Xilinx announced the adoption of RF (RF) analog technology in its 16nm All Programmable MPSoC to enable 5G wireless integration and architectural breakthroughs. The company’s new All Programmable RFSoC removes discrete data converters that reduce the power consumption and footprint of 5G Massive-MIMO and millimeter-wave wireless backhaul applications by 50 to 75 percent. bcm4319gkubg

Large-scale 2D antenna array system, will be to enhance the required 5G spectrum efficiency and network encryption key. As manufacturers must look for new ways to meet the stringent requirements of commercial deployment. The All Programmable SoC integrates high-performance ADCs and DACs, and today’s radio and wireless backhaul units meet previously unmatched power and package size requirements while increasing channel density. In addition, RFSoC components enable manufacturers to simplify design and development cycles to meet the 5G deployment schedule.

“The Xilinx RFSoC solution is a rule subversive of the RRU / Massive MIMO Active Antenna Array market and enables the company to become the next generation of 4G, 4.5G and 5G wireless networks,” said Earl Lum, president of EJL Wireless Research. Of the preferred digital solution provider. 88e1112c2-nnc1

“The integration of RF signal processing in the All Programmable SoC allows our customers to dramatically change their system architecture,” said Liam Madden, vice president of FPGA development and chip technology at Xilinx. At the same time, can continue to promote the company in the system integration of continuous breakthrough. This will effectively enable our 5G customers to deploy commercially highly differentiated, massively Massive-MIMO, and millimeter-wave return systems. Through the most important moment, the introduction of our new RFSoC architecture, is expected to solve the 5G development faced by the urgent problems.

First, the frequent pre-charge, will lead to pre-charge resistance heat accumulation, and finally burned. So the provisions of a shortest cycle, is to resist the heat.

Second, the frequent pre-charge and discharge, DC bus capacitor life will be affected. Fold life. w25q80bvssig

Precharge and motor has nothing to do with the frequent start and stop, it is mainly for the inverter input power and said. Is the thyristor rectifier power supply, although you can not pre-charge resistance, but the second, the capacitor is also very worthy of concern. Frequent charge and discharge, will lead to the capacitor quickly finished.

By reason, the rectifier part of the current balance is based on the main circuit of the inverter current to calculate the pre-charge current is much smaller, should not cause too much impact. Even if the thyristor rectifier circuit, the number of starts can not be too much, the general number of normal thyristor circuit is not more than 6 times per hour, but this is not normal start, because this time the fan is not working, plus start Specific resistance to the inductive load is much greater than the current impact, heat accumulation is inevitable, but relative to the resistance to be worse. adum1200

Therefore, the rectifier part is also a factor in the impact.

Technology industry have entered the field of electric vehicles and automatic driving, as a catch-up action, Samsung Electronics announced that it will spend 8 billion US dollars, the acquisition of US auto parts manufacturer Harman International (Harman International), recently Haman shareholders meeting officially Through the Samsung acquisition plan.

According to a number of foreign media reports, this week, Samsung Group, the de facto leader Li Zongrong arrested in South Korea, and was charged with bribes and other charges. The outside world has been worried that this change will lead to Samsung Electronics acquisition of Harman company was postponed. icm-20689

However, Harman International’s shareholders meeting as scheduled, the General Assembly to 22: 1 voter turnout, formally adopted the Samsung Electronics acquisition plan.

It is reported that if Samsung’s successful acquisition of Harman, it will be the largest company in Korea so far overseas mergers and acquisitions.

After the approval of the shareholders of Hammam, the acquisition also need to be approved by the regulatory authorities of the United States, China, Korea and the European Union. It is estimated that if all goes well, the deal will be completed in the third quarter of 2017.

After the announcement of the Samsung acquisition plan, Harman International’s shareholders for the company’s management initiated a class action, that management did not help the company to find a better offer. However, Harman submitted to the US Securities and Exchange Commission documents show that Samsung’s acquisition will not be affected by this class action. 160208-1

In recent years, the technology industry and the automotive industry there has been a convergence trend. In the Google (microblogging) under the demonstration effect, automatic driving car in the global rise, many technology companies and traditional car manufacturers have developed automatic driving technology, and many other car companies have begun to follow Tesla, mass production of electric vehicles The In addition, the automotive and mobile Internet, mobile devices began to deep integration, there has been a “smart car” new concept.

