Epipix (stylised EpiPix) is a recently launched University of Sheffield spin-out company developing “the next generation” of micro-LED technology. The company is developing and commercialising micro-LED technology for photonics applications, such as micro-displays for portable smart devices, augmented reality, virtual reality, 3D sensing and visible light communications.  Underpinned by research from Professor Tao Wang and his team at the University ...

Whilst poring over 4046 phase locked loop data sheets, I noticed yet another subtle useful difference between the the later faster 74HC4046 (diag from NXP data sheet) and the earlier slower CD4046. They both have the neat feature that the main phase detector signal input (SIG_IN) is both digital and analogue in that it can accept standard logic signals and ...

Comtech Telecommunications is buying Gilat Satellite Networks for $532.5m

Microchip Technology and Arrow have announced an engineering services collaboration which aims to simplify connectivity and security across industrial, smart building and energy markets. According to NIST, cybersecurity and privacy risks for IoT devices can be thought of in terms of three high-level risk mitigation goals, including protecting: device security, data security, and individuals’ privacy. Arrow will augment Microchip’s portfolio ...

Re-spins became more expensive as mask costs increased exponentially but fortunately verification software improved relentlessly largely thanks to Mentor Graphics “When I was a designer in the ‘70s and ‘80s, if we got by with less than five re-spins we were doing well,” recalled long-time Mentor CEO, Wally Rhines, “then we did a couple more spins to get full functionality, and there ...

The Galileo Return Link Service, confirming distress signals have been received, is now live.

A few weeks ago, we shone a spotlight on a new addition to the EW BrightSparks judging panel, Dr. Frederick Schulze Spüntrup. Today, we’re welcoming back the IET’s young professionals strategic development manager, Lizzie Truett. The BrightSparks programme, run in partnership RS Components, aims to find and highlight the best and brightest young engineers working or studying in the UK. ...

Kioxia, the renamed Toshiba, says it will sample a 112-layer TLC flash in Q1. It is the fifth-generation BiCS FLASH 3D flash memory. The fifth-generation process technology should deliver 1 terabit (128 gigabytes) TLC and 1.33 terabit 4-bit-per-cell (quadruple-level cell, QLC) devices. The 112-layer stacking process technology increases cell array density by approximately 20%  over the 96-layer stacking process. It ...

The UK’s place in the Five Eyes intelligence sharing network is safe despite the decision to allow Huawei switchgear into the UK network, said US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo yesterday.  “With respect to information and the Five Eyes relationship, that relationship is deep, it is strong, it will remain,” said Pompeo, “all the elements of the five eyes will ...

QuickLogic is to lay off 30% of its employees to make savings of about $4 million a year. QuickLogic expects the lay-offs will incurr restructuring expenses of about $600,000 of which $500,000 will be in cash and mostly coming in calendar Q2 2020. ‘The changes are expected to only have a minimal impact on the Company’s research and development efforts ...