Sponsored Content: Driving ever higher currents in automotive motor control applications
Klaus Neuenhüskes, of Toshiba Electronics Europe GmbH, considers the challenges in power delivery and heat dissipation that have to be solved to a large part by the automotive silicon vendor.
This article was posted on May 18, 2020Unusual traction motor appears on Kickstarter
Linear Labs of Texas has put its novel high-torque low-speed ‘HET’ electric motor on Kickstarter, promoting it as a direct-drive vehicle hub motor.
This article was posted on May 18, 20201.3kV IGBT for domestic appliances
Toshiba has launched a discrete 1,350V IGBT for voltage resonance power converters in home induction heating appliances – tabletop cookers, rice cookers and microwave ovens, for example.
This article was posted on May 18, 2020University of Nottingham designs and prints PPE face shields
Engineers at the University of Nottingham have designed a PPE face shield with CE approval, reports the university. They are also 3D printing them, “at scale”, for healthcare workers to use.
This article was posted on May 18, 2020Arm abolishes annual fee for startups using Flexible Access scheme
Arm is offering deferred licence fees for startups with under $5 million in funding and offering free access to Arm IP and support to firms in the Silicon Catalyst incubator.
This article was posted on May 18, 2020Phase noise analyser for precision oscillator characterisation
Microchip is aiming at engineers make accurate measurements of frequency signals, including those generated by atomic clocks and other high-performance frequency references with a phase noise analyser.
This article was posted on May 18, 2020NXP MCU family extended
NXP has extended its MCU offering with the LPC551x/S1x family addition to its LPC5500 MCU series.
This article was posted on May 18, 2020Hongfa Europe appoints Anglia for UK distribution
Following an agreement with Hongfa Europe, Anglia Components is UK and Ireland distributor for its range of electro-mechanical relays.
This article was posted on May 15, 2020Enclosure parts maker builds line for FFP2 masks
Aldershot-based Fath Components, normally a maker of enclosure parts and other metal and plastic parts, has added Type FFP2 aerosol filtration face masks to its product repertoire.
This article was posted on May 15, 2020ISSCC 2020: No-crystal oscillator hits 30ppm over temperature and 10 years of ageing
At the IEEE International Solid State Circuits Conference in San Francisco earlier this year, Texas Instruments revealed details of its on-chip bulk acoustic wave oscillator technology, that can replace external crystals in Bluetooth and other RF transceivers.
This article was posted on May 15, 2020US Space Force celebrates 25 years of GPS
Yesterday marked the 25th anniversary of the Global Positioning System, better known as GPS.
This article was posted on May 15, 2020Assembly adds touch to displays for challenging environments
TouchNetix has introduced a series of ready-made touch screen assemblies for displays up to 24in.
This article was posted on May 15, 2020Turnkey eSIM initiative for IoT
Infineon is bringing out a turnkey eSIM initiative for IoT devices and applications.
This article was posted on May 15, 2020GloFo fab gets BSI certification
The German Federal Office for Information Security ( BSI) has certified the GLOBALFOUNDRIES (GF) Dresden site according to the latest international Common Criteria standard (ISO 15408, CC Version 3.1).
This article was posted on May 15, 2020CAD claims to reduce simulation time by 65-75%
Siemens Digital Industries Software has upgraded its Simcenter FLOEFD software, a CAD-embedded computational fluid dynamics (CFD) tool.
This article was posted on May 15, 2020Imec claims first SNN to process radar signsls
Imec claims to be the first organisation to develop a chip that processes radar signals using a spiking recurrent neural network.
This article was posted on May 15, 2020Huawei and InterDigital drop lawsuits and license patents
InterDigital, the patent collector and licensor, said yesterday that it has ended all litigation with Huawei and licensed its patents to the company.
This article was posted on May 15, 2020Broadcom bows to EU pressure
Broadcom has made an offer to the EU to get it to drop its anti-trust investigation, reports Reuters.
This article was posted on May 14, 2020On releases IGBT power modules
CIT Relay & Switch has introduced VM3 miniature and SM3 snap-action switches, aiming them at lighting, security, automation, industrial controls and gaming.
This article was posted on May 14, 2020Microswitch ranges have wide approvals
STMicroelectronics has integrated common-mode filters and ESD suppression into automotive data line protectors.
This article was posted on May 14, 2020