Leti and CloudNet IT-Solutions, a Scottish SME specializing in TV White Space, has conducted field trial results for a new flexible multicarrier system in the Orkney Islands designed to demonstrate a new post-OFDM multicarrier waveform. The trial showed that the post-OFDM multicarrier waveform, a block filtered-OFDM (BF-OFDM), can overcome all shortcomings inherent in actual OFDM ...

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Intel is shipping Stratix 10 MX FPGAs with integrated High Bandwidth Memory DRAM (HBM2). By integrating the FPGA and the HBM2, Intel Stratix 10 MX FPGAs increase bandwidth for applications that require hardware accelerators to speed-up mass data movements and stream data pipeline frameworks. In HPC environments, the ability to compress and decompress data before ...

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ST  has introduced a 3.26mm2 matched balun for its S2-LP 868-927MHz low-power radio transceiver which integrates all the impedance-matching and filtering components needed to connect an antenna to the S2-LP radio. It replaces a conventional network of 16 discrete capacitors and inductors that can occupy up to 100mm2 of board real-estate — a footprint reduction of ...

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ROHM has launched a dual-input boost-buck charging ICs that support 1 to 4 battery cells for notebook PCs, smartphones, and power banks and is fully compatible with the the latest charging technologies such as wireless and USB Power Delivery (USBPD). The BD99954GW/MUV generates a charging voltage from 2.56 to 19.2V for 1 to 4 cells ...

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Seedstars World, the international start-up competition, held its Ukraine event in Kyiv last week when 12 start-ups won through to the next round of the competition. The 12 startups from Lviv, Odesa and Kyiv, will represent Ukraine at the Seedstars Summit in Lausanne, Switzerland, on April 12th where they will compete with startups from 65+ ...

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Farnell has become the  Gold Hardware Sponsor of Astonhack, a 24-hour Hackathon organised by Aston Computer Science Society and held at Aston University in Birmingham as part of Major League Hacking’s 18th season. The organisers define a Hackathon as “where teams of up to four people work together to build something over 24 hours. Challengers ...

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The  LT8364 current mode, 2MHz step-up DC/DC converter has an internal 4A, 60V switch. It operates from an input voltage range of 2.8V to 60V, and is suitable for applications with input sources ranging from a single-cell Li-Ion battery to multicell battery stacks, automotive inputs, telecom power supplies and industrial power rails. The device can be ...

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The latest twist in the Toshiba saga is that China could derail the deal. China’s Ministry of Commerce (Mofcom) is reported by Bloomberg to have raised concern about Hynix’s presence in the winning consortium. With only four significant NAND producers in the world, the prospect of Hynix taking control of Toshiba will affect markets. Hynix’s ...

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China is to ramp up its EV ambitions by putting quotas on domestic vehicle producers which will oblige them to make a set percentage of their total vehicle production electric. A company producing 1.2 million EVs in China a year will be obliged to produce 20-30,000 EVs. The quotas are to take effect from 2019. ...

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Bad news for Qualcomm is that, if Broadcom succeeds in buying it, 30% of its employees may lose their jobs. Apparently, over the last four years and five acquisitions by Broadcom, around 30% of the employees of the five companies bought – some 5000 people – have lost their jobs. Broadcom CEO Hock Tan (pictured) ...

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