EU Embraces Free Public WiFi

Hard on the heels of last week’s news about San Francisco making 32 open spaces in the City free public WiFi zones, a joint statement from the European Parliament, the European Council and the European Commission says they will fund the EU’s WiFi4EU programme to instal free public Wi-Fi in public squares, piazzas, parks, hospitals ...

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The Value Of Celebrity

Loads of stuff about poor old Tiger. Except that he’s not really poor at all – he made $45.5 million last year. A bit less than his peak $100 million a year, but not too shabby. What’s surprising is that Tiger hasn’t won a major for nine years or any tournament for four years. Yet ...

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ams uses closed-loop sensing for tight LED light control

ams has introduced a power management IC for LED-based lamps and luminaires which uses closed-loop sensing to maintain more accurate correlated colour temperature (CCT) and lumen output. Following the AS7221 smart lighting manager introduced earlier this year, this new device, the AS7220, combines a precise calibrated-for-life colour sensor with an intelligent Cognitive Lighting Engine for standalone ...

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German firm uses graphene for high reliability energy storage

Skeleton Technologies, the German ultracapacitor manufacturer, has developed an energy storage system for adding power reliability in manufacturing plants, data centres, and covering starting and bridging power for diesel generators. Called SkelGrid, the system is based on the firm’s curved graphene ultracapacitor technology, which is designed to provide high power and energy density. Taavi Madiberk, ...

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Ten Best Countries

Thanks to US News and World Report for this one – the top ten countries based on 65 metrics delivering nine sub-rankings: Adventure, Citizenship, Cultural Influence, Entrepreneurship, Heritage, Movers, Open for Business, Power and Quality of Life.   Switzerland Canada Uk Germany Japan Sweden USA Australia France Norway

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Driverless guru jobless

The Catch-22 situation which Uber’s driverless car guru, Tony Levandowski,  found himself in, has been resolved. He’s been sacked. Apparently Levandowski preferred his Fifth Amendment protection to his continued employment at Uber. Levandowski pleaded the Fifth to accusations that he had stolen 14,000 files on driverless car technology from his previous employer Waymo, Google’s driverless ...

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Switch bounce, and the lack of it

A reward for much remedial gardening activity was am hour or two of workshop time, attempting to work out a personal ‘short push’ and ‘long push’ timings. Anyway, the push button concerned was a waterproof one from MEC in Denmark- as far as I can make out it is part of MEC’s 3C series (see ...

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3D NAND Delivers 2TB 2.5″ SSD

Western Digital says it will have consumer SSDs using 64-layer 3D NAND technology in Q3. The SSDs start at $100 and come in 250GB, 500GB, 1TB, and 2TB densities in a 2.5 inch/7mm form factor. They will also be available in an M.2 2280 form factor using a SATA interface. The new drives feature read ...

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Microchip adds high-quality graphics processing to PIC32

Microchip has added a high-resolution 2D graphics controller and 32Mbyte of SDRAM to its 32bit PIC32 microcontroller range. It is aimed developers of embedded products wanting high-quality images and animations on displays up to 12inch. Up to 24bit colour is available in multiple input and output formats – with a global colour palette look-up table ...

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Driverless car security in a safety-critical world

Operating self-driving cars in a single software environment exposes all software to any cyber attack surface. A more sensible solution is to use a hypervisor to host multiple virtual machines on one processor, writes Chris Barlow The security of automotive systems goes hand-in-hand with functional safety gas defined in ISO 26262. But cybersecurity presents a ...

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Why Ubuntu is good for robots

Mike Bell describes why an open source operating system was the best choice for RobotCheers design robots for the hospitality sector Until recently the penetration of advanced robotics into our everyday lives seemed like the stuff of science fiction. However, ever expanding computing power along with the continued development and cost-reduction of advanced mechanical systems ...

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Mystery surrounds BA outage

Mystery still surrounds the BA web-site outage with everyone asking why BA didn’t have a back-up system or a back-up system which worked. The BA explanation of a power surge knocking out the BA network has not answered the question of why it took so long to fix it. The unions point to the sacking ...

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FCC being stuffy on satellite comms frequencies

The Federal Communications Commission’s recently granted permission for the American Telephone and Telegraph Co to experiment with its communications satellite programme is more of a reprieve than an endorsement of the project. It is time-limited to expire on January 1 1962. So, 56 years ago, started a story in Electronics Weekly’s edition of February 1st ...

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Exceptional talent visa scheme takes off

A scheme to attract technologically talented immigrants has started to take off. 260 visas for exceptionally talented technologists were issued in the fiscal year to April 6th. The visas allow the holder to stay in the UK for five years and then apply to settle here if they want to. In the previous FY less ...

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eRamp power electronics project completed this week

The Infineon-led, 26-partner, EU-backed  eRamp power electronics project ends this week. “The eRamp results have created the prerequisites for keeping the production of power electronics in Europe competitive,” says project co-ordinator  Dr. Oliver Pyper, of Infineon, “power electronics guarantee an ever more efficient generation, transmission, and use of electric energy. And it is in this ...

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Flex Logix eFPGA cores enable 100k LUTs

Flex Logix, the eFPGA IP specialist, has completed design of its second-generation high-performance IP core for TSMC 16FF+ and 16FFC process Enabling embedded FPGA arrays greater than 100,000 LUTs. “Data centers require reconfigurable hardware protocols for networking, storage and security, and therefore switches, NICs and other networking chips need very high-performance reprogrammability,” says Geoff Tate, ...

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ARM launches first cores based on DynamIQ micro-architecture

ARM has brought out the first cores based on its DynamIQ micro-architecture and a new version of its Mali GPU core. The CPU cores, which use big.LITTLE and TrustZone technology, are designated Cortex A-75 and A-55. They have dedicated instructions for AI which are intended to boost AI performance by 50x in the next 3-5 ...

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Electro-optic switch sweeps refractive index by 60%

Researchers from North Carolina State University have discovered a technique for controlling red light with electric fields, with possible applications in photonics. It involves layers of thin material whose refractive index changes by up to 60%. “Unfortunately, it is very difficult to tune refractive index with electric fields,” said researcher Linyou Cao. “Previous techniques could ...

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Harvard commercial downlight makes up to 3,000 lm

The Integrated Downlight Module from Harvard Engineering has factory programmable output current and delivers up to 140 lm/w and 2,700-6,500K colour temperature and 80 or 90CRI options. It is designed to have a reflector and mounting hardware (eg, clips) underneath. Power is 120 – 277V (50-60Hz), with 1% dimming over DALI, wireless (Harvard EyeNut) or 1-10 ...

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Top 10 most popular articles on ElectronicsWeekly.com

With EnSilica, Applied and Intel all making the rankings, along with Android Things, workplace revenge, a new compo and the Raspberry Pi...

