42 Technology sensor finds scratches on production line

42 Technology of Cambridgeshire has developed an automated inspection technology that can detect scratches wider than 10μm on polished glass surfaces in under a second. Developed with Swiss company Inficon, it will be used by Inficon to partly automate quality control – finding scratches before silicon sensors are bonded to glass in the manufacture of helium ...

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Apple to set up €1bn IC design centre in Munich

Apple is to invest over 1 billion euros in a Munich design centre focussed on wireless technologies including 5G. Apple’s plan is to move people into the 30,000-square-metre building in Karlstrasse near central Munich in late 2022. The centre will hire hundreds of people. “I couldn’t be more excited for everything our Munich engineering teams will ...

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ST simplifies wireless MCUs for Bluetooth 5.2

STMicroelectronics has further stripped down the memory in its STM32WBxx wireless microcontroller family to reduce cost in Bluetooth 5.2 applications. STM32WB15 and STM32WB10 retain the Arm Cortex-M4 application processor and paired Cortex-M0+ Bluetooth 5.2 stack processor, but come with: 320kbyte flash for stack and application – with sector protection against R/W operations, 48kbyte SRAM – 36kbyte has ...

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UK made: two-channel PC scopes at 5GHz and 12GHz

Pico Technology has introduced two-channel versions of its 5GHz and 16GHz ‘sampling-extended real-time oscilloscopes’, branded SXRTOs. Called PicoScope 9402-05 and 9402-16, they are suited to repetitive or clock-derived signals. All models have 12bit channels, each supported by real-time sampling to 500Msample/s/channel and up to 2.5Tsample/s (0.4ps) random equivalent-time sampling. “These are voltage and timing resolutions that ...

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Q1 IC market could show unusual sequential rise

The 1Q21/4Q20 IC market will show a 2% increase, forecasts IC Insights, adding that if this forecast comes to fruition, it would be the first 1Q/4Q sequential IC market increase since a 1% growth rate was registered 10 years ago in 1Q11. Figure 1 shows that if total 1Q21/4Q20 IC sales increase 2% to $113.1 ...

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Digital Fever

element14 has announced its latest Project14 design contest entitled ‘Digital Fever’. The challenge celebrates the freedom of all things digital, from digital logic, and programming for complex decision making, to FPGA, which can be configured to do just about anything. Members of the online community will have the opportunity to design any type of digital ...

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Sponsored Content: Packetize test data for no-compromise DFT

Bus-based scan data distribution architecture enables true bottom-up DFT flows, writes Geir Eide of Siemens Digital Industries Software. The dramatic rise in manufacturing test time for today’s large and complex SoCs is rooted in the use of traditional approaches to moving scan test data from chip-level pins to core-level scan channels. The pin-multiplexing (mux) approach ...

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Sponsored Content: The final authority

Overcurrents aren’t the only threat to modern electronics, writes The SCHURTER Group. Excessively high temperatures are increasingly becoming the number one enemy due to high power density. But how can such a danger be avoided? It makes sense to use thermal fuses. Or even better: thermal fuses with that certain extra. A characteristic of modern electronics ...

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EU’s Digital Compass

Yesterday the EC proposed a Digital Compass to translate the EUʼs digital ambitions for 2030 into concrete terms. They evolve around four cardinal points: 1)Digitally skilled citizens and highly skilled digital professionals; By 2030, at least 80% of all adults should have basic digital skills, and there should be 20 million employed ICT specialists in ...

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Flutter 2.0 embedded UI toolkit embraces Windows, macOS and Linux

Google has announced a major upgrade to its Flutter toolkit with version 2.0 adding operating system support for Windows, macOS, and Linux, in addition to Android and iOS. There is also what Google describes as production-quality support for web-based applications, calling Flutter from within HTML. Launched in London back in December 2018, Flutter is a ...

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