Author Archives: Chris Edwards

About Chris Edwards

Chris Edwards has spent a long time covering electronics and EDA. He is a former Editor-in-Chief of Electronic Engineering Times UK and electronics editor of the IET's Engineering & Technology. His work has appeared in a variety of international newspapers including The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph, The Age and the South China Morning Post.
March 26, 2019

Flexible PCB stretches across UAV’s wings for lower weight

UK-based Trackwise has shipped what could easily be the longest ever flexible PCB with a 26m-long substrate to deliver power and control to a UAV's wings.
March 26, 2019

DVCon Europe looks to software in call for papers

DVCon Europe has added embedded software, digital twin, machine learning, and RISC-V to the topics the conference organizers want to cover.
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March 20, 2019

Microsoft offers free RTL for fast server compression

Not only has Microsoft decided to make a compression algorithm intended for data centers open source, the company the company is providing its own RTL to anyone who wants to implement it in silicon.
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March 18, 2019

PCI may provide key to OCP chiplet standard

The ODSA Workgroup formed by Netronome and others is looking to adopt the PIPE standard for interconnecting chiplets as it starts work on a proof-of-concept module.
March 15, 2019

ES Design West registration opens

Registration has opened for the first ES Design West exhibition, which takes place alongside Semicon West in San Francisco in July.
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March 12, 2019

Free registration opens for DAC

The Design Automation Conference (DAC) has kicked off free registration for the exhibit floor at early June's Las Vegas event.
March 6, 2019

MACOM to use GlobalFoundries 300mm SOI for PICs

MACOM has decided to use GlobalFoundries' 90nm SOI process on 300mm wafers to build higher-integration optical-switching devices for servers.
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February 28, 2019

Graphcore licenses ESD protection from Sofics

Graphcore has licensed IP from Belgium-based Sofics to protect its Colossus GC2 processors from ESD.
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February 18, 2019

UltraSoC scales up debug architecture

UltraSoC has increased the capacity of its embedded analytics architecture to encompass large-scale manycore architectures.
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February 12, 2019

Thin copper iodide films point to better transparent PMOS

Researchers working at Dongguk University have found thinning layers of copper iodide can make transparent, high-mobility p-channel transistors
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