Osram is revealing laser spotlights and other stage lighting technology at Prolight+Sound 2016 in Frankfurt this week. Basing the laser-based spotlights on work done for laser-based car headlights and medical endoscopes, the spotlights can deliver up to 18,000 lm. “In 2014 Osram received the R&D 100 Award for the development of the Itos Phaser 3000 …
Grim and Gloomy
Chip market forecasting is not what it used to be. In days gone by, even top ten semi CEOs could differ by 100% on something so fundamental as the size of the total semiconductor market. In October 1995, the Chairman of Philips Semiconductors said that the 2000 market could be “nearer $400 billion than $350 …
Mentor combines PCB signal and power integrity design
Mentor Graphics has announced a new release of its HyperLynx signal integrity design tool which now integrates signal and power integrity analysis and 3D-electromagnetic solving for PCB design. The aim, says Mentor, is to speed up complex PCB design by removing the need to switch between applications and user interfaces for different types of analysis. …
502IoT Raspberry Pi add-on promises to be a professional sensor hub
Raspberry Pi add-ons are often popular, and here is one for increased I/O. It’s created by Pi 2 Design, “to deliver on the promise of the ‘Internet of Things’ for real world projects,” they say. Basically, the 502IoT is designed to help create a low cost, sensor hub, data collection, data storage or gateway device. Supporting “access to …
502IoT Raspberry Pi add-on promises to be a professional sensor hub
Top 10 (+15) Best Paying Jobs In USA
Thanks to Glassdoor for this one – the top 25 best paid jobs in the USA.
Marvell Co-Founders Ousted From Management Roles
The most famous couple in tech have been ousted. Weili Dai and Suhat Sutardja who founded Marvell in 1995 with Suhat’s brother Pantas, have been fired from their jobs as President and CEO respectively. Sutardja remains as Chairman and both of them remain on the board. The move is reminiscent of how George and Gust …
Cadence addresses complex analogue designs for IoT
Cadence Design Systems has addressed verification of complex analogue IC designs with its latest Virtuoso platform. This is a recognition of the growing importance of analogue and mixed chip design for data gatheirng nodes which are part of the internet of things (IoT). The tool’s Analogue Design Environment (ADE) will be used for advanced-node designs …
Isolated current sensor uses Hall effect
Allegro Microsystems has introduced isolated differential current sensor ICs based on the Hall effect. Accuracy is typically +/-1% from 25 to 125°C, and +/-3% from -40 to +25°C. Both the ACS724KMA (4.5-5.5V) and the ACS725KMA (3.0-3.6V) are available in 10.3 x 10.3mm SOIC16 wide body packages. Inside there is a chopper-stabilised BiCMOS Hall sensor circuit …
Intel’s Italian safety acquisition targets industrial IoT
Intel is taking a growing interest in the markets for industrial internet of things (IoT) applications in smart factories and connected vehicles. The processor firm has acquired Yogitech, a small Italian company that’s expert in semiconductor functional safety and related standards. Intel’s Ken Caviasca, general manager of platform engineering and development in Intel’s IoT group, …
Now improve your machine learning model quality with data shuffling in Amazon Machine Learning
You now have the ability to shuffle your training data with Amazon Machine Learning (Amazon ML) for improved ML model quality. Amazon ML creates better ML models when input rows are presented to the ML algorithm in a random order. With this new training parameter option, you can have Amazon ML shuffle the order of the rows of your training data. Data shuffling will be turned on by default in the Amazon ML console when you create an ML model. You can control this option through the console, or turn data shuffling on through the API and SDK.