HONOLULU, HI (January 4, 2021) – Now in its 42nd year of delivering a unique convergence of technology and circuits for the microelectronics industry, the Symposia on VLSI Technology & Circuits will be merged into one Symposium to maximize the synergy across both domains. The newly merged 2022 IEEE VLSI Symposium on Technology & Circuits has announced a call for papers around the theme: “Technology & Circuits for the Critical Infrastructure of the Future.” The five-day hybrid event, combining both live sessions onsite at the Hilton Hawaiian Village, as well as on-demand access to selected presentations and panel sessions, is scheduled from June 13 – 17, 2022 in Honolulu, HI. The Symposium will feature advanced VLSI technology developments, innovative circuit design, and the applications they enable, such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, IoT, wearable/implantable biomedical applications, big data, cloud / edge computing, virtual reality (VR) / augmented reality (AR), robotics, and autonomous vehicles.

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The global tin market faces a deficit, driven by heightened demand from the electronics sector, where tin is used for circuit board manufacturing while the total volume of metal production was insufficient. Consequently, tin prices peaked at $39,159 per tonne in November 2021, soaring by 79% from the beginning of that year. According to October World Bank’s forecast, the average annual tin price should drop from an expected $31,250 per tonne in 2021 to $31,000 per tonne in 2022.

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Sunrise, Florida, Jan. 04, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Nano Dimension Ltd. (“Nano Dimension”, Nasdaq: NNDM), an industry-leader in Additively Manufactured Electronics (AME), Printed Electronics (PE), and Micro Additive Manufacturing (Micro-AM), announced today that it has sold yet another DragonFly IV 3D-AME Printer and FLIGHT Applications Software package, both first released in mid-November 2021, to a leading Western Defense Force.

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For vehicles to operate as autonomously as possible in the future, they must meet completely new requirements in data processing and sensor technology. State-of-the-art technology by AT&S enables high-resolution scanning of the surroundings as well as processing and transferring the data volume incurred. In January, the high-tech group from Austria will present its latest developments in this area at the CES Consumer Electronics Show.

Cars that operate autonomously and without errors are a cornerstone of concepts aiming to make transport greener and safer. From today's perspective, this is still a distant dream as the technical challenges are enormous and legal framework conditions are yet to be established. Autonomous vehicles permanently need accurate information about their surroundings, sufficient computing power to process this flood of data and high-speed data connections to communicate with traffic lights or other cars. As the share of electronics in cars increases, little space is available and miniaturisation is continuously gaining importance.

Sensors for cars

AT&S has developed solutions that all leading automotive manufacturers use to cope with these challenges: For example, new processes allow the integration of antennas for high-frequency signals directly into printed circuit boards with virtually no losses. This allows building radar sensors featuring significantly higher resolution than current products. As a result, self-driving cars of the future will be able to reliably identify small objects such as small animals or things on the road.

Likewise, high-resolution cameras are used to collect reliable information about the surrounding environment. AT&S benefits from its long-standing experience in the smartphone market, which enables us to integrate high-resolution optical sensors directly into the printed circuit boards. As a result, extremely robust systems are created which can identify pedestrians or road conditions very quickly since the data can be processed directly in the camera module.

V2X communication

In order for self-driving cars to capitalise on their advantages, coordination between them will be necessary. The data collected by a vehicle must be shared with other road users. Moreover, traffic lights or toll booths also have to pass on information to vehicles. This requires wireless communication channels that transmit data with high bandwidth and without delay. The new 5G standard meets these requirements. With its HDI and substrate-like printed circuit boards (SLP), AT&S provides the basis for such complex communication channels which meet even the highest demands very efficiently.

The less human intervention is intended, the more complex the decisions that need to be made by driver assistance systems for self-driving cars. Different processors and processing units that operate reliably and fast are required for general and specialised tasks. AT&S interconnect solutions combine the necessary data processing capacity and computing power in a very small space while at the same time meeting the demanding automotive requirements.

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