Rambus has bought PCIe and MIPI controller specialist Northwest Logic. Northwest’s PCIe and MIPI digital controller core IPs are used in both ASICs and FPGAs. Every SoC design that uses a Memory or a PCIe or a MIPI PHY also needs to use a controller associated with it. The combination of complementary digital and physical ...
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June billings for semiconductor manufacturing equipment were 2.5% lower than May at $2.01 billion, reports SEMI. The figure is 19% down on the $2.48 billings of June 2018. “June billings of North American equipment manufacturers fell nearly three percent when compared to the prior month,” says SEMzi CEO Ajit Manocha, “while billings weakened for the ...
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Forget nets, attack drones, or lasers – Korean researchers have found a way to coax rogue drones out of the sky – at least, most of those flying on GPS autopilot. “This technology can safely guide a drone to a desired location without any sudden change in direction in emergency situations,” according to national research ...
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US researchers have used a supercomputer to discover a candidate for Pb-free perovskite solar cells – most solar perovskites contain Pb-halides, and are unstable in moist air. KBaTeBiO6 is the material, a bismuth-halide double perovskite that was the most promising of 30,000 candidate bismuth-containing oxides postulated by a team of engineers at Washington University in St ...
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Schurter is aiming at industrial machines with a family of three-phase-plus-neutral EMC filters. Called Fmad Neo the family is “especially compact, the filter series is suited for use in today’s more portable industrial machines, designed to occupy less floor space in manufacturing plants”, said the firm. Looking at the data sheet there are several case ...
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Between January and May there were 8.7% fewer cash withdrawals in London than in the same period last year; in the South East the decline was 7.9%; in the South West the drop was 7.7%, and in the North-East the decline was 3.7%, says LINK the UK’s biggest ATM network. Total cash withdrawals measured both ...
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UnitedDS Semiconductor (UDS), UMC’s design affiliate, and Taiwan design house TeraSillC are shipping 24GHz radar transceiver ICs reports made on UMC’s low-power CMOS process, reports DigitTimes. Called Orthrus, the chips come in 1T1R (one transmitter one receiver) and 1T2R specs. TeraSillC’s CTO S. A. You says the Orthrus radar transceiver integrates all the sub-systems required ...
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A Raspberry Pi air quality monitor was described in Hackspace magazine issue 21. It can use any Raspberry Pi and is said to be easy to wire wrap using a SDS011 sensor . The Raspberry Pi Foundation explains why they’d selected the SDS011. “Firstly, it’s cheap enough for many makers to be able to buy ...
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Huawei is cutting 600 jobs – 70% of its total workforce – at Futurewei its US R&D arm. Huawei gave as the reason the “curtailment of business operations” as a result of the US DoC putting it on the Entity List of companies with restricted access to purchasing US tech components and services. Under Entity ...
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Power Integrations has added GaN devices to its range of ac-dc power chips. “The ICs feature up to 95% efficiency across the full load range and up to 100W in enclosed adaptor implementations without requiring a heatsink,” according to the firm. “This increase in performance is achieved using an internally developed high-voltage GaN switch technology.” ...
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