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The Civil Service is planning a review of the telecoms networks, Ed confides to his diary, and you can bet your life it’ll be highly critical of the service. Normally I’d be all in favour – the networks are a disgrace – but there’s a chance I can do rather well out of this for …

Read full article: Ed Throws A Spanner In The Works

Samsung and Apple were the two best customers of the semiconductor industry last year, says Gartner, followed by Dell, Lenovo, Huawei, Hap, HPE, Sony, BBK and LG. “This is the sixth consecutive year that Samsung Electronics and Apple have topped the semiconductor consumption table,” says Gartner’s Masatsune Yamaji, “while both companies continue to exert considerable …

Read full article: The IC industry’s best customers last year

How your use of power sensors and spectrum analysers can influence outcomes in RF and microwave power measurements, writes Giovanni D’Amore of Keysight Technologies.

Read full article: How to make good RF power measurements

A Raspberry Pi in the home design tutorial video from Hacker House caught my eye. It describes how to build a smartphone-connected door lock using a Raspberry Pi-powered deadbolt actuator. According to Alex Bate writing on the RaspberryPi.org blog, it can be retro-fitted to an existing lock, “so there’s no need to start pulling out the …

Read full article: Raspberry Pi unlocks doors

Changes to schematic capture and PCB layout tool Eagle have been announced by former owner Farnell.

Read full article: Eagle PCB gets first update since AutoDesk buy-out

A dual precision op amp from STMicroelectronics is designed to have a low and temperature-stable input-offset voltage. The TSZ182 op amp has a chopper-stabilised design and a 3MHz gain-bandwidth. The offset voltage of 25µV at 25°C is designed for high measurement resolution and accuracy without external trimming components. Offset drift is specified by the supplier …

Read full article: Op amp has very stable offset voltage, says STMicroelectronics

RS Components can now offer customers designing PCBs a full range of component schematic symbols and footprints which can be used with the most popular PCB layout tools.

Read full article: RS offers free PCB schematics from SamacSys

Leti, a research institute of CEA Tech, says it can produce micro-displays with the resolution needed for virtual reality headsets. The French research centre uses a proprietary self-aligned process the fabricate the blue or green GaN/InGaN µLED arrays at a 10-micron pitch and 873 x 500 resolution. Other techniques are used to provide good thermal dissipation and prevent voltage drops within the …

Read full article: Leti targets 10-micron pixel displays at VR

Virtualette V1 is an ARM-based embedded IoT computer from SRKH Designs in Sydney, designed to run Linux of Android. Intended applications are drones, robots, as peers or M2M nodes in distributed systems for security or information display. Powered by a dual-core Allwinner A20 SoC, it is a two-board stack with 8Gbyte of on-board NAND flash, …

Read full article: Dual ARM core embedded computer for Linux or Android