Electronics' personal timeline, a place to collect and share things from Electronics' life.
Created by ElectronicsWeekly on May 28, 2009
Last updated: 05/13/11 at 02:41 AM
Electronics W. has no followers yet. Be the first one to follow.
Elpida, the No.3 DRAM producer, made an operating loss of $64m and a net loss of $101m in calendar Q1 and reckons the DRAM market has ‘bottomed out’ according to COO Yoshitaka Kinoshita.
http://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2011/05/12/51043/elpida-makes-q1-loss-cuts-capex-32.htm
Google is to launch its own lap-tops in June using Intel processors and the Chrome operating system. Their USP is said to be simpler operation.
http://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2011/05/12/51042/google-to-launch-lap-tops-in-uk-next-month.htm
Cree has announced a 1,000 lm LMR4 LED down-lighter family with a colour-rendering index (CRI) above 90. "Designed to last 35,000 hours and dimmable to 5%, the...
http://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2011/05/12/51041/led-based-100w-bulb-replacement-has-high-cri.htm
From ARM's chairman, Sir Robin Saxby, to touchscreen technology firm Zytronic's MD, Mark Cambridge, the business leaders share their particular insights on the UK electronics industry.
http://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2011/05/12/42684/q5-interviews-with-electronics-industry-leaders.htm
Cuauhtemoc Medina Rimoldi, Global Product Launch Marketer for Freescale, who focuses on the medical segment, considers how best to achieve efficiencies with glucometers, medical devices for measuring levels of glucose concentration in the blood.
http://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2011/05/10/51027/analysis-blood-glucose-meter-design.htm
Icera Semiconductor, the nine year-old Bristol soft modem company, has been sold to Nvidia for $367m – returning a $100m profit to its VC backers who have put up $250m in equity plus $12m in debt funding raised from Silicon Valley Bank in January.
http://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2011/05/09/51021/icera-sold-to-nvidia.htm
Frontier Silicon has launched an integrated iPhone 4 docking module with DAB and FM, claiming it to be the first. Called Verona2i, the module allows...
http://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2010/10/15/49680/iphone-and-ipod-dock-module-adds-dab-and-fm.htm
US researchers claim to have improved the sodium-nickel chloride battery, a technology aimed at power storage. Compared with...
http://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2010/10/15/49676/planar-construction-boosts-na-ni-battery.htm
The market is experiencing the real power of e-commerce and social networking, Harriet Green, CEO at Premier Farnell, tells Electronics Weekly
http://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2010/10/15/49673/designers-feel-sense-of-community-says-premier-farnell-ceo.htm
The MCUs are based on the SH2A-FPU (floating point unit) superscalar CPU core, which has a double-precision floating point math unit
http://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2010/10/14/49661/renesas-mcu-has-2.5mb-sram-for-display-buffer.htm
An open source project designed to increase the use of formal methods in developing high integrity software, particularly to meet the forthcoming DO-178C...
http://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2010/05/07/48587/formal-verification-ticks-ada-and-c-for-do-178c.htm
Next week Globalfoundries will announce a further expansion to its advanced manufacturing capabilities which will make its capacity on advanced technology nodes comparable with the capacity of TSMC, according to Mojy Chian, Globalfoundries’ senior vice president for device enablement, speaking at the International Electronics Forum 2010 in Dresden this morning.
http://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2010/05/07/48583/globalfoundries-to-announce-new-expansion-in-next-few-weeks.htm
The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) is talking the industry down, said Malcolm Penn, CEO of Future Horizons at his company’s International Electronics Forum 2010 in Dresden today.
http://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2010/05/06/48576/sia-is-talking-the-industry-down-says-future-horizons.htm
Circuit Design Idea: The battery simulator in this Design Idea duplicates a battery’s ESR-response curve. If you place different values in the feedback network, you can obtain various ESR curves.
