Toshiba has launched three quad Form-A voltage driven photorelays, claiming one of them with one of the smallest mounting areas in the industry. They are Toshiba’s first four-circuit, 4-Form-A, relays, in a 12.5mm2 (2 x 6.25 x 1.3mm) package dubbed S-VSON16T. “The area is approximately 14% less compared with the mounting area of four one-channel ...
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Energy harvesting IC company e-peas announced an Arm Cortex-M0 microcontroller at CES this week that it claims will consume only 18µA/MHz in active mode. Called EDMS105N, the 32bit 24MHz device is claimed to be “the lowest power consuming Cortex-M0 MCU to be commercially available”, said the company. Amongst the sleep states is one which draws 340nA with ...
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BWM has picked Green Hills’ software for control units in its iX all-electric vehicle. Integrity real-time operating system is used in the digital instrument cluster, head-up display, driver camera system, surround view and parking assistant. Software developers, according to Green Hills, used its Multi integrated development environment, and ASIL-qualified compilers and run-time libraries for both ...
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Kontron has announced boards and modules built around Intel’s 12th generation ‘Alder Lake-S’ Core processors. The company will “update the current mini-ITX, µATX and ATX motherboards with this new processor series, and has also selected it as the 1st platform to adopt the new PICMG COM-HPC/Client form factor as it serves best technology trends set ...
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Congatec has added Alder Lake processors, Intel’s 12th generation of Core CPUs, to its COM-HPC and COM Express computer-on-module ranges. They come in COM-HPC Size A and C, and COM Express Type 6 forms. The processors offer of up to 14 cores/20 threads in BGA packaging or 16 cores/24 threads in LGA desktop variants, with ...
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Microchip Technology has announced its next-generation in-circuit emulator for its microcontrollers and microprocessor, including Atmel-created parts such as AVR and SAM. Called MPLAB ICE 4, it connects with a host via SuperSpeed USB 3.0, High-Speed USB 2.0, Ethernet or Wi-Fi. “Ethernet connectivity provides remote debugging for applications which are monitored over long distance. Further, Wi-Fi connectivity is ...
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Silanna Semiconductor has released a 33W charger reference design built around its SZ1131 and silicon power FETs. This follows a larger 65W design released last year. The active clamp fly-back design, called RD-23, “provides a route to delivering performance that matches or exceeds that of commercially available 30W GaN-based chargers at a cost more readily associated with ...
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IBM revealed vertical FET CMOS logic at a sub-45nm gate pitch on bulk silicon wafers at the IEEE International electron devices meeting in San Francisco this week. IBM’s VTFET with a vertical channel (yellow) and gate-all-around (blue). Contacts are brown and the white line shows current flow. It calls them VTFETs, for vertical transport FETs, and ...
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Smartphones can be 85% accurate in identifying who is carrying them, merely by detecting motion as the person walks around normally, according to the University of Plymouth. This rises to almost 90% if they walk fast. The trial had 44 participants, aged between 18 and 56, each carrying a phone in a belt pouch for 7 ...
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Georgia Tech has developed a general-purpose MMIC (monolithic microwave IC) for the direct filtering and processing of microwave and millimeter-wave signals. The aim is to reduce radio power consumption by swapping some digital signal processing elements for reconfigurable analogue processing blocks. “High-speed digitisation blocks targeting microwave frequencies are expensive and consume a lot of power,” ...
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