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Aspencore -- EDN - As of this year, EDN has consecutively published my odes to holiday-excused consumerism for a half-decade straight: here are the 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022 editions (I skipped a few years between the 2014 edition and its successors). As in the past,...

Media -- All About Circuits - The transistor prototype opens doors for more efficient thermal management in integrated circuits-and even presents interesting opportunities in human metabolic research.

Media -- eBOM - IAR Embedded Workbench for Arm delivers instantaneous support for NXP's latest addition to its S32 platform, speeding up the development of body and comfort applications for the software-defined car.

IAR, the world leader in software and services...

Media -- Components in Electronics - MikroElektronika (MIKROE), the embedded solutions company that is said to dramatically cut development time by providing innovative hardware and software products based on proven standards, has unveiled CLICKER 4 the first...

Media -- eBOM - High-power density packaging requires approximately 50% less printed circuit board space

Littelfuse, Inc. (NASDAQ: LFUS), an industrial technology manufacturing company empowering a sustainable, connected, and safer world, announced the launch...

Media -- ElectronicsB2B - Currently, the company relies upon third-party electronics manufacturing service providers to make its universal charger (USB-C and USB). There's something big the company anticipates will happen when its manufacturing opens up PowerICS...

Aspencore -- EETimes Europe - Only four years will have passed between Soitec's decision to develop its SmartSiC technology and the launch of SmartSiC wafer production at its new fab in Bernin, France-and Soitec is promising that in less than a year, the first electric...

Electronics -- Infineon - Infineon Technologies AG (FSE: IFX / OTCQX: IFNNY) today announced the expansion of its CoolSiC 1200 V and 2000 V MOSFET module families with a new industry-standard package. The proven 62mm device is designed...

Media -- Semiconductor Engineering - A technical paper titled "Subtle Molecular Changes Largely Modulate Chiral Helical Assemblies of Achiral Conjugated Polymers by Tuning Solution-State Aggregation" was published by researchers at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign...

Media -- eBOM - New device offers bi-directional power within USB applications

Toshiba Electronics Europe GmbH ("Toshiba") has launched their first 30V N-channel common-drain MOSFET. The new SSM10N961L device offers low-loss operation and is specifically intended...

Media -- Semiconductor Engineering - Electrostatic discharge is a well-understood phenomenon, but it's becoming more difficult to plan for as single chips are replaced by multiple chips or chiplets in a package, and as the density of components continues to increase...

Business Wire -- Secure-IC announces its embedded cybersecurity solution Securyzr was integrated in MediaTek's flagship smartphone chip, Dimensity 9300.

Aspencore -- EDN - BB5x 8-bit MCUs from Silicon Labs join the company's PG2x family of 32-Bit MCUs in sharing a common development environment. The Simplicity Studio software is also the development platform for Silicon Labs' portfolio of wireless SoCs, allowing developers...

Media -- Semiconductor Engineering - Fabs, OSATs, and equipment makers are accelerating their efforts to reduce water usage while cutting reducing and recycling material waste in a trend toward better sustainability.

With chips, sustainability is heavily focused...

Media -- ElectronicsB2B - If an AI bot "is writing essays or Shakespeare or poetry, you can have a 10% to 15% error and your consumer would know the difference and still be wowed by it." ~ Shankar Krishnamoorthy Microsoft's 'Copilot,' initially introduced as an...

Life -- Phys.org - A new study led by chemists at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign brings fresh insight into the development of semiconductor materials that can do things their traditional silicon counterparts cannot-harness the power of chirality,...

Media -- All About Circuits - Alif claims its new Ensemble line of microcontrollers efficiently processes heavy machine learning workloads on battery-powered devices.

Media -- Semiconductor Today - Tokyo-based Mitsubishi Electric Corp is entering into a strategic partnership with discrete device designer and manufacturer Nexperia B.V. of Nijmegen, The Netherlands (a subsidiary of Wingtech Technology Co Ltd) to jointly develop...

Business Wire -- Cadence announced a collaboration with Autodesk to accelerate system design by leveraging Autodesk Fusion and Cadence PCB solutions.

Aspencore -- EDN - The Cadence Voltus InsightAI platform uses generative AI to identify the root cause of electromigration (EM) and voltage (IR) drop early in the design process. It not only automatically identifies EM/IR violations, but also implements the most efficient...

Electronics -- TI - Power House - With the world more battery-powered than ever, the demand for better and cheaper batteries and battery packs is soaring. And while battery manufacturers are introducing new chemistries and smaller packs, which are putting new and complex...

Media -- ELE Times - Modern electronic systems in automotive and industrial applications require robust, efficient, and precise data communication capabilities to ensure optimal performance. To meet these needs, Infineon Technologies is introducing its ISOFACE...

Media -- All About Circuits - Renesas' R-Car Generation 5 brings new SoCs and MCUs to the automotive domain.

EE -- Circuit Cellar - When it comes to high-power switching devices (tens of amps at hundreds of volts) its hard to go past the IGBT. As its name suggests, the Insulated-Gate Bipolar Transistor combines the low on-state voltage of bipolar transistors with...

