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Electronics -- TI - Multicore Mix - Other Parts Discussed in Post: MSPM0G3507Microcontrollers (MCUs) in embedded systems are the equivalent of air traffic control in a busy airport. MCUs sense their operating environment, take actions based on those observations, and...

Electronics -- STMicroelectronics News - STMicroelectronics' STL120N10F8 N-channel 100V power MOSFETs combine extremely low gate-drain charge (QGD) and on-resistance RDS(on), giving 40% better figure of merit (FoM) than comparable devices of the preceding generation....

Electronics -- TI - Power House - For more than a decade, TI's Power Stage Designer tool has been a great design aid for electrical engineers when calculating the currents and voltages of different power-supply topologies. I believe it is an easy tool to start a new...

Electronics -- EPC - Since the launch of GaN-on-Si enhancement mode power transistors in March 2010 there has been a slow but monotonic shift towards adoption and replacement of silicon-based power MOSFETs. Initial ...

LinuxGizmos.com -- BeagleBoard recently presented the BeaglePlay Single Board Computer based on the TI AM6254 Multi-core processor and the BeagleConnect Freedom equipped with the TI CC1352P7 microcontroller supporting 2.4GHz/Sub 1GHz wireless protocols. The Texas Instruments...

Business Wire -- JEDEC Solid State Technology Association, the global leader in the development of standards for the microelectronics industry, announces the formation of the JC-42.9 Automotive Steering Subcommittee responsible for investigating memory technologies and...

Electronics -- Texas Instruments Newsroom - Adopting GaN and digital controllers in new designs helps engineers improve power density, conversion efficiency, dynamic response and reliability

Media -- Semiconductor Engineering - A technical paper titled "autoXFPGAs: An End-to-End Automated Exploration Framework for Approximate Accelerators in FPGA-Based Systems" was published (preprint) by researchers at TU Wien, Brno University of Technology, and...

Media -- Electronics Sourcing - Harting has introduced the Mini PushPull designed to offer fast and reliable data connectivity in demanding industrial environments and applications exposed to the elements.

Media -- Semiconductor Engineering - A new technical paper titled "NVLeak: Off-Chip Side-Channel Attacks via Non-Volatile Memory Systems" was published (preprint) by researchers at UC San Diego, UT Austin, and Purdue University.

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Aspencore -- EETimes Europe - The humble microcontroller, now more than 50 years old, represents a sizable chunk of the overall electronic-component industry. MCUs continue to dominate the embedded scene, and with good reason: They are flexible, configurable, and...

Media -- eBOM - IAR and STMicroelectronics help developers of cost-sensitive applications to move from 8-/-16-bit MCUs to the new entry-level 32-bit STM32 MCU series

STMicroelectronics' new STM32C0 series promises to make 32-bit capabilities accessible to all...

Media -- Semiconductor Engineering - A surge in the amount of data that SoCs need to process is bogging down performance, and while the processors themselves can handle that influx, memory and communication bandwidth are straining. The question now is what can...

Aspencore -- EETimes - NXP's latest application processor, the i.MX 95, uses NXP's proprietary NPU IP for on-chip AI acceleration, in a change from previous products in the i.MX line, which used third-party IP.

The i.MX 95 series is developed for AI-enabled applications...

Aspencore -- EETimes - The proliferation of electronics in our lives is visible almost everywhere on the planet, even in the most remote locations and among the most remote communities. Most of us who live in industrialized societies see the impact daily, from cell...

Aspencore -- EETimes Europe - Securing embedded systems is not straightforward. However, the task becomes more manageable when the people responsible for doing it follow some best practices. Here are some things they should think about and implement.

Life -- Phys.org - In the year 1808, French chemists Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac and Louis-Jacques Thenard, and independently, English chemist Humphry Davy, discovered the fifth element of the periodic table-boron. In crystalline form, boron primarily possesses three...

Media -- SemiMedia - SK hynix Inc. announced today that it has developed the world's fastest mobile DRAM LPDDR5T (Low Power Double Data Rate 5 Turbo) and provided sample products to customers.

Media -- Electronic Engineering Journal - What's new: NXP(r) Semiconductors has added a new tool, eIQ(r) Model Watermarking, to its eIQ Toolkit for machine learning development. eIQ Model Watermarking is the industry's first effective tool to help developers protect...

Media -- SemiMedia - Texas Instruments yesterday introduced the first purpose-built semiconductors with ultrasonic lens cleaning (ULC) technology, enabling camera systems to quickly detect and remove dirt, ice and water using microscopic...

Electronics -- Infineon - Long-lasting music playback performance that comes in compact, cost-effective, and power-efficient designs, is indispensable, especially for battery-powered applications. Infineon Technologies AG (FSE: IFX...

Media -- Semiconductor Today - Efficient Power Conversion Corp (EPC) of El Segundo, CA, USA - which makes enhancement-mode gallium nitride on silicon (eGaN) power field-effect transistors (FETs) and integrated circuits for power management applications - has introduced...

Media -- Electronic Engineering Journal - Last September, I published an article on EEJournal.com that described two new Intel Agilex FPGA and SoC device families, the Agilex 5 D-series and an as-yet-unnamed series formerly known as "Sundance Mesa," introduced...

Media -- SemiMedia - Renesas Electronics Corporation recently introduced a new general-purpose microcontroller (MCU) in the low-power RL78 Family, with small package sizes that target 8-bit MCU applications. The versatile RL78/G15...

