Noise tolerant comparators work over wide temp range

Rohm is aiming at sensor applications in automotive systems such as ECUs and power-trains with a range of noise-tolerant comparators. “Advancements in computerisation and increase of densely packed electric devices have increased the amount of noise in electric vehicles and cars equipped with driver assistance systems,” according to the firm. “However, evaluation of noise performance of ...

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Adesto joins STMicroelectronics partner program, providing NOR products

Adesto Technologies Corporation has joined the STMicroelectronics partner program to improve system operation for IoT devices through the combination of its NVM devices and the STM32 line of MCUs. Adesto is working with ST on the combination of its NOR flash memory products with STM32 MCUs. Adesto’s memories include application-specific features for high-bandwidth, eXecute-in-Place (XiP) ...

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Amazon qualifies XMOS Alexa development kit

Amazon has qualified the VocalFusion 2-microphone development kit from XMOS for use with Alexa voice services in smart TVs and set-top boxes. “Amazon is seen by many as the leader in the world of voice, and our engineering expertise will be helping to transform the way consumers interact with everyday devices like TVs,” claimed XMOS ...

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Wiltshire council expands Telensa Planet smart street light system

Telensa Planet (stylised PLANet), an intelligent street lighting system, has been selected by Wiltshire county council to be expanded with an additional 7,000 lights across the county. The established deployment controls 35,000 lights, and paid for itself in six years through reduced energy and maintenance costs, Telensa says. The controls are also being upgraded as ...

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Omron 2JCIE-EV01 evaluation board for IoT sensor system development

The 2JCIE-EV01 sensor evaluation board from Omron Electronic Components Europe is designed to help developers working on sensor systems for IoT create a prototype hosted on Raspberry Pi, Arduino or Adafruit Feather. The board is equipped with sensors for six environmental parameters, is supported by data acquisition software and features expansion connectors to interface to Omron ...

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Suite of tools addresses ASIL-D safety design

An Israeli company, Optima Design Automation has introduced two tools for automotive design. The Optima Safety platform consists of Optima-HE and Optima-SE, both based on the company’s Fault Injection Engine (FIE) and designed for fault analysis, targeting safety analysis fault injection for SoC design. The FIE uses parallel simulation and formal verification, rather than fault ...

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Colour sensor detects flicker for better photos

AMS has improved flicker detection in its range of multi-band colour sensors, intended to be used alongside camera chips in phones and tablets to allow them to compensate for artifacts such as banding. “With the wide-spread usage of LED lighting, photography increasingly suffers from flicker from the lighting source,” according to AMS. “The TCS3408 colour ...

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Farnell launches Multicomp Pro

Farnell has launched a new collection of affordable components, tools and test equipment under the brand Multicomp Pro. This collection brings products from Multicomp, Duratool, Tenma, Pro-Power, Pro-Elec and Pro-Signal under one brand, making it easier for design engineers, technicians and production facilities to identify high value alternatives, whilst assuring production-grade quality. Customers purchasing from ...

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TSMC and GloFo bury the hatchet

Globalfoundries and TSMC are dismissing all litigation between them as well as those that involve any of their customers. The companies have agreed to a broad life-of-patents cross-license to each other’s worldwide existing semiconductor patents as well as those patents that will be filed during the next ten years as both companies continue to invest ...

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