3D automated optical inspection down to 008004 (M0201) and up to 25mm tall

Saki Corporation has announced a series of high-speed 3D automated optical inspection systems for PCBs with a combination of very small and tall components. Called the 3Di series, its newly-developed camera system can simultaneously inspect parts in 008004 packages (metric 0201, ~200 x 100μm) and tall parts. The first 3Di machine will debut on 15-17 ...

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Embedded World: Renesas to demo Cortex-M85 – Arm’s latest MCU

Renesas will demonstrate Arm’s Cortex-M85 embedded processor at Embedded World in Nuremberg, expecting it to be the first public airing of the new core in a microcontroller. Aimed at IoT applications requiring artificial intelligence or machine learning, Cortex-M85 will be able to deliver over 6CoreMark/MHz, according to Renesas, and is built around Armv8.1m architecture with ...

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Foundry revenues top $100bn

Foundry revenues topped $100 billion last year after a rise of 31%, says Gartner, with ASPs up 11.8% and units up 8%. The semiconductor industry was up 26% at $595 billion. Foundry fab utilisation was 95% with 8” particularly tight, driven by PMIC, display drivers and fingerprint sensors. TSMC saw its market share slip 3% ...

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EW Compare upgrades its component price comparison tool

Our part-search-and-price-comparison engine, dubbed EW Compare, has been updated to take advantage of new APIs by OEMSecrets, the company that powers the tool. Among the changes, which include a refreshed UI, parts are now grouped by part number and manufacturer. This can provide more useful output information for non-exact part number searches. There is also ...

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Quadric and MegaChips hook up

Quadric, the  processor IP licensor, and MegaChips of Japan are partnering to deliver ASICs and SoCs built on Quadric’s  edge AI processor architecture. MegaChips announced an equity stake in Quadric in January 2022 and is also a major investor in a $21M Series B funding round announced in March through their MegaChips LSI USA Corporation ...

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Scotland plans dress rehearsal for UK’s first vertical space launch

SaxaVord Spaceport – formerly known as the Shetland Space Centre – is planning a site-wide dress rehearsal for vertical space launches, culminating with a small rocket lifting off from the site in Unst, Shetland. Dubbed Operation Freya, it will take place in early July from a portable Asgard launch pad system. This will be built ...

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Common-mode filters with 10.7GHz differential bandwidth

New common-mode filters from ST have a differential bandwidth of 10.7GHz to protect antenna sensitivity in adjacent wireless circuitry from the latest serial digital interfaces. The 2-channel ECMF2-40A100N10 and 4-channel ECMF4-40A100N10 are compatible with high-speed interface standards including USB 3.2 Gen 2, USB4, HDMI 2.1, and DisplayPort. With a serial resistance of  3Ω, which minimizes ...

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ISPSD: Hot carrier injection erodes GaN Rds(on)

GaN transistor maker Innoscience Technology is disclosing research on 650V device reliability at the IEEE International Symposium on Power Semiconductor Devices (ISPSD) in Vancouver this week. The company is fabricating GaN-on-Si HEMTs on a 200mm CMOS-compatible process, for a power factor correction (PFC) boost converter application. Hard switching test Vds=600V Vgs=6V 100kHz According to the company, ...

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Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth 5.3 LE in a single module

Murata has teamed up with NXP to develop a Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth 5.3 module. Called Type 1XL, it is built around NXP’s 88W9098 chip set and supports IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n/ac/ax 2×2 MU-MIMO (multi-user, multiple-input, multiple-output) and single antenna Bluetooth 5.3 Low Energy, BR and EDR. “The Wi-Fi section supports connectivity up to 1.4x faster than conventional ...

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67GHz vector signal generator

Rohde & Schwarz has increased the top end of its SMW200A vector signal generator to 67GHz, and slotted in a 56GHz version between that and the existing 44GHz version. “The SMW200A is first to enable flat frequency response and 2GHz modulation bandwidth above 44GHz,” claimed the company. “The 100kHz to 56GHz option covers all currently ...

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