Archive : 9 July 2015 год

Revenues for EDA products and services grew by 7.5% in Q1 2015 to $1.877billion, compared to $1.746bn in Q1 2014. And, according to the EDA Consortium, the moving average – which compares the most recent four quarters to the prior four quarters – increased by 8%.

"The EDA Industry continues to show solid revenue growth in the first quarter, led by semiconductor IP," said Wally Rhines, pictured, EDAC board and chairman and CEO of Mentor Graphics. "All categories showed revenue increases, except CAE. Geographically, the Americas and Asia-Pacific reported double digit growth."

Revenues from semiconductor intellectual property saw a 19.3% boost to $618.1m, with the four quarters moving average increasing by 24.3%. CAE – the largest EDA sector – saw revenues decline by 0.8% to $633.7million in Q1 2015. However, ic physical design and verification revenue grew by 8.3% to $359.3m, while sales of PCB and MCM products generated $161.5m, 1.1% more than Q1 2014.

The Americas remains the largest consumer of EDA, with purchases of $853m, 12.2% more than Q1 2014. Asia/Pacific sales were said to be 12% higher, while EMEA sales dropped by 6.2% and sales in Japan decreased by 0.2%.

Author
Graham Pitcher

Source:  www.newelectronics.co.uk

Researchers at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) claim to have developed a wireless-power transfer (WPT) system that allows mobile devices to be charged at any location and in any direction, even if the devices are away from the power source, just as Wi-Fi works for Internet connections.

Team leader, Professor Chun Rim of the Nuclear and Quantum Engineering Department at KAIST, said his team used high-frequency magnetic materials in a dipole coil resonance system (DCRS) to build a thin, flat transmitter system shaped in a rectangle with a footprint of 1m2. It is also claimed that either 30 smartphones with a power capacity of 1W each or five laptops with 2.4W each can be simultaneously and wirelessly charged at any point within a 50cm distance from the transmitter.

The maximum power transfer efficiency for the laptops is said to be 34%.

The DCRS works in a low magnetic field environment. Using shielding technology developed by the research team, the magnetic flux level of 27µT is less than international safety levels.

Professor Rim said, "Our transmitter system is safe for humans and compatible with other electronic devices. We have solved three major issues of short charging distance, the dependence on charging directions, and plane coil structures of both Tx and Rx, which have blocked the commercialisation of WPT."

The research team and KAIST's spin-off company, TESLAS, have been conducting pilot projects to apply DCRS in various places such as cafes and offices.

Author
Tom Austin-Morgan

Source:  www.newelectronics.co.uk

European semiconductor sales reached $2.873billion in May 2015, according to the European Semiconductor Industry Association (ESIA).

The figures are said to show that, while the European semiconductor market remained essentially at the same level as the previous month, there was increased demand in key application sectors. In particular, sales of discrete semiconductor devices rose by 3.7% compared to April 2015, while sales of diodes rose by 5% and optoelectronics by 6.7%.

When stated in Euros, the European market showed very strong growth. Although sales in May were down by 0.1% at €2.63bn, they were 16.4% more than in May 2014.

On a global basis, semiconductor sales in May 2015 were $28.2bn, 2.1% higher than April, and 5.1% higher than in May 2014.

Author
Graham Pitcher

Source:  www.newelectronics.co.uk