This one is very relevant for Gadget Master readers. The latest competition on Electronics Weekly, giving you a chance to get your hands on an STMicroelectronics IoT kit.
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TSMC says its 3nm fab will be located in the Tainan Science Park in Taiwan. There had been speculation that the company might locate it outside Taiwan – perhaps in the USA. TSMC says it ‘recognises and is grateful for the government’s clear commitments to resolve any issues, including land, water, electricity and environmental protectioN.’ ...
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Nordic Semiconductor's nRF52840 chip becomes officially Thread 1.1 Certified, for bridging between networks.
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In a world which seems chaotic – beset by hackers, terrorists, Brexit, weird weather and an unusual US president – there is a phrase of the late, great Andy Grove, Co-Founder, CEO and Chairman of Intel, which rings through the murk: “The operating phrase should be: Let chaos reign!” said Grove, “not that chaos is ...
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Rohde & Schwarz is addressing the simulation of GNSS satellite location signals with a multiple input tester that can operator simultaneously in multiple frequency bands for multiple antennas. GNSS receivers are able to process signals from diverse navigation systems such as GPS, Glonass, Galileo or BeiDou in several frequency bands in order to improve positioning accuracy. ...
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Nordic-Baltic countries Sweden, Finland and Estonia are leading the roll-out of 5G mobile services in Europe and local operator Telia claims to have deployed the first public 5G live network use cases in Europe. This is a collaboration between the Swedish mobile operator and technology suppliers Ericsson and Intel. One of the use cases demonstrated ...
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Audi has revealed its 2017/2018 season all-electric racing car, the e-tron FE04, with an Audi motor and gearbox, developed with Schaeffler. “After nearly 40 years of being active in motorsport, Audi now becomes the first German automobile manufacturer to compete in Formula E in order to test and advance the development of new technologies for production,” said ...
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We are now accepting entries for EW BrightSparks 2018. If you would like to enter, or nominate someone you know, head over to the page! Electronics Weekly, in partnership with RS Components, is seeking to highlight the brightest and most talented young electronic engineers in the UK today. Pictured above is the class of 2017, receiving ...
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Years ago, I built a robot chassis consisting of hardboard, two motors, two wheels, plus a third pivoting trailing wheel to keep the thing upright. The motors were hinged in such a way that their weight kept their spindles in contact with the wheels forming a simple reduction drive. It was bought to mind because ...
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The answers include a teardown of the new Apple iPhone 8, the hardy perennial of a DIY plant monitor, a laser trip wire, a bike power meter, voice recognition, an electric 'hypercar' and, of course, the Raspberry P...
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e-peas, the Belgian energy-harvesting IC start-up, has raised a new $4.2 million funding round. The round was led by Partech Ventures and comprises Airbus Ventures, JCDecaux Holding, Semtech, SRIW and Vives. Having initially gained both local government grants and private seed investment funding back in 2014, e-peas brought its AEM10940 energy harvesting chip to market. Through this ...
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ADI has brought out a metering IC that includes mSure diagnostics technology enabling direct and noninvasive monitoring of electric meter accuracy and faults in real-time. mSure-enabled meters, combined with a cloud analytics service, provide utility companies with real-time data and actionable insights to protect revenue from tampering, manage field resources more effectively, cut equipment cost, ...
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Toshiba is in mass production of optocouplers in a new wide leadform package type SO6L(LF4). The wide leadform option is available for three high-speed IC photocouplers and five IGBT/MOSFET driver photocouplers. The new photocouplers can be directly mounted on PCB pads intended for SDIP6(F type) products. The SO6L(LF4)’s 2.3mm (max.) low profile package offers a ...
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Parkinson’s Law could be the harbinger of bad times for Apple. When a company moves into a purpose-built HQ, said Professor Parkinson, it signals the beginning of its decline. “During a period of exciting discovery or progress there is not time to plan the perfect headquarters,” wrote the professor, “the time for that comes later, ...
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Imagination is to press ahead with the sale of MIPS to Silicon Valley investment group Tallwood Venture Capital after another potential bidder pulled out of the process.
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Having had such quick success making a microcontroller project using an 8pin ATtiny85 and programming it with Arduino, I though I would try a more elaborate project, one that has been on the back burner for several years now. The whole thing worked because of all the generous people who have written Arduino code, and ...
