What topics have your peers been reading? ARM chip security, neural nets, 350kW charging, Chinese smartphones and asteroid mining all figure prominently this week...
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UK design house 42 Technology has developed a quickly-installed smart current monitor for the UK power grid. Branded FuseOhm, is self-powered data-logger that offers real-time measurement and recording of current (1A – 1,000A), voltage, phase angle and local temperature. Power dissipation is <6W. Sensing is resistive, and based on the firm’s existing ‘Triple Ohm’ intellectual ...
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Engineers from the UK-based Cockcroft Institute claim to have made discoveries that could improve the design of next generation particle accelerators. Working closely with colleagues from around the world at CERN, the North West England based team has demonstrated that it is possible to create head-on collisions of proton beams using a crab-like motion. Work ...
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Infineon’s founding CEO Ulrich Schumacher always went for the unexpected. When Infineon was still Siemens Semiconductor he was offered the job of marketing either telecommunications chips or DRAM chips. Telecoms chips were a stable and prosperous area but DRAMs were in a mess. He chose DRAMs. Why? “I had already been through a couple of cycles ...
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MintBox Mini 2 (MBM2) is the 4th generation of miniature fan-less PCs from Compulab and the folk behind Linux Mint – of each MBM2 sold, 5% is donated to Linux Mint. Processing comes from a quad-core ‘Apollo Lake’ Celeron J3455, and the machine ships with the Mint 19 ‘Tara’ Cinnamon installed. Other Mint variants, or other ...
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Software’s role in creating new business models around IoT hardware, with the use of snaps
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Here's a good one. Why would you build a driverless motorbike? We haven't even finished driverless cars yet...
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Eta Compute and Rohm Semiconductor are to create sensor nodes compatible with Wireless Smart Ubiquitous Network (Wi-SUN) – combining Rohm’s sensors and Eta’s microcontrollers to make nodes that can be powered by harvested energy. Wi-SUN is based on IEEE 802.15.4g and backed by the Wi-SUN Alliance. “Our partnership with Rohm gives our customers access to ...
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Green Hills Software has announced that its Integrity Multivisor secure virtualization and advanced development tools now support implementation of Automotive Grade Linux (AGL) on different 64-bit automotive grade SoCs. This means that AGL applications can be added to automotive systems meeting the ISO 26262 safety levels. So that AGL-based connected car applications will run in secure partitions ...
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California-based design firm Aricent is developing 5G networks software frameworks running on the Intel FlexRAN reference architecture. Aricent’s 5G framework will be integrated with the Intel FlexRAN reference architecture, supporting features compliant to 3GPP specifications for non-standalone modes. The firm’s 4G LTE framework based on Cloud-RAN (C-RAN) architecture also supports Intel’s FlexRAN. Harmeet Chauhan, president, ...
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Here is today's phenomenological thought experiment, considering the concepts of preception and observation: If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?
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Socionext will fab the third and latest generation of its graphics display controllers, the SC1701, on GLoFo’s 55nm Low Power Extended (55LPx) process technology with embedded non-volatile memory (SuperFlash). The 55LPx platform enables several new features in Socionext’s SC1701 series including enhanced diagnostic and security protection capabilities, cyclic redundancy code (CRC) checks, picture freeze detection, ...
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Siemens is to buy Austemper Design Systems of Austin, Texas which specialises in IC design analysis, auto-correction and simulation technology which tests and hardens IC designs for functional safety in applications such as automotive, industrial and aerospace systems. ICs in these applications require three types of functional safety verification: for systemic faults, malicious faults and ...
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The ADPD188BI is an integrated optical module featuring two LEDs, photodiode, and analog front-end (AFE) integrated together in a single package. The AFE offers high ambient light rejection and reduces power consumption to support longer battery life. The two LEDs help reduce false alarms often caused by steam and dust. False alarms are a leading ...
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SEMI has formed the SEMI Electronic Materials Group (EMG), a new collaborative technology community
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Over a thousand years ago a country had invented the compass (c50BC) paper (105AD) gunpowder (c850AD) and printing (868AD). However, although its people are inventive, entrepreneurial and hardworking the country veered between prosperity and poverty because of political upheavals. In times of stability it prospered, but when factions fought for power, it became poor. After 69 ...
