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Altium and IHS Markit Partner to Solve Component End-of-Life Issues for PCB Design

SAN DIEGO – June 11, 2020 – Altium, the global leader in PCB design software, is partnering with IHS Markit Electronic Parts Solutions to solve one of the major challenges in PCB design.

When electronic components become obsolete, design and production can suffer lengthy delays. With an average of 15 end-of-life notices issued every day, part obsolescence is a challenge that most engineers routinely face. To address this design challenge, Altium has partnered with IHS Markit, the world’s most accurate component intelligence source, which provides actionable lifecycle status updates as the PCB is being designed. IHS Markit’s BOM analysis provides … Read More → "Altium and IHS Markit Partner to Solve Component End-of-Life Issues for PCB Design"

Moortec Launches New In-Chip Technology for Highly Distributed, Real-Time Thermal Analysis on TSMC N5 Process

Plymouth, UK, 10th June 2020 – Moortec today announced an addition to its deeply embedded monitoring portfolio, the Distributed Thermal Sensor (DTS) on TSMC N5 process technology. Moortec’s highly granular DTS offers a 7x area reduction in comparison to some standard in-chip thermal sensor solutions, and also supports high accuracy measurement across a wide temperature range at enhanced conversion speeds. With over a decade of experience of delivering advanced node thermal sensing solutions for the SoC community, DTS strengthens the company’s position as the go-to leaders for innovative in-chip technologies.

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TE Connectivity offers custom, rugged and reliable hydraulic LVDT sensors

BERWYN, Pa. – June 10, 2020 – As electronification and digitization continue to grow within Industry 4.0, reliable position sensors are critical in meeting the harsh demands of industrial hydraulic applications. Read More → "TE Connectivity offers custom, rugged and reliable hydraulic LVDT sensors"

Paragraf Partners with CERN to Demonstrate Unique Properties of Paragraf’s New Graphene Hall Effect Sensor

Paragraf has embarked on a working partnership with the Magnetic Measurement section at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, to demonstrate how new opportunities for magnetic measurements are opened up through the unique properties of its graphene sensor, particularly its negligible planar Hall effect.
CERN operates the largest particle accelerators in the world, for example its 27-km long, Large … Read More → "Paragraf Partners with CERN to Demonstrate Unique Properties of Paragraf’s New Graphene Hall Effect Sensor"

Keysight’s Test Platforms Help Gemtek Deliver Reliable 5G, LTE and Wi-Fi Wireless Connectivity Solutions

SANTA ROSA, Calif., June 10, 2020 – Keysight Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: KEYS), a leading technology company that helps enterprises, service providers and governments accelerate innovation to connect and secure the world, announced that Gemtek has selected Keysight’s 5G and 4G LTE … Read More → "Keysight’s Test Platforms Help Gemtek Deliver Reliable 5G, LTE and Wi-Fi Wireless Connectivity Solutions"

VadaTech Announces a new 3U VPX Zynq UltraScale+ FPGA, FMC+ Carrier Board

Henderson, NV – June 5, 2020 – VadaTech, a leading manufacturer of integrated systems, embedded boards, enabling software and application-ready platforms, announces the VPX585. The VPX585 is a 3U VPX FPGA Carrier with single FMC+ (VITA-57.4) interface. The unit has an on-board, re-configurable FPGA which interfaces directly to the VPX P1 connector and … Read More → "VadaTech Announces a new 3U VPX Zynq UltraScale+ FPGA, FMC+ Carrier Board"

Altium Launches Initiatives to Help Electronics Industry Get “Back to Work”

SAN DIEGO June 5, 2020 – From home offices to virtual workplaces, the working environment has changed. For the Printed Circuit Board (PCB) design industry, Altium has helped make the transition seamless, empowering collaboration across every aspect of the design process. With Altium 365,  the world’s only cloud-based platform for PCB design and realization, many of Altium’s customers were able to stay in motion even during the most challenging time.

“The workplace is more distributed than ever before, and at the same time our customers are dealing with unprecedented financial challenges,” says Ted Pawela, Altium’s COO. “We want … Read More → "Altium Launches Initiatives to Help Electronics Industry Get “Back to Work”"

Onto Innovation Announces Suite of Three New Metrology Systems for Complete Critical Dimension Process Control

Wilmington, Mass., June 8, 2020 – Onto Innovation Inc. (NYSE: ONTO) today announced the availability of a suite of process control metrology solutions for advanced device manufacturing. The suite of optical metrology solutions was developed for next generation semiconductor devices to enable high precision, high accuracy, and high productivity solutions for Gen6, 3D NAND, leading 5nm/3nm logic and advanced 1alpha DRAM devices. This new metrology suite represents the first exciting results from Onto Innovation’s enhanced R&D team to create a comprehensive solution set that capitalizes on its extensive leadership in optical metrology and enhancements in a … Read More → "Onto Innovation Announces Suite of Three New Metrology Systems for Complete Critical Dimension Process Control"

Efinix Completes Trion FPGA Family for Edge Computing, AI/ML and Vision Processing Applications Using Cadence Digital Full Flow Solution

Highlights:
• Integrated Cadence flow enabled Efinix to achieve first-pass success down to 10nm
• Based on success with the Cadence flow, Efinix plans to continue the Cadence collaboration to further broaden its product line

SAN JOSE, Calif., June 9, 2020—Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: CDNS) today announced that Efinix successfully utilized the Cadence® digital full flow solution to complete the first wave of its Trion family of field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), which are used in edge compute, AI/ML and vision processing applications for the mobile, industrial and surveillance markets. With the integrated Cadence RTL-to-signoff flow, … Read More → "Efinix Completes Trion FPGA Family for Edge Computing, AI/ML and Vision Processing Applications Using Cadence Digital Full Flow Solution"

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