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The Intel-ARM power struggle

Almost a decade ago, back in 2008, ARM was battling Intel in the mobile processor space using its three advantages: as the incumbent mobile processor leader, as a licensor of cores rather than a supplier of  single-sourced chips, and as the power consumption leader. As the power consumption leader, ARM always though Intel would catch up one day, ...

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Using Arduino to programme an 8pin ATtiny

Maybe I am a little slow… As I did not realise that Arduino is a quick route to getting an 8pin microcontroller – an Atmel ATtiny – to do something useful. You don’t get all of the functions and performance of an ATtiny programmed in assembler, but you can do a lot with what you ...

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You can still listen to the solder inspection webinar by Goepel

The Webinar was broadcast live, but you can still listen to the recording of the information.

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Raspberry Pi at heart of global computing skills plan

The Raspberry Pi Foundation is joining forces with the CoderDojo Foundation, which runs a a global network of coding clubs for kids from seven to 17. This will create the largest global initiative to promote computing amongst young students. “We have set ourselves an ambitious goal: to quadruple the number of CoderDojos worldwide, to 5,000, by ...

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Red green and blue from a single pixel

Researchers at the University of Central Florida have developed a colour changing surface tunable through voltage. “We can make a red sub-pixel go to blue, for instance,” said researcher Debashis Chanda. “In other displays that is not possible because they need three static colour filters to show the full RGB colour. We don’t need that ...

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UltraSoC raises $6.4m

UltraSoC has raised a $6.4 million funding round to drive continued deployment of its technology for embedding intelligent analytics capabilities into every chip. New investors are: Atlante Tech, Enso Ventures, Oxford Capital and Guillaume d’Eyssautier, who join existing investors Octopus Ventures and South East Seed Fund (FSE Group). “Hard tech is back in favor with the ...

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Zuckerberg preaches connection.

Mark Zuckerberg told graduating Harvard students yesterday that they should help people find purpose. “Technology and automation are eliminating many jobs,” said Zuckerberg, “membership in communities is declining. Many people feel disconnected and depressed, and are trying to fill a void. We have a generational challenge — to not only create new jobs, but create ...

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BBK is second largest smartphone manufacturer

BBK Electronics of China is now the second largest smartphone manufacturer in the world with its two brands OPPO and VIVO. BBK shipped 56.7 million smartphones in Q1 with OPPO shipping 30.9 million and VIVO shipping 25.8 million, says Gartner. Samsung was the top vendor with 78.7 million phones shipped. Apple came in third with ...

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The Importance Of Free Public WiFi

Chewing on a lobster earlier this week with Bob Jones, Chairman of Publitek, it suddenly dawned how simple really great ideas are. Bob has just returned after three months in San Francisco and was telling me how the city is setting up public areas of free WiFi access all over the town.   If you go ...

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Mannerisms, Gadget Master, the Daily and the Weekly, in newsletter form

Too busy to keep checking our blogs and news section? Let the content come straight to you! Easily digestible newsletter emails straight to your inbox.

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Fable: The Man Who Kicked Off The Analogue Component Industry.

80 years ago this gentleman (pictured below) pioneered the use of high-gain dc amplifiers as computer components so enabling analogue computers. After WWII he set up a company making op amp circuits with vacuum tubes and later, when they became available, with germanium transistors. Many of the company’s engineers went on the pioneer the analogue ...

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Electronics patent of the month: Smart glasses reading dynamic price info

Featuring a wearable device that extracts information from the shelf-edge label in a supermerket and uses this to obtain the current price for that item from the store’s central server. Michael Jaeger, of UK patent and trade mark attorneys Withers & Rogers LLP, writes: GB Patent Number: GB2530769 Granted to: Asda Stores Limited There is a big ...

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Competition: A chance to win a JTAG Live Controller

One for Gadget Masters who are serious about testing issues, perhaps. Check out the latest competition on Electronics Weekly, giving you a chance to get your hands on a JTAG Live Controller.

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Artemis EMC2 platform in public domain

The  hardware demonstration platform developed by the EU’s Artemis EMC2 project has been placed in the public domain, says Sundance Multiprocessor Technology which architected and developed the platform. EMC² – Embedded Multicore systems for Mixed Criticality applications in dynamic and changeable real-time environments – is a €94 million project involving around 800 man-years of effort ...

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Auto chip market to grow 22% this year

The automotive IC market is expected to grow  22% this year to a new record high of $28 billion, says IC Insights. After increasing 11.5% in 2014, the automotive IC market declined 2.5% in 2015, but then rebounded with 10.8% growth in 2016. The sales decline experienced in 2015 was primarily the result of falling ...

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Samsung lays out foundry process roadmap

Samsung has made an aggressive pitch for new customers for its foundry business which was recently restructured as a separate business unit. “To successfully compete in today’s fast-paced business environment, our customers need a foundry partner with a comprehensive roadmap at the advanced process nodes to achieve their business goals and objectives,” said Samsung  foundry ...

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Finlay Cuffe wins award at International Science and Engineering Fair in LA.

Finlay Cuffe (pictured below), the 17 year-old Sutton Grammar schoolboy, won  Third Place at last week’s Intel-sponsored International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) in Los Angeles. Finlay and his colleague Shahab Fazal from Manchester’s Loreto Sixth Form College, were the only two students representing Great Britain at the competition, which saw 1,778 students from 78 ...

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Intel to give royalty-free licences to Thunderbolt

Next year Intel will offer its Thunderbolt interface technology as a royalty-free licence. The move is designed to get the manufacturers of peripheral devices to use Thunderbolt. Intel will put the port on its processors and Microsoft will support the interface on Windows PCs. Thunderbolt was originally planned as a photonics interface but, when copper ...

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Softbank said to have bought into Nvidia

Softbank is reported to have bought 4.9% of Nvidia’s shares for $4 billion. The purchase could either be by Softbank, adding to Softbank’s 130 billion of debt, or it could be by Softbank’s Vision Find which is said to have got $93 billion in pledged investment but it is not clear whether any investor has ...

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LabView re-vamp entices non-programmers

National Instruments has released a new generation of its engineering system design software, called LabView NXG. “For a long time we focused on making additional things possible with LabVIEW, rather than furthering the goal of helping engineers automate measurements quickly and easily,” said NI co-founder Jeff Kodosky. “Now we are squarely addressing this with the introduction of ...

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1U rack PSU delivers 5kW

TDK-Lambda has introduced a series of programmable single-output power supplies that can deliver 5kW from a 1U rack-mount unit. ‘Zero stack’ design means that they can be inserted in a rack with no space in between, and four of them can be paralleled to produce 20kW. “They could go higher, but customers are usually looking for ...

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Could Intel vs AMD Become Newsworthy Again?

