Communications Chasms can add to delays and costs in supply chains, warns Sondrel. As chip supply chains consist of a series of different subcontractors each independently doing a specific task, disconnects can easily happen between them. Unless the handover between each stage is overseen by someone who really understand the whole process, it is all …

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‘Archer .5’ is a range of 0.5mm pitch board-to-board connectors from Portsmouth-based Harwin, following on from its recent ‘Archer .8’ 0.8mm-pitch connectors. Board-to-board stack height is 8mm. “Specifically designed for applications with limited available space, Archer .5 is the perfect choice of board, stack, or PCB connector,” claimed the company. Materials are compliant with RoHS …

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The winners of the 2022 Raspberry Pi coding competition organised by PA Consulting have been announced, with schools across the UK having been challenged to solve problems using the the single-board computer. Now in its tenth year, “Saving the planet” via sustainability was the challenge, to be addressed by school children in different age groups. …

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The semiconductor industry has passed the peak of the rollercoaster market cycle and is beginning its descent, said Malcolm Penn CEO of Future Horizons  at IFS2022 in London yesterday. Although 2022 won’t be a disaster, 2023 will be, said Penn. This year the growth forecast is +6%. +10% is still possible, but so is +4%. …

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 Quanergy Systems, the LiDAR sensor specialist, says that its Optical Phased Array (OPA)  technology has a detection range of 250 metres. The range has increased 2.5 times in 15 months of development time, accelerating productisation of its S3 Series LiDAR – a solid state  sensor using a scalable CMOS silicon manufacturing process. This test was conducted …

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In semiconductor and electronic equipment manufacture, the quality control (QC) process is essential to ensuring defect-free products that meet specifications and comply with international standards. Here, manufacturers rely heavily on industrial microscopes to ensure a thorough and reliable examination. While the visual inspection needed for QC can be costly and time-consuming, advances in microscope software …

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Power Integrations announced a family of gate-driver boards for Infineon EconoDual power switching modules. The family is called Scale EV, and its first member is 2SP0215F2Q0C, designed for the EconoDUAL 900A 1,200V EconoDual IGBT half-bridge module. “Suitable for original, clone and new SiC variants, the driver targets high-power automotive and traction inverters for electric, hybrid …

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AWS GameKit is now extended to support Android, iOS, and macOS games developed with Unreal Engine. AWS GameKit, launched on March 23, 2022, gives game developers a powerful tool set to quickly and easily build AWS powered game features directly from the Unreal Editor. With today’s update, the AWS GameKit plugin for Unreal Engine now supports developers who are building games for Win 64, Android, iOS, and macOS.

Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) has increased the maximum number of file locks per NFS mount, enabling customers to use the service for a broader set of workloads that leverage high volumes of simultaneous locks, including message brokers and distributed analytics applications.

Introducing an updated and more flexible AWS Device Qualification Program (DQP) for FreeRTOS that aligns with the modular structure of the latest FreeRTOS and Long Term Support (LTS) library releases. The AWS DQP for FreeRTOS allows microcontroller (MCU) vendors to verify their integration of FreeRTOS AWS IoT libraries running on a specific MCU-based development board against AWS’s published best practices for AWS IoT Core connectivity, and against tests specified by the qualification program. Previously, to qualify their development boards, MCU vendors had to structure their projects around a fixed directory structure and repository. Now, MCU vendors have the flexibility to include only the FreeRTOS libraries directly relevant to their application, choose the project structure and repository that best use their toolchains, and run tests relevant to their board features. By using AWS IoT Device Tester for FreeRTOS, MCU vendors can run the mandatory tests specified by AWS DQP and validate their FreeRTOS ports. With this program, developers can more confidently enable connectivity for their designs knowing that the FreeRTOS ports have been validated for AWS IoT connectivity, interoperability, updateability, and improved security.