UK human propulsion start-up, Gravity, has built and flown a jet engine flying suit. Founded by Richard Browning, the firm’s Daedalus suit has six jet engines, four hand held and two in a backpack. RS Components has provided tools, components and expertise to support the development. RS has a page on the suit here. Just ...
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Electric Imp, the developer of hardware and software platforms for secure IoT designs, is offering quick-start reference designs for what it believes are the most frequently demanded connectivity and device prototypes. According to Hugo Fiennes, CEO and co-founder of Electric Imp: “We have seen customers cut nine to 12 weeks from prototype and trial schedules, and ...
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Rohm has a thermal printhead for incorporating in payment terminals capable of being driven by a single-cell Li-ion battery. Thermal printheads are electronic devices that print on special media (i.e. thermal paper) by generating and dissipating heat. Conventional thermal printheads for payment terminals are driven by 2-cell Li-ion batteries. As thermal printers do not use ...
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Arrow Electronics is targeting the maker market with an IoT design board based on an FPGA. The Arrow MAX1000 board can be installed directly into a custom application or integrated on to a completely separate board. The Intel MAX10 FPGA has 8,000 logic elements. The chip also includes integrated flash memory, a 1Msample/s 12-bit ...
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David Jervis recently contacted Electronics Weekly, trying to get a clean copy of an article written about his grandfather 50 years ago. Sadly, we couldn’t help because most of EW’s paper archive was destroyed in a storage accident. The grandfather turned out to be HJ Round, the British engineer who a century ago helped invent what ...
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RS Components now has 100,000 users in schools and colleges of its free-for-download DesignSpark PCB design tool via its educational network licence. In the last five years 100,000 users from more than 200 places of education across the globe, including schools, academies, colleges and universities, have been using the PCB tool. Before the launch of the licence, the DesignSpark ...
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E.Ink made a profit of $2 million on sales of $461 million in 2016 after a $14.2 million loss in 2015. Royalty income was $74.3 million. it is the first time the company has made a profit in the last five years. Gross margin went up from 31 – 36% thanks to more displays being ...
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Flexible OLEDS will outsell rigid OLEDS this year, reports IHS, despited the highe cost of flexibles IHS forecasts Q3 sales for flexible AMOLEDs at $3.2 billion and sales of rigid AMOLEDs at $3 billion. With many smartphone brands planning to apply flexible AMOLED displays to their high-end product lines, revenues for flexible AMOLED panels are ...
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It looks like the 47 year-old fab at Greenock has reached the end of its days. Built by National in 1970, the fab is now owned by TI after TI bought in 2011. TI said last year they intended to close the plant by 2019. Closure will mean the loss of an estimated 572 jobs ...
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Analog Devices has bought GaAs and GaN amplifier specialist OneTree Microdevices which makes components for CATV and FTTH. The acquisition means that ADI can deliver the complete signal chain for next-generation cable access networks. “Analog Devices, in combination with OneTree Microdevices, is uniquely positioned to solve the bandwidth and power efficiency challenges facing cable operators ...
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MAX20310 is a power management for wearables that will work from as little as 0.7V and up to 2V, for operation from single zinc-air, silver oxide and alkaline cells. The aim is to allow disposable rather than rechargeable cells to be used – to remove the need for charging components and, in clinical environments, remove ...
The first GCHQ-backed accelerator programme for cyber security start-ups has concluded . Seven start-ups joined the GCHQ Cyber Accelerator – a partnership between GCHQ, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), and corporate accelerator Wayra UK (part Telefónica Open Future). The companies received support to scale their businesses, including mentoring, business services, office space, ...
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Renesas Electronics has added new microcontrollers to its Synergy range of IoT-focused devices and software. With the latest MCUs – S128, S3A3 and S3A6 families – there are now a total of 57 devices based on ARM Cortex-M CPU cores covering operating frequencies from 32MHz up to 240MHz, and on-chip flash memory sizes of 64KB, 128KB, 256KB, ...
