Manufacturing

At its virtual conference yesterday – GTC2020 –  GLOBALFOUNDRIES announced an enhanced design for manufacturability (DFM) kit embedded with advanced machine learning (ML) capabilities. Developed in collaboration with Mentor the ML-enhanced DFM solution, built on Mentor’s Calibre nmDRC platform, can provide customers with a more effective design and development experience and contribute to a faster time to market. The ML-enhanced ...

At GLOBALFOUNDRIES’ virtual conference yesterday – GTC2020 – Analog Bits announced a library of foundation analogue IP portfolio that is available on the foundry’s 12LP FinFET platform and 12LP+ solution for AI, cloud computing, and high-end SoCs. Analog Bits’ IP is available now on GF’s 12LP and design kits are available for 12LP+IP. The key IP features of Analog Bits ...

TDK has announced an £11.5m investment package to redevelop its TDK-Lambda power supply design and manufacturing facility in Ilfracombe Devon. Staged over the next three and a half years, it will increase production capacity by 50%. “The original factory was built over 50 years ago with further expansion in the mid-1980s,” according to TDK. “While the company has invested in ...

Barcelona-based BCN3D has announced a smaller version if its professional-grade Epsilon 3D printer, plus a filament conditioning cabinet. Epsilon W27 has a 420 x 300 x 220mm high build volume (=27 litres) and has dual independent extruders (‘IDEX’) which means it can print two separate parts at the same time, or print parts using two different filaments – for adding water-soluble supports, ...

Need to control a reclining chair over Wi-Fi, to add voice control via a smart speaker, or some other IoT interface, for example? Then look no further than a plug-n-play controller called Wren made by Sussex-based DitroniX. It comes in two flavours: a plug-n-play consumer version which connects in-line with the 5pin DIN connectors used in many recliners, and a developers ...

Zortrax has introduced cloud-based printing management for its range of professional grade 3D printers. Called ‘inCloud’, the system “enables remote management of Zortrax 3D printers from anywhere in the world”, according to the company. “This solution will manage the 3D printing manufacturing processes for both single-device users and businesses running large 3D printing farms.” The software started life in-house, controlling ...

TT Electronics has been awarded a contract from BAE Systems for the design, development and qualification of a flight control system dc-dc converter to support project Tempest, the UK-Italian fighter aircraft concept. “All this work will be completed in the UK,” TT Electronics marketing manager Josh Slater told Electronics Weekly. The aircraft consortium, called Team Tempest, includes BAE Systems, Rolls Royce, Leonardo, and MBDA, along with the RAF’s Rapid ...

TorqSense is torque sensor from Sensor Technology, based in Oxfordshire. It is wireless, needing no physical contact with the shaft being monitored. If you manufacture in the UK, please read to the bottom Instead, two two surface acoustic wave (SAW) devices are attached to the shaft and are interrogated through an RF link to stationary electronics inside the body of the ...

Huawei is said to be building a fab. It is reported that it will be running 45nm wafers by the end of the year. Huawei is supposed to have called the fab project ‘Tashan’ meaning courageous or daring. It is certainly that. Reports say that the 45nm line can be finalised without using US manufacturing equipment. Whether or not this ...

Start-up Britishvolt and the Welsh Government have signed a memorandum of understanding over plans to develop a 30GWh battery manufacturing plant and 200MW solar farm at a former RAF base (Bro Tathan) in the Vale of Glamorgan. Nominally called the ‘GigaPlant’, it will be situated in 80 hectares of industrial park, “with a production capacity of up to 35GWh,” according ...