Singapore R&D for mmWave phased array technology for 5G

A*STAR of Singaporevand arQana Technologies are to jointly develop capabilities in mmWave Phased Array System for 5G cellular infrastructure, drone detection radar, and satellite communication on the move (SOTM). The three-year collaboration will see an investment of S$10M by arQana to develop differentiating performance factors that are currently missing in the industry such as greater ...

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Imec.istart selects nine startups

Imec has chosen nine new tech startups for the imec.istart accelerator programme. In addition to a pre-seed funding of €50,000, they will receive one year of tailor-made coaching for their specific market, in order to make the transition to the market easier. The rising trend in the number of promising international start-ups applying is also ...

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16 synchronous digital lines added to digitiser

Spectrum Intrumentation has released an optional module for its latest range of 16-bit digitizers and AWGs that adds 16 synchronous digital lines to the analogue data. The additional digital lines extend the four multi-purpose XIO lines that are already standard on these digitizer and AWG cards. This makes, in total, 20 fully programmable XIO lines ...

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Raspberry Pi supercomputer

Oracle has built a supercomputer from 1060 Raspberry Pi’s. It runs on Oracle Autonomous Linux. The Raspberry Pis are connected to a series of  Ubiquiti UniFi Switch 48s and uplinked  with SFP+ 10GbE transceivers. They are powered by USB power supplies. A 1U Xeon server acts  as a central storage server for the supercomputer. Custom, ...

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2020 looking good

2020 seniconductor sales are forecast to rise 5-7%, reports SEMI. Yesterday, Future Horizons forecast that the 2020 market rise would be 4%. SEMI blamed the cloud service providers’ capex cutbacks for the memory market downturn this year, which will lead the industry to a 15% fall in 2019, according to Future Horizons.. Chipmakers remain trapped ...

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Vision at the edge

CEVA has announced  its second-generation AI processor architecture for deep neural network inferencing at the edge called  NeuPro-S. CEVA also introduced  the CDNN-Invite API, an industry-first deep neural network compiler technology that supports heterogeneous co-processing of NeuPro-S cores together with custom neural network engines, in a unified neural network optimizing run-time firmware. NeuPro-S, along with ...

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New capabilities for MATLAB and Simulink

MathWorks has  introduced Release 2019b with a range of new capabilities in MATLAB and Simulink,including those in support of artificial intelligence, deep learning and the automotive industry. In addition, R2019b introduces new products in support of robotics, new training resources for event-based modeling, and updates and bug fixes across the MATLAB and Simulink product families. Release highlights ...

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Lack of engineering uptake linked to lack of knowledge, research indicates

Research from EngineeringUK has revealed some 76% of 11-19 year-olds lack knowledge of what a career in engineering actually entails. The Royal Academy of Engineering warns of “far-reaching implications”. 52% of the same group, when surveyed, suggested they would “probably or definitely” not want to become an engineer. This trend is thought to contribute to ...

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Rohm’s automotive-grade backlight LED driver optimized for LCD panels

Rohm has announced the BD81A76EFV-M, an LED driver IC optimized for LCD backlight in instrument cluster, center information displays and car navigation. The IC provides 6 channels of output (with 120mA per channel) that can support LCD panels of up to 10-12” class.  Buck-boost control ensures compatibility with both small and large LCDs using a ...

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