Georgia Tech’s SlothBot concept has been turned into a demonstrator, that will hang around in the canopy of Atlanta Botanical Garden monitoring temperature, weather, and carbon dioxide levels. The concept was modelled on real sloths – animals that hang from branches and move slowly to conserve energy. “SlothBot embraces slowness as a design principle,” said GaTech ...
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Rohm has announced a 4th generation of 1.2kV silicon carbide mosfets, honing them for driving the traction motors of electric vehicles as well as industrial equipment power supplies. “For power semiconductors, there is often a trade-off between lower on-resistance and short-circuit withstand time,” said the company. “Rohm was able to improve this relationship and reduce ...
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CambridgeIC has added axial linear position sensing of rotating targets to the list of sensing capabilities available from its products. “The sensors are unique in measuring the continuous position of a freely rotating wireless target, from the side, and with a big gap, and without interference from nearby magnets,” according to the company. “Typically 10 ...
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Keysight has added a 2kV ±30A 20kW model to its RP7900 series of instruments for battery and electronics testing in hybrid and electric vehicles. Called RP7973A, it is desigend to run from 400V or 480V three-phase and is capable of two quadrant operation – if can feed power back into the mains. “The regenerative design enables ...
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Picocom, the 5G O-RAN baseband semiconductor and software specialist, has selected UltraSoC’s hardware-based analytics and monitoring IP for use in Picocom’s upcoming baseband SoC for 5G small cells. The UltraSoC IP enables Picocom and its customers to monitor, analyse and fine-tune the performance of their systems throughout the whole product lifecycle, starting in the lab ...
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Alpha and Omega Semiconductor has released 18V input 1.25MHz fixed-frequency synchronous buck regulators with 30ns minimum on-time. “The low minimum on-time enables low output voltages from a 12V bus, making the device a suitable power converter for next-generation SoCs, FPGAs, and ASICs using deep sub-micron processes,” according to AOS AOZ6762DI and AOZ6763DI are capable of ...
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National Instruments is rebranding itself as NI. With the slogan “Let’s Engineer Ambitiously”, the Austin based company has also updated its logo. You can read a letter from Eric Starkloff, president and CEO of the company (right), explaining the changes. He cites “the events of the last several months” as a catalyst for the move. ...
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Infineon’s memory expertise has been boosted by the Cypress acquisition and it is now sampling Semper Secure as an addition to its Semper NOR Flash family. Based on Semper NOR Flash’s memory architecture, Semper Secure NOR Flash claims to be the first memory solution to combine security and functional safety in a single NOR flash ...
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Formosa Sumco Technology (FST), which ships silicon wafers to mainly Taiwan- and China-based logic and memory foundries, is expected to see its production lines run at nearly full capacity utilization in the third quarter of 2020, according to a report by Taiwan’s Central News Agency (CNA). FST has seen its 8- and 12-inch wafer manufacturing ...
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Despite ASP growth, wholesale smartphone revenues in the Western European region fell 10% in Western Europe – the third largest region by value. Apple and Samsung continue to have a duopoly, as the two together account for more than 80% of the overall revenues in the region. Huawei was ranked third with 7%. In Western ...
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