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Some complex structure-building behaviour in animals is governed by simple responses to environmental cues rather than grand plans – known as ‘stigmergy’. Researchers at the University of Buffalo have turned to beavers to solve some robot problems. “When a beaver builds a dam, it’s not following a blueprint. Instead, it’s reacting to moving water. It’s ...
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Microchip has created the most capable ‘ATtiny’ AVR microcontroller yet, with 32kword of internal flash and a host of analogue peripherals including two 10bit 115ksample/s ADCs (one of which can be used as a touch controller) and three 8bit DACs. Called ATtiny3217, the 24pin 4 x 4mm QFN chip runs up to 20MHz. There is ...
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For our latest Picture of the Day we revisit MIT for some tasty research... It's a robotic restaurant in Boston that was conceived by time-pressured MIT students.
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Addiction experts are pointing to in-game purchasing schemes as a trigger for potentially ruinous addiction. The University of Adelaide team particularly points at ‘loot boxes’ – mechanisms with which players can repeatedly buy a random selection of virtual items – something that the Belgian Gambling Commission declared an illegal form of gambling in April. “Players ...
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The European Union’s new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which took effect on 25th May, is giving firms a new set of compliance headaches. GDPR is designed to protect EU consumers by forcing individual businesses to ensure that personal information is managed correctly. Compliance is compulsory for all businesses, and those found in breach can ...
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Instead of finger pricking, a miniature radar might one day tell diabetics what their blood-sugar level is, according to the University of Waterloo in Canada. “We want to sense blood inside the body without actually having to sample any fluid,” said engineer Professor George Shaker. “Our hope is this can be realised as a smart ...
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Farnell element 14 is now shipping the TI Robotics System Learning Kit (TI-RSLK)
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Anglia Components is recruiting staff as it continues a five year plan to grow UK electronic component distribution market share to 10%, with a turnover of £100 million. The distributor is looking for field application engineers, field sales and head office personnel. Steve Rawlins, CEO, Anglia, writes: “Our biggest challenge is getting the additional ...
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The European semiconductor industry has asked the EU for $11.7 billion for R&D over the next seven years. 11 organisations, including Soitec, ST, X-FAB, Bosch, GlobalFoundries, United Monolithic Semiconductors, Infineon, ASML Fraunhofer, CEA-Leti and Imec, have submitted a proposal to EU digital affairs commissioner Mariya Gabriel called ‘Rebooting Electronics Value Chains in Europe’. It argues ...
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The European semiconductor industry has asked the EU for $11.7 billion for R&D over the next seven years. 11 organisations, including Soitec, ST, X-FAB, Bosch, GlobalFoundries, United Monolithic Semiconductors, Infineon, ASML Fraunhofer, CEA-Leti and Imec, have submitted a proposal to EU digital affairs commissioner Mariya Gabriel called ‘Rebooting Electronics Value Chains in Europe’. It argues ...
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Farnell element14 is shipping the TI Robotics System Learning Kit (TI-RSLK), an affordable robotics kit and classroom curriculum, which provides students with a deeper understanding of how electronic system designs work. Robotics provides educators with the opportunity to teach interdisciplinary subjects and gives students a foundational understanding of electrical and computer engineering. The TI-RSLK is specifically ...
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There will be huge sighs of relief all over London now that Uber has had its licence renewed. People have come to rely on Uber. People have altered their lifestyles because of Uber. If it was banned there would be a mega outcry. This is the downside of these tech monoliths – they become so ...
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Cadence Design Systems a cloud-based chip and system design tool portfolio which has both Cadence-managed and customer-managed environments. It brings the scalability of the cloud into play for developers allowing them to securely manage high complexity designs, with scalable compute resources available in minutes or hours instead of months or weeks. The announcement was made ...
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EVERYBODY LOVES TO FEEL SPECIAL, whether it is getting a present from a secret admirer, or being told how great you are by your partner, it is always great to receive positive attention and care. After all, we humans yearn to be noticed. Now, imagine someone provided you with that special attention unconditionally at your ...
