Launched back in January 2021, the tiny but powerful $4 Raspberry Pi Pico (built on the RP2040) was missing one feature for IoT: a method for connecting to the network…
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Greed, Welfare, Extortion Or Vital To The US National Interest?
Senator Bernie Sanders called the US Chips Act ‘corporate greed’. Robert Reich, the Secretary of Labour in President Clinton’s Cabinet calls it ‘corporate welfare’ and ‘pure extortion’. Reich points out that Intel had $79 billion in revenue last year (with a 54% gross margin)and paid its CEO $179 million. Moreover the US chip industry has 47%world …
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The Difference Between 2dB And 18dB Of Treble Boost
61 years ago, this rather droll ad appeared in Electronics Weekly’s edition of January 18 1961:
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Harwin adds to Datamate range
Harwin has announced an addition to its Datamate family of 2mm-pitch high-reliability (Hi-Rel) connectors. The Datamate pin-in-hole reflow (PIHR) products have been engineered to give designers a reliable solution that is highly suited to automated assembly. Part of the company’s Datamate L-Tek series, these connectors feature a locking latch. Compared to the standard Datamate connectors, …
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Melexis launches 2mm x 2.5mm pico-resolver
Melexis has launched the MLX90381 AEC-Q100/ISO 26262 compliant pico-resolver for industrial and automotive applications. Its DFN-6 (2 mm x 2.5 mm) package enables sensored mechatronic miniaturization. This ASIL-ready solution is programmable at module level and is best suited to rotor position detection. This device combines the advantages of a small outline and reliable analog outputs …
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EW BrightSparks 2022 profile: Virginia Cangelosi
Now in its fifth year of awards, EW BrightSparks sees Electronics Weekly partner with RS Grass Roots to highlight the brightest and most talented young engineers in the UK today. Here, in our series on the latest EW BrightSparks of 2022, we highlight Virginia Cangelosi, an Electrical and Electronics Engineering Student at the University of Edinburgh. …
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Imec direct-digitisation readout design enables small, low-noise, low-power neural interfaces
Inec has presented a scalable neural readout IC featuring one of the world’s smallest recording channels for the simultaneous acquisition of local field potentials and action potentials in neurophysiology experiments. The chip is based on a novel AC-coupled 1st order delta-delta-sigma (Δ-ΔΣ) architecture that enables the conversion to the digital domain very close to the weak …
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UKRI funding boost for semiconductor R&D at National Epitaxy Facility
The National Epitaxy Facility, a collaboration between the Universities of Sheffield, Cambridge and UCL for semiconductor R&D, has been awarded a further £12 million in funding. The funding, from UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), is to enable semiconductor research and development, in both UK academia and industry, over the next five years. Sheffield University says …
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ABB and CERN partner to study electric motor energy savings
CERN and ABB are to study electric motor energy use at CERN, and will publish the results for public use. ABB described the project as “non-commercial” and said that it will demonstrate how data insight and service expertise can be applied to make better decisions about saving energy and increasing reliability at large-scale research facilities. …
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DSP IP for radar, lidar and comms
Cadence has unveiled intellectual property for two DSP, aimed at asics for radar, lidar and communications processing. Called ConnX 110 and ConnX 120, the blocks share the instruction set of the existing ConnX B10 and B20 DSPs. The 110 version offers 128bit SIMD for math operations based on 8, 16 and 32bit fixed-point and half-, …
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