ams has introduced a power management IC for LED-based lamps and luminaires which uses closed-loop sensing to maintain more accurate correlated colour temperature (CCT) and lumen output. Following the AS7221 smart lighting manager introduced earlier this year, this new device, the AS7220, combines a precise calibrated-for-life colour sensor with an intelligent Cognitive Lighting Engine for standalone ...
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Skeleton Technologies, the German ultracapacitor manufacturer, has developed an energy storage system for adding power reliability in manufacturing plants, data centres, and covering starting and bridging power for diesel generators. Called SkelGrid, the system is based on the firm’s curved graphene ultracapacitor technology, which is designed to provide high power and energy density. Taavi Madiberk, ...
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The Catch-22 situation which Uber’s driverless car guru, Tony Levandowski, found himself in, has been resolved. He’s been sacked. Apparently Levandowski preferred his Fifth Amendment protection to his continued employment at Uber. Levandowski pleaded the Fifth to accusations that he had stolen 14,000 files on driverless car technology from his previous employer Waymo, Google’s driverless ...
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Microchip has added a high-resolution 2D graphics controller and 32Mbyte of SDRAM to its 32bit PIC32 microcontroller range. It is aimed developers of embedded products wanting high-quality images and animations on displays up to 12inch. Up to 24bit colour is available in multiple input and output formats – with a global colour palette look-up table ...
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Operating self-driving cars in a single software environment exposes all software to any cyber attack surface. A more sensible solution is to use a hypervisor to host multiple virtual machines on one processor, writes Chris Barlow The security of automotive systems goes hand-in-hand with functional safety gas defined in ISO 26262. But cybersecurity presents a ...
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Mystery still surrounds the BA web-site outage with everyone asking why BA didn’t have a back-up system or a back-up system which worked. The BA explanation of a power surge knocking out the BA network has not answered the question of why it took so long to fix it. The unions point to the sacking ...
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A scheme to attract technologically talented immigrants has started to take off. 260 visas for exceptionally talented technologists were issued in the fiscal year to April 6th. The visas allow the holder to stay in the UK for five years and then apply to settle here if they want to. In the previous FY less ...
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The Infineon-led, 26-partner, EU-backed eRamp power electronics project ends this week. “The eRamp results have created the prerequisites for keeping the production of power electronics in Europe competitive,” says project co-ordinator Dr. Oliver Pyper, of Infineon, “power electronics guarantee an ever more efficient generation, transmission, and use of electric energy. And it is in this ...
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Flex Logix, the eFPGA IP specialist, has completed design of its second-generation high-performance IP core for TSMC 16FF+ and 16FFC process Enabling embedded FPGA arrays greater than 100,000 LUTs. “Data centers require reconfigurable hardware protocols for networking, storage and security, and therefore switches, NICs and other networking chips need very high-performance reprogrammability,” says Geoff Tate, ...
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ARM has brought out the first cores based on its DynamIQ micro-architecture and a new version of its Mali GPU core. The CPU cores, which use big.LITTLE and TrustZone technology, are designated Cortex A-75 and A-55. They have dedicated instructions for AI which are intended to boost AI performance by 50x in the next 3-5 ...
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Researchers from North Carolina State University have discovered a technique for controlling red light with electric fields, with possible applications in photonics. It involves layers of thin material whose refractive index changes by up to 60%. “Unfortunately, it is very difficult to tune refractive index with electric fields,” said researcher Linyou Cao. “Previous techniques could ...
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Researchers at the University of Central Florida have developed a colour changing surface tunable through voltage. “We can make a red sub-pixel go to blue, for instance,” said researcher Debashis Chanda. “In other displays that is not possible because they need three static colour filters to show the full RGB colour. We don’t need that ...
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UltraSoC has raised a $6.4 million funding round to drive continued deployment of its technology for embedding intelligent analytics capabilities into every chip. New investors are: Atlante Tech, Enso Ventures, Oxford Capital and Guillaume d’Eyssautier, who join existing investors Octopus Ventures and South East Seed Fund (FSE Group). “Hard tech is back in favor with the ...
