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Renesas has revealed more on the Arm Cortex-M85 based microcontrollers it announced at Embedded World in May, and started shipping them today. Initial parts are general-purpose and consigned to what Renesas has named the RA8M1 group of the RA8 series. Common specs of RA8M1 parts are: 480MHz Cortex-M85 with Helium and TrustZone, 1 or 2Mbyte programme flash, 12kbyte data flash, ...

Power Integrations has introduced a 1,250V GaN version of its Innoswitch family of off-line constant-voltage constant-current quasi-resonant fly-back switcher ICs, making the options: 725V silicon, 750, 900 or 1.25kV GaN or 1.7kV silicon carbide. These are multi-die devices in a single package, with synchronous output and a proprietary inductive isolated feedback technique using bond-wires. The new devices have been dubbed ...

Murata’s novel soil sensor can now handle synthetic soils. “In recent years, the use of synthetic culture soil such as rock wool and coconut peat is popular for crops including tomatoes and strawberries,” according to the company. “Since the water retention capability of these kinds of culture soil is extremely high compared to general culture soil, proper measurement of water ...

To prevent intellectual property leakage, Segger has introduced a package that programmes microcontrollers securely at third party locations such as contract manufactures. Even the programmer-to-MCU connection is secured against ‘sniffing’, because captured signals are one-time encrypted. The scheme is implemented by the company’s Flasher Secure programmer hardware, combined with software dubbed ‘Telp’ for ‘target encrypted link package’. It works like ...

Diodes has is aiming at automotive LED strings with a boost and SEPIC (single-ended primary-inductance converter) controller, that can also be wired as a voltage regulator. Called AL8853AQ, it is qualified to AEC-Q100 and implements current-mode and fixed-frequency (400khz) PWM control. Slope-compensation is included to prevent sub-harmonic oscillation at duty cycles >50%. The IC requires an external n-channel power switching ...

Micron Technology is shipping samples of its LPDDR5X (low-power double data rate 5X) memory for use with Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 – Qualcomm’s new flagship processor for phones. “Running at the world’s fastest speed grade of 9.6Gbit/s, Micron LPDDR5X provides the mobile ecosystem with the performance needed to unlock generative artificial intelligence at the edge,” claimed Micron. This speed compares ...

United Monolithic Semiconductors has introduced a 24.25 – 30.5GHz combined output power amplifier, input low-noise amplifier and transit-receive switch. Called CHC6054-QQA, it is manufactured from AlGaN/GaN-on-SiC (gallium nitride on silicon carbide) and gallium arsenide die, both from 150mm wafers. Packaging is 4 x 5mm QFN. It “typically exhibits an Rx gain of 18dB with a noise figure of 3.2dB, and ...

Faster on-die memory access for AI processing could spring from a collaboration between network-on-chip intellectual property company Arteris and the Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering (Fraunhofer IESE). Memory access is important with neural network algorithms as their execution requires large quantities of data to be transferred between processing elements and memory, increasing emphasis on the performance of the access ...

At 160µm tall, Murata is claiming to have the thinnest automotive-rated 1µF capacitor, which also measures 0.5 x 1mm. To reduce inductance, it has its terminals along the long sides – so called ‘reverse’ construction. Rated at 2.5V and having a maximum height of 180µm, LLC15SD70E105ME01# is one of only two membeds of a new family that the company has ...

AI rock fall detection has been installed on the railway between Dawlish and Dawlish Warren stations in Devon, where it runs beneath cliffs. The “platform uses cutting-edge analytics and machine learning to provide automated incident alerts and previously hidden data insights”, according to Warwick-based infrastructure company Telenet. It “can send incident alerts in real time to station control rooms by ...