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Ineltek is excited to announce a new partnership with Novosense – leaders in IC design innovation! Novosense, founded in China in 2013, has rapidly developed an impressive reputation in the IC design scene supporting international customers in a range of industries. The company's dedication to becoming a pioneer in sensor, power driver, and interface chips has set them apart from their competitors. With a rich product portfolio in the fields of high voltage isolation, mixed signal chain processing, MEMS, and sensor calibration, the company is revolutionising the way we approach semiconductor products and solutions. Novosense R&D lead Innovation Novosense has placed itself at the forefront of innovation. Their high-quality isolation and interface products withstand voltage, surge, anti-interference, and other parameters, ensuring the reliable and stable operation of its customers’ systems. Their products are widely used in communication, new energy vehicles, industrial control, photovoltaics, and many other fields. Novosense boasts an impressing offering of digital isolators perfect for signal level shifting, guaranteeing user safety, protecting components and adhering to safety regulations. Their NSi8 range provide high electromagnetic immunity, withstanding voltages ranging from 2-5.7 kVrms all while operating at a low power consumption. With data rates up to 150 Mbps, they are well suited to industrial automation systems and motor control. Novosense’s newest line includes the NSE11409; a single-channel, smart, low-side switch developed for power path protection in automobile and industrial applications.  The IC is designed with a built-in VDD clamp exceeding 45V, which is especially suitable for driving inductive loads such as relays and valves to help them actuate rapid demagnetisation. Their interface products include CAN and 485 transceivers as well as I2C and LVDS interfaces. Sensor Innovation Novosense’s offerings don’t end there! Alongside their power drive and interface chips Novosense is also at the forefront of sensor innovation. Their first ever launch in 2014 was a powerful 3-axis accelerometer SSC ASIC and, since then, they have quickly developed a broad range of sensor solutions. Their signal conditioning chip products have unrivalled reliability, meeting the signal conditioning requirements of various types of sensors. These products are widely used in the automotive, industrial control, information communication and consumer electronics industries - where accuracy and reliability are essential. Similarly, their pressure sensor chip solutions range from micro pressure to medium and high pressure ranges, suitable for automobile, household appliances, industry, and other fields. If you are in the market for temperature sensors, then check out their temperature sensing IC products! They offer a variety of packaging and output forms, to make system integration as easy as possible. Their highly robust and reliable analogue and mixed signal IC design has established them as an industry leader. If you're looking for cutting-edge semiconductor products and solutions then Novosense should be at the top of your list! To find out more and to request some sample products then click here!

PREMO Group has developed 3DPower™, an innovative magnetic integration product that overcomes the engineering challenge of integrating two magnetics components in the same core with two orthogonal magnetic fields. It features a custom pot-core shape and is suitable for applications in power electronics, powertrain, and EV/HEV. As part of the constant evolution of our Electronics Ecosystem, we are providing access to a wide variety of technical articles, documents and resources from our manufacturers right here on our website. As part of the launch, we are sharing a PDF download of an edited article created by Premo engineers on our new Technical Documents portal. This article focuses on the advances made in heat dissipation techniques and addresses the potential issue of temperature rise due to increased power density. 3DPower™ utilizes a coil to protect the ferrite during winding and provides electrical isolation. To avoid hot spots and maximize thermal link between components, PREMO uses custom solutions such as thermal pad or thermal liquid gap filler. Additionally, tests have been conducted with different core adhesives to reduce temperature gradient between the two core halves. 3DPower™ has an output power range between 1 kW and 11 kW, though higher powers can be achieved on demand. It can be used for Phase-Shifted Full-Bridge and Resonant LLC DCDC converters, as well as other magnetics integration technologies. In summary, reliability is an important factor for engineering designs, as temperature can cause a range of issues from fire to low performance. The article explores how the correct material selection can improve thermal behaviour, providing examples of how creating good thermal links between components and selecting the right adhesive for cores can reduce temperature gradients. To explore the article in full, visit the Premo Technical Documents page by clicking this link.

