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Betting on Gan-On-Gan for Efficient White Light european www.electronics-eetimes.com January 2014 business press Betting on GaN-on-GaN for efficient white light Design Focus: analog & mixed signal FREE SHIPPING Executive interview: ON ORDERS Bosch Sensortec’s CEO Stefan Finkbeiner OVER €65! DIGIKEY.COM/ EUROPE 020212_FRSH_EET_EU_Snipe.indd 1 2/2/12 12:37 PM 131231_MASTER_EET_EU.indd 1 12/23/13 10:37 AM JANUARY 2014 opinion 16 Betting on GaN-on-GaN for efficient white light “How efficient is white light?” 4 Fair Comment: What a mess! asked Dr Harald Pier, team leader for EMEA technical solutions at 50 Last Word: Safe and secure at any speed? Philips Lumileds, during a round table on white LEDs held at Forum news & TECHNOLOGY LED Europe in Paris. 6 Acquisitions shake up telecoms chip landscape 18 Continental to showcase first Two major acquisitions are set to change the land- concepts jointly developed scape of networking and telecom chip development. with IBM Agilent Technologies to spin-off Keysight Carmakers test C2X under Technologies by early November 2014 winter conditions in Finland 7 E-cigarettes: just more e-waste or an opportunity 19 Amazing race toward autonomous car design to educate consumers? No tar, no pollution: this is an easy 20 Ford rolls research platform for automated driving marketing shortcut taken by most e-cigarette vendors keen to publicize Nanosheets alleviate lattice matching restrictions of their products as a healthy alternative epitaxial crystalline thin film growth to traditional combustion cigarettes. DESIGN & PRODUCTS 8 E-waste to jump one-third to 65.4 million tonnes annually by 2017, says StEP report SPECIAL FOCUSES: By 2017, all of that year’s end-of-life - ANALOG & MIXED SIGNAL refrigerators, TVs, mobile phones, computers, monitors, e-toys and 21 Designing compact medical ultrasound systems other products with a battery or Over the past decade, medical electrical cord worldwide could fill a ultrasound imaging equipment line of 40-ton trucks end-to-end on a has experienced a revolution. highway straddling three quarters of the Equator. 24 Detecting and selecting the right power supplies for 10 IEC presses for a single charger portable electronics specification for notebook The boom in portable electronics has made it computers commonplace to find devices capable of powering from multiple sources. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute launches Light and Health Alliance 26 Innovative back EMF based stall detection simplifies stepper-motor 11 Tower buys three wafer fabs for $8 million drive designs Silicon supersaturated with gold - PASSIVE COMPONENTS atoms through laser doping yields broadband infrared response 32 Silicon capacitors: a new solution for decoupling applications 12 Bosch Sensortec grows in mobile and beyond, says CEO 34 Understanding the distortion Robert Bosch GmbH has success- mechanism of high-K MLCCs fully ridden the wave of automotive demand for micro-electromechan- READER OFFER ical systems (MEMS) components since 1988. And then in 2005 it 46 To offer you a good start in formed Bosch Sensortec as a wholly-owned 2014, Renesas Electronics subsidiary to offer MEMS for consumer applications. Europe is giving away four RX62N RSK demonstrations 14 Design-free RF-based wireless charging redefines kits worth 325 Euros each, user experience for EETimes Europe’s readers to win 15 IR sensor startup preps smartphone bid 49 distriBUTION CORNER Br/N-based dopants open up the band-gap in graphene nanoplatelets for the design of FETs 51 WHITEPAPERS 3 Electronic Engineering Times Europe January 2014 www.electronics-eetimes.com Since 1895 What a mess! By Peter Clarke Over 100 years of The closUre of LFoundry Rousset, ordered by the Commer- Avezzano, Italy. It is as if LFoundry is using legacy fabs as cial Court in Paris, puts an end – probably permanently – to chip stepping-stones to make its way across Europe – from Germa- manufacturing in Aix-en-Provence; a blow to France, to Europe ny to France to Italy. On present form the Avezzano wafer fab Advancing and to 613 engineering workers that were employed there. has three years before its demise. We even have the parent company, LFoundry in Germany, The more cynical amongst us might see a broader and more reportedly under a criminal investigation in Paris for the alleged general pattern at multiple management buyouts across Europe the World’s Communications misappropriation of funds from LFoundry in France during deal- whereby inward investors are relieved of their responsibilities ings prior to this unhappy state of affairs. to long-serving employees by transferring ownership to a new company for the last couple of years of a factory’s life. History The fighting and dissent that have now broken out within Europe are all so different to the Standing back it can be seen that expansive, co-operative, pan- Europe has been managing – or mis- If you believe the past is instrumental in European days that created the managing depending on your point of shaping the future, then you’ll understand Rousset fab in 1985. view – its exit from the semiconductor industry for some time. And in the par- why Anritsu is synonymous with Clearly one of Rousset’s prob- ticular case of Lfoundry there seems innovation. Over 100 years of experience lems is that it runs 200mm wafers to have been a decided lack of ability and innovation in our equipment, including – when much manufacturing has to create new business. moved on to larger, more eco- our spectrum/signal analyzer. nomic 300mm wafers – and it has And yet it need not be so. There relatively mature manufacturing are other companies that have made a processes in place – although not good job of taking on legacy manu- disastrously so for mixed-signal facturing and creating new business. IC manufacturing. It has a manu- There’s X-Fab Silicon Foundries AG in facturing capacity of about 25,000 Germany and Tower Semiconductor in wafer starts per month, and it is – Israel. Both are expansive and global Innovator in Signal Capture & Recreate or was – a repository of skills that in their ambitions. Tower has suc- In 1939, Anritsu developed the AC-bias magnetic sound recorder could have been useful to wealth cessfully taken on a Micron wafer fab creation in Europe in the decades in Nishiwaki, Japan, and has struck – a key part of the tape recorder. In 2007, Anritsu marked to come. a deal with Panasonic Corp. to take another first with its launch of a one-box spectrum analyzer control of three of the Japanese com- and signal generator which also provided a unique capture and And yet only two years ago pany’s wafer fabs including 300-mm Rousset was being positioned as a capable fabs. recreate function. Today, Anritsu’s MS2690A and MS2830A beacon of hope within LFoundry. spectrum/signal analyzer series provides an all-in-one solution Learn more and download “Only two years ago Rousset was It is all quite different to 1985 when that captures data and signals in the field and recreates them the FREE White Paper LFoundry GmbH was founded Rousset was the manufacturing site - Fundamentals of RF in 2008 by the management being positioned as a beacon of for a new company, European Silicon seamlessly in the lab, maximizing product quality and efficiency. Capture/Replay in design buy-out of a Renesas wafer fab in Structures (ES2). ES2 was funded by verification Landshut, Germany. The purchase hope within LFoundry” European industrial giants of the time, Capture & Recreate came with legacy orders from the that were users of ICs and just getting From “record and play” to “capture and recreate” Anritsu vendor but LFoundry put the German manufacturing site out into custom IC design. They included Philips Electronics, British Innovations have an impact. into a separate entity called Landshut Silicon Foundry GmbH, Aerospace; Olivetti; Sweden’s Saab France’s Bull, Switzerland’s which was declared insolvent in 2011. And this was because no Asea Brown Boveri and Societe Generale de Belgique. sales were found to replace those legacy orders from Renesas. Download the white paper AC-bias magnetic sound recorder - The whole point of the company was to apply Silicon Valley and learn more... The prototype of modern tape recorders Meanwhile in 2010 LFoundry had acquired the Rousset business methods learned from inward investors in chip mak- fab from Atmel Corp. together with legacy orders. But again ing, such as Motorola and National Semiconductor and let a Eu- LFoundry has failed to replace those legacy orders to a signifi- ropean company apply them, grab European market share and cant degree. It is reported that Atmel has contributed to Rous- eventually take global market share. One wrinkle in the business set’s downfall by cutting back orders after three years. But it is plan that would eventually prove ES2’s undoing was a decision 1895 1900 1939 2000 2013 any foundry’s job to make its chip manufacturing attractive so to use direct-write e-beam manufacturing in an attempt to cre- that customers are lining up, not turning away. ate low volume chips while saving on mask costs. And so Rousset is the second LFoundry wafer fab that has had to close due to being unable to make sales after legacy The plan was technically feasible and differentiating, but it Sales Offices: Europe 44 (0) 1582-433433, USA and Canada 1-800-ANRITSU, chip orders have gone away. And even as Rousset closes put ES2 outside the mainstream of chip manufacturing and in Japan 81 (46) 296-1208, Asia-Pacific (852) 2301-4980, www.anritsu.com LFoundry is in the process of bringing up its third fab, a former a niche between FPGAs and the semi-custom and full-custom ©2013 Anritsu Company Texas Instruments and then Micron Technology wafer fab in offerings of LSI Logic Corp., VLSI Technology Inc.
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