Samsung Electronics in the field of cars before the emergence of a slow phenomenon, and the acquisition of Harman International, Samsung will narrow the gap between competitors and in the automotive electronics, Samsung will also get more room for development.

In the 1990s, Samsung Electronics entered the automotive industry, registered the “Samsung Motor” company, Samsung chose Nissan as a development partner, but Samsung’s expansion in the automotive sector is not smooth, in 1998, the Asian financial crisis, Business transfer to the French Renault Motor Company, the basic withdrawal from the automotive market.

It is worth mentioning that the history of Samsung Electronics tend to self-development, few cases of overseas mergers and acquisitions, also occurred in the acquisition of the lessons of failure, whether this can be successfully integrated in a “strange industry” Harman International, remains to be Observed.

To support the growing number of Internet of Things (IoT) applications, Intel today announced the Intel Cyclone 10 Series Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA). The series is designed to provide fast, energy-efficient processing capabilities that can be used in a wide range of fields including automotive, industrial automation, professional audiovisual and visual systems.

Data processing becomes increasingly difficult as the “all things” have a higher level of interconnection and can share large amounts of real-time data with each other. Information on sensors and cameras in buildings, factories, homes and vehicles is increasing, and microprocessors or microcontrollers are no longer able to process this information alone.

Intel FPGA and other high-performance processing equipment to collect and send data, according to the input of Internet of things equipment to make real-time decision-making. FPGAs can be programmed to provide specific computing and functionality for different networking applications. ar65127198

Cyclone® 10 FPGAs and Cyclone ™ 10 LP-have their unique features that meet the needs of the design team.

Unlike other low-cost FPGAs, Cyclone 10 GX supports 10G transceivers and hard floating-point digital signal processing (DSP). Compared to the previous generation Cyclone, it can improve performance by 2 times. With architecture innovations, digital signal processing modules that support IEEE 754 single-precision hardened floating-point operations support processing rates up to 134GFLO (gigabit floating-point operands per second). This is important for engineers who use FPGAs to perform applications such as motion or motor control systems with higher performance.

The Intel Cyclone 10 GX market includes a market that focuses on high performance I / O and core speed. Areas of use include industrial machine vision and smart city applications to support the monitoring of parking lots, roads and bridges. Cyclone 10 GX is also well suited for supporting professional audio-visual technologies such as video streaming applications.

The motor drive system occupies more than two-thirds of the industrial energy consumption, and its energy-saving operation is critical to the intelligent plant. Cyclone 10 GX FPGAs help save the cost of systems such as motors and drives, powertrain, computer numerical control (CNC), machine tools and robots. 74hc596

By using Cyclone 10 GX and other FPGAs, operators can significantly reduce the total cost of ownership in the entire product line. For example, operators can use Cyclone 10 GX to integrate industrial networks and functional security into a single chip, thereby reducing bill of materials costs.

Intel is the industry’s first FPGA vendor to acquire IEC 61508 devices and tools to help developers more easily meet industry mechanical safety standards when using Cyclone 10 GX and Cyclone 10 LP development.

Intel Cyclone 10 LP is the ideal solution for cost and power consumption as a key element in design decisions. These systems use FPGA density is usually less than 75K LE, FPGA is usually used for chip-to-chip bridge, or microprocessor I / O expansion.

Cyclone 10 LP can also be used in automotive video processing applications for rearview cameras and sensors, through the car to collect a number of sensors when the vehicle driving data, to help a more comprehensive understanding of vehicle traffic.

Cyclone 10 FPGA series together with the evaluation kit, development board, the latest version of Quartus programming software, will be shipped in the second half of 2017.

Integrated circuit, commonly known as “chip”, is the core of the information technology industry, known as the country’s industrial food. China’s memory market accounts for half of the global market, but the lack of independent intellectual property rights and talent, resulting in high-density, large-capacity memory completely dependent on imports. This brings great hidden trouble to our country’s information security.

To solve this problem, a team quietly worked for more than a decade, it is with this “take the bench to sit hot” spirit, so that they finally won the 2016 National Natural Science Award Second Prize. This is the new nonvolatile memory research team led by Academician Liu Ming of the Institute of Microelectronics of Chinese Academy of Sciences. After 15 years of efforts, he has accumulated independent intellectual property rights in the field of high density and large capacity memory and cultivated talents. And they developed a new type of variable-resistance memory is promoting the industrialization process, is expected to enter the mainstream memory market in the future. ts518fe-fl35e

Decode the variable-resistance memory

Liu Qi, the second researcher of the project, is one of the team members. Recalled with the project leader, mentor Liu Ming academicians of the acquaintance, Liu Qi had exclaimed the fate of their own blessing. In 2006, Liu Qi was also a graduate student in Anhui University, Liu was a report of academicians deeply attracted, he loves scientific research to seize the opportunity to express to the Academician Liu Ming want to do joint training students, did not expect the desire Quickly realized that he has been in this team to learn and work for 10 years.