Introduction Today's power supply designs are more and more complex, requiring components that are capable of handling more power, higher temperatures, and more stringent electromagnetic interference (EMI) standards. Elec & Eltek, a leading provider of power supply components, understands the challenges faced by power supply designers and offers a range of common mode chokes to help maximize power supply design efficiency. What are Common Mode Chokes? Common mode chokes are components used in power supply designs to filter out common mode noise and reduce the common-mode voltage or current. Common mode noise is electrical noise that is present in both the positive and negative lines of a power supply and can cause interference with other components in the power supply. Common mode chokes are used to suppress this noise and improve the efficiency of the power supply design. Common mode chokes are typically made of a ferrite core with a winding of copper wire around it. The ferrite core helps to filter out the noise and the copper wire winding provides the inductance needed to reduce the common-mode voltage or current. Common mode chokes are available in a variety of sizes, shapes, and configurations to meet the needs of different power supply designs. Common Mode vs Differential Mode Common mode and differential mode are two types of power supply noise that need to be addressed in power supply designs. Common mode noise is electrical noise that is present in both the positive and negative lines of a power supply, while differential mode noise is electrical noise that is only present in one line of a power supply. Common mode chokes are designed to reduce the common-mode voltage or current, while differential mode chokes are designed to reduce the differential-mode voltage or current. Introducing Elec & Eltek They design and manufacture a range of products for industrial and automotive use. They offer 18 THT and 3 SMT standard common mode chokes for power supply designs, suitable for up to 10A rated currents. Custom solutions are available for higher performance or restricted installation space. Their products are used in Networks (LAN/WAN), Telecommunications, Broadband Access, Automotive and other industrial areas and include connectors with integrated transformers, data and telecom transformers, noise filters etc. Elec & Eltek are dedicated to providing innovative solutions and high quality products to meet your needs. Elec & Eltek offer 18 THT and 3 SMT standard common mode chokes for power supply designs, suitable for up to 10A rated currents. Their products are used in Networks (LAN/WAN), Telecommunications, Broadband Access, Automotive and other industrial areas and include connectors with integrated transformers, data and telecom transformers, noise filters etc. As well as having access to the standard product family offering 21 derivatives, Elec & Eltek and Ineltek can develop custom solutions to meet your specific requirements; such as high performance or installation within certain physical constraints. Standard Elec & Eltek Common-Mode-Chokes - Industrial Elec & Eltek offers 18 THT and 3 SMT products The DC resistance is in the range of 10mOhm to 2 Ohm Rated currents up to 10A are available. The inductance of the standard CMCs is between 0.39mH and 20mH *1 For exact definition, please refer to the data sheet. Duration and frequency are defined differently depending on the area of application Common-Mode-Chokes - Automotive In addition to the standard products for industry, several products for the automotive sector are also available. Applications such as on-board chargers in the 3.3 kW or 6.6 kW power class are the focus of Elec & Eltek here. But a CMC solution for 22 kW is also available. Please contact our team for details, since a customized solution is often necessary in this area. Elec & Eltek products are widely specified for use in applications including Networks (LAN/WAN), Telecommunications, Broadband Access, Automotive and other industrial areas. To find out more or to request samples, please contact Ineltek by clicking this link.

As a bit of Christmas fun, and a blatant way of cramming in as many of our manufacturers into a feature as possible whilst still being relevant to Electronic Component sourcing, ahem, I present to you Ineltek's carefully curated Twelve Chips of Christmas. To spare everyone, we'll just go to the final verse! Here goes... On the Twelth Day of Christmas my Disti gave to me Twelve DRAMs DRAMing Eleven PHYs duPlexing Ten LDOs a Lowering Nine LEDs Dazzlin' Eight MEMs a-Measuring Seven SLICs a-Ringing Six GUIs Displaying Five Golden Screws Four Common Chokes Three Trench FETs Two Zener Diodes And an RP Twenty Forty The chips in detail: First Day of Christmas Our chip of the year - an MCU powerhouse, offering high performance, flexibility and availability in a sub dollar MCU. Raspberry Pi's RP2040 is simply amazing! Second Day of Christmas The BZX584C2V0 Zenner Diode from Bruckewell is a high performance voltage regulator for use in small handheld or mobile applications. Third Day of Christmas Magnachip produces a wide variety of high performance power semiconductors including these reliable MDT08N017RH Trench MOSFETs for use in DC/DC converters and in motor control. Fourth Day of Christmas Premo's CMCN4R0-12H Common Mode Choke is a high frequency, high performance common mode choke designed to reduce EMI/RFI interference in power and signal lines. It is ideal for applications where a small footprint