SiFive tie up with QuickLogic

SiFive has entered a strategic development partnership with QuickLogic. The two companies will develop the Freedom Aware family of SoC templates which extends SiFive’s chip design capabilities and radically lowers the cost and development time associated with new SoC designs.  The Freedom Aware SoC templates lower risk through the use of tested building blocks and a suite ...

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Magnetically soft magnetic alloy is not expensive, and is physically hard

Iron-based magnetic alloys have been created with good soft magnetic properties, without resorting to exotic alloying elements, according to a team of scientists from Russia, China Japan and the US. “In terms of their properties, the amorphous iron-based alloys obtained by us surpass common industrial analogues. Their undoubted advantages are: relatively low cost due to the lack of expensive alloying ...

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Wondering how to power your i.MX 8M processor?

Look no further than the BD71847AMWV power management IC, according to Rohm, which optimised it particularly for those very NXP’s i.MX 8M mini application processors Built on a BCD process, the chip can produce all power rails required by the processor as well as feed DDR and system IO. Its dc-dc converters operate at up ...

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Dual Cortex-M33 core microprocessors major on security

LPC55S6x are the first microcontrollers of the NXP LPC5500 series, offering dual 96 MHz Arm Cortex-M33 cores and running at 32µA/MHz. “The devices feature security features, including SRAM-based physical unclonable function [PUF] root-of-trust and provisioning, as well as asset protection with Arm TrustZone-M,” according to Mouser, which is stocking the part. “The microcontrollers also offer ...

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Red phosphor offers better white LEDs

Austrian chemists have developed a red phosphor that could improve the efficacy of white LEDs, by creating a narrow peak of emission at 614nm – in the middle of the eye’s 610-620nm peak red sensitivity. The material is a particular form of Sr[Li2Al2O2N2]:Eu2+, dubbed ‘salon’ by the researchers, which “meets all the requirements for the ...

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Xilinx buys Solarflare

Xilinx is to buy Solarflare Communications which has an ultra-low latency network interface card (NIC) technology and Onload application acceleration software. The acquisition is to enable converged SmartNIC solutions, accelerating Xilinx’s “data center first” strategy and transition to a platform company. Xilinx and Solarflare have been collaborating on advanced networking technology for the last two years, with ...

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Pickering wins Queen’s Award

Pickering Interfaces of Clacton-on-Sea has won the Queen’s Award for Outstanding Short Term Growth in overseas sales over the last three years. Pickering Interfaces was founded in 1988 as part of the Pickering Group which celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2018. The company designs and manufactures modular signal switching and instrumentation for use in electronic ...

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SEMI billings down 24.6% y-o-y

SEMI’s March billings were 1.9% down on February’s $1.87 billion  at $1.83 billion and 24.6% below the $2.43 billion of March 2018 “March billings of North American test and assembly equipment manufacturers showed modest improvement over the prior month,” says SEMI’s Terry Tsao, “despite the increase for this segment, overall billings growth expectations for North ...

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