Russian semiconductor foundry Angstrem-T has developed an ASIC based on a Cortus APS 32bit microcontroller core. The development comes following a working relationship between the Russian foundry and Cortus, a company specialising in low power 32Bit processor...

By Paul Whytock | 08-06-2016

How would you like to be on an aircraft that was hit by a drone while taking off or landing? The answer is of course that you wouldn’t. Yet in April this year that’s exactly what happened to a British Airways Airbus A320 destined for London Heathrow Airport. T...

By Paul Whytock | 02-06-2016

Entry, mid and high-end dev boards for the STM32F7 microcontroller series that are entering volume production with up to 2Mbyte of on-chip Flash have been launched by STMicroelectronics. Created to provide design start-up support, these dev tools include a STM...

By Paul Whytock | 31-05-2016

A combination of perovskite solar modules positioned on top of silicon solar modules could mean that future solar power conversion efficiencies of 30% might be achieved. This possibility follows the unveiling by Solliance, a research and design consortium, and...

By Paul Whytock | 26-05-2016

Test and measurement company Keysight Technologies has extended its collaboration with China Mobile Research Institute (CMRI) on the development of 5G test and measurement technologies. China Mobile is considered to be the world’s largest mobile network operat...

By Paul Whytock | 25-05-2016

Wireless power transmission was first tried by inventor Nikola Tesla in the early 1900s and if recent reports from industry analysts are correct it now seems that consumers are finally buying into the technology in significant numbers. But are they? When it co...

By Paul Whytock | 23-05-2016

What is claimed to be the first programmable bridging device that resolves interface mismatches between mobile application processors, image sensors and displays has been developed by Lattice Semiconductor. Very often systems with embedded cameras and displays...

By Paul Whytock | 17-05-2016

UK component distributor Anglia has introduced a new inventory management service called 80/20 for SMEs. 80/20 is essentially Anglia’s take on VMI (vendor managed inventory), previously available only to large customers, in a special version designed to meet t...

By Sally Ward-Foxton | 13-05-2016

Driver ICs that have output currents from 2.5 to 8A have been developed by power electronics company, Power Integrations. The company says this is the highest output current performance available without using an external booster. These galvanically isolated s...

By Paul Whytock | 12-05-2016

MOSFET on-resistance cut by 17% A new generation of super junction (SJ) deep trench semiconductor technology for high-efficient power MOSFETs was unveiled at the show by Toshiba Electronics Europe. The devices are based on the new DTMOS V process and the comp...

By Paul Whytock | 10-05-2016

ASIC, FPGA and IP specialists EnSilica has designed and launched eSi-ECDSA cryptographic IP to assist with the high security communication and latency requirements of car-to-car (Car2Car) and car-to-infrastructure (Car2x) applications that are essential in the...

By Paul Whytock | 09-05-2016

As Enzo Ferrari once said, "racing cars are neither beautiful nor ugly. They become beautiful when they win." Whether or not you disagree with that is a matter of personal reflection but winning is obviously the ambition of the Mouser Electronics-sponsored Reb...

By Paul Whytock | 06-05-2016

The Confederation of British Industry (CBI) and electronics giant IBM, say that “pioneering” companies in the UK are suffering from techno-lethargy with just over half of companies adopting digital technologies and processes, while the other half lag behind. T...

By Paul Whytock | 05-05-2016

Ambition is a fine thing, it helps drive progress. But when German chip maker Infineon broadcast in a press release headline recently that its eight inch sensor chips could reveal the mysteries of the Universe I thought that was taking ambition an astronomic s...

By Paul Whytock | 04-05-2016