, hosted the integrated stage test, and it moves Skyrora closer to entering commercial operations. The company says an inaugural orbital launch is ...

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EW BrightSparks 2022 profile: Jack Tufft

Now in its fifth year of awards, EW BrightSparks sees Electronics Weekly partner with RS Grass Roots to highlight the brightest and most talented young engineers in the UK today. Here, in our series on the latest EW BrightSparks of 2022, we highlight Jack Tufft, a Mechanical Engineering MEng student at the University of Glasgow. Achievement ...

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2022年8月23日 星期二

Battery-free multi-turn absolute position encoding for machine control

Oriental Motor of Japan is offering stepper motors with battery-free multi-turn absolute position encoding that can ride through power-loss. The encoder, dubbed ‘mechanical absolute encoder’, combines mechanical gearing and magnetic sensing to provide unambiguous position feedback to the motor controller up to 1,800 revolutions, and so is suited to absolute position indication in machines with ...

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Untether AI moves to floating point for SpeedAI architecture

At this week’s HotChips 2022, UntetherAI has announced its second generation at-memory architecture to accelerate AI interference. SpeedAI (codenamed Boqueria) improves efficiency by up to 100x, compared to the company’s first generation architecture (runAI200) and has 80 times more throughput to accelerate neural networking. The second generation architecture also quadruples performance achieving 2Petaflops with a ...

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Fujitsu and Riken hook up to build quantum computer

Fujitsu and Riken have set up a quantum computer development centre in Wako city in Saitama prefecture to jointly develop quantum computers with government financial assistance. The companies intend to make a 64-qubit quantum computer available to organisations doing research work by April 2024, reports the Nikkei. So far, the world’s largest quantum computer is ...

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Chip industry to grow 13.9% this year and 4.6% next year says WSTS

The semiconductor industry is expected to grow 4.6% next year after 13.9% growth this year and 26.2% growth last year, says WSTS. WSTS forecasts industry revenues of $633 billion this year. Most major categories are expected to see high teens y-o-y growth in 2022, led by Logic with 24.1% growth, Analogue with 21.9% growth, and ...

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EW BrightSparks 2022 profile: Amy Suddards

Now in its fifth year of awards, EW BrightSparks sees Electronics Weekly partner with RS Grass Roots to highlight the brightest and most talented young engineers in the UK today. Here, in our series on the latest EW BrightSparks of 2022, we highlight Amy Suddards, a PhD student in radio astronomy technologies at the University of ...

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Saelig launches compact power choke tester family

Saelig has introduced the ed-k DPG Power Choke Tester family – a series of  measurement instruments for inductive power components, using currents up to 4kA and pulse energy up to 7.7kJ. The DPG series uses a large-signal impulse measuring method to provide a complete inductance curve as a function of the current L(i), or as ...

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2022年8月22日 星期一

Exotic beam shaping speeds 3D laser patterning by 12x

Researchers at Heriot-Watt University have improved a fibre-bundle endoscope in a demonstrated of laser-enhanced chemical etching, and developed a way to significantly speed up such 3d patterning of silica blocks prior to etching similar structures. Polymer fibre endoscopes use a bundle of thousands of fibres, very carefully aligned at each end, to transmit an image ...

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Musk looking at Neuralink-Synchron tie-up

Elon Musk is looking at a tie-up between his brain implant unit Neuralink with the implant startup Synchron, reports Reuters. Synchron says it “has developed an endovascular brain computer interface that can access every corner of the brain using its natural highways, the blood vessels. Our breakthrough platform launches a new frontier for the treatment ...

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Andes, Green Hills developing ASIL-certified RISC-V based auto offering

Andes and Green Hills are to develop an integrated automotive compute offering for IC designers based on the AndesCore 25-Series RISC-V processor IP including the safety-certified µ-velOSity RTOS, the ASIL-certified MULTI development environment with advanced system-level debugging and analysis tools and C/C++ Optimizing Compilers, along with the Green Hills Probe for JTAG and trace target connections. The ...

