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Aspencore -- EPS News - IPC announced today the June 2021 findings from its North American Printed Circuit Board (PCB) Statistical Program. The book-to-bill ratio stands at 1.15.

Total North American PCB shipments in June 2021 were up 6.3 percent compared to the same...

Aspencore -- EETimes Europe - Dialog Semiconductor has announced the availability of its digital Zero Voltage Switching (ZVS) chipset to enable the development of high-power density power supplies of over 100 W in a small size. The current challenge in AC/DC converters...

Aspencore -- EDN - Fully-managed cloud services enable rapid evaluation, prototyping, and development of the Internet of Things (IoT) connectivity applications, and the COT Smart IoT Gateway developed by Cloud of Things is the latest manifestation of this design evolution....

Aspencore -- Power Electronics - ROHM has developed Hybrid IGBTs with integrated 650V SiC Schottky barrier diode, the RGWxx65C series (RGW60TS65CHR, RGW80TS65CHR, RGW00TS65CHR). The devices are qualified under the AEC-Q101 automotive reliability standard. They are...

Aspencore -- EDN - Contactless washbasin taps that can dispense water without the risk of communicating diseases can play an important role in the battle against the COVID-19 virus. At present, most of the world's washbasin taps are hand operated, but this Design...

Business Wire -- SiTime MEMS Oscillators Support Square Point-of-Sale Products

Electronics -- Lam Research - Helium gas is increasingly in short supply. While consumers may be most familiar with it for use in filling balloons, it is used much more heavily in a variety of industrial processes - including semiconductor fabrication. As a result of...

Media -- SemiMedia - ROHM recently launched hybrid IGBTs with integrated 650V SiC Schottky barrier diode, the RGWxx65C series (RGW60TS65CHR, RGW80TS65CHR, RGW00TS65CHR). The devices are qualified under the AEC-Q101 automotive reliability standard. They are ideal...

Aspencore -- Power Electronics - Boost converters are useful devices for designers because they solve a number of power problems at low, medium and high voltages. If it is necessary to reach a certain voltage, which might be higher then the one available, a voltage...

Aspencore -- EDN - As COVID-19 spread in early 2020, the global shortage of emergency ventilators was one of the biggest concerns. The increasing demand for ventilators meant they would soon be out of supply, so a team of design engineers at Monolithic Power Systems...

Aspencore -- EPS News - UCAP Power, Inc., a leading developer of ultracapacitor-based power solutions, today announced it has completed the purchase of Maxwell Technologies Korea, the Korean-based ultracapacitor business, as well as other related assets including...

Aspencore -- EDN - Even simple, single-function products can start us thinking about bigger design issues. For instance, nearly all designers must cope with the challenge of providing a power supply that can function efficiently at both the average system power needs...

Life -- Phys.org - Superconductivity is a physical phenomenon where the electrical resistance of a material drops to zero under a certain critical temperature. Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer (BCS) theory is a well-established explanation that describes superconductivity...

Electronics -- MikroElektronika - Today we present you - LS1028ARDB-PA development board. This is the 13th development board from NXP that has embraced the mikroBUS standard(tm).



Our business relationship with NXP is continuing t [...]

Media -- New Electronics - MikroElektronika (MIKROE), an embedded solutions company, has launched FUSION for PIC v8, offering universal support for PIC, dsPIC, PIC24, PIC32 microcontrollers on one board.

Media -- Electronic Engineering Journal - For decades, FPGA companies have been bragging about how their devices can be used to accelerate all sorts of compute-intensive functions, and they have built a large market for themselves convincing design teams that...

Media -- eeNews Europe - The Fusion development board from MikroE for Microchip PIC v8 includes Wi-Fi debugging, Click peripheral sockets, SiBRAIN MCU sockets and display options

MikroElektronika in Serbia has launched a development board that supports all...

Media -- New Electronics - Cadence Design Systems and the semiconductor foundry, UMC, have announced that the Cadence digital full flow has been optimised and certified for the UMC 22ULP/ULL process technologies to accelerate consumer, 5G and automotive application...

SupplyChain -- DC Velocity - IDTechEx report forecasts that that 45 million 5G small cells will be installed in public areas by 2031.

Electronics -- TI - Analog Wire - Artificial intelligence (AI) is fundamentally changing the capabilities of machine vision and imaging applications. AI enables increased accuracy and sensitivity in the real-time...

Tech -- Liliputing - The Raspberry Pi line of computers are small, energy-efficient, and inexpensive. That makes them easy to use in places where you might not be able to fit a larger desktop computer. But if you want to use them for mobile projects, you need...

Electronics -- TI - ConnecTIng Wirelessly - Advances in automated factories and smart vehicles require advanced networking capabilities, real-time processing, analytics at the edge and more advanced motor-control topologies. These...

Electronics -- MikroElektronika - H-Bridge Driver Click is a compact add-on board that contains an H-bridge gate driver, also known as a full-bridge pre-driver. This board features the MC33883, an H-Bridge gate driver with [...]

Media -- EE World - Understanding the role and implications of impedance in RF transmission lines and antennas is vital to successful system performance.

The previous section looked at the basics of VSWR. This section looks at two approaches to measuring impedance...

Media -- Semiconductor Engineering - The cyber threat faced by the automotive industry reached public awareness in 2015, when a "White Hat" research team commandeered the control electronics of a target vehicle at freeway speeds. Subsequently published details...

