Imec on Future Networks

This is the eighth in a series of essays by Imec about the future of electronics technology. This one is called Future Networks and is by Michael Peeters, director of Imec’s connectivity programme. Will people and their habitats become an integral part of tomorrow’s communication networks? The world has changed at breakneck speed in the ...

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Renesas MCU has hardware virtualisation function

Renesas claims to have the first MCU with embedded flash that integrates a hardware-based virtualization-assisted function while maintaining the performance of the RH850 products. This hardware-based virtualization assist technology can support up to ASIL D level of functional safety, providing greater levels of system integration. The RH850/U2A MCU is the first member of Renesas’ cross-domain ...

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Murata, Cypress and NXP team on wireless connectivity

Murata is collaborating with Cypress and NXP  to provide IoT developers with mix-and-match wireless connectivity and processing solutions. The combined products pair Murata’s wireless modules, based on Cypress’  Wi-Fi and Bluetooth combos, with a range of  processors from the NXP i.MX series. The solutions build upon Murata’s long-standing relationship with Cypress and NXP. Murata says ...

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97 fabs closed in last decade

97 fabs have been closed or re-purposed in the last ten years, reports IC Insights. With the surge of merger and acquisition activity in the middle of this decade and with more companies producing IC devices on sub-20nm process technology, suppliers are eliminating inefficient wafer fabs. Figure 1 shows that since 2009, 42 150mm wafer ...

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Hail the Rosalind Franklin ExoMars rover

We said goodbye to 'Opportunity' recently and we should also say hello to 'Rosalind Franklin'. This is the name for the ExoMars rover, which was chosen earlier this month

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Former Plessey head takes on Cambridge sensor spin-out as CEO

University of Cambridge spin-out Sorex Sensors has appointed Michael LeGoff as CEO – LeGoff founded LED-maker Plessey Semiconductors, and before that Dynex. Sorex raised £1.2 million seed funding last year from Cambridge Enterprise, the Cambridge Angels and Cambridge Capital Group. “The team has done a fantastic job in bringing its sensing technology close to the ...

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Embedded World: Bluetooth chip gets Arm Cortex-M33 to run applications and algorithms

Dialog Semiconductor has included an Arm Cortex-M33 application and algorithm processor in a Bluetooth 5.1 wireless microcontroller, to create a family called DA1469x. “The product family is the first wireless microcontroller in production with a dedicated application processor based on the ARM Cortex-M33 processor,” said Dialog. “The M33 offers developers greater processing power for more ...

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Fable: The Genius

57 years ago a genius started a company. He focussed the company on linear ICs and, by 1964, had 30 standard linear ICs in the catalogue and 700 employees. The genius developed the junction FET concept and a JFET product line. In 1966, the company started on a series of amalgamations – Philbrick, Nexus, Teledyne ...

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Embedded World: SamacSys announces a new Altium integration

SamacSys, the specialist provider of electronic component CAD models, has completed a new integration with Altium, the supplier of PCB design tools. The agreement was announced at Embedded World in Nuremberg and the collaboration will support Altium customers by directly integrating the SamacSys platform of free design resources, including PCB footprints, schematic symbols and 3D ...

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Embedded World: Trinamic chooses Risc-V for intelligent motor driver chip

German chip firm Trinamic has chosen Risc-V over Arm for the processor inside its latest generation of motor drivers – it specialises in drivers with advanced features, aimed at high-performance positioning systems like servos and those in computer controlled machines. Dubbed Rocinante (named from both Don Quixote and The Expanse, according to the firm), it ...

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Toshiba launches 31 single-supply single gate logic ICs

Toshiba has announced a range of single-supply single-gate logic devices. In total the line-up consists of 31 devices that simplify the design of voltage-level translation as used in data communication between devices, such as between microprocessors and peripherals. These single-gate devices are provided in tiny packaging that ensure that voltage translation can be implemented even ...

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Embedded World: TI launches BAW ICs

TI has announced  bulk acoustic wave (BAW)-based embedded processing and analogue chips for connectivity and communications infrastructure. The first two devices developed with TI BAW technology are the SimpleLinkTM CC2652RB wireless microcontroller (MCU) and the LMK05318 network synchronizer clock. BAW resonator technology integrates reference clocking resonators which improves performance and increases resistance to mechanical stresses, ...

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Imec on Augmented Reality

This is the seventh in a series of essays from Imec on the future of electronics technology. It is called Augmented Reality and it is by Imec principal scientist Soeren Steudel AR glasses have the potential to replace the smartphone within 10-15 years from now, says Soeren Steudel, who heads up the displays research activity at Imec. ...

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Call for cyber security innovators

The London Office for Rapid Cybersecurity Advancement (LORCA) today launches the open call for its third group of cyber innovators. The new group will be tasked with solving some of the most pressing cybersecurity issues, as identified by industry leaders at LORCA’s Innovation Forum. Details of the application process and a full description of the challenges can be ...

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Micron launches SSD using 96 layer 3D NAND

Micron’s  1300 SATA SSD uses 96-layer TLC 3D NAND-based SSDs and delivers storage capacities up to 1TB (in M.2) and 2TB (in 2.5-inch).  It delivers sequential reads/writes up to 530MB/520MB per second and random reads/writes up to 90,000/87,000 input/output operations per second (IOPS). It uses 75 mW. Itbsupports Microsoft Windows 10 Modern Standby requirements including adaptive thermal management ...

