In addition to health fears, Covid-19 brings economic worries as goods the electronics industry around the world relies on become restricted as the main source of these components and goods restricts its output. “The factories we deal with in China are reporting 20% staffing levels, and operating at 60% below capacity,” said Steve Rawlins, CEO ...
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An initiative in the budget yesterday to set up a UK ARPA was said to have been inspired by Dominic Cummings. Chancellor Rishi Sunak (pictured) said the government will spend £800 million to create a blue skies R&D funding agency along the lines of ARPA. “We are the country of Newton, Hodgson, and Turing,” said ...
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Next month, TSMC is to start volume 5nm production according to Digitimes. The 5nm capacity is reported to be already fully booked out. 5nm doesn’t mean much these days when the line pitch is probably 30-40nm. TMSC’s 5nm node is said to have a density of 160Mtr/mm2, compared to Intel’s 7nm which is reported to ...
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HUBER+SUHNER’s POLATIS iSeries 7000 software-defined optical circuit switch platform has a architecture designed for volume manufacture with scalability from 8×8 up to 576×576 non-blocking fibre ports, enabling telecom and data center operators to remotely connect more fibres together in a compact form factor. “Our POLATIS optical switches bring network automation right down to the fiber layer ...
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XP Power has announced two series of wide-range input dc-dc converters. The DTJ15 and DTJ20 series are designed for convenience of installation and operation, XP says. They can be installed to a chassis or DIN rail and connected via screw terminals and require no additional components for protection or EMC compliance. The series offer 15W ...
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Diodes Incorporated has announced the PI3L2500 LAN multiplexer/demultiplexer, designed to enable port switching in corporate LANs at Ethernet signal speeds of 2.5/5/10Gbps. The bidirectional design enables two Ethernet PHY differential outputs to operate with a single RJ45 connector or enables one Ethernet PHY output to be routed to one of two RJ45 connectors. The firm ...
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Renesas has introduced a mmWave synthesiser for 5G and broadband wireless applications. “We developed our 8V97003 for mmWave radios, ensuring it meets demanding frequency range, phase noise, and output power requirements,” said Renesas v-p of timing products Bobby Matinpour. “8V97003 is particularly well-suited for emerging applications above the 6GHz carrier frequency, including broadband wireless, microwave ...
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With the design of secured IoT products in mind, Microchip has announced range of cloud agnostic embedded development products that connect through Wi-Fi, Bluetooth or narrow-band 5G. “From the smallest PIC and AVR MCUs for sensors and actuators, to 32bit MCU and MPU gateways for edge computing, the company is making it possible for developers ...
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Mouser Electronics is now stocking STM32L5 low-power microcontrollers from STMicroelectronics. The device is based on a Cortex-M33 core with Trustzone hardware-based security. Their security architecture features the Arm v8-M main extension. The M33 core with floating point unit also implements a full set of DSP (digital signal processing) instructions and a memory protection unit (MPU) ...
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Macom has introduced transimpedance amplifiers for optical comms ranging from 100Gbit/s DR1 to 800Gbit/s DR8 and FR8. There are two parts, which come in flip chip and wire bonding packaging options for deployment in QSFP, QSFP-DD and OSFP optical modules. MATA-05817 has noise typically below 2μArms and supports bandwidth up to 35GHz. It is aimed ...
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