Diodes releases BCR430UW6 LED driver with 115mV dropout voltage

Diodes has announced the BCR430UW6 linear LED driver with dropout voltage of 115mV and constant current regulation between 5mA and 100mA. This combination makes the BCR430UW6 suitable for applications that require multiple LEDs to operate together, such as signage illumination and architectural lighting for commercial and retail installations. The “ultra-low” dropout voltage and operating current ...

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AVL adds Rohde & Schwarz GNSS stimulation to vehicle test environment

AVL and Rohde & Schwarz have collaborated on a test environment for autonomous vehicles, enabling the reproduction of realistic GNSS reception conditions. AVL’s Driving Cube is designed to enable reproducible testing of driver assistance systems and driving features for self-driving vehicles using a real vehicle within a virtual environment. Test drives are performed with a ...

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Renesas Electronics’ ISL91301B PMIC designed in Google AI products

Renesas’s ISL91301B power management IC (PMIC) has been designed into Google’s Coral products. They include the Mini PCIe Accelerator, M.2 Accelerator A+E Key, M.2 Accelerator B+M Key, and system-on-module (SoM). Google Coral integrates into processes at any scale, helping designers employ artificial intelligence (AI) in several industries. The ISL91301B PMIC is designed for low power ...

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CES: Qualcomm’s self-driving platform

Qualcomm revealed an autonomous driving platform at CES, branded Snapdragon Ride. It consists of a family SoCs, a processing accelerator – both designed for ASIL-D level functional safety – and an autonomous stack. “The combination of Snapdragon Ride SoCs, accelerator and autonomous stack offers automakers a scalable solution designed to support three industry segments of autonomous ...

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Home cinema projection LEDs from Osram challenge discharge lamps

Osram is claiming record brightness for its latest projector LEDs. “With the Ostar Projection Power family, Osram has succeeded for the first time in achieving projector brightness levels beyond the 3,000 ANSI lumen barrier using LEDs instead of conventional lamps, making them accessible to a broad market,” according to the firm. It is aiming to ...

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Smart watch display market grew 31% in 2019

In Q3, 57 million smart watch displays were IHS Markit. Shipments rose by 34% y-o-y. For 2019, shipments are expected to be 195 million units, up 31% from 149 million in 2018, following  growth of 42% in 2018. “The smart-watch display market is enjoying a phase of staggering growth, with demand rising by 20-fold during ...

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CES: SK Telecom positions itself as global ICT player

At CES, SK Telecom is introducing  ‘5G-8K TV’, ‘Callar for Sero TV’ (AR video call), ‘5GX Multiview’, ‘Jump AR Aquaworld’ (Interactive cinematic AR), ‘Watch & Play’ (Interactive game platform), and ‘ATSC 3.0 Multiview’.  5G mobile edge computing (MEC), a technology that enables the provision of ultra-low latency services by providing a shortcut for data transmission ...

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400G transceivers deliver 32Tbits per fibre

NeoPhotonics Has shipped its first  400G capable ClearLight CFP2-DCO transceivers for end customer trials. The deliver 32Tbits  per fibre – significantly higher than today’s 200G CFP2-DCO capacity or the emerging 400G CFP2-DCO capacity– by using internal optics that can support 80 channels of 64 Gbaud data at 75 GHz wavelength channel spacing combined with the latest ...

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CES: Integrated eDP TCON

Analogix is demo-ing what it claims to be the industry’s lowest power Ultra HD (UHD) embedded DisplayPort 1.4b (eDP) timing controller (TCON) with 3D color gamut rotation in the optical domain, panel self-refresh (PSR) and selective update (PSR2), VESA DisplayHDR 1000 support, and in-cell finger and active stylus touch for notebook PCs with graphics display ...

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CES: Bluetooth SIG launches audio over Bluetooth LE

The Bluetooth special interest group (SIG) has unveiled its next-generation of audio encoding at CES in Las Vegas, with new encoding to squeeze sound signals into Bluetooth LE bandwidth. It is called Bluetooth LE Audio. “Not only will LE Audio enhance Bluetooth audio performance, it will add support for hearing aids and enable ‘audio sharing’, ...

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