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Aspencore -- EDN - Gallium nitride (GaN) power semiconductors continue to push the boundaries of high-voltage electronics, as evident at this year's Applied Power Electronics Conference (APEC) in Long Beach, California. GaN devices are moving beyond fast chargers...

Media -- ELE Times - Low-Power, Streamlined Devices Target Energy Management, Home Appliances, Building Automation and Medical Applications

Renesas Electronics Corporation, a premier supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, today introduced the RA2A2 microcontroller...

Business Wire -- Achronix Semiconductor Corporation, a leader in high-performance FPGAs and embedded FPGA (eFPGA) IP, and Bluespec, Inc., an industry leader in RISC-V tools and silicon IP, today announced a family of Linux-capable RISC-V soft processors that are available...

Media -- DIGITIMES - Cadence, one of the global EDA giants, expressed optimism for India-based IC design houses to differentiate themselves from global fabless semiconductor firms by designing chips for local electric two-wheelers (E2Ws).

Business Wire -- Renesas' new, low-power RA2A2 MCUs offer a 24-bit ADC and make it easy to implement firmware over-the-air (FOTA) updates for smart energy management.

Media -- DIGITIMES - Arm has unveiled a significant expansion of its presence in automotive electronics, introducing server-grade automotive enhanced processor IP alongside software development platforms and computing subsystem roadmaps. This move has attracted...

Media -- eBOM - Diodes Incorporated (Diodes) (Nasdaq: DIOD) announces its SDT2U30CP3 (30V/2A), SDT2U40CP3 (40V/2A), and SDT2U60CP3 (60V/2A) achieve the industry's highest current densities in their class with low forward voltage drop and thermal resistance addressing...

Media -- Electronics Sourcing - Purchasing professionals are invited to immerse themselves in the multifaceted world of embedded systems and meet the who's who of the industry.

From 9 to 11 April 2024, it's 'see and be seen' at the Nuremberg Exhibition Centre...

Business Wire -- Archer Materials Limited ("Archer", the "Company", "ASX: AXE"), a semiconductor company advancing the quantum computing and medical diagnostics industries, has designed a miniaturised version of its Biochip graphene field effect transistor ("gFET") chip...

Business Wire -- Cadence is collaborating with Arm to jumpstart the automotive chiplet ecosystem with an ADAS reference design and software development platform.

EFYTIMES.COM -- Introducing Flux Copilot into Flux's browser-based PCB design tool represents a significant leap forward in making hardware design more accessible and efficient. In a groundbreaking move for the hardware industry, Flux has announced the Flux Copilot,...

Media -- Semiconductor Engineering - With the ever-present pressure to produce more efficient devices with more power, the sizes of the structures and electrical connections in the production of chips have become smaller and smaller. In addition, the sheer number...

Business Wire -- Altium, LLC (ASX: ALU), a global leader in electronics design systems, will share its latest innovations at Embedded World 2024.

Media -- ElectronicsB2B - We know the Chips to Startup (C2S) program aims to train 85,000 people over five years.

In its recent development, the Indian government is equipping over 100 colleges with electronic design automation (EDA) tools from leading companies...

Aspencore -- EDN - Soon after Synopsys snapped up multiphysics simulation toolmaker Ansys, Cadence has responded by announcing the acquisition of engineering simulation supplier BETA CAE Systems International AG for approximately $1.24 billion. BETA CAE, which provides...

Business Wire -- Diodes Incorporated (Diodes) (Nasdaq: DIOD) today releases a new automotive-compliant* linear LED driver that enables users to independently control the brightness and color of its three channels. Human-centric automotive design is driving the demand...

Aspencore -- EDN - For several decades, the semiconductor industry has been looking for alternative memory technologies to fill the gap between dynamic random-access memory (DRAM), the compute system's main memory, and NAND flash-the system's storage medium-in traditional...

Business Wire -- JEDEC Solid State Technology Association, the global leader in the development of standards for the microelectronics industry, is pleased to announce the publication of JESD239 Graphics Double Data Rate (GDDR7) SGRAM. This groundbreaking new memory standard...

Electronics -- MikroElektronika - EZO Carrier Click - Conductivity is a compact add-on board for measuring conductivity, salinity, and Total Dissolved Solids (TDS) in various applications from chemical production to [...]

Media -- Design And Reuse - Intel Launches Altera, Its New Standalone FPGA Company

Media -- Semiconductor Engineering - Optimizing EDA hardware for the cloud can shorten the time required for large and complex simulations, but not all workloads will benefit equally, and much more can be done to improve those that can.

Tens of thousands of GPUs...

Media -- Semiconductor Engineering - When I was in the EDA industry as a technologist, there were three main parts to my role. The first was to tell customers about new technologies being developed and tool extensions that would be appearing in the next release....

Business Wire -- Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (TOKYO: 6503) announced today that it will begin shipping samples of its new 6.5W silicon radio-frequency (RF) high-power metal-oxide semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET) for use in RF high-power amplifiers of...

EE -- Hackaday - A few days ago, KiCad 8 was released, and it's a straight upgrade to any PCB designer's quality of life. There's a blog post as usual, and, this year, there's also a FOSDEM talk from [Wayne Stambaugh] talking about the changes that we now all...

Business Wire -- EMA Design Automation, Inc. and Hawk Ridge Systems entered a strategic partnership to give customers a full ECAD/MCAD design experience, leveraging best-in-class tools and support for the entire electronic product design flow. EMA Design Automation, Inc....

