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Life -- Phys.org - Blue light is vital for light-emitting devices, lighting applications, as well as smartphone screens and large screen displays. However, it is challenging to develop efficient blue organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs), owing to the high applied...

Media -- Electronic Engineering Journal - Ultra Librarian(r), (ultralibrarian.com) the world's largest CAD library provider, today announced that it has developed a new AI-driven CAD modeling engine to drastically reduce the...

Media -- DIGITIMES - Gallium Nitride (GaN) semiconductor company Efficient Power Conversion (EPC) is taking a fresh stab at the power component landscape, challenging the longstanding silicon hegemony. The US-based firm recently made headlines due to its ongoing...

Media -- eBOM - Translate hand movements into commands

MikroElektronika (MIKROE), the embedded solutions company that dramatically cuts development time by providing innovative hardware and software products based on proven standards, has introduced IR Gesture...

Media -- SemiMedia - Microchip Technology recently announced the new family of LAN8650/1 MAC-PHY devices qualified for automotive applications. The LAN8650 and LAN8651 MAC-PHYs include a Media Access Controller (MAC) and Serial...

Business Wire -- Lattice Semiconductor (NASDAQ: LSCC), the low power programmable leader, today announced its participation in EDHPC (European Data Handling & Data Processing Conference for Space) 2023 organized by ESA (European Space Agency). With key...

Aspencore -- EETimes - Depending on your position in the value chain, deployment of internet of things (IoT) connected devices can be complex. While the principle might be simple-deploy sensors, collect data and do something

Aspencore -- EETimes - Over the last several years, we have seen the adoption of embedded FPGA (eFPGA) accelerating in production ASICs and SoCs. In fact, just last year we predicted that eFPGA LUTs would outship FPGA LUTs later

Aspencore -- EETimes Europe - With the proliferation of digital technologies and exacerbation by the chip shortage, there is immense pressure on the semiconductor industry to manufacture products with limited defects and deliver novel innovations to market rapidly....

Life -- Phys.org - A team of scientists with the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory has investigated the behavior of hafnium oxide, or hafnia, because of its potential for use in novel semiconductor applications.

Media -- Electronic Engineering Journal - Tessenderlo, Belgium, 12th September 2023 - Melexis launches the MLX91230, the first product of its third generation of current sensors. This digital solution brings 0.5% accuracy at an affordable price in a compact design....

Electronics -- Infineon - Infineon Technologies AG (FSE: IFX / OTCQX: IFNNY) combines its proven automotive expertise with its patented glass-silicon-glass MEMS sensor for the automotive tire pressure monitoring system (TPMS) market...

Media -- eBOM - Panasonic Industry releases new ZUU series

The newly introduced ZUU series of conductive polymer hybrid aluminium electrolytic capacitors from Panasonic Industry benefit from some of the best technical specifications currently available on the...

Business Wire -- Cadence today announced the new OrCAD X Platform, a cloud-enabled solution that offers improvements in performance, automation and collaboration.

Electronics -- TI - Power House - A device's quiescent current, or IQ, is an important parameter for low-power, energy-efficient end equipment such as continuous blood glucose monitors...

Tech -- Liliputing - The Orange Pi Zero 2W is a new single-board computer that measures just 65 x 30mm (2.6″ x 1.2″, but which features a quad-core processor, up to 4GB of RAM, and enough ports and connectors for basic computer functions. In other...

TMCnet -- Fluke Reliability has acquired Azima DLI (a subsidiary of Fortive), amplifying Fluke's connected reliability strategy and combining condition monitoring with asset management software and alignment hardware to empower IIoT customers.

Media -- Components in Electronics - EPC Space has introduced two new rad-hard GaN transistors with ultra-low on-resistance and high current capability for high power density solutions that are lower cost and more efficient than the nearest comparable radiation-hardened...

Media -- EE World - Central Semiconductor, a leading manufacturer of discrete electronic components, announced the addition of two new products to its extensive lineup, the CRU24715-600 (600V, with dual common cathode 15A rectifiers) and CRU24730-600 (600V, with...

Business Wire -- Cadence announced that it has completed the previously announced acquisition of the SerDes and memory interface PHY IP business from Rambus Inc.

Electronics -- MikroElektronika - Hello MIKROE User,

We hope this newsletter finds you well. August has been an exciting month for us, filled with new product launches. We've been hard at work to bring you 23 brand-new [...]

Media -- Electronic Engineering Journal - Dr. Lawrence Pileggi, Coraluppi Head and Tanoto Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, will be honored with the 2023 Phil Kaufman Award...

Business Wire -- Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. ("Toshiba") has announced new microcontroller (MCU) sample software for SEGGER Embedded Studio users. The new release extends the software package for the company's M4K group of MCUs, which is ready to use out-of-the-box...

Aspencore -- EDN - Sensors that detect and track small metallic objects are handy gadgets, whether used to route workpieces on an assembly line or comb a beach for "treasures" lost in the sand. A typical sensor design consists of an inductor integrated into an oscillator,...

Aspencore -- EETimes Europe - Every year, embedded hardware and software developers face new challenges. Some of these come from industry trends, such as the increasing use of machine learning at the edge. Others are driven by customer and market expectations, such...

Electronics -- EPC - EPC Space has introduced radiation-hardened gallium nitride devices for space-borne power converters and other rugged environments.

