Viewpoint: From BC108 to SiGe BiCMOS – why Analog ICs are great

Ash Madni, WIMMIC’s Technical Director, tells how his lifelong adventure in electronics began with the discovery of the world of Bipolar transistors, namely the BC108…

This article was posted on Dec 13, 2022

Farnell adds Multicomp magnetic connectors

Farnell is expanding its line of Multicomp Pro offerings to include Magnetic Connectors.

This article was posted on Dec 13, 2022

Digi-Key to match donations for open-source EDA KiCad suite

Digi-Key Electronics has announced that it will match donations made to KiCad, the open-source software EDA suite for Electronic Design Automation.

This article was posted on Dec 13, 2022

SkyWater joins MOSIS MPW service

The MOSIS Service of the Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California and SkyWater Technology have combined to enable design-to-manufacturing for IC prototyping and production utilising SkyWater’s CMOS process technologies.

This article was posted on Dec 13, 2022

HVS gets £30m to develop HGV hydrogen fuel cells

Hydrogen fuel cell specialist HVS of Glasgow has got a £30 million grant from the Advanced Propulsion Centre (APC) programme to develop hydrogen fuel cells for HGVs.

This article was posted on Dec 13, 2022

ECSN Q3 forecast – “We have normality”

The latest ECSN UK/Ireland electronic components market forecast for 2023 indicates the market is ‘back to normal’ but still subject to geo-political issues as well as relying on management of the grey market and readjusted inventory.

This article was posted on Dec 13, 2022

Viewpoint: From BC108 to SiGe BiCMOS – why Analog ICs are great

Ash Madni, WIMMIC’s Technical Director, tells how his lifelong adventure in electronics began with the discovery of the world of Bipolar transistors, namely the BC108…

This article was posted on Dec 12, 2022

Farnell adds Multicomp magnetic connectors

Farnell is expanding its line of Multicomp Pro offerings to include Magnetic Connectors.

This article was posted on Dec 12, 2022

Digi-Key to match donations for open-source EDA KiCad suite

Digi-Key Electronics has announced that it will match donations made to KiCad, the open-source software EDA suite for Electronic Design Automation.

This article was posted on Dec 12, 2022

SkyWater joins MOSIS MPW service

The MOSIS Service of the Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California and SkyWater Technology have combined to enable design-to-manufacturing for IC prototyping and production utilising SkyWater’s CMOS process technologies.

This article was posted on Dec 12, 2022

HVS gets £30m to develop HGV hydrogen fuel cells

Hydrogen fuel cell specialist HVS of Glasgow has got a £30 million grant from the Advanced Propulsion Centre (APC) programme to develop hydrogen fuel cells for HGVs.

This article was posted on Dec 12, 2022

ECSN Q3 forecast – “We have normality”

The latest ECSN UK/Ireland electronic components market forecast for 2023 indicates the market is ‘back to normal’ but still subject to geo-political issues as well as relying on management of the grey market and readjusted inventory.

This article was posted on Dec 12, 2022

6-18GHz GaAs amplifiers have 10dB gain with positive slopes

CML has announced a pair of 6 – 18GHz GaAs pHEMT gain blocks with positive gain slopes up to 16GHz.

This article was posted on Dec 12, 2022

Manchester casting company celebrates 50 years

Family company Dean Group is celebrating its 50th years of casting metal parts in the Manchester area.

This article was posted on Dec 12, 2022

9kHz to 20GHz eight channel microwave signal generator

Rigol has introduced an eight channel microwave generator that works across 9kHz to 20GHz and can deliver related coherent signals or independent signals.

This article was posted on Dec 12, 2022

Zuken and Compound Catapult combine on power module design

Zuken and the Compound Semiconductor Applications (CSA) Catapult are collaborating to bring a power module layout from a graphical concept to a 3D model.

This article was posted on Dec 12, 2022

Binder sizes up M5 connectors for EMC in confined spaces

Binder has announced M5 sized connectors with 360° shielding aimed at use in interference-loaded environments with limited installation space.

This article was posted on Dec 9, 2022

Q3 SEMI billings up 9%

Q3 chip manufacturing equipment billings rose 9% q-o-q and 7% y-o-y to $28.75 billion, says SEMI in its Worldwide Semiconductor Equipment Market Statistics (WWSEMS) Report.

This article was posted on Dec 9, 2022

4.1% semi fall next year, says WSTS

After 26.2% growth in 2021, WSTS forecasts 4.4% growth this year and a 4.1% decline in 2023.

This article was posted on Dec 9, 2022

Picocom has first 50 production wafers running through TSMC

Picocom, the O-RAN baseband processor supplier which won Start-Up of the Year at Electronics Weekly’s Elektra Awards on Wednesday, has got its first 50 production wafers currently running through a TSMC fab.

This article was posted on Dec 9, 2022

Automotive 10W digital audio amplifier works across 3.3-18V

STMicroelectronics has created a pair of 10W Class-D audio amplifiers for use in vehicles “for automotive applications like eCall, telematics and wherever an audio channel needs to reproduce human voice, music or warning messages “, it said.

This article was posted on Dec 9, 2022