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Facebook is abandoning its plan to provide internet access via drones which will result in the closure of its drone building plant in Bridgwater in Somerset. The plant belonged to Ascenta, a UK drone building company bought by Facebook. The four year-old drone initiative, called Project Aquila, was seen as a way to bring internet ...
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A relatively new company, Avatar, focuses on physical design implantation. It presented the Aprisa full functional block level place and route system, and Apogee, a top-down hierarchical prototyping floor planning and chip assembly tool. The tools are built on ATopTech technologies which were the subject of a lawsuit brought by Synopsys. Following that, the tools ...
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Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning were popular themes at the 55 th DAC, held at the Moscone Center West in San Francisco (24 to 28 June 2018). Flex Logix Technologies was one of the companies that announced a product suitable for AI, machine learning and deep learning applications. by Caroline Hayes at DAC The ...
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Ac-dc PSU stand-by power can be as low as 10mW with STMicroelectronics’ STCH03 off-line power controller, aimed at mobile chargers, power adapters and auxiliary supplies. Energy-saving features include ‘zero-power’ high-voltage start-up circuitry, as well as burst-mode switching when the load is very low or disconnected (see below), are intended to help chargers meet legislation such ...
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The asteroid Davida – diameter 326 kilometres – is said to be worth $26,990,000,000,000,000,000 ($27 quintillion) because of its content of nickel, iron, cobalt, nitrogen, ammonia, and hydrogen. Other asteroids in the belt between Mars and Jupiter are also worth a pretty penny.
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Daimler has tied up with Xilinx to create automotive artificial intelligence hardware. “When Daimler started working on this programme, it had issues finding solutions that were technically capable of implementing artificial intelligence or a neural network on a device that combined price, power and availability, and was automotive qualified,” Xilinx marketing manager Stephan Janouch told ...
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I think we can file this one under our DevBoard Watch category - a wireless multi-sensor node from Rohm, the RoKi Sensor Node.
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Roboticists at Queensland University of Technology are using neural networks to help robots quickly and accurately grasp objects in cluttered and changing environments. “We have been able to program robots, in very controlled environments, to pick up very specific items. However, one of the key shortcomings of current robotic grasping systems is the inability to ...
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Seeking to create the most waft-able air movement sensor ever, that can detect sound as well as air movement, a US researcher has turned to spider silk and a 400V field. “The goal was to create a sensor that only resists gravity,” said Professor Ron Miles of Binghamton University. “The sensor needed to stay connected ...
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Fujitsu in mass production of an 8Mbit FRAM. The chip has an SRAM compatible parallel interface, offering a much more efficient alternative to battery backup SRAM. Based on the unique features of FRAM as a non-volatile memory, such as fast overwrite at 150 ns and read/write endurance of 1013, MB85R8M2T can replace anSRAM and remove ...
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CEVA has announced its CEVA-Dragonfly NB2 core for the cellular IoT standardCat-NB2 (3GPP Release 14 eNB-IoT). The licensable Rel14 compliant eNB-IoT core is based on the CEVA-X1 DSP/control processor featuring an enhanced Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) and provides a unified processor environment for both physical layer and protocol stack workloads. The core also includes a worldwide enabled RF Transceiver, a PA and ...
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SiFive today announced the availability of its E2 Core IP Series, configurable low-area, low-power microcontroller MCU cores designed for use in embedded devices. The E2 Series extends SiFive’s product line with two new standard cores, the E21, which provides mainstream performance for MCUs, sensor fusion, minion cores and smart IoT markets; and the E20, the ...
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Time is runing out to enter the competition on Electronics Weekly offering you the chance to win a Microchip embedded Linux development board. The deadline is the end of this week.
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Microchip’s latest Arm Cortex-M23 core based 32-bit microcontrollers feature Arm TrustZone for Armv8-M. This is a programmable security environment that provides hardware isolation between certified libraries, IP and application code. SAM L11 MCUs also have chip-level tamper resistance, secure boot and secure key storage. The aim is to protect IoT designs from both remote and ...
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Microchip has announced a dual-core 16bit dsPIC for high-end embedded control applications. Intended to speed code development by removing dependence between user-interface and real-time code, the cores are largely independent, each with its own set of peripherals, and communicating with each other only via FIFOs and mail-boxes – data and address busses are not shared. ...