Aspencore -- EPS News - Like the U.S., European semiconductor companies and industrial players are determined to reduce their exposure to Asian manufacturing and, by extension, its supply chain. Some are forming alliances to boost semiconductor production and research....

Aspencore -- EDN - The tie-ups between IP suppliers of embedded FPGA (eFPGA) and UCIe chiplets mark a new era of FPGA chiplet integration in die-to-die connectivity. Chiplets are rapidly being adopted as heterogeneous multi-chip solutions to enable lower latency,...

Life -- Phys.org - Nothing in the world is perfect. This is also true in materials research. In computer simulations, one often represents a system in a highly idealized way; for example, one calculates the properties that an absolutely perfect crystal would...

Electronics -- TI - Multicore Mix - Power electronics designers are striving to increase power efficiency and power density in industrial and automotive designs ranging from multiaxis drives to solar energy storage to electric...

Media -- Semiconductor Today - EPC Space LLC of Haverhill, MA, USA has introduced two new radiation-hardened (rad-hard) gallium nitride (GaN) transistors with ultra-low on-resistance and high-current capability for high-power-density solutions that are said to...

Business Wire -- Toshiba's industry's first 2200V dual silicon carbide(SiC) MOSFET module contributes to high efficiency and downsizing of industrial equipment.

Media -- Semiconductor Engineering - A technical paper titled "On-Chip Batteries as Distributed Energy Sources in Heterogeneous 2.5D/3D Integrated Circuits" was published by researchers at University of Florida and Brookhaven National Laboratory.

Media -- Electronic Engineering Journal - Graphene aerogel is a remarkable lightweight material that is both thermally insulating and electrically conductive. This makes it appealing for use in a wide variety of...

Media -- eBOM - Fourth-Generation Device Enables High Power Ratings and Density, While Lowering Conduction and Switching Losses to Increase Efficiency.

Vishay Intertechnology, Inc. (NYSE: VSH) today introduced a new fourth-generation 650 V E Series power MOSFET...

Media -- SemiMedia - Infineon Technologies AG has recently announced the expansion of its seventh generation TRENCHSTOP IGBT family with the discrete 650 V IGBT7 H7 variant. The devices feature a cutting-edge EC7 co-packed diode...

Business Wire -- The JEDEC Board of Directors presented its prestigious 2023 Distinguished Executive Leadership Award to AMD Chair and CEO, Dr. Lisa T. Su, in a ceremony held at AMD's offices in San Jose, CA. This award stands as JEDEC's highest honor and recognizes the...

Aspencore -- EDN - A suite of security IP products from Rambus brings cryptographic, side-channel, and quantum safe protection to the FPGA market. Rambus says the security IP is designed to meet the unique needs of a broad range of FPGAs, from high-performance accelerators...

Media -- Semiconductor Engineering - Prototyping, an essential technology for designing complex chips in tight market windows, is becoming significantly more challenging for the growing number of designs that include AI/ML.

Prototyping remains one of the foundational...

Media -- Semiconductor Engineering - While writing last month's blog that used some of the trend charts we have seen, I noticed that a lot of the data ends in 2020 or earlier, but I was too close to the deadline to sit down and make orderly updates to some of...

Electronics -- TI - Power House - Earlier this year, I wrote about wearables and how they can do so much and be so small. Well, wearable devices are about to get smaller, do more and last longer thanks to innovations in battery charging, low quiescent current operation,...

Business Wire -- Toshiba's new 600V small intelligent power devices for brushless DC motor helps reduce mounting area and the size of circuit boards for motor drives.

Life -- Phys.org - Silicon is one of the most pervasive functional materials of the modern age, underpinning semiconductor technologies ranging from microelectronics to solar cells. Indeed, silicon transistors enable computing applications from cell phones to...

Life -- Phys.org - The so-called superconducting (SC) diode effect is an interesting nonreciprocal phenomenon, occurring when a material is SC in one direction and resistive in the other. This effect has been the focus of numerous physics studies, as its observation...

Business Wire -- Rambus announced a full suite of Security IP for the FPGA market with state-of-the-art cryptographic, side-channel, and Quantum Safe protections.

Electronics -- TI - Analog Wire - TMCS1123In electric vehicle (EV) charging and solar inverter systems, current sensors measure current flow by monitoring the voltage drop across a shunt resistor or the magnetic fields generated by current...

Aspencore -- EDN - Infineon offers six OptiMOS 5 MOSFETs in the 60-V and 120-V range housed in TOLx packages for use with automotive ECUs requiring 24 V to 72 V. The compact TOLx packages include the TO-leadless (TOLL), TO-leaded with gullwing (TOLG), and TO-leaded...

Life -- Phys.org - Two-dimensional transition-metal dichalcogenides (2D TMDs), especially MoS2, are at the forefront of new-generation 2D materials, and industrial-level efforts are being made to produce them at a large scale with reasonable performance for electronic...

Media -- Semiconductor Engineering - A technical paper titled "SoftFlow: Automated HW-SW Confidentiality Verification for Embedded Processors" was published by researchers at RWTH Aachen University, Robert Bosch, and Newcastle University.

Globe Newswire -- Applied Materials, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMAT) today reported results for its third quarter ended July 30, 2023.