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Reliability and physics of failure in eGaN devices: Part 1
Reliability and physics of failure in eGaN devices: Part 1
Feature articles |
Alex Lidow, Chris Jakubiec and Robert Strittmatter discuss their company's enhancement-mode gallium nitride (eGaN) FETs.
Interoperable PDK opens up analog design
Interoperable PDK opens up analog design
New Products |
Sensor and analog IC vendor AMS AG (Premstaetten, Austria) has made available a "interoperable" process design kit (iPDK) for its…
ADI buys Swiss image sensor vendor
ADI buys Swiss image sensor vendor
Business news |
Analog Devices Inc. (Norwood, Mass.) has acquired Snap Sensor SA (Neuchatel, Switzerland), a vendor of high dynamic range image and…
Record sales seen for optoelectronic circuits, sensors
Record sales seen for optoelectronic circuits, sensors
Market news |
Although 2015 was a flat year for total semiconductor sales no fewer than nine product categories in the areas of…

Grenoble, Shanghai sign research deal for SOI, IoT
Grenoble, Shanghai sign research deal for SOI, IoT
Technology News |
The Shanghai Industrial Microtechnology Research Institute (SITRI) has made an agreement with France's state-funded CEA-Leti research institute (Grenoble, France) and the Minatec innovation campus to collaborate on developing technology for…
US market to drive industrial chip sales, says IHS
US market to drive industrial chip sales, says IHS
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Increased capital spending and economic growth, particularly in the United States, will drive rising demand for industrial-grade ICs, according to market research firm IHS.
Set up sensors with no-coding development kit, for TI MCUs
Set up sensors with no-coding development kit, for TI MCUs
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Distributor Farnell element14 has the Texas Instruments MSP CapTIvate microcontroller (MCU) development kit, presented as a comprehensive, easy-to-use platform providing real-time sensor tuning, without writing a single line of code.
Merck leads high-efficiency dye-sensitized solar cell development project
Merck leads high-efficiency dye-sensitized solar cell development project
Technology News |
An international consortium has formed with the aim of developing large-area high-efficiency cobalt-based dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) using innovative material concepts.
Infineon previews integrated 25V power modules for multiphase power
Infineon previews integrated 25V power modules for multiphase power
New Products |
Aiming at applications such as servers and other demanding systems, Infineon (IR) has announced integrated power stage modules that combine driver and power FET technology in advanced packages, for current…
Dutch microfluidics firm buys German MEMS foundry
Dutch microfluidics firm buys German MEMS foundry
Business news |
Lab-on-a-chip vendor Micronit Microfluidics BV (Enschede, The Netherlands) has agreed to acquire iX-factory GmbH (Dortmund, Germany), a pure-play foundry service provider for MEMS/NEMS and microfluidic products founded in 2007.
16Gb DDR3 memory module comes with 72-bit bus
16Gb DDR3 memory module comes with 72-bit bus
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3D PLUS has expanded its product line with the 3D3D16G72WB2487, a 3D memory stack module with a footprint of 27.2x18mm, 57% smaller than alternative discrete solutions where components are placed…
LED lighting can grow food efficiently for astronauts, says study
LED lighting can grow food efficiently for astronauts, says study
Technology News |
Philips Lighting has collaborated with The University of Arizona Controlled Environment Agriculture Center (CEAC) to test energy efficient ways using LED lighting to grow food that will help feed astronauts…
LED-illuminated fishing nets help save sea turtles
LED-illuminated fishing nets help save sea turtles
Technology News |
Conservation biologists at the University of Exeter (Exeter, Devon, UK) have found that using LEDs to illuminate fishing nets is a cost-effective means of reducing the number of sea turtles…
The coming revolution in vehicle technology and its implications
The coming revolution in vehicle technology and its implications
Feature articles |
We are on the threshold of a radical change in vehicle technology, driven by crash avoidance technology and delivered by advanced driver assistance systems, or ADAS for short.
Energy-recovering rack-mount DC load features plug-in programmable modules
Energy-recovering rack-mount DC load features plug-in programmable modules
New Products |
Intepro Systems has introduced the ELR 5000 modular, programmable DC load which is the latest addition to the Intepro family of power system automatic test equipment (ATE).
