Hailo raises $60m Series B

Hailo, the Israeli AI processor company, has raised $60 million in a Series B funding round. As well as existing investors, backers were ABB Technology Ventures (ATV), NEC and Latitude Ventures. Hailo will use the money to bolster the ongoing global rollout of its Hailo-8 Deep Learning chip and to reach new markets and industries.  The Series ...

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Is your breadboard too flat? MIT will curve it for you

Aiming to provide a quick way to test circuit function on potential products, MIT researchers are 3D printing breadboards into prototypes, including curved prototypes. The result is ‘CurveBoards’, accurate representations of end-products with breadboard surfaces. “On breadboards, you prototype the function of a circuit. But you don’t have context of its form – how the electronics ...

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RS stocking Keysight test and measurement kits for embedded and RF

RS Components has added Keysight test and measurement equipment to its portfolio. It’s stocking the Infiniivision 4000X and 6000X series of oscilloscopes, which feature a “zone trigger” function, designed to help engineers isolate hard-to-capture signals. The multi-function scopes have a waveform update rate of one million waveforms per second. They’re aimed at embedded system design ...

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ST takes control of Exagan

ST has signed an agreement to acquire a majority stake in French GaN specialist  Exagan. Exagan’s expertise in epitaxy, product development and application know-how will broaden and accelerate ST’s power GaN roadmap and business for automotive, industrial and consumer applications. Exagan will continue to execute its product roadmap and will be supported by ST in ...

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ISSCC: Secure chip will not make a mistake in your lifetime, probably

Working toward automotive security, Samsung has produced a ‘physically unclonable function’ (PUF) for secure crypto key generation. PUFs are blocks within chips whose characteristics only manifest when powered. They are inherently and unpredictably randomised by process variation as they are made, in a way that makes each chip uncontrollably unique, but once manufactured the characteristic ...

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Plextek RFI sold to CML

Cambridge-based Plextek Group has sold one of its spin-outs, the boutique microwave chip design business Plextek RFI to CML for an undisclosed sum. Plextek RFI was founded from within Plextek by Liam Devlin some twenty years ago and demerged into a separate limited company in 2015. It has earned a reputation for right-first time designs ...

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ISSCC: Computational imaging by THz array

Researchers from the University of Wuppertal in Germany have created a THz signal source array for computational imaging, which allows a single-pixel camera – one THz receiver – to form images. This type of computational imaging involves bathing the object to be photographed in varying light fields and measuring the amplitude of light that passes ...

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ISSCC: Analogue on-chip LDO beats back digital onslaught

While digital on-die point-of-load converters are trending, analogue designs are far from finished. Digital low-dropout (DLDO) regulators appeared a few years ago and looked to be the future for on‑die point‑of‑load regulators on digital chips (see ISSCC 2020 DLDOs further down). However, a team at Seoul National University has turned the tables with a novel agile ...

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ISSCC: GaN power chip integrates control

A monolithic GaN mains power converter IC was the target of Leibniz University Hannover, which worked with Texas Instruments. And the result is a 15W off-line PSU that can feed a 30-60V LED string with 140‑190mA from 60-400V AC or DC. Efficiency is 95.6% at low input voltage, and not dropping below 87.8% all the ...

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