EE took the honours in RootMetrics’ bi-annual assessment of UK mobile telecoms operators’ performance. In the second half of 2017, EE had a clean sweep of all the categories which RootMetrics measures. “EE leads the pack in all areas – reliability, speed, data and text handling – and shares the lead with 3 in call ...
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Anritsu says software for its Wireless Test Set MT8870A now supports the new 3GPP 5G Sub-6GHz New Radio (NR) measurement standards. The enhanced 5G Sub-6GHz NR Uplink Tx measurement and downlink waveform software options will support non-signalling based 5G Sub-6GHz TRx tests. In December 2017, release 15 of the 3GPP standard was announced which defines ...
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Pro Design, the Germany-based firm using FPGAs in prototyping systems, has added three modules for Zynq UltraScale+ FPGAs. They will be part of the firm’s proFPGA product family of modular multi-FPGA prototyping boards. The Zynq UltraScale+ FPGAs, designated ZU11EG, ZU17EG and ZU19EG, can be mounted on the proFPGA uno, duo or quad motherboard and mixed ...
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Renesas has brought out three Target Boards for the RX65N, RX130 and RX231 Microcontroller (MCU) Groups, each designed to help engineers jump start their home appliance, building and industrial automation designs. Priced below $30, the Target Boards lower the price threshold for engagement, allowing more system developers to enjoy the benefits of Renesas’ broad-based 32-bit ...
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The ten largest semiconductor R&D spenders increased their collective expenditures to $35.9 billion in 2017, an increase of 6% compared to $34.0 billion in 2016, says IC Insights. Intel continued to far exceed all other semiconductor companies with R&D spending that reached $13.1 billion. In addition to representing 21.2% of its semiconductor sales last year, ...
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Qualcomm shareholders have been advised to vote for four of the proposed six new directors if they want to maximise their return from the Broadcom bid. On March 6th Qualcomm shareholders will be asked to vote for six new directors proposed by Broadcom. Voting for all six will trigger the Broadcom takeover of Qualcomm. However ...
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Church spires across the UK will be used to boost digital connectivity in rural areas following an agreement between the Government and the Church of England. The accord, signed by the the National Church Institutions (NCIs) of the Church of England, the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) and the Department for the ...
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At the International Solid-State Circuits Conference in San Francisco, Analog Devices revealed a 20-bit 1Msample/s successive approximation ADC with 0.3ppm INL (integral non‑linearity). Key to this performance is a constantly-running background calibration technique that allows the ADC to process its input signal without interruption, while compensating for ageing, temperature sensitivity, package stress and PCB stress. ...
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There seems no end to the challenges the Raspberry Pi community has tackled with its credit-card-sized computer – there are at least two in space, plenty hidden away inside industrial equipment and loads around the globe educating children. Having spent a while recently trying to fix an ancient oscilloscope, it occurred to me that it ...
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Could a single multi-mode radar IC fulfil the needs of: vehicle corner radars, which have to be physically small vehicle urban front radars, which need a wide field of view vehicle narrow-beam highway radars? Texas Instruments said ‘yes’ in an ISSCC paper devoted to a single‑chip 76GHz-81GHz frequency-modulated continuous wave (FMCW) radar transceiver in 45nm ...
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