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Digi-key expands product distribution capability

Digi-Key Electronics is expanding its product distribution capacity, with the opening of new facilities in Thief River Falls in Minnesota. The official ribbon cutting ceremony of its new centre is pictured above. This increases the company’s headquarters’ footprint by 2.2 million square feet, it highlights, for a combined total of more than 3 million square ...

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EW BrightSparks 2022 profile: Ana Reis

Now in its fifth year of awards, EW BrightSparks sees Electronics Weekly partner with RS Grass Roots to highlight the brightest and most talented young engineers in the UK today. Here, in our series on the latest EW BrightSparks of 2022, we highlight Ana Claudia Reis, a Software Engineering Manager at Imagination Technologies. Achievement Ana is ...

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2022年8月21日 星期日

Q2 notebooks take a hit

Q2  notebook PC volumes were down -15% y-o-y says Strategy Analytics, but volumes and ASPs are still better than they were before Covid. Lenovo barely under-performed the total market and remains the #1 Notebook PC vendor, as shipments (sell-in) fell to 12.8 million units in Q2 2022 (calendar year); this represented -17% decline from the 15.5 ...

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2022年8月19日 星期五

Nordic makes its first WiFi chip

Nordic Semiconductor has put out its first Wi-Fi chip –  the nRF7002 – a dual-band Wi-Fi 6 companion IC. Nordic now offers all three of the most popular wireless IoT technologies: Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and cellular IoT. The nRF7002 is a companion IC meaning  it is designed to provide seamless Wi-Fi connectivity and Wi-Fi-based locationing (SSID ...

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Farnell, NXP and Doulos webinar addresses Industry 4.0

Farnell, NXP and Doulos are partnering to provide a webinar entitled ‘Automation and Edge AI for Industry 4.0’. Scheduled to last one hour, the webinar will run on Wednesday 24 August at 10-11am (BST) for Asia and Europe (and 10-11am (PDT) for the Americas). It will be conducted by Rahul Dubey, an AI expert from ...

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EW BrightSparks 2022 profile: Jessica Reading

Now in its fifth year of awards, EW BrightSparks sees Electronics Weekly partner with RS Grass Roots to highlight the brightest and most talented young engineers in the UK today. Here, in our series on the latest EW BrightSparks of 2022, we highlight Jessica Reading, an Engineering Degree Apprentice at Siemens PLC. Achievement As the only ...

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2022年8月18日 星期四

Through-hole fuse holder made for reflow ovens

Schurter has introduced a through-hole fuse holder specifically designed to be compatible with reflow soldering. It is branding this as ‘THR’ for ‘through-hole reflow’. “Highly integrated electronic circuits are almost exclusively assembled with surfact-mount components and soldered in a reflow oven, however, it is sometimes necessary to include through-hole components on the circuit board,” according ...

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Polymer composite protect p-cap touchscreens

AMT’s Polym Touch is a polymer composite material placed over the top of a projected capacitive (p-cap) touchscreen to protect the substrate against impact. It is available through Review Display Systems (RDS). Thick glass cover lenses are specified in applications where health and safety regulations require the food industry as well as public information terminals ...

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Digi-Key, NI webinar – Automating NI DAQ hardware with Python

Using Python to Automate NI DAQ Hardware. This is the title of a data acquisition webinar Digi-Key will be hosting with NI. Free to attend, it takes place on Thursday, August 23, at 11 a.m., and will highlight the benefits of using NI hardware with Python. Specifically, during the webinar, Austin Stanton – a senior ...

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EW BrightSparks 2022 profile: Alberto Progida

Now in its fifth year of awards, EW BrightSparks sees Electronics Weekly partner with RS Grass Roots to highlight the brightest and most talented young engineers in the UK today. Here, in our series on the latest EW BrightSparks of 2022, we highlight Alberto Progida, a Mechanical Engineering Student at the University of Edinburgh. Achievement Endeavour ...

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140W AC/DC charger reference design

GaN Systems is shipping a turnkey 140W AC/DC charger reference design with USB PD3.1, Single Port Type-C Output. Compared to silicon-based chargers, this design is 40% lighter and 50% smaller, featuring an ultra-high-power density of 23W/in3. This design enhances GaN Systems’ portfolio (65W, 100W, 140W, 250W) of turnkey charger solutions for the consumer electronics market, enabling faster design cycles and ...