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Kionix KXTJ3 is a drop-in replacement for the earlier 2 x 2 x 0.9mm KXTJ2 (Kionix’s best selling accelerometer), with from better noise performance to extended range. Toys, wearables, remote controls, smart home and IoT are foreseen applications. “A common use case of accelerometers is for power savings, allowing the system to sleep when there ...
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Peter Lieberwirth, vice president, strategic business planning, Toshiba Electronics Europe outlines the semiconductor firm’s product plans for memory, power mosfets and LED lighting. What are your product plans for 3D NAND flash and how important is this technology for the data storage industry? Peter Lieberwirth: 3D NAND flash memory built on Toshiba’s BiCS (Bit Cost ...
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Long-term skin damage following radiotherapy could be predicted using a LED-based scanner, according to The University of California Irvine Beckman Laser Institute (BLI). Radiotherapy is sometimes used to eradicate cancer cells that might have survived surgery or chemotherapy, in breast cancer patients, for example. A side-effect of this radiation is long-term damage in the skin. ...
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Infineon is adding to its CoolMOS portfolio with the 600 V CoolMO P7 and 600 V CoolMOS C7 Gold (G7) series. The product families are designed to operate at 600 V breakdown voltage and deliver improved superjunction MOSFET performance. The P7 is targeting applications such as chargers, adapters, lighting, TV, PC power, solar, server, ...
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IC Insights has raised its worldwide IC market growth forecast for 2017 to 11%—more than twice its original 5% outlook. The revision was necessary due to a substantial upgrade to the 2017 growth rates forecast for the DRAM and NAND flash memory markets. IC Insights currently expects DRAM sales to grow 39% and NAND flash ...
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The humble flat-bed scanner can be used as a portal into a hacked computer, according to researchers from the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Several messages were transmitted to trigger malware in computers using the technique, including from a laser 900m away and from a drone outside the building. “In this research, we demonstrated how to ...
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Richardson RFPD is stocking a family of power IGBTs from Vincotechin the new VINco E3 package. VINco E3 features ‘SoLid Cover’ technology in an industry-standard low-profile package. “It enables engineers to design mid-power inverters with higher output current, higher power density and improved reliability for motion control, industrial drives, solar power, UPS and other mid-power ...
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Abbey Road Studios, the most famous recording studios in the world and has been witness to countless landmark recordings from The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Radiohead and Ed Sheeran, is under-going a major transformation. It is opening two brand new smaller studios designed to cater for a new generation of artists, as well as a mix stage for film ...
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Fidus Power has introduced a range of single output, open frame AC-DC 40W power supplies. Convection cooled the power supplies, which measure only 76.2 x 38.1 x 23.5mm, have a peak rating of 50W for 60s. The range consists of seven different models from 5 to 48Vdc output. The operating temperature range is 0 – ...
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How to avoid amplifier output driver saturation when using very low bias current amplifiers with high source impedance sensors, write Jon Munson and Kevin Scott When taking sensor measurements, the type of sensor excitation used typically varies greatly. It can be a DC signal, an AC signal, a voltage source, a current source or a ...
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Recent advances in polymer-cathode technology and improvements in tightening the tantalum supply-chain are allowing more designers to choose polymer tantalum capacitors as alternatives to traditional solid tantalum capacitors, writes Roger Tall In specifying the ideal capacitor most designers would start with high volumetric efficiency and then consider miniaturised packages and capacitance stability over applied voltage, ...
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Hynix is in talks with Japanese investors about a plan to bid for Toshiba’s memory business, reports the Korea Economic Daily. Toshiba is said to value the business at $13 billion. A preliminary bid from Hynix bid is expected sometime today. A number of industry leaders like Micron, TSMC, Western Digital, Foxconn, Kingston and others ...
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Helix Semiconductors is sampling a two-chip set with a conversion efficiency of more than 95% when converting AC mains voltage to 5VDC — especially at light load, no load or standby operating conditions. At full loads, the eMpower HS100 enables efficiency greater than 93%. The industry has set a target for power consumed by electronic ...
