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The Square Kilometre Array radio telescope got its next official launch this week, when director-general Philip Diamond travelled to the site where SKA-Low (below) will be built in Western Australia and council chair Catherine Cesarsky went to the SKA-Mid (right) site in South Africa’s Northern Cape. “The SKA project has been many years in the ...
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Axivion has added checks for MISRA C++ 202x rules with the release of its Axivion Suite 7.5 code analysis tools. “Especially when developing safety-critical embedded systems, compliance with the latest coding standards is a must to ensure code quality throughout the whole development process,” according to the company. “Now Axivion Suite 7.5 safeguards compliance with ...
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STMicroelectronics has released C libraries to control its three USB Type-C Power Delivery port-protection ICs, for sink or source applications, or both. The code will run on certain of the company’s STM32 microcontrollers, which have the company’s ‘UCPD’ interface, for which the company has development boards. The UCPD interface, together with one of the protection ...
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TDK has introduced six models to its 7.5kW ‘Genesys+’ series of 7.5kW programmable dc power supplies. The new values of 0-30V (250A), 0-60V (125A), 0-80V (94A), 0-200V (37.5A), 0-300V (25A) and 0-1000V (7.5A) slot in between earlier models in the series, introduced in July (see this article for more details). The units need three-phase ac ...
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Swissbit has announced single-level cell NAND flash-based SD Cards and microSD Cards for increased reliability in industrial settings. “When it comes to reliability, data integrity and data retention, the technology with only one stored bit per cell is still unrivalled,” according to the company. “Only single-level cell offers 100,000 program-erase cycles, making it ideal for ...
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Intel is  a on-track to regain process technology leadership in 2025, according to Ann Kelleher (pictured) head of technology development. “We’re completely on track,” said Kelleher yesterday, “we do quarterly milestones, and according to those milestones we’re ahead or on-track.” Kelleher said Intel is working more closely with the equipment manufacturers than it has in ...
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Yesterday, the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) commissioned a research project to look into the feasibility of new national initiatives to bring the UK semiconductor industry together to tackle shared challenges and help businesses scale up. It will look at whether better access to prototyping and manufacturing facilities for chip firms is ...
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Zuken and the Compound Semiconductor Applications (CSA) Catapult are collaborating to bring a power module layout from a graphical concept to a 3D model. CSA Catapult has identified several requirements and optimisations to Zuken’s CR-8000 Design Force chip, package and PCB co-design software that will provide designers of power electronic products with the ability to ...
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