Farnell element 14 is helping to create the next generation of digital engineers by providing kits and support to help youngsters to learn the fundamental skills of coding. The company offers educational aids targeted at tomorrow’s coders and application developers including products such as Codebug, BBC micro:bit, Raspberry PI and the newly launched Arduino CTC101 ...
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Socionext, the Matsushita-Fujitsu SoC jv, has developed a prototype implementation of video encoder functionalities of the latest video compression format AV1 onto Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)F1 Instance. Utilizing F1, Socionext was able to complete the development and achieved high performance in just one and a half months. Based on this result, Socionext will ...
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Industrial semiconductor revenues grew by 11.8% last year reaching $49.1 billion, according to IHS Markit. The industrial electronics equipment market is expected to have a CAGR of 7.1% through to 2022. Texas Instruments (TI) maintained its position as the largest industrial semiconductor supplier in 2017. The acquisition of Linear Technology catapulted Analog Devices into second ...
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Imec has taken its first steps towards extending conventional metallization into to the 3nm technology node. For almost two decades, Cu-based dual damascene has been the workhorse industrial process flow for building reliable interconnects. But, when downscaling logic device technology towards the 5nm and 3nm technology nodes, meeting resistance and reliability requirements for the tightly ...
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MathWorks has announced Predictive Maintenance Toolbox, a new MATLAB product that helps engineers design and test condition monitoring and predictive maintenance algorithms. Predictive Maintenance Toolbox offers capabilities and reference examples for engineers who are designing algorithms to organize data, design condition indicators, monitor machine health and estimate remaining useful life (RUL) to prevent equipment failures. ...
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TI has added two MCUs with integrated signal-chain elements and an extended operating temperature range to its MSP430 value line portfolio. New MSP430FR2355 ferroelectric random access memory (FRAM) MCUs allow developers to reduce PCB size and BOM cost while meeting temperature requirements for sensing and measurement in applications such as smoke detectors, sensor transmitters and ...
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Paul Jacobs (pictured), son of Qualcomm co-founder Irwin Jacobs and a former CEO and Chairman of Qualcomm, has started a new company called XCOM to pursue opportunities in 5G. Jacobs is joined by former Qualcomm president Derek Aberle and former Qualcomm CTO Matthew Grob. Jacobs is currently engaged on a $100 billion bid to take ...
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36 research grants have been announced by a new funding platform which invests in projects without the involvement of a committee or outside influence. The platform, called Guaana, has an unusual way of working. All eligible proposals were distributed among applicants who then evaluated each other’s proposals in a two-stage double blinded peer-review based on the criteria ...
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The EU may have lost the race to have an EV battery industry before it got off the ground. In May last year, the EU launched the European Battery Alliance aimed at getting European companies to build 10-20 battery factories. Only one European company plans to build a factory – NorthVolt of Sweden. Meanwhile foreign ...
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Nexperia has produced itslowest RDS(on) automotive-qualified MOSFETs. The AEC-Q101 Trench 9, 40 V automotive superjunction MOSFETs in the rugged, electrically- and thermally-efficient LFPAK56E deliver a footprint reduction of up to 81% when compared to traditional solutions such as bare die modules, D2PAK or D2PAK-7 devices. The 0.9 mΩ, 220 A DC-rated BUK9J0R9-40H MOSFET suits applications ...
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