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Who Will Pay For 5G?

It’s often seen as a bit vulgar to ask how much things cost which shows how polite we all are when it comes to 5G. Everyone’s talking about it. Governments in a dozen countries (including ours) have said they want their countries to be leading adopters of 5G. Qualcomm and Huawei have modems for it. ...

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Whitepaper: Heightening the Security of IoT Networks

Interested in the security of IoT networks? There's a whitepaper from Mouser, now available on the site, which addresses this topic.

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The Good, Bad And Ugly AVs

Any schoolboy knows that Waymo has the best self-driving car technology and a lot of people probably assumed that Uber’s is round the about the worst. This is also the conclusion of data from the California Department of Motor Vehicles   Disengagements mean that the safety driver on board the test AVs has to take ...

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Put up the evidence on Huawei, Vodafone boss tells US

The US should put up any evidence they may have that Huawei switchgear has been used for spying, says Vodafone boss Nick Read (pictured), The US has been pressuring countries and companies not to use Huawei gesr. However, says Read, not to use it involves a  “massive swap of equipment hugely disruptive to national infrastructure ...

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Embedded World: The Ultimate Arduino Challenge

The Ultimate Arduino Challenge was announced at Embedded World by Arduino co-founder Massimo Banzi. The Ultimate Arduino Challenge is divided into three categories: Data Collection, Industrial IoT, and Anything Goes. The Data Collection category tasks engineers with collecting data using an Arduino board and various sensors; The Industrial IoT contest tests engineers’ skills in designing ...

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Samsung ramps 512GB flash module; launching 1TB in H2

Samsung is ramping up production of its 512GB eUFS 3.0 3D NAND flash memory module. In H2 it plans to launch a 1TB device. Samsung’s 512GB eUFS 3.0 stacks eight of the company’s fifth-generation 512Gb 3D NAND die and integrates a high-performance controller. At 2,100 MB/s,  the new eUFS doubles the sequential read rate of Samsung’s ...

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Embedded World: Qualcomm and Geely look to 5G-enabled C-V2X

China car manufacturer Geely, Qualcomm and IoT specialist Gosuncn have teamed upto0put  5G-linked cars on the road in China in 2021. proposed its four steps G-Pilot strategy for autonomous driving in 2018. Presently, its autonomous driving is at Level 2 and will now provide Level 3 services with 5G and C-V2X technologies in 2021 for ...

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Hua Hong heads for 5nm

Hua Hong Semiconductor, the China foundry,  is looking to acquire a 14nm process next year. It also  plans to develop 7nm and 5nm processes. Hua Hong says it will add capacity to its fabs in Shanghai (Jinqiao, Zhengjiang and Kangqiao) and Wuxi, to achieve 350,000 wpm capacity next year.. Hua Hong’s first 12-inch fab dubbed ...

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Top Ten Racing Drivers

Here they are: the best ever ten racing car drivers: Fangio Prost Brabham Clark Foyt Moss Senna Schumacher Alonso Vettel

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Embedded World 2019 – Video preview

Clive Couldwell, group editor of Electronics Weekly, anticipates attending Embedded World 2019, running 26-28 February, in Nuremberg. He expects automotive, AI and IoT security to be big themes of the show. And, if you are attending in Germany, he cordially invites you to come and say hello at the stand we share with OEMSecrets, who ...

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Embedded World: Video Interview – SensiEDGE on lowering Barriers for IoT Developers

At Embedded World 2019, we caught up with Milan Yudkovich, founder of IoT specialist SensiEDGE, as part of our promotional coverage for the event. He discusses how the company’s devices make it easier and faster for developers and startups to design their IoT applications. Thank you to Milan for his time. Read all our Embedded ...

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Embedded World: Video Interview – Analog Devices, on power management and embedded AI

At Embedded World 2019, we caught up with Jackie Rutter of Analog Devices, as part of our promotional coverage for the event. She discusses power control and power management, embedded AI, cyber security at the device level, and a wireless smart sensor system for condition-based applications. Thank you to Jackie for her time. Read all ...

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Embedded World: Video Interview – Lattice enables low-power AI at the Edge

At Embedded World 2019, we caught up with Hussein Osman of Lattice Semiconductor, as part of our promotional coverage for the event. He discusses implementing AI at the network edge using FPGAs, processing data in parallel, for applications including machine vision using high-resolution video. Thank you to Hussein for his time. Read all our Embedded ...

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Not Enough People Have Smartphones

As the Cocktail Marathon of the Year, a.k.a. MWC 2019, tucks into Barcelona’s Sangria and Paella fiesta, a report published by the GSMA, reminds us that the mobile phone industry still has some way to go to realise it’s mission to democratise data. According to the GSMA only 60% of all mobile connections are via smartphones. The ...

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Intel cans 5G deal with Tsinghua Unigroup

Intel has ended its year-old joint development deal with the Tsinghua Unigroup-owned chip manufacturer aunidoc to develop 5G modem chips, reports Bloomberg. Intel says the partnership has not been ended because of pressure from the US government, “We decided mutually that we would not continue the partnership,” said Robert Topol, GM of Intel’s 5G strategy and ...