is desired and maximum attenuation is required. Fifth Day of Christmas Golden Screws, also known as Unicorn Parts are those incredibly rare or obsolete components that are the last item you're trying to source. Without the Golden Screws, you can't make your product. (Which is where Ineltek can help!) Sixth Day of Christmas For next level GUI with touch, gesture and pressure capability, the Axiom chip family from TouchNetix offers low power, high performance, secure and configurable touch controller chip with class leading Signal to Noise ratio. Contact us for a variety of embedded applications such as Automotive, medical, industrial and consumer facing UI. Seventh Day of Christmas The N681389 COSLIC IC from Nuvoton implements a single channel FXS telephone line interface optimized for short loop applications. It integrates SLCC (Subscriber Line Control Circuit) functionality with a programmable CODEC and a DC/DC controller. Ideal solution for Residential VoIP Gateways, Routers, IP-PBX, Analog Telephone Adapters, Integrated Access Devices for emergency and distress communications. Eighth Day of Christmas Epson produces a range of MEMs (Micro Electro-Mechanical System) and QMEMs sensors. Their M-A352 is a three axis digital output accelerometer featuring ultra-low noise, high stability, and low power consumption through Quartz processing technology. The M-A352 is highly accurate and durable, making it perfect for a wide-range of challenging applications such as SHM, seismic observation, condition monitoring for industrial equipment i.e. construction machinery, tooling, agricultural machinery and robotics. Nineth Day of Christmas Next generation in-car ambient lighting typically comprises 10-30 LEDs mounted on a flexible light strip. ISELED replaces the cumbersome chain of MCUs and a slow LIN bus with a smart RGB LED driver which intelligently controls a 'group' of red, green and blue LEDs to form 'pixels'. The INLC10AQ from Inova is the first standalone ISELED driver enables Automotive manufacturers to custom design their own choice of external LED arrays. Tenth Day of Christmas 3Peak has a range of LDOs (Low Dropout Regulators) designed to provide industry-leading efficiency, high accuracy output voltage and current, and maximum reliability. Suitable for a range of applications, from low-power system solutions such as LEDs and portable electronics, to high power designs such as automotive, telecom, and industrial applications. Eleventh Day of Christmas Ethernet PHYs have been a critical but hard to source component during the chip supply crunch. We've migrated many customers to @dptel and their range of durable and efficient PHYs, including the DAP8201M. Twelfth Day of Christmas Memory is memory right? Wrong. DRAM from Intelligent Memory boasts custom speed and temperature sorting, as well as the highest level of durability. Many of their modules have been engineered with built in Error Correction (ECC) as standard and you can design their memory in with confidence, as they pledge to provide guaranteed longevity on all their lines. Featured manufacturers Raspberry Pi Bruckewell Magnachip Premo TouchNetix Nuvoton Epson Semiconductor Inova 3Peak Dapu Telecom Intelligent Memory (Never say we don't get into the Christmas Spirt) It only remains to bid a Merry Christmas to all our followers and wish you a peaceful, successful New Year!

The latest report from the parliamentary Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee concludes that more must be done to support the UK Semiconductor industry and spells out, in fairly robust terms, the multi-faceted argument for protecting UK interests. As everyone in the electronics industry is well aware, Semiconductors are the critical building blocks which essentially keep modern life ticking along in the background, enabling communication, navigation, robotic manufacture, healthcare, military technology, quantum and cloud computing, and everyday consumer devices. They are crucial technology for any modern economy. Clearly without an end-to-end supply chain the UK is at the mercy of other countries to maintain supply of these components. The effects of recent lockdowns are still being felt in many industries, not least Automotive, whilst the threat of geo-political factors like the tensions between China and Taiwan, mean that the UK's position is extremely vulnerable to future disruption. Despite the obvious red flags that the pandemic and headlines have delivered, thus far the UK has done precious little to mitigate any future supply risks, falling way behind other developed nations (and even many of them are taking inadequate measures!). The BEIS report concludes that failure act could result in significant economic shocks to UK businesses. It is true that the UK has a relatively small semiconductor industry compared with the US or much of Asia, but our world-class capabilities in engineering, intellectual property, product development and advanced materials research mean that the number of businesses both dependent on and driving the semiconductor argument as a whole is significant. The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) was due to publish a semiconductor strategy in Q3 of 2022 and we're still waiting. The fact that the future of such a fundamentally critical infrastructure industry is lumped in with the interests of Culture, Media and Sport is, itself, a rather worrying indicator of how much importance the UK PLC really attributes to Semiconductor Support and Security! One