Could the unthinkable happen and AMD get back to significant x86 market share? It’s never wise to bet against Intel in the x86 business – they’ve bounded out of apparently tight spots many times before. But an article by EnerTuition points out how vulnerable Intel is to a challenge in x86. An EnerTuition graphic states ...

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Brightsparks selection panel hails class of 2017

As part of the EW BrightSparks programme, we wanted to share with you the comments of the industry experts that made up our selection panel.

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The BrightSparks are the UK’s future

RS Components CEO Lindsley Ruth talks to Josh Brooks about the promise embodied in the 2017 BrightSparks cohort. Read more about the EW BrightSparks 2017 programme » What have you made of the young people who have come through the BrightSparks programme and who we have met today? It’s been an amazing experience and I’ve ...

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u-blox, NXP and Commsignia combine on V2X

u‑blox, Commsignia and NXP Are combining to pursue Vehicle‑to‑Vehicle (V2V) and Vehicle‑to‑Infrastructure (V2I) technology. The adoption of V2X (V2I and V2V) technology in North America and European markets equips new vehicles with the ability to share information with other similarly equipped vehicles, infrastructure and even pedestrians within a radius of up to 1km. IEEE 802.11p ...

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China chips looking chipper

In Q1 the output value of China’s IC design industry was $5.1 billion, says the China SIA, and the output value of China’s backend industry was $4.88 billion. The design output figure was 23.8% up on Q1 2016 The backend output value was up 11.2% on Q1 20162 The output value of China’s IC manufacturing ...

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Imec develops pre-bond tester for 3D chips

 Imec and wafer-probe specialist Cascade Microtech have developed  an automatic system for pre-bond testing of advanced 3D chips. Pre-bond testing is important to increase the yield of 3D stacked chips. The new system enables probing and hence testing of chips with large arrays of 40µm-pitch micro-bumps, on 300mm wafers.   As an emerging technology, 3D ...

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CEE VC funding soars

Central and Eastern Europe are beginning to see significant VC investment, according to Dealroom.co. In 2016, start-ups in the region raised €177 million – not much compared to Europe and Israel’s €4.5 billion of VC investment last year – but significantly up on 2012’s CEE VC investment of €15 million. A catalyst for CEE VC ...

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SEMI April billings up 49%

SEMI reports April billings of $2.17 billion – 4.6% higher than the March 2017 level of $2.08 billion, and 48.9% higher than the April 2016 billings level of $1.46 billion. “Semiconductor equipment billings levels exceed two billion dollars for the second month in a row,” says SEMI CEO Ajit Manocha, “solid market fundamentals, coupled with ...

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Top Ten (+1) Net Contributors To EU Budget

Thanks to the EC for this one – the top eleven (and only) net contributions paid to the EU between 2010 and 2014 in billions of Euros: Germany 60 France 36 UK 32 Italy 24 Netherlands 14 Sweden 9 Belgium 7 Austria 5 Denmark 4.7 Finland 3 Luxembourg 0.18

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Android Studio 3.0 supports Android Things for IoT

If you're serious about Android development, you'll want to keep up with the developments around Android Studio, Google's official IDE for Android app development.

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Picture of the Day: MIAMI-2 boosts UK National Ion Beam Centre

Check out this serious bit of research kit, MIAMI-2. The University of Huddersfield is announcing the completion of a £3.5 million research facility for the use of ion beams.

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On The Trail Of The Grail

CB Insights has been looking at the prospectors for the gold mine, or the Fools’ Gold, of the autonomous car aspiration, and has unearthed 44 companies on the trail of the Grail:

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Microlease offers Keysight, Rohde & Schwarz, Anritsu, Tek tools for aerospace

Microlease is packaging up selected sets of equipment and test gear for aerospace and defence customers. Called the Aerospace and Defence Tool Box, it supports a range of activities including producing, commissioning or repairing equipment such as radar, microwave communication, mobile radio, satellite testing and electronic security systems. The range of equipment available includes analysers, signal generators ...

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WVGA GaN microdisplay from Leti

French research lab Leti has created what it claims is the world’s first gallium nitride WVGA (873 x 500) microdisplay with 10μm pixel pitch. “10μm pixel pitch technology will help address the demand for augmented-reality glasses for consumer and professional users, head-up displays for vehicle drivers and for pico projectors,” said the lab. Said to ...

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GloFo and Chengdu to build FD-SOI centre of excellence

Globalfoundries and Chengdu town in China are putting $100 million into setting up an FD-SOI design centre. GloFo and Chengdu recently agreed to build a jv 300mm fab for 22nm FD-SOI (site pictured). They now  plan to establish multiple centers focused on IP development, IC design and incubating fabless companies in Chengdu, with the expectation of hiring ...

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Arrow extends IoT offering with Libelium low power nodes

Arrow Electronics is selling wireless and sensor design platforms for IoT applications from Libelium, a specialist in remote sensing applications including forestry, agriculture, environmental monitoring, smart manufacturing and traffic control. The hardware features extremely low power consumption. Individual sensor interfaces and radio modules can be turned off digitally to conserve energy and three different sleep modes enable the ...

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Driverless car study in Germany probes driver reaction times

A US-based artificial intelligence (AI) firm is working with researchers in Germany to apply conversational and cognitive AI for autonomous systems for self-driving cars. Nuance Communications and Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz (DFKI), the German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence have joint research initiatives, including the relationship between humans and in-car systems, as well as ...

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from Electronics Weekly https://www.electronicsweekly.com/market-sectors/automotive-electronics/driverless-car-study-germany-probes-driver-reaction-times-2017-05/

200MHz multi-instrument works with an iPad

Combining an oscilloscope, waveform generator and six other instruments, Moku:Lab comes from Australian firm Liquid Instruments. It has: Oscilloscope Waveform generator Spectrum analyser Phase meter Data logger Lock-in amplifier PID controller Bode analyser Control and display is through any iPad with a Retina display running the Moku:Lab app. “Moku:Lab app contains everything you need to manage ...

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from Electronics Weekly https://www.electronicsweekly.com/news/products/test-measurement-products/200mhz-multi-instrument-works-ipad-2017-05/

RS owner Electrocomponents posts strong revenue and profits growth

Electrocomponents, the parent company of distributor RS Components, has posted strong growth in both sales and profits in full-year results published this morning.

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from Electronics Weekly https://www.electronicsweekly.com/news/rs-owner-electrocomponents-posts-strong-revenue-profits-growth-2017-05/

ENISA lays out IoT security proposal

The EU Agency for Network and Information security – ENISA – together with ST, NXP and Infineon is proposing a similar system to the CE marking  system to show a  label if security is incorporated into electronic products. The paper focuses on four areas: standardisation and certification, security processes and services, security requirements and implementation, ...

