Renesas has RX Functional Safety offering

Renesas has announced the “RX Functional Safety” offering for industrial applications that reduces the complexity of IEC 61508 SIL3  certification, an international standard for functional safety. Based on the RX family of microcontrollers (MCUs), the solution provides functional safety for industrial equipment, including functions for chip self-diagnostics, the world’s first SIL3-certified functional safety software and reference ...

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First UK PCB maker to get aerospace and automotive accreditation

GSPK Circuits’ PCB manufacturing facility in Boroughbridge Yorkshire has been certified to the EN9100:2018 quality management. “This certification to the international aircraft, space and defence quality standard signifies GSPK Circuits ongoing commitment to meeting and exceeding industry requirements for aerospace related products for both civil and military markets,” said the firm. EN9100:2018, managed by the International ...

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Industrial IoT gateway is custom Raspberry Pi

Farnell has developed an industrial IoT gateway, that includes an on-board Raspberry Pi circuit rather than connecting to a whole Raspberry Pi. Called SmartEdge Industrial IoT Gateway, it is intended to Connect things to the cloud through Avnet’s IoT Connect platform running on Microsoft Azure – Avnet owns Farnell. Connectivity options include CAN-BUS and RS-232/485 ...

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Embedded World: Video Interview – Chris Ard on recruiting and keeping young engineers

At Embedded World 2019, we caught up with Chris Ard, Managing Director & Director of Business Development at TouchNetix. It’s time to eliminate that British thinking that “Engineers have dirty hands” he says, in a wide-ranging interview. He also talks of IoT development being in early stages and the difficulties of recruiting and keeping young ...

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Embedded World: Video Interview – Randall Restle on a great time to be an electronics engineer

At Embedded World 2019, we caught up with Randall Restle, Vice President of Applications Engineering at Digi-Key. He shares his enthusiasm for electronics and the continuous innovation within the industry, touching on the role of German culture in the valuing of engineering as a discipline. It’s wonderful time to be an engineer, he says! Thank ...

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Cadence ups DSP throughput for 5G comms, and automotive radar and lidar

Cadence has extended the pipeline within its ConnX DSP intellectual property family to produce its highest performance variant yet, the B20. That is not the only change to the IP, which is aimed at 5G comms and automotive applications. “With an enhanced instruction set architecture [ISA] and clock-speed increase, the ConnX B20 DSP processes parts ...

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Dialog buys Silicon Motion’s FCI comms product line

Dialog is to buy  Silicon Motion Technology’s Mobile Communications product line, branded as FCI. The move follows last October’s sale of its PMIC business to Apple for $600 million with $300 million being paid early this year and the other three million over the next three years. Dialog has been looking to diversify  after Apple ...

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Daimler, BMW partner on ADAS, AV.

R&D costs for ADAS and autonomous vehicles have pushed Daimler and BMW into an alliance. “We should not invent this complicated wheel twice,” says Daimler director Loa Kaellenius, “it makes sense to share some of these investments.” The move may have been prompted by Daimler’s woeful performance in recent autonomous driving statistics provided by the ...

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Harwin Academy founded for STEM careers

Harwin has founded the Harwin Academy in partnership with Havant & South Downs College to deliver high quality training to students to open up career paths for them within the STEM sector. The two-year course has been developed to ensure the content meets the needs of the engineering industry and prepares students for the workplace ...

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DRAM in freefall

The DRAM market is in freefall, says DRAMeXchange. The Q1 DRAM market will be down 30%, following an 18% q-o-q fall in Q4. DRAM suppliers are holding inventory wafers representing six weeks sales, says DRAMeXchange. Intel’s low-end CPU supply shortage is expected to last until the end of 3Q19  stopping PC OEMs from initiating a ...

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