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Aspencore -- EETimes Europe - The need for graphics and compute acceleration in embedded markets is growing. Cameras and sensor arrays are increasingly central to many use cases in diverse industries, ranging from automotive to industrial, and are generating increasingly...

Media -- Semiconductor Engineering - A new technical paper titled "Reservoir computing on a silicon platform with a ferroelectric field-effect transistor" was published by researchers at the University of Tokyo.

Researchers report "reservoir computing hardware...

Media -- EE World - Linear Systems has announced the re-release of its LSK489 discrete component with specialized parameter grading.

The LSK489 is one of the world's premier JFETs optimized for use in high-end sensor front-end amplification designs. The LSK489...

Aspencore -- EDN - Flowfinity's IoT sensor integration capabilities help utilities and enterprises achieve situational awareness to avoid downtime and service disruptions. Customers can leverage the Flowfinity platform to configure and install IoT devices that will...

Aspencore -- EDN - With a 360deg field of view and up to 16 evaluation fields, Quanergy's M1 Edge PoE LiDAR sensor offers smart awareness for object detection and alerting. The 2D sensor is capable of detecting objects at up to 200 meters at 80% reflectivity and an...

Aspencore -- EETimes Europe - Embedded systems are an integral part of our lives and span applications from transportation systems - space, road, rail, and sea - to implantable wearable devices, smart homes, smart meters, and communications infrastructures. But embedded...

Aspencore -- EDN - HYPERRAM-the expansion memory for scratchpad and data buffering-has reached its third generation and is ready to serve a wide range of applications such as video buffering, factory automation, artificial intelligence (AI) edge processing, and automotive...

Business Wire -- Efinix(r), an innovator in programmable product platforms and technology, today announced the launch of its Titanium Ti180 FPGA. This 180K logic element device delivers unprecedented performance in a cost effective, low-power footprint. Featuring 2.5G...

Life -- Phys.org - Piezoelectric materials can convert mechanical energy to electrical energy, and vice versa. In recent years, there has been growing interest in the search for two-dimensional (2D) layered piezoelectrics. Such layered van der Waals piezoelectrics...

Electronics -- MikroElektronika - Pressure 18 Click is a compact add-on board that contains a board-mount pressure sensor. This board features the BMP384, a robust barometric pressure sensor delivering market-leading ac [...]

Electronics -- MikroElektronika - The portfolio of development boards and companies that have embraced the mikroBUS(tm) standard grows more each day. Today we present you the Project Lab board. This is the first development board [...]

Media -- EDACafe - Design Automation Conference, the industry's premier event dedicated to the design and ...

Media -- Electronics360 - The devices improve power supply efficiency and reduce workload for noise countermeasures.

Media -- EE World - Neither a Shockley diode nor a Schottky diode are single p-n junction devices. A Shockley diode has a four-layer thyristor structure with a typical forward drop of 800 mV. It's called a diode because it has two leads. A Shockley diode is essentially...

Aspencore -- EDN - With their low on-resistance, Nexperia's 12-V and 30-V N-channel trench MOSFETs minimize energy losses and increase efficiency. The 30-V PMCB60XN and PMCB60XNE come in ultra-compact wafer-level DSN1006 (SOT8026) packages, while the 12-V PMCA14UN...

Media -- Electronic Engineering Journal - RISC-V International,...

Media -- Semiconductor Engineering - In a recent study done by McKinsey and IDC, we see that physical design and verification costs are increasing exponentially with shrinking transistor sizes. As figure 1 shows, physical design (PD) and pre-silicon verification...

Media -- Semiconductor Engineering - 2.5D/3D integrated circuits (ICs) have evolved into an innovative solution for many IC design and integration challenges. As shown in figure 1, 2.5D ICs have multiple dies placed side-by-side on a passive silicon interposer....

Media -- SemiMedia - Diodes Corporation recently introduced a new transistor array, the DIODES ULN62003A, which consists of seven 500mA rated open-drain transistors, all of which have their sources connected to a common ground pin. Capable of driving a wide variety...

Aspencore -- EDN - The Cadence Voltus-XFi custom electromigration and IR drop (EM-IR) software eases the design of efficient, low-power ICs. Seamlessly integrated with the company's Quantus extraction tool, Virtuoso design environment, and Spectre simulator, Voltus-XFi...

Aspencore -- EETimes - A 5G mobile device's antenna design needs specific consideration to maintain performance. The entire performance is impacted by the ground plane, the antenna positioning on the board, and other associated components. The reliability needed by...

Aspencore -- EDN - The integration level of a system-on-chip (SoC) is defined in RTL, just like the rest of the design. Historically, RTL has been built through text editors. However, a decade or more ago, the sheer complexity of that task for the largest SoCs became...

Aspencore -- IoT Times - In a recent installment of EETimes on Air, the team covers this year's 59th Design Automation Conference (DAC 2022), where they talked to the major EDA vendors on trends in the design automation world, pointing to digital twins and the metaverse,...

Aspencore -- EPS News - IPC announced today the June 2022 findings from its North American Printed Circuit Board (PCB) Statistical Program. The book-to-bill ratio stands at 1.03.

Total North American PCB shipments in June 2022 were up 17.1 percent compared to the...

Aspencore -- EETimes Europe - The large-scale introduction of programmable digital devices has enabled the implementation of embedded systems with an ever-increasing number of advanced features. Field-programmable gate arrays have achieved performance that was once...

Electronics -- IEEE Spectrum - The spacecraft that took men to the surface of the moon and back relied on computers that pushed the state of the art when they were built. Designed by MIT, the Apollo Guidance Computers came with 72 kilobytes of ROM and 4 kilobytes of...

