Electronic News: 4月 2023

2023年4月30日星期日

Russia agrees life extension for International Space Station

Russia’s space agency, Roscosmos, has confirmed it will support continued operations until the end of 2028 for the International Space Station (ISS). The United States, Japan, Canada, and the participating countries of the ESA (European Space Agency) had already intended to support operations through to 2030, but the commitment of Russia to extend its life, ...

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2023年4月28日星期五

Alphawave to suspend shares

Alphawave is to suspend its shares on the LSE from next Tuesday after its shares fell 20% this morning following an admission that KPMG had delayed issuing its accounts. It is the second time the company has delayed issuing its accounts, the first time was last April. The company has a market cap of around ...

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DSL selects inaugural winner of Design Academy 2023 STEM competition

Datasound Laboratories Ltd (DSL) has announced the winner of its inaugural Design Academy 2023 award, a competition run in local schools and colleges to identify young engineering excellence, promote STEM and encourage a new generation of design engineers. The Letchworth-based electronic design consultancy selected Jemima Hewitt, of St Francis’ College, as the winner. She was ...

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2023年4月27日星期四

PCIM: 1.2kV half-bridge driver ICs

Infineon Technologies is aiming at 1,200V 10kW loads with a family of half-bridge gate drivers for IGBTs and silicon carbide mosfets. Called the 2ED132xS12x family, they are ruggedised by protection against negative voltage transient, shoot-through and automatic (±5%) over-current shut-down, and have under-voltage lock-out. Over-current detection to output shut-down, can be as short at 1μs. ...

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Experimental process makes much of a wind turbine blade recyclable

Wind turbine blades can be recycled, at least partially, accoriding to researchers at Aarhus University in Denmark. The chemical process disassembles epoxy composite, releasing intact glass fibres and extracting one of the chemical component of the resin. Both are as good as new materials, according to the university, which added that the process could also ...

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FD-SoI FPGAs get PCIe and LPDDR4 interfacing

Lattice Semiconductor is aiming at system control with a family of FPGAs that includes PCIe Gen 2 interfacing and embedded security. MachXO5T-NX, as they are called, are suited to “a set of control function designs for enterprise networking, machine vision and industrial IoT”, it said. They are built using the company’s FDSoI process (image right), ...

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2023年4月26日星期三

Space Foundation celebrates Symposium 2023, calls for Space as Critical Infrastructure

The Space Symposium 2023, which has completed in Colorado Springs, featured a celebration of the Webb Space Telescope and the progress of the Orion spacecraft and Artemis program, along with calls for for the U.S. government to declare space as a critical infrastructure. Rich Cooper, VP of Strategic Communications at Space Foundation, which runs the ...

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Zoom camera suits drones, underwater vehicles and mobile robots

Sony has put a 30x zoom into its latest block-style camera. Measuring 50 x 60 x 90mm, FCB-EV9520L is built around the company’s 2Mpixel Starvis 2 1/2.8in colour image sensor. It supports 1080p (HD) 60Hz and can have a 64° horizontal viewing angle. Interfacing is over LVDS. “Thanks to the cell structure employed, this camera ...

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5W from a 1in square dc-dc converter

Recom puts a 5W isolated dc-dc converter with a 9 – 36V input range into a 1 x 1inch plastic package – actually 25.4 x 25.4 x 10mm. REC5K-2405SAW/H4, as it will be known, provides a regulated 5V output, at 1A with 18 – 36V inputs – the ‘AW’ in the part number announces this ...

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Picocom and iCana to deliver 5G Open RAN Small Cell radio unit reference platform.

Picocom, the 5G Open RAN baseband semiconductor and software specialist, and iCana, a fabless semiconductor RF component supplier for the wireless telecommunications infrastructure market, are to jointly develop a 5G Open RAN Small Cell radio unit reference platform. The 5G NR FR1 small cell RU reference designs will enable customers to bring their products to ...

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Elkhart Lake CPU in scratch-resistant touch screen industrial panel PC

Impulse Embedded is to stock Axiomtek fan-less multi-touch panel PCs with Intel’s Elkhart Lake Celeron J6412 processor – a 10W quad core 2GHz processor with 2.6GHz boost and 1,920 x 1,080 HD resolution. “These industrial quality devices are perfect for digital signage, self-service, point-of-sale systems and light factory automation,” said Impulse. There is a choice ...

