Anritsu claims first for 5G downlink carrier aggregation test certification

Anritsu has announced that the LTE-Advanced RF Conformance Test System ME7873LA has obtained PTCRB certification for RF Conformance Tests of 5 Downlink Carrier Aggregation (5DL CA) forming a key LTE-Advanced technology. With 5 Downlink Carrier Aggregation (5DL CA) when used with MIMO downlink throughput speeds of 1Gbit/s will be possible as 5G enters commercial service ...

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Firmware tool aims to speed STM32-based IoT sensor design

STMicroelectronics’ AlgoBuilder tool is designed to simplify firmware development by letting users build sensor-control algorithms graphically with library modules, ready to compile and run on an STM32 microcontroller. To build algorithms designers can drag and drop selected functions, connecting the blocks, and configuring properties. The tool validates all design rules and automatically generates C code ...

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Drones co-operate to defend against adversaries

Non-centralised mutual control is key to a team of drones that can defend a place against attack, according to researchers in Saudi Arabia. Performance of the scheme was judged in a capture-the-flag game, where the team of defender drones worked together within a defined area to intercept a human-controlled intruder drone and prevent it from reaching ...

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Computer predicts human behaviour minutes ahead

Computer scientists from the University of Bonn have developed software that can predict human behaviour a few minutes into the future, demonstrated by asking ‘what happens next’ when people make salads. The training data included 40 videos of people making different salads, each around six minutes long and containing 20 different actions on average, lasting ...

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Woman engineer debunks myths about working in industry

The theme for International Women in Engineering Day (INWED) 2018, which takes place on 23 June, is to raise the bar for women in engineering.  It sees a need to heighten expectations for female engineers, there are still a plenty of myths and misconceptions to quash about working in the industry.  So Emma Cygan, design ...

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Smiths Interconnect has space-qualified coaxial cable assemblies

Smiths Interconnect has introduced a range of flexible coaxial cable assemblies which are pre-tested and qualified for the space orbit environment. The SpaceNXT Q series are available as cut to length and dual-terminated assemblies. The range currently consists of the 105Q, 190Q, and 200Q cable models which cover key performance characteristics at various frequency bands ...

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Samsung commits to 100% renewable energy by 2020

Samsung Electronics has  announced today its plan to commit to 100% renewable energy in the United States, Europe and China by 2020. This major commitment – the first by an electronics manufacturing company in Asia – comes after months of campaigning and global protests calling on Samsung to urgently set a clear renewable energy goal ...

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Farnell

Farnell has launched a five-week competition for customers in Europe to celebrate the summer of football 2018. Customers in Europe can visit football.farnell.com to guess the score in key games, test their football predictions against friends and colleagues on a live leader board and tell Farnell element14 about their top-scoring products to get the chance ...

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Dutch start-up IPOs and gets $15bn valuation

Adyen, the 12 year-old Dutch PayPal, IPO’d on the Amsterdam exchange yesterday and saw its shares soar to nearly double the IPO pricing valuing the company at $15.8 billion. Adyen processes payments. Customers include Netflix, Facebook and Spotify. It also supplies sales systems for shops for physical transactions. It processed $127 billion worth of payments in ...

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