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2022年8月17日 星期三

400Gbps is driving SP router revenues

Service Provider (SP) Router and Switch market revenues are projected to approach $76 billion by 2026, says Dell’Oro Group, with the adoption of 400 Gbps routing technologies is expected to continue driving the overall market growth. The Cloud SP Segment is projected to grow faster than the Telco SP segment over the forecast period. 400 Gbps ...

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Small 1W and 2W isolated dc-dc converters

Würth Elektronik has added devices with continuous short-circuit protection to its MagI3C-FISM family of 1W or 2W isolated un-regulated dc-dc converters. “The entire product line is certified to the current UL standard UL62368-1, but the new modules offer even more safety. They cannot be destroyed by short circuits and can withstand their isolation voltage of ...

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Tesla share slips

Q2 sales of NEVs (including battery electric vehicles, plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, and fuel cell vehicles) reached 2.192 million units, 53.5% y-o-y, according to TrendForce. Sales of battery electric vehicles (BEV) reached 1.608 million units, 64.9% YoY, and sales of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV) were 580,000 units, 29% YoY. In BEV brand rankings, although ...

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Google rolls out Android 13

Google has begun rolling out Android 13, the newest version of the mobile OS, to its own Pixel devices. It will be available for devices from the likes of Samsung, Nokia, Motorola OnePlus, Oppo, Sony and Xiaomi “later this year”. According to Google, the main thrust of Android 13 is towards privacy and security, developer ...

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EW BrightSparks 2022 profile: Dr Ejay Nsugbe

Now in its fifth year of awards, EW BrightSparks sees Electronics Weekly partner with RS Grass Roots to highlight the brightest and most talented young engineers in the UK today. Here, in our series on the latest EW BrightSparks of 2022, we highlight Dr Ejay Nsugbe, the Founder and Chief Engineer at Nsugbe Research Labs. ...

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2022年8月16日 星期二

Consumer AR market tripled 2020-21 led by Nreal

The AR device market has so far been dominated by enterprise devices, says Strategy Analytics, has yet to reach the mainstream consumer market. But there are encouraging signs – the consumer AR device market tripled from 2020-21 with Nreal. taking an early lead  with a 75% share of consumer AR shipments in 2021. “Consumer shipments grew ...

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100MHz four channel scope has preset automotive tests

Micsig’s SATO1004 is a four-channel automotive oscilloscope with a comprehensive list of pre-set vehicle related tests. The instrument features 100MHz bandwidth, 1Gsample/s (in single channel mode), 32Mpoint memory and up to five hours of mobile use from its built-in battery, or continuous use from its 12V power adaptor. “SATO1004 is a professional vehicle testing tool ...

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wind and wave power platform completes tank testing

 Bombora Wave Power has completed indoor water tank testing of a floating energy platform that combines support for a wind turbine with wave energy harvesting. Evaluated at the University of Edinburgh’s FloWave facility, “the integrated platform was tested under a wide range of conditions, including extreme waves”, said Bombora head of loads and modelling Peter Arnold. ...

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Navitas adds SiC company to its GaN portfolio for electric vehicles, solar power and industrial

Californian GaN power IC maker Navitas Semiconductor has bought Virginia silicon carbide company GeneSiC Semiconductor. “Navitas GaN ICs are optimised for 400V electric vehicle systems, and GeneSiC technology is ideal for 800V electric vehicle systems,” according to Navitas. “Navitas GaN ICs serve residential solar, while GeneSiC has immediate revenue in higher power commercial solar and ...

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2022年8月15日 星期一

EDA market to have CAGR of 13.8% 2020-24

The global EDA software market, market size is estimated to grow from $8.1 billion to $13.6 billion from 2020 to 2024, with a CAGR  of 13.8%, according to TrendForce. At present, the EDA software market is oligopolistic, consisting of major players Synopsys, Cadence, and Siemens. According to TrendForce, Synopsys, Cadence, and Siemens account for 32%, ...

