RS announces agreement with Maxim focusing on DesignSpark

RS Components has announced a global franchise agreement with Maxim Integrated Products, developer of analogue and mixed-signal products and technologies. The DesignSpark tool platform will play a key role in the relationship. The deal will see the Maxim product portfolio made available to RS’ electronics customers, including engineering designers and buyers around the world. RS also ...

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Risc-V day: Trinamic Rocinante motor drive

At the London ‘Getting started with Risc-V’ seminar last week, Onno Martens of German motor drive chip firm Trinamic described why it had chosen Risc-V over other processor architectures for Rocinante sub-kW 60V field-oriented motor control silicon. Risc-V offers a choice of is an instruction sets to cover a range of performance levels, then offers ...

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Risc-V day: Western Digital SweRV Core

Western Digital SweRV Core EHX1 is a 32-bit, 2-way superscalar, 9-stage pipeline core, originally designed to be used inside the firms data storage own products. Currently at version 1.1, it is open-sourced for the RISC-V community and, based on internal testing, is expected to deliver up to 4.9 CoreMarks/Mhz. “It offers capabilities for embedded devices ...

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Kemet KC-Link series for fast-switching WBG semiconductor applications

Kemet has announced a capacitance and voltage offering for the KC-Link ceramic surface mount capacitors in the EIA 3640 case size. The ripple current capabilities of the KC-Link capacitors make them suitable for use with fast-switching wide bandgap semiconductors, Kemet claims. This enables power converters to operate at higher voltages, temperatures and frequencies, and achieve ...

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TI launches buck-boost converter family

TI has introduced a family of four buck-boost converters. The TPS63802, TPS63805, TPS63806 and TPS63810 DC/DC noninverting buck-boost converters offer input and output voltage ranges that scale to support multiple battery-driven applications, helping engineers simplify and accelerate their designs. Each of the devices in the family automatically selects buck, buck-boost or boost mode according to ...

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Lattice launches small, low-power FPGAs for multi-sensor vision systems

Lattice has introduced the CrossLinkPlus FPGA family for MIPI D-PHY based embedded vision systems. CrossLinkPlus devices are innovative, low power FPGAs featuring integrated flash memory, a hardened MIPI D-PHY and high-speed I/Os for instant-on panel display performance, and flexible on-device programming capabilities. Lattice provides ready-to-use IPs and reference designs to accelerate implementation of enhanced sensor and ...

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Wafer shipments down 6%

Wafer shipments are expected to fall 6% this year from last year’s historic high, says SEMI. However SEMI expects a new high to be reached in 2022. Forecast demand for silicon units through 2022 shows polished and epitaxial silicon shipments totaling 11,757 million square inches in 2019, 11,977 million square inches in 2020, 12,390 million ...

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