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More on: Q5D’s CNC automated wiring loom cell, which adds connectors and 3D prints

Yesterday, Q5D revealed the five-axis automated wire harness fabrication cell that it will be manufacturing for sale, which can also terminate wires into connectors and 3D print structures in engineering polymers. Electronics weekly contacted the Bristol, UK, company to find out more. Called CY1000, it “automatically and securely adds components, connections and conductors into products ...

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2023年4月25日星期二

Leonardo delivers first MFA ECRS Mk2 radar for UK Typhoon integration

Leonardo has delivered the first ECRS (European Common Radar System) Mk2 radar for the UK Typhoon fleet to BAE Systems for integration. The ECRS Mk2 features a multi-functional array (MFA) that can perform both traditional radar functions such as search and targeting, as well as additional electronic warfare tasks. It is designed that the Eurofighter ...

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Pressure sensors aimed at medical ventilators

Superior Sensor Technology has introduced pressure sensors for medical ventilators, with over-sampling to expanded dynamic range. Called the VN series, they “incorporate an over-sampling technique to effectively eliminate noise outside the band of interest.”, according to the company. The over-sampling “also allows mechanical ventilators to directly use sensor outputs at full speed” and eliminates the ...

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Analogue IP blocks are pre-wrapped in digital logic to ease integration

Cambridgeshire-based IC design intellectual property company Agile Analog has created a range of analogue peripheral blocks that are already wrapped in digital logic to connect them to a standard on-chip bus, such as AMBA APB. The aim is to “reduce the effort required to integrate multiple analogue IPs into any asic by allowing the IP ...

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Wire harness machine for additive manufacturing

Q5D, a manufacturer of wire harness automation equipment for additive manufacturing, has launched its first product, the CY1000. “Almost all wiring harnesses in this $200B+ market are made by hand at present. With the demand for wiring driven by electrification, the internet of things, and net zero, automation is the only way to keep ...

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Call for research papers for DVCon Europe’s 10th anniversary

The Design and Verification Conference & Exhibition Europe (DVCon Europe) is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year. The event will be held in Munich (14 and 15 November, followed by a SystemC Evolution day on 16 November). This year, the event will include a research track and authors from universities and research institutes are invited to ...

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Weebit raises another $15m

Weeebit Nano, the ReRAM specialist, has raised about $15 million via an upsized and scaled-back share purchase plan (SPP) to existing shareholders. The SPP enabled eligible shareholders to apply for up to $30,000 worth of new fully paid ordinary shares in Weebit Nano (New Shares) at $5.00 per New Share. It followed a $45 million ...

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2023年4月24日星期一

UK Space Agency launches Space Sector Skills Survey 2023

The UK Space Agency (UKSA) has commissioned a Space Sector Skills Survey for 2023. It is intended to be the primary source of evidence for the UK Government’s understanding of skills gaps and workforce challenges in the space sector. The survey opened yesterday – at survey.spaceskills.org – and runs until 2nd June 2023. It is ...

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Oriental motors introduces vector control for small dc brushless motors

Oriental Motors has introduced sinewave drive vector controllers for its 30 and 50W brushless dc motors, improving speed tracking, reducing audible noise, increasing peak torque (15% for 30W types and 20% for 50W) and adding functions compared with the earlier BLH series of squarewave controllers. The new controllers are called BLH2D (right in photo right). ...

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Ros 2 robotics software now on iWave single-board computers running Ubuntu 20.04

The robotics software ROS 2, on Ubuntu 20.04, is now available on iWave’s 100 x 72mm Pico-ITX single-board computers with i.MX 8QM, i.MX 8M Plus and i.MX 8M Mini application processors. ROS is a software run-time and communication protocol, intended to allow complex software to be designed without specific hardware knowledge. Also available on Windows and ...

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UK Space Agency finds funds for international space partnerships

The UK Space Agency (UKSA) has launched a £20 million International Bilateral Fund (IBF) aiming to support new UK space capabilities and build international space partnerships. It is also hoped the fund – which is described as the UKSA’s first dedicated fund focused on the UK’s relationships with strategically important international partners – will catalyse ...

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2023年4月21日星期五

King’s Award for unlimited-length circuit board company

Trackwise Designs has won a Innovation King’s Award for Enterprise for its IHT unlimited-length multi-layer flexible PCBs. IHT – improved harness technology – PCBs can replace wiring looms in the harsh environments found in automotive, aerospace and industrial applications, and can also be made small enough to replace microwires in medical applications such as catheters, ...

