At the recent VLSI Symposium, IMEC announced that it has improved its 193nm immersion lithography process to yield reproducible FinFETs with fin widths down to 5nm and high aspect ratios. The development is said to eliminate the need for channel doping, reducing parametric spread and junction leakage.
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Freescale has expanded its mram family with the first 3V 4Mbit extended temperature range (-40 to 105°C) device. Freescale also has broadened its commercial mram line with a 1Mbit device, said to addresses the ‘sweet spot’ of the mainstream embedded market.
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Anglia Designs’ £500,000, 2500 sq ft technology centre in Wisbech has been officially opened by IET president Sir Robin Saxby. The facility has a fully equipped laboratory, a wet room that includes a pcb etching, drilling and environmental chamber, and a custom built emc test chamber to help Anglia customers achieve pre compliance for their ...
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With an eye on the burgeoning market for led lighting, Cypress has launched what it terms a complete design solution for high brightness intelligent led lighting systems.
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Texas Instruments plans to integrate a hafnium based ‘high k’ material in the transistors for its 45nm process. The move will reduce leakage by more than 30 times per unit area as compared with silicon oxide gate dielectrics. The approach will also scale to the 32nm process node.
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Cambridge Consultants has become the first authorised design centre for picoArray, picoChip's multicore digital signal processor.
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The Wibree Forum, a group promoting the ultra low power wireless technology originally developed by Nokia, is to merge with the Bluetooth SIG. Wibree will now become the ultra low power part of the Bluetooth specification.
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Toshiba has announced a 3d memory cell structure that enhances density and data capacity without relying on advances in process technology, and with minimal increase in the chip die size.
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Aimed at enabling motion based functions in a range of space constrained portable consumer electronics devices, a three axis digital output MEMS based accelerometer from Freescale is said to be 77% smaller than previous industry offerings. At 0.8mm thick, the MMA7450L is also claimed as the world’s thinnest accelerometer.
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A research team combining staff from the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), George Mason University and Kwangwoon University in Korea has fabricated a memory device that combines silicon nanowires with a more traditional type of data storage. The hybrid structure is said to be more reliable than other nanowire based memory ...
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Scientists at the University of Portsmouth are using the latest breakthroughs in artificial intelligence to develop the world’s first thinking car wheel as part of a £200,000 DTI funded Knowledge Transfer Partnership project with PML Flightlink.
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New MS269X series streamlines signal analysis, increases measurement speed and combines multiple test features in one module.
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An advanced motion sensor from Analog Devices is set to address applications previously served by more expensive parts. In a move which extends its iSensor range, the ADIS16355 inertial measurement unit delivers performance and functionality previously reserved for defence, aerospace and other high end applications at approximately one tenth of ...
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TSMC moves to end DFM uncertainty. Paul Dempsey reports from DAC in San Diego.
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STMicroelectronics has announced a new family of 32bit flash microcontrollers based on the ARM Cortex-M3 core. According to the company, the combination of high performance, low power and low cost will make the range attractive to existing 8 and 16bit users looking to upgrade.
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Location hardware means ZigBee chip knows its position. Graham Pitcher reports.
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From Derek Boyd
Your call for a champion for the UK electronics industry (Comment, NE, 22 May) is well recognised and important.
As chairman of the UK Electronics Alliance (UKEA) and chief executive of the National Microelectronics Institute (NMI), I can say that both organisations are already doing much to align the UK’s wider electronics ...
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For amateur and professional alike, rocketry is challenging, inspiring, educational and above all else, fun! By Mike Richardson.
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Two of the UK’s leading electronics academics have been presented with the Royal Academy of Engineering’s Silver Medal, recognising outstanding personal contribution to UK engineering.
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Varitronix has launched a monochrome TFT display which it believes will find application in automotive and industrial displays. It says the screen maintains the same characteristics as a full colour TFT – wide viewing angles, fast refresh and a wide temperature operating range – but claims better sunlight readability. It adds that the screen is ...
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Researchers at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in the US have developed a method of compacting carbon nanotubes into dense bundles. These bundles are efficient conductors and are seen as having the potential to replace copper as the primary interconnects in chips.
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A consortium of Filtronic, Forge Europa, QinetiQ, Thomas Swan and Cambridge University, has won a three year contract worth close to £3million to develop a route to low cost leds for solid state lighting.
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Bookham will unveil a very high brightness laser diode bar at LASER World of Photonics 2007 in Munich later this month. The bar has a power output of 80W – up to four times the brightness of a typical 10mm bar. With a bar smile of less than 1µm – a record for a hard-soldered device – the product is designed for efficient beam shaping and should ...
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Ansoft has updated its flagship product HFSS to version 11, adding greater accuracy, capacity and performance. HFSS v11 includes new higher order hierarchical basis functions, combined with an iterative solver that provides accurate fields using smaller meshes and thus more efficient solutions for large multiwavelength structures.
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Cambridge Consultants has made three senior management changes and unveiled plans to expand global operations over the next five years, creating more than 200 new jobs.
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