Texas Instruments has unveiled a dc-dc topology, for which it is claiming industry’s highest current density: 50A/cm3, for a 12V 10A 10MHz converter. The target was to shrink a high-current dc-dc converter; and the best known path to small size is to increase switching frequency to reduce the need for large inductors and capacitors. However, …
Raspberry Pi Hi-Fi tube amp just got better
Pi 2 Design the developer behind the 503HTA, Hybrid Tube AMP/DAC is a small Hat size Raspberry Pi add-on has upgraded the design to add new features. It has added an analogue line in the 503HTA can be used to the quality of a tube amplifier more audio sources. Standard 3.5mm jack takes in up to …
GloFo Looks For 7nm Leadership
A pretty big shift could be about to happen in the semiconductor industry – IBM’s scientific prowess could be about to be unleashed on the market. GlobalFoundries is aiming to take industry process technology leadership at the 7nm node. For the first time, GloFo now reckons it can take industry process leadership using a proprietary, …
What can 10° colour space do for you?
To my shame, when I read that Osram was binning its new Solariq S 13 lighting led to the CIE2015 10° colour space, I didn’t know what the last bit of that statement meant. It turns out I am not alone, and part of the reason Osram is making this particular led is to educate …
Webinar: Combining the Power of Functional Test and Embedded System Access
Only one month to go until the first Electronics Weekly webinar – Combining the Power of Functional Test and Embedded System Access Electronics Weekly has joined forces with Goepel Electronics to discuss one of the most serious problems in the area of test, the continuous decline in physical access to the I/O pins of ICs. Across a …
Webinar: Combining the Power of Functional Test and Embedded System Access
DevBoard Watch: BeagleBone Green Wireless
Check out the new BeagleBone Green Wireless from SeeedStudio. Increasingly, dev boards come with built-in RF connectivity and the BeagleBone is following this path.
French Economics Minister Slams ST Management
ST announced a quarterly dividend of 0.06 eurocents which was 40% down on the last quarterly divi of 0.10 eurocents. Recently the French unions criticised ST management for paying out too much in divis while depriving the company of necessary investment. The dividend policy is designed to keep the share price up. Today France’s Economics …
Teasing The Credulous
When I was in Brussels yesterday, I saw a dog driving a car. It was on a video shown by Audi. “If pets can drive that’s truly autonomous driving,” cracked the Audi guy showing the vid and it made me wonder do I have a deficient sense of humour or should not Audi be showing …
Amazon Redshift improves throughput performance up to 2X
You can now get up to 60% higher query throughput (as measured by standard benchmarks TPC-DS, 3TB) in Amazon Redshift as a result of improved memory allocation, which reduces the number of queries spilled to disk. This new improvement is available in version 1.0.1056 and above. Combined with the I/O and commit logic enhancement released in version 1.0.1012, it delivers up to 2 times faster performance for complex queries that spill to disk, and queries like SELECT INTO TEMP TABLE that create temporary tables.
ITF2016: Imec presents sub-GHz LPWA radio chip
Imec and Holst Centre presented a wide-area (LPWA) multi-standard radio chip today at Imec’s annual technology forum in Brussels this morning. The new radio chip is a best-in-class product, which can operate with a lower level of power consumption than any other radio chip technology released to date for long range connectivity in sensor networks. …