SOI 650V half-bridge gate drivers

Infineon has added SOI 650V half-bridge gate drivers to its EiceDRIVER portfolio. The products provide negative transient voltage immunity, monolithic integration of a real bootstrap diode, and latch-up immunity for MOSFET and IGBT based inverter applications. These  features enable more robust and reliable designs at reduced BOM cost. The high output current family 2ED218x is ...

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Farnell expands XP Power line-up with ac-dc and DIN-rail PSUs

Farnell has expanded its range of XP Power products available for same day dispatch, suitable for applications in the industrial and medical sectors. XP Power products are suitable for use in patient vicinity applications and laboratory environments. The manufacturer touts features including class II approvals for homecare devices, “efficient convection–cooled designs” for low-noise patient-area devices ...

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Mobileye to partner SAIC for ADAS mapping

Mobileye, Intel’s automated driving unit, is to provide REM (Road Experience Management) mapping technology to Chinese car manufacturer SAIC for Level2+ automated driving. SAIC plans to use Mobileye’s REM mapping technology to map China for L2+ ADAS deployment while paving the way for autonomous vehicles in the country. SAIC and Mobileye have signed an agreement ...

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CES: US CTO to outline AI regulatory principles

Today, at CES,  the US CTO Michael Kratsios (pictured) will outline the US approach to the regulation of AI. The White House has said that regulatory bodies should “conduct risk assessment and cost-benefit analyses prior to any regulatory action on AI, with a focus on establishing flexible frameworks rather than one-size-fits-all regulation,” adding that they ...

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Proprietary phone processors taking over

Samsung and Huawei both expanded their in-house smartphone application processor shipments by more than 30% during Q3 compared to Q3 2018 while Qualcomm’s Q3 marketshare fell by 16.1%, says IHS Markit in its Smartphone Model Market Tracker – Q3 2019 report. Samsung used its internally produced Exynos processor in 80.4% of its mid-range smartphone devices, Galaxy A ...

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CES: Qorvo’s connected car suite

Qorvo has  introduced a full suite of products to enable a V2X link in the Telematics Control Unit (TCU) and antenna. The product suite provides a readily available solution for V2X communications as 286 million connected passenger cars are forecast to be added globally from 2019 to 2025.1 V2X embraces vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V), vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I), vehicle-to-pedestrian ...

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Plextek RF partners Sanan IC for GaAS MMIC fab

Plextek RFI of Saffron Walden has entered a foundry relationship with Sanan IC of Xiamen City, China for fabbing GaAs MMIC chips. Plextek RFI has just had a single-chip surface mount packaged 4-channel 5G millimeter wave power amplifier (PA) for the 28GHz spectrum fabbed on  Sanan IC’s P15EP1 0.15µm 6” GaAs E/D pHEMT process technology. ...

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SpaceX launches 60 more Starlink satellites into orbit

SpaceX has launched 60 more of its Starlink satellites into space and becomes the owner of the largest commercial satellite constellation. They were launched from a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at Cape Canaveral in Florida yesterday, 9:19 p.m. Eastern time. The goal is to enable Third World internet access via large constellations of broadband satellites. Initially ...

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Processors for ADAS and auto computing

TI has launched an auto processor family called Jacinto. The first two  devices in the platform, TDA4VM processors for ADAS and DRA829V processors for gateway systems, include specialized on-chip accelerators to segment and expedite data-intensive tasks, like computer vision and deep learning. TDA4VM and DRA829V processors incorporate a functional safety microcontroller, making it possible for ...

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UK III-V memory saves power over DRAM and flash

The University of Lancaster has taken a step forward with its novel non-volatile memory that can be written and erased for one hundredth of the energy needed by flash or DRAM. It is also fast enough to be used instead of DRAM. This article was originally published last week, but without a diagram It is around ...

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