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from Electronics Weekly https://www.electronicsweekly.com/news/business/enisa-lays-iot-security-proposal-2017-05/

Avnet signs Silego

Avnet and Silego have signed an exclusive global distribution channel agreement. Avnet will be Silego’s only global distributor, serving  as Silego’s sole demand creation distributor in the Americas and Europe and will bolster Silego’s current regional distributor network in Japan, Korea, Taiwan and China. Silego’s Configurable Mixed-signal ICs (CMICs), use nonvolatile memory to configure and integrate ...

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from Electronics Weekly https://www.electronicsweekly.com/news/business/avnet-signs-silego-2017-05/

Crocus licenses sensor IP to NXP

Crocus, the French TMR magnetic sensor and embedded MRAM specialist, has licensed magnetic TMR technology to NXP to help enable automotive applications like power steering and electronic throttle control. Crocus’ sensor technology will allow NXP to deliver greater sensitivity, performance, reduced power consumption and improved integration for its automotive applications. “As the industry steers towards ...

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from Electronics Weekly https://www.electronicsweekly.com/news/business/500577-2017-05/

LTC launches PoE interface controller

An IEEE 802.3bt Powered Device (PD) interface controller for applications requiring up to 71W of delivered power has been launched by Linear Tech. The new Power over Ethernet (PoE) standard – IEEE 802.3bt – increases the power budget to enable new applications and features, while supporting 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GBASE-T) and maintaining backward compatibility with ...

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from Electronics Weekly https://www.electronicsweekly.com/news/business/500554-2017-05/

Arrow signs Libelium

Arrow and Libelium, the wireless and sensor specialist, have signed a global distribution agreement. Libelium has been deploying  remote sensing systems in applications including forestry, agriculture, environmental monitoring, smart manufacturing and traffic control since 2006. The company’s Waspmote hardware architecture has been designed to function with low power consumption. Individual sensor interfaces and radio modules ...

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from Electronics Weekly https://www.electronicsweekly.com/news/business/libeliuam-signs-arrow-2017-05/

Computer Languages Use English

Two new computer languages have been announced recently. Both consist of simple English phrases that machines will automatically translate into their own language and then act on.   So, 57 years ago started a story in Electronics Weekly’s edition of September 14th 1960   The story continues:   Computer instructions are usually written in numerical ...

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from Electronics Weekly https://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/mannerisms/memory-lane/computer-languages-use-english-2017-05/

LED driver includes magnetic sensor for that ‘fridge door’ effect

Allegro has made an led driver with a neat twist – it includes a magnetic Hall sensor. Via a pin, the leds can be set to come on when the magnet is near, or off when the magnet it near – it works with either a north or a south magnetic pole. . Led driver ...

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from Electronics Weekly https://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/led-luminaries/led-driver-includes-magnetic-sensor-fridge-door-effect-2017-05/

How to build your own Raspberry Pi flight tracker using SDR hardware

It's the way of technology that some possibilities tickle us more than others, eliciting that unmistakable sense of wonder that such things can really be done. For myself, I'm a sucker for flight tracker information.

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from Electronics Weekly https://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/gadget-master/raspberry-pi-gadget-master/build-raspberry-pi-flight-tracker-using-sdr-hardware-2017-05/

PCIM: BLDC motor chip has built-in algorithm

Allegro MicroSystems has announced a 3-phase sensor-less brush-less dc (BLDC) fan driver IC with sinusoidal outputs to minimise audible noise and vibration. A5931 on left, and conventional equivalent on right The chip, called A5931, includes output mosfets and a built-in control algorithm running on a state-machine – easing ASIL automotive qualification, claimed the firm, because ...

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from Electronics Weekly https://www.electronicsweekly.com/news/products/power-supplies/pcim-bldc-motor-chip-built-algorithm-2017-05/

UPDATED: Android rolls out to London bus stop displays

While waiting at a London bus stop the other day, I was pleased to see an interactive video screen that was running Android.

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from Electronics Weekly https://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/eyes-on-android/general-eyes-on-android/android-rolls-london-bus-stop-displays-2017-05/

Veiled Vision

SoftBank says that The Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia and Softbank will contribute a combined $70 billion to Softbank’s Vision Fund over the next five years. The amount from Saudi Arabia was not disclosed, although earlier reports have said it could be  $45 billion. Softbank has said it will contribute $28 billion, some of ...

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from Electronics Weekly https://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/mannerisms/private-equity-funds/vision-2-2017-05/

PCIM: Heat spreader keeps shape despite thermal cycling

Aiming at IGBT modules, Japanese heat spreader maker ALMT has developed a thermal base plate alloy that improves heatsink contact. IGBT base plates are subtly convex (see diagram) so that when they are mounted on a flat base plate, the screw holes have a gap beneath them (~200μm). When the screws are tightened, the curve ...

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Only Connect: On Belden’s new 4K Ultra HD Media Cable

Belden, the goliath of cable manufacturing, has produced what I believe to be a revolution in the distribution of Ultra HD via traditional Ethernet cabling.

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from Electronics Weekly https://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/electro-ramblings/industry-comment/connect-beldens-new-4k-ultra-hd-media-cable-2017-05/

IQD oscillators have low phase jitter

IQD, the Somerset quartz crystal specialist, has a  new STXO series of surface mount clock oscillators  with an ultra-low integrated RMS phase jitter of 256fs at 2.5V and RMS period jitter of 1.4ps over 10,000 cycles. With a phase noise level of -138dBc/Hz @ 1kHz and -163dBc/Hz at the noise floor, this new series is ideal for ...

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from Electronics Weekly https://www.electronicsweekly.com/news/business/iqd-oscillators-low-phase-jitter-2017-05/

Samsung to boost M&A

Samsung Electronics says it is stepping up its efforts on the acquisition trail. The company says it wants to buy companies which have the technology to make Samsung’s existing product line more attractive. Earlier this year it bought Harman for $8 billion in an attempt to accelerate its moves into the automotive components market. Another ...

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from Electronics Weekly https://www.electronicsweekly.com/news/business/samsung-boost-ma-2017-05/

Second-Generation PXI Vector Signal Transceiver

Requirements of RF and wireless technologies are changing – NI’s instrumentation scales the biggest test challenges of today and tomorrow.

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from Electronics Weekly https://www.electronicsweekly.com/uncategorised/second-generation-pxi-vector-signal-transceiver-2017-05/

EnSilica on hiring spree

Growth of over 80% this year at ASIC and IP specialist EnSilica has sparked a recruitment drive to fuel its  expansion.  The company is looking for ten more engineers to add to its 100 employee headcount. “With significant year-on-year sales growth in our key geographic markets of Europe and Asia, both in relation to our ...

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from Electronics Weekly https://www.electronicsweekly.com/news/business/ensilica-hiring-spree-2017-05/

Productive4.0 recruits 100+ partners for Industry 4.0.