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You could sack a CEO for not being able to turn a profit in last year’s memory market. You could, conceivably, sack a CEO for being two years late in bringing up a 10nm process. At a stretch, you could sack a CEO for publicly saying he expects to lose 15-20% share in server processors. ...
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Google is highlighting that in Android P, developers can use a BiometricPrompt API to better integrate biometric authentication into their apps.
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It's a computing landmark from 70 years ago, when the first stored programme digital computer in the world ran its first program.
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There have not been many Japanese semiconductor start-ups and that may be because of a lack of appreciation of the VC mentality. One of the few start-up attempts was Genusion, a flash memory company founded by an ex-Mitsubishi Electric guy called Moriyoshi Nakashima. “My first idea was to co-operate with an IDM; my second idea ...
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TDK Europe has recognised its best performing distribution partners for TDK and EPCOS components. The gold award went to Avnet Abacus, Digi-Key Electronics and to the Polish distributor Elhurt Spólka. This is the fifth time that these awards have been presented in Europe. Dietmar Jaeger, head of the TDK’s distribution business in Europe, writes: “I ...
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What topics have your peers been reading? Broadcom layoffs, Toshiba SSDs, AI, a Raspberry Pi project book, a Microchip competition and wireless testing all figure prominently this week...
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The Udoo board is back, in super-charged Udoo Bolt form - targeting AI, VR and computer vision this time around.
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A fast charging station for electric cars, capable of delivering 350kW to each of several vehicles
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UltraSoC will incorporate key elements of Imperas’ development environment into its tools offering, giving designers a unified system-level pre- and post-silicon development flow, dramatically reducing time-to-revenue and overall development costs. UltraSoC delivers the industry’s leading independent on-chip monitoring, analytics and debug technology, via a combination of semiconductor IP and associated software. Imperas’ virtual platforms approach ...
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Roki is a wireless multi-sensor node, designed for the evaluation of Bluetooth 5 communication in IoT applications. On-board are: 3-axis accelerometer Combination 3-axis accelerometer + 3-axis magnetometer Combination 3-axis accelerometer + 3-axis gyroscope 3-axis magnetometer Barometer And the following can be added: Optical heart rate sensor Ambient light sensor RGB colour sensor Magnetic hall effect ...
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Intel CEO Brian Krzanich has resigned following a relationship with an employee. Here is Intel’s statement: “Intel Corporation today announced the resignation of Brian Krzanich as CEO and a member of the Board of Directors. The Board has named Chief Financial Officer Robert Swan Interim Chief Executive Officer, effective immediately. “Intel was recently informed that ...
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Last Friday I started to ponder something: could I design a mark/space-ratio-locked loop. This is a thing, I propose, which would take a pulse-width-modulated waveform at any frequency, and produce a signal with exactly the same mark/space ratio, but at a nominated frequency (see ‘Why might this be useful?’ below). It would be a bit ...
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One of the great chip CEOs, named after a prophet and raised on Chicago’s south-side, started a company which specialised at being very good at making other companies’ products. He pioneered the use of other companies’ numbering systems for chips so everybody knew what they did. A heap of lawsuits decided that you couldn’t patent a sequence of numbers. ...
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President Trump’s immigration practice of separating children from their parents could have been abandoned as a result of Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella’s protest as explained to MS employees in this email: Team, Like many of you, I am appalled at the abhorrent policy of separating immigrant children from their families at the southern border of ...
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Arrow Electronics is offering IoT developers a secure design service with the potential to authenticate IoT devices and quickly establish trusted connections to the cloud. Based around the NXP A71CH security device, Arrow has expanded the programming facilities at its distribution centre in Venlo, Netherlands, to offer the new service, which will be available to ...
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Würth Elektronik eiSos is investing €25m at its Waldenburg logistics centre with sample factory which opened two years ago. The existing storage, picking and logistics space is set to double again with the construction of 4,000 m² of usable space for logistics and a fully automated shuttle warehouse covering 1,300 m². “Developers worldwide should receive ...