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38 years ago, in a spate of government-inspired moves to get into the semiconductor industry, the French government engineered a jv between a French glass company and a US semiconductor company and gave the jv a three billion franc R&D budget then worth $400 million. Four years later, in 1982, the French government announced a $21.3 billion ...
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RS Components has launched tool kits for maintenance engineers, technicians and electricians, including automotive and VDE-approved kits. The application-specific toolkits are designed to be a starting point for engineers or technicians with all the basic tools for a particular industry application, or even as a replacement tool kit for experienced users. The RS Pro kit ...
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An artificial Intelligence robot can be designed and programmed with a DIY kit which has been created by Creoqode. With the Arduino-based open source project looking for crowd-funding on the Kickstarter website, the AI robot kit has an integrated HD camera and ultrasonic sensor to allow it to recognise and track faces, identify colours, and ...
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76% of Britons are ‘fearful’ of the smart homes concept, despite the likely cost savings, with unapproved data collection cited as the greatest worry, according to price comparison website MoneySuperMarket, which has surveyed 2,000 people. Other concerns include the technology being hacked by criminals (51%), being made unusable by a virus (43%) and recording you ...
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XJTAG has updated its XJDeveloper test and programming IDE with test automation features. The XJDeveloper development and debug environment is used to set up and run JTAG tests, detecting faults on high-density boards without requiring test fixtures or functional testing. This release of the IDE, v3.6, incorporates a new documentation feature in XJEase files so ...
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A hydrogen fuel cell as been unveiled in Orkney, part of the Surf ‘n’ Turf hydrogen community energy project, led by charity Community Energy Scotland, working with the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC), Orkney Islands Council, Eday Renewable Energy, and ITM Power. Surf ’n’ Turf is a pilot project, looking to circumvent local grid constraints ...
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ByteSnap Design has become an approved engineering consultant for NXP Semiconductors. The embedded systems design consultant has experience of design projects based on NXP chips including a smart home security system, a bus ticketing system and Apple Homekit temperature control system. Gérard Maniez, director, third-party technical support network at NXP, writes: “ByteSnap Design with their extensive ...
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Intel plans to add authentication and data protection security capabilities to its FPGA-based development boards for IoT designs. Intel’s DE10-Nano development board is now supported by an SDK from SecureRF with tech support for authenticating remote devices with a Cyclone V FPGA. As an alternative to ECC authentication techniques security algorithms offered by SecureRF, such ...
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Toshiba has signed an $18bn deal to sell its NAND chip division to a consortium led by private equity group Bain Capital that includes SK Hynix, Apple and Dell.
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Rohm has anounced a high definition audio system reference design based around its BM94803AEKU media decoder processor, aimed at Hi-fi audio equipment, Bluetooth speakers, separate audio components and USB audio DACs. Included in the SoC is a 108MHz ARM946ES and a dedicated DSP for CD media decoding and a co-packaged 16Mbit SDRAM – reducing mounting ...
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Make a date in your diary, if you haven't already, for this year's Elektra Awards - Wednesday 6 December, at Grosvenor House Hotel London.
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Drones can be used to detect human vital signs from a distance, according to the University of South Australia. The technique uses a standard camera and an image processing algorithm created by PhD students, Ali Al-Naji, pictured below, and Asanka Perera, and remotely measures heart and breathing rates on several people simultaneously, even if they ...
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The world’s largest lithium ion battery is being installed in Australia at the Hornsdale Wind Farm under an agreement between US firm Tesla, French renewable energy company Neoen (which owns the farm), and the South Australian Government. “At 100MW and 129MWh, the Hornsdale Power Reserve will become not only the largest renewable generator in the state ...
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IQD’s low jitter, tight stability IQXT-316 series VCTCXO uses proprietary ASIC technology to meet the tight short and medium term stability requirements (±50ppb to ±250ppb depending on the operating temperature range) required for packet network synchronisation for small cells. This, combined with slope performance as low as ±20ppb/degrees and low power consumption makes the IQXT-316 ...
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NAND supply will come into balance with demand next year, says DRAMeXchange. NAND demand has exceeded supply in all six quarters since Q3 2016. The NAND bit supply growth rate is currently projected at 42.9%, while the bit demand growth rate is projected at 37.7%. “The progress bottleneck in the transition from the 2D-NAND to ...
