Andes core fabbed in FD-SOI

Andes Technology has implemented 32bit CPU IP cores in 22FDX, the 22nm FDSOI process from Globalfoundries.   “Our newest products, N25 32bit and NX25 64bit RISC-V based cores coupled with a mature toolchain, will provide even more value to customers in these advanced nodes by providing both high speed and power efficiency,” says Andes CTO ...

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800A resistor gets tapped holes for mounting and connections

Vishay has added tapped holes to some of its high-current shunt resistors to aid PCB and wire mounting. WSBS8518…M3 and WSBS8518…M4 are 36W battery shunt resistors featuring M3 and M4 tapped holes (close to the centre in the photo), respectively. The resistors are 85 x 18 x 3mm With resistance values down to 50µΩ, Vishay ...

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Ink jet printed photonic structures

Advances in ink jet printing have allowed photonically active structures to be printed, according to researchers at the University of Cambridge and the Hitachi Cambridge Laboratory. “Most inkjet printers push the ink through the nozzle by heating or applying pressure, producing ink droplets about the size of the diameter of a human hair,” said Dr Vincenzo ...

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VoW and VoM next year, says Qualcomm.

Qualcomm says it will launch video-over-wireless (VoW)  products utilising video over mesh networks (VoM)  next year. “Qualcomm  a mesh Wi-Fi solution that provides the flexibility for carriers to deploy advanced video services through traditional wireless gateways and set-top-boxes or through mesh architectures, so that consumers can enjoy a resilient network that supports their growing entertainment ...

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Plextek joins global community for mission-critical comms

Plextek, the Cambridgeshire-based RF design firm, is joining global mission-critical communications organisation, TCCA. TCCA addresses the ongoing development of the TETRA open standard as well as promoting the development of mission-critical broadband communications. For its part, Plextek is involved in the development of systems for both Long-Term Evolution (LTE) and digital Professional Mobile Radio (PMR) ...

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Belfast researcher’s work on hurricane comms in Newton Prize final

A researcher at Queen’s University Belfast has been shortlisted for the 2017 Newton Prize for his work designing a wireless communications system for use when natural disasters, such as an earthquake, tsunami or hurricane, strike. Dr Trung Duong, who is originally from Vietnam and based at the Institute of Electronics, Communications and Information Technology at ...

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Back-end process adds LEDs and photo-diodes to silicon for on-chip comms

Photonics can be added to silicon CMOS, creating infra-red LEDs and photo-diodes using layers of molybdenum telluride, according to MIT. As a back-end process over CMOS, the team fabricated a p-n junction with an infra-red bandgap from a bi-layer of the two-dimensional dichalcogenide MoTe2. “Researchers have been trying to find materials that are compatible with silicon, ...

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Renesas and ASTC develop ADAS SoC

Renesas and Australian Semiconductor Technology Company (ASTC) are jointly  developing The VLAB/IMP-TASimulator virtual platform (VP) for Renesas’ R-Car V3M, an automotive system-on-chip (SoC) for advanced driving assistance systems (ADAS) and in-vehicle infotainment systems. The VP simulates image recognition and cognitive intellectual properties (IPs) in the R-Car V3M SoC and realizes embedded software development using a ...

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Brainchip ships first accelerator card

BrainChip, the neural net specialist, has shipped its first BrainChip Accelerator card to a major European automobile manufacturer. It is the first commercial implementation of a hardware-accelerated spiking neural network (SNN) system. The BrainChip Accelerator is an example of neuromorphic computing, a branch of artificial intelligence that simulates neuron functions. BrainChip Accelerator will be evaluated ...

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