Sulphur-resistant thick film resistors for automotive

Bourns has announced a sulphur-resistant AEC-Q200 compliant thick film resistor family. Model CRxxxxA-AS chip resistor series is offered in eight different footprints from 0201 (0603 metric) to 2512 (6432 metric) with rated power from 50mW to 1W, and a resistance range from 1Ω to 20MΩ. “Bourns designed these resistors to operate in certain harsh environments ...

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Bridgetek expands EVE graphics chip toolchain

Bridgetek has broadened the human-machine interface (HMI) development toolchain that accompanies its Embedded Video Engine (EVE) product portfolio. Several extra elements have been added, and there are upgrades to the existing tools. A core aspect of this toolchain is the EVE Asset Builder (EAB). This conversion utility is said to make HMI construction much more ...

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pi-top adds functionality to Raspberry Pi 4

pi-top [4] adds functionalities to Raspberry Pi 4. “There are areas of endeavour that pi-top has been involved in, particularly around displays, keyboards, batteries and the like which we haven’t explored,” says Raspberry Pi founder and CEO Eben Upton, “it’s ’s been wonderful to see an organisation do that, take on those challenges and vanquish ...

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UltraSoC raises £5m; expands into safety and security.

UltraSoC has raised £5 million in an equity funding round in which eCAPITAL and Seraphim Capital joined previous investors Indaco Venture Partners, Octopus Ventures, Oxford Capital, Techgate, and business angel Guillaume d’Eyssautier. The funding allows UltraSoC to recruit hardware and software engineers at its headquarters in Cambridge, and design centre in Bristol. Asked by Electronics Weekly if there would be other funding rounds, UltraSoc ...

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Raspberry Pi 4: far faster, better multimedia, and Gbit Ethernet

Raspberry Pi 4 has been revealed, as a far more powerful machine than even the Pi 3 Model B+. Three times the processing power and four times the multimedia performance are claimed. It has quad 1.5GHz Arm Cortex-A72 cores, Gbit Ethernet, 4Kp60 HEVC video decode and dual HDMI outputs to run twin 4K monitors – ...

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US adds China supercomputer bodies to Entity List

Chinese organisations involved in supercomputing have been added to the US Entity List of bodies barred from buying US technology. They include: Sugon, the Wuxi Jiangnan Institute of Computing Technology, Higon, Chengdu Haiguang Integrated Circuit and Chengdu Haiguang Microelectronics Technology. They all have alias names which have also been put on the Entity List. Four ...

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SEMI May billings up 7.4% on April

Billings among North American manufacturers of semiconductor production equipment registered another sequential increase in May. North America-based manufacturers of semiconductor equipment posted US$2.06 billion in billings worldwide in May 2019, says SEMI. The billings figure is 7.4% higher than the April 2019 level of US$1.92 billion, but is 23.6% lower than the May 2018 billings ...

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