The ongoing coronavirus Covid-19 situation in the UK has led Big Bang UK to cancel its annual Young Scientists and Engineers Fair, which was due to take place 11-14 March. Explaining their decision, the fair’s organisers said “We have been actively monitoring and following advice about the novel coronavirus Covid-19 over the past weeks. “The unique ...
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Xilinx has announced Versal Premium, the third series in its Versal ACAP portfolio. Versal is an adaptive compute acceleration platform (ACAP), a heterogeneous compute device with capabilities that the firm claims “far exceed” those of conventional silicon architectures. Added to the Premium series are 112Gbps pam4 transceivers, multi-hundred GBe and Interlaken connectivity, cryptography, and PCIe ...
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Nexperia has managed to achieve 100fF load capacitance in devices designed to protect USB4 signal lines. “Of special interest to engineers designing USB4 and Thunderbolt interfaces, the new device uses Nexperia’s TrEOS ESD protection technology with active silicon-controlled rectification,” according to the firm. “It delivers a combination capacitance down to 0.1pF), dynamic resistance down to 0.1Ω ...
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Pickering has created a high voltage reed relay, that can stand off 1.5kV and switch up to 1kV. Called Series 131, they are single pole (normally-open) single-in-like devices with a 12.5 x 3.7mm footprint and 6.6mm height. The high voltage rating is specified with resistive loads. “At these high voltages, even stray capacitance can generate ...
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Marvell has launched the 88X9121P, a dual 400GbE (gigabit Ethernet) PHY transceiver with 100GbE serial electrical I/O capabilities, designed for secured high-density optical infrastructure. The device offers 256-bit MACsec encryption, class C compliant precision time protocol (PTP) timestamping and Marvell’s 112G pam4 serdes technology for high-density 400GbE and 100GbE deployments. 100G serial electrical signaling optical ...
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Spending on fab equipment will grow by 3% to $57.8 billion this year, says SEMI. China’s fab equipment spending will grow by about 5% to over $12 billion this year and by 22%, or $15 billion, in 2021. Taiwan will spend most in 2020 at nearly $14 billion but will drop to third place in ...
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Mobile High Power Charger, is a large battery on wheels. There are two of them, built in into lorry trailers, together capable of delivering a total of 3.2MW – 320kW to each of 10 electric vehicles simultaneously. “Considering the availability of grid connections, which are often only limited, it is a unique opportunity to provide ...
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Infineon has received US clearance for its takeover of Cypress Semiconductor. A statement from Infineon reads: ‘On 9 March 2020, the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (“CFIUS”) concluded its review under Section 721 of the Defense Production Act of 1950, of the planned acquisition of Cypress Semiconductor Corporation as announced by Infineon Technologies ...
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TI has brought out its 40-A SWIFT DC/DC buck converter, offering stackability of up to four ICs. The TPS546D24A PMBus buck converter can deliver up to 160 A of output current at an 85°C ambient temperature. The device’s efficiency allows engineers to reduce power loss by 1.5 W in high-performance data center and enterprise computing, medical, ...
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ST is extending the uses of its motion-detection machine-learning core (MLC) technologies into industrial and high-end consumer applications with the LSM6DSRX 6-axis iNEMO inertial measurement units (IMU). The MLC performs basic AI pre-processing of motion data using about 0.001 times the power a typical MCU would consume to complete the same task. As a result, ...
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