Arkwright engineering scholarships open to applicants

The children’s education charity, The Smallpeice Trust, is calling for students and schools to sign up to itsengineering scholarship programme, The Arkwright Engineering Scholarship. The programme, for which applications are now open, is designed to inspire and equip the country’s brightest young people to pursue their dreams of changing the world through engineering. The Scholarship ...

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ON hooks up with Theta Power

ON Semiconductor  has established a collaboration with Theta Power Systems International. This collaboration will enable customers to capitalise on motor control techniques along semiconductor solutions targeting applications migrating to brushless DC (BLDC) motors. Theta Power Systems International has several decades of experience deploying motor control software with name-brand appliance companies, along with a customer base ...

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Dialog launches highly integrated GreenPAK ICs

Dialog has launched its first Advanced Analog GreenPAK IC, to enable designers to create, simulate and prototype their own unique sophisticated analog ICs in minutes at a lower cost than a discrete component implementation. The SLG47004 integrates an instrumentation amplifier with auto-trimming, digital pots, analog switches, and a myriad of digital functions with in-system programmability ...

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ST and Qualcomm collaborating on sensors

ST is supplying sensor software  through the Qualcomm Platform Solutions Ecosystem program. ST is contributing pre-validated software to OEMs for its MEMS and other sensing devices to deliver features to smartphones, connected PCs, IoT, and wearables. Qualcomm Technologies has pre-selected ST’s latest motion-tracking IC with intelligent sensor software, along with ST’s most accurate pressure sensor, for ...

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Apple launches proprietary processor for Macs

Apple has announced the in-house designed processor for its new Apple Macs. Called M1, it will be used in the MacBook air, MacBook mini, and MacBook pro. It is built using Arm cores, fabbed on TSMC’s 5nm process and has 16 billion transistors Arm claims  it will offer longer battery life then Macs have had ...

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AMD’s latest Ryzen is on COM Express Type 6 board from congatec

AMD’s latest Ryzen Embedded processor  has been used by congatec in a compact COM Express Type 6 board for industrial PCs and thin clients where compute and graphics performance are critical for deep learning. The Ryzen Embedded V2000 processor is at the heart of the conga-TCV2. According to congatec, it doubles performance per W and ...

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MPE appoints its first UK distributor

EMC/EMP filters and capacitor manufacturer, MPE, has appointed SACA Group as an authorised distributor specifically to serve customers who need small or occasional orders. This is the first time in its 95 year history that the Merseyside company will use a distributor for the UK market. It has come about as the company experiences an ...

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Electronica: 12Gsample DAC with 26GHz output bandwidth

Teledyne e2v is offering beta samples of its 12Gsample/s 12bit (or 8bit) EV12DD700 dual-channel DAC. “What sets it apart from other DACs is that it is first on the market to support operation within the 26GHz upwards Ka-band,” claimed the company. “Numerous features have been incorporated, such as DDS [direct digital synthesis], plus digital up-conversion ...

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Single point dToF LIDAR from ON

ON Semiconductor has introduced a single point direct Time-of-Flight (dToF) LiDAR solution enabled by the company’s Silicon Photomultiplier (SiPM) LiDAR  is typically based upon the dToF method, which measures the time it takes for a pulse of light, normally in the Near Infrared (NIR) wavelength range, to travel to and from an object. To determine ...

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