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Renesas to Acquire Steradian to Expand Its Reach in the Radar Market

Wed, Aug 31, 2022

Renesas Electronics Corporation today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Steradian Semiconductors Private Limited (“Steradian”), a fabless semiconductor company based in Bengaluru, India, that provides 4D imaging radar solutions, in an all-cash transaction. The acquisition is expected to close by the end of 2022, subject to customary closing conditions. The acquisition of Steradian’s radar technology will enable Renesas to extend its reach in the radar market and boost its automotive and industrial sensing solution offerings.

With the advancements of ADAS (Advanced Driver Assistance Systems) in the automotive market, automotive sensor fusion demand is growing to allow precise and accurate object detection of vehicles’ surroundings by combining data from multiple sensors, such as cameras, radar and LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging). Radar in particular accurately detects objects over long distances, day or night, even during harsh weather or other adverse environmental conditions. For these reasons, radar is considered an essential sensing technology for ADAS, and the number of radar sensors installed in vehicles is expected to triple over the next five years (Note). To respond to such growth potential, Renesas is expanding its automotive product portfolio with Steradian’s radar technology.

“Radar is an indispensable technology for ADAS, which uses a complex combination of various sensors,” said Hidetoshi Shibata, President and CEO of Renesas. “The addition of Steradian’s superb radar technology and engineering talent will allow us to extend our leadership in the automotive segments. We will also leverage their technology for industrial applications to drive our mid- to long-term business growth in both segments.”

“Renesas’ industry-leading portfolio of embedded solutions and broad customer base serve as an ideal foundation to maximise Steradian’s radar technology worldwide,” said Gireesh Rajendran, CEO of Steradian. “By working together with the Renesas team, we will continue to develop innovative radar solutions that deliver the high performance, small footprint and low power consumption that our customers desire.”

Founded in 2016 as a start-up company, Steradian has extensive expertise in radar technology. Operating in the 76-81 GHz band, Steradian’s powerful 4D radar transceivers offer a high level of integration in a small form factor and high power efficiency. Renesas will leverage Steradian’s design assets and expertise to develop automotive radar products, with plans to start sample shipments by the end of 2022. The company aims to develop complete automotive radar solutions that combine ADAS SoCs (System-on-Chips) for processing radar signals, power management ICs (PMICs), and timing products together with software for object recognition. Collectively, these solutions will simplify the design of automotive radar systems and contribute to faster product development.

Renesas and Steradian have been collaborating since 2018, mainly in industrial applications. Steradian’s radar technology is expected to be adopted in home security systems such as surveillance, traffic monitoring for people, cars and motorcycles, HMI (Human-Machine Interface) systems such as gesture recognition and docking systems in airport terminals. Steradian provides targeted solutions for these applications by offering transceiver ICs, turnkey modules that include antennas, and software stacks for object recognition.

For the last several years, Renesas has been expanding its connectivity and analog products to complement its core processing products for embedded systems. With the acquisition of Steradian, Renesas will bring together the best possible devices and software to meet the growing demand for sensor technology solutions for automotive and industrial customers, to make their design work easier.

About Renesas Electronics Corporation

Renesas Electronics Corporation (TSE: 6723) empowers a safer, smarter and more sustainable future where technology helps make our lives easier. A leading global provider of microcontrollers, Renesas combines our expertise in embedded processing, analog, power and connectivity to deliver complete semiconductor solutions. These Winning Combinations accelerate time to market for automotive, industrial, infrastructure and IoT applications, enabling billions of connected, intelligent devices that enhance the way people work and live. Learn more at renesas.com. Follow us on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Instagram.

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Intel engineers Flex series GPUs for the intelligent visual cloud

Tue, Aug 30, 2022

The data centre (GPU) graphics processing codenamed Arctic Sound-M has been unveiled as the Flex series. The Flex series GPUs are designed to meet the requirements for intelligent visual cloud workloads, said Intel. The Flex 170 is designed for maximum peak performance while the Flex 140 is for maximum density.