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Embedded World: e-peas addresses thermal energy harvesting

e-peas, the Belgian low-power specialist, is applying its technology to energy harvesting with a chip optimized for energy harvesting from thermal sources in wireless sensors application. Supplied in a 28-pin QFN package, the AEM20940 is capable of extracting available input current up to levels of 110mA. Taking DC power from a connected thermal electric generator ...

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Embedded World: Insight SiP adds LoRa

At Embedded World today, Insight SiP, the specialist in ultra-miniature RF modules, is launching the ISP4520 series of modules, extending its product portfolio to include Long Range Networking via LoRa technology. The ISP4520 module integrates BLE and LoRa radio functionality to offer a unique solution, combining the short-range high throughput capability and easy smartphone/PC access ...

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Embedded World: UltraSoC demoes new IDE.

Today, at Embedded World in Nuremberg, UltraSOC announced that its UltraDevelop 2 IDE is now available for beta testing and is being shipped to qualified lead customers. The new IDE will be publicly demonstrated for the first time at Embedded World. Launched in October 2018, UltraDevelop 2 presents a complete and comprehensive IDE for system-on-chip ...

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DRAM takes a tumble

Q4 DRAM revenues fell by 18.3% QoQ, reports DRAMeXchange. ASPs of mainstream 8GB modules have fallen to $50 for January, and will continue to fall through in February and March, says DRAMeXchange, with an estimated decline of 20-25% for Q1. The production bit levels of DRAM suppliers in 4Q18 were far above sales bit levels, ...

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Infineon to sample e-SIM

Infineon will sample an eSIM  for mobile consumer devices in the middle of the year. It will be a tested and certified end-to-end solution comprising a chip, operating software and services. To facilitate technical integration of the eSIM into consumer devices and accelerate time to market, Infineon can also provide data plans in cooperation with ...

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Third month running of chip manufacturing equipment sales decline

January billings for semiconductor manufacturing equipment fell 10.5% compared to December’s billings, reports SEMI. As well as being down on December’s billings total if $2.1 billion, the January billings of $1.89 billion were also 20.8% down on the January 2018 billings figure of $2.37 billion. The January decline was the third consecutive month of decline. ...

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Storage Plagues Computer Design

THE provision of suitable storage constitutes a major engineering problem in computer design. So, 58 years ago, started an article by K.L. Smith of IBM in Electronics Weekly’s edition of May 24th 1961. The article continued: Memories are inevitably slower than the associated processors, and resort has to be made to parallel memory operation to ...

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Embedded World 2019: Get the full Electronics Weekly Guide

A roundup of all the latest electronics news from Embedded World 2019 in Nuremberg.

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Last chance: Nominate BrightSparks before 28 February

Note the deadline for entries to EW BrightSparks 2019 - Thursday 28 February 2019. Please nominate a deserving colleague or friend.

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Imec on: Smart Factories.

Man and machine collaborating on the factory floor: a nightmare or a match made in heaven? What will our factories look like in 2035? asks Pieter Simoens of the University of Ghent, an Imec affiliate. You do not have to be a great visionary to envision a state-of-the-art production facility crammed with robots and artificial ...

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SOX It To ‘Em

Can the SOX be wrong? This year it’s up 17%. So the question is: Would the SOX be so high for an industry so heavily dependent on the China market, if the smart money thought the US-China trade war was going to last all year? Stock exchanges are funny beasts but one would think not. ...

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Only Connect: On universal backshells for circular connectors

Servo Connectors in partnership with KEC have worked together to design an economical, high quality universal backshell solution for circular connectors, writes Nick Locke.

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Siglent SDS5000X oscilloscopes tackle embedded circuit design

Siglent presents their new flagship oscilloscope, shown the first time to the audience at DesignCon in America.

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Arm introduces fourth security element to PSA

In October 2017, Arm introduced Platform Security Architecture (PSA), a set of hardware, firmware specifications, analysis models an open source firmware reference implementation for a scalable, secure IoT framework. The three initial pillars of analysis (threat and security analysis), architecture specifications for firmware and hardware and an open source implementation, are now joined by a ...

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GCHQ Director calls for international cyber pact

Ultimately cyber-security will only come from international agreement on a system of ethics and standards for operating in cyber-space, said the director of GCHQ, Jeremy Fleming (pictured) in a speech in Singapore today. “Our future security will be guaranteed not by the quality of our coding, the design of our silicon or the cunning of ...

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Huawei out-folds Samsung

Huawei’s answer to Samsung’s folding phone is bigger and thinner. The Huawei Mate X has an unfolded 8” screen, a 4,500mAh battery and is 11mm thick when folded compared to 17mm for the Samsung Fold. It’s also more expensive – $2,300 for the Mate compared to $2,000 for the Fold – more than double the ...

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Mark Bohr to leave Intel

Mark Bohr (pictured) Intel’s process guru, is to retire in March, reports The Oregonian. Bohr has worked at Intel for 40 years, latterly heading the group responsible for process migrations. Notable achievements were the introduction of high-k metal gate and finfets. However Bohr slipped up on 10nm which is running almost three years late. “We ...

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Q4 smartphone sales flat; iPhone sales down 11.8%

Q4 2018 sales of smartphones were flat with Q4 2017 at 408.4 million units, says Gartner. Apple sales fell 11.8% – its worst quarterly decline since Q1 2016. Table 1 Worldwide Smartphone Sales to End Users by Vendor in 4Q18 (Thousands of Units) Vendor 4Q18 Units 4Q18 Market Share (%) 4Q17 Units 4Q17 Market Share ...

