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3D-printed solutions for electronics protection
With the help of 3D printing techniques, researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) are “packaging” electronics with printable elastomeric silicone foams to provide both mechanical and electrical protection of sensitive componentsElectrostatic discharge (ESD) protection is a significant concern in the chemical...
AI vision implemented on edge MCUs using Nvidia TAO demonstrated
Alif Semiconductor® and Edge Impulse have announced a significant breakthrough in implementing AI vision processing on edge microcontrollers (MCUs), through the introduction of full support for the Nvidia TAO model training toolkit on the Ensemble® and Balletto™ MCU families and the Edge...
Digital special edition covers electronics 2024
As the world’s leading electronics innovators and companies gather for electronica 2024 in Munich this week, Elektor and eeNews Europe have published a special digital edition to showcase of the strengths of both publications. Both eeNews and Elektor are at the show...
ADI buys Flex Logix embedded FPGA assets
Flex Logix has sold its embedded FPGA assets to Analog Devices (ADI), which has also hired the technical team.Flex Logix had been selling its low power EFLX and InferX embedded FPGA IP for artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) designs, having also...
Magnetic octupoles overcome problems with antiferromagnets
Physicists at RIKEN have demonstrated how ultrafast, low-power-consumption memory devices could be realized by replacing conventional magnetic materials with novel onesIn conventional hard disk drives, the magnetic disk has to be physically moved to read to and write from the disk. This...
ModusToolbox to simplify motor control development
Infineon Technologies has launched a suite of software, tools and resources for developing, configuring and monitoring motor control applications using the triple core XMC7000 controller with PSoC support coming.The Infineon ModusToolbox Motor Suite supports industrial, robotics, and consumer applications such as home...
Innoscience comes out fighting after US trade judgement
The US ITC trade regulator has ruled against Innoscience of China in an ongoing patent dispute with EPC over gallium nitride (GaN) chips.The ITC ruling will see certain GaN power chips from Innoscience banned from the US. However the company is set...
UK chip designer FTDI forced to sell China stake
Future Technology Devices International (FTDI) in Glasgow is being forced to sell an 80% stake in the company owned by a Chinese company.The UK government has ordered the sale of the 80.2% stake held by Feite Holdings, a division of Beijing Jianguang...
IO-Link transceiver has integrated oscillator
Orca Semiconductor has announced its second product an IO-Link communications transceiver for industrial applications. The part is numbered OS2000.The OS2000 can be used in either IO-Link master or device applications and features two control interface options: I2C or GPIO (general input output)....
Europe is sinking in a buoyant global chip market
Europe is the only region in the world where chip sales were lower in 3Q24 than in the same quarter a year before, according to numbers published by the Semiconductor Industry Association.The global chip market was worth US$55.32 billion in the three-month...
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