http://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2010/05/06/48568/battery-simulator-has-variable-esr-response.htm
According to market analyst IMS Research, in the US it is wireless mesh networks which are most likely to be used for providing sensor communications links. In Europe and Asia it looks like powerline comms will play a bigger part
http://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2010/05/05/48565/europe-and-us-take-different-routes-to-smart-meters.htm
The MoD has bought 40 multi-band radios from Rohde & Schwarz to equip the Sea King HAR 3 fleet and the training Flight Simulator
http://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2010/03/12/48183/mod-deploys-sdr-transceivers-in-sea-king-helicopter-fleet.htm
Future Horizons is giving away one free place (not including transport or accomodation costs) worth €2,900 at its International Electronics Forum 2010 in Dresden on May 5th
http://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2010/03/12/48181/win-a-place-at-future-horizons-ief-2010.htm
The question remains: is this a move specific to the China market, where Google, the world-leading search engine, has had well publicised issues, or does it reflect a wider trend
http://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2010/03/11/48179/motorola-opens-mobile-search-with-microsoft-move.htm
“Current customer demand significantly outpacing original expectations in both the cellular products group and multi-market products group,” said the company
http://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2010/03/08/48160/rfmd-ups-business-outlook-for-mobile-chips.htm
Features of the new "Jobs Evolution" release include quicker search options, being able to search international jobs by country or selection of countries, similar-job-matching features ("More jobs like this...") and peer behaviour recommendations ("People who applied for this job, also applied for...").
http://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2010/03/05/48150/electronics-jobs-evolution-service-launches.htm
Guest editor Ron Wilson from EDN explores how IC design teams really work: the struggle for power efficiency and performance, wrestling with semiconductor processes and design methodologies, the challenges of global design teams
http://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2010/03/03/48129/actel-integrates-cortex-m3-and-programmable-analogue-in-fpga.htm
EVOC has launched an Intel Atom processor-based single board computer which has six Gbit LAN ports
http://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2010/03/03/48126/embedded-world-atom-board-comes-with-six-gbit-lan-ports.htm
Vishay has announced lab-grade resistors aimed at metrology. Z203 devices feature...
http://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2010/03/01/48105/resistors-aimed-at-metrology.htm
XMOS may take months to find a new CEO, according to the company's vice president of marketing Joerg Bertholdt.
http://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2010/02/19/48043/search-for-xmos-ceo-may-take-months.htm
Should Google pay for using the telephone system for its searches? The boss of Vodafone, Vittorio Colao, says Yes , while the boss of Google, Eric Schmidt, says No.
http://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2010/02/18/48029/vodafone-and-google-square-up-in-barcelona.htm
The annual Mobile World Congress - formerly known as 3GSM - is intended to highlight the latest trends in mobile technology and services. Catch up on the latest news from the event in Barcelona.
http://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2010/02/17/43090/gsma-mobile-world-congress-your-electronics-weekly-guide.htm
Sevcon, which designs drives for electric vehicles in Gateshead, reported three month sales of $6.3M to NASDAQ through its Massachusetts parent Tech/Ops Sevcon.
http://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2010/02/17/48028/new-market-returns-sevcon-to-profit.htm
Guest columnist Mark Glasser from Mentor Graphics believes that Open Verification Methodology, or OVM, is an attempt to bundle SystemVerilog interoperability with a standard library and a proven verification methodology
http://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2010/02/17/48026/analysis-open-verification-addresses-chip-complexity.htm
Green Hills Software is entering the mobile phone software market with a hypervisor for chips with dual ARM Cortex A9 processors. The Multivisor is based on Green Hill's Integrity real time operating system.
http://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2010/02/16/48015/wmc2010-green-hills-hypervisor-targets-chips-with-dual-arm-cortex-a9.htm
When driving an H-bridge or a similar circuit, you usually must ensure that two or more transistors are not on at the same time. Eliminating multiple transistors from turning on reduces power consumption and lowers EMI (electromagnetic interference). Crossover-delay circuits solve that problem.
http://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2010/02/15/48013/circuit-precludes-common-mode-conduction.htm
The result of the dramatic struggle for the chairmanship of the Infineon supervisory board should be known today.
http://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2010/02/11/47989/bauer-up-beat-as-infineon-votes.htm
Elonics has teamed with Realtek Semiconductor to design a multi-standard DVB-T, DAB/DAB+ and FM TV and radio reference design for USB dongles or internal USB Minicards.
http://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2010/02/10/47978/elonics-designs-mobile-tv-usb-dongle-for-notebooks.htm
Wolfson Microelectronics reported revenues $121.3m for 2009, down from 2008's $198.2m for an operating loss of $15.3m, compared to 2008's $14.7m.
