Silica lathes will make industry turn, says government minister
The government is investing in research for the use of photonics in a range of advanced component manufacturing technologies. This is part of an important advanced manufacturing technology research programme which will incorporate research centres at the universities of Southampton and Sheffield, and Brunel University in London which will lead research into liquid metal engineering. ...
Manufacturer makes cuts in Scotland
Plexus has announced plans to reduce capacity at its Livingston manufacturing site in Scotland. Fifty jobs will be affected by the reduction. It is the volume manufacturing capacity at the Pyramids Business Park which is affected. Plexus said it will maintain its rapid prototyping capabilities and Livingston Design Centre which are also based within the ...
Manufacturer makes cuts in Scotland
Plexus has announced plans to reduce capacity at its Livingston manufacturing site in Scotland. Fifty jobs will be affected by the reduction. It is the volume manufacturing capacity at the Pyramids Business Park which is affected. Plexus said it will maintain its rapid prototyping capabilities and Livingston Design Centre which are also based within the ...
Bell Labs demonstrates super fast optical technology for 5G
Bell Labs, the research arm of Alcatel-Lucent has demonstrated an optical fibre communications technology which it says has the potential to increase today’s 10 to 20 Terabit-per-second fibre capacities to Petabit-per-second capacity – the equivalent of 1,000 Terabits/s. With the comms market moving to 5G wireless technology, Bell Labs estimates that, within about a decade ...
Freescale Cortex-A7 module is designed for easy plug in
The efus A7UL module from Manhattan Skyline is built around a Freescale i.MX 7Ultralite processor which is based on a ARM Cortex-A7 core. There are Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, CAN, USB, SPI and I2C interfaces and an interface for a touch display. According to the supplier, the efus 47 x 62mm form factor is designed to simplify ...
Cypress adds more ARM Cortex microcontrollers
Cypress Semiconductor has added to its ARM Cortex microcontroller offering with new M0+ and M4 parts. There are two new series of FM0+ microcontrollers, the S6E1B-Series and S6E1C-Series, which have more memory and new peripherals. The S6E1B-Series has been tuned for secure machine-to-machine (M2M) communication designs and the S6E1C-Series is optimised for wearables. There is ...
Clock distribution IC has 3 independent outputs
Linear Technology has introduced a 1.8GHz clock distribution IC with three independent outputs, each with its own divider and phase delay. The device, the LTC6954, has a jitter specification of less than 20femto-second (RMS) additive jitter over the 12kHz to 20MHz bandwidth. This minimises the noise the chip introduces when dividing and distributing its input clock. ...
What microprocessors need for military grade aerospace systems
Military grade electronic components such as FIFO, non-volatile memory, data converters, DRAM and processors can be offered over an extended temperature range or for particular environmental conditions using specialist device packaging, writes Sébastien Frasse-Sombet. As a specialist semiconductor manufacturer, e2v has worked with semiconductor companies such as Maxim, Micron, Everspin and Freescale Semiconductor to supply ...
Photometer measures LED brightness and spectrum
Pro-Lite Technology is selling a portable, touch-screen illuminance photometer from Konica Minolta. The CL-70F can be used to measure various types of light source, including LEDs. It measures the illuminance (in lux) from the light source as well as the visible spectrum (380-780nm), correlated colour temperature (CCT, Kelvin), CIE chromaticity (xy), CIE tristimulus values (XYZ), ...
Kyocera TFTs designed for automotive temperatures
Ginsbury is selling two small-format TFT display modules from Japanese display manufacturer Kyocera. The addition of a 4.2-inch and a 5.0-inch display module expands the range of TFT display modules available from Kyocera. The design of the new display modules is based on automotive specification requirements and boasts an extended operating temperature range of -30°C ...