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Amplicon of Brighton has introduced a range of industrial monitors, including high performance Full-HD and 4K displays. Called Senses Industrial Monitors, that range comprises of SD displays for low-cost, less demanding applications, as well as, both Full-HD and 4K high-end displays. The Full-HD and 4K monitors are available with either resistive touch or 10-point projected ...
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Robots and their potential to make an impact on society may be beginning to enter the psyche of the UK population. As UK Robotics Week begins, a new survey has found that nearly a quarter of respondents believed that there is potential for more robots to be included in everyday society. But robot-friendliness is taking ...
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A Chalmers University spin-off is about commercialise a graphene assembled film technology. Researchers at the Swedish university have developed a graphene assembled film that has over 60% higher thermal conductivity than graphite film – despite the fact that graphite simply consists of many layers of graphene. The graphene film shows potential as a novel heat ...
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The University of Nottingham has 3D printed materials that contain molecules that reversibly change state in response to stimuli – demonstrating the concept by developing a photo-active molecule that changes from colourless to blue when irradiated with light, then back by exposure to oxygen from the air, and a tailor-made polymer to support it. “We ...
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A team from the US Northwestern University has developed a laser that changes colours using the same mechanism as chameleons. “Chameleons can easily change their colours by controlling the spacing among the nano-crystals on their skin, which determines the colour we observe,” said Professor Teri Odom. “This colouring based on surface structure is chemically stable ...
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Android apps for Arduino Bluetooth Control. What are some of the best apps available? Zach Wendt and Jeremy S. Cook walk us through the stages of development.
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Coolisys Technologies has announced a line of crypto-mining units, called ‘SuperMiner’. The first of the line, built around a 10nm mining chipset jointly developed by Samsung and Innosilicon, is called ‘AntEater’ and can operate at 17.2T hash/s. “We wanted to push the envelope by developing the AntEater based on a 10nm chip because it was the ...
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The dark arts of Cambridge Analytica have been unveiled and revealed and are explained here by CB Insights. Psychographics is the name of the Cambridge Analytica game defined as the study of consumers based on their activities, interests, and opinions (marketers call these AIOs). It goes beyond classifying people based on general demographic data, such ...
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Toshiba has unveiled what it describes as a ‘game-changing’ category of SAS SSDs expected to replace SATA SSDs in server applications. The RM5 12Gbit/s value SAS (vSAS) series features capacity, performance, reliability, and manageability and data security advantages – at a price that obsoletes SATA SSDs, claims Toshiba. A homogeneous SAS environment has long been ...
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I missed this earlier this year – TI using a novel package to enclose what it describes as the worlds smallest op-amp. The smallest version is in an 0.8 x 0.8mm X2SON (which I would describe as 800 x 800μm to make it sound even smaller..) To get five connections – two in, one out and ...
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SEMI’s May billings were 0.6% higher than April’s at $2.70 billion and 19.2% higher than the May 2017 billings level of $2.27 billion. “May 2018 monthly global billings of North American equipment manufacturers exceeded last month’s level to set yet another record,” said Ajit Manocha, president and CEO of SEMI. “Demand for semiconductor equipment remains strong on ...
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Cambridge Consultants are telling the story of how the Nintendo Switch game console was rescued from potential launch failure.
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Describing them as mid-range and compact, Rohde & Schwarz has introduced the SMB100B analogue RF signal generator and the SMBV100B vector signal generator, aiming them at RF semiconductor development, telecommunications, aerospace and defence. They are available in various configurations, with frequency ranges from 8kHz to 1GHz, 3GHz or 6GHz, customers can choose among three different ...
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Magnetic angle sensing with 12-bit resolution, and a maximum non-linearity error of ±1° is available from either or two completely separate sensors in a common package for use in functional safety systems, such as in the gear shifters and pedals in automotive electrified power-train applications such as shift-by-wire, as well as potentiometer replacement in knobs and ...
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Revenues for industrial Internet applications are forecast to grow 17.7% in 2018 to $35.9 billion, says IC Insights. The connected cities segment—covering government-funded infrastructure, “smart” roadways and bridges, streetlights, power grids and other utilities, public-safety video security networks, environmental and weather monitors, and other systems—is expected to increase 7.0% this year to $38.8 billion. The ...