He said that the resistance variable memory is a new non-volatile storage technology, and the current mainstream non-volatile memory Flash Memory (flash memory) compared to the performance there is a great advantage, while the resistance variable memory from the metal – medium – metal composition, the structure is very simple, is conducive to achieving high-density three-dimensional integration, is the future of large-capacity memory strong competitors. frb-wt145

After more than ten years, the project has carried out in-depth research work on the mechanism, materials, structure, integrated technology and chip design of the resistive memory, and has effectively deployed intellectual property rights. These achievements have contributed to China’s development of independent intellectual property Property rights of the variable resistance storage technology to lay a scientific and technological foundation.

This reporter learned. The team accumulated charge trapping memory related technologies and patents transferred to Wuhan in 2014 for the industrialization of the new core development, in 2016, Wuhan Xinxin and microelectronics by virtue of the technology and personnel cooperation to become the national memory industry base, including the Purple Group, National Integrated Circuit Fund, a total of 24 billion US dollars of investment, the establishment of the Yangtze River storage company. “Chinese Academy of Microelectronics by the memory-related patents and technology is the core of independent research and development of the core products of the initial source and one of the main basis.”

Scientific research process is long and mysterious

In an interview with reporters before the completion of the fourth person project Long Shibing researcher has just met a counseling undergraduate students. The student has just completed two pages of 40 pages in English.

In the external electrical excitation, the phenomenon of material resistance changes occurred as early as the 1960s was reported, but the use of this phenomenon to develop new non-volatile storage technology is gradually started from 2000, Long Shibing told reporters, Liu Ming academician team in 2004 began to pay attention to the resistance variable memory, the research process with the international synchronization.

In the initial stages, the team found that many material systems exhibit resistance-switching behavior under electrical excitation, but most of the devices require an initial activation process that requires a large voltage that can affect device yield, performance And the reliability of a serious impact. In order to solve this problem, we can improve the device performance and improve the yield of the device by theoretical analysis and a large number of experimental verification. At present, this method has become one of the commonly used methods to improve the device performance in the field of resistance variable memory.

The process of resistivity is accompanied by some physical and chemical changes. These changes will lead to the formation and disintegration of the conductive path inside the material, but how to observe and analyze the microscopic information of these changes is a very difficult task. In response to this problem, they developed a set of in situ TEM test method, can be observed under external voltage, real-time materials within the conductive pathway formation and bursting process. Based on this method, they first obtained the formation of conductive pathways and burst dynamic image process, which is the micro-mechanism of the study of resistance has a great impetus.

Understanding the formation and collapse of conductive paths is the fundamental cause of resistive behavior. Naturally, it is important to understand how to control the formation and collapse of conductive vias, which is critical to improving device performance. Therefore, the further development of the electric field to enhance the regulation of thinking, to achieve the conductive pathway growth process of human control for the large-scale integration of resistance variable memory provides a solution.

Industrialization of the beautiful vision

Wang Yan as the fifth person to complete the project, told reporters about the award-winning mentality. She believes that their lives and mentality has not changed, the award is a team of many years of work recognition, is also an encouragement.

She felt as a lesbian, in the work with the male colleagues and no difference. Scientific research needs to focus and input, but also need to help each other, and expressed glad that they are in such a team. She said, mentor Liu Ming is a very elegant and gentle woman, very serious about the work, encounter difficulties to her help, she will do everything possible to help. Treat people in good faith, but also no shelves.

The whole team under the leadership of the instructor, formed a sincere and simple work atmosphere. Team members have met for many years, together with the issue of variable resistance memory little by little to do, from the principle of exploration, performance improvement, to the commercial application of exploration. She said that has been a lot of help, can become a part of this team is a very lucky thing.

Liu Qi said that the team in carrying out basic research at the same time, but also pay attention to the application of variable-resistance memory research. On the one hand, focus on the protection of intellectual property rights, has applied for nearly a hundred patents, focused on materials, structures, processes, algorithms, circuits, which has been granted 8 US patents, more than 50 patents in China. On the other hand, is also actively transfer the results to the industry, is currently with SMIC, Beijing Chi-core Microelectronics Technology Co., Ltd. jointly developed 28nm RRAM mass production technology and product application development, hoping to promote China’s self- development of.