exception, which we previously reported on, is the decision to reverse the 'Chinese' takeover of the Newport FAB. However, this is an isolated incidence of pragmatism in the face of such compelling arguments for taking action. In summary, the BEIS report recommends the following as 8 basic tenets of the UK semiconductor strategy: Protecting Intellectual property and design Supporting the design chain for leading edge node chips Matching UK manufacturing capability to UK design capability (not a small ambition!) Developing manufacturing processes for silicon semiconductors Development of existing strengths in compound and advanced material semiconductors, to meet demand in emerging markets Facilitating the construction of new fabs, including consideration of an open access fab in the South Wales cluster Establish a risk and resilience strategy for the semiconductor industry alongside its Semiconductor Strategy - urgent! It is clear that we are missing out on inward investment at a crucial time for the semiconductor industry. Every effort should be made to develop more proactive partnerships with US and EU counterparts and engage with Taiwanese companies, as well as a diversity of Asian powerhouses to secure significant inward investment in the UK. The BEIS report was published on 28th November 2022. You can download the full report below:

When we first wrote this article back in Jul '22 an EV looked a considerably better economic proposition than their gas guzzling counterparts when it comes to the cost of refuelling. How things change! Certainly in the UK, the cost of rapid charging your EV has risen by 18.75p to an average of 63.29p / kWh since May. In properties where you just can't install your own home charge point, the difference in cost between a tank of fuel and a rapid charge to 80% battery capacity has narrowed considerably. While the cost of electricity in the UK maintains its current high level, it may yet prove to be a further barrier to people considering the switch from fossil fuel. In other news, from July '22, all electric vehicle chargers sold for private use, whether in the workplace or home, must be pre-configured with “smart” behaviour. What does Smart behaviour mean in this context? Primarily it means that new EV charge points will be set-up to automatically avoid charging during peak hours when demand for energy is higher - and more expensive. Instead, drivers will be encouraged to set their charge point to switch on during off-peak times when there is more renewable energy available in the grid. These restrictions can still be over-ridden as they may not be practical for everyone. The new rules are part of the Electric Vehicles (Smart Charge Points) Regulations 2021 putting the onus on manufacturers to achieve a specific set of objectives to maximise the benefit to the environment and encourage wide-spread adoption of EVs in general. The objectives include: Deferring costly grid upgrades, which would be needed to increase peak capacity Helping drivers utilise cheaper overnight energy tariffs Standardising the charge point functionality between different manufacturers Good news for EV owners It is theoretically possible to offset your electricity bill by selling your cheaply generated energy stored in your EV back to the grid during peak times. Wowza! As previously discussed in another post on this very subject that we published recently, Vehicle to Grid (V2G) technology is now a reality and can save EV drivers considerable sums on their energy bills. After one of the world's largest trials, OVO Energy in partnership with their software partner, Kaluza, have successfully tested the concept of effectively turning driver's electric vehicles into mini mobile power stations. The scheme requires very little effort on the part of the vehicle owner - the Kaluza app does all the hard work calculating your typical car charging requirements and selling any excess back to the grid earning the driver V2G credits. In one case, widely reported, a relatively low mileage user was earning on average £71 more their surplus energy versus the cost of charging the car each month. Charging by the mile Another headwind on the horizon for widespread EV adoption, is the fact that when we're no longer using fossil fuels in our vehicles, there will be a huge gap in the public finances from all that lost fuel duty. It was only a matter of time before those in power cottoned on and a new report from the Climate Change Committee (CCC) has kick started the implementation. Electric cars are currently exempt from vehicle excise duty (VED, which is often referred to as road tax), and they aren’t subject to fuel duty like petrol and diesel cars. This adds up to a potential loss of revenue of £35bn. The CCC suggests that both fuel duty and VED should be replaced with a pay-per-mile road pricing, whilst ensuring that motorists pay the same or less than they do currently. It also states that any road pricing system that is introduced should consider the impact of per-per-mile charging on vulnerable groups and those who live in rural areas. There would also be measures to offer lower tariffs at less congested times and provide an easy means of directly comparing the cost of the equivalent journey by public transport. They urge that new taxes based on new technology take some time to introduce and should be fair, simple and consistent. Ominously, the chair of the committee, Huw Merriman, summarised that "Net zero emissions should not mean zero tax revenue.”

