Harwin invests in local skills with expansion to Portsmouth site

Harwin has formally opened its Apprentice Training Hub, along with an R&D Centre. Located at the company’s Portsmouth headquarters, construction and kitting out of the unit that will house both these operations has been completed and they are now ready to be staffed. “We started an academy program with a local college as part of ...

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Two more USB Type-C Power Delivery chips

Microchip has added two integrated circuits for implementing USB Type-C Power Delivery (PD) designs USB705x family is for fast device charging and introduces PD implementations called HostFlexing and PDBalancing (see below) – combined with 5Gbit/s SuperSpeed data rate from USB 3.1. UPD301A is a stand-alone USB Type-C PD with basic USB Type-C PD charging functions ...

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Crystals are tough for cars

Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) J2657 specification is the target Diodes is aiming at with its XRQ range of crystals for tyre pressure monitoring – now a mandatory safety feature for new cars marketed in territories worldwide, according to the firm. Infotainment, telematics, and driver assistance systems are other potential applications. The crystals are capable ...

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Ventec adds thermally-conductive thin isolation foils

Ventec has added two thermally-conductive thin isolation foil materials to its range of thermal interface materials under its distribution agreement with EMI Thermal. Both feature high tensile strength, designed to prevent cut through and electrical shorts, are UL94-V0 recognised and have no viscosity (see table below for characteristics). Intended applications include: PSUs, telecoms, visual devices, ...

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Cellular IoT prototyping platform includes GNSS and works near-globally

Thingy:91 is a cellular and GNSS IoT prototyping platform with world-wide coverage across 700MHz to 2200MHz, created by Nordic Semiconductor and Fractus Antennas. Based on Nordic’s nRF9160 SiP multimode LTE-M/NB-IoT system-in-package with GPS, the battery-powered Thingy:91 comes with a roaming SIM card, 16 sensors and a nRF52840 for short-range wireless communication with Bluetooth 5, Thread, Zigbee and ANT. ...

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CNT processor made by MIT and ADI

MIT and ADI have built a 16-bit processor using CNTs. 10 million CNTs were used to form 14,702 CMOS CNT field-effect transistors (CNTFETs), arranged in 3,762 digital logic blocks, that together operated as a 16-bit processor. The chip can fetch 32-bit instructions from memory, has a RISC-V register file, and can read and write 16-bit data ...

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Planning permission for 5G masts to be scrapped

Planning regulations are to be changed to allow 5G masts to be erected near existing masts without the need for planning permission. “We need to make it easier for industry to build, share and upgrade mobile infrastructure,” says digital minister Nicky Morgan (pictured) “this is means planning rules will be relaxed to enable existing ground-based ...

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China GPUs

Thanks to Mike Bryant for pointing out this Chinese GPU development. 13 year-old Jingjia Micro of Changsha City, China has two GPUs in development. The JM7200, is a 28nm part clocked at 1.2GHz with 4GB of DDR3 memory. It compares with an Nvidia GeForce GT 640 in performance terms. The  JM7200 has a 10W TDP, ...

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Ubuntu 19.10 OS for Raspberry Pi

Arne Exton has released a new version of his Ubuntu/Debian-based RaspEX GNU/Linux distribution for the Raspberry Pi 4. Based on the upcoming Ubuntu 19.10 “Eoan Ermine” operating system, due for release on October 17th, the new RaspEX release  includes packages from the GNU/Linux 10 “Buster” operating system series and the open-source Linaro software for ARM SoCs, and ...

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