Nexperia adds in-vehicle protection diodes

Nexperia, the  former Standard Products division of NXP, today announced a new generation of in-vehicle network (IVN) protection diodes that offer a higher surge current, greater ESD robustness and a significant improvement in ESD clamping performance. The new AEC-Q101 qualified PESDxIVN series of surface mount devices is optimized for the latest generation of CAN, LIN, ...

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Digi-Key recognised for connector sales by Harwin

Online distributor Digi-Key has achieved sales growth of 40% for Harwin product lines over the last 12 months, and as a result has received the connector firm’s global distributor award for 2017. Doug Steele, v-p of sales at Harwin, writes: “This year Digi-Key have really stood out as a powerful force in progressing Harwin’s market ...

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Farnell secures Croatian BBC micro:bit rollout

Farnell  has signed an agreement with the Croatian Academic and Research Network (CARNet) for the delivery of 45,000 BBC micro:bit in an official national rollout led by a privately financed nonprofit IRIM. As part of the national rollout, all students in Grade 6 will receive a BBC micro:bit to help them develop their skills in ...

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Soaring Server Market

Google, AWS, Microsoft and Facebook are by far the biggest owners of servers dwarfing their China counterparts Alibaba, Tencent and Baidu, The top server suppliers remain HPE, Dell and Lenovo with market shares of 17%, 16% and 7% respectively, according to DRAMeXchange, which expects the server market to grow 5.53% next year. Server DRAM is ...

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Vayyar raises $45m

Vayyar Imaging, the 3D imaging sensor company has closed a $45 million Series C financing round co-led by Walden Riverwood and ITI with additional funding from Claltech and follow-on investment from Battery Ventures, Bessemer Ventures, Israel Cleantech Ventures, and Amiti, bringing total capital raised to date to $79 million. Vayyar will use the funds to ...

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Microsemi and Imperas develop RISC-V ISS.

Microsemi and Imperas Software have come up with the Extendable Platform Kit for Microsemi Mi- RISC-V soft CPUs. The collaboration delivers the first commercially available instruction set simulator (ISS) for Microsemi’s Mi-V ecosystem, a program designed to increase adoption of Microsemi’s RISC-V soft CPU product family utilizing RISC-V open instruction set architectures (ISAs). “The Imperas ...

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Mouser makes SensiBLE signing

  Mouser will distribute the SensiEdge range of SensiBLE  board-level IoT modules and development tools. As part of the agreement, Mouser is stocking the company’s low-power SensiBLE IoT edge module and accompanying SensiBLE development kit with integrated debugger, which enable designers to reduce the length of IoT prototyping cycles through the combination of the module’s ...

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Cruden simplifies hardware driving simulator design 

Dutch firm Cruden has developed a simulation tool for automotive R&D that combines hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) set-ups and driver-in-the-loop (DIL) simulators. As an example, Cruden installed a driver simulator merged with a dSPACE HIL set-up at the Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences in Germany, where students can integrate hardware into the driving simulator. HIL set-ups, for ...

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Airbus helps PMR networks meet new EU security directive

A European directive on network and information security (NIS) comes into force next year. The aim of the NIS directive is to improve the member states’ cooperation and protection against attacks. The European Union’s directive on network and information security (NIS), was adopted in summer 2016, and national governments will have to implement the legislation ...

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Teledyne e2v expands business ties with China

Teledyne e2v has opened a new healthcare and security facility to support its growing business in China. The facility in Chaoyang District, Beijing will be customer facing for radiotherapy, security and other high-power RF applications. Ewan Livingstone, President RF Power: Commercial, officially opened the site on 4 December 2017, and Teledyne e2v is looking forward ...

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