What is Doom? For gamers in the 1990s if you wanted to spend your days atomizing netherworld nasties with lasers, missiles, and big bullets, there was only one game franchise that you'd invest your time in - the ground breaking, first-person shooter Doom. Considered one of the pioneers in 3D graphics, networked multiplayer, and player mod support, Doom laid waste the zombies for others to follow. For those that don't know - the premise of Doom is relatively simple. The game begins as an unnamed space marine sent to a facility where a science experiment has gone wrong. (Your character became known as 'Doomguy' by default and you can see his state of health update before your eyes in the handy console at the foot of the screen) All your other crew are dead, and you’re the last man standing in the way of an unholy demonic invasion of planet Earth. Your mission, should you choose to except it, is pretty straightforward. Shoot the living hell out of everything in your path and find and kill the mastermind behind the evil invasion. Why did we want to run Doom on a Raspberry Pi® Pico? Back in the day, you needed a reasonably high-spec tower PC to run Doom's ground-breaking 3D graphics. Of course computer processing power has evolved significantly over 28 years but it is still remarkable that the same game can be run perfectly on a set up costing less than $50. As Ineltek has been appointed as an official distributor for Raspberry Pi®, what better way of showcasing the power, performance and flexibility of their RP2040 MCU to our target customers, than through the nostalgia for a 90s classic pc game? How to create our Doom set up on Raspberri Pi® Pico We've done all the hard work for you (with a lot of help from other online resources) so you will hopefully be up and running with your own Doom set up in no time. Equipment You will need: Raspberry Pi Pico H Raspberry Pi Pico - Pimoroni Pimeroni Pico VGA Demo Base Pimoroni Pico VGA Demo Base - Pimoroni USB keyboard (we used the Raspberry Pi Keyboard) Raspberry Pi Keyboard(UK layout) - Pimoroni Aux audiocable (Male to male 3.5 mm) 2 x USB to micro USB cables Female to male VGA cable TV/Monitor Additional equipment may be required, depending on which inputs you have on your TV or monitor. If your TV/monitor has a VGA input you can just plug your VGA cable directly in to your device. You may also be able to plug the audio cable in if your chosen device supports audio. If not, you could plug it into an external speaker. A more elegant solution suitable for a much wider range of display options is to convert both the VGA and audio DAC signals from the VGA demo board into a single HDMI output than can be plugged straight into any TV with a HDMI input. This requires a VGA/Stereo Audio to HDMI converter (we found one by Multibao off Amazon) and a standard HDMI cable. All set? Let's get into it! Software We need to flash two files to the RP2040.The first one is called“doom_tiny_usb.uf2” which gives your Pico the ability to run doom (the drivers etc). The second one is the doom game itself “doom1.whx”. Step 1 – Downloading the Doom Files Download both files from Graham Sanderson’s Github (he’s a Raspberry Pi® employee): “doom_tiny_usb.uf2” Releases · kilograham/rp2040-doom · GitHub “doom1.whx” GitHub - kilograham/rp2040-doom: Fully-featured Doom port for the Raspberry Pi RP2040 microcontroller There a lot of files on these pages but you only need to download the two mentioned. Save the uf2 file to C:\Users\[your_name], we will change the location of the other file later. Step 2 – Setting up File Directories and Flashing the First File Now we need to install the Raspberry Pi® Pico toolchain. [1] Raspberry Pi® has a useful Getting Started guide for the Pico that covers installation steps for all the major operating systems. Getting started with Raspberry Pi Pico On Linux you can run a single script that will install everything for you. On macOS, you need to use 'Homebrew' to install the toolchain, which only requires a few commands in the terminal. The process for Windows is a bit more involved, so we will tackle it below: 1. Lets get organised! Create a new file named VSARM in the top level of your C drive. Next inside this file create 4 files called ‘armcc’, ‘lib’, ‘mingw’ and ‘sdk’. 2. Install GitBash for Windows https://git-scm.com/download/win (all the default installation options are fine). 3. Now we are ready to flash the “doom_tiny_usb.uf2” to our Pico! To do this, hold down the bootsel button on your Pico as you plug it into your laptop or computer. 