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TI has revealed early fruits from the latest in its long-running series of BiCom advanced bipolar processes: the 27V 200MHz low-noise OPA2810 and the 36V zero-drift 14MHz OPA189, which are aimed at signal conditioning in automotive and industrial environments. “These are the first few of many other amplifiers focussed in this area, the beginning of ...
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Raspberry Pi is super popular, we know, so this new book may be of interest: 20 Easy Raspberry Pi Projects.
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Novel laser scans could scan breast for cancer without x-rays, if research at Caltech proves fruitful. Photoacoustic computed tomography, or PACT, works by shining a near-infrared laser pulse into the breast tissue, which is absorbed by oxygen-carrying hemoglobin molecules in red blood cells, causing the molecules to vibrate ultrasonically. Those vibrations travel through the tissue and ...
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Korean research lab KAIST has created a flexible array of thin-film blue micro-LEDs, following-on form a similar red array. The team transferred thousands of <2μm-thick blue vertical micro LEDs onto plastic in one go. Electrical connections are via silver wires. Optical power density around 30mW/mm2 was demonstrated. claimed by KAIST to be three times higher that ...
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What are the options available for industrial Ethernet? Let’s take a look at the most popular ones we see being used today.
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Publicly branding a fellow head of state dishonest and weak shouldn’t really have consequences – these guys have hides like rhinoceroses – but it could. The Canadian government says that 9 million US jobs depend on trade with Canada and has issued this infographic to show where the vulnerable jobs are.
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MJE1123, once from Motorola and now from New Jersey Semi-conductor Products, is a rather specialised transistor. It is a 40V 4A power pnp with high gain and good saturation (200mV max at 1A). The specialism is, that it was designed by Motorola with Linear Technology to work with a particular chip, the LT1123, which is ...
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In March 1987 at an event later dubbed ‘The Woodstock of Physics’ scientists cheered as the Universities of Houston and Alabama disclosed that they had made materials (compounds of yttrium, barium, copper and oxygen) which allowed superconductivity at around -180 degrees C. This meant that instead of having to use liquid helium to cool the ...
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Could you swallow this? The journal Science features new research from MIT. It introduces ‘An ingestible bacterial-electronic system to monitor gastrointestinal health’.
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Apologies to those who believe that either analysis or soldering is the only route to truth… …for I have used Analog Devices’ wonderful LTspice to have a quick look at the p-jfet and n-jfet versions of the Middlebrook & Richer trinagle to sine wave converter. And here are the results, both looking delightful. First p-jfet – ...
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An ARM acquisition, a CMOS 140GHz radar-on-chip, Samsung memory, UK technology and some unique spin-orbit interactions in silicon all figure prominently this week...
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In a one-sided nuclear attack, however successfully it achieves its initial purpose, will also kill people in the launching country if too many warheads are detonated. 100 warheads is about right for maximum target destruction with minimum self-destriction, the the pragmatic if chilling finding, which sounds like a Cold War prediction, but is actually the ...
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Samsung is offering red leds optimised for horticulture lighting, and some whites. LH351B Red is a high-power package providing 660nm red with a photosynthetic photon flux (PPF) of 2.15μmole/s at 350mA. “The 660nm wavelength helps to accelerate the growing of plants including their photosynthesis, as well as enrich the blooming of flowers,” said the firm. ...
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Anritsu has announced that the LTE-Advanced RF Conformance Test System ME7873LA has obtained PTCRB certification for RF Conformance Tests of 5 Downlink Carrier Aggregation (5DL CA) forming a key LTE-Advanced technology. With 5 Downlink Carrier Aggregation (5DL CA) when used with MIMO downlink throughput speeds of 1Gbit/s will be possible as 5G enters commercial service ...
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Gresham Power Electronics of Salisbury is stocking two series of high-reliability low-maintenance industrial Pb-acid batteries from Yuasa. ENL range is suited to general use and has a 15 year design life in standby conditions. EN series provide high rate discharge performance and a life of over 12 years. Both are part of Yuasa’s Endurance Range, which ...