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Mark Zuckerberg told graduating Harvard students yesterday that they should help people find purpose. “Technology and automation are eliminating many jobs,” said Zuckerberg, “membership in communities is declining. Many people feel disconnected and depressed, and are trying to fill a void. We have a generational challenge — to not only create new jobs, but create ...
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BBK Electronics of China is now the second largest smartphone manufacturer in the world with its two brands OPPO and VIVO. BBK shipped 56.7 million smartphones in Q1 with OPPO shipping 30.9 million and VIVO shipping 25.8 million, says Gartner. Samsung was the top vendor with 78.7 million phones shipped. Apple came in third with ...
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Featuring a wearable device that extracts information from the shelf-edge label in a supermerket and uses this to obtain the current price for that item from the store’s central server. Michael Jaeger, of UK patent and trade mark attorneys Withers & Rogers LLP, writes: GB Patent Number: GB2530769 Granted to: Asda Stores Limited There is a big ...
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The hardware demonstration platform developed by the EU’s Artemis EMC2 project has been placed in the public domain, says Sundance Multiprocessor Technology which architected and developed the platform. EMC² – Embedded Multicore systems for Mixed Criticality applications in dynamic and changeable real-time environments – is a €94 million project involving around 800 man-years of effort ...
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The automotive IC market is expected to grow 22% this year to a new record high of $28 billion, says IC Insights. After increasing 11.5% in 2014, the automotive IC market declined 2.5% in 2015, but then rebounded with 10.8% growth in 2016. The sales decline experienced in 2015 was primarily the result of falling ...
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Samsung has made an aggressive pitch for new customers for its foundry business which was recently restructured as a separate business unit. “To successfully compete in today’s fast-paced business environment, our customers need a foundry partner with a comprehensive roadmap at the advanced process nodes to achieve their business goals and objectives,” said Samsung foundry ...
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Finlay Cuffe (pictured below), the 17 year-old Sutton Grammar schoolboy, won Third Place at last week’s Intel-sponsored International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) in Los Angeles. Finlay and his colleague Shahab Fazal from Manchester’s Loreto Sixth Form College, were the only two students representing Great Britain at the competition, which saw 1,778 students from 78 ...
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Next year Intel will offer its Thunderbolt interface technology as a royalty-free licence. The move is designed to get the manufacturers of peripheral devices to use Thunderbolt. Intel will put the port on its processors and Microsoft will support the interface on Windows PCs. Thunderbolt was originally planned as a photonics interface but, when copper ...
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An impressive new exploit gives hackers the ability to control your desktop through malware spread by fake movie subtitles. The exploit, which essentially dumps the malware onto your desktop and then notifies the attacker, affects users of video players like Popcorn Time and VLC. Checkpoint found that malformed subtitle files can give hackers the ability to embed code into subtitle files… Read MoreMaster Google AdWords for a real future and search engine optimization
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National Instruments has released a new generation of its engineering system design software, called LabView NXG. “For a long time we focused on making additional things possible with LabVIEW, rather than furthering the goal of helping engineers automate measurements quickly and easily,” said NI co-founder Jeff Kodosky. “Now we are squarely addressing this with the introduction of ...
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TDK-Lambda has introduced a series of programmable single-output power supplies that can deliver 5kW from a 1U rack-mount unit. ‘Zero stack’ design means that they can be inserted in a rack with no space in between, and four of them can be paralleled to produce 20kW. “They could go higher, but customers are usually looking for ...
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As part of the EW BrightSparks programme, we wanted to share with you the comments of the industry experts that made up our selection panel.
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RS Components CEO Lindsley Ruth talks to Josh Brooks about the promise embodied in the 2017 BrightSparks cohort. Read more about the EW BrightSparks 2017 programme » What have you made of the young people who have come through the BrightSparks programme and who we have met today? It’s been an amazing experience and I’ve ...
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u‑blox, Commsignia and NXP Are combining to pursue Vehicle‑to‑Vehicle (V2V) and Vehicle‑to‑Infrastructure (V2I) technology. The adoption of V2X (V2I and V2V) technology in North America and European markets equips new vehicles with the ability to share information with other similarly equipped vehicles, infrastructure and even pedestrians within a radius of up to 1km. IEEE 802.11p ...