4. Find which drive letter the RPI-RP2 drive is mounted to – (ours was d, just check on your file explorer and replace the /d/ in the line below accordingly) 5. Enter the command below and the file will be flashed: cp doom_tiny_usb.uf2 /d/ 6. Create a new foldercalled “pico” in the sdk folder we created earlier. 7. Enter the following commands in GitBash: cd /c/VSARM/sdk/pico git clone -b master https://github.com/raspberrypi/pico- sdk.git cd pico-sdk git submodule update--init cd .. git clone -b master https://github.com/raspberrypi/pico- examples.git The Pico-examples aren’t necessary for getting Doom running, so feel free to omit these commands, but they provide a useful reference and starting point for any future Pico projects! 8. We will also update the environment variables for out pico-sdk. In the Windows search bar, enter env. Click on Edit the system environment variables. In that window, click on Environment Variables… Under User variables for , select Path and click Edit. Variable name: PICO_SDK_PATH Variable value: C:\VSARM\sdk\pico\pico-sdk Step 3 – Flashing the Second File Now we have installed the Raspberry Pi Pico toolchain and flashed our first file. For the “doom1.whx” file we want to flash to a specific point in the flash storage on the Pico – this requires a tool called Picotool. 1. We are going to need another version of Git which will help us build Picotool on Windows. Install Git for Windows SDK here https://gitforwindows.org/#download-sdk (The latest 64-bit version). Run the installer, accepting all the defaults. This will open a command prompt window and begin to download/install Git for Windows SDK. We are going to use a feature of this version of Git called Pacman- this is a package manager that will let us easily install the libraries and software we need. 2. Run C:\git-sdk-64\git-bash.exe and enter the commands: pacman -Syu pacman -Su pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-toolchain git make libtoolpkg- config autoconf automake texinfo wget When prompted hit enter to install all the packages. Then enter Y twice to the consecutive questions. Enter the following commands to install libusb-1.0.23: cd ~/Downloads wget http://repo.msys2.org/mingw/x86_64/mingw-w64-x86_64- libusb-1.0.23-1-any.pkg.tar.xz pacman -U mingw-w64-x86_64-libusb-1.0.23-1-any.pkg.tar.xz At the next question enter Y again to continue with the installation. Now we are ready to build Picotool! 3. In the GitBash window enter the following commands to install picotool: cd /c/VSARM/sdk/pico git clone -b master https://github.com/raspberrypi/picotool.git cd picotool mkdir build cd build cmake -G "MinGW Makefiles" -DPC_LIBUSB_INCLUDEDIR="/c/git- sdk-64/mingw64/include/libusb-1.0" .. make cp /c/git-sdk-64/mingw64/bin/libusb-1.0.dll . cp /c/git-sdk-64/mingw64/bin/libgcc_s_seh-1.dll . Do a quick test to check Picotool is working okay, enter the command and it should spit out some info and then exit: ./picotool.exe We need to install a driver to send commands over USB to the Pico from Picotool. Here are some instructions from How to Build OpenOCD and Picotool for the Raspberry Pi® Pico on Windows - Shawn Hymel: Put your Pico board into bootloader mode (press and hold BOOTSEL and plug in the USB cable). It should enumerate on your computer as a storage drive. Head to https://zadig.akeo.ie and download Zadig Run Zadig. Select Options > List All Devices You should see 2 Pico devices in the drop-down menu: RP2 Boot (Interface 0) and RP2 Boot (Interface 1). Select RP2 Boot (Interface 1) The driver should be listed as (NONE). Select libusb-win32 (some version) as the replacement driver. Click Install Driver. When it’s done the current driver should be listed as ‘libusb-win32’. If you break something in Zadig (which we did!), you can fix it. For example, the Pico will not enumerate as a mass storage device drive in Bootloader mode. Zadig will show something other than “USBSTOR” as the driver for RP2 (Interface 0). Here is how to delete the bad drivers and let Windows fix the mess you made: Put Pico into Bootloader mode and open Device Manager Click View > Devices by container Expand RP2 Boot For all entries under RP2 Boot: - Right click on entry and select uninstall device - Check “Delete the driver software for this device (if asked) - Click Uninstall Unplug Pico Hold BOOTSEL and plug it back in to put it into bootloader mode again Windows should automatically reinstall all the correct drivers 5. Save a copy of doom1.whx to /c/VSARM/sdk/pico/picotool/build 6. With the Pico in bootloader mode (hold bootsel down), open the Git SDK window and enter the following commands: /c/VSARM/sdk/pico/picotool/build/picotool.exe picotool load -v -t bin doom1.whx -o 0x10042000. The second file will have been flashed to the Pico and Doom is ready to play! Now go and Shoot some Demons!