Aspencore -- EDN - Many embedded system designs are first implemented using FPGAs. This may be for quicker prototyping or to provide a platform for software development. Sometimes, the FPGAs will remain in the design after production begins. But usually, the plan...

Aspencore -- EDN - Among the switches of various kinds of loads, the circuit of the switch is of particular interest, controlled by varying signal duration. So, for example, feeding a short pulse to the input will turn on the load, and a longer pulse will turn it...

Media -- eBOM - Class-leading unit of nanoseconds gate drive contributes to greater energy savings and miniaturization in LiDAR applications and data centers

ROHM has developed a gate driver IC - the BD2311NVX-LB. It is optimized for GaN devices and achieves gate...

Media -- Semiconductor Engineering - Next-generation semiconductor products increasingly rely on vertical integration technologies to drive system density, speed, and yield improvement. Due to the increased coupling effects across multiple physics, co-simulation...

Media -- Semiconductor Engineering - If designing chips in cars sounds difficult, try designing them for space. There are huge temperature swings, and more radioactive particles than on Earth, which can cause single-event upsets, transients, functional interrupts,...

Media -- Electronics Maker - ST is announcing today the launch of STM32C071s with 128 KB of flash and a USB controller, thus further cementing our new series as an entry-level MCU and gateway to 32-bit architectures. We are also divulging a new roadmap with...

Media -- Electronics Maker - Infineon Technologies AG (FSE: IFX / OTCQX: IFNNY) today announced a new family of microcontrollers (MCUs) in the PSoC portfolio of Arm(r) Cortex(r)-based high-performance, low-power, secured devices....

Media -- Evertiq - European PCB production has, for several years, been outcompeted and outperformed by production in Asia. As a consequence, the industry has faced consolidation over the years and there are far fewer production plants than before. But now, Lithuanian...

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Aspencore -- EETimes Europe - The November 2023 Edition of EE Times Europe Magazine is out and opens with exclusive interviews with the influential CTOs of three of the world's top 10 semiconductor companies-Nvidia's Michael Kagan, Intel's Greg Lavender and AMD's...

Aspencore -- EDN - A new microcontroller claims to offer hardware-assisted machine learning (ML) acceleration for the Internet of Things (IoT) and industrial applications such as smart home, security surveillance, wearables, and robotics. That's expected to significantly...

Media -- EE World - The cost and the physics of fitting more transistors in the space available are showing diminishing returns. The concept of "known good die" is much more difficult to quantify. For all the talk in the semiconductor industry about trying to...

Media -- Semiconductor Engineering - Constraints management helps shorten the designer's manual constraints transformation effort across the design cycle with automated constraints management flows. The management of constraints refers to tasks that are not associated...

Media -- Semiconductor Engineering - Tuberculosis (TB) has been around for at least 9000 years, and people have been trying to find a cure or treatment for hundreds of years, but it remains one of the deadliest infectious diseases in the world, killing more than...

Media -- Semiconductor Engineering - DRAM manufacturers continue to demand cost-effective solutions for screening and process improvement amid growing concerns over defects and process variability, but meeting that demand is becoming much more difficult with the...

Media -- Semiconductor Engineering - Finding critical defects in manufacturing is becoming more difficult due to tighter design margins, new processes, and shorter process windows.

Process marginality and parametric outliers used to be problematic at each new...

Business Wire -- Toshiba launches a low on-resistance 30V N-channel common-drain MOSFET suitable for devices with USB and for protecting battery packs.

Aspencore -- EDN - More than a year after Arm unveiled Cortex-M85, its fastest core for standalone microcontrollers (MCUs) and MCU-like subsystems, Renesas has become the first supplier to incorporate this superscalar Cortex-M processor in its RA8 MCUs. Renesas calls...

Electronics -- TI - Behind the Wheel - In office buildings, factory floors and automobiles, software is replacing mechanical components and fixed electric circuits. For example, replacing a mechanical lock with a smart lock...

EFYTIMES.COM -- Renesas Electronics Corporation has recently unveiled a line of microcontrollers (MCUs), setting a new benchmark in performance with a score exceeding 3000 CoreMark points. These MCUs offer fully deterministic, low-latency, real-time operation, catering...

Media -- Semiconductor Engineering - More than 40 chips have been licensed to use EFLX eFPGA and >20 chips are working in silicon. Big customers like Renesas are planning high volume families of chips using embedded FPGA.

As a result, we have gained extensive...

Media -- Semiconductor Engineering - As the workhorse of semiconductor memory, DRAM holds a unique place in the industry thanks to its large storage capacity and ability to feed data and program code to the host processor quickly.

Lately, this unsung hero of the...

Media -- Electronic Engineering Journal - Lattice has marked some new territory in the low-end FPGA market with the CrossLinkU-NX FPGA. While AMD and Intel have signaled renewed interest in this market by previewing the future appearance of the low-end Spartan...

Media -- Semiconductor Engineering - A technical paper titled "3D NAND Flash Memory Cell Current and Interference Characteristics Improvement With Multiple Dielectric Spacer" was published by researchers at Myongji University, Soongsil University, and Seoul National...

Electronics -- TI - Behind the Wheel - Front camera units are an essential component of advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), especially now that New Car Assessment Program requirements include automatic emergency braking...

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