 “Productive4.0”, the largest European research initiative for Industry 4.0, has attracted over 100 partners from 19 European countries working on digitising and networking industry. Involved in the project are Infineon, BMW, Bosch, Philips, Thales, NXP, STM, SAP, ABB, Volvo, Ericsson, the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Fraunhofer and the TU Dresden. “Real-time connected value chains will ...

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from Electronics Weekly https://www.electronicsweekly.com/news/business/productive4-0-recruits-100-partners-industry-4-0-2017-05/

Ed Gets Cyber-Attacked

Cabinet meetings have been a bit fraught lately with everyone blaming  me for these cyber attacks, Ed confides to his diary. Of course I give as good as I get, telling the Health Secretary that if he funded the NHS decently it wouldn’t still be using Windows XP. Trouble is, the bunch of technological ignoramuses ...

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from Electronics Weekly https://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/mannerisms/ed-the-serial-ceo/ed-3-2017-05/

element14 turns on the Pi Desktop

Here's an interesting one, the Pi Desktop. It's a kit to build a Raspberry Pi into a more traditional desktop computer format.

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from Electronics Weekly https://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/gadget-master/raspberry-pi-gadget-master/element14-turns-pi-desktop-2017-05/

Revenge On A Roller

Sir Allen Clark, who ran Plessey from 1946 to 1962, was a hire and fire merchant who once walked onto a factory floor and shouted: “Sack everyone from A to K.” There’s a good yarn about Clark told in Stephen Aris’ book ‘Arnold Weinstock and the Making of GEC’. Clark was a stickler for time-keeping, ...

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from Electronics Weekly https://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/mannerisms/yarns/revenge-on-a-roller-2017-05/

Memrise app scoops Google Play Awards

The Google Play Awards have been announced, as part of Google I/O. Check out the winners.

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from Electronics Weekly https://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/eyes-on-android/google-play/memrise-app-scoops-google-play-awards-2017-05/

PCIM: Old ferrites get new life for GaN switching

GaN power transistors are giving new life to old ferrites as PSU designers seek magnetic components that can keep up with multi-MHz switching, according to Ferroxcube. “We are providing a lot of samples of 3F46 and 3F36 around the world,” the company’s product manager Artur Pawlak told Electronics Weekly at PCIM in Nuremberg. A decade ...

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Top 10 most popular articles on ElectronicsWeekly.com

Here are the top ten most popular articles on ElectronicsWeekly.com in the last week, with Samsung, ARM, Imagination and ARM all making the rankings, along with Linaro, AI and the Raspberry Pi...

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from Electronics Weekly https://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/electro-ramblings/general-electronics/top-10-popular-articles-electronicsweekly-com-20-2017-05/

The Internet of Shoes

There seems to be someone with a good sense of humour over in San Diego. A month or so back Qualcomm was wanting to change the name of their processors to platforms and now they’ve filed a patent on the ‘Internet of Shoes’ This is not just connecting shoes to a phone, which any fool ...

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from Electronics Weekly https://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/mannerisms/shenanigans/the-internet-of-shoes-2017-05/

Last chance to register for important test webinar by Goepel

Make a date in your diary for a Goepel Electronics webinar covering an important issue of test – Tuesday 23 May, 10:00am (BST). Electronics Weekly is joining forces with Goepel Electronics to discuss an important issue in the area of test, the X-ray inspection of solder joints in modern electronics productions. See Why only sample if a 100% ...

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from Electronics Weekly https://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/electro-ramblings/site-update/last-chance-register-important-test-webinar-goepel-2017-05/

Qorvo has a $3bn FY 2017

Qorvo, the RF specialist which gets 37% of its revenues from Apple, saw calendar Q1 revenues increase 5.7% y-o-y to $643 million. Gross margin was 36.0% and the operating loss was $24.5 million. “For fiscal year 2017, Qorvo delivered revenue of $3 billion, up 16% year-over-year, with 23% growth in IDP and 14% growth in ...

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from Electronics Weekly https://www.electronicsweekly.com/news/business/qorvo-2017-05/

Applied numbers growing strongly

Applied Materials had record revenue of $3.55 billion up 45% y-o-y for calendar Q1 Gross margin grew 4.1 points to 45.1% and operating margin increased by 9.2 points to 26.5%. The company generated $898 million in cash from operations and returned $390 million to shareholders through stock repurchases and cash dividends. “Applied Materials delivered the ...

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from Electronics Weekly https://www.electronicsweekly.com/news/business/applied-numbers-growing-strongly-2017-05/

PCIM: All-SiC 1,200V 600A power modules from Rohm

Rohm has developed All-SiC 1,200V 600A power module, optimised for inverters and converters in solar power conditioners, UPS, and industrial power Compared with IGBTs, at a chip temperature of 150°C, the firm is claiming 64% reduction in switching losses. BSM600D12P3G001 achieves 600A rating through a new package, whose flatter baseplate decreases contact resistance by 57%. ...

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from Electronics Weekly https://www.electronicsweekly.com/news/products/power-supplies/pcim-sic-1200v-600a-power-modules-rohm-2017-05/

Fable: The Cock-Up

Once upon a time the 3rd largest wireless chip company bought the fourth largest wireless chip company for $1.64 billion forming a company with revenues of $3 billion. The combined company formed a jv with a third wireless chip company which resulted in an organisation with 6,700 employees of whom 85% worked in R&D in centres ...

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from Electronics Weekly https://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/mannerisms/fable/fable-the-cock-up-2017-05/

Competition: A chance to win a JTAG Live Controller

One for Gadget Masters who are serious about testing issues, perhaps. Check out the latest competition on Electronics Weekly, giving you a chance to get your hands on a JTAG Live Controller. We actually have three of these devices to give away, in association with JTAG Technologies. Enter the competition » We’re talking a great addition to an ...

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from Electronics Weekly https://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/gadget-master/competitions/competition-chance-win-jtag-live-controller-2017-05/

An interesting tail form PCIM

Power Integrations has introduced a range of 1.7kV isolated gated drivers for IGBTs and mosfets. Isolation comes from coupled inductors formed in the package lead-frame, isolated from one another by void-free package moulding compound. According to the guys on the Power Integrations stand at PCIM, they are trying to qualify to the new VDE 0884-17 ...

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from Electronics Weekly https://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/engineer-in-wonderland/interesting-tail-form-pcim-2017-05/

PCIM: 1700V IGBT driver delivers 8A

Power Integrations has increased the isolation voltage of its SCALE-iDriver family, adding 1,700V models that can drive IGBT and mosfet gates at up to 8A. Applications with 400 and 690Vac lines are expected. “They are also ideal for the three-level topology photovoltaic inverters and photovoltaic arrays leveraging the new 1,500V DC bus standard,” said the ...