As the official distributor for ETA Semiconductor in Europe, we are proud to bring their innovation to your next power supply design. With a foundation built on recruiting the best technical talent and investing heavily in Research and Development, the ETA portfolio boasts over 500 featured products which drive a huge breadth of applications across multiple industries. Most notable of the markets they excel in are mobile phones, security equipment, smart devices, routers, Bluetooth headsets, UAV, mobile power supplies and smart home products. ETA Semiconductor products offer best in class performance and reliability across over 10 different product categories in the power management, driver ICs and voltage regulation. Their capabilities in these key fields mean they are well placed to provide a wide range of pin to pin compatible components for some of the other major manufacturers in this sector including Texas Instruments, Silergy Corporation, Monolithic Power Systems, Fairchild Semiconductor and Diodes Incorporated. So, we've prepared a table of their key pin to pin compatible component alternatives, filterable by category, so you can quickly narrow down a solution. Click here to access our handy parts finder now. Of course, if you can't find what you're looking for please contact us via the chat below or through our contact form and we will be happy to help find a solution.

To celebrate the newest MCU addition to the Ineltek Linecard, we wondered how best to showcase the capability of the Raspberry Pi RP2040? We all know the huge popularity of the Raspberry Pi range and the amazing array of weird and wonderful projects that Raspberry Pi devotees share on social media. One that particularly caught our eye, being as we are of a certain vintage, was the ability to run the 1990s classic first person 3D shooter, Doom, on a Raspberry Pi Pico. Perfect! So, we set our Warwick University Intern Application Engineer, Greer Inglis, the task of getting it to work and the results are there for all to see in the video above. And where better to showcase our engineering know-how than at the Engineering Design Show in Coventry, 12-13 October 2022? (It's at the Coventry Building Society Conference Centre and you can click the image below or this link to register!) The basic concept of our demo on the stand is to run two gaming stations on Raspberry Pi Pico and everyone who plays (or frankly even visits the stand) will be entered into a prize draw for one of 10 Raspberry Pi Picos for the two days. Simples. [We'll be sharing our tips, tricks and the kit list you'll need to install and play Doom on Raspbery Pi Pico very soon] That isn't the only excitement on the Ineltek Stand L16. Not by a long chalk. We're also featuring a couple of other exciting demos. Our friends at Premo are showing off the capabilities of their 3DCoilCube technology which measures electromagnetic fields to provide highly accurate motion tracking for use as a discrete way of bringing VR to gaming, medical and industrial applications. As if that wasn't enough jaw-dropping technology, the wizards at TouchNetix are sharing their amazing gesture-only, pressure touch and dial-on-display technology through an interactive demo unit. Their revolutionary tech enables any GUI system to be adapted to be gesture capable which allows users to maintain focussed attention on a more critical activity, rather than worrying about the fine motor skills required to navigate a regular menu. So, there's the pitch for why you should visit Inteltek at EDS 22 and we haven't even mentioned the fact that you'll get to meet this devilishly handsome bunch:

Nexperia, owned by China's Wingtech Technology, which became the Newport Wafer Fab’s second-biggest shareholder in 2019, launched a takeover of the chipmaker in 2021 when the Welsh company was struggling to pay its debts. This move fuelled speculation of a wider tech migration from the UK to China in an atmosphere of heightened security fears first raised over Huawei by the US. In the wake of the Chip Supply crisis and the rising tensions between China and the US, Western governments have been looking to bolster and protect their semiconductor production and supply chains so they're not at the mercy of external forces. In July, the US passed the Chips and Science Act that earmarked $52bn in grants to support advanced chipmaking. The EU has its own proposal for a €43bn Chips Act and France has announced it will separately invest billions in a new semiconductor plant being built by STMicroelectronics and US group GlobalFoundries. The UK had thus far not taken equivalent action, but former business secretary, Kwasi Kwarteng, did announce in May that he was "reviewing” the acquisition of the Newport facility under the National Security and Investment Act - new legislation that enables the government to limit or block foreign transactions involving strategic national assets. Now new business secretary Jacob Rees Mogg is calling for Nexperia to dramatically reduce its ownership of the company, with his final decision due by October 3rd this year. Former chief executive of UK semiconductor processor licensing company Imagination Technologies, Ron Black, has been very vocal about his interest in acquiring the company, having amassed a reported £300m war chest from various parties. He said, "These strategic assets are dangerous to leave in such unstable conditions", referring to concerns about an exodus of key staff uncertain about their employer’s future. He further commented that delaying such a decision could lead to a Pyrrhic victory where the government prevents the takeover but loses all of the critical staff. We will await the government decision with interest.

