Renesas has introduced two plastic packaged, radiation-tolerant digital isolators that provide the highest isolation protection (2,500VRMS) from high voltage spikes in power supply stages and serial communications interfaces used in low Earth orbit (LEO) Small Satellites (SmallSats). Private “New Space” companies plan to launch thousands of SmallSats forming large constellations that operate in multiple LEO ...

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The latest tests conducted by RootMetrics by IHS Markit,  which tests mobile network performance, confirm EE as the UK’s leading mobile operator at the UK-wide level, with the BT-owned company winning all six mobile performance categories tested. EE has now performed best in 11 consecutive rounds of testing, dating back to when RootMetrics first began ...

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This is the fifth in a series of essays from Imec on the future of electronics technology. This one is called: ‘On Martians and telepresence’. It is by Xavier Rottenberg who is scientific director and group leader for wave-based sensors and actuators at Imec. The end of the 20th century was the era when the ...

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Premier Farnell  is shipping the new Raspberry Pi Compute Module 3+ for same day despatch. Raspberry Pi Compute Module 3+ delivers the enhanced thermal performance and ease of use of Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ in a smaller form factor, with a choice of memory variants suitable for a broad range of embedded applications including ...

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Two criminal lawsuits initiated by US government prosecutors have been brought against Huawei in the USA The lawsuits allege that Huawei violated US sanctions on trade with Iran and with stealing trade secrets from one of its customers – T-Mobile. The lawsuits were brought just a couple of days before trade talks between the USA ...

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Intel is talking to the Israeli government about possible plans to build a $11 billion 10nm fab in Kiryat Gat, reports Globes – the Israeli financial news daily. Intel is said to be asking the Israeli government to cover 10% of the cost. If it goes through, the investment would be in addition to the $5 ...

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This is the fourth in a series of essays from Imec on the future of electronics technology. This one is called: The Disintegrating Smartphone It is by Jan Rabaey of UC Berkeley – an Imec alumnus. Even until way into the nineties, a lot of people were convinced mobile telephony was nonsense. Goes to show ...

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ST is looking for a better H2 than H1. “After Q1 2019, we plan to return to sequential revenue growth in the second quarter, with an acceleration in the second half of the year,” says ST CEO Jean-Marc Chery. The drivers are expected to be SiC, auto MCUs, ADAS and imaging. To support expansion, ST ...

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