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EV startup Faraday Future looks to raise $600m

Faraday Future Intelligent Electric, the electric car startup, is aiming to raise $600 million to get its first car into production, reports Reuters. The company is hoping to get the car, designated the FF 91 (pictured) on the market in Q3 or Q4. Faraday is reported to have got $52 million in committed funds and ...

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Europe’s first software-defined satellite enters commercial service

The first European software-defined satellite capable of being completely reprogrammed while in space is now in commercial use. Eutelsat’s Ku band satellite, dubbed Quantum – which was launched on 30 July 2021 by an Ariane 5 from Europe’s spaceport in French Guiana – has begun its commercial operation (located at 48° East, covering EMEA to ...

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EW BrightSparks 2022 profile: Lee Millar

Now in its fifth year of awards, EW BrightSparks sees Electronics Weekly partner with RS Grass Roots to highlight the brightest and most talented young engineers in the UK today. Here, in our series on the latest EW BrightSparks of 2022, we highlight Lee Millar, a Senior Fellow at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN). ...

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Flash Memory Conference key points

This year is the 35th anniversary of the invention of flash by Fujio Masuoka (pictured) now a professor at Tohoku University and CTO of Unisantis Electronics. The key points from this year’s Flash Memory Conference were, according to TechInsights: Samsung spotlighted 4 areas of technological advancement driving the big data market; data movement, data storage, ...

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RS said to be facing takeover bid

RS may be about to get a £15 per share takeover bid, reports the Times. The identity of the supposed bidder is not disclosed. The bid would value RS at over £7 billion. At Friday’s close, the share price stood at £10.88 giving RS a market cap of £5.1 billion. The shares have risen 34% ...

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OneWeb, Intelsat partner for LEO and GEO inflight connectivity

OneWeb and Intelsat, the satellite comms companies, have agreed a global distribution partnership to offer airlines multi-orbit inflight connectivity. The agreement will see Intelsat distribute OneWeb’s low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite services to airlines worldwide together with Intelsat’s existing geo-stationary (GEO) satellite service. The companies – which expect the multi-orbit solution to be in service ...

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Corner placement antenna for GNSS designs

Antenova, the Hatfield manufacturer of antennas and RF antenna modules for M2M and the IoT, is adding to its range of miniature SMD antennas and modules for GNSS applications. The new antenna, Agosti, part number SR4G080, measures 9.0 x 5.8 x 1.7 mm and operates with exceptional efficiency in a reduced space on a corner of a PCB. ...

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EW BrightSparks 2022 profile: Callum Middleton

Now in its fifth year of awards, EW BrightSparks sees Electronics Weekly partner with RS Grass Roots to highlight the brightest and most talented young engineers in the UK today. Here, in our series on the latest EW BrightSparks of 2022, we highlight Callum Middleton, a Senior Packaging Materials Engineer at the CSA Catapult. Achievement Callum ...

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2022年8月14日 星期日

Photovoltaic optocoupler for space satellite applications

The CHD320’s minimum open voltage (VOC) of 10V, double that of a standard 5-volt device, means only one CHD320 is required to drive the gate of a high voltage power MOSFET. The photocoupler is housed in a ceramic package with either Metal or Ceramic lid sealing, measuring just 3.85 x 3.85 x 1.6mm, making it ...

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2022年8月12日 星期五

Siemens Digital joins RAMP

Siemens Digital Industries Software is to participate in the Rapid Assured Microelectronics Prototypes (RAMP) Phase II initiative. RAMP is a programme established by the US Department of Defense (DoD) to develop secure design and prototyping capabilities to demonstrate how the DoD can securely leverage state-of-the-art microelectronics technologies without depending on a closed-security architecture fabrication process ...

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EPC adds 100V 35A IC for 48V DC-DC conversion

EPC has introduced a 100 V, 35 A IC designed for 48 V DC-DC conversion used in high-density computing applications and in 48 V BLDC motor drives for e-mobility, robotics, and drones. The EPC23102 eGaN IC is capable of a maximum withstand voltage of 100 V, delivering up to 35 A load current, while capable ...