Networked smart electric motors self monitor without sensors
Networked smart electric motors self monitor without sensors
Technology News |
Engineers from Saarland University (Saarbrücken, Germany) are developing intelligent motor systems that do not need additional sensors. Data collected from the motor while it is operating enables parameters to be…
MEMS panel ponders roadmap
MEMS panel ponders roadmap
Technology News |
Could oversupply be coming to MEMS? A panel at the MEMS & Sensors Technical Congress held in Munich, Germany, this month was asked to find solutions to challenges to the…
Tronics makes cuts as sales plunge
Tronics makes cuts as sales plunge
Business news |
Annual revenue at Tronics Microsystems SA (Grenoble, France), a public company since February 2015, fell back in 2015 by a third compared to 2014 and the company has implemented a…
Dutch microfluidics firm buys German MEMS foundry
Dutch microfluidics firm buys German MEMS foundry
Business news |
Lab-on-a-chip vendor Micronit Microfluidics BV (Enschede, The Netherlands) has agreed to acquire iX-factory GmbH (Dortmund, Germany), a pure-play foundry service provider for MEMS/NEMS and microfluidic products founded in 2007.
Infineon previews integrated 25V power modules for multiphase power
Infineon previews integrated 25V power modules for multiphase power
New Products |
Aiming at applications such as servers and other demanding systems, Infineon (IR) has announced integrated power stage modules that combine driver and power FET technology in advanced packages, for current…
15W DC/DC power modules offer 4:1 conversion ratio
15W DC/DC power modules offer 4:1 conversion ratio
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Murata’s BPM15 Series of isolated DC-DC power modules has been designed to deliver 15W of isolated output power from ±5V, ±12V and ±15V outputs providing, Murata says, a balance between…
Toshiba’s IP subsystem for 10GbE on SoC; and on Toshiba Structured Array
Toshiba’s IP subsystem for 10GbE on SoC; and on Toshiba Structured Array
Technology News |
Toshiba Semiconductor & Storage Products has an IP subsystem that has been developed in conjunction with MoreThanIP (Karlsfeld, Germany), a provider of leading edge telecom solutions. The solution is designed…
Panel ponders MEMS roadmaps, a Moore’s Law of MEMS
Panel ponders MEMS roadmaps, a Moore’s Law of MEMS
Business news |
Could oversupply be coming to MEMS? A panel at the MEMS & Sensors Technical Congress held in Munich, Germany, this month was asked to find solutions to challenges to the…
High definition video surveillance HDCVI chipset
High definition video surveillance HDCVI chipset
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Exar’s High Definition Composite Video Interface (HDCVI) chipset is designed to deliver HD video over 500 metres on existing coaxial cable infrastructure.
What do InVisage and InvenSense have in common?
What do InVisage and InvenSense have in common?
Feature articles |
Has ten-year-old startup called InVisage Technologies Inc. been taking a leaf out of the business playbook of fabless inertial MEMS sensor vendor InvenSense, encouraged by manufacturing partner in common, TSMC?…
Configurable, modular power/comms blocks for in-vehicle apps
Configurable, modular power/comms blocks for in-vehicle apps
New Products |
Würth Elektronik ICS has introduced the REDline Power Boxes product line. Supporting user-configuration within a standard housing this is, the company says, an entirely new approach to enabling power distribution,…
Conference considers security developments in MISRA-C Coding Standard
Conference considers security developments in MISRA-C Coding Standard
Technology News |
A key workshop at this year's UK Device Developers' Conference will inform engineers, programmers and computer scientists on the latest developments to the MISRA-C coding standard, a set of guidelines…
1.2×1.2×0.5mm 3-axis magnetometer delivers ±1º accuracy
1.2×1.2×0.5mm 3-axis magnetometer delivers ±1º accuracy
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Delivered in a 1.2x1.2x0.5mm BGA package, MEMSIC's MMC3630KJ series magnetometer includes an integrated monolithic 3-axis AMR sensor and a signal conditioning ASIC in one device.


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