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Qualcomm develops reference designs for biometric patches that will enable care models, from perioperative care to assessing the impact of therapeutic interventions.
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Can it be true that the young don’t drink? A survey by a company called Eventbrite says that 20 year-olds think getting sloshed is ‘pathetic’ and ‘embarrassing’ and something which their parents do. For them it’s not cool to get drunk. Even while attending weekend music festivals, a fifth of 20 year-olds told the survey ...
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Silicon Labs has produced a ‘clock tree on a chip’ with up to 12 outputs. Called Si5332, 230fs(rms) general jitter performance is claimed, with specific examples of: 245fs for clocking system PLLs, 196fs for SerDes PLLs, 220fs for PCIe Gen4 (16Gtransfer/s)and 366fs for FPGAs. The chip comes in three versions, with six, eight or 12 ...
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Dyson is certainly an inspiration for UK-based tech firms. But is its plan to become an electric car maker realistic for a firm which is best known for vacuum cleaners? At least one observer believes the company has every chance of success in this new venture. Professor Jeremy Howells from the Kent Business School at the ...
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Samsung, Hitachi and SK Hynix join Intel in investing in a Nevada-based start-up company developing production systems for advanced node semiconductor manufacturing. Reno Sub-Systems develops semiconductor manufacturing systems for nanoscale IC processes. These include RF matching networks, RF power generators and gas delivery systems. The company has closed its Series C funding which was led by ...
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Philips Photonics and UK-based IQE are aiming to manufacture semiconductor lasers in mass production at cost levels equivalent to the manufacture of LEDs. Philips has completed a €23m project to create a production line for vertical cavity surface emitting lasers (VCSELs) for volume photonics applications such as data communications and lighting. The three year project, ...
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Tomorrow's electronic engineers can jump into the auto industry fast lane through real-world project-based learning, writes Dr Coorous Mohtadi of MathWorks
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Here they are – the top ten electrical geniuses: Faraday Ampere Volta Ohm Thomson Edison Tesla Marconi Bell Hoerni
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Power transistors are set for a record year, says IC Insights, after falling in three of the last five years because of inventory corrections and drawdowns by systems makers worried about ongoing economic weakness and price erosion in some product categories. After recovering from a 7% drop in 2015, power transistor sales grew 5% in 2016 ...
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Sir James Dyson is to build an electric car. Dyson says he is putting £2 billion into developing the car which should be on the road in 2020. “Battery technology is very important to Dyson, electric motors are very important to Dyson, environmental control is very important to us,” says Dyson, “I have been developing ...
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Infineon has brought out the CoolSiC Schottky diode 650 V G6 to complement the 600 V and 650 V CoolMOS 7 families. They are aiming at current and future applications in Server and PC power, Telecom equipment power, and PV inverters. The CoolSiC Schottky diode 650 V G6 has a new layout, new cell structure, and ...
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Saelig has brought out a pen-shaped battery-powered wireless oscilloscope that streams captured signals to almost any WiFi-connected screen. The IkaScope WS200 offers a 30MHz bandwidth with its 200MSa/s sampling rate and the maximum input is +/-40Vpp. It provides galvanically-isolated measurements even when a USB connection is charging the internal battery. It will work on desktop ...
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Texas Instruments has brought out MCUs with an integrated ultrasonic sensing analogue front end that enables smart water meters to deliver higher accuracy and lower power consumption. In addition, TI has introduced two new reference designs that make it easier to design modules for adding automated meter reading (AMR) capabilities to existing mechanical water meters. ...
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Future Electronics is selling an IoT development kit which costs $99. Developed with suppliers Cypress Semiconductor and Murata, the Nebula board is an IoT cloud ready board for prototype development. Wireless connectivity comes from the Murata 1DX module, which integrates the Cypress CYW4343W Wi-Fi and BT/BLE combo SoC. This includes a 2.4 GHz WLAN IEEE ...
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Xilinx has invested in a California-based start-up developing high performance programmable chip platforms. The five year old firm is called Efinix and is also being backed by Hong Kong X Technology Fund (HKX), and Samsung Electronics’ investment arm in a $9.5m funding round. Efinix has developed a programmable chip-level platform, it calls Quantum, which it says ...
