Smart pill from Cambridge Design Partnership takes sample en route

Aiming at improved dog food,Cambridge Design Partnership has created a smart pill for dogs that both senses and samples. Mars is the customer, and trails were at the Waltham Centre for Pet Nutrition in Melton Mowbray. “It was certainly an unusual request and a major challenge,” says Will Bradley, who led the project for CDP. “Mars ...

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480W SMD laser for automotive lidar

Two high-power infra-red lasers are available for lidar from Osram – AEC-Q102 qualified four-channel and a single-channel pulsed lasers. Output is 125Watt/diode, 40A/diode, and efficiency is up to 33%. 480W total is possible with the quad diode device. Packaging is surface-mount: 3.35 x 2.45 x 0.65mm for the quad (SPL S4L90A_3 A01) and 2.0 x ...

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WiFi/LoRa white paper shows new use cases

A white paper released today by the Wireless Broadband Alliance(WBA) and the LoRa Alliance  titled  Wi-Fi & LoRaWAN Deployment Synergies: Expanding Addressable Use Cases For The Internet of Things illustrates new business opportunities that are created when Wi-Fi networks are merged with LoRaWAN networks. Massive IoT applications are less latency sensitive and have relatively low throughput ...

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TE Connectivity buys Silicon Microstructures

TE Connectivity is buying Silicon Microstructures from Elmos Semiconductor. The acquisition of Silicon Microstructures will expand TE’s capabilities in pressure sensing technology, particularly in medical, transportation, and industrial applications. The transaction brings together SMI’s MEMS sensor technology design and manufacturing capabilities, with TE’s operational scale, customer base and existing sensors technologies into a more comprehensive ...

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Cyber security startup raises $8m

Crypto Quantique, the London IoT cyber security startup, has raised an $8 million seed round led by ADV with Entrepreneur First and  others. The company claims its technology can deliver a single chip which can generate multiple, unique, unforgeable cryptographic keys on-demand – these cryptographic keys are never stored, are resistant to most side-channel attacks, and can be ...

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Raspberry Pi powers IIoT gateway

Farnell is now shipping the Raspberry Pi-powered Avnet SmartEdge Industrial IoT Gateway for use in a range of applications including: building management, vehicle monitoring, industrial automation and predictive maintenance. The gateway, with connected by Avnet’s IoTConnect platform, gathers, analyses and provides actionable, real-time data visualisation-all at a best-in-class price. IoTConnect runs on Microsoft Azure, a ...

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Moortec In-Chip Monitoring IP on TSMC 5μm

Moortec has availability of its latest In-Chip Monitoring IP Subsystem on TSMC’s N5 and N5P process technologies. A global acceleration in cutting-edge technologies including 5G, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning and Data Centre High Performance Computing is fuelling the demand on TSMC’s 5nm FinFET process technology. Such devices are required to operate at the highest ...

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Industrial IC market to grow 5.8% CAGR 2019-23.

The industrial semiconductor market grew 10.8% to reach $52 billion in 2018, says IHS Markit. Fast-growing applications for industrial chips in 2018 included networking devices, commercial and military aircraft, LED lighting, digital signage, digital video surveillance, climate control, smart meters, traction, photovoltaic (PV) inverters and human-machine interface systems. Various types of medical electronic devices also ...

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Imec demo-es SiPho building blocks

Imec, and it’s research labs at Ghent University – IDLab and the Photonics Research Group – have demonstrated silicon photonics (SiPho) building blocks which help pave the way for 400Gb/s and beyond optical links as well as for co-packaged optics in next-generation datacentre switches – key enablers for data transmission in future data centers. Highlights ...

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