Cadence offers academia PDK for open source 130nm SkyWater process
A PDK for the SkyWater open-source 130 nm process will be available in the Cadence VLSI (very large-scale integration) Fundamentals Education Kit.
This article was posted on Nov 15, 2023TI breaks ground on Utah fab
TI has broken ground on a 300-mm fab in Lehi, Utah.
This article was posted on Nov 15, 20232023 UK venture deals had more US investors than any other country
In 2023, the UK had more venture deals with US investors involved than any other country, says Pitch Book.
This article was posted on Nov 15, 2023Call for EU PIC subsidies
CEOs from eight of Europe’s largest integrated photonics companies have presented a plan to EU officials for building a European supply chain for photonic integrated circuits.
This article was posted on Nov 15, 2023UNIO raises €2.5m to speed auto 5G-satellite connectivity
UNIO, a German space startup, has announced pre-seed investment totalling €2.5 million to speed the development and market launch of its UNIO ‘bridge’ product.
This article was posted on Nov 14, 2023September semi sales up 1.9% on August
September semiconductor sales of $44 billion were up 1.9% on August’s sales of $43.2 billion but 6.8% less than the September 2022 total of $47.2 billion, says the SIA.
This article was posted on Nov 14, 2023X-Fab adds CMOS integration to galvanic isolation process
X-FAB is enhancing its galvanic isolation technology by building on its process optimised for discrete capacitive or inductive couplers so that it can now be used to bring existing galvanic isolation elements directly together with active circuits based on its XA035 technology.
This article was posted on Nov 14, 2023Nu Quantum raises £7m pre-Series A funding
Nu Quantum, the Cambridge-based quantum networking company, has raised £7M in a pre-series A round.
This article was posted on Nov 14, 2023Film capacitors up to 10μF and 1kV handle surges in high power inverters without degrading
Electrocube has created a series of metallised polypropylene film capacitors for high power inverters in military and commercial, land and sea, applications.
This article was posted on Nov 14, 2023Bio-powered detector sounds the sewerage alarm
Researchers at Ritsumeikan University in Japan have made a simple sensor that can indicate when biodegradable waste from plant or animal sources is released into freshwater ecosystems.
This article was posted on Nov 14, 2023ST further pitches 32bit MCUs against 8bit MCUs
ST is trying harder to displace 8bit MCUs with its entry-level 32bit STM32C0 series by boosting flash to 128kbyte and adding a USB controller.
This article was posted on Nov 14, 2023Processor dev kit is ready for space
Supporting the move from custom hardware to modular hardware in space, Alpha Data has launched an adaptable processors development kit “which comprises a fully radiation tolerant reference design in a deployable VPX format. The core board of the kit will also be available in a deployable spaceflight version”, it said.
This article was posted on Nov 14, 2023UKSA, JAXA team for in-orbit telemetry relay service “InRange”
The UK and Japan space agencies have agreed to develop a satellite-based launch telemetry system for the Japanese H3 launch vehicle.
This article was posted on Nov 14, 2023Arteris and Semidynamics hook up to accelerate SoC design
Arteris, a provider of system IP which accelerates SoC design, and Semidynamics, a provider of fully customisable high bandwidth and high-performance RISC-V processor IP, have partnered to accelerate electronic product innovation for AI, ML and HPC applications.
This article was posted on Nov 14, 2023Nomogram designs discontinuous fly-back converters
Power supply company Pulsiv has developed a graphical technique – a nomogram – to determine critical transformer parameters for fly-back converters operating in discontinuous conduction mode.
This article was posted on Nov 10, 2023Wind River increases container security in VxWorks
To increase security when using containers to deploy and manage software, Wind River has added Sigstore’s Cosign to the container engine within VxWorks, the company’s RTOS (real-time operating system).
This article was posted on Nov 10, 2023Toray claims to have made the world’s strongest carbon fibre
Toray claims to have developed the worlds highest strength carbon fibre with TORAYCA T1200 after refining its a proprietary nanoscale structural control technology to design and achieve an internal structure with high toughness.
This article was posted on Nov 10, 2023You’re safe with CHERI
Codasip, the RISC-V Custom Compute specialist, has announced the first commercial implementation of CHERI (Capability Hardware Enhanced RISC Instructions which was developed at the University of Cambridge as the result of research aimed at revisiting fundamental design choices in hardware and software to improve system security.
This article was posted on Nov 10, 202321 exaflop computer for NCC
The government is to spend £225 million to build a 21 exaflop supercomputer powered by 5,448 Nvidia Grace Hopper SoCs.
This article was posted on Nov 10, 2023Picocom SoC facilitates 5G small-cell O-RUs which support multiple use cases
Today Picocom, the 5G Open RAN baseband semiconductor and software specialist, launches PC805, an SoC optimised for 5G small cell Open RAN radio units (O-RUs).
This article was posted on Nov 10, 2023Kuva Space series A to fund AI analytics platform and hyperspectral camera
Kuva Space, the Earth observation company, has raised €16.6m in series A funding. It will be used accelerate the development of its patented hyperspectral camera, double its team size, and launch its AI analytics platform.
This article was posted on Nov 10, 2023