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SmartDV and NSITEXE Sign Agreement to Deploy NSITEXE’s RISC-V 32bit CPU Core throughout North America, China, India, Taiwan

SAN JOSE, CALIF. –– January 26, 2022 –– SmartDV™ Technologies, the leading supplier of Design and Verification Intellectual Property (IP), and NSITEXE, developer of advanced processors, today signed a multi-year agreement that enables SmartDV to license NSITEXE’s recently announced RISC-V-based, 32-bit CPU core to its customers.

Under terms of the agreement, SmartDV will sell NS31A, a high-reliability, general-purpose CPU based on the 32-bit RISC-V ISA</ … Read More → "SmartDV and NSITEXE Sign Agreement to Deploy NSITEXE’s RISC-V 32bit CPU Core throughout North America, China, India, Taiwan"

Richardson Electronics, Ltd. Gives Designers More Flexibility with New Wide-Band Gap Band Technology

LAFOX, Ill., Jan. 26, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Richardson Electronics, Ltd. (NASDAQ: RELL) announces the availability of SemiQ’s 2nd generation silicon carbide power switches, 1200V 80mΩ SiC MOSFETs. These … Read More → "Richardson Electronics, Ltd. Gives Designers More Flexibility with New Wide-Band Gap Band Technology"

Vishay Intertechnology Extends Resistance Range of MC AT Precision Series Thin Film Chip Resistors in 0402, 0603, and 0805 Case Sizes

MALVERN, Pa. — Jan. 26, 2022 — Vishay Intertechnology, Inc. (NYSE: VSH) today announced that the company has enhanced its MC AT precision series of Automotive Grade thin film chip resistors with a wider range of resistance values in the 0402, 0603, and 0805 case sizes. The Vishay Beyschlag devices combine their high resistance values with TCR of ± 25 ppm/K, tight tolerances of ± 0.1 %, and thin film stability.

The MCS 0402 AT, MCT 0603 AT, and MCU 0805 AT offer resistance values from 47 Ω to 1 MΩ, 2 MΩ, and 7.5 MΩ, respectively. They join the previously enhanced MCA 1206 AT, which offers resistance up to 10 MΩ. By providing higher resistance values in … Read More → "Vishay Intertechnology Extends Resistance Range of MC AT Precision Series Thin Film Chip Resistors in 0402, 0603, and 0805 Case Sizes"

Premio and Intel Examine the Supply Chain’s Effect on the U.S. Chip Shortage and the Benefits for More Manufacturing Infrastructure in America

Vecow ECX-3000 Rugged Embedded Computer System Powered by Intel Alder Lake 12th Generation Core Processors available from Impulse Embedded

  • Alder Lake-S with Intel Thread Director offers high performance and intelligent workload optimisation
  • Intel UHD Graphics 770 driven by Intel Xe Graphics Architecture with quad-display support
  • High-speed connectivity including 10GigE Ethernet, 2.5G LAN and USB3.2 (10Gbps) ports

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Industry’s Only Family of Standard Non-Hybrid Space-Grade Power Converters Now Includes 28 Volt (V)-Input Radiation-Tolerant Options

CHANDLER, Ariz., Jan. 25, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Space system designers cannot easily support non-standard voltages or add functions with traditional hybrid-style power converters. Microchip Technology Inc. (Nasdaq: MCHP) has eliminated the cost, complexity and customization challenges of these hybrid solutions by offering a discrete-component-based, space-grade DC-DC power converter family that now includes 28V-input, 50-watt (W) radiation-tolerant options.

“Our latest Read More → "Industry’s Only Family of Standard Non-Hybrid Space-Grade Power Converters Now Includes 28 Volt (V)-Input Radiation-Tolerant Options"

Timing Measurement for all NXP S32K3 devices with a new iSYSTEM Emulation Adapter

Schwabhausen, Germany, January 25, 2022 – Tracing is a powerful technique for debugging and optimizing embedded applications. However, not all MCUs provide the necessary additional pins (trace port) – but thanks to the iSYSTEM Emulation Adapters embedded developers can retrieve trace data e.g. for timing measurement from their target device anyway. iSYSTEM’s latest addition to their portfolio is the NXP S32K344 Emulation Adapter which helps accelerating software tests and speeding up the product’s time-to-market. This Emulation Adapter is populated with an NXP S32K344 “umbrella” device offering extra pins to enable trace for all S32K3 derivatives.

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SuperTest – helping to lead the RISC-V revolution at SiFive

California-based SiFive is a semiconductor IP company founded in 2015 by the inventors of the open RISC-V instruction set architecture. Its semiconductor IP ranges from high-performance application processors and vector processors to low-power embedded 64- and 32-bit microcontrollers. SiFive was the first company to design a quad-core RISC-V CPU capable of running fully featured Linux distributions. SiFive generates revenue by licensing its RISC-V processor core IP. The company’s HiFive development boards are supported by an IDE that includes a GCC and LLVM compiler toolchain.

SiFive is currently building a new infrastructure to support accelerated ASIC and FPGA … Read More → "SuperTest – helping to lead the RISC-V revolution at SiFive"

TDK offers compact transformers with EP 6 cores for ultrasonic applications

TDK Corporation (TSE:6762) presents the new B78416A* series of compact EPCOS transformers with EP 6 cores for ultrasonic applications. The series comprises five types with transformation ratios between 1:1:8.42 and 1:1:15. Depending on the type, the new SMD-version transformers offer inductance values between 3 mH and 5 mH and are suitable for frequencies between 52 kHz and 300 kHz. The components are compliant with AEC-Q200, feature highly compact dimensions of just 9.0 x 7.6 x 7.1 mm and are magnetically shielded for better interference suppression. The permissible temperature range lies between -40 °C and +125 °C.

The transformers serve optimal impedance matching between the driver IC and … Read More → "TDK offers compact transformers with EP 6 cores for ultrasonic applications"

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