Interface

San Francisco: At last year’s DAC, Baya Systems emerged from stealth mode. At this year’s event, the design software company announced a switch fabric technology that is claimed to enable a x100 increase in node density. NeuraScale is designed to overcome critical scaling and data movement challenges in AI infrastructure that are driving advanced SoCs and emerging 3D chiplet-based designs, ...

EBE Sensors+Motion has revised its manual handwheel rotary encoder, designed for precise adjustment of machines. Inside the encoder, called HR100, the 100 detent ‘clicks’ are created by magnetic rather than mechanical means, and position sensing is via Hall magnetic detection rather than physical contacts. Output is the traditional A-B two-phase quadrature waveform, created by a circuit with new Hall sensors ...

“The first human received an implant from Neuralink yesterday and is recovering well,” tweeted Elon Musk yesterday. “Initial results show promising neuron spike detection.” Neuralink is Musk’s electronic brain interface company, developing implants with connections to thousands of in-brain electrodes. Its goal, the company has said, is to enable people with paralysis to “directly use their neural activity to operate ...

Kvaser has created an M.2 slot compatible board that can add four CAN or CAN FD interfaces to a PC or computer Called ‘M.2 PCIe 4xCAN’ (and also 01333-9), it works with PCI Express M.2 slots with B or M keying. It has a main 22 x 80 x 2mm M.2 main board, and four smaller satellite boards (see images) ...

Chomerics is aiming its latest thermal interface gel at thin heatsink bonds. GEL 50TBL (TBL – thin bond line) offers 5W/m.K bulk thermal conductivity and, “at a minimum bond line thickness of 0.05mm, the apparent thermal conductivity exceeds 10W/m.K”, according to the company. However, “the material is primarily for thin bond lines and is not typically intended for use as ...

HBK has added IO Link digital communication to a range of tension and compression force sensors. U9C sensors (pictured) measure tension and compression, and C9C sensors measure only compression. This article was republished with far more information here The sensors easing digital up-grades by having identical mechanical dimensions and threads to their analogue counterparts. “With a standardised interface to any ...

Researchers in Australia have used micromachined silicon pillars and graphene to make skin electrodes for EEG that are far less messy than the current scheme in medical use, which is wet silver – silver chloride electrodes, but are not far behind in performance. The self-imposed challenge was to be able to sense through hair on a curved area of the scalp – ...

Anders has introduced a family of rotary switches that have a circular colour TFT-LCD in the middle, as well as a push button function. Available with 1.3, 2.1 or 2.47inch circular displays, the knobs are ~48, 76 or 92mm in diameter respectively. The company sees them being used in heating systems, industrial controls, IoT devices, boilers, white goods, fitness equipment ...

I cannot get over how easy it is to get code running on an Arduino, allowing me to write the code to try to connect to a 20 character x 4 line LCD (wearing an I2C-to-parallel ‘backpack). Update: Part3 is here (don’t get too excited..) This is all part of my personal challenge to quickly and accurately manually set 16bit numbers ...

Nexperia is claiming to have developed the world’s smallest SD Card level translator IC, housed in a 1.45 x 1.45 x 0.45mm 16bump wafer-level chip-scale package with a bump pitch of 0.35mm. Called NXS0506UP, it can be clocked at up to 208MHz (104Mbit/s) and is an SD 3.0-compliant bi-directional dual voltage level translator with auto-direction control, EMI filtering and IEC 61000-4-2 ...