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STMicroelectronics’ AlgoBuilder tool is designed to simplify firmware development by letting users build sensor-control algorithms graphically with library modules, ready to compile and run on an STM32 microcontroller. To build algorithms designers can drag and drop selected functions, connecting the blocks, and configuring properties. The tool validates all design rules and automatically generates C code ...
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Tam Hanna considers STMicroelectronics' VL53L1X laser-based distance sensors, which are ideally suited for drone landing.
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Non-centralised mutual control is key to a team of drones that can defend a place against attack, according to researchers in Saudi Arabia. Performance of the scheme was judged in a capture-the-flag game, where the team of defender drones worked together within a defined area to intercept a human-controlled intruder drone and prevent it from reaching ...
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There was once an Essex boy who went to Cambridge where he earned Bachelors’, Masters’ and Doctors’ degrees and was elected a Senior Fellow. He became President of the Royal College of Physicians While serving as Queen Elizabeth 1’s doctor he published a book saying that the earth was a magnet whose poles were the ...
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Computer scientists from the University of Bonn have developed software that can predict human behaviour a few minutes into the future, demonstrated by asking ‘what happens next’ when people make salads. The training data included 40 videos of people making different salads, each around six minutes long and containing 20 different actions on average, lasting ...
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The Future is Blue event in Central London this week helped celebrate the twentieth anniversary of Bluetooth (the Bluetooth SIG was formally announced on 20 May 1998).
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There is a very interesting article on scope probes by Doug Ford, originally published in Australian magazine Silicon Chip. Forgive me, but I had no idea that faster probes rely on their leads being lossy transmission lines. The link to the article is on this page – click on ‘The secret world of probes’. Thanks ...
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The theme for International Women in Engineering Day (INWED) 2018, which takes place on 23 June, is to raise the bar for women in engineering. It sees a need to heighten expectations for female engineers, there are still a plenty of myths and misconceptions to quash about working in the industry. So Emma Cygan, design ...
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Smiths Interconnect has introduced a range of flexible coaxial cable assemblies which are pre-tested and qualified for the space orbit environment. The SpaceNXT Q series are available as cut to length and dual-terminated assemblies. The range currently consists of the 105Q, 190Q, and 200Q cable models which cover key performance characteristics at various frequency bands ...
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Samsung Electronics has announced today its plan to commit to 100% renewable energy in the United States, Europe and China by 2020. This major commitment – the first by an electronics manufacturing company in Asia – comes after months of campaigning and global protests calling on Samsung to urgently set a clear renewable energy goal ...
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Farnell has launched a five-week competition for customers in Europe to celebrate the summer of football 2018. Customers in Europe can visit football.farnell.com to guess the score in key games, test their football predictions against friends and colleagues on a live leader board and tell Farnell element14 about their top-scoring products to get the chance ...
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A million members have joined Avnet’s online collaborative networks of engineers, entrepreneurs and developers – element14.com and Hackster.io. Avnet acquired both element14 (as part of Premier Farnell) and Hackster.io in 2016. Since then, the combined membership grew by approximately 48% year over year. element14 is a discussion-based online community where engineers collaborate to solve one ...
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Harting develops range of miniaturised IGBT power interfaces with integrated electro-optical conversion
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Rutronik has expanded its distribution agreement with TDK for the European market. As a result will now offer TDK’s Epcos brand of products. This is in addition to the TDK-Micronas and TDK-Lambda brands. Under the EPCOS brand, TDK offers aluminum electrolytic and foil capacitors, transformers, varistors, thermistors, piezo components, and actuators for haptic feedback. Rutronik ...
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Including a vector network analysers (VNA), oscilloscope and an arbitrary waveform generator (AWG)
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You can see why the USA may be getting a trifle paranoid about China at the moment because China keeps pulling out all the stops to up the pace in the tech race. After trying and failing to buy US tech companies, China then set about raising a series of enormous local and central government ...
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Recom has added the RSP-168 surge protectors to their portfolio, which allow DC/DC converters to meet both RIA12 and NF F 01-510 surge immunity specifications for railway applications. Three versions cover a range of railway certified DC/DC converters from 20W up to 240W. The modules are designed to protect railway DC/DC converters from excessive voltage ...