http://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2010/02/09/47976/wolfson-on-track-for-growth-in-2010.htm
Nokia is planning to cut up to 285 employees as it realigns the operating mode of its Salo plant to focus on the high-value smartphone market, especially in Europe.
http://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2010/02/09/47974/nokia-to-cut-staff-focus-salo-plant-on-smartphones.htm
Using a multi-chip package, Cree has developed an LED that will compete with 75W light bulbs.
http://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2010/02/02/47932/cree-led-to-hit-1500-lumens.htm
Silica is running a hands-on digital power training course aimed at analogue PSU designers and embedded systems engineers.
http://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2010/02/02/47925/silica-runs-digital-power-supply-design-workshop.htm
Mobile phone shipments grew by 10% in Q4 which signals an "end to the industry’s recession which first began during Q4 2008,” said Neil Mawston, director at Strategy Analytics
http://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2010/01/29/47902/mobile-phone-market-is-out-of-recession.htm
Every device linked to the Internet needs an IP address to enable it to connect with the rest of the network. The biggest threat that the Internet faces today is that we’re running out of the current form of IP addresses, IPv4
http://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2010/01/28/47896/what-happens-when-internet-runs-out-of-ipv4-addresses.htm
The circuit in this Design Idea realises a simple, low-cost lock-in amplifier employing an analogue Devices AD630 balanced modulator-demodulator IC. The device uses laser-trimmed thin-film resistors, yielding accuracy and stability and, thus, a flexible commutation architecture.
http://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2010/01/21/47835/circuit-design-four-quadrant-lock-in-amplifier-generates-two-analogue-outputs.htm
Data security firm Imperva has revealed hopeless log-in behaviour after analysing 32 million passwords revealed in a rockyou.com breach.
http://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2010/01/21/47839/data-security-firm-imperva-reveals-login-weakness.htm
“The devices now offer a complete system build for industrial control applications,” Anders Frederiksen, DSP marketing manager at Analog Devices told EW
http://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2010/01/18/47803/analog-devices-adds-2mss-12-bit-adc-to-blackfin-processor.htm
Rutronik has expanded its franchise agreement with Omron to cover Italy, Spain, Portugal, Benelux, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Denmark
http://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2010/01/13/47780/rutronik-widens-european-coverage-for-omron.htm
The mobile industry is pushing for a rapid opening up the 2.6GHz frequency band across the world for mobile broadband services.
http://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2010/01/13/47778/licensing-2.6ghz-band-vital-for-mobile-broadband-gsma.htm
Microchip aims to strengthen its wireless offerings by enabling embedded designers to connect ZeroG Wireless' Wi-Fi technology with its 8-, 16- or 32-bit PIC microcontrollers.
http://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2010/01/12/47766/microchip-buys-zerog-wireless.htm
This year's 2010 International CES runs from 7 - 10 January and, with manufacturers, developers and suppliers of consumer electronics hardware queuing up to showcase new technology, we bring you the latest electronics news from the event.
http://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2010/01/07/42859/ces-2010-consumer-electronics-in-the-spotlight.htm
Creative Technology's media chip subsidiary, ZiilLABS will show a 1080p HDTV system-on-chip (SoC) device based on the ARM Cortex-A8 processor at CES in Las Vegas this week.
http://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2010/01/06/47723/arm-scores-hdtv-design-win-at-ces.htm
Lantiq, Infineon Technology's wireless chip spin-off, has acquired WLAN (Wireless Local Area Network) related assets and intellectual property (IP) from Israel based Metalink.
http://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2010/01/06/47722/infineon-wireless-chip-spin-out-buys-mimo-technology.htm
Aimed at ARM processor-based handheld devices, the AS3607 chip’s output voltage and the timing of all regulators can be programmed via software
http://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2010/01/05/47716/power-device-adds-more-programmability.htm
A typical data centre uses up to 30 times more energy than a typical office building, and total data centre energy use is doubling every five years, says IBM. While the UK and US are battling it out for the title of the 'most green' data centre, two UK startups are taking different approaches to reducing power.
http://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2010/01/05/47712/nick-flaherty-on.-greening-the-data-centre.htm
The concept of the tablet is a mobile device which sits between the netbook and smartphone. It has a form factor that is approximately one-third the size and volume of today’s typical netbook
http://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2010/01/04/47699/freescale-puts-arm-cortex-a8-into-mobile-tablet.htm
Update Sources