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Viewpoint: British Integrated Design Companies – My personal experience

Ash Madni takes a personal look at some of the British companies that have shown an impressive ability to survive in tough economic conditions and still carve out a niche in the IC Design market. In the modern world of post British companies such as GEC, Plessey, Ferranti, STL, few can boast a history of ...

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2023年4月20日星期四

Marvell demo-es 3nm interconnect ICs

Marvell has demo-ed silicon interconnects produced on TSMC’s 3nm process. Marvell’s 3nm silicon building blocks include 112G XSR SerDes Long Reach SerDes, PCIe Gen 6 / CXL 3.0 SerDes, and a 240 Tbps parallel die-to-die interconnect. These technologies also support all semiconductor packaging options from standard and low-cost RDL (Redistribution Layers) to silicon-based high-density interconnect. ...

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IR LEDs and phototransistors in 1.6 x 0.8mm packages

Rohm is to put short wavelength infra-red LEDs and photo diodes in 1.6 x 0.8mm (1608) packages for material detection in portable, wearable and hearable devices. “As SWIR is used to detect the presence of substances and their constituent components by taking advantage of characteristics of water, ice, gases or glucose that absorb specific wavelengths, ...

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10A 650V SiC Schottky/p-n diode with 15nC total charge

Nexperia has introduced a 10A 650V silicon carbide (SiC) industrial Schottky diode in a 2pin through-hole TO-220 plastic package. Called PSC1065K, the company is not making its full data sheet public – the data brief reveals 15nC total capacitive charge (Vr=400V, 200A/μs, Tj=150°C), but not forward voltage. It is one of the company’s ‘merged PiN ...

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TSMC sees softening demand

TSMC’s Q1 profit of $6.8 billion was up 2.1% y-o-y but 30% down on Q4. Revenue was $16.72 billion. Both gross margin of 56.3% and operating margin of 45.5% beat expectations. For Q2 revenue is forecast to be between $15.2 billion and $16 billion. Gross margin is estimated between 52% and 54%, and operating margin ...

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Photothermal resonance for micro-actuators?

Researchers in Japan have exploited resonance to get large amplitude motion from rod-like microcrystals, in a way that could be useful in soft robotics according to Waseda University. Using UV light, they set out to bend a particular type of 2,4-dinitroanisole crystals – chosen because of their large thermal expansion coefficient. The UV wavelength selected ...

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GloFo sues IBM over IP transfers

Globalfoundries is suing IBM for allegedly sharing GloFo’s IP with Rapidus and Intel. GloFo says that it collaborated with IBM on process development in Albany for many years and acquired the exclusive right to that technology in 2015 when IBM paid GloFo $1.5 billion to take over the ownership of IBM’s fabs. IBM has been ...

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2023年4月19日星期三

Pickering adds to battery simulator modules

Pickering Interfaces of Clacton-on-sea has announced the latest version in its 41/43-752A range of battery simulator modules. Suitable for EV battery stack emulation in BMS test applications, the 41/43-752A-111’s increased voltage isolation (now 1000V) will be essential as the EV industry shifts from 400V to 800V architectures. Targeting EV (electric vehicle), electric aircraft and other ...

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EdgeQ raises $75m

Today EdgeQ completed a $75 million Series B funding round. Led by Phaistos Investment Fund, the Series B round includes new investors from nearly all continents, as well as existing backers from previous rounds. The Series B makes EdgeQ the most well-funded 5G+AI chip startup focusing on wireless infrastructure, claims the company. EdgeQ will use ...

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3 axis automotive gyro and accelerometer for ASIL B driving

STMicroelectronics has introduced automotive-qualified MEMS six-axis inertial-sensing module. ASM330LHB, as it will be known, contains a 3-axis accelerometer and 3-axis gyroscope, and is AEC-Q100 qualified. Used in pairs for fail-safe redundancy, with dedicated companion software, it can be used in functional-safety applications up to ASIL B. “Developed in accordance with the automotive functional-safety standard ISO ...

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Shhh… gearboxes are quiet for NEMA 17 motors

Nanotec has created low-noise planetary gearboxes for brushless DC and stepper motors with NEMA 17 flanges (42mm, 1.7in). “With the GP42-N series,” according to the company, “the helical toothing allows the teeth to mesh gradually, which results in a smoother transmission of forces so that vibrations and noise are reduced.” The use of plastic planetary ...