According to the International Semiconductor Industry Association (SEMI) of the Silicon Manufacturers Group (SMG) released the latest silicon industry analysis released by the end of the year show that the overall semiconductor industry to benefit from the booming situation, 2016 global silicon wafer shipments An increase of 3% in 2015, and total revenue increased slightly by 1%.

SEMI noted that shipments of silicon wafers will total 10,738 million square inches (MSI) in 2016, up from 10,434 million square feet of the market’s highest point in 2015. The total amount of revenue in 2016, the total amount of $ 7.21 billion, compared with $ 7.15 billion in 2015 revenue growth of 1%. SEMI Taiwan, said Cao Shilun, president, although the overall silicon wafer revenue due to lower unit prices and lower than the previous level. However, 2016 semiconductor silicon wafer shipments for 3 consecutive years of growth, and a record high. hmt351r7cfr8c-pb

SEMI has pointed out a few days ago, then continue to optimistic about the 2017 global semiconductor boom. The reason is because of the rise of China’s semiconductor investment, including foreign investment in recent years, as well as local industry, China will have at least 20 fab construction plan. In addition, SEMI quoted market research firm Gartner estimates that optimistic about the 2017 semiconductor industry will grow 5% to 7%, an opportunity to reach a high of $ 361.1 billion, mainly due to rising memory unit prices and the overall IC shipments Increase, restore strong growth momentum. rk73z1ettp

Therefore, SEMI said that in 2017 the overall global semiconductor industry growth will be more robust, fab investment, foundry, 3D NAND and the Chinese market investment will be the future of the main investment in kinetic energy.

With the Japanese TV makers in early 2017 decided to put into the OLED TV market, OLED TV will become Japan’s next-generation TV’s main product, with Apple will use OLED panels on the iPhone, 2017 Japan OLED panel related industries, will enter the new situation.

Panasonic is the wave of OLED TV in the wave, the first investment in 4K OLED TV manufacturers, the factory procurement LG Electronics (LGElectronics) OLED panel, OLED TV market in Europe, the results are still satisfactory, it was decided in 2017 Year sales to North America, Japan and other regions. igbt modules

With the expansion of Panasonic OLED TV sales, Sony and Toshiba (Toshiba) in January 2017 also announced that in 2017 will be mass production of OLED TVs, although the purchase of LG OLED panel, but the plant are using unique technology to create Different sound and light performance, hoping to make a clear market segment.

Expand the use of OLED display panel industry, not just the TV, smart phones originally only Samsung Electronics (SamsungElectronics) launched OLED panel phone, but with the Apple OLED panel will use the news, the mainland smart phone factory also launched OLED panel phone, OLED panel market demand increased immediately.

Therefore, Sharp (Sharp) and Japan Display (JDI) in 2016 announced OLED panel equipment investment news, scheduled from 2018 onwards production of OLED panels, more than 90% of the market to break the OLED panel by Samsung and LG supply status. bsm150gt120dn2

Although most of the global OLED panels are supplied by Korean manufacturers, OLED materials and production equipment is still the main factory in Japan, which is particularly noteworthy is the mining plant Mitsui Matsushima Industry (Mitsui Matsushima), the plant in January 2017 13 announced the acquisition of information, the object is the glass substrate special membrane processing technology plant Clean Surface Technology (CST).

CST key technology is the manufacture of liquid crystal display panels when the special film processing technology, the technology also applies to OLED panels, Mitsui Matsushima industry’s acquisition decision, that is locked in the OLED panel technology market in order to facilitate the development of OLED panel-related cause.

In addition, the production of OLED waterproof film on the factory Dynic, luminous material Hogo Valley Chemical Industry (Hodogaya Chemical), ultra-thin panel production plant Ulvac and other plants, is also considered to be 2017 worth noting OLED related technology vendors.

OLED panel is considered as the next generation of liquid crystal panel and plasma panel display technology, but in 2007 Sony first introduced OLED TV, due to production costs are too high, discontinued in 2010; Sony in 2012 and Panasonic to develop OLED TV production technology, the end of the partnership at the end of 2014, the two sides formed a joint venture company JOLED company, continued research and development of large-size OLED display production technology.