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Space Accelerator programme generates £9 million start-up investment

The UK Space Agency (UKSA) has reported on the impact of its Space Accelerator programme 2021/2022, which was launched in March 2021 as a business acceleration programme for “high-potential” entrepreneurs. In total, it awarded £360,000 to the Accelerator and it reports that this “catalysed” a total investment of £8.79 million from other grants and investors. ...

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EW BrightSparks 2022 profile: Arturas Matusevicius

Now in its fifth year of awards, EW BrightSparks sees Electronics Weekly partner with RS Grass Roots to highlight the brightest and most talented young engineers in the UK today. Here, in our series on the latest EW BrightSparks of 2022, we highlight Arturas Matusevicius, an MSc Electronic Power Engineering Student at the University of Northumbria ...

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Flipped optical vortices could boost fibre bandwidth

Researchers from Skoltech, the University of Iceland, and the University of Southampton have demonstrated the formation of an odd never-before-seen entity from the realm of quantum physics: a cluster of optical vortices with periodic charge flipping. Fundamental studies of optical vortices hold the promise of applications in optical microscopy, quantum cryptography, enhanced-bandwidth optical communication, analog computation, and optical tweezers tech. The research was ...

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2022年8月11日 星期四

Component supply problems to last into H1 2023

Extended lead times, geopolitical uncertainty, and elevated logistics and labor costs will remain problematic for the electronics industry into the first half of 2023, according to Supplyframe. Supplyframe forecasts that 52% of all electronic component lead time dimensions will decline or stabilize in Q3 – down from a Q2 forecast of 80%. Lead times of ceramic capacitors ...

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ASICs’ role in worker safety

Industry 4.0 technologies have transformed manufacturing processes but have added challenges to the business of ensuring worker safety which can be met by smart sensors and ASICs, says Richard Mount from Swindon Silicon Systems. By turning towards automation to complete many repetitive activities, Industry 4.0 processes drastically reduce opportunity for human error — frequently cited as ...

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u-blox XPLR-IoT-1 explorer kit from Digi-Key speeds prototyping

The XPLR-IoT-1 explorer kit from u-blox is a “ready-to-use development platform” for the IoT in a variety of use cases and applications. The evaluation system is being stocked exclusively by Digi-Key. The kit includes GNSS, cellular, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth technology, along with cloud communications services.  The idea is for an easy out-of-the-box and setup experience, ...

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2022年8月10日 星期三

EW BrightSparks 2022 profile: Janesh Luximan

Now in its fifth year of awards, EW BrightSparks sees Electronics Weekly partner with RS Grass Roots to highlight the brightest and most talented young engineers in the UK today. Here, in our series on the latest EW BrightSparks of 2022, we highlight Janesh Luximan, a BEng Biomedical Engineering student at King’s College London (KCL) university. ...

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40V automotive synchronous buck converter

Diodes has announced a 600mA automotive-compliant dc-dc converter that can run from 4.5 to 40V. Called AP64060Q, the parts include a 600mΩ high-side and a 300mΩ low-side mosfet – the latter making an external Schottky optional. Quiescent current is typically 90μA, according to the company. Two resistors are needed to set output voltage, and anywhere ...

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Five year life for perovskite solar cell, and a way to accelerate life testing

Princeton University is predicting five years, and maybe 30 years, of outdoor life from a Perovskite solar cell stack-up invented in its labs. The key is a 2D material barrier layer between the photon-absorbing perovskite layer and the hole transport layer. “While the idea of a 2D capping layer isn’t new, it is still considered ...

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US may ban export of GAA EDA to China

The US is about to impose a ban on the selling of EDA software for ICs based on gate all-around transistors, reports the Protocol web-site. US President Joe Biden is said to have OK’d the ban which is with the Office of Management and Budget while details are completed. Suppliers of the software include Cadence, Synopsys ...

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Oxylabs launches free web data scraping service

Oxylabs, the Lithuanian data gathering site providing public web data scraping solutions, has launched  “Project 4β” – dedicated to solving critical research questions and missions. Through “4β”, Oxylabs will supply the know-how, infrastructure and resources pro bono to academic institutions, researchers, and organizations. “Providing value to individuals and societies at large is at the core of Oxylabs’ ...

