Rohm has introduced a 1,200V 300A all-silicon carbide half-bridge power module, with reduced inductance compared with its first devices – claimed stray inductance is 13nH. Rohm began mass production of all-SiC power modules in March 2012 – the 120A and 180A 1,200V products continue are selling into industrial and power sectors. “Although further increases in current are expected due to energy-saving ...

There is now less than one week to register for our IoT Design conference, taking place on 3 December at the Brewery Conference Suite, near the Barbican.

JST Manufacturing has opened an applications laboratory where end-users can develop wet chip fabrication processes. The Idaho firm manufactures wet processing equipment, and the lab allows experiments with various chemistries tests on real equipment ranging from immersion and spray tools to dryers. Metrology equipment including a scanning electron microscope and Tencor particle counter is available. “By visiting applications labs, end ...

Duris S 5 Color leds from Osram are aimed at consumer colour-mixing. There are four: red, amber, green and deep blue with a 3.0 x 3.0mm footprint and epoxy-based package. – for brightnesses, see below. All based on similar die (each has 2 die inside, probably stacked), with phosphors generating red, amber and green. Electrically, they are all the same ...

Samsung is aiming for a slice of the wearable health and fitness device market with a multi-function processor which will be introduced early in 2016. Dubbed the bio-processor, the system-on-chip device will carry out various body monitoring functions including PPG, ECG, skin temperature, GSR and body fat. It is essentially a processor with integrated DSP (digital signal processing) for the ...

Jean-Philippe Dauvin, former vp and chief economist at ST, used to have a saying: “I wish I could always live in the second half of the year.” The reason was simple – the second half is usually the best half – and analysts like good news. But not this year. This year, for only the fifth time in the last ...

Raspberry Pi and open source software has been used by a developer in Brazil to design a USB oscilloscope with a signal sampling rate of 100Msample/s. This is the highest spec Raspberry Pi scope I have come across. Developer Paulo Schaefer is currently looking for funding for first versions of the scopePi50M on the IndieGoGo crowd-funding website. The scope has ...

The EU Directive 2013/35/EU on the minimum health and safety requirements regarding the exposure of workers to the risks arising from physical agents (the electromagnetic field)  published in mid-2013 is due to be transposed into UK law by July of next year, 2016. Howard Venning, managing director of Aspen Electronics, lifts the lid on the subject and offers help to reach ...

Ambiq Micro has introduced evaluation kits for its low power Apollo sub-threshold microcontroller. A feature of the first EVB board is the integration of an on-board hardware debugger together with a complete software development kit. It also comes with FreeRTOS, along with the necessary hardware drivers. The Eclipse-based graphical software integrated design environment (IDE) and the Open On-chip debugger command-line ...

Escatec has designed a miniaturised TIR (total internal reflection) lens for mounting on high brightness LEDs. The TIR lens is mounted directly onto the bare LED and secured in place using clear glue with no air gap for optimal optical coupling. The aim is to ensure that the light is transferred from the LED to the TIR lens with minimal ...