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Europe provides €24 million for cloud-based chip design platform

Europe provides €24 million for cloud-based chip design platform

Norway’s Tampere University and 11 other partners have received €24 million in European Union funding to develop a “comprehensive” chip design platform available to startups and SMEs (small and medium-sized enterprises).The Design Platform consortium comprises 12 European research organizations and universities and...

Published on: January 21, 2025

SOLiTHOR appoints new CEO for solid state battery roll out

SOLiTHOR appoints new CEO for solid state battery roll out

Solid state battery material developer SOLiTHOR in Belgium has appointed a new chief executive officer as the company moves to industry adoption.Rodrigo Navarro (above) is to replace co-founder Huw Hampson-Jones in the spin out of imec as the company moves to the...

Published on: January 21, 2025

Electric vehicle market expands beyond automotive

Electric vehicle market expands beyond automotive

IDTechEx is predicting the electric vehicle market outside of automotive will be worth US$1 trillion by 2045, driving significant growth for semiconductors and battery systems. Construction equipment will see compound growth of 24.1% while marine and shipping will see growth of 16.1% says...

Published on: January 21, 2025

Step-down DC-DC converter with 220nA quiescent current

Step-down DC-DC converter with 220nA quiescent current

Nexperia has developed two families of step-down DC-DC converter with low quiescent current  and operating efficiency of over 90% for long standby times in battery applications.The NEX30606 DC-Dc converter has 16 resistor-settable output voltages from input voltages ranging from 1.8 V to 5.0 V....

Published on: January 21, 2025

Automotive full bridge DC motor driver with real-time diagnostics cuts complexity

Automotive full bridge DC motor driver with real-time diagnostics cuts complexity

STMicroelectronics has announced the VNH9030AQ integrated full-bridge DC motor driver, which is ideal for diverse automotive uses including functional-safety applications.As well as integrating advanced diagnostics, the motor driver has a dedicated pin for real-time output status that saves external circuitry and slims...

Published on: January 21, 2025

ST, GloFo suspend plan for joint wafer fab, say reports

ST, GloFo suspend plan for joint wafer fab, say reports

STMicroelectronics and GlobalFoundries have decided to shelve a €7.5 billion plan for a joint FDSOI wafer fab to be built at Crolles in France, according to reports.The prospects for the plan to make to be picked up later are said to be...

Published on: January 21, 2025

MCUs boost efficiency in motor control and power conversion

MCUs boost efficiency in motor control and power conversion

The latest family of high-performance Arm® Cortex®-M33 based microcontrollers (MCUs) from Infineon, designated PSOC™ Control, come with system design tools and software support with ModusToolbox ™ to enable developers to create high-performance, highly efficient and secured motor control and power conversion systems...

Published on: January 21, 2025

Observability tool for edge IoT software

Observability tool for edge IoT software

Percepio in Sweden has developed a tool to simplify the observability of edge IoT software during development and testing.Percepio Detect provides real-time anomaly and brittleness risk detection along with debugging insights as part of a Continuous Integration and Continuous Testing (CI/CT) process...

Published on: January 21, 2025

TASKING provides certified debugging for safety-critical applications

TASKING provides certified debugging for safety-critical applications

TASKING has introducing the winIDEA Tool Qualification Support Package (TQSP), an ISO-compliant qualification software that provides a complete ISO-compliant development workflow for safety-critical applications and provide certified debugging.TQSP enables winIDEA and the renowned BlueBox debugging tools to also be used in the...

Published on: January 21, 2025

Industrial router meets 5G and Wi-Fi 6 demand

Industrial router meets 5G and Wi-Fi 6 demand

Queclink has launched the WR310 Series, the next-generation industrial router designed to meet the growing demands of modern industrial networks.Powered by an advanced Qualcomm chipset, the WR310 industrial router series combines cutting-edge 5G SA/NSA, Wi-Fi 6, and Bluetooth technologies to deliver high-performance...

Published on: January 21, 2025