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Henkel and CITC to co-develop high-thermal die attach

Henkel and Chip Integration Technology Center (CITC) have agreed to collaborate on the development of high-thermal die attach solutions for RF and power electronics. Under the terms of the partnership, Henkel will supply commercialised and developmental pressureless sintering die attach formulations and CITC will provide testing and analysis of the materials within next- generation package ...

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2022年8月9日 星期二

Gradient doping improves triboelectric nano-generators

Graduated charge-confinement could be the key to much improved triboelectric nano-generators (TENGs), according to Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology in Korea, where that have fabricated working models. Triboelectric generators produce power through electrostatic induction when dissimilar insulating materials are brought together and parted (right, and far below). Two of the things that push back ...

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MCU adds EtherCAT and other time-sensitive Ethernet to industrial equipment

Renesas is aiming a set of microcontrollers at industrial equipment needing real-time Ethernet control. Dubbed RZ/N2L, the MCUs have an integrated time-sensitive networking (TSN) compliant three port Gigabit Ethernet switch and an EtherCAT slave controller. They support industrial network communication protocols including EtherCAT, Profinet RT, the new Profinet IRT, EtherNet/IP and OPC UA. “By using ...

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Royal United Services Institute urges blocking flow of microelectronics to Russia

Russia’s military capabilities could be permanently degraded by stopping the export to Russia of Western microelectronic components, says a report from the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI). RUSI looked at 27 Russian weapons systems used in Ukraine including  cruise missiles, communication systems and electronic warfare complexes and found 450 unique components made outside Russia. Most ...

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Record Q1 for Arm

As it gears up for its IPO which Softbank owner Masayoshi Son is vocal in promoting, Arm is delivering some strong financials. In Q1 Arm had record total revenues of $719 million, up 6% y-o-y. Royalty revenue was a record $453 million, up 22% y-o-y. This is the first time the quarterly royalty revenue has been ...

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UV-NIL extended to below 10nm

Researchers from Tokyo University have uncovered molecular properties that help fill nanometer-sized gaps in the nanopatterning mould for ultraviolet nanoimprint lithography. Ultraviolet nanoimprint lithography (UV-NIL) is a method of creating patterns at the nanoscale with widespread applications in optoelectronics, photonics, and biology due to its low cost and scalability. However, current UV-NIL resolution is limited ...

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Longsys completes IPO and ChiNext listing

Memory specialists Shenzhen Longsys Electronics has officially completed its IPO, being listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange (SZSE). A group of company executives and guests attended the ceremony at the exchange and rang its opening bell (pictured). In his speech, chairman and CEO Huabo Cai said that being listed on ChiNext was an important milestone ...

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2022年8月8日 星期一

EW BrightSparks 2022 profile: Oana Lazar

Now in its fifth year of awards, EW BrightSparks sees Electronics Weekly partner with RS Grass Roots to highlight the brightest and most talented young engineers in the UK today. Here, in our series on the latest EW BrightSparks of 2022, we highlight Oana Lazar, who was an MEng Electronic Engineering student at the University of ...

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Protonic gate sprintronics – a tool for low-power ‘electronics’ beyond CMOS?

Electric gate-controlled exchange-bias effect in van der Waals heterostructures has been has observed for the first time, according to RMIT University in Australia, which describes the effect as “a promising platform for future energy-efficient, beyond-CMOS electronics”. “To date, very limited electrically tunable exchange-bias effects have been experimentally demonstrated in some oxide multi-ferroic thin film systems”, ...

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The next 20 years of IC evolution

At the recent Imec Technology Forum in San Francisco, Imec CEO Luc Van den hove laid out a 20 year roadmap for the evolution if semiconductor technology. Dennard scaling is no longer enough. “This one-dimensional version of the roadmap may not be sufficient anymore for the future,” said Van den hove (pictured) “we will have to ...

