80V DC/DC controllers support data centre servers, 48V telecom and rugged industrial equipment

Renesas has announced a pair of 80V DC/DC controllers that support the extra voltage margin needed for data center servers, 48V telecom and rugged industrial equipment.

This article was posted on Oct 29, 2020

EMI receiver spans 9kHz to 3GHz

PMM has introduced a CISPR 16-1-1 compliant EMI receiver for conducted or radiated emission test measurements from 9kHz to 3GHz.

This article was posted on Oct 29, 2020

UK 20 drone swarm collaborates beyond-line-of-sight

Bedfordshire autonomy company Blue Bear Systems Research has demonstrated a 20 drone swarm collaborating out of sight.

This article was posted on Oct 29, 2020

UK made: test jigs for low-volume manufacture

Nottingham-based Ignys is aiming at low volume manufacturing with a fixture concept for PCB testing, programming or calibration.

This article was posted on Oct 29, 2020

Slim connectors

Cliff Electronics has introduced its SLIMS FeedThrough Connector range which offers a more compact alternative to their 26mm wide XLR form factor product range.

This article was posted on Oct 29, 2020

Si Labs and Teledyne hook up on hi-rel gate drivers

Silicon Labs has announced a HiRel isolation partnership with Teledyne e2v HiRel.

This article was posted on Oct 29, 2020

Application Specific FETs

Nexperia has defined a new MOSFET product group – Application Specific FETs (ASFETs) – which feature MOSFETs with optimized parameters for specific applications. By focusing on individual applications, significant improvements can be offered.

This article was posted on Oct 29, 2020

Europe’s ‘pre-exascale’ supercomputer

AMD and HPE have said that EPYC CPUs and AMD Instinct GPUs will power a “pre-exascale” supercomputer built under the European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) initiative.

This article was posted on Oct 29, 2020

Nexans secures FTTH street cabinets

Nexans has developed a way for telecom service providers to tackle the major headache of unauthorised access to their fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) street cabinets.

This article was posted on Oct 28, 2020

Sequitur Labs supports Nvidia’s Jetson platform

Sequitur Labs has joined the NVIDIA Partner Network with support for the NVIDIA Jetson platform.

This article was posted on Oct 28, 2020

Dialog licenses CBRAM process to GloFo

Dialog has licensed its Conductive Bridging RAM (CBRAM) technology to Globalfoundries.

This article was posted on Oct 28, 2020

Enablers for LoRa Edge

Semtech has announced two enablers for its LoRa Edge platform: LoRa Basics Modem-E, a software modem leveraging the LoRaWAN protocol for the LoRa Edge platform that runs inside the LoRa Edge transceiver, and the LoRa Edge Tracker Reference Design, a device-to-Cloud commercial grade reference solution for asset tracking applications.

This article was posted on Oct 28, 2020

Intel sells NAND business to Hynix

Intel is to sell its NAND business to Hynix for $9 billion.

This article was posted on Oct 28, 2020

VW adopts NXP BMS

Volkswagen has adopted NXP’s battery management system (BMS) into its MEB (Modular Electric Propulsion) platform to help increase vehicle range, extend battery longevity, and enhance safety.

This article was posted on Oct 28, 2020

NASA selects first “human-tended” suborbital research using Virgin Galactic

A planetary scientist has been chosen to be the first to conduct NASA-funded science experiments while flying aboard a Virgin Galactic commercial spacecraft.

This article was posted on Oct 28, 2020

GaN Systems launches 650V, 60A transistors for automotive

GaN Systems has announced availability of the first product in a family of new 650V, 60A transistors for the automotive market.

This article was posted on Oct 28, 2020

NXP expands UWB portfolio

In its efforts to promote UWB as the standard for fine-ranging and high-precision sensing, NXP, has expanded its UWB offering from mobile and automotive ICs, to chips to enable IoT use cases such as smart locks and real-time location system (RTLS) tags delivering “relative position”.

This article was posted on Oct 28, 2020

Qualcomm producing 5G telecoms infrastructure

“Our 5G expertise and global technology leadership uniquely positions Qualcomm Technologies to provide a comprehensive horizontal infrastructure platform to enable the deployment of innovative, high-performance, virtualized, and modular 5G networks at scale,”

This article was posted on Oct 28, 2020

riscvOVPsim reference model enhanced for vector instructions

Imperas’ riscvOVPsim RISC-V reference model and simulator has been updated and extended for RISC-V vector instructions and now supports coverage driven verification analysis.

This article was posted on Oct 27, 2020

Mathworks updates Simulink for prototyping and hardware-in-the-loop testing

MathWorks updates to Simulink Real-Time enhance rapid control prototyping and hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) testing with Model-Based Design.

This article was posted on Oct 27, 2020

Bug boost for UVC LED Market

Propelled by the coronavirus, the UVC LED market could reach $2.5 billion in 2025 with a 61% CAGR 2019-2025, says Yole Developpement.

This article was posted on Oct 27, 2020