Media -- Semiconductor Engineering - Integrating photonics into semiconductors is gaining traction, particularly in heterogeneous multi-die packages, as chipmakers search for new ways to overcome power limitations and deal with increasing volumes of data.

Power...

Electronics -- MikroElektronika - Air Flow Click is a compact add-on board that contains a flow-based 2-in-1 differential pressure sensor. This board features the LHDULTRAM012UB3, LHD ULTRA series micro-flow differential [...]

Aspencore -- EDN - The recent heat wave in Texas spotlighted a potential sore point in how IoT vendors handle control issues. When the electric companies reached through the network to alter smart thermostat settings, thousands of users had their awareness raised...

Aspencore -- EETimes - The unintended consequence of equipping cars with multiple types of sensors for driver assistance or for autonomous driving is that automakers are almost certainly going to have to add yet more subsystems to keep those sensors clear of obstructions.

The...

Media -- Electronic Engineering Journal - Zuken is releasing the latest edition of CR-8000, focusing on analysis and reuse. The CR-8000 2021 release features more than 150 enhancements across the tool suite ranging from...

Media -- Semiconductor Engineering - Low-power design in advanced nodes and advanced packaging is becoming a multi-faceted, multi-disciplinary challenge, where a long list of issues need to be solved both individually and in the context of other issues.

With each...

Media -- Semiconductor Engineering - At long last we come to the final installment of our four-part series presenting the findings of the Wilson Research Group Functional Verification 2020 study.

In this article we discuss verification trends in IC/ASIC language...

Media -- eBOM - Toshiba Electronics Europe GmbH ("Toshiba") has launched a new photovoltaic-output photocoupler ("photovoltaic coupler") housed in a thin SO6L package measuring just 3.84mm x 10mm x 2.1mm, suitable for driving the gates of high-voltage power MOSFETs...

Media -- eeNews Europe - Aldec's TySOM-M Series of emulation boards targets low power and high security applications with five RISC-V coresDesign emulation specialist Aldec has launched its first board based around Microchip's low power PolarFire FPGA system...

Media -- Semiconductor Engineering - Standard cell libraries have been a mainstay of chip design for many decades since the inception of logic synthesis and composition methodologies. Cell library IP typically contains Verilog models describing the cell functionality,...

Media -- FierceElectronics - Lattice intros next Nexus FPGA as market change looms

Business Wire -- SAE and JEDEC partner to define standards enabling the use of microelectronics in critical applications across aviation, space and defense sectors.

Electronics -- MikroElektronika - VAV Press Click is a compact add-on board that contains a board-mount pressure sensor. This board features the LMIS025B, a low differential pressure sensor from TE Connectivity Measurement [...]

Tech -- FutureIoT - Internet of Things are devices that connect to the Internet. Some are sensors that collect telemetry data about their surroundings and relay it to a collecting device via a wired or wireless connection to the internet. Others not only monitor...

Electronics -- TI - ConnecTIng Wirelessly - Other Parts Discussed in Post: MIOTY, CC1310When designing wireless flow or electricity meters, you need to think about the meter's environment. Meters are often installed in alleyways, throughout large apartment buildings...

Electronics -- MikroElektronika - This compact development board is designed as a complete solution for rapid development of multimedia and GUI-centric applications. It is rich with peripherals and has awesome graphics on a [...]

Electronics -- MikroElektronika - USA1000 BoB Board, from CubeLogic, has embraced the mikroBUS standard(tm).



We hope that our business relationship with CubeLogic will continue to develop, and start to make a significant impact o [...]

Media -- New Electronics - The UK distributor, Rapid Electronics, has become a technical partner of Tektronix, a global supplier of test and measurement technology.

Media -- eeNews Europe - Xilinx's new RFSoC brings a powerful and unique solution for addressing some of the most demanding applications. This paper provides a look at how RFSoC compares to the current trends in A/D and D/A converters and how...

Aspencore -- IoT Times - In a recent episode of EETimes On Air, editor-in-chief Brian Santo spoke with Damon Small, a technical director at the NCC Group, about an article recently published to EETimes that covered the Colonial Pipeline attack a few weeks back.

During...

Media -- eeNews Europe - The AL-D320 core from Allegro DVT supports 8, 10 and 12-bit samples, chroma sampling of 4:2:0 and 4:2:2 and image resolutions and rates of up to 8K120 for the VVC/H.266 specificationFrench design house Allegro DVT has developed...

Media -- eeNews Europe - Taiwan's Ministry of Science and Technology has discussed environmental issues around a proposed expansion of TSMC's Hsinchu operations to house a 2nm wafer fab.

The details of the meeting held online were reported by Taiwan's Commercial...

Media -- Semiconductor Engineering - Cheng Wang, CTO of Flex Logix, sat down with Semiconductor Engineering to explain the process of bringing an inferencing accelerator chip to market, from bring-up, programming and partitioning to tradeoffs involving speed and...

Media -- Semiconductor Engineering - Security regulations for Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices are evolving around the world, but there is no consistent set of requirements that can be applied globally - and there may never be.

What exists today is a patchwork...

Media -- Components in Electronics - Lattice Semiconductor Corporation, the low power programmable leader, launched the Lattice CertusPro-NX general purpose FPGA family.

As the fourth device family based on the Lattice Nexus platform to be launched in just 18...