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Allegro MicroSystems announces a new three-wire differential speed sensor integrated circuit, that includes its own bias magnet for zero-speed operation. Intended for gear tooth sensing in automotive transmission systems, it can also be used in recreational vehicles, industrial equipment, white goods, and exercise equipment. ATS668 has integrated EMC protection components, and is offered in a ...
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BeagleBoard’s miniature development board is dubbed a USB-key-fob computer which has ARM multicore performance. The open source PocketBeagle is being sold by Digi-Key Electronics. It is built around an Octavo Systems OSD3358-SM system-in-package (SIP) device which integrates a 1GHz ARM Cortex-A8 CPU, 2x 200-MHz PRUs, ARM Cortex-M3 and a 3D accelerator. It has 512MB DDR3 ...
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Astro Pi is an annual competition, for students, giving a chance to design experiments using a Raspberry Pi to run on ISS.
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Who knows whether the Tosh sale is happening or not but, if it happens, it could be one of the all-time worst deals ever done in the chip industry because of what’s going to happen next year. Next year the China memory fabs at Wuhan and Nanjing start running wafers. No one knows what the ...
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Meant to cover this one before - the NXP-based WaRP7 dev board, which supports Android, gets its own LCD module.
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Western Digital has responded to Toshiba’s announced intention to sell its memory business to a consortium led by Bain and Hynix. WD says it has three actions going through arbitration procedures which could prevent the sale taking place. Western Digital’s statement on the decision reads: “We are disappointed that Toshiba would take this action despite ...
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There’s a new competition in town. This is your chance to win a Cypress PSoC 6 BLE Pioneer Kit for the IoT.
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Toshiba is sampling its 10TB MG06 Series Enterprise Capacity HDD s. The 10TB drives have maximum sustained transfer rate of 237MiB/s and an MTTF of 2.5M hours. The drive provides a SATA 6Gbit/s interface and 7,200 rpm performance. It supports emulated 512 Advanced Format (512e) technology for compatibility with legacy applications and operating environments; or ...
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My TomTom GPS is pretty darn good at navigating, once it has turned on. It is a Start 25, and it make a good estimate of arrival time, even on journeys of hundreds of miles, and gives good warnings of junctions. But it is rubbish because it is let down by very poor power management, ...
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Imec has developed cost-effective fine-pixel photolithography for manufacturing ultra-high resolution OLEDs. Imec, and its development partner Chunghwa Picture Tubes (CPT) , aimed to push pixel density beyond 1000 ppi. Imec and CPT have verified that a novel photolithography process can allow for ultrafine OLED patterns. The proposed technique does not require using fine-metal masks to ...
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Samsung has taped out a 28nm FD-SOI MRAM and is preparing to use eMRAM as a core for SoCs. The technology was developed with IBM and Infineon and its first use will be in an NXP i.MX processor. Volume production is scheduled for 2018. Samsung is catching up with Everspin whose MRAM is made by ...
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WORK is to start this year on Britain’s new air traffic control set-up, and by 1964 the first joint civil/military ATC centre is due to enter service. So, 56 years ago, started a story in Electronics Weekly’s edition of March 22 1961 The story continues: It will be the forerunner of a number of similar ...
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Following on the heels of the Arduino book giveaway (now closed) and the STMicroelectronics IoT kit compo (still open), here comes a great chance to win a scope from test and measurement specialists Keysight Technologies.
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The Arduino MKR series of boards - aimed at the IoT - has two new members, aimed at LoRa and GSM connectivity.
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SoftBank’s Vision Fund has made or participated in 23 $100m+ investments to private companies, with 8 of them being a billion dollars or more, reports CB Insights. Here they are: These compsnies saw an average 51% increase in valuation after the SoftBank investment. Softbank has apparently set a goal of 44% returns for ...
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Nexperia, the former Standard Products division of NXP, has brought out a range of 80V dual Power-SO8 MOSFETs in LFPAK56D packages. With the addition of this new 80V range of MOSFETs Nexperia now has devices, ranging from 30V to 100V. LFPAK56D is automotive qualified to AEC-Q101 and the copper clip gull wing package technology is for ...
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Arduino has two new boards out which deliver connectivity – the Arduino MKR WAN 1300 (LoRa) and the Arduino MKR GSM 1400. The Arduino MKR WAN 1300 delivers LoRa low-power WAN connectivity, and the Arduino MKR GSM 1400 adds global 2G/3G communications capability. Both boards measure 67.64 x 25mm and,with low power consumption, are suitable ...
