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ST plans integrated automotive microcontroller line
STMicroelectronics is planning to expand its line of automotive microcontrollers as it starts shipping its Stellar devices.ST is planning automotive versions of its STM32 32bit ARM Cortex-M microcontrollers. The STM32A will be suitable for ASIL-B functional safety designs such as motor controllers...
Researchers turn low-cost RFID tags into scalable passive sensors
The rapidly growing IoT has made data more readily available and easily accessible than ever. Sensors, “smart” devices and software connect our world to the cloud, gathering information and enabling new types of data sharing and analysis. However, most of these tools...
World’s smallest two pole reed relay
Pickering in the UK is launching the industry’s smallest two pole DPST (double-pole, single-throw) reed relay for test and measurement systems.The Series 125 reed relays stack on a 5mm x 5mm pitch, achieving the highest packing density for a two-pole relay. The...
Europe lifts the lid on Corning Gorilla Glass deals
The European Commission has opened a formal investigation to assess whether Corning may have abused its dominant position as a supplier of specialist Gorilla Glass for handheld electronic devices.Corning’s Gorilla Glass is actually alkali-aluminosilicate (alkali-AS) which is particularly break-resistant used for mobile phones, tablets...
$8.6m for distributed photonic 4D radar startup
German startup Xavveo has raised $8.6m in a seed round for its photonic 4D radar technology.The distributed photonic radar sensors developed by Xavveo in Berlin can be used for selfdriving cars, industrial automation and healthcare. The round was led by imec.xpand and Vsquared...
Segger SystemView free on ADI microcontrollers
The Segger SystemView software analysis tool is now available for free on select Ultra Low Power (ULP) microcontrollers from Analog Devices (ADI).The SystemView tool is free to use on the ADI MAX78000, MAX78002, MAX32561, MAX32570, MAX32655, MAX32672, MAX32675, MAX32680, and MAX32690 microcontrollers.This...
World’s first 8.5kW AI datacentre power supply
Navitas Semiconductor has developed what it says is the world’s first 8.5 kW power supply unit (PSU) for datacentre applications.The design used both gallium arsenide (GaN) and silicon carbide (SiC) transistors in a three phase LLC topology to achieve 98% efficiency to power...
Infineon launches first Aurix TC4x chip
Infineon Technologies has launched the first member of the Aurix TC4x automotive microcontroller family with a new controller core and up to 25Mbits of flash.The multi-core Aurix TC4Dx is built on 28nm process technology at GlobalFoundries to boost performance and connectivity with...
Tessolve buys German automotive chip design house
Tessolve in India has acquired leading chip design house Dream Chip Technologies in Hannover, Germany.The Rs 400 crore (€44.1m, $47.4m) deal will see the design house transfer from Chinese ownership. Dream Chip, with 72 staff, was bought in 2020 by Goodix of...
Merging like a human: a model to help self-driving cars drive socially
Scientists at TU Delft have developed a new model that better describes human behaviour when merging into motorway traffic
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