Free Segger Embedded Studio for Nordic nRF51 and nRF52

Nordic Semiconductor has licensed Embedded Studio from Segger Microcontroller on behalf of Nordic customers – in particular those developing applications for its nRF51 and nRF52 Bluetooth chips – both of which have spare user-accessible processing power. Embedded Studio is an integrated development environment (IDE) for managing, building, testing, and deploying embedded applications, which includes: a project ...

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Comment: Disrupting the insurance business with open source IoT hardware

Is the revenue model for IoT products broken? Maarten Ectors of Legal & General and Mike Bray of RS Components explain the rationale behind the LeakKiller challenge The adoption of IoT products is a bit sluggish. While there are many causes, the number one reason stems from the high cost of hardware, with the retail ...

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Samsung invests in China AI chip start-up DeePhi

Samsung has made a ‘significant’ investment in DeePhi Tech, an AI IC specialist founded last year by four graduates from Tsinghua University and Stanford, reports The Korea Times. ‘We provide end-to-end solutions utilising deep compression and a DPU platform. Leveraging the optimisation of co-designed neural networks and FPGAs, DeePhi provides more efficient, convenient and economical ...

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Leti about to kick off EV drivetrain project

Leti is about to kick off a new European Horizon 2020 project called ModulED to develop innovative electric drivetrains for electric vehicles. Coordinated by Leti, the three-year, €7.2 million project includes the companies BRUSA Elektronik AG (Switzerland), Punch Powertrain NV (Belgium), ZG GmbH (Germany), Siemens (France), Efficient Innovation (France); universities RTWH Aachen University, Chalmers University ...

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CBI call for government action on AI, IoT and blockchain

The CBI is calling on the government to form a joint commission early next year made up business and employee representatives, a government minister and academics to recommend how AI, Blockchain and IoT can best be exploited by industry.   “Artificial Intelligence solves problems. Blockchain changes how businesses exchange value. The Internet of Things unlocks ...

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2D position and pressure sensor, from matchbox to room-sized

Yorkshire start-up Quantum Technology Supersensors has been set-up to exploit a pressure-sensing technology that can produce 2D position sensors the size of a room, down to tiny touch pads. Referred to as QTSS, it is based electron-tunnelling between shaped particles of ‘magnetite’ buried in various elastomers. If this sounds familiar, company founder David Lussey also ...

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European project to boost electric vehicle performance

Better drive-trains for third-generation electric vehicles is the target of a European Horizon 2020 project, to be headed by French research lab Leti. Called ModulED, the three-year, €7.2m project will consist of 10 European research institutes, selected from the automotive-industry and universities (see below), and will cover boosting drivetrain performance, efficient manufacturing, reduced environmental impact and vehicle cost. ...

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Software bugs fixed automatically with AI and Big Data

Fujitsu Laboratories has created artificial intelligence that automatically creates patches for software bugs after learning from archived bug reports and bug patches. It works on bugs in object-oriented programmes, typically used for business application software development, and reduces average time to diagnose and fix single-fault-location bugs by 28.8%, claims Fujitsu, compared to the conventional heuristic-search-based patch generation ...

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Green Hills verifies multicore OS for future airborne systems

Green Hills Software is to verify conformance of its Integrity-178 operating system with the technical standard for Future Airborne Capability Environment (FACE) edition 2.1. Certon, the critical systems certification firm, will help carry out the verification Time-Variant Unified Multi Processing (tuMP) operating system for three different multicore architectures, or Units of Conformance (UoC): Intel, ARMv8 and PowerPC/QorIQ. ...

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