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Intel runs authentication on FPGA-based processors

Intel plans to add authentication and data protection security capabilities to its FPGA-based development boards for IoT designs. Intel’s DE10-Nano development board is now supported by an SDK from SecureRF with tech support for authenticating remote devices with a Cyclone V FPGA. As an alternative to ECC authentication techniques security algorithms offered by SecureRF, such ...

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Samsung, Intel and Hynix invest in firm for nanoscale chip processes

Samsung, Hitachi and SK Hynix join Intel in investing in a Nevada-based start-up company developing production systems for advanced node semiconductor manufacturing. Reno Sub-Systems develops semiconductor manufacturing systems for nanoscale IC processes. These include RF matching networks, RF power generators and gas delivery systems. The company has closed its Series C funding which was led by ...

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Philips and IQE to make lasers a mass-market product by 2022

Philips Photonics and UK-based IQE are aiming to manufacture semiconductor lasers in mass production at cost levels equivalent to the manufacture of LEDs. Philips has completed a €23m project to create a production line for vertical cavity surface emitting lasers (VCSELs) for volume photonics applications such as data communications and lighting. The three year project, ...

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Cypress, Murata and Future join in $99 IoT dev board

Future Electronics is selling an IoT development kit which costs $99. Developed with suppliers Cypress Semiconductor and Murata, the Nebula board is an IoT cloud ready board for prototype development. Wireless connectivity comes from the Murata 1DX module, which integrates the Cypress CYW4343W Wi-Fi and BT/BLE combo SoC. This includes a 2.4 GHz WLAN IEEE ...

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Xilinx invests in high-end programmable chip start-up

Xilinx has invested in a California-based start-up developing high performance programmable chip platforms. The five year old firm is called Efinix and is also being backed by Hong Kong X Technology Fund (HKX), and Samsung Electronics’ investment arm in a $9.5m funding round. Efinix has developed a programmable chip-level platform, it calls Quantum, which it says ...

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Oxford signs microscope probe deal with Chinese tech firm

Oxford Instruments NanoScience has signed a technology collaboration agreement with a Chinese firm to jointly develop high precision scanning probe microscopes (SPM). The UK firm will work with CASmF Science and Technology (CASmF) to apply its superconducting magnet system known as TeslatronPT, to  a physical probe that scan 2D materials, nano-structures and superconductivity. Dr Junyun ...

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Expanding silicon IP firm opens HQ in Plymouth

Moortec, the developer of silicon IP for monitoring chip performance, has opened a new UK headquarters on the Plymouth Science Park. Moortec’s IP monitors on-chip parameters such as process, voltage and temperature (PVT) in CMOS devices fabbed on 40nm down to 7nm process technologies. In this way designers can optimise chip performance. Ramsay Allen, v-p ...

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Vicor adds 20A device to 48V buck regulators

Vicor has extended its Cool-Power range of 48V buck regulators with a 20A output device. The PI352x range of 20A devices as to the existing 10A 48VIN PI354x products. The PI3523 is a 48VIN, 3.3VOUT nominal buck regulator capable of supplying up to 22A. This family of regulators enables 48VIN to 20A point-of-load voltages spanning ...

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Comment: Lorry convoys are the beginning of a long road-trip

The technology driving the move towards autonomous vehicles will change more than just cars and lorries, writes Richard Wilson. The government’s ambitious plan to explore the running of convoys of semi-autonomous lorries on UK motorways took everyone by surprise. Not least because autonomous vehicle technology is still very much in the development phase. So can ...

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SnapEDA part models can be searched in PCB123 design tool

An internet parts library for printed circuit board design has now been adapted so that it can be searched inside the PCB123 design environment of Sunstone Circuits, the US-based design tool firm. These are the models created by SnapEDA and they conform to the latest IPC standards (IPC-7351B). This is intended to help PCB designers in ...

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