US global science and technology company Danaher Corporation has been suggested as a potential buy for GE’s water business…

SCS Engineers was selected to provide on-call services for capital improvement projects at the Riverside Regional Water Quality Control Plant.

Texas Instruments has introduced what it claims are the industry’s first precision nano-power op amps. LPV811 consumes 450nA (typ) and offers 370µV (max, +/-60μV typ) offset, while offset in the dual LPV812 is 300µV. If more offset can be tolerated, there are even lower current versions – see below. The op-amp family is aimed at …

Read full article: Electronica: Nano-power and precision from one op-amp

Quell Corporation has improved attenuation in its flexible EMI filters with the introduction of a ‘+’ version of its EESeal range. EESeal+ has EMC filter components embedded into a silicone rubber, made to match the size, shape and pin configuration of the connector to be filtered. Transient suppressors can also be included. “EESeal+ technology has lower …

Read full article: Electronica: inserts cut EMI and transients

Renesas and Intersil are an almost perfect strategic fit, says Renesas CEO Bunsei Kure. “Only 6% of Intersil’s sales are in Japan, Intersil has nothing in logic while 75% of Renesas’ business is in logic, and Renesas is strong in automotive while Intersil is strong in industrial,” says Kure. Owning a US analogue company is …

Read full article: Electronica: Renesas invests big in driverless cars

Renesas Electronics and Escrypt, part of Bosch, are to create high-level hardware-software security for protecting automotive electronic control units (ECUs). It consists of Renesas’ RH850/P1x-C series of automotive safety microcontrollers with Escrypt’s CycurHSM security software stack. The MCUs combine: functional safety, security, and vehicle control networking. “In the autonomous-driving era, in-vehicle infotainment, vehicle-to-vehicle [V2V], and …

Read full article: Renesas teams up for better automotive security

The driverless car thing has caught the world’s imagination and is especially beloved of governments who seem to believe that it is the panacea to many of the headaches associated with human drivers – crashes, excessive road construction, medical expenses, demands on police time, demands on emergency services, pedestrian casualties, noise, pollution etc. But you …

Read full article: A Technologist’s View On The Feasibility Of autonomous Cars

RS Components has created an on-line tool that can help OEMs and product developers to manage obsolescence and plan for when end-of-life (EOL) notices are placed on parts. “Each year thousands of individual parts and components reach the end of their lifecycle and become obsolete. EOL notices can lead to substantial costs, as it means …

Read full article: RS Components manages obsolescence on-line

Everspin showed off a wafer of 1Gbit MRAMs made on GloFo’s 28nm process at Electronica. The technology has been scaling at 18 months per generation and is set to scale further. It went from a 90nm 64Mbit currently in production to a 40nm 256Mbit which is sampling to this 1Gbit which has just got into …

Read full article: Everspin and GloFo to put embedded MRAM on SoCs

The long-held industry dream of the universal memory is not the way the industry is actually going – instead the memory business is fragmenting into a horses-for-courses diversity. “Everyone is looking for a universal memory but it’s more like the world is going for specialty memories – phase change, resistive RAM, nano-RAM – there’s not …

Read full article: The Universal Memory Dream Dies