Here are the top ten most popular articles on ElectronicsWeekly.com in the last week, with the Raspberry Pi Pixel desktop UI, Stratix 10, Osram headlights and PC sales all figuring prominently… Taking it in reverse order as always: 10. Pi gets a new Pixel desktop 9. Wishy-Washy Chancellor 8. Raspberry Pi 3 becomes Hi-Fi audio player with …

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Packaging giant Avery Dennison has made a significant investment in UK-based flexible transistor technology firm, PragmatIC. The investment by Avery Dennison, which also develops radio frequency identification (RFID) technology, was part of a £18m funding round which also included existing shareholders Cambridge Innovation Capital (CIC) and ARM. This investment in PragmatIC is expected to accelerate the mass deployment …

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Aiming at silicon carbide power converters in avionics, Beta Transformer Technology (BTTC) has combined both gate power and gate signal transformers in a single package. Isolation in excess of 2.5kVdc is claimed, as is low parasitic capacitances in order to support the fast transients typical of SiC converters – up to 50kV/µs. Developed with Belgian …

Read full article: Combined gate magnetics for silicon carbide power in avionics

The founder of Canon, Takeshi Mitarai, was a doctor, specialising in gynaecology. “He didn’t know much about business and he didn’t care much about money,” according to his son. However Mitarai did care that “the microscopes we used at school were made in Germany.” “I thought that this kind of business was right for Japan,” …

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Xilinx says it has reached a significant production milestone for its 16nm UltraScale+ FPGAs ahead of schedule. “Less than a year after first ship of all devices, open order entry for production devices is available this quarter,” said the company. Xilinx  UltraScale+ FPGA family is a FinFET-based programmable technology which is now available at 14nm or 16nm process nodes. …

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Silicon Radar of Frankfurt introduces development kits for its GHz CMOS radar MMICs, which are built using SiGe or SiGe:C from IHP.

Read full article: On-chip radar development kits stretch to 122GHz

Google has made Android Studio v2.2 available for download, the company’s official development environment for building Android apps.

Read full article: Android Studio builds in LTE emulation for Nougat

The new nLightAIR works with luminaires equipped with Acuity LED drivers, allowing users to program lighting schemes in commercial buildings.

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