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House of Lords studies AI in warfare

Tomorrow, the House of Lords Artificial Intelligence in Weapons Systems Committee will hold its third public evidence session on the current state of artificial intelligence in weapons, and how it will impact warfare. The Committee will hear from: Dr Kenneth Payne, Professor of strategy at King’s College London Dr Keith Dear, director of artificial intelligence ...

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EDA models for 2mm pitch high-rel connectors

Nicomatic has contracted SnapEDA to provide CAD models for two-row versions of Nicomatic’s CMM 220 and 320 micro connector series – a total of over eight million variants. “Options range from 4 to 60 for signal contacts and 4 to 54 for coaxial or power contacts with locking or racking fixings,” according to SnapEDA. “To ...

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Asahi Kasei developing fast response current sensing tech

Asahi Kasei Microdevices (AKM) is developing a new ultra-fast response current sensing technology. This technology is suitable for high frequency applications and will allow for smaller, more efficient electrical systems. AKM will demonstrate the new technology for the first time from 9-11 May at PCIM Europe. Utilising this technology substantially increases the switching frequency of ...

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2023年4月18日星期二

12V automotive load switches for ISO26262 functional safety

Infineon has introduced automotive high-side power switches for safety-critical circuits. ‘Load Guard 12V’ dual and single-channel are available with nominal current carrying of 2 or 3A, making four devices in total. Without the host MCU getting involved, a pad is provided (OCT in diagram right) for an RC network that can modify the level and ...

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RDS adds multi-colour e-Paper displays

Review Display Systems is stocking monochrome and multi-colour e-Paper dot matrix displays from Holitech Technology. Spanning 1.54 to 31.2in, the displays are reflective and bi-stable, requiring energy to change the image, but no power to hold the image. Built on a plastic substrate, the displays are more rugged than glass in the face of “extreme ...

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Automotive interior lighting association tops 50 members

Five more members have joined the likes of NXP, Microchip and Renesas in the ISELED Alliance, which overlooks a system of multi-colour addressable automotive LED tape lighting, built around ICs from Inova Semiconductors. The new companies are: Blue Whale (MCUs), Lextar (automotive lighting), Liteon (LEDs), Technica (communication test and validation), Asteelflash (electronic manufacturing) and YTMicro ...

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2023年4月17日星期一

Mouser e-book on cable tech for high-speed designs

Mouser has brought out a new eBook in collaboration with Samtec, exploring the challenges of high-speed designs and the new cable technologies emerging to address them. In Samtec Flyover Solutions Break Next-Gen System Architecture Constraints, a range of Samtec thought leaders offer insights into how recent technology breakthroughs have enabled advances in electronics designs. The eBook’s ...

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3D point cloud sensor uses lidar and mems scanning

Pepperl+Fuchs has combined laser pulse ranging and piezoelectric 2D scanning to create 3D point clouds. Adopting mems scanner technology from the Fraunhofer Institute for Silicon Technology (Fraunhofer ISIT), the proof-of-concept, dubbed R3000, sweeps a 40° x 30° cone at ranges “from a few centimetres to several hundred meters with millimetre accuracy,” according to P+F. “Ambient ...

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Inductive wireless bio-sensor for glucose or lactose

Researchers at Waseda University in Tokyo have created an inductively-coupled passive sensor that can detect tear glucose and blood lactate levels with high sensitivity. The sensor is a resistor loaded with either the enzyme glucose oxidase or lactate oxidase (GOD or LOD in diagram right). This is made part of a passive LCR resonant tank ...

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ICULTA: Far ultra-violet LEDs from Sillanna

Silanna UV will be showing its recently-introduced UVC LEDs at the International Conference on UV LED Technologies & Applications (ICULTA) in Berlin next week. Its ‘short period superlattice’ (SPSL) die structure has repeating layers of AlN and GaN, and is designed to overcome the limitations of earlier structures. “Old-fashioned AlGaN-based far UVC LEDs in general ...

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Semtech adds to PerSe proximity sensors

Semtech has expanded its PerSe product portfolio with the release of a sensing human proximity sensor for smartphones. The PerSe Connect SX9376 enables designers to optimize RF performance, enhance connectivity and support elevated compliance with global specific absorption rate (SAR) standards for 5G-enabled consumer devices. PerSe sensors enable automatic adjustment of system level RF emissions allows ...