Life -- Phys.org - In the realm of material science, the phenomena of polarization and polarity have conventionally been associated with insulators. However, envision a scenario where these characteristics could be induced in metals, potentially mitigating power...

Media -- Semiconductor Engineering - EDA is transforming from a staid but strategic sector into a hot investment market, fueled by strong earnings and growth, a clamoring for leading-edge and increasingly customized designs across new and existing markets, and...

Life -- Phys.org - Organic semiconductors are a class of materials that find applications in various electronic devices owing to their unique properties. One attribute that influences the optoelectronic property of these organic semiconductors is their "exciton...

Media -- EE World - By connecting to a computer, a USB oscilloscope lets engineers offload screens and compute-intensive functions to the host, which reduces needed bench space and brings portability. Oscilloscopes are sometimes grouped into three types, benchtop,...

Media -- DIGITIMES - Mobile phone vendors, including Apple and Oppo, are actively evaluating the use of Quad-Level Cell (QLC) NAND flash memory in large-capacity 1TB smartphone models, according to industry sources.

Distribution -- TTI MarketEye - The application of AI techniques in chip design is still in the early adopter phase. Learn how design engineers are exploring use cases and using AI to simplify complex problems as well as finding it particularly valuable in model development...

Aspencore -- EDN - The bistable load switch is made on two comparators. The load is switched on and off sequentially by applying a voltage of two different levels to the input of the device.

Earlier in [1], a new class of bistable elements was proposed-two-threshold...

Life -- Phys.org - Optical chip-related technology is the inevitable path to retain the validity of Moore's Law, which has become the consensus of academia and industry; it can effectively solve the speed and power consumption problems of electronic chips. This...

EE -- Hackaday - Ti's presentation of the rapid integration of calculator chips.Although for most generations alive today the era of microcontrollers (MCU) feels like it starts somewhere with the Intel 8051 and AVR MCUs, the history of these self-contained...

Media -- eBOM - EPC launches three laser driver boards showcasing AEC-Q101 qualified GaN FETs' rapid transition for superior LiDAR system performance

EPC introduces three evaluation boards - EPC9179, EPC9181, and EPC9180 - featuring pulse current laser drivers...

Enterprise -- The Register - This one time at band gap... we managed to use wonder stuff as an electronic material for semiconducting

Researchers say they have discovered a way to produce semiconductors using graphene that could - at some stage further down the road...

EE -- Hackaday - The FM broadcast band has been with us since the middle of the 20th century, and despite many tries to unseat it, remains a decent quality way to pick up your local stations. It used to be that building an FM broadcast receiver required a bit...

Media -- Semiconductor Engineering - AI (Artificial Intelligence) and data analytics empower semiconductor manufacturers to extract valuable insights from the massive amounts of data generated throughout the silicon lifecycle. By leveraging AI algorithms, semiconductor...

Media -- Evertiq - Cadence Design Systems says it has acquired Invecas, a provider of design engineering, embedded software and system-level solutions, headquartered in Santa Clara, California.

Media -- SemiMedia - Texas Instruments recently introduced new semiconductors designed to improve automotive safety and intelligence. The AWR2544 77GHz millimeter-wave radar sensor chip is the industry's first for satellite radar...

Business Wire -- pSemi Unveils PE562212, Its Smallest and Fully Integrated PA-LNA-SW IoT Front-End Module

Business Wire -- Altium announced its integration with Z2Data, one of the most comprehensive electronics supply chain risk management solutions.

Life -- Live Science - Scientists overcame a limitation in graphene to harness the material as a working semiconductor at terahertz frequencies with 10 times the mobility of silicon.

Electronics -- The Ojo-Yoshida Report - Synopsys says the EDA industry is committed to ensuring that their customers can scale from large single-die SoCs today to multi-die systems incorporating perhaps hundreds of chiplets tomorrow.

Business Wire -- Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: CDNS) announced today that it has acquired Invecas, Inc., a leading provider of design engineering, embedded software and system-level solutions, headquartered in Santa Clara, California. The purchase adds a skilled...

Media -- Evertiq - After many years of speculation, it appears that researchers have successfully developed a chip based on the 'wonder material' graphene.

Aspencore -- EDN - Simplifying device interoperability, Murata's Type 2FR tri-radio connectivity module supports Matter over Wi-Fi, Matter over Thread, and Matter over Ethernet. The module integrates NXP Semiconductors' RW612 wireless MCU in a 12x11-mm package that...

Aspencore -- EDN - Two 600-V N-channel super-junction MOSFETs from Alpha & Omega incorporate a body diode for robustness and fast reverse recovery. Based on the company's aMOS5 technology, the AOK095A60FD (TO-247) and AOTF125A60FDL (TO-220F) provide an on-resistance...

Aspencore -- EDN - A DDR5 registering clock driver (RCD) from Rambus, the RCD4-GA0A boosts data rates to 7200 MT/s, a significant increase over DDR5 devices operating at 4800 MT/s. Intended for registered DIMMs, the driver chip can accelerate performance in generative...

Aspencore -- EDN - The classic and versatile 555 finds its way into many low to moderate frequency oscillator applications. Some of these require the ability to selectively gate oscillation on and off on demand and the 555's RESET pin can conveniently be used for...