Scorpion Automotive sponsors motorcycle racing

Lancashire electronics manufacturer Scorpion Automotive is sponsoring a team in the British Superbike Championship, through its specialist motorcycle brand Datatool. The team is Team WD40 of GR Motosport, and Datatool logos will be seen on motorcycles ridden by Mason Law, Alastair Seeley and Liam Delves throughout the 2018 Championship Series. “Our sponsorship of GR Motorsport is a great opportunity ...

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Mouser to sponsor NXP Cup for autonomous vehicles

Mouser will be the lead distribution sponsor for the NXP Cup, a global competition where student teams build, program, and race model cars around a track. The EMEA finals of the NXP Cup will take place at the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits (IIS) in Erlangen, Germany. The NXP Cup challenges student teams from around ...

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Dc-dc supports 48V GPUs in 12V data centres for 1,000A GPUs

Vicor has announced a 12-48V non-isolated up converter to support 48V high-performance GPUs in data centres with legacy 12V power distribution. NBM2317S14B5415T00 converts 750W continuously (1kW peak) through a 23 x 17 x 7.4mm surface-mount SM-ChiP package with >98% peak efficiency. “The NBM supports state-of-the-art 48V input GPUs using power-on-package [PoP] modular current multipliers [MCMs] driven ...

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EDA industry reports 10% growth 2016-2017

The Electronic Design System Design (ESD) Alliance reports increases in industry revenue from Q3 2016 to Q4 2017, and eight consecutive years of growth. Overall industry revenue increased 10.7% to $2218.6m in Q4 2017, from Q4 2016’s $2455m. The highest growth was in the Americas, where revenues increased 19.5% in the period, followed by Asia-Pacific region ...

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Mouser takes on Altitude

Mouser has signed Altitude Technology to a global distribution agreement. Altitude is designer and supplier of intelligent sensorbtechnologies for the smart home and IoT markets. As part of the agreement, Mouser Electronics becomes an authorized distributor of Altitude Tech’s line of IoT Bit HAT modules and accessories, which integrate with the Raspberry Pi single-board computer ...

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Alliance is formed to address 48V conversion

Four companies, Artesyn Embedded Technologies, Bel Power Solutions, Flex and STMicroelectronics have formed the Power Stamp Alliance with the aim of defining a standard footprint for 48V DC/DC modules with a designated pin-out. The Alliance will mean there is no single source for the modules which will combine DOSA (Distributed power Open Standards Alliance) and ...

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Luxoft launches open source automotive software development platform

The automotive division of Luxoft Holding has launched PELUX 1.0, a base development platform designed to provide the building blocks for automotive software development projects, which is now available on Open Source. PELUX 1.0 was developed from Luxoft’s PELUX software suite which, for over four years, has helped carmakers and tier one suppliers to develop ...

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Photomask market surges 13%, says SEMI

The  semiconductor photomask market surged 13% to a record high $3.75 billion in 2017 and is forecast to exceed $4.0 billion in 2019, says SEMI. The market is expected to grow 5% and 4%  in 2018 and 2019, respectively. The acceleration in demand follows several years of incremental increases. Key photomask market drivers remain advanced ...

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ON Semi launches image sensors with NIR capability

ON Semiconductor has introduced CMOS image sensors which have Near Infra-Red+ (NIR+) technology, which effectively combines High Dynamic Range (HDR) with enhanced low light performance to enable high-end security and surveillance cameras. The AR0522 is a 1/2.5-inch 5.1 Megapixel (MP) image sensor based on a 2.2 micrometer (μm) Back Side Illuminated (BSI) pixel technology platform, ...

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FlexLogix validates eFPGA cores on TSMC 16nm

The EFLX4K eFPGA  FlexLogix IP core, both the Logic and DSP versions, have been fully validated on TSMC16FFC. Evaluation boards are available now that integrate the EFLX200K validation chip (a 7×7 array of EFLX 4K cores: 182K LUT4, 560 MACs, 1.4Mbit attached SRAM, PLL & PVT) for customers to test their RTL on real silicon. ...

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