Antenova of Hatfield has introduced a miniature antenna for global navigation systems (GNSS) such as GPS.

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Comfort for all those ARM guys trembling at the anticipation of rule from Tokyo comes from SiTime’s CEO Rajesh Vashist. SiTime was bought by the Japanese company MegaChips in 2014. As with SoftBank and ARM, MegaChips knew nothing about SiTime’s business. This may have contributed to SiTime being left to its own devices. “We run …

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At last, I have got sound out of Allo’s Raspberry Pi-compatible Vana hi-fi system, which I am running on Allo’s own RasPi clone, called Sparky. Oh my word it took some time (read more further down). The important thing is: it sounds marvellous though my Mordaunt Short MS902 bookshelf speakers, a gift from a friend …

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Shanghai Huali Microelectronics (HLMC), the foundry company majority-owned by Shanghai’s local government, is to build a second fab, reports Digitimes. The fab is expected to start running 28nm wafers in 2018 and be capable, when fully equipped, of running 40k wpm. HLMC’s Fab 1 is a 35k wpm fab running 65nm, 55nm, 40nm and 28nm …

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Lumileds has delivered new high- and mid-power LEDs for horticultural lighting including a phosphor-converted purple LED that mixes the blue and red wavelengths critical for photosynthesis in a single emitter.

French company SUEZ Ventures has acquired a 22% minority share in biogas recovery firm Prodeval…

A five year Groundwater Quality report has been used to show Hawke’s Bay aquifer systems are suitable for drinking water supply…

The Thomaston plant was presented this award for successfully completing the self-assessment and peer review phase of the Partnership program.

Want a teardown of the new Apple Watch Series 2 and Apple iPhone 7? Step forward iFixit.

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I could have sworn I had put this circuit on the blog before, but having failed to find it, here it is, possibly again. I have combined op-amps and mosfets to make high-current sinks, and had mixed results, sometimes making oscillators. The error I have discovered (see diagram below), is to simply connect the op-amp …

Read full article: The right way to do a current sink