We said goodbye to 'Opportunity' recently and we should also say hello to 'Rosalind Franklin'. This is the name for the ExoMars rover, which was chosen earlier this month

University of Cambridge spin-out Sorex Sensors has appointed Michael LeGoff as CEO – LeGoff founded LED-maker Plessey Semiconductors, and before that Dynex. Sorex raised £1.2 million seed funding last year from Cambridge Enterprise, the Cambridge Angels and Cambridge Capital Group. “The team has done a fantastic job in bringing its sensing technology close to the product launch stage,” said LeGoff. ...

Dialog Semiconductor has included an Arm Cortex-M33 application and algorithm processor in a Bluetooth 5.1 wireless microcontroller, to create a family called DA1469x. “The product family is the first wireless microcontroller in production with a dedicated application processor based on the ARM Cortex-M33 processor,” said Dialog. “The M33 offers developers greater processing power for more intensive applications, such as high-end ...

Note the deadline for entries to EW BrightSparks 2019 - Thursday 28 February 2019. Please nominate a deserving colleague or friend.

57 years ago a genius started a company. He focussed the company on linear ICs and, by 1964, had 30 standard linear ICs in the catalogue and 700 employees. The genius developed the junction FET concept and a JFET product line. In 1966, the company started on a series of amalgamations – Philbrick, Nexus, Teledyne – and ended up as ...

SamacSys, the specialist provider of electronic component CAD models, has completed a new integration with Altium, the supplier of PCB design tools. The agreement was announced at Embedded World in Nuremberg and the collaboration will support Altium customers by directly integrating the SamacSys platform of free design resources, including PCB footprints, schematic symbols and 3D models for more than 15 ...

German chip firm Trinamic has chosen Risc-V over Arm for the processor inside its latest generation of motor drivers – it specialises in drivers with advanced features, aimed at high-performance positioning systems like servos and those in computer controlled machines. Dubbed Rocinante (named from both Don Quixote and The Expanse, according to the firm), it is claimed to be the ...

Toshiba has announced a range of single-supply single-gate logic devices. In total the line-up consists of 31 devices that simplify the design of voltage-level translation as used in data communication between devices, such as between microprocessors and peripherals. These single-gate devices are provided in tiny packaging that ensure that voltage translation can be implemented even in applications with limited board ...

TI has announced bulk acoustic wave (BAW)-based embedded processing and analogue chips for connectivity and communications infrastructure. The first two devices developed with TI BAW technology are the SimpleLinkTM CC2652RB wireless microcontroller (MCU) and the LMK05318 network synchronizer clock. The resonator, built from piezoelectric material within the metallisation layers, is temperature-compensated and said to achieve better-than-some-crystals performance over temperature, vibration ...

This is the seventh in a series of essays from Imec on the future of electronics technology. It is called Augmented Reality and it is by Imec principal scientist Soeren Steudel AR glasses have the potential to replace the smartphone within 10-15 years from now, says Soeren Steudel, who heads up the displays research activity at Imec. Augmented reality (AR) glasses are ...