Industrial-grade server-class computer-on-module

Kontron has put an AMD EPYC Embedded 3000 processor onto a COM Express Basic Type 7 computer-on-module to deliver “scalable server-class performance on a small form factor”, it said. Featuring 4 – 16 cores, COMe-bEP7 Type 7 module offers up to 4 x SODIMM sockets for up to 128Gbyte of DDR4 RAM. Networking and fast ...

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APEC: Surface-mount mosfet packages for light electric vehicles

Infineon is aiming at e-scooters, e-forklifts and other light electric vehicles a pair of TO-leadless mosfet packages. TOLG: TO-leaded with gullwing leads TOLT: TO-leaded top-side cooling Both combine low electrical resitance with a current rating over 300A. TOLG The TOLG (photo above) package is intended to combines the best features of Infineon’s existing TOLL package (TO-leadless) ...

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Board fast-tracks IoT deployment

TT Electronics has launched its S-2CONNECT Creo SOM for rapid IoT deployment. The system-on-module board is designed for engineers, programmers and developers who are charged with reducingR&D risk and fast-tracking their IoT applications development using a pre-certified system-on-module (SOM) board with cellular connectivity. The S-2CONNECT series of IoT solutions by TT Electronics is an end-to-end ...

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Fraunhofer licensing fault-tolerant RISC core for safety-critical applications

The Fraunhofer Institute for Photonic Microsystems IPMS and IP provider CAST have immediate availability of EMSA5-FS, a fault-tolerant embedded RISC-V processor IP core designed to meet the most stringent functional safety requirements of automotive, air-borne, and other safety-critical applications. Developed by Fraunhofer IPMS, the EMSA5-FS Embedded Functional Safety RISC-V Processor is a 32-bit, in-order, single-issue, ...

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Over half the Colonial Pipeline ransom money recovered by US DoJ

The US Department of Justice says it has recovered over half the ransom money paid by Colonial Pipeline to ransomware hacker group DarkSide. “Today, we’ve turned the tables on DarkSide,” said US deputy attorney-general Lisa Monaco yesterday. Monaco said that the FBI used a “private key” to unlock DarkSide’s Bitcoin wallet and extract 63.7 Bitcoins ...

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GloFo in $800m SOI wafer deal

Globalfoundries  and GlobalWafers (GWC) have inked an $800 million agreement to add 300mm SOI wafer manufacturing and expand 200mm SOI wafer production at GWC’s MEMC facility in O’Fallon, Missouri. The  300mm wafers made at GWC’s MEMC site in Missouri will be used at GLoFo’s Fab 8 in Malta, New York, and the 200mm wafers made ...

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Replica ExoMars rover completes its first simulated drive

ESA reports that its replica ExoMars rover is fully assembled and has completed its first drive around the Mars Terrain Simulator at ALTEC, in Turin. The Ground Test Model (GTM) will be used in the Rover Operations Control Centre to help support future mission training and operations. It had already completed important commanding tests while ...

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NXP offers beta UWB development tools for Apple U1 Chip

NXP is offering beta UWB  development tools from its NXP Trimension portfolio that interoperate with the U1 chip in supported Apple products. The beta development tools will allow developers to kick-start the design of innovative applications that interact with UWB enabled Apple products including iPhone and Apple Watch, unleashing the ability to create more precise, ...

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ON adds SiC MOSFET modules for EV chargers

ON Semiconductor has brought out  a pair of 1200V SiC MOSFET 2-PACK modules for the EV charger market. EC charging stations require power levels in excess of 350 kW with efficiencies of 95% becoming the norm. The 1200V M1 full SiC MOSFET 2 pack modules, based upon planar technology and suited to a drive voltage ...

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MIT puts ICs and a network inside a sewable fibre

Researchers at MIT have made a fibre containing integrated circuits and a wired network that can be sewn into fabrics and survive at least 10 washing cycles. “When you put it into a shirt, you can’t feel it at all. You wouldn’t know it was there,” said to professor Yoel Fink. To create the fibre, MIT ...

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