Allegro MicroSystems has established a research and development centre in the Czech Republic. It currently has two dozen engineers and will work on ICs for automotive and industrial markets – initially focussing on sensor ICs for electrified vehicles, green energy, and industrial motors. “We are very excited to formally open our new R&D centre in ...
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Inspired by acoustics, a French-US team has found a way to locate objects in a room simply by their microwave scattering characteristics. Similar to diffusing reverberant acoustic wave spectroscopy (DRAWS), the techniques relies on the room having walls that reflect radio waves – reflecting sufficiently to fill the room with a complex field of interference ...
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Designers can used the integrated development environment (IDE) to quickly go from C++ to FPGA using the HLS and Achronix’s ACE design tools. The combination can reduce the development effort for 5G wireless and other design applications that require high performance FPGA technology in SoCs, configured using a proven C‑based design flow. Ellie Burns, director of marketing, Calypto Systems division, ...
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Display specialist, Review Display Systems, has opened a branch in the USA. The UK supplier of displays and embedded systems and design solutions, has opened offices in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Headed by Alan Beale, the company will serve clients in the US. Alan has a business and engineering background, having worked in graphics, computing and renewable energy sectors for ...
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“We are being exposed to blue light continuously, and it’s no secret that blue light harms our vision by damaging the eye’s retina,” said University of Toledo researcher Dr Ajith Karunarathne. “Our experiments explain how this happens, and we hope this leads to therapies that slow macular degeneration.” The mechanism identified involves a vitamin A ...
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Mouser has signed a global distribution agreement with Fanstel of Scottsdale Arizona which develops and manufactures Wi-Fi- and Bluetooth–enabled modules including Nordic Semiconductor-based BlueNor and Toshiba-based BlueFan modules. BlueNor are BLE modules that incorporate a Nordic nRF52 system-on-chip (SoC) and an Arm Cortex microcontroller. The BlueNor BT832 Series modules combine a Nordic nRF52832 SoC and an Arm ...
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The China credit squeeze following the trade war with the US saw funds raised for early stage (seed and before Series A) investment fall 53% to $559 million, reports Xero2IPO. 234 Chinese VC houses reported that funds raised in H1 were down 44% to $12 billion. Exits were down 65% at 271. “Due to caution ...
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Element 14 has announced the winning designs of its “Bluetooth Unleashed” Design Challenge, which included a smart doorbell, enhanced exercise bike and even a device to improve the ambiance in a room. As one of five challenges that the element14 community and Premier Farnell runs each year, 20 community members were tasked with uniquely showcasing ...
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The renowned EU fines supremo Margrethe Vestager (pictured), who recently imposed the $5 billion fine on Google, may be after Apple for its use of its Lightning charger cable connector. ‘Given the unsatisfactory progress with this voluntary approach, the Commission will shortly launch an impact assessment study to evaluate costs and benefits of different other ...
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Toshiba has announced 3D XL-Flash – a fast to read SLC flash type with 10x reduction in read latency compared to TLC flash. Compared to QLC’s 30μs program time, XL-Flash has a 7μs program time, Toshiba sees it as providing fast cache when used in conjunction with QLC flash. The combination is faster than a ...
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