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Embedded power ICs for automotive applications

Next month Infineon will sample a new family of Embedded Power ICs. The TLE985x series provides AEC Q-100 qualified H-bridge driver motor control solutions for 2-phase DC and single-phase brushless DC motors. It will support automotive customers in replacing relays in low-end motor control applications such as sunroof and window lift. By switching from relays to ...

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Image sensor for selfies and multi-camera configurations

Omnivision is sampling  a 1.12 micron, 8 megapixel (MP) image sensor family, designed for the broad smartphone camera markets. The sensor, designated OV08B, supports mainstream selfie imaging, as well as multi-camera configurations. “The 1/4 inch 8 MP sensor category continues to see tremendous volume opportunities in the mainstream mobile phone camera market. In addition to ...

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Industrial MPUs with 10 year Linux support

Renesas has introduced the RZ/G2 Group of 64-bit Arm Cortex-A57 and Cortex-A53-based microprocessors (MPUs) for industrial automation and building automation applications. The four new RZ/G2 MPUs are supported by the Renesas RZ/G Linux Platform for industrial applications, bringing increased performance, reliability, security, and long-term software support to mission-critical applications as well as standard applications with ...

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Ed Taps The Continentals

Gosh I love seeing the pols rushing around like headless chickens – resignations, new groupings, press events, virtue signaling, self indulgence and inflated self importance, Ed confides to his diary. We see them for what they are: powerless but puffed up by the empty privileges of parliament. And, Ye Gods, this is happening when the ...

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The Asshole

Adam Osborne  launched the Osborne 1 at the 1981 West Coast Computer Faire In his book Revolution in the Valley, Andy Hertzfeld tells how he and some of the Mac team went to the Faire to see it. “We started to ask one of the presenters a technical question and were surprised to see Osborne ...

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96Boards supports STM’s Cortex-A7 + Cortex-M4 STM32MP1

Arrow has introduced a develoment board for ST Microelectronics’ new Linux-enabled MCU that combines a 209MHz Arm Cortex-M4 core for real-time processing with dual 650MHz Cortex-A7 cores for the open-source operating system to run a human-machine interface. Called Avenger96 Development Platform and System on Module (SoM), the parts are intended to work within the 96Boards ...

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Variable drives for industrial automation

RS Components has introduced a range of industrial frequency converters for automation applications. Made by Rexroth, EFC 5610 is a range of intelligent variable-frequency drives, for use up to 7.5kW in the variants stocked by RS. They It offers vector control and a torque curve with high starting torque. Features include expansion options via I/O ...

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Infineon, Xilinx and Xylon develop logiHSSL core

Infineon , Xilinx and Xylon have developed the Xylon IP core called logiHSSL to enable high-speed communication between Infineon’s AURIX TC2xx and TC3xx MCUsand Xilinx’ SoC, MPSoC and FPGA devices via the Infineon High Speed Serial Link (HSSL). This serial link supports baudrates of up to 320 Mbaud at a net payload data-rate of up to 84%. ...

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GreenWaves raises $7m Series A

GreenWaves Technologies of Grenoble, a fabless semiconductor start-up designing ultra-low-power AI embedded processors for battery-operated edge devices, has raised €7 million in its Series A. The round was co-led by Huami, with the participation of Soitec, its seed round lead investor, and other investors. “This support from a distinguished group of corporate investors demonstrates the GAP ...

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Huawei’s charm offensive

Huawei is increasing its employee headcount in Canada and intends to have a plan to address UK security concerns about its switchgear by the end of Q2. Ryan Ding, head of Huawei’s carrier business group, says a “global and comprehensive” plan will be approved internally by the end of March. “In Q2 we will talk ...

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Logic processes advance on multiple fronts

Progress in the IC industry hinges on the ability of IC manufacturers to continue offering more performance and functionality for the money. As mainstream CMOS processes reach their theoretical, practical, and economic limits, lowering the cost of ICs (on a per-function or per-performance basis) is more critical and challenging than ever. The 500-page, 2019 edition ...

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NAND Heads South

Q4 NAND revenues fell 16.8% QoQ, reports DRAMeXchange,  2018 NAND revenues were 10.9% up on 2017 at $63.2 billion. A gloomy Q1 forecast sees declining bit shipments, price and demand The reasons are: economic uncertainty which has led to cancelled orders and delayed re-stocking, lower iPhone sales and the x86 CPU shortage. Samsung’s bit shipments for ...

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UltraSoC supports RISC-V SweRV Core

UltraSoC, the Cambridge embedded IP analytics specialist, will  support Western Digital’s RISC-V SweRV Core and associated OmniXtend cache-coherent interconnect. The two companies have worked together to create a debug and on-chip analytics ecosystem that will support the requirements of both Western Digital’s internal development teams, and third parties choosing to adopt the SweRV Core for their ...

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Gemalto claims to make first 5G SIM card

Gemalto says it’s produced the first 5G SIM. Compliant with the latest ETSI 3GPP specifications and SIMalliance recommendations, the Gemalto 5G SIM Claims to deliver improved data privacy,  seamless 5G global roaming and enhanced protection against hacking. The Gemalto 5G SIM will be available in all SIM form factors (removable SIM, M2M SIM, eSIM), during the ...