Electronics -- Diodes Inc - Diodes Incorporated (Diodes) (Nasdaq: DIOD) has introduced a high-efficiency synchronous boost converter. The DIODES(tm) AP72250 is targeted at step-up conversion in consumer and industrial applications where small form factors are a priority....

Aspencore -- EDN - Sony's IMX675 CMOS image sensor simultaneously outputs full-pixel captured images at 40 fps, as well as high-speed regions of interest. The 5.12-Mpixel, 1/2.8-in. (6.53-mm diagonal) sensor is the first from Sony leveraging dual speed streaming technology....

Aspencore -- IoT Times - Join this webinar to discover why Infineon's 60GHz radar sensors are the perfect choice for IoT and consumer applications and how they contribute to a greener world.

With their small form factor and low power consumption, Infineon's XENSIV...

Aspencore -- EDN - The DDR5 chipset solutions call for memory interface solutions that can effectively handle signal integrity and thermal management for data center servers, desktops, and laptops. Rambus claims to have answered the call by expanding its DDR5 memory...

Aspencore -- EETimes - British startup Opteran, a spin-out of the University of Sheffield, has a completely different view of neuromorphic engineering compared to most of the industry. The company has reverse-engineered insect brains to derive new algorithms for collision...

Electronics -- MikroElektronika - The portfolio of development boards and companies that have embraced the mikroBUS(tm) standard grows more each day. Today we present you the Lyra S development kit. This is the second development bo [...]

Media -- Electronic Engineering Journal - Ultra Librarian(r), (ultralibrarian.com) the world's largest CAD library provider, today announced the release of the Ultra Librarian app on the Autodesk Fusion 360 app store. Autodesk, a...

Media -- eBOM - The DDP460 series of Industrial and LED lighting grade AC-DC power supplies with their compact form factor and high efficiency that the marketplace demand, provide up to 460 W of regulated DC power in a 3.0" x 5.0" footprint. The open frame compact...

Life -- Phys.org - In a study recently published in Cell Reports Methods, co- authors Bjorn Onfelt, Niklas Sandstrom and Valentina Carannante, researchers at SciLifeLab and the Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology at Karolinska Institutet, describe...

Electronics -- MikroElektronika - Balancer 4 Click is a compact add-on board optimized for overvoltage protection balancing the voltage of serially connected batteries. This board features the MP2672A, a highly integrated, [...]

Media -- ELE Times - A research partnership between Penn State and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) could enable an improved method to make a new type of semiconductor that is a few atoms thin and interacts with light in an unusual way. This new...

Media -- eBOM - Microchip's LX34070 inductive position sensor offers a smaller, lighter, and higher accuracy solution for EV motor position monitoring.

Microchip Technology Inc. has extended its family of inductive position sensors into the electric-vehicle (EV)...

Media -- Semiconductor Engineering - With the DRAM fabrication advancing from 1x to 1y to 1z and further to 1a, 1b, and 1c nodes along with the DRAM device speeds going up to 8533 for LPDDR5 and 8800 for DDR5, data integrity is becoming a really important issue...

Media -- Semiconductor Engineering - The design IP market has long been known for constant change and evolution, but the industry trend toward heterogenous integration and chiplets is creating some new challenges and opportunities. Companies wanting to stake out...

Media -- Semiconductor Engineering - Different challenges have to be overcome when designing integrated circuits. Besides schematic and layout design work, verification in view of the non-ideal behavior of circuits and semiconductor technologies in particular...

Electronics -- Rambus - Highlights:

Introduces SPD Hub and Temperature Sensor as part of server and client DDR5 memory module chipsets

Complements industry-leading DDR5 RCD delivering state-of-the-art bandwidth and capacity

Enables enhanced system management and thermal...

Media -- Semiconductor Engineering - This white paper covers the technical details, including pipeline, floating-point support and features of Arm Cortex-M55 processor.

The Arm Cortex-M55 processor is Arm's most AI-capable Cortex-M processor and the first to feature...

EE -- Circuit Cellar - In a move to expand its connectivity portfolio Texas Instruments launched an affordable Bluetooth Low Energy (LE) wireless microcontroller (MCU) family. The company is offering the MCU at half the cost of the closest competitor making...

Media -- Semiconductor Engineering - This new PhD thesis paper titled "Enabling Effective Error Mitigation in Memory Chips That Use On-Die Error-Correcting Codes" from ETH Zurich researcher Minesh Patel won the IEEE William C. Carter Award in June 2022.

Media -- Semiconductor Engineering - New research paper titled "RETBLEED: Arbitrary Speculative Code Execution with Return Instructions" from researchers at ETH Zurich.

Media -- Electronic Engineering Journal - What's new: NXP(r) Semiconductors has announced that its WLAN7207H 2.4 GHz front-end integrated circuit (FEIC) enables Wi-Fi 6 connectivity in Honor's flagship Magic V smartphone. The NXP WLAN7207x single FEM family provides...

Media -- ELE Times - ROHM has developed its 4th Generation 650V fast recovery diodes (FRDs), the RFL/RFS series, featurinard voltage (VF),g low forw fast reverse recovery time (trr) respectively, as well as ultra-low noise characteristics. The new devices are...

Media -- Evertiq - Navitas Semiconductor, specialising in gallium nitride power integrated circuits, has announced the acquisition of VDD Tech, creator of digital-isolators for next-generation power conversion.

Media -- DIGITIMES - Robust ABF substrate demand buoyed June revenues at Unimicron Technology, Nan Ya PCB and Kinsus Interconnect Technology, which all hit record highs.