Media -- Evertiq - Contributing to longer cruising range and smaller systems in electric vehicles both in Japan and overseas from 2025.

Tech -- ExtremeTech - Intel...

Aspencore -- EETimes - Just as analog IC design is evolving, so, too, are electronic design automation (EDA) tools as they evolve to keep up with the demanding verification needs of next-generation chips. However, while analog, mixed-signal, and RF design tools have...

Aspencore -- EETimes - The analog side of the Internet of Things (IoT) has always existed. In recent years, however, design engineers realized its importance in making IoT systems robust and reliable.

In the past, IoT engineers mainly focused on the digital side of...

Media -- DIGITIMES - Taiwan-based MOSFET companies have already put a growing focus on high-end and niche-market applications, such as servers and power supply devices, to mitigate the impact of the ongoing inventory correction for consumer electronics products,...

Media -- SemiMedia - TDK Corporation yesterday announced the TDK i3 Micro Module, the world's first module with built-in edge AI and wireless mesh connectivity capability. Through TDK's collaboration with Texas Instruments (TI), the...

Electronics -- STMicroelectronics News - STMicroelectronics has introduced five power-semiconductor bridges in popular configurations, housed in ST's advanced ACEPACK(tm) SMIT package that eases assembly and enhances power density over conventional TO-style packages....

Distribution -- Industrial Distribution - Emerson said that it's tried to initiate private buyout discussions for months.

Aspencore -- EDN - onsemi's 1700-V EliteSiC MOSFETs and EliteSiC Schottky diodes provide reliable, efficient operation for energy infrastructure and industrial drive applications. The 1700-V NTH4L028N170M1 MOSFET brings increased breakdown voltage to high-power industrial...

Media -- EE World - DDR SDRAM is a stack of acronyms. Double Data Rate (DDR) Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory (SDRAM) is a common type of memory used as RAM for most every modern processor. First on the scene of this stack of acronyms was Dynamic Random-Access...

Electronics -- MikroElektronika - ADC 20 Click is a compact add-on board with a high-performance data converter. This board features the TLA2518, an SPI-configurable eight-channel 12-bit successive approximation register an [...]

SupplyChain -- Lectrix - Electronics companies need to learn how to connect with engineers under 35.

Why?

Young engineers do the bulk of the object-level work, designing boards, and sourcing parts.

To find them, don't look where the more senior members congregate. A...

Electronics -- TI - Behind the Wheel - As electric vehicles (EVs) become more popular, the challenge for automakers is to reflect true range while making the vehicle more affordable. This translates into...

Life -- Phys.org - As semiconductor devices become ever smaller, researchers are exploring two-dimensional (2D) materials for potential applications in transistors and optoelectronics. Controlling the flow of electricity and heat through these materials is key...

Electronics -- IEEE Spectrum - A Sea-Monster-Proof InternetThe initial segment of what will be the first underwater fiber-optic link to skirt the North Pole, connecting Japan and Europe, will light up in early 2023. This stretch, called Iris, will link Iceland to Ireland....

Media -- DIGITIMES - 2022 has been a fruitful year for RISC-V, an open standard instruction set architecture (ISA) that has become the third largest architecture for computing. RISC-V International CEO Calista Redmond sees 2023 as a year for market momentum and...

Media -- Semiconductor Engineering - IC design is transforming at an accelerated pace along with fabrication technology. The need to incorporate more functionality has led to denser dies, multi-die chips, stacked 3D ICs and advanced packaging. Furthermore, design...

Media -- eBOM - Analog Devices, Inc. (ADI) has introduced a precision medium bandwidth signal chain platform improving system performance for signal bandwidths of DC to approximately 500kHz towards industrial and instrumentation applications. The new platform...

Media -- Electronic Engineering Journal - Dec 2022: MikroElektronika (MIKROE), the embedded solutions company that dramatically cuts development time by providing innovative hardware and software products based on proven standards, today announced a new open standard...

Media -- SemiMedia - NXP Semiconductors recently announced that it has signed a memorandum of understanding with Delta Electronics, Inc. to jointly develop traction inverter and power conversion platforms for next-generation electric...

EE -- Hackaday - What do you get if you cross graphene, hexagonal boron nitride, and tungsten diselenide? Well, according to researchers at Hunan University, you get a field effect transistor that can act as both a switching element or a memory cell. The partial...

Life -- Phys.org - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) scientists have created vertically aligned single-walled carbon nanotubes on metal foils that could be a boon for energy storage and the electronics industry.

Electronics -- MikroElektronika - On Monday, the 12th of December, we celebrated our 21st birthday! Like every year, our birthday started with a presentation where we did the overview of the previous year. One of the main [...]

Media -- EE World - Siemens Digital Industries Software announced that its Sokol Flex OS software now supports RISC-V embedded development with the availability of one of the industry's first commercially supported, extensible, and customizable Linux platforms...

Aspencore -- EDN - In this design idea logic elements consisting of two nodes-an input resistive matrix and a threshold module, operating on the basis of fractional logic principles-are proposed. Fractional logic differs in that the input signals of the "Log. 1" level...

Aspencore -- EDN - The automotive industry has gotten its fair share of time in the spotlight in recent years. Part of the focus has revolved around how important semiconductors are to modern vehicle designs equipped with smart technology capabilities. These technologies...