Using PXI gets more intuitive, says NI

NI says its latest release of the InstrumentStudio software for PXI modular instruments improves system interactivity and makes debugging while running tests more intuitive.  InstrumentStudio can now create a multi-instrument environment, so engineers can capture screenshots and measurement results in one view from their suite of instruments.  Also it is possible to save project-level configurations ...

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Queen’s Belfast creates cyber security lab for local community

Queen’s University Belfast is investing £500k in a cyber security research lab at the Centre for Secure Information Technologies (CSIT). An aim of the facility is to work with global companies, start-ups and SMEs to form a strong response to cyber security attacks. The CSIT Test lab includes a high-speed network interconnected via a multi-gigabit ...

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Auto IC market to grow 18.5% to hit $32.3bn this year

The automotive IC market will grow 18.5% this year , says IC Insights, driven by systems monitoring and control, safety, ADAS, convenience, and the growth of autonomous driving. Systems that improve vehicle performance, that add comfort and convenience, and that warn, detect, and take corrective measures to keep drivers safe and alert are being added ...

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Toshiba finalises chip sale

Toshiba says it has completed the sale of its chip business to a consortium comprised of Bain, Hynix, Apple, Dell, Seagate and Kingston Technology. Under the new ownership structure of  the memory unit, Toshiba and optical products specialist Hoya, will have a 50.1% stake in Toshiba Memory with Toshiba having 40.2% and Hoya having 9.9%. Bain ...

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Scandinavians split Europe on digital tax plan

The Scandinavians are opposing the EU’s digital tax plans. “A digital services tax deviates from fundamental principles of income taxation by applying the tax on gross income, i.e. without regard to whether the taxpayer is making a profit or not,” Swedish Finance Minister Magdalena Andersson, and the finance ministers of Denmark and Finland, Kristian Jensen ...

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micro:bit heads for Canada

Kitronik, one of the original partners in of the UK’s BBC micro:bit project has signed a Canadian distribution deal with  Fair Chance Learning. “Our agreement with Fair Chance Learning fits perfectly with the global need to create more electronics engineers,” says Kitronik co-founder and director Kevin Spurr, “we are privileged to support the greater emphasis ...

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Alibaba, RoboSense launch unmanned vehicle using solid-state LIDAR

Alibaba and RoboSense have developed solid-state LIDAR-based unmanned logistics vehicle. The most important feature of the driverless delivery vehicle called G Plus is the solid-state LiDAR technology, the RS-LiDAR-M1Pre, developed by China’s RoboSense. This is the first time that solid-state LiDAR has been  used in the development of an unmanned vehicle,clsim the companies,  heralding the ...

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