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New tech hubs to connect businesses in the UK with those in emerging digital markets will be launched in Brazil and South Africa, DCMS Secretary of State Matt Hancock announced during London Tech Week. The Brazil and South African tech hubs will be formed of locally-engaged teams based in the respective British Embassy and High ...
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Powerbox has used 29F of supercapacitors in a 2U chassis to deliver 2.5kW of back-up power to an industrial controller, as an example of its S-Cap Boost technology which uses supercaps as the main storage element of un-interruptable power supplies for special environments. S-Cap Boost is intended for industrial and medical applications, offering “a solution ...
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Globalfoundries is to cut 5% of its 18,000 global workforce. “In the coming weeks, we will be initiating a targeted workforce reduction specifically designed to improve our global cost structure and minimize redundancies that have accrued from previous mergers and acquisitions,” says a GloFo statement, “this limited action will impact approximately 5 percent of our global headcount, ...
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Rigol has introduced a 4.5GHz spectrum analyser with 10MHz of real-time analysis bandwidth, which can be upgraded to 40MHz at any time, and there is an optional tracking generator. The instrument is part of a new family, called RSA3000, which also includes a 3GHz version and follows on from the higher spec RSA5000 family announced earlier ...
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Arm has bought Stream of Glasgow the 18 year-old M2M connectivity specialist for an undisclosed sum. “Stream’s core products and services can be split into two parts,” says Nigel Chadwick, CEO of Stream (pictured). “One is the connectivity part, which enables data to be transferred from sensors and devices, out there in the environment, on ...
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It might be a bit old-hat these days, but I was interested to come across a differential pair triangle-to-sine conversion technique in this Loudifier blog that apparently came from a TI app note (once a Nat Semi app note) called ‘AN-263 Sine wave generation techniques‘. Sinewave generation is something I had to do years ago, ...
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NXP is expanding its cellular infrastructure portfolio of GaN and silicon laterally diffused metal oxide semiconductor (Si-LDMOS) for 5G networks. Spectrum expansion, higher order modulation, carrier aggregation, full dimension beam forming, andother enablers of 5G connectivity will require an expanded base of technologies to support enhanced mobile broadband connectivity. With spectrum usage and network footprints, multiple-input, multiple ...
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Rigol has introduced scopes with up to 500MHz bandwidth and a 10.1in colour touch display. There are eight instruments in the DS7000/MSO7000 family, all with four channels and rated at either 100, 200, 350 or 500MHz. MSO versions also have 16 digital channels. Memory up to 500Mpoints is available. Sampling, which is at up to ...
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Specialist component distributor, Gateway Electronic Components, has opened a ferrite core gapping and machining centre at its Cheshire facility, offering surface grinding and machining, test equipment, hardware and software support. The ferrite and magnetic material distributor holds franchises for TDK, Ferroxcube and Fair-Rite and now extend its value-added services into the ferrite core gapping market, having identified ...
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Intellectuals seek generalisations to make the world explicable and the Atlantic magazine has been asking Trump associates for a definition of the Trump Doctrine. Offered up were: ‘No friends no enemies’ ‘Permanent destabilisation creates American advantage.’ ‘We’re America, bitch.’ A white House official distinguished the Trump from the Obama Doctrine. “Obama apologised to everyone for ...
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Summit, the worlds most powerful computer, with peak processing at 200Pflop/s, has been unveiled at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the US. “For certain scientific applications, Summit will also be capable of 3.3Eop of mixed precision calculations per second,” said the lab. The IBM AC922 system consists of 4,608 servers, each containing two 22 core ...
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NAND flash prices will continue to drop in Q3, says Digitimes, quoting industry sources NAND flash demand has not kept up with supply and over-supply will continue into Q3, says Digitimes. Q4 will see the over-supply grow larger with suppliers holding high inventory levels from Q3 onwards. Suppliers built high inventories at the beginning of the ...
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I have only just come across this image, which I think is from 2006. It is not of aliens landing in a small German town, but the spectrometer being delivered to KATRIN (Karlsruhe tritium neutrino experiment) to the Tritium Laboratory Karlsruhe. It is 23m long, 10m in diameter, and weighs 200 tonnes. According to Wikipedia, ...
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