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Synopsis and GloFo team on auto 22nm FD-SOI

Synopsys and GLOBALFOUNDRIES are to develop a portfolio of automotive Grade 1 temperature (-40C to +150C junction) DesignWare Foundation, Analog, and Interface IP for the GF 22-nm FD-SOI(22FDX) process. By providing IP that is designed for high temperature operation on 22FDX, Synopsys enables designers to reduce their design effort and accelerate AEC-Q100 qualification of system-on-chips ...

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TI expands PHY transceiver range

TI has brought out two new Ethernet PHY transceivers, expanding connectivity options for designers of both space-constrained applications and time-sensitive networks (TSNs). The DP83825I low-power 10-/100-Mbps Ethernet PHY has a provides a 150m cable reach. The DP83869HM supports copper and fiber media, and offers high-temperature operation up to 125°C, which enables engineers to leverage the ...

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What The Digerati Give, The Digerati Can Take Away

According to a piece in the MIT Technology Review, Blockchains are hackable. Some $2 billion worth of crypto-currency has been stolen, mostly from exchanges, says the Review, and those are only the publicly reported thefts. In January, a hacker into the  Ethereum Classic crypto-currency blockchain re-wrote transaction histories to make it possible to spend the ...

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In memoriam Richard Wilson

Hard working. Professional. Polite. Conscientious. Thoughtful. These are the words that first come to mind when I think of Richard working on Electronics Weekly.

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Fable: How To Murder An Infant Industry

52 years ago a company set up an IC production line in Scotland and the following year, helped by a government grant, set up an MOS design and fabrication facility. The company made standard logic under license from Fairchild Semiconductor. Two years later the company was taken over in a government-driven rationalization move. It was ...

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Competition: Win a 4Kopen single board computer based on the STiH418 chipset

The latest competition on Electronics Weekly, giving you a chance to get your hands on a high-performance multimedia 4Kopen single board computer based on the STiH418 chipset.

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Gadget Watch: Samsung Galaxy Fold heralds arrival of foldable phone

Ahead of Mobile World Congress 2019, it's finally been announced. Here comes Samsung's foldable phone, the Galaxy Fold.

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Hynix to invest $107bn in fab

Hynix Says it will spend $107 billion building four fabs starting in 2022.. Hynix sees the investment as being necessary to ward off the threat of China which is building memory fabs. The fabs will be built on an existing 4.5 million square metre fab site with two front end facilities south of Seoul. Hynix ...

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Element 14 Community Awards

The winners of the element14 2018 Community Awards are: Member of the Year – Dixon Selvan – Selvan is a first-time Community Awards winner. He competed in the Design for a Cause challenge, submitted several RoadTest reviews, and contributed multiple projects to the monthly Project14 competitions. Selvan is a frequent contributor and integral member of ...

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Xilinx extends Zynq to sub-6GHz spectrum

Xilinx has extended ihe RF performance of its Zynq UltraScale+ RF SoC portfolio with devices which can cover the entire sub-6GHz spectrum. They support direct RF sampling of up to 5 giga-samples per-second (GS/S) 14-bit analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) and 10 GS/S 14-bit digital-to-analog converters (DACs), both up to 6 GHz of analog bandwidth. Xilinx’s RFSoC portfolio is ...

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Folding Phone

Samsung has unveiled its folding phone – the Galaxy Fold:                       The Fold costs $2000 and is on sale in Europe on May 3rd. It supports 5G. Folded, the Fold’s OLED screen measures 4.6”. Unfolded it measures 7.3”. Its processor is made on a 7nm ...

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Renesas adds MCUs to Synergy series

Renesas has added to its Synergy S5 MCU series with the entry-level S5D3 MCU Group. The four new S5D3 MCUs join the mid-range S5D5 and high-end S5D9 MCU Groups with similar S5 Series features—integrated 120 MHz Arm Cortex-M4 core and advanced security—as well as general-purpose features that simplify designing cost sensitive, low power IoT endpoint ...

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Qualcomm to sample RF front end devices

In H1, Qualcomm expects sample a number of RF front end devices: The QTM525 5G mmWave antenna module is for 5G smartphone designs thinner than 8mm. The module adds support for band n258 (24.25 – 27.5 GHz) for North America, Europe and Australia on top of bands n257 (26.5 – 29.5 GHz), n260 (37 – 40 ...

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AVX adds to wire-to-wire connectors

AVX has expanded upon its proven-reliable wire-to-wire (WTW) connectors with the 9286-300 Series poke-home connectors for 12–18AWG wire. Designed to simplify the connection process in a broad range of industrial market applications that require high-current or large-gauge wires, the 9286-300 Series WTW connectors enable simple strip-and-poke-home wire insertion and twist-and-pull wire extraction, and employ a one-piece ...

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Big Brother vs Big Tech

The appetite of the tech giants for peoples’ personal data seems unquenchable. Now it turns out that Google put a microphone into its home alarm system  “The on-device microphone was never intended to be a secret and should have been listed in the tech specs. That was an error on our part,” says an apparently ...

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ST Cortex-A7 chip makes it easy for MCU designers to adopt Linux

STMicroelectronics has boosted its STM23 family, adding dual 650MHz Arm Cortex-A7 cores to the existing Cortex-M4 (209MHz) to provide an upgrade path designers wishing to add Linux capability to STM32-based real-time control. The chip, called STM32MP1, gets its own open-source Linux distribution – OpenSTLinux – which contains Linux BSP, kernel, drivers, boot chain, and secure OS ...