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from Electronics Weekly https://www.electronicsweekly.com/news/products/power-supplies/pcim-1700v-igbt-driver-delivers-8a-2017-05/

PCIM: SiC mosfet driver reference from ADI and Microsemi

Microsemi and Analog Devices were showing a 5kV isolated SiC mosfet gate driver design at PCIM in Germany this week. Isolation comes from ADI’s ADuM4135 isolated gate driver (see diag below), with IXYS IXDN630YI booster providing silicon carbide gate drive voltages. “The design provides customers with an isolated dual-gate driver switch for evaluating SiC mosfets ...

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from Electronics Weekly https://www.electronicsweekly.com/news/design/pcim-sic-mosfet-driver-reference-adi-microsemi-2017-05/

Farnell accessories turn Pi into PC

Farnell element14 has brought out Pi Desktop – a kit that converts a Raspberry Pi into a fully featured and packaged desktop computer. The  Pi Desktop is a set of accessories that converts a Raspberry Pi into a Linux-based desktop computer. When combined with the Raspberry Pi, the Pi Desktop provides users with all the functionality ...

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from Electronics Weekly https://www.electronicsweekly.com/news/business/farnell-accessories-turn-pi-pc-2017-05/

PCIM: Maxim power converter aims for safe power levels

The growing use of microprocessor-based control systems in industrial environments has highlighted to need to design in higher levels of reliability. This means systems need to conform to industrial safety standard regulations. They also need to be protected from high voltage transients up to 60V on a 24V or 48V bus. Maxim Integrated has addressed ...

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from Electronics Weekly https://www.electronicsweekly.com/news/pcim-maxim-power-converter-aims-safe-power-levels-2017-05/

Google TPU2 delivers 45Tflops

Google has produced a new version of its Tensor Flow Processor (TPU) aimed at machine learning in the Cloud. Google calls it TPU2 or Cloud TPU. A single TPU2 delivers 45Tflops. A system board with four TPU2s delivers 180Tflops and a customised network of 64 boards called a TPU pod delivers 11.5 petaflops. “Our second-generation ...

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from Electronics Weekly https://www.electronicsweekly.com/news/business/google-tpu2-delivers-45tflops-2017-05/

Imec chip composes music

Imec says it has made the world’s first self-learning neuromorphic chip with the ability to teach itself and compose music. Imec’s ultimate goal is to design the process technology and building blocks to make artificial intelligence to be so energy efficient that it can be integrated into sensors. Putting machine learning capability in sensors will ...

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from Electronics Weekly https://www.electronicsweekly.com/news/business/imec-chip-composes-music-2-2017-05/

Biff! Wham! Pow!

Biff! Apple sues Qualcomm for refusing to pay Apple $1 billion in promised rebates Pow! Qualcomm sues Apple alleging Apple made false anti-Qualcomm statements to regulators Wham! Apple withholds royalty payments to sub-contractors which are owed to Qualcomm Krrrr..unch! Qualcomm asks FTC to ban iPhone imports Zonk! Qualcomm sues Apple sub-contractors Foxconn, Compal, Wistron and ...

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Digi-Key signs Imec spin-off taking IoT design mainstream

IoT wireless sensing devices from VersaSense are now being stocked by Digi-Key. VersaSense’s system range called MicroPnP is a self-configuring hardware system used in the design of data acquisition and control systems for infrastructure monitoring, building energy management, and safety control systems. VersaSense is a spin-off of the imec-DistriNet research group at the University of ...

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from Electronics Weekly https://www.electronicsweekly.com/market-sectors/internet-of-things/digi-key-signs-imec-spin-off-taking-iot-design-mainstream-2017-05/

Mouser adds high voltage mosfets from D3

Mouser is now stocking D3 Semiconductor’s full product line of +FET line of 650V-rated superjunction mosfets. D3 Semi has a product roadmap which includes devices combining mixed-signal functions with high-voltage switching devices. In addition to supporting power markets in the Americas and Europe, D3 Semi has a presence in Asia through its affiliate company, D3 ...

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from Electronics Weekly https://www.electronicsweekly.com/news/mouser-adds-high-voltage-mosfets-d3-2017-05/

PCIM (Power Conversion Intelligent Motion) news roundup

A roundup of all our latest news from PCIM Europe (Power Conversion and Intelligent Motion) running in Nuremberg.

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from Electronics Weekly https://www.electronicsweekly.com/news/pcim-power-conversion-intelligent-motion-news-roundup-2017-05/

Top 10 (+5) Biggest Semiconductor Takeovers

Thanks to IC Insights for this one – the 15 biggest takeover deals in the history of the semiconductor industry:    

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from Electronics Weekly https://www.electronicsweekly.com/uncategorised/top-10-5-biggest-semiconductor-takeovers-2017-05/

The Upside Of The Hack

There are two good things about the hack attack: it’s a cyber war not a shooting war; and its a war being waged against multiple countries. So practically everyone has an interest in getting cyber war under control. Now governments are always going to develop weapons; they always have, and they always will. But governments ...

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from Electronics Weekly https://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/mannerisms/dilemmas/the-upside-of-the-hack-2017-05/

PCIM: Dynex names new CEO

Power semiconductor manufacturer Dynex Semiconductor has named a new CEO following the stepping down of long time head Dr. Paul Taylor in January. He has been replaced by Clive Vacher. Dr Taylor’s career represents the history of UK power electronics. It goes back to 1976 when he joined AEI Semiconductor, a business unit of GEC based in Lincoln, which ultimately ...

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from Electronics Weekly https://www.electronicsweekly.com/news/pcim-dynex-names-new-ceo-2017-05/

PCIM: UK-based Amantys develops next generation IGBT gate drive

UK power firm Amantys Power Electronics has developed its next generation IGBT gate drive technology which is being demonstrated this week at the PCIM exhibition in Nuremberg. Called NG Gate Drive, it has been designed to be compatible with IGBT modules known as LinPak, XHP, nHPD2 and SemiTrans20 that are available from several power semiconductor manufacturers. ...

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Capgemini survey measures value of Smart Factories

Capgemini has announced the findings of its Smart Factories report for 2017, carried out by its Digital Transformation Institute. According to the survey research, manufacturers expect their investments in smart factories will drive a 27% increase in manufacturing efficiency, over the next five years, which would add $500 billion to the global economy. Whether described ...

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from Electronics Weekly https://www.electronicsweekly.com/news/business/manufacturing/capgemini-survey-measures-value-smart-factories-2017-05/

PCIM: Infineon adds PFC boost stage to motor module

At the PCIM power electronics exhibition in Nuremberg this morning Infineon Technologies will be showing an intelligent power module (IPM) which has a single switch boost power factor correction (PFC) stage. The power module also integrates a 3 phase inverter in one package. It is designed to control induction motors and permanent magnet synchronous motors with single-phase PFC in ...

