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Renesas Delivers 10 New Winning Combinations That Include Both Automotive and Non-Automotive Products

“Fully Tested Solutions Showcase Entire Renesas Portfolio; Address EV Charging, Vehicle Cluster Control and Other Applications. Renesas Electronics Corporation (TSE: 6723) today announced that it has introduced 10 new Winning Combinations that combine a broad range of products from Renesas …

Renesas Unveils Quick-Connect Studio: Industry’s First-Ever Cloud-based System Development Tool to Dynamically Create IoT Software

“Quick-Connect Studio Accelerates the Design Cycle by Enabling Customers to Build Rapid Prototypes and Develop Production-Level Software before Designing Hardware Renesas Electronics Corporation (TSE:6723), a premier supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, today introduced a groundbreaking new online, cloud-based IoT …

Researchers create metasurface that enables multichannel terahertz transmission

“Tiny metasurface devices could help improve communication, terahertz imaging, manipulating particles and encoding of quantum information. Researchers have designed and demonstrated two all-silicon terahertz metasurface devices that can be used to create four optical channels for simultaneously implementing different optical …

Researchers uncover new water monitoring technique

“Water is a vital resource, and clean water is a necessity. Texas A&M University researchers have developed a new technique to monitor one of the key processes of purifying water in real time. Raw water contains microscopic pathogens that …

Reverse-engineering the ModR/M addressing microcode in the Intel 8086 processor

“One interesting aspect of a computer’s instruction set is its addressing modes, how the computer determines the address for a memory access. The Intel 8086 (1978) used the ModR/M byte, a special byte following the opcode, to select …

Sea of Segments

“1536 seven segment displays that show videos of water I’ve always loved the seven segment display. It probably started because they were on pretty much every applicance when I was a kid, but as I got older I admired …

SparkFun Electronics, InPlay, and Bosch Sensortec partner to release two new NanoBeacon boards

“The new boards are ultra-low power, require no coding, and support Bosch Sensortec’s BME280 and BMA400 sensors In collaboration with InPlay and Bosch Sensortec, SparkFunⓇ is pleased to release two new IoT development boards: the SparkFun NanoBeacon™ Board - IN100 …

STMicroelectronics earns USB-IF certification for complete USB PD EPR solution; efficiently delivers up to 140W from a single adapter

“STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM), a global semiconductor leader serving customers across the spectrum of electronics applications, has achieved USB-IF (USB Implementers Forum) certification of two ICs for use in adapter (source) and device (sink) sides of a USB Power Delivery …

STMicroelectronics grows ST-ONE controller family for USB Power Delivery applications up to 140W

“STMicroelectronics has introduced the ST-ONEHP integrated digital controller, the world’s first IC certified by USB-IF according to the USB Power Delivery Extended Power Range (USB PD 3.1 EPR) specification. As the third controller in the ST …

Telling time on the Moon

“A new era of lunar exploration is on the rise, with dozens of Moon missions planned for the coming decade. Europe is in the forefront here, contributing to building the Gateway lunar station and the Orion spacecraft – set to return …