Bosch has included ±28g accelerometers in its latest 3D inertial measurement unit, aimed at sports wearables. Called BHI385, it also includes a 32bit processor running embedded AI software “creating a complete programmable system”, claimed the company. It “accurately captures dynamic movements such as smashes, swings, and jumps [enabling] motion analysis for high-impact events across sports, fitness and gaming”. Features include ...
Murata has introduced an industrial-grade 3-axis accelerometer for structural health monitoring, machine control and construction. Includes temperature and drift over lifetime. Excluding mechanical shocks The company claims an offset error over life and temperature of ±4mg for x and y axes, and ±6mg for z, for the unit, dubbed SCA3400-D01. (‘g’ in this article is gravity rather than grams). Offset ...
Jensen Huang has started on a share selling plan to sell six million Nvidia shares worth $865 million by the end of the year. The sales are part of a 10b5-1 plan entered into in March which is designed to allow company execs to sell shares in their company without it alarming investors. Huang sold 100,000 Nvidia shares in two ...
IDLab, an imec research group at Ghent University and the University of Antwerp, Belgium, have developed a 7-bit 150 GSa/s DAC fabbed on a 5nm FinFET CMOS process which achieves data rates of up to 300 Gb/s using PAM-4 modulation. Designed to address the growing demand for faster datacentre links, the DAC combines speed and power efficiency, setting a new ...
Continental, the German automotive parts company, has set up a fabless unit within its Aumovio subsidiary to design and verify semiconductor devices, The fabless operation is called Advanced Electronics & Semiconductor Solutions (AESS). Aumovio is currently in the process of being spun off from Continental as a separate company. Globalfoundries has been taken on board as the foundry for the ...
The European Space agency has selected Novocomms to be the antenna specialist in a proof-of-concept positioning initiative. It involves sampling broadband satcom signals in Ku/Ka bands for other users to determine their position. These are dubbed Signals of Opportunity (SOOP). The Birmingham-based company will be part of a consortium led by Telespazio UK, in a €800,000 contract. This is a ...
All three stages of chip design will be automated and accelerated, says Moores Lab AI, which has introduced four design tools using agentic AI. Agentic AI is one of the buzzwords at this year’s DAC in San Francisco. Whereas generative AI generates content, agentic AI is an automation process. It autonomously makes and acts on decisions with little human intervention. ...
The UK government has confirmed plans to allocate a further £35 million for the semiconductor talent expansion programme. The new semiconductor-focused funding is part of a wider Digital and Technologies Sector Plan. This is a set of announcements under the government’s Industrial Strategy. Specifically, the £35 million will be used to scale up and continue the recently announced Semiconductor Talent ...
STMicroelectronics has made an eight-channel low-side driver for vehicles with extra functional safety hardware that “eases system-level ISO 26262 certification up to ASIL-B”, said the company. The nominal ratings of L9800, as it will be known, are: 12V power rail and 260mA per output. L9800 outputs can drive resistive, capacitive or inductive loads like relays, solenoids and LEDs,” said ST. ...
Wevo has created three soft potting compounds that can be used “for wire bonds and inductive components such as chokes or transformers, either with or without ferrite cores”, it said, adding that they “offer excellent protection against mechanical stresses [and] also enable thermal management”. All of them are silicones which pour with a standard viscosity of under 5,000mPa·s, suiting them ...
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