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2023年4月14日星期五

Don’t throw this battery away, eat it

Researchers at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT) have made an edible rechargeable battery from things already eaten by humans. Inspiration came from biological redox reactions that happen inside living beings, and for an energy source the team picked bio-materials with the highest and lowest redox reduction potentials: riboflavin for the anode and quercetin for ...

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Smart capsule monitors dose for radiotherapy

For monitoring X-ray does in patients undergoing radiotherapy for gastrointestinal cancer, a group of researcher have created a prototype swallowable dosimeter capsule that also measures gut pH and temperature. “The researchers found that the dosimeter was approximately five times more accurate than standard methods for dose determination,” according to the Chinese Academy of Sciences, whose ...

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2023年4月13日星期四

SWIR market waits for game-changers

The Short Wave Infra-Red (SWIR) market is expected to be worth $2.9 billion in 2028, says Yole Developpement. The SWIR ecosystem is waiting for game changers to enable cost reduction and mass manufacturing of SWIR technologies – quantum dots, organic photodiodes, germanium-based technologies – to deliver efficient and low-cost imaging systems. In 2022, SWIR imaging ...

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Panasonic enhances polymer hybrid capacitors

Panasonic has enhanced the performance specifications of its ZT and ZC series of electrolytic Polymer Hybrid Capacitors with the AEC-Q200 qualified ZTU series, with exceptional reliability and ruggeddness for any demanding application. “The ZTU series is setting new standards with its ripple current and capacitance specs and reliably guarantees circuit safety at one of ...

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Record semiconductor manufacturing equipment sales

Sales of semiconductor manufacturing equipment increased 5% from $102.6 billion in 2021 to an all-time record of $107.6 billion last year, says SEMI. For the third consecutive year, China remained the largest semiconductor equipment market in 2022 despite a 5% slowdown in the pace of investments in the region year over year, accounting for $28.3 ...

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RS open-sources environmental sensor kit hardware

RS has had its environmental sensor development kit (ESDK) certified by the Open-Source Hardware Association (OSHWA), which means the kit can now carry the OSHW logo. “The aims of the OSHWA are to foster technological knowledge and encourage research that is accessible, collaborative and respects user freedom,” according to RS. “OSHWA certification recognises that the ...

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Farnell launches The Innovation Experts

Farnell has launched an eBook called The Innovation Experts – Series 2: Industry 4.0 and the Future of Manufacturing. The eBook shares the views of global experts including Omega, Schneider Electric, Advantech, ABB, Red Lion Controls and Eaton on the advancement of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) and related technologies. The eBook provides insights ...

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2023年4月12日星期三

104Top/s edge AI MXM module has four Hailo-8 processors

Impulse Embedded is stocking a 104Top/s MXM embedded graphics accelerator module for AI processing. Called AI-MXM-H84A, it is made by Aetina and gets its computing power from four Hailo-8 processors from the Israeli manufacturer Hailo. MXM (mobile PCI Express module) was originally designed as an industry-standard socket for graphics processors in laptops. This one is ...

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Bluetooth LE SoC promises ‘multiple Arm Cortex-M33’ and RISC-V

Nordic Semiconductor has announced an SoCs for Bluetooth Low Energy, LE Audio, Bluetooth mesh, Thread and Matter with “multiple Arm Cortex-M33 processors, clocked up to 320MHz” and “multiple RISC-V coprocessors”, it said. Part of a forthcoming nRF54 series, the new IC, nRF54H20, will be fabricated on GlobalFoundries’ 22FDX process and “capable of supporting Bluetooth 5.4 ...

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Viewpoint: Problem traps – in the electronics world

Ash Madni considers hitting snags in electronics design – or what he calls “problem traps” – and shares some very experienced perspectives on how best to manage… So we’ve just started another exciting job in Analog IC design at a good company. We pat ourselves on the back and feel proud of ourselves until a ...

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Astrocast turns SatIot to EU-funded CiROCCO desert initiative

Astrocast, the nanosatellite IoT network operator, is participating in the EU-funded CiROCCO initiative, part of the wider Horizon Europe Programme. The CiROCCO research project aims to establish a low-cost and sustainable network of electronic sensing nodes in under-sampled desert areas and ecosystems in Egypt, Serbia and Spain. Sensing nodes It will collect data, through mobile ...