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US Administration Lacks First Dog

It has sometimes seemed that the current US administration lacks a certain je ne sais quoi and now, thanks to a list compiled by  by the Presidential Pet Museum, we know what the quoi is – there’s no First Dog. President Trump is the first US president in 87 years not to have a dog. He ...

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One way to 3D print Braille

Hearing that there was a 3D printer around, a friend asked: ‘Could I print Braille?’. Hmm, not sure, but here goes: Caveat – the process below makes something that looks like Braille, but the result has yet to be tested by a reader of Braille. First, use a website to convert your written text into ...

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7nm chip integrates 2G-5G modems with 7Gbps download speed

Qualcomm is sampling a second-generation 5G New Radio (NR) modem designated Snapdragon X55. It is built on TSMC’s 7nm process with 2G-5G modems integrated on a single chip. It is expected to be in commercial mobile devices this year. It supports 5G NR mmWave and sub-6 GHz spectrum bands with up to 7Gbps download speeds ...

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AI start-ups huddle

AI start-ups Crossbar, Gyrfalcon Technology, Neural Networks Corporation andRobosensing are getting together to deliver an AI platform and standard for edge computing, gateways, cloud and data centers. The group, called SCAiLE (SCalable AI for Learning at the Edge), is already working with Japanese authorities to review opportunities for the 2020 Olympics, including video-based event detection ...

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Soitec and Shanghai Simgui up SOI wafer output

hSoitec and Shanghai Simgui Technology are to increase the annual production capacity of 200mm SOI wafers from 180,000 to 360,000 at Simgui’s manufacturing facility in Shanghai, China. Since signing their original licensing and technology transfer agreement in May 2014,  Simgui has installed  Soitec’s Smart Cut(TM) proprietary process to deliver  RF-SOI and Power-SOI wafers. Simgui’s strategic partnership ...

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Achronix unveils partner programme

Achronix has launched  its partner programme for EDA tools, software, and IP vendors with solutions and services directly applicable to Achronix’s Speedster FPGAs, Speedchip chiplet technology, and Speedcore eFPGA custom IP-block technology. This programme connects Achronix’s partners with the company’s rapidly growing customer base and provides partners with better access to developers who are creating ...

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Radar transceiver for presence detection in smart buildings

Imec has developed an 8GHz UWB radar transceiver for presence detection in smart building solutions. The power consumption of the radar is below 1mW,  and it is capable of detecting even micro-movements from human respiration, up to a distance of 15 metres. This performance delivers low-cost battery-powered way of detecting and counting people  in offices, ...

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Top 10 (+15) AI Companies

Thanks to Datamation for this one – the top 25 AI companies: AIBrain Amazon Anki Apple Banjo CloudMinds Deepmind Facebook Google H2O IBM iCarbon X Intel Iris AI Microsoft Next IT Nvidia Open AI Salesforce SoundHound Twilio Twitter ViSenze X.ai Zebra Medical Vision

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ISSCC: Transceivers for radar and communication

RF tranceivers for radar and communication were the subject of Session 9 at the ISSCC (see below) this year, with 79GHz devices and on-chip bean-forming featuring strongly. In an invited paper, MediaTek described the technological challenges of developing automotive surround-view radar systems for 360° proximity sensing for vehicles, concentrating on a 79GHz FMCW (frequency-modulated continuous-wave) ...

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Arduino IoT Cloud hoves into view

Here comes the Arduino IoT Cloud floating into sight. If you want people to use an Arduino to develop IoT applications, it does make sense to simplify access to cloud communications

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RGB UV IR light sensor is under 1x2mm

STMicroelectronics has introduced a multi-spectral ambient light (plus UVA and near-IR) sensor, with flicker detection, in a package smaller than 1mm x 2mm. Applications are foreseen with phone cameras for white-balance, artificial/natural/outdoor light discrimination and flicker frequency measurement – the latter to avoid banding and set exposure time. Called VD6281, it is claimd to be ...

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GloFo and Dolphin combine on ABB IP

GLOBALFOUNDRIES  and Dolphin Integration are to develop a series of adaptive body bias (ABB) IPs to improve the energy efficiency and reliability of  SoCs made on GloFo’s 22nm FD-SOI (22FDX) process. Dolphin and GLoFo are working together to develop a series of off-the-shelf ABB solutions for accelerating and easing body bias implementation on SoC designs. ...

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Huawei’s Ren sticks with UK

Despite the US-driven furore over Huawei switchgear, the company’s founder, Ren Zhengfei, says the company’s investment in the UK is secure. Earlier this week the UK security committee, the NCSC, said it had found no unmanageable risks in Huawei kit. “We will continue to invest in the UK,” says Ren, “we still trust in the ...

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Hi-rel 40W dc-dc has 1in footprint and 10 year warranty

Cosel has announced a high reliability 40W dc-dc converter,with a 10 year warranty. Called MGF40, it comes in an industry standard 1 x 1inch (~25 x 25mm) six-sided-shielded metallic case and is said to have a failure rate of below 30ppm. “To guarantee lifetime quality, the MGF40 does not include aluminium or tantalum capacitors,” said ...

