EPC has created a GaN-based USB PD 3.1 dc-dc evaluation module around one of its integrated power stages and a low-profile (3mm) inductor. Called EPC9177, the converter is intended to meet the demands of multi-port chargers and on-motherboard power conversion from 28 – 48Vin to 12 – 20Vout. The module operates at 720kHz switching frequency and …

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The UK Space Agency (UKSA) has announced £50 million of funding for UK companies to develop communication and navigation services for future missions to the Moon. It is part of the European Space Agency’s Moonlight programme, which ultimately aims to launch a constellation of satellites into orbit around the Moon, from 2028. The aim is …

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Farnell has reached a new distribution agreement with Gateworks to stock rugged, industrial specification SBCs. The Gateworks family of SBCs is an important addition to Farnell’s portfolio as Gateworks products are suitable for use in rugged conditions. Designed from the ground up with components that can withstand shock, vibration, electrostatic discharge and transient voltages in …

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Following the collapse in memory prices, January Korean IC inventories rose 28% compared to December, reports Statistics Korea. Compared to January 2022 inventories were up 39.5%. Chip exports account for 12% of  all Korea’s exports. Factory shipments of Korean ICs fell 25.8% in January m-o-m while chip production fell 5.7%, compared with December. Although Samsung …

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Pulsiv, the Plymouth University spinout specialising in energy efficient power supplies and battery chargers, has launches a series of reference designs. Pulsiv’s OSMIUM MCUs and AC-DC front-end circuit configurations are already available and the reference designs aim  to accelerate R&D. The reference designs offer 75W (85W peak) & 100W (150W peak) output power with universal …

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Arm will go public on the New York stock exchange and not share a dual listing  with the London Stock Exchange, reports Bloomberg. UK officials from Rishi Sunak downwards have tried to persuade Masayoshi Son, chairman of Arm’s owner Softbank, to either list Arm on the LSE, or at least have a joint listing with …

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Yangtze Memory is reported to be about to get another $1.9 billion from the China government. That’s on top of the $24 billion it has got from the Chinese government already. However Yangtze has been cut off from buying US manufacturing equipment and US technical assistance and has stopped the planned facilitising of its Fab …

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Inspired by its professional range, Arduino has put dual Arm cores, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth LE and 76 IOs into its Mega form-factor. The new board is called Giga R1 WiFi, and has an Arm Cortex-M7 running at 480MHz and M4 at 240MHz, with two additional connectors for the additional IO, one of which can handle a camera. …

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Eindhoven University of Technology has made a photodiode with such low noise (<10-6mA/cm2 dark current) and wide dynamic range (<150dB), that it can optically detect a heartbeat at a distance of 1.3m. TU Eindhoven researcher Riccardo Ollearo having the pulse in his finger measured remotely by thin-film photodiode Through an unexpected photo-multiplier effect, it can …

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AWS App Runner expands availability to the AWS Asia Pacific (Singapore), AWS Europe (Frankfurt), and AWS Asia Pacific (Sydney) regions, enabling customers to build, deploy, and run containerized web applications and API services in AWS cloud, at scale, and without managing infrastructure.