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2023年4月11日星期二

GaN-on-SiC behind 9-10GHz 200W pulse amplifier

Aimed at X-band radar, 1222 is a 200W 9 to 10GHz pulse amplifier from Empower RF Systems of California. Measuring ~178 x 102 x 25mm, it can deliver pulses up to 500μs long and duty cycles up to 20%. The devices can typically hit 250W with -6dBm at the input (200W is the minimum all ...

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Japan-USA-Europe fibre link takes the Northwest Passage

Route planning has started on the pan-Arctic submarine cable that could link Europe, North America and Asia via the Northwest Passage – the latter opening as formerly permanent ice yields to climate change. The idea of the project, dubbed Far North Fiber, is to terminate in Japan, Norway and Ireland, and have branches to Alaska, ...

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2023年4月10日星期一

Cloud development kit

Renesas’ cellular-to-cloud development kits now support Microsoft’s Azure cloud services. The two Cloud Kits – the CK-RA6M5 and CK-RX65N – enable users to connect and manage wireless IoT devices via the cloud. Both kits incorporate Renesas’ LTE CAT-M1 module, which wirelessly connects MCUs to cloud services without a gateway. The kits are equipped with Microsoft’s new ...

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Rapidus joins Imec Core Partner Programme

Rapidus has become a member of Imec’s Core Partner Programme. During a Belgian economic delegation to Japan in late 2022, imec and Rapidus had already signed a Memorandum of Collaboration (MoC). This agreement was supported by both the Government of Flanders and Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry (METI), and affirmed the partners’ commitment ...

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2023年4月9日星期日

February IC sales 4% down m-o-m

February semiconductor sales of $39.7 billion were 4% down January’s $41.3 billion and 20.7% down on the February 2022 total of $50 billion, reports the SIA. “Global semiconductor sales continued to slow in February, decreasing year-to-year and month-to-month for the sixth consecutive month,” says SIA CEO John Neuffer, “short-term market cyclicality and macroeconomic headwinds have ...

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Notebook shipments continue to decline

Q1 notebook shipments were down 13% QoQ and 39% YoY at 33.9 million units, says TrendForce. For Q2, TrendForce predicts an 11% QoQ increase but a 17.7% YoY decline, with shipments at 37.63 million. As interest in AI grows, high-performance gaming notebooks and models geared towards professional creators are gaining more attention. TrendForce predicts that ...

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2023年4月7日星期五

Samsung cuts memory production

Samsung has finally bowed to market pressure and says it has cut memory output by a ‘meaningful’ amount. Rivals Hynix and Micron have both slashed production. Samsung did not say whether it was reducing memory capex. Hynix has cut its capex by 50% and Micron by 30%. Samsung’s move follows a 96% fall in Q1 ...

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Digi-Key celebrates 50 years of electronics distribution

Digi-Key Electronics is celebrating the company’s 50th year in business, having started operations 3 April 1973. Digi-Key team members will be recognised and will commemorate the milestone during a week-long celebration and during company events throughout the year. “As we celebrate this milestone year, we want to thank our team members, customers, partners, suppliers and ...

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2023年4月6日星期四

Automotive LED drivers for instrument cluster backlights

Rohm has developed four and six channel automotive LED drivers for 5 – 10in+ backlights behind displays and instrument clusters. The parts (table below) include 20,000:1 PWM dimming and dc dimming in a way which “eliminates flickering when changing display brightness from low to high”, according to the company. Switching can be between 200kHz and ...

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Collaboration to replace analogue control with digital in GaN PSUs

Wise-integration of France and Powernet of Korea have teamed up to bring digital control to gallium nitride-based power supplies. They will “combine their technologies and products to deliver small and energy-efficient components for power-supply applications that are currently limited to analogue control”, according to Wise, which argues: “It is very difficult for power-supply manufacturers to ...

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2023年4月5日星期三

Bluetooth Market Update 2023 sizes market for Bluetooth comms

The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) has released its 2023 Bluetooth Market Update, covering latest market forecasts for the short-range wireless comms technology. The report includes the SIG’s first forecast for LE Audio, Auracast deployments, and the transition from Bluetooth Classic Audio to LE Audio. It also covers new markets, such as electronic shelf labels ...

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Get high mobility and high stability in display-grade TFTs

75.5cm2/V/s mobility and high stability are claimed for amorphous oxide semiconductor thin-film transistors created at the Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering (NIMTE). The bottom-gate transistor is built with a stack of two layers: Next to the oxide-insulated silicon gate is a charge transport layer (CTL) consists of indium-rich InSnZnO “featuring large average effective ...

