Lattice adds to Certus family

Lattice has added versions of the Lattice Certus-NX FPGA family optimized for infotainment, advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), and safety-focused applications. Built on the Lattice Nexus platform, these new Certus-NX devices combine automotive-grade features with best-in-class I/O density, power efficiency, small size, reliability, instant-on performance, and support for fast PCI Express (PCIe) and Gigabit Ethernet ...

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Silicon-lithium battery jv

Group14 Technologies of Woodinville, Washington State and two year-old Slovakian battery developer InoBat are getting together to manufacture silicon-lithium EV batteries. Group14 Technologies makes lithium-silicon battery materials utilising its silicon anode. The companies aim to produce customisable, high-energy-density car batteries. Group14 says it can produce 120 tons per year of its silicon anode material –  SCC55TM ...

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Commercial space revenue growth shrugs off Covid

New research published suggests that commercial space revenue grew 6.6% in 2020, exceeding $356 billion, despite the Covid-19 pandemic. Space Foundation released “The Space Report 2021 36th Annual Space Symposium Special Edition” at the Symposium, which took place earlier in the week at Colorado Springs. Headline points include infrastructure and support industries growing the most, ...

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Supercomputer for exascale era

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory (ANL)and Hewlett Packard Enterprise  have unveiled a testbed supercomputer to prepare critical workloads for future exascale systems. Called Polaris, the supercomputer will be built by HPE, and hosted and managed by the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF), a U.S. DOE Office of Science User Facility. It ...

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SEMI billings up 50%

SEMI’s July billings figure was up 49.8% y-o-y at $3.81 billion. “The start of the second half of 2021 further extends a robust sales uptrend for North America-based semiconductor equipment manufacturers,” says SEMI CEO Ajit Manocha. “Capacity demand across the semiconductor manufacturing supply chain continues its strong growth, reflecting the role of semiconductor equipment as ...

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Almost perfect graphene grown

Korea’s Institute for Basic Science (IBS) has grown what is thought to be the most perfect artificial graphene yet – with no wrinkles, folds or ‘adlayers’ (islands of multiple-layer graphene) – using a process that appears to be scalable to larger quantities. The same team, from IBS’s Center for Multidimensional Carbon Materials (CMCM), had previously reported single-crystal ...

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Extend PCIe 3.0 and SATA3 connections at up to 8Gbit/s

Diodes has introduced ICs that extend the physical range of PCIe 3.0 and SATA3 connections, while meeting Microsoft’s ‘modern stand-by mode’ requirements. Operating from a 3.3V rail, in stand-by mode, the 1-lane (or 2 channel) PI3EQX12902E consumes 1.7mW, whihc rises to 3.3mW for the 2-lane (4 channel) PI3EQX12904E. A pin selects PCIe 3.0 or SATA3 mode, ...

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All-metal 1W current sense resistor in 0805

Stackpole Electronics is pitching its 1W-rated CSSH0805 all-metal 0805-size chip resistor family against 1206 and 2010 parts for current sensing. It comes in three temperature coefficient versions: ±100ppm types are rated up to 44.72A (89A over-load) and are available between 500μΩ and 1mΩ in 1, 2 and 5% tolerances ±75ppm types are rated up to 25.81A (51A ...

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Novel antenna combines a dish and a phased array

Lockheed Martin has created a novel millimetre-wave dish antenna for satellites and ground terminals, particularly for space-based 5G communication. Called ‘wide angle ESA fed reflector’ (Waefr), it is a hybrid of a phased array electronically steerable antenna (ESA) and a parabolic dish, and is claimed to increases coverage area by 190% compared to traditional phased ...

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Compact i.MX 8M Plus AI edge computers

Advantech has released a series of small AI-native computers built around NXP’s i.MX 8M Plus processors. RSB-3720 2.5” Pico-ITX single-board computer EPC-R3720 boxed computer 152 x 108 x 38mm ROM-5722 SMARC 2.1 COM single-board computer (above) Intended for smart vision systems, there are processor options up to quad-core 1.8GHz Cortex-A53 plus a Cortex-M7 co-processor for real-time tasks. ...

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