Ipswich and Cambridge-based mobile application and software development company Coderus has become a Microsoft Silver Application Development Certified Partner and has also been awarded ISO 9001 certification. The ISO certification defines international standards for quality and control. Coderus started a 6-month process in December 2015 to achieve the 2015 edition of the ISO 9001 certification. …
Aluminium electrolytic capacitors handle higher ripple currents
Panasonic Automotive & Industrial Systems says its latest aluminium electrolytic capacitors are designed for higher ripple current handling. The V-TC and V-TCU series capacitors have from 1.2 to 1.5 times higher ripple current capabilities at 125°C, says the supplier. The specifications are for the V-TC series 300mA for D8 can size up to 750mA for …
Aluminium electrolytic capacitors handle higher ripple currents
PCI test boards get differential serial interfaces
Pickering Interfaces has expanded its range of PCI Fault Insertion switching with the introduction of two new modules (models 50-200 and 50-201) designed for use with differential serial interfaces. The test boards can be used in different platforms by offering fault insertion in different form factors (PXI and PCI) with the same options. The PCI …
ST’s Cortex-M4F MCUs get bigger ecosystem
STMicroelectronics has introduced a development system for its STM32L4 MCUs. The embedded ecosystem comprises the STM32CubeMX initialisation-code generator and configurator with a power estimation capability. The STM32CubeL4 package also contains middleware components, Nucleo-32 Board-Support Package (BSP), Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL), and Low-Layer APIs (LLAPIs). The NUCLEO-L432KC board integrates an MCU in a QFN32 package and …
VCO made from graphene, TaS2 and BN 2D materials
US researchers have made a voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) using graphene and two other two-dimensional materials: tantalum sulphide and boron nitride. This is the first useful device that exploits charge-density wave modulation of current through a 2D material, claims the University of California Riverside, which worked with the University of Georgia. Graphene can conducts electrons rapidly, but …
What are the most valuable video games in the world?
One sign that you are getting old? Games that you played in your youth now have antique value. And we are even talking video games!
Stealth Comms from the WWI trenches
It comes from our Engineer in Wonderland blog – see Stealth comms 100 years ago, in the trenches of World War One – and was sparked by a recent BBC Radio 4 play mentioning phones in WWI in passing.
10Gbit/s wireless link in London
RF Com is to demonstrate a 10Gbit/s point-to-point wireless link across London in August, using millimetre-wave equipment from microwave firm Elva-1. Intended for 4G and LTE telecoms back-haul, the link can also bridge fibre-optic cables across rivers and sensitive areas like historic town centres, RF Com MD Ian Cains told Electronics Weekly. Corporate campus networks, IPTV, …
When M&A Was Creative
Sometimes you’d think semiconductor M&A is a new idea but there’ve been acquisition sprees before and sometimes for better reasons than the financially motivated buy-and-sack acquisitions of recent times. Back in 2005, Intersil was consolidating after a spree by putting its money into new product development. The spree saw Intersil buying Elantec in 2002, followed …
After a small hiccup, Osram completes legal carve-out of LEDvance lamps group
LEDvance is still part of Osram for now, but is officially a separate entity from the chips, smart lighting, and automotive portion of the technology company.