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from Electronics Weekly https://www.electronicsweekly.com/news/pcim-infineon-adds-pfc-boost-stage-motor-module-2017-05/

UK firm designs super sensors for world’s biggest telescope

UK-based image sensor firm Teledyne e2v has been awarded a multimillion euro contract by the European Southern Observatory (ESO) to design and produce 28 sensors for the world’s largest optical telescope – the ELT (Extremely Large Telescope), which is currently under construction on a mountain in Chile. The ELT will be fitted with 28 adaptive ...

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from Electronics Weekly https://www.electronicsweekly.com/news/uk-firm-designs-super-sensors-worlds-biggest-telescope-2017-05/

Samsung may invest $22bn in IC capex this yesr

Samsung will invest $21.95 billion in its chip business this year, according to the Korea Business Herald, quoting Shinhan Investment analyst Choi Do-Yoen. Samsung, which invested $4.5 billion in its semiconductor business in Q1, hasn’t said how much it will invest for the full year except to say it will be more than last year ...

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from Electronics Weekly https://www.electronicsweekly.com/news/business/samsung-may-invest-22bn-ic-capex-yesr-2017-05/

Sensor sales on strong growth path, says IC Insights.

Sensor sales grew 14% in 2016 to a record-high $7.3 billion, surpassing the previous annual peak of $6.4 billion set in 2015, when revenues increased 3.7%, reports IC Insights in a new market study of Optoelectronics, Sensors/Actuators, and Discretes (O-S-D) components. Actuator sales climbed 19% in 2016 to an all-time high of $4.5 billion from the ...

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from Electronics Weekly https://www.electronicsweekly.com/news/business/strong-o-s-d-unit-growrh-reports-ic-insights-2017-05/

Imec develops eye-tracking detection

Imec has  developed a sensing technology to detect eye movement in real time based on electrical sensing. Paving the way for the next generation of eye-tracking technology, Imec’s solution has promising applications in the fields of virtual and augmented reality. Today’s eye movement detection technology makes use of high-resolution cameras embedded in eye-tracking screens or ...

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from Electronics Weekly https://www.electronicsweekly.com/news/business/imecs-develops-eye-tracking-detection-2017-05/

Karamba raises $12m Series B

Karamba Security has raised a Series B round of $12 million. The company provides security for for connected and autonomous vehicles, is announcing $12 million in Series B funding today, bringing total investment in the company to $17 million, one year after closing a seed round. The investment was raised quickly. In a little more than a year ...

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from Electronics Weekly https://www.electronicsweekly.com/news/business/karamba-raises-12m-series-b-2017-05/

Infineon puts SiC modules into volume production

Infineon  is starting volume production for the EASY 1B full-SiC module and showing module platforms and topologies for the 1200 V CoolSiC MOSFET family. “Silicon carbide has reached a tipping point: Taking cost-benefit analysis into account, it is ready for use in a variety of applications,” says Infineon’s Dr.Peter Wawer. The 1200 V SiC MOSFETs have been ...

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Top Ten Semiconductor Manufacturing Equipment Companies

Thanks to the Information Network for this one – the ten biggest semiconductor manufacturing equipment suppliers in 2016: $bn Applied 8.1 Lam Research 5.2 ASML 5.1 Tokyo Electron 5.0 KLA-Tencor 2.2 Screen SS 1.3 Hitachi Hi-Tec 0.97 Nikon 0.82 ASM 0.54 Hitachi Kokusai  0.53

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Project Treble – Google takes aim at Android fragmentation

The fragmentation of Android, and the inability - or reluctance - of handset manufacturers and telcos to issue system updates - is the biggest criticism faced by Android.

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PCIM: Fast charger tech for electric vehicles

Microsemi has announced at PCIM exhibition in Nuremberg that its fast recovery DQ diode product family is now AEC-Q101 qualified for use in the automotive market. They are designed to offer higher switching speeds and lower switching loss compared to traditional diodes used as rectifiers in AC-DC/DC-DC converters. Likely automotive applications may include high frequency ...

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PCIM: current transducer steps up in accuracy

LEM has unveiled at PCIM in Nuremberg a new design of current transducer which is notable for its high accuracy and low noise for non-intrusive and isolated measurement of DC, AC and pulsed nominal current of 2000A. The 2000-S model transducer also has an extended operating temperature range of -40 to +85°C. Specified accuracy with ...

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PCIM: half-bridge device has high and low side mosfet drivers

At the PCIM exhibition taking place in Nuremberg this week, Diodes has introduced a range of gate drivers that feature a floating high-side driver to simplify the switching of two N-channel mosfets or two IGBTs in a half-bridge configuration. Designed for motor control and power supply applications that require AC and DC motor control boards ...

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Samsung Pay mobile payments roll out in UK

Samsung is rolling out its Samsung Pay mobile payments system in the UK, following the launch of the Galaxy S8 and S8+.

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Imagination sells chip design business

Imagination Technologies has agreed a deal to sell its SoC and software design business to UK-based design firm Sondrel. Design engineers employed in the IMGworks division will join with Sondrel’s existing engineering consultancy to create a combined IC design capability comprising more than 250 highly skilled employees. Imagination is in the middle of a major ...

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Samsung Pay comes to the UK

Samsung is officially rolling out its Samsung Pay mobile payment system in the UK, to rival Android Pay, which launched almost exactly a year ago, and Apple Pay.

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Plastic Logic’s Second Coming

To say that a woman or a company have history, implies that the history might not be irreproachable. Plastic Logic, 17 years old this year, has had a varied history. When it was spun out of Cambridge University in 2000 it looked like a world-beater with a technology which could make ICs and displays on ...

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Advanced Android App Development course gets extended

The free Advanced Android App Development online course has been updated, by Google.

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Imec makes haptics chip for prosthetic arms

Imec has made a prototype implantable chip that gives patients more intuitive control over their arm prosthetics. The thin-silicon chip is a world’s first for electrode density and was developed in collaboration with researchers at the University of Florida, as part of the IMPRESS project funded by the DARPA’s HAPTIX program to create a closed-loop system ...

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Vodafone makes €6bn loss

Vodafone made a loss of €6.1 billion for its FY to the end of March with a €3.7 billion hit from its Indian subsidiary which is in the process of being disposed of via a merger with IdeaCellular. Vodafone’s revenue for the year was €47.6 billion – down 4.4% on 2015. EBITDA was $14.1 billion. ...

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Uber self-driving guru in Catch-22

Uber is allowed to carry on working on self-driving car technology but Waymo’s lawyers can inspect all Uber’s work on LIDAR, ruled Judge William Alsup, in the Waymo-Uber case yesterday. The judge ordered Uber to return to Waymo the 14,000 files taken from Waymo by former employee Tony Levandowski. Judge Alsup told Uber to do ...

