FTDI Chip has introduced two new board level products and a new IC to support engineers with comprehensive support when implementing USB into their embedded systems. The UMFTPD3A programmer module is designed specifically for use with the company’s development hardware and ICs containing either internal one-time programmable (OTP) memory or eFUSE logic (which are both …
Comment: Risks of buying off the internet
As purchases are increasingly made via the internet, never before has the packaging of electronic products and components, and their successful delivery through the supply chain, played such an important role in brand loyalty, writes Jean-Louis Evans of TÜV SÜD Product Service. As the delivery environment can be quite harsh, if a product or its packaging …
Enter the 1,000 core processor chip
KiloCore is a thousand core processor whose 621 million transistors execute 1.78 trillion instructions per second. Designed with an emphasis on low power operation by engineers at the University of California, the chip was fabricated by IBM on 32nm CMOS, and was revealed at the Symposium on VLSI Technology and Circuits in Honolulu. “To the best of …
ADI optical sensor for gesture recognition
ADI has announced an optical sensor for gesture recognition, which improves sensing accuracy and reliability by measuring a subject’s position, proximity, and gestures from a single sensor. Solutions requiring multiple sensors are often inaccurate, as the sensors “see” objects differently from varying angles making the signals difficult to combine. The single-point sensing used in the …
TI launches retimers
TI has introduced three retimers which enable an extended signal range over long traces, connectors and cables without degradation of signal integrity. These devices expand TI’s high-performance retimer portfolio, and support flexible, cost-optimized system design, enabling designers to speed their products to market while maintaining optimal performance. The retimers improve signal quality by removing jitter …
Top Ten Automotive IC Vendors
Thanks to IHS for this one – the top ten automotive semiconductor suppliers last year: $bn NXP 4.1 Infineon 2.7 Renesas 2.7 ST 2.0 TI 1.8 Bosch 1.5 ON 1.1 Toshiba 0.7 Micron 0.7 Sanken 0.7
Call for more support for London’s IoT start-ups
With London Technology Week taking place this week, Jim Bowes, CEO and co-founder of digital consultancy Manifesto, suggests ways London can encourage future growth in its internet of things (IoT) technology sector. The capital has been successful at attracting digital technology and software start-ups, but Bowes says more can be done to support research in …
Testing the RF circuit for IoT success
Buzzwords like Industry 4.0, the internet of things (IoT), mobile computing, and cloud computing can currently be found in many headlines in magazines. The common theme throughout is the development of RF communications systems, writes Wolfgang Bartels of Rigol Technologies. Behind all these applications you will find the technologies like LTE, 3GPP, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, ZigBee, …
RoHS updates
Be aware there was (and may still be) a missing sentence in the consolidated version of EU ROHS in the EU website.
The Big Play
As Peter Thiel’s book Zero to One points out there’s no point starting a business where there’s loads of competition. You can’t make money. Taxi-hailing apps are a business which has attracted a large number of competitors, yet Uber has raised $15 billion in backing. Don’t Uber’s backers realise that any cab company can run …