Hardware and software development tools specialist SEGGER Microcontroller and Renesas Electronics Europe have agreed a collaboration deal aimed at expanding the capabilities of Renesas’ RX Family of 32bit microcontrollers (MCUs). This will happen by adopting S...

By Paul Whytock | 19-07-2016

Infineon Technologies is buying the Wolfspeed Power and RF division (Wolfspeed) of Cree for approx €740 million in cash. The deal includes the SiC wafer substrate business for power and RF power. Wolfspeed has been a part of Cree for three decades and is a pro...

By Paul Whytock | 14-07-2016

A report into cybercrime in the UK has said that criminal cyber capability currently outpaces this country’s response to cybercrime. In the first cybercrime report to be published by the National Crime Agency (NCA) the organisation calls for stronger collabora...

By Paul Whytock | 08-07-2016

We all know the younger generation are much more into social networking than silver-surfers but recent research has shown they are laissez-faire to the point of being dangerously relaxed about the online security of their personal data. In extreme cases the sa...

By Paul Whytock | 06-07-2016

A common public radio interface (CPRI) RF measurement option that is claimed to cut time and costs involved with testing remote radio heads (RRHs) on 4G networks has been unveiled by test and measurement company Anritsu. The company has implemented CPRI RF mea...

By Paul Whytock | 05-07-2016

The long running story of man versus machine reached an important new milestone in March, this year, when Google’s AlphaGo program scored a 4-1 victory in the ancient board game Go, against one of the world’s best players: Lee Sedol of South Korea. This defeat...

By Mirko Bernacchi | 30-06-2016

Now that LED technology is becoming widespread in all kinds of lighting applications, the focus is on making LED lighting products smaller and more energy efficient while maintaining long life and reducing cost. Manufacturers of passive and electromechanical c...

By Martin Keenan | 29-06-2016

A third-generation quarter-brick advanced bus converter that delivers up to 650W and has a regulated output voltage over a range of 40V to 60V has bee developed by Ericsson Power Modules today. The company says its BMR458, a third-generation 3E quarter-brick a...

By Paul Whytock | 28-06-2016

A series of embedded security solutions that use standard microcontrollers (MCUs) and microprocessors (MPUs) as new security structures for embedded devices that will function as IoT endpoints has been developed by Renesas. The first product in the series is t...

By Paul Whytock | 27-06-2016

Just how much technology do humans want attached to them as they go about their daily lives? If consumer organisations have their way we homo sapiens could be carrying more electronics than RoboCop. Why do I mention this? Well, because Bosch Sensortec recently...

By Paul Whytock | 27-06-2016

A new version of the J-Link firmware for NXP's evaluation boards with OpenSDA debug and programming interface has been developed by embedded software company SEGGER. OpenSDA is used on the Tower and Freedom evaluation boards equipped with Kinetis microcontroll...

By Paul Whytock | 22-06-2016

It seems that more and more features are being packaged into smaller electronic modules. Due to the ever-increasing power density of such modules, it is difficult for electronics engineers to keep things running cool. Here, I review a thermal design issue whic...

By Mark Scholton | 21-06-2016

Significantly increased range, speed and broadcast messaging capacity are some of the attributes that the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) is promising with the launch of Bluetooth 5. Expected later this year, Bluetooth 5 is predicted to provide reliable...

By Paul Whytock | 17-06-2016

A convection-cooled modular power supply platform that delivers 600W without fan-assisted cooling has been developed by Excelsys Technologies. Claimed by the company to be the only fanless modular power supply on the market, the CoolX600 comes in an 8.5 x 4.5...

By Paul Whytock | 15-06-2016