Imagination has launched a revamped and extended version of its MIPSfpga course for universities that gives budding CPU designers hands-on experience of the inner workings of processors.
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Pi-topPulse is a HAT-compliant sound and light educational accessory for Raspberry Pi 3 as well as something for the accessory rail within a pi-top – the Raspberry Pi-based DIY laptop, or for the all-in-one desktop pi‑topCeed. Small, measuring 60x67mm, it includes a 7 x 7 matrix of RGB LEDs, a loudspeaker and a microphone. “It ...
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Designed to support the supervisory circuits of microprocessors, the APX803L micro-power voltage detector from Diodes offers a detection between 1.2 and 5.0V in 0.1V steps, while consuming 1μA (typ, 2.5μA max). Threshold accuracy is ±1.5%, and no external components are required. Whenever the monitored power supply rail drops below the chosen threshold, the APX803L asserts ...
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UK defence specialist Ultra Electronics has announced a planned acquisition of US-based Sparton Corp in a deal worth $235m (£180m).
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UK Power Networks has published a free guide on the basics of installing electric vehicle charging points at your house or company – from kW to MW installations. It is called ‘Getting electric vehicles moving, all you need to know about getting an electricity connection for your fleet‘. The guide is a top-level skim over ...
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The deadline for submitting entries for the Elektra Awards has been extended until Friday 21 July.
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Cray is providing an Urika-GX system to the Alan Turing Institute through a collaboration between Cray, Intel, and the Institute. Based at the British Library in London, the Alan Turing Institute is the UK’s national institute for data science, and brings together researchers from a range of disciplines to tackle core challenges in data science ...
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Imec and Pisa University have performed the first material-device-circuit level co-optimization of FETs based on 2D materials for high-performance logic applications scaled beyond the 10nm technology node. Imec also presented novel designs that would allow using mono-layer 2D materials to enable Moore’s law even below 5nm gate length. 2D materials, a family of materials that ...
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Q2 PC shipments were 4.3% down y-o-y at 61.1 million units, says Gartner. It is the 11th straight quarter of declining shipments and the lowest quarter since 2007. “Higher PC prices due to the impact of component shortages for DRAM, solid state drives (SSDs) and LCD panels had a pronounced negative impact on PC ...
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