Seeing this Toshiba motor drive, my first thought was ‘what a neat chip for pairing with an Arduino’ as it combines operation across 1.8 to 7V with up to 4A drive – so that is Li-ion batteries, 5V USB and 4xAA cells all covers, but sadly not 7.2V remote-control model battery packs. It is an …

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RS Component’s DesignSpark Mechanical v4 couldn’t have come at a better time as I my fledgling knowledge of 3D printing had just extended to understanding that my cheap 2nd-hand printer needed a bit more cooling to make the printing filament set quicker – known as ‘part cooling’. The cooling duct on the right does not …

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High-performance chips can be designed to fail early, or can be physically attacked using high workloads, according to Washington State University, whose research team damaged an on-chip comms network by deliberately adding malicious workload. Led by engineers Partha Pande (left) and Janardhan Rao Doppa, the team has been exploring chip vulnerabilities as a way to prevent malicious …

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Plessey is to demo the world’s first AR/VR glasses powered by microLEDs at CES Plessey microLED displays deliver 10x resolution, 100x contrast ratio, 
and up to 1,000x greater luminance than OLED technology Visitors to the Plessey booth at CES will be the first to wear AR and VR glasses powered by microLEDs. The next generation of …

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Californian gallium nitride transistor maker Transphorm has shipped over 250,000 650V GaN fets – manufactured at its Aizu wafer foundry in Japan, it revealed. The firm also said that its wafer-foundry’s 15 million parts annual capacity for 50mΩ devices could “easily” scale to 5x that volume, and that its manufacturing process can be structured to scale …

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Fibre optic connectors from Amphenol Fiber Systems International (FSI) are now available from Mouser Electronics. They are intended for use in harsh environments and the extreme temperatures and vibration conditions experienced in aerospace and military applications. The ARINC 801-qualified cylindrical fibre optic connectors are designed for avionics and aircraft networks. They are available in standard …

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The term ‘big guns’ for his approach to recruitment was coined by T.J. Rodgers, founder and CEO of Cypress Semiconductor, in his book ‘No Excuses Management’. ”I learned the importance of the ‘big-guns’ technique from Jerry Sanders at Advanced Micro Devices,” writes Rodgers, “when I was considering joining AMD, the first day I walked in …

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EMC training day – Silverstone Circuit – 28 January 2019 – Free registration

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DRAM was the fastest growing chip product in 2018, says IC Insights. The 2018 DRAM market is expected to show an increase of 39%, a solid follow-up to the 77% growth in 2017. It was also the fastest-growing IC segment in 2013 and 2014.   IC Insights forecasts that DRAM will rank nearly last in …

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How excited the pols get, Ed confides to his diary, and then the pols razz up the reptiles and together they create a huge kerfuffle which turns out to be delusional and their support illusory. What a shower. As an honorary pol – unelected but in the Cabinet and the Lords – I have a …

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