Embedded World: Lauterbach and UltraSoC back RISC-V

Lauterbach and UltraSoC have added support for the RISC-V open-source processor architecture to their joint chip development and debug environment. “Across the industry there is rising excitement about the emergence of RISC-V as an open source processor,” said UltraSoC CEO Rupert Baines. “This is especially significant in heterogeneous multi-core architectures: engineers want the choice to ‘mix ...

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Samsung and NI collaborate on 5G New Radio interface tests

NI is teaming up with mobile phone giant Samsung Electronics to develop 5G test UEs for proposed 5G New Radio (NR) radio interface. The first public demonstration of this collaboration will show Samsung’s 28GHz basestation communicating with an NI test UE at next week’s Mobile World Congress (February 26 to March 1) in Barcelona. A ...

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Airbus maintains Beijing’s public safety Tetra network

Airbus has signed a three-year contract to maintain the operations of Beijing’s public safety Tetra network. The contract with Chinese operator Justtop until 2020 covers on-site support, maintenance services and a 24/7 emergency support with trouble shooting competences. The Beijing Government shared network serves various government authorities, including the municipal government, the emergency response office, ...

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MWC: CCS launches 12Gbit/s comms for unlicenced 60GHz mmWave

Cambridge Communication Systems (CCS) has launched its Metnet 12Gbit/s unlicensed 60GHz mmWave access and back-haul unit. The multi-point system is the first element in a software-defined mesh network architecture, with multiple Metnet 60GHz nodes operating as a centrally managed SDN-capable networking switch. Operating in the unlicensed 57-71GHz band, it has automated interference avoidance and low ...

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KiCad is big news for schematic capture, says Digi-Key

Digi-Key Electronics has put a new library of nearly 1,000 common parts for use by the open source, KiCad schematic capture and printed circuit board tool on beta release on its website. The distributor has selected the most popular parts for users of KiCad and created a library that links the schematic symbols and printed ...

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Qualcomm increases offer for NXP

Qualcomm has increased it offer for NXP to $127.50 per share representing a purchase price of $44 billion. Qualcomm’s previous bid was $110 per share worth $39 billion. Before the new offer NXP stock was trading at $118.50. Qualcomm has entered into binding agreements with nine NXP stockholders who collectively own more than 28% of ...

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1MHz rail-to-rail op-amp draws only 55μA

Microchip’s MCP6411 operational amplifier can operate with a single supply voltage as low as 1.7V, while drawing 55μA quiescent current (max). Called MCP6411, input offset is ±1.0mV max, and both input and output operate rail-to-rail. Compensation means it is unity gain stable, and it has a gain bandwidth product of 1 MHz (typ). “The MCP6411 ...

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LED lighting drives boom in vertical farms in China

LED lighting is having a major impact on the way plants are grown commercially in greenhouses. As a result the horticultural lighting market reached almost $3.8bn in 2017, according to market data from Yole Développement. But changes to the horticultural LED lighting market indicate that greenhouse applications may only be the tip of the iceberg. ...

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Samsung selling 30TB SSD

Samsung Says it has begun mass producing the industry’s largest capacity Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) solid state drive (SSD) – the PM1643 – for use in next-generation enterprise storage systems. Leveraging Samsung’s 64-layer, 3-bit 512-gigabit (Gb) V-NAND chips, the 30.72 terabyte (TB) drive delivers twice the capacity and performance of the previous 15.36TB high-capacity lineup ...

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Infineon buys Merus Audio

Infineon has bought Merus Audio, the Copenhagen-based start-up founded in 2010 by Hans Hasselby-Andersen (pictured) and Mikkel Hoyerby. Merus Audio creates energy-efficient integrated audio amplifier solutions. They maximize audio performance and battery playback time for smart home and battery-powered speakers while minimizing heat and design space. After the integration of Merus Audio, Infineon will be ...

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