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A teacher I know is stuck, with only npn transistors in the supply cupboard and the need to create a reversible motor drive for an Arduino project. Because students are using it, it needs to be short-circuit-proof – no possibility that a mix-up in control signals can cause the drive to short out the rails. BTW, ...
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Osram is unveiling its 1,024 pixel headlamp led at ISAL in Darmstadt this week. The pixels together cover 4 x 4mm source, and are integrated with per-pixel dimming electronics. Flux from prototypes is up to 4.6 lm/pixel, claimed Osram. There is more on this on Electronics Weekly’s main news site.
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Welcome to another post in the series by Nick Locke, of Nicab Ltd, who has more than 15 years experience in the electronics manufacturing industry specialising in interconnection cable assembly. Many people, when thinking of 2.54mm pitch connector systems, will naturally think of Crimp or IDC systems using either discrete equipment wire or ribbon cables. ...
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LED make Osram has revealed the prototype for its thousand pixel matrix headlight LED. By pixelating the light source, arbitrary headlight beam patters can be created, extending the concept of main/dip beam to complex beam shapes that minimise dazzle while maximising useful illumination for the driver. Sketch of Eviyos Branded Eviyos, the 1,024 pixels are ...
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The 802.11ax HEW standard provides a reliable high speed connection, serving more devices in dense environments.
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Globalfoundries will roll out a 12nm finfet process at its New York fab next year which is 15% denser with 10% better performance than its 14nm process. “We plan to introduce new client and graphics products based on GF’s 12nm process technology in 2018 as a part of our focus on accelerating our product and ...
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The already constrained supply of wafers is about to tighten further, reports Digitimes. 3D NAND, Chinese foundries and China memory fabs are driving 12 inch demand. LCD driver ICs, fingerprint sensors, power management ICs and CMOS image sensors are driving 8-inch demand. Wafer suppliers are in no hurry to increase capacity having been caught out ...
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HERE, the road-mapping company owned by BMW, Audi and Mercedes, spent $767 million on R&D in 2016, reports Reuters. HERE was bought by the Germans for €2.55 billion euros in 2015. A 15% stake was sold to Intel earlier this year. Another, smaller, stake was sold to Pioneer and a 10% stake was sold to ...
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The Chief Frog has poo-ed all over the PM’s wish for a ‘deep and special’ relationship with the EU and has lined up with the Brussels bureaucrats saying that the Brexit bill, Ireland and foreign residents’ status must be settled before anything else, Ed confides to his diary. So we’re back to square one and ...
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The expected bid for Imagination by the China-backed private equity company Canyon Bridge has materialised. However the offered price of 182p per share has hardly moved the Imagination share price which was 123p before the bid and is 129p now, suggesting that the bid may fail because of regulatory issues. At 182p, Imagination is being ...
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Moore’s Law has been declared dead before. Progress may be slowing, but can new materials save it?
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Access to EU R&D funds is something which UK academics dread losing post-Brexit. Someone who did it very successfully was Andrew Rickman, founder of Bookham Technology which went straight into the FTSE100 when IPO’d in 2000. This is his story: “In 1993, we started a contract with the EU to develop fibre optic components for ...
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It's always interesting to read the iFixit teardowns, and latest one examines the innards of the Apple iPhone 8.
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Oxford Instruments NanoScience has signed a technology collaboration agreement with a Chinese firm to jointly develop high precision scanning probe microscopes (SPM). The UK firm will work with CASmF Science and Technology (CASmF) to apply its superconducting magnet system known as TeslatronPT, to a physical probe that scan 2D materials, nano-structures and superconductivity. Dr Junyun ...
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With Sir Robin Saxby, Intel, smart meters, Qualcomm, DRAM and FPGA software design all figuring prominently...
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Moortec, the developer of silicon IP for monitoring chip performance, has opened a new UK headquarters on the Plymouth Science Park. Moortec’s IP monitors on-chip parameters such as process, voltage and temperature (PVT) in CMOS devices fabbed on 40nm down to 7nm process technologies. In this way designers can optimise chip performance. Ramsay Allen, v-p ...
