NEWS


Breakthrough for Gyroscopes


nico di Milano are reported to have developed a MEMS gy- roscope that is capable of providing navigation-grade performance with a sensor footprint of only 1.3mm2, using nano-resistive sensing. To address new demands


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for high-performance inertial measurement units (IMU), these gyroscopes must reach the navigation grade, which means improved characteristics of one or two orders of magnitude com- pared to the best commer- cial MEMS gyroscopes. Thus, they require a bias instability well below 0.1°/h and an an- gular random walk (ARW) of less than 0.01°/√h. CEA-Leti and Politecnico di


Milano, reached these targets by demonstrating performance matching the best state of the art on ultra-miniaturised MEMS gyroscopes. This new gyroscope solu-


tion reaches “0.004 °/Öhr ARW and 0.02 °/hr stability on average over several tested samples, reportedly unrivaled results for a 1.3mm²-size gyroscope foot- print. The ARW and bias instability performance were highlighted on non-static operations: After 9 minutes long in operation navigation, where the gyro is repeatedly tilted by 180° constant angle rotations and by AC random motion with about 200-dps peak-to-peak value, the residual angle error at the end of navigation corre-


sponds to only 0.07°. www.cea.fr/english


EA-Leti scientists, in collaboration with re- searchers at Politec-


Debugging Boost for Microsoft Azure RTOS ThreadX


Components bottleneck drives German components distribution forward


The shortage of components continues to drive great numbers for the distribution industry. Although the summer quarter did not bring new sales records, it clearly ended with record orders. Sales by distributor members of the FBDi grew by 25.2% to 887 million Euros in the third quarter. On incoming orders, the industry set a new record with 1.48 billion Euros, which represents a plus of 135%. As a result, the book-to-bill ratio ended once again at a record- breaking level of 1.67. For the year as a whole, the electronics components distribution industry is expected to grow by between 15% and 20%, returning to the pre-Corona turn-over level of around 3.3 billion euros. At a product level, the FBDi recorded significant differences:


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ercepio has improved support for Microsoft Azure and Azure RTOS


ThreadX in Tracealyzer. The company integrated its


trace recorder in ThreadX, adding support for streaming recording where trace data is sent continuously to the host for early warnings and full in- sight into the software behav- iour of deployed devices for safeguarding the data stream and service availability of Azure IoT applications.” “The new streaming support


will be a big debugging boost for Microsoft Azure RTOS ThreadX developers, and DevAlert’s Azure support is an important addition to the growing family of services available for Azure,” says Tony Shakib, general manager, Azure IoT at Microsoft. The improved Azure support will be available in the upcom-


ing Tracealyzer v4.6 release. www.percepio.com


Semiconductors, by far the largest product group, grew by just under 20% to 576 million Euros, electromechanics by almost 38% to 126 million Euros, and passives by 38% to 115 million Euros. Sen- sors (+69% to just under 9 million euros), displays (by 24% to 16 mil- lion), power supplies (including batteries) by 29% to 34 million Euros, and assemblies and subsystems by 39% to just under 11 million Euros also increased considerably. This resulted in a slightly different market split between semiconductors (65%), passives (13%) and electromechanical components (14%). Power supplies and the remaining products each contributed 4%. FBDi Chairman of the board Georg Steinberger said: "Com-


pared to the once again massive increase in orders, the 25% sales growth in the third quarter is almost disappointing. The lack of availability has clearly had an impact on our growth. How much of the future orders can actually be realised remains to be seen - almost 4.2 billion euros in new orders have been booked in 2021 alone, in 3 quarters! Even with a lot of imagination, this cannot reflect the true market demand, even if a large part of next year already seems to be in the bag." The way in which the components industry - above all semi-


conductors - has already arrived in the mainstream media amazes Steinberger: "For 35 years, first as a journalist and then as a marketeer, I have tried to make the wonders of microelectron- ics accessible to a wider public, but this has hardly crossed the industry boundaries. “Today, even the daily news reports on the shortage of 'com-


puter chips' and its impact on the entire national economy, the 'new gold'. One can only hope that this will not only result in billions in subsidies for chip production, but finally in the improve- ment of educational structures that will enable Europe and Germany to develop the leading chips for the future. Kids,


become engineers and chip designers!" www.fbdi.de


Klocwork & Secure Code Warrior Partnership


Perforce Software has announced new functionality to speed remediation of dis- covered defects in automated scans. Deliv- ered via an integration with Secure Code Warrior, Klocwork customers can instantly connect to resources that explain how to mitigate vulnerabilities as they develop


code. The integration makes secure coding an


engaging experience for developers, with relevant skills-based pathways to write se- cure code at speed. Connecting the rele- vant SCW learning resources to the security vulnerabilities as they are detected by the


SAST tools running within the developer desktop tools, or as part of the CI/CD pipelines means that Klocwork and the Se- cure Code Warrior learning platform em- power developers to remediate errors quickly and continuously enhance their skillset. www.perforce.com


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