UK Made: CodeBug educational ‘thing’ gets Wi-Fi, a server, and much more

CodeBug Connect, is the IoT-capable next-generation of the original CodeBug educational board launched in 2015 – which won the Electronics Weekly Elektra Award that year for most innovative consumer product. Retaining the original cartoon animal shape and small (~40 x 50mm) dimensions, the Connect version gains Wi-Fi and enough computing power to make it a wearable ...

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Foundry revenue to grow 23.8% this year.

Foundry revenue is projected to undergo a 23.8% increase in 2020, the highest percentage in 10 years, says TrendForce, TrendForce expects the current tight supply of wafer capacity to persist at least until 1H21. For processes below and including the 10nm node, both TSMC’s and Samsung’s wafer capacities are currently close to fully loaded. Since ...

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UK Made: 3U VPX artificial intelligence accelerator

Concurrent Technologies announce its first 3U VPX artificial intelligence accelerator board based on an Intel Arria FPGA earlier this year, developed in accordance with a proposed VITA 65.1 profile aligned with the SOSA Technical Standard, according to the company. Called TR AEx/6sd-RCx, it is intended for inference at the edge applications such as real-time object recognition and ...

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TI and Xilinx combining on DFE

TI and Xilinx are collaborating to build scalable and adaptable digital front-end (DFE)  to increase energy efficiency of lower antenna count radios. The solutions leverage Xilinx’s adaptable IP to enhance the RF performance and improve the power efficiency of indoor and outdoor radio applications. By combining Xilinx’s Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC family and adaptable RF IP with ...

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Mentor joins Nano 2022 as France focuses on microelectronics

EDA company, Mentor, has joined Nano 2022, the latest project to promote the French electronics manufacturing industry. It covers components, connectors and PCBs, to design and assembly, distribution, embedded software and software tools. The project is part of the European Commission’s Important Project of Common European Interest (IPCEI) to promote research and innovation in power ...

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Thermometer works at

Exploiting a quantum principle in a novel way, researchers at the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have created a miniature thermometer that works below 1K with errors less that 14mK and a response time of 5ms. Two of the novel temperature sensors (top right, bottom left) are bonded to a chip under ...

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CAD union calls for renewed strikes at ST sites

The French union CAD has renewed its call to continue the strike at ST for Tuesday 17th and Thursday 26th of November 2020, and requests a minimum increase of 100 euros for all. CAD asks the ST management two questions: Why did ST management postpone the announcement of the salary policy from June to October, ...

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Competition: Win one of three ADI evaluation boards, featuring the LTC3310S

Last chance to enter: ADI is giving Electronics Weekly readers a chance to win one of three DC2629A evaluation boards as prizes, which are worth $95 each. Enter for a chance to win » ADI’s demonstration circuit DC2629A features the LTC3310S, a 10A, low voltage, synchronous step-down Silent Switcher 2 operating as a 2MHz 3.3V ...

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8bit PIC18 MCUs for CAN FD networks

Microchip has released 8bit PIC18 MCUs that can transmit and receive data through CAN bus Flexible Data rate (CAN FD) bus. It has created the family, called PIC18 Q84, for transporting sensor data to a CAN FD bus without the need for gateways or sophisticated network switching techniques. “CAN FD will play a critical role in ...

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News – Electronics Weekly 2020-11-18 06:27:24

IC capacity for leading-edge (<10nm) processes is expected to grow and become the largest portion of monthly installed capacity across the industry beginning in 2024, based on information in IC Insights’ Global Wafer Capacity 2020-2024 report. At the end of 2020, <10nm capacity is expected to account for 10% of the IC industry’s total wafer ...

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