Maxim is aiming at medical wearables with a set of chips for sensing various vital signs. In particular, its chips are aimed at wearables that meets US Fedral Drug Administration (FDA) sensing specifications – so far, said Maxim, no wearables have achieved FDA approval. MAX86141 is an autonomous dual-channel (for two photodiodes) optical pulse oximeter ...
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Nvidia’s ‘Cuda’ graphics processors, with their high bandwidth PCIe interface, have opened the door to fast, but simple, instrumentation-grade DSP, according to Spectrum Instrumentation. Spectrum is a maker of digitisers – effectively low-noise multi-channel ADCs, some PCIe-based. Cuda is an Nvidia parallel number-crunching technology, that allows direct PCIe peripheral to GPU interaction without the host ...
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Infineon is in production of 600V CoolMOS high-voltage Superjunction MOSFETs. The 600 V CoolMOS CFD7 completes the CoolMOS 7 series. This new MOSFET addresses the high power SMPS market for resonant topologies. It offers industry-leading efficiency and reliability in soft switching topologies like LLC and ZVS PSFB. This makes it a perfect fit for high ...
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Nano Global, the Austin Texas molecular data company, is working with ARM in a chip in a chip which can be used in the recognition and analysis of health threats caused by pathogens and other living organisms. The first IC to be delivered from the collaboration is scheduled for 2020. The chip will leverage advances in ...
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Siemens is to buy Solido Design Automation, the Saskatchewan specialist in variation-aware design and characterisation software for the semiconductor industry. Variation-aware design and characterisation has become fundamental in designing complex ICs which combine analogue and mixed signal circuitry. Verification software needs to deliver confidence in the simulation results while avoiding time- and resource-intensive analysis methods, and ...
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Marvell is to buy Cavium for $6 billion. Last year Marvell co-founders Weili Dai and her husband Sehat Sutardja were forced out of Marvell. They founded Marvell in 1995 and were accused of accounting irregularites which were unproven. The Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA) awarded them the Dr. Morris Chang Exemplary Leadership Award. This is the ...
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After 24 years as No.1 semiconductor vendor, Intel will lose its crown to Samsung this year, reports IC Insights. Intel became No.1 in 1993 and was expected to match TI’s record as the only chip company to be No.1 for 25 successive years, but this year’s soaring memory prices will give Samsung the crown. ‘Samsung ...
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WASHINGTON--The U.S. manufacturing sector has weathered a bumpy road over the course of the past two decades, but successfully righting the country's industrial ship would mean an economic windfall of $530 billion, according to a new report from The McKinsey Global Institute.
