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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Xilinx rules out any more revenue from Huawei

Xilinx has ruled out any further revenue streams from Huawei following the US government ban on certain semiconductor exports to the Chinese telecoms company. “Considering the continued trade restrictions with Huawei and the uncertainty presented to our business, we believe it is prudent to remove all remaining revenue expectations related to Huawei from our fiscal ...

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RS adds Pro version to DesignSpark PCB

RS Components is launching DesignSpark PCB Pro, a professional-level upgrade to its already popular free online PCB design tool, DesignSpark PCB. DesignSpark PCB is an award-winning, free-to-use electronic computer-assisted design (ECAD) rapid prototyping tool offering workflow integration; unlimited schematic size, sheets, nodes, pads and connections; part library integration; unrestricted Gerber and ODB++ file output; multi-format ...

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Renesas MCUs and MPUs support Azure

Renesas MCUs and MPUs are to support Microsoft’s Azure RTOS. The collaboration will help deliver a complete chip-to-cloud IoT solution based on Renesas  devices and Microsoft Azure IoT building blocks including Azure RTOS, Azure IoT device SDK for C, IoT Plug and Play, IoT Central and IoT Hub. One of the most deployed RTOS worldwide ...

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Vishay’s VCNL3040 sensor with smart persistence now available from TTI

The VCNL3040 integrated proximity sensor from Vishay, with a detection distance of 30cm, is now available from TTI. The sensor combines IR emitter, photodetectors for proximity, LED driver, amplifiers, ADC circuitry and proprietary signal processor in a QFN package. The sensor features a programmable interrupt feature and supports the I2C bus communication interface, offering wake-up ...

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Mouser stocking ADI ADF5610 wideband synthesizer with integrated VCO

Mouser Electronics is now stocking the ADF5610 wideband synthesizer with an integrated voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) from Analog Devices. The ADF5610 is designed for applications such as aerospace and defense, wireless infrastructure, microwave point-to-point links, electronic test and measurement, and satellite terminals. Available from Mouser Electronics, the component is a wideband fractional-N synthesizer that generates RF ...

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