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Curiosity completes a decade on Mars

Last week Curiosity completed a decade on Mars. It landed there, after a nine month journey, on August 5th 2012 – the landing is pictured below. Since then, Curiosity has driven nearly 29 kilometres and climbed 625 metres.  It has detected organic compounds, methane variability and honed in on the history of water on the ...

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In Conversation With: Jess Isquith of PICMG, on COM-HPC, COM Express and open specifications

At Embedded World 2022 in Nuremberg we took advantage of the show to interview Jess Isquith, President of PICMG. Talking points in the interview include Computer-on-Modules and carrier cards, the COM-HPC specification, bridging the gap with COM Express, and processor agnostic open specifications. Thank you to Jess for her time. See all our Embedded World ...

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MediaTek and UniSoc make gains in AP market

The global smartphone applications processor (AP) market grew 35% to $8.9 billion in Q1 2, says according to Strategy Analytics (SA). The report estimates that Qualcomm, MediaTek, Apple, Samsung LSI and Unisoc captured the top-five revenue share rankings in the AP market in Q1 2022. Qualcomm led the smartphone AP market with a 45% revenue ...

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EW BrightSparks 2022 profile: Sharon Kudenko

Now in its fifth year of awards, EW BrightSparks sees Electronics Weekly partner with RS Grass Roots to highlight the brightest and most talented young engineers in the UK today. Here, in our series on the latest EW BrightSparks of 2022, we highlight Sharon Kudenko, an MEng Electrical and Electronics Engineering student at the University of ...

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2022年8月5日 星期五

EW BrightSparks 2022 profile: David Kong

Now in its fifth year of awards, EW BrightSparks sees Electronics Weekly partner with RS Grass Roots to highlight the brightest and most talented young engineers in the UK today. Here, in our series on the latest EW BrightSparks of 2022, we highlight David Kong, an MEng Electronics and Electrical Engineering student at the University of ...

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2022年8月4日 星期四

Manu U and Qualcomm hook up

Qualcomm’s Snapdragon processor will create ‘unique events and experiences’ for Manchester United fans, according to Man U. This will come as a result of a global partnership between the club and the company. Victoria Timpson, CEO for Alliances and Partnerships at the club says:  “Snapdragon platforms will enable ground-breaking experiences for fans across the globe.” Qualcomm ...

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Trameto demo unit for EH PMICs

Trameto, a manufacturer of power management semiconductors for energy harvesting (EH PMICs), announces a demonstration platform that enables engineers to quickly evaluate how micro-energy harvesting can reduce or eliminate the use of batteries in IoT devices such as sensors and the wireless modules to which they may be connected. It is based on Trameto’s OptiJoule ...

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28mm SAM9 Arm system-on-module includes dram, flash and Ethernet

Microchip has expunged some of the tricky bits of system design with its ARM926EJ-S based SAM9X60 MPU, by introducing a system-on-module that pre-pairs the processor with 1Gbit of DDR2 dram, a 4Gbit of NAND flash and 1kbit of serial eeprom – on top of the chip’s own 64kbyte of internal sram. Actually built around a ...

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In Conversation With: Ansgar Hein of SGET, on COMs, standards evolution and miniaturisation…

At Embedded World 2022 in Nuremberg we took advantage of the show to interview Ansgar Hein, the Chairman of SGET. Talking points in the interview include the role of SGET, the main advantages of computer-on-modules (COMs), the evolution of standards and miniaturisation, and what the future holds. Thank you to Ansgar for his time. Read ...

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Memory supply bits grow faster than demand bits

DRAM market demand bit growth will  be 8.3% in 2023 – sub-10% for the first time in history – while supply-side bit growth will be approximately 14.1%, says TrendForce. NAND demand bits are expected to grow by 28.9%, while supply bits will grow by approximately 32.1%. In PCs, the  proportion of DDR4 and LPDDR4X will ...

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EW BrightSparks 2022 profile: Sarah Keane

Now in its fifth year of awards, EW BrightSparks sees Electronics Weekly partner with RS Grass Roots to highlight the brightest and most talented young engineers in the UK today. Here, in our series on the latest EW BrightSparks of 2022, we highlight Sarah Keane, a Field Applications Engineer at Analog Devices. Achievement During Sarah’s time ...

