ISSCC: UK-made bendable 6502 MCU has 16,000 thin-film transistors

The fastest bendable 8bit thin-film microcontroller was describe at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference this week. Designed by Belgian research lab Imec and nearby university KU Leuven, it was made by UK-based PragmatIC Semiconductor. Called Flex6502, is has 16,000 0.8µm gate-length IGZO (indium gallium zinc oxide) transistors over a 4.5 x 5.5mm active area (see photo, ...

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60V 30A GaN motor drive for drones, robotics and e-bikes

EPC is offering a three-phase motor driver evaluation board built around 80V 3.6mΩ GaN power transistors, sized for drones, robotics and e-bikes. “The small size of this inverter allows integration into the motor housing resulting in the lowest EMI, highest density and lowest weight,” said the company. Called EPC9167HC, the design uses two paralleled EPC2065 ...

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3.8-32V automotive buck converters in TSOT26

Diodes has launched a series of automotive-compliant synchronous buck converters for delivering up to 3A in automotive point-of-load converters in 3 x 2.8mm TSOT26 packages With 2A and 3A ratings, AP6320xQ and AP6330xQ respectively can operate with inputs from 3.8 to 32V and over -40 to +125°C. 3A versions integrate 70/40mΩ (high/low-side) mosfets, or 125/68mΩ for the 2A parts. There are ...

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Automotive three-terminal capacitor packs 4.3μF into 0.5mm2

Murata has managed to compress 4.3μF into a three-terminal 0402 (1005 metric) package, and qualified it for automotive use. This is the surface-mount equivalent of a feed-through capacitor, with the end terminals connected together by a low-resistance direct path. This path is one end of the capacitor, whose other end is to be grounded via ...

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Picocom chip adopted by BLiNQ

Picocom, the Bristol 5G O-RAN baseband specialist, has had its silicon designed in by BLiNQ Networks, the US CBRS fixed and mobile wireless equipment supplier. BLiNQ will design Picocom silicon and software into its 5G O-RAN small cell distributed unit (DU) board. The agreement to buy silicon and license Picocom’s 5G NR PHY Layer software products ...

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Kioxia sampling 256GB UFS NAND supporting MIPI M-PHY v5.0

Kioxia is sampling a 256GB NAND flash UFS memory supporting MIPI M-PHY v5.0. The eventual line-up will  include 128GB, 256GB abd 512GB devices. UFS (MIPI M-PHY 5.0 has a theoretical interface speed of up to 23.2Gbps per lane (x2 lanes = 46.4Gpbs) in HS-Gear5 mode. Sequential read and write performance of the 256GB device is ...

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Short version of binder’s M16 series 423 aimed at space-critical applications

Binder, the circular connector specialist, has released short versions of its M16 series 423, aimed at use in space-critical applications, including harsh conditions. The shieldable circular connectors with screw locking that meet the IP67 acquirements when mated are suitable for typical, interference-prone industrial environments, says the company. With a length of approximately 47 mm, they ...

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Smiths launches blind-mate optical interconnect system

Smiths Interconnect has launched its LightCONEX optical plug-in and backplane module connectors compatible with the VITA 66.5 draft standard and aligned with the SOSATM Technical Standard for VPX systems within rugged embedded computing applications and sensor systems. The Sensor Open Systems Architecture (SOSATM) Consortium is developing a common framework for transitioning sensor systems to an ...

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