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SES Satellites enters merger talks with Intelsat

Following market speculation, SES Satellites has confirmed the company is considering a merger with Intelsat. The Luxembourg-based satellite telecommunications provider issued a short statement saying ongoing talks were exploratory. The company writes: “In response to rumours in the market, SES S.A. confirms that the company has engaged in discussions regarding a possible combination with Intelsat. ...

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2023年4月4日星期二

Updated: Y-capacitance multiplier IC shrinks EMC inductors

At APEC in Florida, Texas Instruments introduced a family of ICs designed to shrink the size of EMC anti-emission common-mode filters in single and three-phase mains and automotive power converters. In principal, the ICs implement a capacitance multiplier circuit to emulate the Y-capacitors in a conventional passive filter design. They do while sitting amongst smaller ...

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Women in Electronics announced UK venue for inaugural European summit

The organisation, Women in Electronics, has announced the inaugural European summit which will be held on Thursday 20 April. Women in Electronics has held an annual conference in the US since 2016, including virtual conferences during the Covid pandemic years. Now, the organisation is holding its first European event which will be held in UK, ...

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80W 12V railway PSU operates from 14.4 to 154V

Autronic has created an 80W dc-dc power supply for on-board railway use, which produces 12V (adjustable) from supplies between 14.4 and 154V, covering “all international on-board voltages from 24V to 110V in a single device”, it said. Dubbed HFBC80-W/Ks, output voltage is adjustable, and devices can be connected in parallel for more current. Efficiency can ...

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EMI shielding gaskets are not restricted to rectangular profiles

Chomerics has announced an alternative to rectangular profile shielding and grounding gaskets for electronics applications up to 125°C. To be constructed from an electrically conductive nickel-plated copper polyester taffeta weave fabric wrapped around open-cell silicone foam, the profiles will be branded Soft-Shield 3800, and will be an extension of the rectangular profiles in the Soft-Shield ...

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Virgin Orbit goes bust

Virgin Orbit has filed for bankruptcy. The company has never made a profit since going public in 2021. Last January its first UK launch failed. Last werk it announced that 85% of its 750 employees would be laid off. Richard Branson put up $11 million to fund severance payments and $31.6 million towards finding a ...

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Renesas adds voice controlled MCU to RISC-V portfolio

Renesas has added to its RISC-V portfolio with an MCU for voice-controlled HMI systems based on the AndesCore D25F CPU core. The 32-bit ASSP is a production-ready voice-control system solution that eliminates the need for RISC-V tools and upfront software investment. Targeting residential and commercial building automation, home appliances, toys and healthcare devices, the new ...

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2023年4月3日星期一

Dry electrodes approach messy Gold Standard for hairy EEG

Researchers in Australia have used micromachined silicon pillars and graphene to make skin electrodes for EEG that are far less messy than the current scheme in medical use, which is wet silver – silver chloride electrodes, but are not far behind in performance. The self-imposed challenge was to be able to sense through hair – ...

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IDC wire-to-board connectors for automotive and transport

Kyocera AVX has added four and five position options to its 5.6mm tall 9176-700 series of insulation displacement wire-to-PCB connectors. The connectors are soldered to the PCB in a tall state then, to terminate, insulated wires are inserted and the top of the connector is permanently pushed down to its final height. All four or ...

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1Tbit flash from Kioxia and Western Digital

Scaling and wafer bonding in a cooperation between Kioxia and Western Digital have created a “218 layer 3D flash 1Tbit triple-level-cell and quad-level-cell with four planes, and features lateral shrink technology to increase bit density by over 50%,” according to Kioxia. Co-developed CBA (CMOS directly bonded to array) technology allows CMOS wafers and cell array ...

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Italy bans ChatGPT

Italy has banned ChatGPT. It follows bans by Russia, China, North Korea and Iran. The Italian data-protection authority said it was imposing an “immediate temporary limitation on the processing of Italian users’ data” . The authority said there were privacy concerns and said it would ban and investigate the chatbot and look at whether it complied ...

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2023年4月2日星期日

In-orbit satellite Moonlighter features in Hack-A-Sat 4 security challenge

The U.S. Air and Space Force has begun its Space Security Challenge: Hack-A-Sat 4 – a satellite hacking competition featuring the in-orbit satellite Moonlighter, which is described as a hacking sandbox in space. The annual event, which is run by the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), is offering the winner a cash prize of ...

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