Four pin package speeds SiC mosfet switching

Rohm has adopted a four-pin TO-247 package for silicon carbide mosfets aimed at servers. Used for the SCT3xxx xR mosfet series, the TO-247-4L package is said to reduce switching loss by up to 35% over the conventional three pin TO-247N. The extra connection is to the mosfet source, allowing the gate driver to get at both ...

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Renesas Cortex-M MCU family adds security for IoT and a support ecosystem

Renesas has launched a family of Arm Cortex-M23 and Cortex-M4 microcontrollers with comprehensive security features, aiming them at IoT applications – particularly end-point and edge devices in industry, building automation, metering, healthcare and home appliances. Called the RA family, they are PSA Certified Level 1 and come in four series: RA2 Series – Cortex-M23 up ...

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Bosch goes SiC

Bosch is starting production of SiC auto ICs at its plant in Reutlingen, near its Stuttgart HQ, Bosch is in the process of building a $1.1 billion fab in Dresden. First silicon is planned for late 2021. It will employ 700 staff. Bosch is building a comprehensive portfolio of the full range of ICs for electric, ...

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Non-destructive way to reverse engineer ICs

US and Swiss researchers have come up with a technique, called ptychographic X-ray laminography, which can be used to reverse engineer chips, or to verify fabbed chip designs or discover kill switches and hardware trojans. Teams from the University of Southern California and Switzerland’s  Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) developed the technique. “It’s the only approach ...

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12-channel LED driver for auto rear combination lamps and interior lighting

ST’s ALED1262ZT 12-channel LED driver targets advanced automotive rear combination lamps and interior lighting, bringing features to support complex and innovative visual effects. Independent 7-bit PWM dimming on all channels allows flexible control of tail, stop, and indicator lights, with dynamic effects. Each channel delivers constant output current at 19V for controlling multi-LED series strings. ...

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More on: Brain-computer interface for tetraplegic man

Last week it was reported that a tetraplegic man was able to walk and control both arms using a direct brain interface – a neuroprosthetic that read, transmitted and decoded brain signals in real-time to control an exoskeleton. The brain connection is through a ‘semi-invasive’ medical device called Wimagine, developed at French lab CEA – ...

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65th IEDM highlights processors, 3D integration, quantum computing and photonics

This year’s year’s 65th annual IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM), to be held Dec. 7-11 at the San Francisco Hilton Hotel will highlight: Advancing scaling to the next node — TSMC will unveil a complete 5nm technology platform, its most advanced yet (paper #36.7), while two plenary speakers will come at it from different ...

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A*Star claims to accelerate EDA 2x

Researchers at A*STAR, the Singapore R&D institute,  have developed an AI chip design platform that has the potential to accelerate design optimisation, reducing IC design turnaround time, and improving productivity by twofold. A*STAR’s Smart IC Design with Learning Enablement (SMILE) is an AI platform that uses machine learning to automate EDA. The SMILE platform is ...

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EU looks to curb Broadcom sales practices

Today, Monday October 7th, the EC Competition Directorate is to brief national competition authorities of  EU Member States about a proposed action against Broadcom. If the national competition authorities agree, then Broadcom will be served with an ‘interim order’ to drop some of its exclusivity clauses in sales contracts, reports Reuter’s. The order is said ...

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