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Vicor has extended its Cool-Power range of 48V buck regulators with a 20A output device. The PI352x range of 20A devices as to the existing 10A 48VIN PI354x products. The PI3523 is a 48VIN, 3.3VOUT nominal buck regulator capable of supplying up to 22A. This family of regulators enables 48VIN to 20A point-of-load voltages spanning ...
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The technology driving the move towards autonomous vehicles will change more than just cars and lorries, writes Richard Wilson. The government’s ambitious plan to explore the running of convoys of semi-autonomous lorries on UK motorways took everyone by surprise. Not least because autonomous vehicle technology is still very much in the development phase. So can ...
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The new Apple iPhones include some clever new tech that serves no purpose at all.
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It seems a curious move for GloFo to ask the EC competition guys to investigate TSMC for anti-trust behaviour. That’s because the EC only has jurisdiction over the EU and the EU only accounts for 7% of TSMC’s revenues. If TSMC found the EC competition directorate becoming too aggressive, they could stop doing business in ...
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I suppose we could have filed this one under Gadget-in-Extremis, but it would have been a stretch - it's the world's largest plane by wingspan.
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A range of IoT‑ready sensors allow remote automated response systems to be implemented, writes Gabriele Fulco. The number of unattended and remote facilities has increased, thanks to the internet of things (IoT). Isolated and rough terrain locations as well as sites that require minimal attention can now be given fully automated and connected protection. The ...
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33 years ago an operating system was announced which gained a certain amount of domestic popularity. 20 years after launch a local Governor said it had been killed by a former Government Minister “because he was at that time under the pressure of United States.” It is said that Microsoft had lobbied against it and that ...
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An internet parts library for printed circuit board design has now been adapted so that it can be searched inside the PCB123 design environment of Sunstone Circuits, the US-based design tool firm. These are the models created by SnapEDA and they conform to the latest IPC standards (IPC-7351B). This is intended to help PCB designers in ...
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The UK’s National Physical Laboratory (NPL) is to actively engage with industry to improve national measurement and data quality. Its aim is to “help the UK become a world-leader in emerging technologies such as 5G, quantum devices and graphene, and harness the power of big data for social and economic good”, said the laboratory, which ...
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Writing good code is an important skill for new embedded designers. Graduates can now have their skills in embedded C, C++ or UML assessed for free by software training company Feabhas. Creating reliable code for C and C++ in embedded applications is not always straight-forward and does require expertise. Jo Cooling, director at Feabhas: writes: ...
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A government-funded research project to develop semiconductor lasers for the design of miniature atomic clocks (MacV) has received new funding. Compound Semiconductor Centre (CSC) in Cardiff leads the £705,000 project, which also involves CST Global, the Glasgow-based III-V opto-electronic, semiconductor foundry and Cardiff University and the National Physical Laboratory in Teddington. The aim of the ...
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Robotics designers need access to a choice of reliable, small, rugged and versatile connectors, writes Bob Stanton. Opportunities for small, affordable robots are burgeoning throughout sectors like manufacturing, distribution, security, healthcare, and for home users. Cost-effective, teachable, collaborative robots can now work safely alongside people in factories or packaging areas; mobile robots are taking on ...
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Google is paying HTC $1.1 billion for its IP and and for the transfer of HTC employees working on the Google Pixel phone. About half HTC’s R&D staff – about 2000 people – will move across to Google. HTC will continue to make its own phones and the Vive VR system. HTC has been struggling ...
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Imagination Technologies has revealed hardware neural network accelerator (NNA) intellectual property, as well as a pair of GPUs. 2048MACs/cycle in a single core, is predicted, with higher levels through multi-core integration. Scroll down for new Imagination GPUs “Companies building SoCs for mobile, surveillance, automotive and consumer systems can integrate the PowerVR Series2NX neural network accelerator for ...
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This has been a really weird week for Intel. Two of its biggest nobs Mark Bohr and Stacy Smith were showing off a wafer of 10nm Cannon Lake processors to a Beijing audience on Tuesday, and on Wednesday the Taiwan news site Digitimes was telling us that Cannon Lake would be delayed until the end ...
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Android Things is currently in developer preview - DP5 to be precise. And Google is obviously keen to see what developers can build with the latest release.
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The next generation of prototyping based on FPGAs could solve the concurrent verification conundrum, writes Juergen Jaeger. With ever-increasing embedded software content in complex system‑on‑chip (SoC) devices, it has become crucial to develop and to verify software and hardware concurrently, and as early as possible in the design cycle. FPGA-based prototyping plays an increasingly important ...
