480W SMD laser for automotive lidar

Two high-power infra-red lasers are available for lidar from Osram – AEC-Q102 qualified four-channel and a single-channel pulsed lasers.

This article was posted on Sep 25, 2019

Smart pill from Cambridge Design Partnership takes sample en route

Aiming at improved dog food,Cambridge Design Partnership has created a smart pill for dogs that both senses and samples.

This article was posted on Sep 25, 2019

Pico links vector network analyser

PicoVNA Interface Wizard links Pico Technology’s PC-based vector network analyser National Instruments’ AWR Design Environment.

This article was posted on Sep 25, 2019

Power supplies for medical applications

XP Power has released two series of external power supplies that are intended for modern medical applications, including safety approvals for home-based healthcare, and IT applications where energy efficiency and international safety approvals are critical.

This article was posted on Sep 25, 2019

CSEM puts CMOS radar mmWave IP on GloFo 22nm.

CSEM, the Swiss non-profit R&D body, is developing ultra-low power Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), CMOS radar mmWave IP and embedded machine-learning accelerators on GLOBALFOUNDRIES’ 22nm FD-SOI process.

This article was posted on Sep 25, 2019

First silicon for Flex Logix validation chip

Flex Logix says it has received working first silicon of its validation chip for the EFLX 4K eFPGA IP cores running on GLOBALFOUNDRIES (GF) 12nm Leading-Performance (12LP) FinFET platform and newly announced 12LP+ solution.

This article was posted on Sep 25, 2019

Imec call for startups

Imec’s business accelerator program, imec.istart, has put out a call for applicants which is open until Oct. 1, 2019.

This article was posted on Sep 20, 2019

Samsung updates PCIe Gen4 SSD software

Samsung has added software updates to its PCIe Gen4 solid state drive (SSD) series.

This article was posted on Sep 20, 2019

Binder gets 12 contacts into M8 connector

Binder is aiming at factory automation with a 12 contact version of its IP67 (once coupled) Series 718 connectors that mount through an 8mm hole using an in-built M8 thread.

This article was posted on Sep 20, 2019

Flex Power Modules adds active current sharing to DC-DC converter

Flex Power Modules has announced the BMR490 DC-DC converter with active current sharing.

This article was posted on Sep 20, 2019

Analog Devices claims widest continuous RF output range

Mouser Electronics is now stocking Analog Devices Inc’s ADF4371 and ADF4372 microwave wideband synthesizers. The ADF4371 delivers a continuous RF output range of 62MHz to 32GHz, the widest currently available according to the firm, while the ADF4372 operates at 62MHz to 16GHz for designs that don’t require the higher frequency.

This article was posted on Sep 20, 2019

Engineers Without Borders UK celebrates 15 years of campaigning

Engineers Without Borders UK, the environmental engineering charity, has celebrated its 15th anniversary with a special evening for its members, partners and trustees.

This article was posted on Sep 20, 2019

micro:bit becomes super:bit in Norway.

Farnell, which manufactures and distributes the BBC micro:bit, is rolling out a programme called ‘super:bit’ in Norway.

This article was posted on Sep 20, 2019

Intel shipping Stratix 10

Intel is shipping Stratix 10 DX FPGAs which are designed to support Intel Ultra Path Interconnect (Intel UPI), PCI-Express (PCIe) Gen4 x16, and a controller for Intel Optane memory to provide acceleration.

This article was posted on Sep 20, 2019

Accelerator card claims it will provide 12x more compute per dollar

Intensivate, the datacentre acceleration specialist, says that, early in Q1 2020, it will have first silicon of a chip-scale coherent fabric for a PCIe card which will provide 12x more compute per dollar on platforms such as Hadoop, Kafka, Spark, NoSQL databases and other custom applications running on clusters.

This article was posted on Sep 20, 2019

Taiwan loses its Trump

The question being asked about Foxconn founder Terry Gou pulling out of Taiwan’s presidential election is: Was China behind it?

This article was posted on Sep 20, 2019

Sir Hossein Yassaie joins Agile Analog

Sir Hossein Yassaie, founder and CEO of Imagination, has become a non-exec at Agile Analog, the Cambridge analogue EDA startup.

This article was posted on Sep 11, 2019

3Ccar produces report

The eleven German partners in the European project “Integrated Components for Complexity Control in affordable electrified cars”, 3Ccar for short, have presented their report.

This article was posted on Sep 11, 2019

Mornsun CUWB12-YMD-6WR3 series has 4.5VDC to 36VDC input range

Relec Electronics, UK distributor for Mornsun, has announced the launch of the CUWB12-YMD-6WR3 series, designed to meet AEC-Q100 test standards for automotive applications.

This article was posted on Sep 11, 2019

TDK medical 40-65W power supplies comply with EU and US standards

TDK Corporation has announced the introduction of TDK-Lambda DTM65-D external power supplies rated at up to 65W output power.

This article was posted on Sep 11, 2019

Taiwan Semiconductor adds dual N-channel power mosfets

Taiwan Semiconductor has expanded its product portfolio with 40V and 60V dual N-channel power mosfet in a PDFN56 dual package.

This article was posted on Sep 11, 2019