NI radar test system targets autonomous vehicle design

NI has introduced a system for testing car radar technology. The system is designed around millimetre-wave (mmWave) front end technology to test 76–81GHz radar systems which are being used in advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS). The system, dubbed VRTS, uses a 76–81GHz vector signal generator/analyser designed for dynamic obstacle generation and comprehensive RF characteristic measurements. ...

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Audio chip brings context aware processing to voice-activated smartphones

An audio processor which aims to improve the quality of voice-activated smartphones has been developed by US-based firm Knowles. It does this, says the firm, by improving recognition especially in far-field and high noise environments. Increased data processing adds context awareness to voice recognition. The design of the IA8508 audio processor achieves this with four ...

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Renesas expands e² studio for ADAS

Renesas will issue an expanded e² studio integrated software development environment in Q1 which ugrades  e² studio for R-Car V3M with various features to boost the performance of ADAS and automated driving applications. e² studio  is an integrated development environment (IDE) based on the open-source Eclipse C/C++ Development Tooling (CDT) software and supports other Renesas devices ...

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Tiny open-frame medical supply gets equally tiny fan kit

EOS Power has introduced a fan and cover kit for its (M)WLP225 series of 225W medical open-frame power supplies. The total size of the module is under 110 x 80 x 50mm. “The uniqueness of its profile makes the (M)WLP225 the smallest 225W power supply in the global power market today,” claimed the firm. Outputs ...

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Mouser signs Auvidea

Mouser has signed embedded systems specialist Auvidea. Mouser will stock Auvidea’s J1xx family carrier boards for the NVIDIA Jetson TX1 and TX2 compute modules. The J100 board matches the Jetson TX1 module’s 50 × 87 mm footprint and connects to form a very compact processing unit to meet the compact size requirements of target applications such ...

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IoT dev kit has security, Bluetooth, touch and zero-power display

Cypress has released a development kit for low-power high-performance IoT devices. It is based around a programmable logic chip that includes a 150MHz ARM Cortex-M4 core and a 100MHz Cortex-M0+ core. “Active power can be as low as 22µA/MHz on the Cortex-M4 and 15µA/MHz on the Cortex-M0+ cores, and dynamic voltage and frequency scaling ensures ...

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Bosch 48V battery targets hybrid vehicle growth in China

Bosch has developed a 48V battery for use in hybrid vehicles. Bosch says the 48V battery has been designed to offer a comparatively inexpensive way of cutting fuel consumption in hybrid vehicles through use of a boost recuperation system (BRS). This involves storing the energy normally lost when braking and applying it when the driver ...

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Denso licenses Coretex-R52 to automated driving

Denso is licensing ARM’s Cortex-R52 for automated driving systems and vehicle control reference platforms. The core allows high functional safety levels (ASIL D) to be achieved, providing hardware-enforced separation of software tasks to ensure safety-critical code is isolated – which decreases the amount of code that needs to be safety-certified. Denso used ARM ‘cycle models’ ...

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Comment: ST’s low-power fabs are just what Europe needs

Plans for new fabs in France and Italy lay solid foundations to develop IoT chip production, writes editor and publisher Josh Brooks. Europe will get a solid foundation for IoT chip making if ST’s plans to build two new 300mm fabs in France and Italy, producing sensors, imagers, photonics and MEMS, bear fruit (see ST ...

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