Alps Alpine is aiming at automotive use with a tact switch push button with 5N operating force and 1.04mm travel, adding it to its existing SKSU series. “As an automobile safety consideration, input switches inside vehicles are increasingly integrated into the steering wheel area for drivers to operate without taking their eyes off the road,” ...
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Menta and Secure-IC are to add cryptographic features to FPGA intellectual property (IP). Under the agreement, announced at Embedded World in Nuremberg, the companies will deliver Menta eFPGAs incorporating cryptographic IP including AES and RSA from Secure-IC. “Security is fast becoming a defining feature of SoCs used in a variety of applications,” said Secure-IC CTO ...
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Sondrel, the IC design consultancy, has warned about the the Inland Revenue’s change to payroll rax which comes into effect on April 6th. Called IR35, the tax change makes it the responsibility of hirers of staff to assess the employment status of off-payroll workers such as freelancers and people contracted via their own small companies. The ...
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3D XPoint and STT-MRAM will lead a $6 billion market for emerging memory technologies in 2025, says Yole Developpement. “The stand-alone emerging NVM market will grow to over $4 billion in 2025”, says Yole’s Simone Bertolazzi, “it will be driven by two key segments: low-latency storage (enterprise and client drives) and persistent memory (NVDIMMs).” The ...
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MathWorks has announced that, with the recent availability of Release 2019b of the MATLAB and Simulink product families, Vision HDL Toolbox includes native multipixel streaming support to process high-frame-rate (HFR) and high-resolution videos on FPGAs. Video, image processing, and FPGA design engineers can speed the exploration and simulation of behavior and implementation tradeoffs when processing ...
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Samsung has begun mass producing 16GB LPDDR5 mobile DRAM package for smartphones. Data transfer rate for the 16GB LPDDR5 comes in at 5,500 megabits per second (Mb/s), approximately 1.3 times faster than the previous mobile memory (LPDDR4X, 4266Mb/s). Compared to an 8GB LPDDR4X package, the new mobile DRAM delivers more than 20-percent energy savings while ...
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At Embedded World 2020, the group editor of Electronics Weekly, Clive Couldwell, shares his thoughts and observations on the show so far. Attendance may be down, he notes, but that gives the show space to breathe and actually increases the opportunities for interesting discussions with engineers. A chance to look at what you may not ...
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Panthronics is aiming at wireless chargers for earbuds, lifestyle-tracker wristbands with a sinewave power driver for inductive antennas. PTX100W can deliver over 2.5W to devices batteries smaller than 500mAh and small antennas, using NFC-like connections. “Qi wireless charging, popular in smartphones, is unsuitable for smaller devices because it requires a large antenna and costly circuitry,” according ...
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At Embedded World 2020, we caught up with Michael Melvang of EDT (Emerging Display Technologies), as part of our promotional coverage for the event. He discusses the company’s human-machine-interface platform – its Smart Embedded Display, which is a high-performance industrial TFT display with capacitive touch panel sensor (CTP) and cover lens plus integrated Driving Board ...
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Allegro MicroSystems has announced “industry’s first fully-integrated, back-biased GMR [giant magneto-resistive] transmission speed and direction sensor”. “By monolithically integrating our GMR technology with digital processing we’ve set a new standard for transmission speed sensing,” claimed Allegro business unit director Peter Wells. “ATS19580’s ability to reach formerly unachievable air gaps with the best vibration performance on ...
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