- I received only one right answer to?last week's sorta-quiz asking what I'd learned at CES under a picture of me wearing a strange-looking helmet. Now, to be fair, my question didn't even have a question mark at the end of it ("Guess what I learned!"),?and I'm interpreting the two guesses suggesting a contraption to encourage hair growth as jokes. No surprise to me, the right answer came from my friend Steve Leibson, a brilliant engineer/technical historian, mentor, and my predecessor as chief editor at EDN, who recognized the helmet as a device from Kernel useful for doing brain scans. It's an?extraordinary bit of technology?that uses ST technology.??
- This week we've added to the STPOWER portfolio of products with the announcement of?a?suite of power semiconductor bridges?in ST's advanced ACEPACK? SMIT package, which enhances power density over conventional packages. All of the devices meet automotive-industry requirements and are suitable for electric vehicle?onboard chargers (OBC)?and?DC/DC converters, as well as?industrial power conversion.?The?devices include?two STPOWER 650V MOSFET half bridges (SH68N65DM6AG?and?SH32N65DM6AG), a?600V ultrafast diode bridge, a?1200V half-controlled full-wave rectifier, and a?1200V thyristor-controlled bridge leg.?
- We also expanded our industry-leading STM32 MCU portfolio with the?announcement of the STM32C0 series. The?STM32C0, which leverages the full STM32 development ecosystem, targets applications typically served by 8- and 16-bit micros. Available in 9 small packages, including an SO8N and 1.70x1.42mm WLCSP12, the STM32C0 delivers 44DMIPs and 114 CoreMark from an Arm Cortex-M0+ running at 48MHz. It's quite the Mighty Mite.?
- On the conference tour, we're presenting at?Electronic Imaging 2023?(EI2023), at?IEEE MEMS 2023, at the?SEMI Advanced Semiconductor Tech Conference (ASTC), and at the end of next week, at the?IEEE Meeting on Silicon Monolithic ICs in RF Systems. At EI2023, we're presenting "Quantum efficiency of various miniaturized backside illuminated CMOS pixels under ultraviolet illumination." With a dozen?poster and session presentations on the agenda, we'll be well represented -- as you'd expect from a leading MEMS player -- at the?IEEE MEMS event. A full summary of our presentations is here. And we'll be presenting a paper at the Meeting on Silicon Monolithic ICs in RF Systems discussing the "Performance Trade-offs of RF-SOI Switches Under Scaled Bias Conditions."
- Many of you may be familiar with the quote, "Everything that can be invented has been invented," which has been attributed to the then-Commissioner of the US patent office in 1899,?Charles H. Duell. While some?research challenges that attribution,?ST is proudly demonstrating it isn't true anywhere in our universe. And we're specifically presenting evidence for MEMS at MEMS 2023 and at ASTC that the best is yet to come!
- Also, a reminder that at the?#ISSCC conference?in February, we'll?share details of a new in-memory computing approach that achieves state-of-the-art performance, power efficiency, and computing density using computational SRAM technology to accelerate convolutional neural network algorithms.?
Last week, I?shared a recipe for a vegetarian party wreath that we brought to?a festive get-together with friends. For a?holiday dinner during the break at which my wife and I?were?the hosts, I wanted something that was?delicious, suitable to feed a crowd,?and, like the wreath, looked great, too. It had to be easy to prepare, too. This?Christmas Salmon filled the bill and was relatively simple to make, too. It would have been perfect if I had spinach leaves I could use -- quick cooked to keep their dark green color or served fresh -- to surround the fish.?
Many people don't like to mix sweet and savory flavors, although I actually like the combinations. And this recipe, mixing salmon with pomegranates, pomegranate molasses, maple syrup, and vanilla extract does lean heavily toward the sweet side, but the fish was delicious and several guests had more than one serving! And did I mention this is ready in a flash??
Serves 8?Time: 20 minutes
- ??cup?pomegranate molasses
- ??cup?maple syrup
- 1?tablespoon?butter
- 1?tablespoon?vanilla
- 1?teaspoon?dried rosemary
- ??teaspoon?EACH: salt and pepper
- 3 - 4 lb.?salmon fillet
- ?Pomegranate seeds and rosemary sprigs,?to serve
- Preheat your oven to 425°F. Line a baking sheet with?parchment paper.
- In a medium-sized frying pan over medium-high heat, bring pomegranate molasses, maple syrup, butter, vanilla, rosemary, salt, and pepper to a boil. Boil for 4 minutes then remove the pan from the heat and let it cool. Once it's cool to the touch, it should have the consistency of molasses.
- Lay the salmon fillet on the parchment paper on the baking sheet and spread the thick pomegranate sauce on top – don't worry if it doesn't spread easily, it will once it's in the oven.
- Bake the salmon for 8-9 minutes, until the salmon reaches 140°F. Spoon some of the sauce that has run onto the pan over the salmon.
- Serve the salmon with sprigs of rosemary surrounding it and pomegranate seeds over the top.