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2022年8月3日 星期三

Element14 launches gesture recognition challenge

element14 has launched the Experimenting with Gesture Sensors Design Challenge. Eight successful applicants who propose a project with the best use of gesture sensing technology will receive an evaluation kit by Maxim Integrated free of charge to experiment, test, or build a project. With gesture recognition control technology, sensors are used to read and interpret ...

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700V ac-dc ICs deliver down to 3.3V and up to 8W

Renesas has unveiled a family of 700V buck regulators that can deliver as little as 3.3V and as much as 8W from the mains. Depending on topology, which can include isolated fly-back or non-isolated buck, standby power can be below 20mW in the converters, which are numbered RAA2230xx. “The converters feature a unique constant-off-time control ...

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Cartwheel Galaxy

The James Webb telescope’s range of  imagers have cone up with this picture of the Cartwright Galaxy which is 500 million light years from earth:. The imagers used by the $10 billion telescope are: NIRCam (Near InfraRed Camera) an infrared imager from the edge of the visible through the near infrared NIRSpec (Near InfraRed Spectrograph) ...

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In Conversation With: Ina Schindler of MicroSys, on automotive processors, AI, component longevity…

At Embedded World 2022 in Nuremberg we took advantage of the show to interview Ina Schindler, the Managing Director of MicroSys. Talking points in the interview include automotive processors, the longevity of components, automotive processors, the use of AI and remaining supply chain issues. Thank you to Ina for her time. Read all our Embedded ...

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EW BrightSparks 2022 profile: Oliver Kanjoo-Parsons

Now in its fifth year of awards, EW BrightSparks sees Electronics Weekly partner with RS Grass Roots to highlight the brightest and most talented young engineers in the UK today. Here, in our series on the latest EW BrightSparks of 2022, we highlight Oliver Kanjoo-Parsons, an Aeronautical Engineering student (and the Student Team Director of Salford ...

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HYPPERAM 3.0 launched

Infineon’s HYPERRAM 3.0 is a high-bandwidth, low-pin count memory with a 16-bit extended version of the HyperBus interface that doubles throughput to 800 MBps. It is suitable for applications requiring expansion RAM memory, including video buffering, factory automation, Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT) and automotive vehicle-to-everything (V2X), as well as applications requiring scratch-pad memory for ...

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2022年8月2日 星期二

Easy-PC gets IPC-2581 export capability, and more

Easy-PC has acquired IPC-2581 export capability along with other improvements with the introduction of version 26, according to Number One Systems, which develops the PCB design tool. IPC-2581 is a standard for PCB manufacturing and assembly data transfer which goes beyond Gerber files and adds information such as stack-up, nets and components. “As IPC-2581 has ...

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Anglia goes PLC to increase global confidence

Anglia Components Ltd has become Anglia Components PLC – a closed PLC whose shares are not traded on the stock exchange. The change to PLC status, according to the company, subject it to more stringent and complex auditing and financial requirements, which it said will increase the confidence of global key customers and global suppliers. ...

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US may limit China NAND producers to 128-layers

The US is considering banning the export to China of chip manufacturing requirement needed to make NAND flash memories with more than 128 layers. The US has already decreed in the Chips Act that companies taking money under the Act cannot  make chips in China more advanced than 28nm for the next ten years – ...

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Huawei, Nokia, Ericsson to take 74.5% of 5G market this year

Huawei, Ericsson, and Nokia will account for 74.5% of the global base station market in 2022, says TrendForce. O-RAN is the answer to the political situation with Huawei and to the cost implications of having a quasi-monopoly of  only three end-to-end vendors. However O-RAN has more security issues then end-to-end suppliers. TrendForce believes, with the ...

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Semtech said to be buying Sierra Wireless

Semtech the Californian LoRa specialist, is reported by Bloomberg to be at a late stage in negotiations to buy Sierra Wireless, the Canadian IoT specialist. With LoRa becoming the accepted wireless technology for long range networking – up to 3 miles in urban areas and 10 in rural areas –  there is logic in combining ...

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