How hardware manufacturers can beat the Global Chip Supply Crunch We won't go into the whys and wherefores again as these are understood. Suffice to say there are yet more unknown unknowns as to the potential effects of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on the fragile supply situation. But the known consequences in the semiconductor market that we do know with some certainty are: Delivery times of 24 mths and worse Repeated postponement of goods already ordered in long-term contracts Prices rising due to spiralling raw material, freight and energy costs Short term EOL / PCN process of entire component families Ineltek's 4-point strategy to help you beat the chip supply crunch Forward-planning demand for your high volume components and anticipating supply bottlenecks rather than reacting to them Research and recommend alternative components and provide adaptation / design-in support Utilise our unrivalled network of International Semiconductor Suppliers for all your component needs By collaborating closely with you on your projects, Ineltek can work with you to develop a solid business case for receiving priority support from our trusted line of manufacturers Distribution with a Difference For a detailed assessment of your assemblies, please contact our sales department. Why not share your BOM with us so we can support you with alternative sources of supply for the required component or alternative solutions from other manufacturers. No-one can guarantee the supply of every component in this current climate, but we can heavily stack the odds in your favour. By planning appropriately, exploring drop-in alternatives from the likes of Geehy Semiconductor or viable replacements from our roster of class-leading manufacturers you can ensure that your production processes can remain on track. Lead Time Overview from some of our manufacturers At the moment we can offer you interesting delivery times for the following manufacturers within these product categories: If you're looking to design-in an alternative component, contact us for advice and guidance. Alternatively we may be able to source your part through our network. You can also register for time-sensitive stock alerts here.

Why Migrate? The STM32 family of microcontrollers is one of the most extensive and ubiquitous families of microcontrollers on the market today. They offer a wide array of products, including the low-power STM32F4 line that is perfect for the Internet of Things (IoT), the high-performance STM32F7 line that is great for advanced applications, and the ultra-low-power STM32F3 line that is great for battery-powered applications. Like much of the semiconductor manufacturing industry, the lead times for MCUs is widely reported to be over 52 weeks, which for many customers is simply untenable. Geehy MCUs Pin to Pin compatible with STM32 MCUs Geehy Semiconductor has a comprehensive line of microcontrollers designed to be pin to pin compatible with many of ST’s STM32 range of microcontrollers including the F0, F1, F4 series and soon to include some F7s as well. With Geehy’s ST-compatible MCUs, you can use all of the advanced features and capabilities of the STM32 family without having to worry about changing the pinout or reworking your whole design. Ineltek has been guiding customers through the migration process for a number of projects recently and we’ve found that the Geehy MCUs have the same layout, memory map, peripheral support and performance. We are often able to supply a comparison table to demonstrate the ST and Geehy performance with analogue and digital parameters. The definition of the pins within the same package is the same, and new functions are completed through pin multiplexing. Memory and register addresses are the same. In fact, in many cases, Geehy can directly flash your existing firmware to their compatible MCU with any changes. How easy is it to migrate from ST’s STM32CubeIDE to Geehy’s development platform STM32CubeIDE is an advanced C/C++ development platform with peripheral configuration, code generation, code compilation, and debug features for their STM32 microcontrollers and microprocessors. Whilst Geehy’s MCUs can support Cube MX, their preferred software environments are Keil or IAR. In the first instance, the STM32CubeMX code generation utility can generate IAR project files that work out of the box for your Geehy device. Manually adding your source file structure and custom settings (linker script, FPU etc) should be rather easy once you have that working minimal setup. There is plenty of support available online on this topic but, in general, IAR has a better editor and compiler, but Keil has a much better simulator and debugger. If you are using an ARM Core processor, Keil is a better solution better suited to ARM MCUs, with greatly reduced learning time compared to IAR. Keil’s advanced debugging tools help make the transition far smoother. Who is Geehy? With 20 years of experience in IC chip design, Geehy is a professional supplier of products and solutions for industrial-grade general purpose MCU, BLE SoC, and IoT security SoC. A wholly owned subsidiary of Apexmic Microelectronics, headquartered at Ninestar Corporation who own one of the top 5 laser printer brands on the planet, Lexmark. The group has 20,000+ employees in 60 countries, with 10 R&D centres and a market cap of over 19.6bn yuan, with annual chip shipments are about 450 million. Other MCU solutions Ineltek has built its business on Microcontrollers and we work with some of the leading manufacturers in the world – many of whom can still provide very competitive lead times. So if you’re considering a migration away from your current MCU as part of a wider redevelopment of your design, Ineltek can provide MCU solutions from Holtek and Nuvoton suitable for a wide variety of Automotive, Industrial, Medical and Consumer applications. Contact us now to find the perfect MCU solution for your project.