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ams schedules 2016 multi-project wafer starts
The Full Service Foundry division of ams has announced its fast and cost-efficient IC prototyping service, known as Multi-Project Wafer (MPW) or shuttle run, with an updated schedule for 2016. The prototyping service, which combines several designs from different customers onto a single wafer, offers significant cost advantages for foundry customers as the costs for wafers and masks are shared among a number of different shuttle participants.
Sensor price erosion slows total O-S-D growth
The worldwide O-S-D (Optoelectronics; Sensors and actuators; and Discrete semiconductors) market has turned into a mixed bag of double-digit growth for several major product categories (lamp devices, infrared circuits and CMOS image sensors) combined with single-digit declines in sales for nearly a dozen other categories (including most sensors, diodes, rectifiers and power transistors).
Programmable ProSLICs meet VoIP demand
Silicon Labs has introduced a family of Subscriber Line Interface Circuits (SLICs) offering the lowest power consumption, smallest footprint, and highest levels of integration and programmability for the Voice-over-IP (VoIP) gateway market.The single- and dual-channel Si32x8x ProSLIC family provides a best-in-class subscriber line interface solution for a wide range of VoIP Customer Premises Equipment (CPE).
2D speed & direction sensor IC uses vertical & planar Hall elements
The A1262 from Allegro MicroSystems Europe is a unique dual-channel Hall-effect latch featuring 2D sensing via a combination of vertical and planar Hall elements. The quadrature outputs of the A1262 allow rotation direction and position to be determined in applications such as sensing a rotating ring-magnet target. The unique 2D operation of the combined planar and vertical Hall elements allows the end user to achieve a suitable 90° of phase ...
Silicon quantum computers could soon be a reality
Clearing the final hurdle to making silicon quantum computers a reality, a team of engineers from the University of New South Wales (UNSW), has built a quantum logic gate in silicon for the first time, making calculations between two qubits of information possible.
Top ten trends at IDTechEx Show! USA 2015
The following is an article by Raghu Das, CEO, IDTechEx, the global research and business intelligence firm that created the IDTechEx Show! USA 2015, which will be held on the 18th-19th of November, in Santa, Clara, California. Today’s emerging technologies are varied, vast and moving at the blink of an eye. Here are the top 10 key trends we’ll see at the show that are changing the way the world lives, works and plays.
Brushed DC motor driver is first to integrate FETs
Texas Instruments has introduced three brushed DC gate drivers, one of which is the industry's first device with integrated current sensing. This integration allows designers to avoid the power loss, heat generation and cost associated with using external sense resistors, as well as to save up to 25% board space and simplify board layout.
SiC gains traction in power electronics
Satoshi Yamakawa and co-workers at Mitsubishi Electric have developed a new power module made from an SiC MOSFET and an SiC Schottky barrier diode. As reported in the Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, the team successfully trialed the module in a train traction inverter – a device used to convert the direct current from the power source to three-phase alternating current suitable for driving the propulsion motors – with promising r...
Leti joins GLOBALFOUNDRIES' eco-system partners
CEA-Leti has announced that it has joined the GLOBALSOLUTIONS ecosystem as an ASIC provider, specifically to support GLOBALFOUNDRIES’ 22FDX technology platform. Launched this summer, GLOBALFOUNDRIES’ 22FDX technology platform is the industry’s first 22nm FD-SOI semiconductor technology developed specifically to meet the ultra-low-power requirements of the next gen of connected devices. The versatility of the 22FDX platform is a ...
Wideband transistor is optimised for DC-2.7GHz operation
A wideband transistor optimised for DC-2.7GHz operation has been introduced by M/A-COM Technology Solutions. The NPT2024, which uses MACOM’s proprietary Gallium Nitride on Silicon (GaN on Si) process, is now sampling. The device supports CW, pulsed and linear operation, boasting output levels up to 200W.