Teledyne e2v HiRel is screening 650V 60A GaN power transistors to NASA Level 1 flow for space use, and has released a 100V high-speed GaN or silicon gate driver. The transistors (right) are both enhancement-mode, top-side-cooled GaN-on-silicon hemts. “The parts go through NASA Level 1 screening flow and can be brought up to full Level 1 conformance ...
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Optimizing first for best power instead of best timing delivers better results all around. Among the key targets in place-and-route—performance, power, and area (PPA) — performance has traditionally been the primary focus. Low power has been gaining in importance though, particularly at today’s advanced process nodes. Of course, no one wants lower-performing chips, so place-and-route ...
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Four year-old Californian photonics start-up Luminous has raised a $105 million Series A. Bill Gates was among the investors which included Gigafund, 8090 Partners, Third Kind Venture Capital, Alumni Ventures Group and Strawberry Creek Ventures. Luminous got $1 million pre-seed funding in 2018 and $9m seed funding in 2019. The company employs 90 people and ...
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Imec has developed a impulse-radio UWM transmitter IC measuring 0.155mm², with a power consumption of less than 10 milliwatt (mW), fabbed in 28nm CMOS. The chip can accommodate data transfer rates of 1.66Gb/s. This is 50 times the speed supported by today’s UWB standard The chip’s performance strengthens researchers’ belief that UWB is perfectly capable ...
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Self-drive cars put in twice as many miles on Californian roads last year as in 2020 with 22 companies driving over four million miles last year, according to the California Department Of Motor Vehicles (DMV) which licenses driverless car tests on public roads. The DMV has licensed 50 companies but only 22 actually tested cars last ...
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The US Space Development Agency (SDA) has awarded three American companies contracts, worth up to $1,774 million, to produce a constellation of 126 LEO (low-Earth orbit) satellites, for a space-based mesh satellite communications network. Each will produce 42 satellites by 2024, operating in two near-polar low Earth orbital planes (21 space vehicles, or satellites, for ...
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Need to integrate existing Modbus, IEC 60870-5-101/104, or DNP3 TCP serial devices into an IEC 61850 MMS network? Maybe for a power grid sub-station? Then Moxa’s MGate 5119 secured gateway might be just what the doctor ordered, and it can be used as a master on all the former networks, to collect data and exchange it with an ...
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Researchers in Illinois have added seven new molecules to the four usually found in DNA, expanding the palette for potential data storage applications. DNA contains four nucleotides: adenine, guanine, cytosine and thymine (aka A, G, C and T), which arrange into the famed double helix. The patterns they form store the code for making living ...
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This morning, the UK and Japan agreed to strengthen their cooperation on efforts to diversify the technology used in telecoms networks to support the move towards O-RAN. The UK Minister for Digital Infrastructure Julia Lopez and Japan’s Vice-Minister of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications Yuji Sasaki met in London. They agreed several joint ...
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Renesas has teamed up with Tata Elxsi to build design centre for automotive products in Bangalore called ‘Nevic’ for Next Generation EV Innovation Center. They will “bring together their domain expertise intellectual property and assets to Nevic and create reference designs and solution accelerators for electric vehicle sub-systems like battery management and motor control units,” ...
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