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Voltage scalable transistors result in more dies per wafer
The Full Service Foundry division of ams AG has announced an expansion of its 0.35µm High-Voltage CMOS process platform. The advanced ‘H35’ process provided now includes a set of truly voltage scalable transistors offering area and performance improvements. Foundry customers developing complex high-voltage analogue/mixed-signal applications such as large driver and switching ICs instantly benefit from more dies per wafer.
WSC successes today shine brightly on cars of tomorrow
STMicroelectronics announced that several of its products are powering solar cars representing a number of Universities from the United States and Indonesia taking part in this year’s World Solar Challenge. The competition starts in Darwin, Australia on the 18th October, 2015, crosses the unforgiving Outback and ends 3000km away in Adelaide, one week later.
Compact transistors support high definition audio
Toshiba Electronics Europe has launched a smaller bipolar transistor for use in the output Tr stage of high definition audio systems. The 2SA1943N and 2SC5200N provide the same high quality sound output as the now-famous 2SA1943 and 2SC5200 but in a TO-3P(N) package and just three quarters of the width and length to reduce space consumption compared to the previous TO-3P(L) package.
EuMW 2015: Wideband transistor optimised for DC to 2.7GHz operation
A wideband transistor optimised for DC to 2.7GHz operation and built using proprietary 4th generation GaN on Silicon (GaN on Si) process is sampling today. The device was announced by MACOM at European Microwave Week in Paris. This GaN on Si HEMT D-Mode transistor is ideally suited for defense communications, land mobile radio, avionics, wireless infrastructure, ISM applications and VHF/UHF/L/S-band radar.
Can technology maintain its current pace of growth?
With its depth of only 6.7mm, the iPhone 6 holds more processing power than was used by NASA at the time of the 1969 moon landing and over four times that of the Mars Curiosity Rover. Here, Jonathan Wilkins, Marketing Director, European Automation, analyses the rate of technological progress and discusses the validity of Moore’s Law.
Electrochemical process controls magnetic properties
Magnets are well-known from physics lessons at school, but they are hardly covered in chemistry lectures. By means of a chemical process, KIT researchers have succeeded in controlling magnetic properties in bulk ferromagnets. While physical processes may influence the orientation of the magnetic fields, the chemical process in this case controls magnetism in carefully chosen strongly ferromagnetic material systems.
X-FAB reduces flicker noise by a factor of five
Transistors that have drastically reduced flicker noise on its mixed-signal 0.35µm and 0.18µm CMOS process platforms have been introduced by X-FAB Silicon Foundries. Flicker noise in CMOS MOSFETs has been reduced in both the n-channel device in the XH035 0.35µm process and the p-channel device in the XH018 0.18µm process by a factor of five, thereby setting the industry benchmark.
Voltage regulator features power-on-reset & window watchdog
Toshiba has announced two 5V constant voltage regulators for use in the automotive industry. The TB9005FNG and TB9021FNG incorporate system reset functions for microcontrollers that contribute to improved safety in automotive systems.The ICs incorporate system reset functions including a window watchdog feature to aid the resetting of MCUs when an abnormal state is detected or a processor gets stuck in a loop.
InventionShare launches the Circuit Seed family
Mr. Keith Taylor, Vice President of Acquisition and Licensing, InventionShare, has announced that research is conclusive on Circuit Seed, a new family of circuit building blocks for processing analogue signals using fully digital components and design flow. This includes a CMOS Field Effect Transistor Structure (CiFET) that is one of several patents filed for this family of inventions.
Signoff tools have achieved certification from TSMC
Cadence Design Systems has announced that its digital, custom/analogue and signoff tools have achieved certification from TSMC for V0.9 of its 10nm process and are currently on track to achieve V1.0 completion by Q4 2015. The certification enables system and semiconductor companies to deliver advanced-node designs to market faster for mobile phones, tablets, application processors and high-end servers.