Sony dev kit combines MCUs, GPS and audio

Sony SPresense is a multi-function development kit with a lot of processing power, GPS receivers and a camera interface, amongst other peripherals. The CXD5602 SoC on the 50 x 20.6mm main board contains six 156MHz ARM Cortex-M4F cores, and its periperals include an 8bit parallel camera interface, a multi-constellation GNSS receiver, and a sensor-fusion block ...

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Inertial sensor withstands harsh environments for drones

Inertial measurement units (IMUs) from Bosch Sensortec are now available from Mouser. The BMI088 is a low noise, six-axis inertial sensor is designed for industrial applications as well as drone and robotic applications. The IMU has a 16bit digital, triaxial accelerometer and a 16bit digital, triaxial gyroscope to measure orientation and detect motion along three ...

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Tesco and VW to set up UK EV charging network

Tesco and VW are to set up an EV charging network based on Tesco’s srprores. In the next three years, the plan is to install 2,400 charging posts in 600 stores. That would increase the number of UK charging points by 14%. The installation will be done by Pod Point which has installed 2,500 charging ...

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Phone app and cloud-based AI could identify heart disease from the home

Artificial intelligence can recognise congestive heart failure non-invasively via by a cloud-connected phone, briging diagnosis into the home, according to a research team from Nanyang Technological University and Tan Tock Seng Hospital, both of Singapore. One in five people worldwide, according to Nanyang, run the risk of developing congestive heart failure – and this increases with age. ...

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USB 3.0 isolator passes 5Gbit/s while breaking electrical continuity for instrumentation

Saelig has introduced the Alldaq ADQ-USB 3.0-ISO series of USB 3.0 isolators, which support the full USB 3.0 SuperSpeed data rate of 5Gbit/s, while breaking the electrical connection between host PC and peripheral. Applications are expected in industrial and automotive instrumentation, and blocking mains pick-up in professional sound. “Re-clocking design guarantees a stable USB connection ...

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Wave investment tops $100m

Wave Computing, the edge computing start-up, has taken its VC funding tally to $117.3 million with its latest Series E round of $86 million which was, says Wave, oversubscribed. Wave is one of a host of ‘neural’processor start-ups claiming to have a new way of processing large data-sets on-chip. Wave calls its technology DataFlow and ...

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Chip industry has a lot riding on Argentina

The semiconductor industry has a big stake in what happens in Buenos Aires this week. Applied and ASML are among a host of companies which have already had to pull out of Fujian Jin Hua’s fab site following an escalation of the Trump-Xi trade war. The US equipment industry is losing substantial revenues over the ...

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