We’re very happy to announce that the IET’s Isabella Mascarenhas has agreed to join the selection panel for EW BrightSparks.
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900V 10mΩ SiC mosfet for electric vehicle motors
Wolfspeed has introduced a 900V, 10mΩ mosfet rated for 196A (case=25°C) for electric vehicles. Four of the devices were used recently in a research project with Ford and the US DoE to create a 400A all-SiC module with 2.5mΩ on-resistance. “Wolfspeed engineers have since demonstrated the capability to use these chips to create an 800A, …
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Panasonic, Silver Spring set to really push street lights beyond illumination in Denver. Really.
Many IoT street lighting projects deliver smart lighting but little else for now. This one could actually soon monitor air, park cars, transmit Wi-Fi, and more.
Amazon RDS Receives FedRAMP High Baseline P-ATO from the JAB
Amazon Relational Database Service has received a Provisional Authority to Operate (P-ATO) at the FedRAMP High Baseline within the AWS GovCloud (US) region for the Amazon RDS for MySQL, Oracle and PostgreSQL services.
E-Ink develops 42inch e-paper white board
E-Ink has brought out a 42-inch e-paper display which is to be marketed as a giant e-reader. The 42 inch display is to be marketed in a Connected eWriter (interactive white board) product called Quilla p, co-developed by E-ink and Quirk Logic of Canada. The eWriter has a height-width ratio of 4:3, dual-input via touch …
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Samsung’s sparkling Q4
Recovering from the Galaxy Note 7 disaster which delivered a $2.1 billion hit to Q3 profits, Samsung has forecast a stellar Q4 up 50% on Q4 2016 with an operating profit of $7.8 billion on sales which were down 0.6% to $44 billion. Half the profits are thought to have come from the semiconductor business …
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Memory to drive IC market for next five years
Memory chips are expected to show the strongest growth rate among major IC market categories during the next five years with a CAGR of 7.3% to $109.9 billion in 2021 from $77.3 billion in 2016, says IC Insights’ 20th anniversary McClean Report 2017. The report separates the total IC market into four major product categories: …
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Strong hollow graphene proposed by MIT
Flakes of graphene can be compressed into a strong light material according to a team at MIT. “Researchers until now have had a hard time translating that two-dimensional strength into useful three-dimensional materials,” said MIT. “Findings show that the crucial aspect of the new 3-D forms has more to do with their unusual geometrical configuration …
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ARM trusted cores get Lauterbach debug support
ARMv8-M processor cores including the Cortex-M23 and Cortex-M33 cores, are now supported by Lauterbach with its TRACE32 debug tools. These are small footprint cores with similar performance to the existing Cortex-M3/M4 processors. ARM Cortex-M23 and Cortex-M33 are the first embedded processors based on the ARMv8-M architecture, bringing ARM TrustZone to the most constrained IoT nodes. Cortex-M33 features configuration options …
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How good PCB design works for IoT
The latest design and manufacturing techniques mean that not only does a PCB mechanically support multiple electronic components as substrates, but it also electronically connects them through conductive paths to achieve specific functions as designed, writes C. T. Kao. It is inevitable that the interaction among electrical, mechanical, and thermal behaviours, due to the integration of conductive …
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