We’ve all done new stuff to get through the pandemic and for Sir Robin Saxby, founding CEO of Arm, it’s been writing and performing a song about the social effects of the virus. It’s called ‘Whoever Has A Friend’. “I wrote the words when reflecting on the idea that it only takes one real friend …

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Onsemi is aiming at 80 Plus Titanium efficiency in server PSUs as well as telecoms with a 600V power mosfet family called 600V Superfet V. “80 Plus Titanium certification requires server and data storage hardware to deliver 90% power efficiency levels in 10% load conditions, and 96% efficiencies when dealing with 50% loads,” said company general manger …

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SolidRun has announced system-on-modules built around Texas Instrument’s AM64x processor family with precise real-time processing and application processing for industrial IoT and industrial machinery applications. For application processing and running operating systems there is a dual core Arm Cortex-A53, then up to four Cortex-R5F cores for real-time computing, servo control and functional safety. On top of …

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Power Integrations is aiming at appliance and industrial auxiliary PSUs up to 21W with a 725V off-line constant-voltage constant-current fly-back switching IC. Called InnoSwitch3-TN, “our new devices support the high output current needed in smart-connected appliances at efficiencies of up to 90%, compared to traditional approaches such as buck regulators,” said Power Integrations marketing manager Silvestro Fimiani. “InnoSwitch3-TN …

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The European Space Agency (ESA) has contracted Airbus to design and build the exoplanet satellite Ariel (Atmospheric Remote-sensing Infrared Exoplanet Large-survey). Following Cheops, which launched in 2019, and Plato, scheduled for launch in 2026, Ariel will be the third dedicated ESA exoplanet mission. It is planned for launch in 2029 and will study the composition …

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Melexis, the Belgian automotive IC specialist, has  its latest development kits (DVKs) for current sensor IC evaluation. These DVKs give engineers a real preview of each IC’s features in their own design. Melexis has introduced two new development kits. They enable engineers to study the functional capabilities of Melexis current sensor ICs, thereby shortening customer …

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The IC market will grow 26% this year and 11% next year, says IC Insights as it celebrates the 25th anniversary of its McLean Report. Figure 1 shows the 1Q/4Q IC market direction indicator that IC Insights developed 24 years ago. The figure is labeled as a “direction indicator” because the actual 1Q/4Q change does …

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Today, the government is announcing plans to phase out 2G and 3G mobile networks by 2033 and facilitate multi-vendor O-RAN networks taking 35% of the network by 2030. The announcement follows the ban on Huawei equipment from 5G networks and the recent introduction of the Telecommunications Security Act.  The government has agreed with the UK …

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Following its created in April this year, the Open Source FPGA Foundation was at DAC (Design Automation Conference) to advocate for innovation with open source tools and wrestle control from what has been a largely unchanged FPGA space for 30 years. The fledging non-profit foundation has over 20 members from academia and more than 1,000 …

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Segger has added support for 64bit Risc-V to Embedded Studio. Covering CPUs including RV64I, RV64E and RV64GC with a floating-point unit, it comes integrated with emRun C/C++ runtime and emFloat floating-point libraries, the Segger Linker and Compiler. The GNU compiler and linker are also included. “64bit embedded systems are gaining popularity with faster chips and …

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