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Integrated SoC boots grid infrastructure applications
The newest additions to the C2000 Piccolo microcontroller (MCU) portfolio have been unveiled by Texas Instruments (TI). With streamlined performance, the new C2000 F28004x MCU family is optimised for power control in cost sensitive applications such as on-board chargers for Electric Vehicles (EVs), inverters for motor control, and industrial power supplies.
Race to accelerate development of silicon quantum chip
The worldwide race to create more, better and reliable quantum processors is progressing fast, as a team of TU Delft scientists led by Professor Vandersypen has realised yet again. In a neck-and-neck race with their competitors, they showed that quantum information of an electron spin can be transported to a photon, in a silicon quantum chip. This is important in order to connect quantum bits across the chip and allowing to scale up to large numb...
Miniaturisation helps atomic clocks to explore piezoelectric vibration
A research group that includes Motoaki Hara, Senior Researcher at the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT, President: Hideyuki Tokuda, Ph.D.), developed a simple miniaturised atomic clock system, which does not require a complicated frequency multiplication, as an outcome of a collaboration with Professor Takahito Ono of Tohoku University (President: Susumu Satomi) and Associate Professor Hiroyuki Ito of Tokyo In...
Low power MCU at the heart of wellness wearable
It has been revealed that Oura Health's new Oura smart ring utilises Cypress Semiconductor' PSoC 6 BLE microcontroller (MCU), which is supposedly the industry's lowest power, most flexible dual-core MCU with built-in Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) wireless connectivity. Cypress' secure PSoC 6 MCU architecture enables Oura users to track their sleep, recovery and daily activities for up to seven days with a single charge.
How can you protect intellectual property?
Two new products have been announced by Microchip, the ATECC608A CryptoAuthentication device, a secure element that allows developers to add hardware-based security to their designs, and a Security Design Partner Programme for connecting developers with third-party partners that can enhance and expedite secure designs.
RF building block integrates up and down conversion mixers
The release of the CMX975 - 2.7GHz Up/Down Converter has been announced by CML Microcircuits as it expands its RF Building Block IC range. The CMX975 is an enabler for small form factor high frequency RF transceiver designs, operating up to 2.7GHz, that require high performance and low power consumption; in a small form factor.
RTOS, stacks, middleware for RISC-V architecture
A new embOS port for the Open Source RISC-V CPU architecture has been announced by SEGGER. In addition to embOS, SEGGER offers emWin to construct user interfaces, emSSL, emSSH and emSecure to secure internet communications, cryprographic and security libraries for encryption, code signing and authentication (digital signatures), embOS/IP, emModbus, emUSB-Host and emUSB-Device communication stacks for Internet and industrial applications, and emLo...
Compact SoC module compatible with range of plug-in cards
At Embedded World 2018 in Nuremberg, Enclustra will present the Mercury+ XU1. Visitors to booth 3-210 will discover the company's fastest SoC module based on the Xilinx Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC. It accommodates six ARM cores, a Mali 400MP2 GPU, up to 4GB of fast DDR4 ECC SDRAM, numerous standard interfaces, 294 user I/Os and up to 747,000 LUT4 equivalents – all on an area smaller than a credit card.
Vision and sensor fusion processor targets ADAS applications
The S32V234 vision and sensor fusion processor from NXP Semiconductors is now being shipped by Mouser Electronics. The processor is designed to support safe computation-intensive applications in vision and sensor fusion applications, including Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS), front camera systems, pedestrian and object recognition, surround view, and machine learning.
Duo provide long-time support of AMD Geode processors
In order to provide extended life cycle support for one of the world's longest-serving x86 processors, congatec and AMD have teamed together. The result is that AMD Geode processor boards from congatec will have planned availability until the end of 2021.