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2016 IC market grew 2.6%

The semiconductor market grew 2.6% last year to $343.5 billion, says Gartner. The top 25 companies collectively grew 10.5 %. “The semiconductor industry rebounded in 2016, with a weak start to the year, characterised by inventory correction, giving way to strengthening demand and an improving pricing environment in the second half,” said says Gartner’s James ...

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Smartphone market enters super-cycle.

The Q1 smartphone market entered a ‘super-cycle’ says IHS, with y-o-y increases for the first time in two years. The increase was all led by the Chinese manufacturers who recorded startling gains. While Samsung was up 0.1% and Apple down 0.8%, OPPO was up 67.3%, Vivo was up 56.3 % and Huawei up 21.7%. Q1 ...

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Intersil launches PMIC with 91% efficiency at 1.1V

 Intersil has introduced a PMIC  that delivers 91% efficiency at 1.1V output voltage for application processors, GPUs, FPGAs and high-performance system power. The PMIC’s low RDS(on) MOSFETs and programmable PWM frequency allows designers to use fewer low-profile external components, enabling a 50mm2 power-supply that is 40% smaller than competing solutions. The ISL91211 triple/quad output PMIC is ...

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Cobol To Be Used In ICT 1301 Computer

    The English language programme Cobol is to be used in the International Computers and Tabulators 1301 computer.   So, 57 years ago starts a story in Electronics Weekly’s edition of  October 12th 1960   Cobol is thought to be the most versatile common language programme developed so far. It includes some twenty verbs ...

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A chance to win a JTAG Live Controller

Don’t miss the latest competition on Electronics Weekly, giving you a chance to get your hands on a JTAG Live Controller. We actually have three of these devices to give away, in association with JTAG Technologies. And everyone who enters will receive JTAG booklet explaining the test functionality in more detail! Enter the competition » We’re talking a ...

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Sir Hossein Yassaie returns as Chairman of Pure

Pure, the digital radio company,  has today announced the appointment of Sir Hossein Yassaie as Chairman. The appointment comes several months after Pure’s sale from former owner, Imagination, in September last year. It was sold to AVenture AT of Austria for $2.6 million. Yassaie, Imagination’s former CEO, founded Pure and brought out its first radio, ...

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Rocky Days For ARM-Based Server Market

ARM’s server aspirations seem to have fallen on stony ground since Softbank snaffled the company last year. At that time it was thought to be a weird move for a company to pay $32 billion to kill off ARM’s pre-eminent advantage of being an independent supplier of cores. ARM’s success derived from the fact that ...

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Engineering community enters UK election debate

Royal Academy of Engineering has launched its own engineering manifesto as the political parties campaign for next month’s general election. It is calling on the next government to harness the full capacity, capability and potential of the UK’s engineering talent. It has identified five key priorities to be addressed in what it calls “a long-term, ...

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How to network A/V more effectively

Digital networks can improve employee productivity by avoiding the confusion of needing separate networks for A/V and IP, writes Andy Hill In a working environment where power availability, audio/visual technology and video functionality work seamlessly together, the result is increased employee productivity. While a connected infrastructure is not the only component that makes a high ...

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Anritsu adds Testime to its UK distribution channel

Anritsu continues to extend its UK distribution channel and its latest move is to sign up Testime Technology. The Basingstoke-based distributor will sell the full range of optical, microwave, RF and mobile protocol cable, spectrum, and network analysers. It will also offer sales support for the UK market. Steve Wilding, Anritsu sales director, writes: “We are strongly investing in the ...

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Toshiba adds current sensor for accurate motor control

Toshiba has introduced a 40V/3.0A stepper-motor control IC that requires no external current-sense resistors. The TB67S508FTG stepper-motor controller has on-chip current sensing. As a result it can eliminate the effects of resistor-tolerance errors, ensuring greater accuracy (+/-5%) and uniformity, says the supplier. The transistors of the output bridge have very low on-resistance of 0.45Ω (typical, ...

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Second big cyber attack expected today.

A second cyber attack using the tools developed by the CIA and dumped on the WikiLeaks site in the Vault7 incident is expected today. ‘Malware Tech’ the anonymous 22 year-old who halted the spread of the virus last week, told the BBC “there’s another one coming, most likely on Monday. Version 1 of WannaCrypt was stoppable ...

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Western Digital goes to arbitration over Toshiba auction

Western Digital has initiated an arbitration procedure over its bid for Toshiba’s chip business. The arbitration will be heard by the International Chamber of Commerce International Court of Arbitration This procedure, which could take months, could delay the auction which was planned for this month. Toshiba needs the proceeds of sale quite urgently to pay ...

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ARM adds 328 to UK headcount

ARM had revenues of $1.27 billion in the year to the end of March 2017 – up 22% on the previous 12 months’ revenues. They are the first financial figures for ARM to be published since its takeover by Softbank last July. Adjusted earnings were up 7% at £604 million. The number of employees in ...

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Samsung sets up foundry ops as a separate business

Samsung has re-structured its foundry operation as a separate business. The Samsung semiconductor business now has three units – Memory, System LSI and Foundry. The foundry move is being seen as a precursor to opening up its foundry operations to more, and presumably smaller volume, customers. Up to now, Samsung’s foundry business, which pulls in ...

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Ed Becomes FAAMG’s Go-To Guy

  My ministerial title is Sec of State for Science, Technology and Innovation but my job description is go-to guy for FAAMG, Ed confides to his diary. Ever since Cameron made a Googler a Baroness and appointed a Government Director of Strategy who was married to an Uber vp, it has become a Tory party ...

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Google turns to Raspberry Pi for Do-it-yourself AI for Makers

Check out Google's Do-it-yourself AI for Makers, using the Raspberry Pi and a Voice Hardware HAT for the audio capture.

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Making the most of Google I/O 2017

A quick post to highlight a way to keep up with the raft of news, announcements and presentations that will surely feature in Google I/O.

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Funny Figures

There is sometimes a big difference between how the market values a company and what a company will pay to acquire it.   In July 2004, Motorola Semiconductor went public with the shares priced at $13 putting a value on the company of $5.2 billion.   In September 2006, with the shares standing at $40, ...

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The kings new violins

For many years, I have wondered why Stradivarius violins are said to sound so much better than modern instruments – after all, the guys who make the new ones are probably just as skilled, and there has been more time to develop manufacturing techniques. My suspicion is that the Kings new clothes and placebos are ...

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Improbable Unicorn

Softbank has paid $500 million for stake in the five year-old Cambridge simulation specialist Improbable. It is not a majority stake and the investment makes Improbable a Unicorn. Keeping control is important to Improbable co-founders Herman Narula and Rob Whitehead (pictured) who want to build, they say: “A world-leading platform.” Improbable builds large scale virtual ...

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Top 10 most popular articles on ElectronicsWeekly.com

With Yangtze River, MIPS, Infineon and Toshiba all making the rankings, along with Perovskite materials and the Cardiff Semiconductor Cluster...

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