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Dual 100V mosfet is AEC-Q101 qualified

Toshiba has released a dual n-channel mosfet with high ESD protection, intended for automotive applications including driving headlight LEDs. Made on the firm’s U-MOSⅧ-H process and AEC-Q101 qualified, it is called SSM6N813R. Each transistor in the package has a maximum current of 3.5A (subject to junction temperature) and maximum drain-source voltage of 100V – a ...

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Passive-active antenna to optimise tower space

CommScope is collaborating with Nokia to develop passive-active antenna solutions which enable operators to optimise tower space usage, increase cell site capacity and prepare for 5G. As 5G roll-out starts, 5G MIMO antennas capable of 3.5 GHz frequency bands may need to be deployed,  CommScope and Nokia are developing new passive-active antenna solutions to boost ...

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Imec develops 3.2GSps RF-sampling ADC

Imec has developed a compact, highly linear 3.2 giga-sample-per-second (GSps) RF-sampling ADC that uses ring amplification (ringamp). The ADC has a record low power consumption of 61.3mW and supports multiband operation and massive MIMO implementation – two key features of future 5G base stations. A second power-efficient ringamp-based ADC – reconfigurable between 6 and 600Msps ...

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Adding alkali metal to perovskite solar cells changes the solar game

Researchers from  Georgia Tech, UC San Diego and MIT havr discovered that adding alkali metal to perovskite solar cells could enable energy devices to last longer and maintain better performance. “Perovskites could really change the game in solar,” says David Fenning  of UC San Diego, “they have the potential to reduce costs without giving up ...

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LoraWAN access module

dRenesas and Miromico have come up with module which enables connections to LoRaWAN-based networks. The module, FMLR-61-x-RSS3, uses Renesas’ Synergy Platform, giving access to MCUs and software.  Customers can use the S3A6 MCU on the LoRa-based module to handle various tasks, while streaming data across a LoRaWAN-based network to the cloud.  The LoRaWAN protocol is being used ...

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18V process for LCD/OLED drivers

MagnaChip Semiconductor, the Korean mixed-signal vendor, is offering foundry customers its second generation 0.13 micron 18V high voltage process technology. The technology, which is dedicated for designing source drivers for LCD and OLED televisions, offers fewer steps, allows suitable high voltage device design rules to shrink chip size and adds a new device for DAC ...

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Smart connector integrates EEPROM

Bulgin has launched a smart connector which claims to allow easy pairing of devices and connectors, real-time connection status sensing and electronic device serialisation. Its rugged, miniature design is claimed to be impervious to the harshest possible environmental conditions such as temperature extremes, exposure to dirt, water immersion and chemical spray. The intelligent connector enables ...

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VTOL To Wow Paris

THE British aircraft which should excite most interest is the Short SC-1 VTOL machine which will be demonstrated for the first time on the Continent. So, 57 years ago, started a preview of the 1961 Paris Air Show in Electronics Weekly’s edition of May 24th 1961. The report continued: Short Bros. and Harland will also ...

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Meta surfaces steer RF, light or sound arbitrarily

 Meta-surfaces can be designed to steer sound or electromagnetic waves is arbitrary directions, or act as beam splitters, according a team from Aalto University in Finland and Duke University North Carolina. “Existing solutions for controlling reflection of waves have low efficiency or difficult implementation,” said Aalto researcher Dr Ana Díaz-Rubio. “We solved both of those problems. ...

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Two Engines Beat Four

It’s a pity because four engines feel safer than two, but that nice warm feeling underlies the demise of  the Airbus 380 – which has happened largely as a function of running cost. At $26,000 to $29,000 an hour the four-engined 380 is not competitive with the $2000 per hour of the two-engined Boeing 737-800 ...

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Conformal Coatings versus Potting Compounds

Electrolube – Which is better to protect a PCB, a coating or a resin?

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TSMC takes $550m hit on defective photoresist material.

TSMC has completed of an assessment of all wafers recently affected by a batch of problematic photoresist material, and has concluded that the incident will reduce TSMC’s Q1 revenues by about US$550 million. The incident will reduce gross margin by 2.6pp, operating margin by 3.2pp, and EPS by NT$0.42, said TSMC. TSMC said it discovered ...

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UK can cope with any risks in Huawei switchgear, says NCSC

The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has concluded that it can cope with any risks associated with using Huawei switchgear in UK 5G networks, reports the FT. The decision could have an effect on other countries which are considering whether to ban Huawei from bidding for 5G contracts. The FT quotes a source as saying: ...

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Uber heavily subsidising its rides

Uber made a loss of $1.8 billion on revenues of $11.3 billion in 2018 with half of the loss incurred in Q4. The $1.8 billion full-year loss was an improvement on 2017’s full-year loss of $2.2 billion. Uber’s 2018 revenues were 43% up on 2017’s revenues. Q4 bookings of $14.2 billion were up 11% on ...

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ST and Sequans develop LTE for MCUs

Sequans and ST are co-developing LTE for MCUs used in IoT applicarions. From this collaboration, the companies have developed a dedicated cellular extension board for STM32 Discovery kits based on Sequans’ Monarch LTE-M/NB-IoT technology. ST has also enlarged its STM32CUBE cellular software library to support Sequans’ existing Monarch-based module, GM01Q. A more integrated solution, enriching ...

