The latest news, developments and announcements from around the electronics industry.
Nordic Semiconductor is launching its battery-powered, dual-antenna compact nRF54L15 prototyping tag, which is optimised for Google’s Find Hub and Apple’s Find My systems. The idea is for developers to to more quickly build proofs of concept for ultra-low-power wireless products. For example, asset tags, Bluetooth trackers, and other such devices. The company says it is the hardware counterpart to its ...
TT Electronics is celebrating its Hallogic Hall-effect sensors being selected as part of Nasa’s Dragonfly Mission, which will send a robotic rotorcraft to a moon of Saturn. Specifically, it will supply Hallogic OMH3075S Hall-effect sensors for integration into fan assemblies on NASA’s Dragonfly rotorcraft mission. These support a spacecraft subsystem where reliability, and consistency, is essential across the programme lifecycle, ...
PhotonPath, the Milan photonics specialist, and Xiver, the Eindhoven MEMS foundry, are collaborating to scale production of PhotonPath’s Oxyn platform. The partnership enables the transition of Oxyn manufacturing to Xiver’s 200mm wafer infrastructure, expanding wafer capacity, improving lead times and ensuring consistent, repeatable quality for high-performance photonic devices. Oxyn is PhotonPath’s integrated photonics platform for telecom and datacom applications. It ...
European startups can now access Siemens’ industrial software through three startup-specific software collections. Siemens has put together three startup-specific software collections to make industrial software more accessible for early-stage companies in Europe. These collections are preconfigured for common product development needs and are tailored to startup budgets and speed while scaling as companies grow. The largest challenge facing startups is ...
Femtosecond laser startup LITILIT has begun developing a new large-scale femtosecond laser production facility in Vilnius, with a project value of approximately €6m. The company plans to complete the main construction and fit-out works by the end of this year and reach annual production capacity of up to 3,000 lasers within approximately a few years of launch. The extremely short ...
Toshiba has launched two quad-channel, medium-speed, compact low-power standard digital isolators for industrial equipment and consumer electronics. The DCL341x0B series supports reliable operation with high common mode transient immunity (CMTI) of 30kV/μs (min.) and medium-speed data transfer of 25Mbps (max.). Applications include programmable logic controllers (PLCs), field equipment, such as sensors and actuators, and I/O interfaces equipped with SPI communication. ...
Imec and Sony have developed a novel integration module for highly dense backside interconnects – key components of 3D stacking and backside functionalisation technologies. The module is structured around a self-aligned local backside dielectric isolation (local BDI) step, resulting in low-resistance and low-leakage highly dense front-to-back through-Si vias (TSVs), with 3x larger overlay window compared to conventional TSV approaches. The ...
As software becomes more central in medical devices it is moving towards connected, software-driven systems, writes Andreas Lifvendahl. The trace view shows the runtime behaviour of a real-time system, including task scheduling, interrupts and concurrency, making temporal dependencies visible. Pic: Percepio AB The medical device industry is entering a transition that, while less visible than the automotive shift to software-defined ...
Impulse Space – a Californian startup in space transportation services – has raised $500 million in Series D funding for building in-space mobility infrastructure. The round was co-led by 137 Ventures and BANNER VC, and brings the company’s total capital raised to $1 billion. The funding will support hiring and future manufacturing, says the company. Such mobility infrastructure includes the ...
Renesas has bought software developer Pictorus, based in Oakland, California. With the acquisition of Pictorus Renesas gains a cloud-based behavioural modelling platform that accelerates embedded system development, moving the engineering experience beyond point tools by providing a connected platform for model-based system design. This acquisition will enhance the value of Renesas 365, Renesas’ newly released platform that unifies electronics system ...