The Flex series GPU are capable of processing up to 68 simultaneous cloud gaming streams and handle workloads without having to use separate, discrete solutions or rely on siloes or proprietary environments, said the company. This helps lower and optimise the total cost of ownership for diverse cloud workloads like media delivery, cloud gaming, AI, metaverse and other emerging visual cloud use cases.

“We are in the midst of a pixel explosion driven by more consumers, more applications and higher resolutions,” explained Jeff McVeigh, Intel vice president and general manager of the Super Compute Group, Intel. “Today’s data centre infrastructure is under intense pressure to compute, encode, decode, move, store and display visual information”.

The Flex series GPUs have what is claimed to be the first hardware-based AV1 encoder in a data centre GPU to provide five times the media transcode throughput performance and two times the decode throughput performance at half the power of the Nvidia A10 in the case of the Intel Flex series 140 GPU, for example. According to Intel, the series also delivers more than 30 per cent bandwidth improvement to save on the total cost of ownership and has broad support for popular media tools, APIs, frameworks and the latest codecs, including HEVC, AVC and VP9.

The GPUs are powered by Intel’s Xe-HPG architecture and can provide scaling of AI inference workloads from media analytics to smart cities to medical imaging between CPUs and GPUs without “locking developers into proprietary software”.

The video processing demands of video conferencing, streaming, and social media have transformed the compute resource requirements of the data centre. The increased media processing, media delivery, AI visual inference, cloud gaming and desktop virtualisation has presented a challenge for an industry largely dependent on proprietary, licensed coding models, like CUDA for GPU programming, said Intel.

The Flex series GPU software stack includes support for oneAPI and OpenVINO. Developers can use Intel’s oneAPI tools to deliver accelerated applications and services, including the Intel oneAPI Video Processing Library (oneVPL) and Intel VTune Profiler, for example. The open alternative to proprietary language lock-in enables the performance of the hardware and has a set of tools that complement existing languages and parallel models. This allows users to develop open, portable code that will take maximum advantage of various combinations across Intel CPUs and GPUs. It also means developers are not tied to proprietary programming models, which can be financially or technically restrictive, said Intel.

The Flex series GPU media architecture is powered by up to four Xe media engines, for streaming density and to deliver up to 36 streams 1080p60 transcode throughput per card. It is also capable of delivering eight streams 4K60 transcode throughput per card.

When scaled to 10 cards in a 4U server configuration, it can support up to 360 streams HEVC-HEVC 1080p60 transcode throughput.

Leveraging the Intel Deep Link Hyper Encode feature, the GPU Flex series 140 with two devices on a single card can meet the industry’s one-second delay requirement while providing 8K60 real-time transcode, reported Intel. This capability is available for AV1 and HEVC HDR formats.

To meet the growth in Android cloud gaming, the GPUs are validated on nearly 90 of the most popular Google Play Android game titles. A single Flex series 170 GPU can achieve up to 68 streams of 720p30 while a single Flex series 140 GPU can achieve up to 46 streams of 720p30 (measured on select game titles).

When scaled with six Flex Series 140 GPU cards, it can achieve up to 216 streams of 720p30.

Systems featuring Flex series GPUs will be available from providers including Dell Technologies, HPE, H3C, Inspur, Lenovo and Supermicro. Solutions with the Flex series GPU will ramp over the coming months, starting with media delivery and Android cloud gaming workloads, followed by Windows cloud gaming, AI and VDI workloads.

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Rutronik helps designers reduce time to market for IoT with LTE data card

Fri, Aug 26, 2022

Telit’s LN920 LTE data card with an integrated Qualcomm Snapdragon X12+ LTE modem is now available from Rutronik. The compact M.2 form factor measures just 30 x 42 x 2.4mm, making it suitable for laptops, tablets as well as enterprise routers and IIoT gateways.