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Data mining for new organic compounds

Researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) are using data mining to identify promising organic compounds for the electronics of the future. Producing traditional solar cells made of silicon is very energy intensive. On top of that, they are rigid and brittle. Organic semiconductor materials, on the other hand, are flexible and lightweight. They ...

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Ed Winds Up The Continentals

My God this is fun. Would she go for No Deal? Everyone’s asking me, Ed confides to his diary. Although I get asked it many times a day I have no more clue than the Man in the Moon. You don’t expect this PM to confide in her Cabinet Ministers. But everyone thinks I know ...

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The Rectifier

As the 19th century turned into the 20th a problem occupied communications technologists – the absence of a reliable rectifier to convert the ac used by radio transmitters  into the dc used by receivers. Crystals performed the function in early radio sets but were too flaky to be used in commercial applications. In 1904 Marconi ...

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UltraSoc adds features to on-chip analytics

UltraSoC, the Cambridge on-chip analytics IP company, has extended its embedded analytics architecture. The new features allow SoC designers to build on-chip monitoring and analytics systems with up to 65,000 elements, allowing seamless support for systems with many thousands of processors. Future iterations will allow even higher numbers of processors for Exascale systems. In addition ...

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10% distie growth for Germany’s Q4

Unusually high sales growth of almost 10% in the last quarter of 2018 brought a happy ending of the year for the German electronic component distribution market, reports the  Fachverband Bauelemente-Distribution (FBDi). Sales by FBDI members collectively grew 9.8% to 928 million euros. Conversely, orders fell 4.2% to 933 million euros, equating to a balanced ...

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Pico-ITX board has DSP for voice processing

Estone Technology has announced pico-ITX embedded processing board which includes DSP for voice control applications. Called EMB-2238, it is based around quad Arm Cortex-A53 cores in an NXP i.MX8M, plus a single Cortex-M4. “This board takes the advantage of NXP’s latest i.MX8M application processor with up to 15 year longevity, advance audio and 4k video ...

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Sponsored Content: Electrolube – Conformal Coatings versus Potting Compounds

Which is better to protect a PCB, a coating or a resin? asks Phil Kinner and Alistair Little of Electrolube

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Guerrilla adds to auto amp line

Guerrilla RF, the Greensboro, North Carolina MMIC specialist, has added to its AEC-Q100 automotive-qualified amplifiers. The GRF2073-W ultra-low noise amplifier is targeted at high-volume applications, with first-stage satellite radio LNAs and GPS modules being prime examples. It cones in an industry-standard, ultra-small 2.0 x 2.0 mm DFN-8 package thus sharing a common pin out with ...

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J P Morgan to issue crypto-currency

J P Morgan is to issue a prototype crypto-currency operated over its in-house blockchain network known as Quorum. Unlike Bitcoin and most other crypto-currencies the value of JP Morgans crypto-currency will be pegged to the US $ which stops it becoming a vehicle for highly volatile speculation. As a means of exchange, the J P ...

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JPR Electronics upgrades portal

JPR Electronics, the Dunstable distributor which celebrates its 40th anniversary this year, has launched a new website. Many key component and enclosure manufacturers are among the 70 plus brands stocked by JPR Electronics, and available on https://www.jprelec.co.uk. All are supported by their experienced Sales Team and securely shipped from their EN ISO 9001:2008 approved warehouse. Product ...

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Pi-Casso Design Challenge for digital artists

Farnell element14 has launched the Pi-Casso Design Challenge to encourage the creation of  digital artwork showcasing the Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ which surpasses conventional thinking of what electronics projects can be. “The world’s most famous artists from Van Gogh to Picasso broke barriers and created artwork that made a profound impact on the world, and ...

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ST launches MCU development tool for motor-control applications

ST has launched a single entry point  for access to all resources for motor-control application development  with STM32 and STM8 MCUs called ST-MC-SUITE. The tool lets users gather tutorials and documentation, store project setups (HW and SW), get links to download software solutions including the newly updated X-CUBE-MCSDK package, and buy evaluation hardware online. Intuitive ...

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Cloud v Edge

Running efficient machine learning (ML) on the edge is a different kettle of fish to running it in the cloud, and Arm has come up with a neat encapsulation of the differences: ML in the cloud Typically applied to a limited number of focused, vertical applications Targets a small range of processors Plenty of available ...

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Arm adds neural networking instructions to Cortex-M

Arm has added neural network processing instructions to its Cortex-M architecture, aiming at products at the outside edge of IoT networks, such as devices that can recognise a few spoken words without connecting to the cloud – vocal wake commands for example. The ‘M-Profile Vector Extensions’ (MVEs) have been announced under the brand ‘Helium’, and ...

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Smart buildings can be a leading light in the IoT

Lights are the most prevalent electrical components in any commercial building, and that makes them the most logical devices for smart building sensors, according to Russ Sharer, vice president of global marketing and business development at Fulham. “In new construction you can plan to use standalone smart building control sensors, but only 8% of commercial ...

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Fable: Cleanliness And Ordinariness Are Far Removed From Godliness

A journo visiting a great technologist in his lab described him thus:  “The hair, beginning to be touched with gray, falls over the forehead in a mop. The hands are stained with acid, his clothing is ‘ready- made’. He has the air of a mechanic or, with his particular pallor, of a night-printer.”  The great ...

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