Xaar commits to support young people in the East of England

Cambridge ink-jet print head company Xaar is to support East of England youth charity Break for the next three years, pledging to match all funds raised by its employees up to a sum of £20,000 per year. “Break provides a brighter future to local children and young people on the edge of care, in care ...

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Embedded World: 13.3inch display update to R&S GHz oscilloscopes

Rohde & Schwarz has updated its 4 to 16GHz RTP oscilloscope range with a 13.3inch HD touchscreen and redesigned front panel. “Improving overall usability so that test engineers could focus on the design problems at hand and not on operating the test equipment was paramount to our R&D engineers when we decided to update the R&S ...

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Motor controller IC has dual Arm Cortex-R52 and industrial Ethernet

Renesas has revealed MCUs with dual 800MHz Arm Cortex-R52 cores and Ethernet for motor control in ac servo drives, inverters and industrial robots. “RZ/T2M is capable of controlling the servo motors that drive robots at extremely high speed and with high precision,” said company industrial automation v-p Toshihide Tsuboi. “I anticipate that it will contribute to ...

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Tektronix 500MHz scope is 38mm thick for field and bench

Tektronix has unveiled flat-profile mixed-signal oscilloscopes intended to be used on the bench and in the field. Called ‘2 Series Mixed Signal Oscilloscope’, they maximise frontal area for display (10.1in touchscreen) and control by being only 38mm thick. Weight is 1.8kg and they “can go seamlessly from the bench to the field and back, enabling ...

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Imagination Technologies recruits engineers in Manchester

Imagination Technologies has opened an office in Manchester, adding to existing sites in Cambridge, and Bristol, and its Kings Langley headquarters. “At the beginning of 2022 we set a recruitment goal to match our growth as a company, and to enable acceleration in new areas such as RISC-V CPU,” said Imagination CEO Simon Beresford-Wylie. “Manchester has ...

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Photonics foundry has process with integrated lasers

Synopsys and Juniper Networks have formed a photonics foundry company called OpenLight. The foundry will use a process at Tower Semiconductor which integrates the lasers. The process has passed qualification and reliability tests on Tower’s PH18DA production process. OpenLight expects the first open Multi-Project Wafer (MPW) shuttle run on the PH18DA process as well as ...

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Q1 equipment billings up 5% y-o-y

Q1 semiconductor manufacturing  equipment billings grew 5% year-over-year to $24.7 billion, says SEMI. Quarter-over-quarter billings in the seasonally soft first quarter declined 10%. “Year-over-year first quarter equipment revenue growth is in sync with positive forecasts for 2022 as the semiconductor industry continues its robust increase of fab capacity,” says SEMI CEO Ajit Manocha, “North America ...

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Radio wave ranging sensors using the 60GHz band

Socionext has introduced the “SC1240 Series” radio-wave ranging sensors that use the 60GHz band with a built-in signal processing circuit for detecting the position and movement of a person with maximum accuracy. Sample shipments are scheduled for Q2 2022, and mass production in Q1 2023. The SC1240 series is a radio-wave ranging sensor that complies ...

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Sony launches laser-based Space Communications Corporation

Sony America, has officially formed a new company – Sony Space Communications Corporation (“SSC”) – to better enable space optical communications for micro satellites. The problem the company is addressing is that while the amount of data used in orbit is increasing every year (with ever more satellites in space) the amount of available radio ...

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