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Renesas has introduced three 650V GaN power transistors, aimed at server power supplies and e-mobility chargers. “Designed for multi-kilowatt-class applications, these devices combine GaN technology with a silicon-compatible gate drive input,” according to the company. “Offered in TOLT, TO-247 and TOLL package options, the devices give engineers the flexibility to customize their thermal management and board design.” The result of ...

Nexperia has created ESD protection diodes for 48V vehicle communications networks. “Until now, automotive equipment manufacturers lacked suitable ESD protection solutions specifically designed for 48V data lines,” claimed Nexperia head of protection devices Alexander Benedix. “As a result, they often had to rely on workarounds – either including an additional 12 V power rail or connecting several lower-voltage protection diodes ...

Rohm has designed a mosfet for high-current 48V hotswap controllers in data centres. RY7P250BM is a 100V device nominally rated at 300A and comes in an 8 x 8mm DFN8080 package. “In hot-swap circuits used to safely replace modules while servers remain powered on, mosfets are required that offer both wide safe operating area and low on-resistance to protect against ...

TE Connectivity is moving to nickel-phosphorus coatings to reduce the CO2 footprint of its connector contact plating processes. Branding the plating stack Econidur, “according to TE internal analysis and calculations, in alignment with ISO standard 14067/14040/44, CO2 emissions decrease over 44% compared to palladium nickel plating, depending on layer thicknesses, performance level and connector type”, said the company. Is it ...

IQE and Quinas Technology say they have successfully completed their £1.1m UltraRAM industrialisation project. This involved developing a scalable gallium antimonide (GaSb) epitaxy for memory devices. In July 2024 they were awarded the year’s funding by Innovate UK to take UltraRAM further towards mass production. Quinas Technology is the startup founded by IQE and the universities of Lancaster and Cardiff. ...

SiTime is aiming for 24 hour timing hold-over in data centres and 5G infrastructure with temporal synchronising software called TimeFabric. “TimeFabric, combined with SiTime’s oscillators and clocks, delivers up to 9x more accurate time synchronization than quartz-based solutions,” claimed the company. Dipping into this a little deeper, SiTime is claiming that a quartz-based OCXO with IEEE 1588 software will glitch ...

Keysight has combined it Electromagnetic Simulator with Synopsys’ AI-powered RF design migration flow for an integrated design flow to migrate from TSMC’s N6RF+ to N4P process technology. The migration workflow builds on the foundry’s Analog Design Migration (ADM) methodology to streamline the redesign of passive devices and design components to the advanced RF process rules. The collaborative migration workflow leverages ...

For physical AI at the edge, MIPS has introduced the Atlas Explorer portfolio. The company explained that it allows designers cycle-accurate repeatability of their workload onto a MIPS processor. It provides access to platform IP ahead of silicon availability for evaluation to enable pre-production RTL and for teams to develop optimised hardware and concepts such as digital twins to gain ...

DAC 2025: There was a lot of talk about AI at this year’s DAC but one of the most significant was that Siemens Digital Industries Software has added generative and agentic AI capabilities across its EDA portfolio. The EDA AI system applies across all semiconductor and PCB design suites, including Questra, Tessent, Xpedition, Veloce, Catapult, Calibre, Aprisa and Solido.  “It ...

Qorvo’s QPA1314 is a packaged high power MMIC amplifier, fabricated on Qorvo’s production 0.15 um GaN on SiC process (QGaN15).  QPA1314 is targeted for 13.75 – 14.5 GHz Satcom band. Linear power is 20 W with 25 dBc third order intermodulation distortion products. It provides 40 W of output power with 27 dB of large signal gain while achieving 30% ...