The LN920 data card has high download speeds of 300 to 600Mbit per second (the Cat. 6 (LN92046-WW) and LTE Cat. 12 / LN920A12-WW respectively). It is also characterised by GNSS positioning. The broad frequency band support ensures it works worldwide, said Rutronik. The distributor offers the LN920 LTE variants Cat. 6 or Cat. 12.

The data card supports all cellular bands between 600MHz and 3.7GHz, including Band 14 (First Responder) and Band 48 (CBRS). This makes it suitable for private and public LTE applications worldwide, confirmed Rutronik. Combined with pre-certifications by regulators and Tier 1 operators in Europe, Australia, the USA, Japan and Canada, the LN920 supports rapid development of global SKU (stock keeping unit) devices.

Maintenance for Telit’s standard 3GPP and custom AT commands are included in both Cat.6 and Cat. 12 variants. The data cards support security features qualified for enterprise applications, such as secure environment SE Linux and secure boot.

Operating temperature range is -40 to + 85 degrees C.

Rutronik Elektronische Bauelemente was founded in 1973 and is an independent family-owned company which claims to be one of the world‘s leading broadline distributors. Rutronik is represented worldwide with more than 80 offices and can guarantee comprehensive customer support including Europe, Asia, and the USA.

The broad product portfolio includes semiconductors, passive and electromechanical components as well as embedded boards, storage and displays, and wireless products. The distributor has automotive, embedded, power and smart divisions offering both specific products and services. The company also provide technical support for product development and design-in right up to the research area, individual logistics and supply chain management solutions.

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WE-BMS signal transformers manage battery systems

Fri, Aug 26, 2022

Signal transformers with galvanic isolation of 4,300V DC / one minute and high operating voltage of up to 1,000V DC are part of the WE-BMS components for battery management systems by Würth Elektronik.

The WE-BMS series components also include at least one common-mode choke to filter common-mode interference. Würth Elektronik claimed its design offers longer physical creepage than comparable products on the market despite their size. The low-profile models, for example are available with heights of 3.45mm.

The transformers are optimised for battery management systems, primarily to ensure reliable operation and provide information about the charging status. The individual cells of a battery pack are connected in series, as are the downstream battery management system controllers. Voltage differences and electromagnetic interference (EMI) may occur between series-connected components or boards. To counter this, the WE-BMS transformer isolate components and suppress EMI. Applications include storage systems for solar installations or uninterrupted power supplies (UPS). The WE-BMS series is AEC-Q200-qualified, and is therefore suitable for energy storage in e-mobility applications, such as e-bikes and e-scooters. WE-BMS supports a variety of interfaces, including serial daisy chain, isoSPI and SPI.

The transformers are designed for the extended operating temperature range of -40 to +125 degrees C. The components are available from stock in various sizes, ranging from 7.6 x 9.5 x 5.5mm to 15.1 x 15.4 x 3.45mm. There is no minimum order quantity. In addition, Würth Elektronik provides free samples for engineers.

Würth Elektronik eiSos Group is a manufacturer of electronic and electromechanical components for the electronics industry and a technology company. Würth Elektronik eiSos says it is one of the largest European manufacturers of passive components and is active in 50 countries. Production sites are in Europe, Asia and North America.

The company’s product range includes EMC components, inductors, transformers, RF components, varistors, capacitors, resistors, quartz crystals, oscillators, power modules, wireless power transfer, LEDs, sensors, connectors, power supply elements, switches, push-buttons, connection technology, fuse holders and solutions for wireless data transmission.

Würth Elektronik is part of the Würth Group, specialising in assembly and fastening technology.

http://www.we-online.com

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Renesas to Acquire Steradian to Expand Its Reach in the Radar Market

Intel engineers Flex series GPUs for the intelligent visual cloud

Rutronik helps designers reduce time to market for IoT with LTE data card

WE-BMS signal transformers manage battery systems

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