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X-rays have been sensed with high resolution using an optical antenna on the end of an optical fibre – which could offer another route to precision medical imaging. “We want to develop this technology so that it could be used in radiotherapy, for example,” said Thierry Grosjean of the FEMTO-ST Institute at France’s National Centre ...
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Power supply firm CUI has created a chart which clarifies forthcoming US and EU power adapter regulations – DoE Level VI and CoC Tier 2. “When the United States Department of Energy (DoE) implemented its Level VI standard in February 2016, most OEMs were forced to update their designs to meet these requirements. Now with ...
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The theory explaining how lithium ions move in batteries is not quite right, according to the Institute for Basic Science (IBS) in Korea, which has been examining the process in femtosecond detail. The model was, said IBS, that lithium ions (green dots) move surrounded by a shell of ethylene carbonate (EC, blue ovals) molecules, and that ...
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French firm Spark Racing Technology will once again be supplying all the racing cars for Formula E, when it enters season five next year. Called SRT05e, the car will be the successor to the SRT01, from the same firm, which has been used since the Formula E race format was introduced – Spark having been ...
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Intel says first PC memory modules based on its much-talked of high speed NAND flash alternative memory called 3D XPoint, will be commercially available next month. Called Optane, the first 16GB and 32GB memory modules will be available on 24 April, for those users who can install them in Optane memory ready motherboards or systems. ...
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Google launches Google Home and Google WiFi in the UK, expanding further into the realm of consumer electronics
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Faraday Future Dragon Racing team is preparing for the fourth leg of the 2017 Formula E championship series this Saturday in Mexico City. Lead driver Jerome D’Ambrosio won the Mexico City ePrix last year. The course is at the Autódromo Hermanos RodrÃguez, 2,285m above sea level. “The team took a technological leap into the future ...
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National Instruments says it has given the world’s first public demonstration of a real-time, over-the-air prototype for Verizon 5G specification operating in the 28GHz frequency band which is likely to be deployed for first 5G services in the US. A prototype system was built using NI’s mmWave transceiver system with a new version of the RF mmWave heads operating at 28GHz ...
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Attopsemi, the seven year-old Taiwanese OTP memory IP specialist, has joined GloFo’s FD-SOI FDXcelerator Partner Program, to provide scalable, OTP memory IP compatible with GF’s 22FDX technology. Attopsemi’s I-fuse OTP IP suits harsh applications such as automotive, 3D IC, and IoT applications, and can guarantee zero-program defects. Features of the I-fuse include: Limited program current below ...
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Scaling has seven years to go, says the International Technology Roadmap for Devices and Systems (IRDS) which took over the forecasting of scaling trends from ITRS. “Die cost reduction has been enabled so far by concurrent scaling of poly pitch, metal pitch, and cell height scaling,” says IRDS concluding that this will likely continue until ...
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Pico Technology has increased the bandwidth of its PicoScope 9300 family of sampling oscilloscopes with two 25GHz models. “The USB-controlled sampling oscilloscope stands as one of very few low-cost, high-integrity options for viewing and measuring RF and microwave signals, paths and networks,” claimed the firm. “Sampling Oscilloscopes are the cost-effective solution to today’s proliferation of ...
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Six high-performance computing centres for academics and industry will be launched officially on Thursday. Funded with £20m from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) the centres are located at the universities of Cambridge, Edinburgh, Exeter, and Oxford, Loughborough University, and UCL. “These centres will enable new discoveries, drive innovation and allow new insights ...
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Samsung has said that the 4 million recalled Galaxy Note 7 mobile handsets will be recycled and processed in an environmentally-friendly manner. The mobile phone maker said that recalled devices shall be considered to be used as refurbished phones or rental phones where applicable. All salvageable components, such as semiconductors and camera modules, shall be detached for test sample production purposes. Samsung also ...
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ARM has brought out an Embedded Linux Education Kit to train students and future engineers on Linux development. The kit includes full courseware on how to develop embedded Linux products, including Linux kernel configuration and custom peripheral driver development, using ARM-based single board computers. The courseware is highly modular and includes a rich set of ...