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It pays to invest time to maintain your bill of materials as a design progresses, writes Leigh Gawne.
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Intel is changing the habit of a lifetime. Or is it? When it first set up an ASIC division it made them on non-leading edge processes and the unit failed. When it made ARM chips, re-named X-Scale, under an architecture licence it bought from the wreckage of DEC, it made them on non-leading edge processes ...
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Acal BFi has signed an embedded video processing product deal with supplier Sightline Applications. Sightline’s specialises in video processing systems for both aerial and ground based applications, including manned and unmanned systems. These include emergency response and forest fire detection. The systems provide video stabilisation, scene and object tracking, detection algorithms, focus telemetry and multi-camera ...
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Intel has delayed its 10nm processor Cannon Lake for the third time, reports Digitimes, because of 10nm production problems. The new date for Cannon Lake is now the end of next year. Cannon lake was originally scheduled for last year. The reasons cited are delays with its 10nm process. Yesterday, in Beijing, Intel said its ...
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Caroline Hayes shares some of the highlights for visitors to the Northern Manufacturing & Electronics show in Manchester.
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Scientists at the University of Glasgow say they have developed a new form of high-resolution ‘printing’ which could have wide-ranging applications in data storage, anti-counterfeiting measures, and digital imaging. The research, published in the journal Advanced Functional Materials, describes the development of nano-scale plasmonic colour filters that display different colours depending on the orientation of ...
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French researchers at Leti have developed a technique for testing high-speed wireless communications on airplanes that allows different system deployments in cabins. In a joint research project with Dassault Aviation, Leti, which is a research institute of CEA Tech, demonstrated a channel-measurement campaign over Wi-Fi frequency in several airplanes, including Dassault’s Falcon business jet. A ...
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Global DRAM supply is forecast to grow by less than 20% next year, according to DRAMeXchange. DRAMeXchange points out that the big three DRAM suppliers – Samsung, SK Hynix and Micron – have opted to slow down their capacity expansions and technology migrations. This is likely to keep prices at high levels as during this ...
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Phil Valentine, MD at European Trade & Exhibition Services, explains how this year’s Northern Manufacturing Show reflects changes in the industry.
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LEDs can shed infrared light on low cost, long lifetime sensors to monitor carbon dioxide levels in buildings, suggests Ralph Weir. To most people carbon dioxide (CO2) is a ‘greenhouse gas’, but not directly harmful to humans. We breathe it out, plants take it in for photosynthesis. Whereas miners once took canaries into the mines ...
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It is reported that Toshiba has chosen the Bain consortium tobuy its chip business. This has been reported before but Toshiba has had to back-track on the choice of Bain in theface of legal objections from jv partner Western Digital. The Bain geoup contains Hynix, Apple, Kingston, Dell, INCJ, DBJ and some presence from Toshiva ...
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Globalfoundries and Soitec today announced that they have entered into a five-year agreement to ensure the volume supply of FD-SOI wafers. The agreement, which is effective immediately, builds on the existing relationship between the companies and guarantees wafer supply for GF’s 22nm FD-SOI (22FDX) technology platform. “Globalfoundriesis delivering industry leading ultra-low power, performance-on-demand FD-SOI solutions ...
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Thanks to Jane’s for this one – the top 12 arms importers in 2016: $m Saudi Arabia 7,561 UAE 3,566 India 3,551 Australia 3,409 Egypt 2,830 UK 2,268 Algeria 2,212 Qatar 2,098 South Korea 2,026 China 1,735 Turkey 1,707 Japan 1,604
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In 2017, the 7% increase in the total pure-play foundry market is forecast to be almost entirely due to an 18% jump in <40nm feature size device sales, says IC Insights. Although expected to represent 60% of total pure-play foundry sales in 2017, the ≥40nm pure-play IC foundry market is forecast to be up only ...
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Intel has repeated its suggestion that the industry should standardise on a node-naming convention. This is ironic in view of the refusal of Intel’s marketing people to admit that there was no feature on a ‘22nm’ or ‘16nm’ chip which measured 22nm or 16nm. In fact Intel’s ‘22nm’ process had a drawn gate length of 27nm. ...