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In Q1 the output value of China’s IC design industry was $5.1 billion, says the China SIA, and the output value of China’s backend industry was $4.88 billion. The design output figure was 23.8% up on Q1 2016 The backend output value was up 11.2% on Q1 20162 The output value of China’s IC manufacturing ...
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Imec and wafer-probe specialist Cascade Microtech have developed an automatic system for pre-bond testing of advanced 3D chips. Pre-bond testing is important to increase the yield of 3D stacked chips. The new system enables probing and hence testing of chips with large arrays of 40µm-pitch micro-bumps, on 300mm wafers. As an emerging technology, 3D ...
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Central and Eastern Europe are beginning to see significant VC investment, according to Dealroom.co. In 2016, start-ups in the region raised €177 million – not much compared to Europe and Israel’s €4.5 billion of VC investment last year – but significantly up on 2012’s CEE VC investment of €15 million. A catalyst for CEE VC ...
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SEMI reports April billings of $2.17 billion – 4.6% higher than the March 2017 level of $2.08 billion, and 48.9% higher than the April 2016 billings level of $1.46 billion. “Semiconductor equipment billings levels exceed two billion dollars for the second month in a row,” says SEMI CEO Ajit Manocha, “solid market fundamentals, coupled with ...
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French research lab Leti has created what it claims is the world’s first gallium nitride WVGA (873 x 500) microdisplay with 10μm pixel pitch. “10μm pixel pitch technology will help address the demand for augmented-reality glasses for consumer and professional users, head-up displays for vehicle drivers and for pico projectors,” said the lab. Said to ...
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Globalfoundries and Chengdu town in China are putting $100 million into setting up an FD-SOI design centre. GloFo and Chengdu recently agreed to build a jv 300mm fab for 22nm FD-SOI (site pictured). They now plan to establish multiple centers focused on IP development, IC design and incubating fabless companies in Chengdu, with the expectation of hiring ...
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A US-based artificial intelligence (AI) firm is working with researchers in Germany to apply conversational and cognitive AI for autonomous systems for self-driving cars. Nuance Communications and Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz (DFKI), the German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence have joint research initiatives, including the relationship between humans and in-car systems, as well as ...
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Combining an oscilloscope, waveform generator and six other instruments, Moku:Lab comes from Australian firm Liquid Instruments. It has: Oscilloscope Waveform generator Spectrum analyser Phase meter Data logger Lock-in amplifier PID controller Bode analyser Control and display is through any iPad with a Retina display running the Moku:Lab app. “Moku:Lab app contains everything you need to manage ...
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Electrocomponents, the parent company of distributor RS Components, has posted strong growth in both sales and profits in full-year results published this morning.
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The EU Agency for Network and Information security – ENISA – together with ST, NXP and Infineon is proposing a similar system to the CE marking system to show a label if security is incorporated into electronic products. The paper focuses on four areas: standardisation and certification, security processes and services, security requirements and implementation, ...
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Avnet and Silego have signed an exclusive global distribution channel agreement. Avnet will be Silego’s only global distributor, serving as Silego’s sole demand creation distributor in the Americas and Europe and will bolster Silego’s current regional distributor network in Japan, Korea, Taiwan and China. Silego’s Configurable Mixed-signal ICs (CMICs), use nonvolatile memory to configure and integrate ...
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Crocus, the French TMR magnetic sensor and embedded MRAM specialist, has licensed magnetic TMR technology to NXP to help enable automotive applications like power steering and electronic throttle control. Crocus’ sensor technology will allow NXP to deliver greater sensitivity, performance, reduced power consumption and improved integration for its automotive applications. “As the industry steers towards ...
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An IEEE 802.3bt Powered Device (PD) interface controller for applications requiring up to 71W of delivered power has been launched by Linear Tech. The new Power over Ethernet (PoE) standard – IEEE 802.3bt – increases the power budget to enable new applications and features, while supporting 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GBASE-T) and maintaining backward compatibility with ...
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Arrow and Libelium, the wireless and sensor specialist, have signed a global distribution agreement. Libelium has been deploying remote sensing systems in applications including forestry, agriculture, environmental monitoring, smart manufacturing and traffic control since 2006. The company’s Waspmote hardware architecture has been designed to function with low power consumption. Individual sensor interfaces and radio modules ...
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