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Collaborative research taking place between the Universities of Bristol and Lund, National Instruments and BT has set up field trials of a massive MIMO system working in a large indoor environment. The aim was to test massive MIMO spatial multiplexing indoors and improve the understanding of massive MIMO radio channels under mobile conditions with untethered ...
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Recom has introduced a three-pin 2A switching regulator that is pin-compatible with linear regulators in TO-220 packages and operates at up to 96% efficiency – and therefore doesn’t need a heatsink. Part of the R-78B series, it comes in a 11.5 x 8.5 x 17.5 mm SIP3 package, making the power density up to 17.5W/cm³, said Recom. ...
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Ethernet is now being used for real-time communications in industrial automation networks and Rahman Jamal from National Instruments explains the pros and cons of the OPC-UA and TSN protocols Which tasks and functions do OPC-UA and TSN (time-sensitive network) protocols fulfil respectively in industrial systems? Rahman Jamal: TSN and OPC-UA operate at different (and compatible) ...
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Giovanni D’Amore discusses approaches to characterising both dielectric and magnetic materials using impedance analysers and specialist fixtures. We are used to thinking about technological progress in terms of mobile phone model generations, or semiconductor manufacturing process nodes. These provide a useful shorthand, but overshadow progress in enabling technologies, such as those in materials science. Anyone ...
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China is aggressively recruiting semiconductor engineers and execs, reports headhunters TrendForce, leading to a boost in salaries across the entire semiconductor industry. With a number of new fabs set to start production in H2 2018, China is looking for veteran semiconductor people, particularly memory specialists, to run them. Memory specialists are particularly required because Yangtze ...
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Sharply higher memory prices pushed Micron Technology to calendar Q1 revenues of $4.65 billion for net income of $894 million. The increase in the company’s revenues of 17% for calendar Q1 compared to calendar Q4 2016 was due primarily to a 21% increase in DRAM ASPs and an 18% increase in NAND sales volumes. “Strong ...
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Reuters reports that Toshiba will put its Westinghouse nuclear unit into Chapter 11 and take a $9 billion charge on its losses. The move would limit future liabilities from the unit. The Singapore investment fund Effissimo increased its stake in Toshiba to over 8% as shares rose 7.6%. Toshiba has received interest in the sale ...
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Uber has suspended its driverless car programme after a crash in Arizona. With Apple and Google already going leery on driverless cars, it is beginning to look as if expectations for the technology were over-egged. Uber had already been banned from testing its self-driving cars in San Francisco before it went down to Arizona to ...
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TSMC will start moving equipment into its Nanjing fab in H2, reports Digitimes. Thee fab will kick off on 16nm. Pilot production is scheduled for H1 2018 with volume production in H2. It is being equipped to run 20k wpm. First 7nm tape-outs at TSMC Taiwan are set for H2 2017. 10nm is already in production. ...
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Samsung has launched its answer to Apple Pay – a contactless payment system it calls the Contactless Companion Platform (CCP). CCP was built with Smartlink and Ingenico. Users can make digital cash payments via any enabled contactless device of their choice, such as a dedicated smart card, wristband, key fob, or even a mechanical watch or a ...
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Infineon has increased the outlook for revenues and Segment Result Margin for the running, second quarter of 2017 fiscal year and increased the outlook for revenues and Segment Result Margin for the full 2017 fiscal year. The outlook for investments for the full 2017 fiscal year is updated as well. Increased outlook for the second ...
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Ultrahaptics, the mid-air haptic touch specialist, is collaborating with MIT on a haptics teaching programme. The course, which has been running since January 2017, is based on Ivan Sutherland’s vision of an “Ultimate Display” – a room that could render data so realistically that it would allow users to interact with information as if it ...
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Rotary sensing firm CambridgeIC has further lifted the lid on its technology by rendering its coil-based sensing system for 3D viewing. Its sensors require two PCBs, one on the rotating shaft and a static one though which the shaft passes. The two PCBs only need to be made to conventional tolerances – with 0.2mm track ...
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