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Smart Energy GB, an organisation which describes itself as “the voice of the smart meter rollout”, has responded angrily to recent smart meter research from Sussex University. The researchers said that a lack of consumer engagement and insufficient information is slowing down the UK’s £11bn energy smart meter roll-out. “This research contains serious inaccuracies and ...
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Anritsu is demonstrating at ECOC 2017 exhibition in Gothenburg, Sweden (18-20 September) its recently released MP1900A series high-end bit error rate tester (BERT). The MP1900A Signal Quality Analyser-R is likely to be used in early stage R&D evaluations ranging from next-generation 200GbE/400GbE network interfaces to PCI Express and bus interfaces. The instrument is a multichannel tester ...
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Avnet Abacus has picked up a European distributor of the year award from connector supplier Molex. According to Henry Fuerniss, vice president sales and marketing EMEA, Molex, the distributor has played a key role in the connector firm’s European business growth. “Their team in Europe contributed to significant revenue growth for both companies,” said Fuerniss. ...
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Anglia Components continues to demonstrate the advantages of being a focused local UK component distributor. Wisbech-based Anglia has seen its business grow significantly faster than the market over the last ten years. Anglia CEO, Steve Rawlins believes the firm can be a £100m business in the next five years. Anglia’s turnover grew 52.4% between 2006 ...
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Anyone seriously interested in Android, in the UK, should consider attending droidcon London. Yes, it’s that time of year – it’s coming around again. This year droidcon London runs 26-27 October (Thursday – Friday), with the venue – as always – being the Business Design Centre in Islington. You can read more information and view ...
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Students from sixteen schools and colleges across Leeds, Bradford, Wakefield and Calderdale are getting an introduction to technology from with Premier Farnell. The Premier Farnell Technology Challenge aims to raise aspirations and help young people aged 16 – 18 years explore careers in digital and tech, an industry which is set to grow by ...
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UK LED maker Plessey has proved LED lighting can increase crop yield, in a trial where it was added to an existing high-pressure sodium (HPS) light installation. The seven-month trial, managed by Plessey head agronomist Maarten Klein (right), ran from November 2016 at Gebr Koot in the Netherlands. Brioso variety tomatoes were illuminated by either ...
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A UK-based environmental test laboratory serving the energy, defence and transportation sectors has been acquired by French firm Sopemea. Based in Bideford, Devon, PARC (Product Assessment and Reliability Centre) has almost 20 years testing experience in such areas as vibration, shock, climatic, salt spray, ingress protection, altitude and HALT tests (Highly Accelerated Life Testing). It ...
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Texas Instruments has introduced a 16V input, 40A synchronous DC/DC buck converter with internally compensated ‘advanced-current-mode’ (ACM) control supporting frequency synchronisation. Called TPS543C20, its low resistance high and low-side mosfets contribute to over 90% efficiency from a 40pin, 5 x 7mm 1.5mm high QFN package – which sinks heat through a ground pad. Two of ...
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Some of the ways in which the modern army is making use of electronics were described by the War Minister Mr John Profumo in the Commons last week. So, 56 years ago, started a story in Electronics Weekly’s edition of march 15th 1961. The story continues: In the debate on the Army Estimates he told ...
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Let's take a look at what Android jobs are currently available in the electronics industry. Specifically, here is a sample of the Android-related positions currently available on the ElectronicsWeekly.com Jobs service.
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Nexperia, the former Standard Products division of NXP, today announces a new series of Trench 9 power MOSFETs, targeted primarily at the automotive industry, which combine the company’s low voltage superjunction technology with its advanced packaging capability to deliver high performance and ruggedness. Five years ago, the company introduced the world’s largest range of automotive-qualified ...
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Globalfoundries has launched enhanced RF SOI PDKs optimised for multi-band RF switching in smartphones and IoT. Designed for use with Coupling Wave Solutions’ (CWS) simulation tool, SiPEX, GloFo’s 7SW SOI PDK allows designers to integrate RF switches with other critical RF blocks that are essential to the design of complex electronic systems for future RF communication chips. ...
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Is this scary or encouraging? “Cars are now saying, ‘I need special features because I’m going to rely on the network for mission critical things, safety, transportation efficiency.” The speaker is Qualcomm CEO Steve Mollenkopf. For all of us who have suffered from dropped calls, no-go areas and congested connections it is a truly awful ...
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