GNSSDO with ±1.5μs accurate holdover performance at Rutronik UK

Hong Kong X’tals is stocking its Global Navigation Satellite System Disciplined Oscillator (GNSSDO) of the K-Star series at Rutronik. The disciplined oscillator receives signals from satellites to generate one pulse-per-second output. It supports concurrent reception of signals from GPS, Glonass, Beidu and Galileo. The K-Star GNSSDO is available in a form factor of 155x165x55mm at ...

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Smart speaker exposé wins Design Museum prize

The Design Museum has named an exposé of the human labour, data privacy and environmental impacts of a smart speaker, as the winner of the Beazley Design of the Year. By Kate Crawford of AI Now Institute and Vladan Joler, ‘Anatomy of an AI System’ is both a research project and a complex diagram (extract right) ...

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Cobham Wireless launches multi-operator 4G coverage on Berlin’s U-Bahn

Cobham Wireless has announced that its idDAS (intelligent digital distributed antenna system) is now providing 4G coverage in Berlin’s U-Bahn for subscribers of all three of Germany’s major mobile operators. The news follows an initial deployment with Telefónica, which involved replacing legacy equipment with Cobham Wireless’ idDAS, and delivering 2G, 3G and 4G cellular coverage ...

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Arrow Electronics offers R3 Echoring for wireless industry applications

Arrows Electronics is offering R3 Communications’ Echoring wireless networking products in the EMEA region. Echoring is designed to support reliable, low-latency wireless machine-to-machine (M2M) communications systems. Both industrial IoT or Industry 4.0 require wireless networks with the performance and reliability of existing wired control networks. R3 says Echoring delivers real-time performance levels with latency down ...

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Elon’s truck

It may not look like a truck but this is Tesla’s electric pick-up truck announced yesterday in Los Angeles.   Called the Cybertruck it costs $40/50/70k depending on spec. The top spec model has a 500 mile range. Production is scheduled for late 2021. “The top three selling vehicles in America are pickup trucks, said ...

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Hereford’s engineering university gets £5.66m funding

Three new centres to train the next generation of engineers could be built on Hereford’s Enterprise Zone after the Marches LEP agreed a £5.66 million funding package for the city’s proposed new university.   The decision follows a submission of a business case to the LEP from the New Model in Technology and Engineering (NMiTE) ...

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Intel apologises (again)

It’s rare for  Intel to apologise for anything and then, like London buses, two come along in quick succession. In  October 2018 Intel’s CEO wrote to customers apologising for the shortage of  CPUs which had been getting worse all through that summer. ”We’re taking the following actions,” wrote Bob Swan, ‘we are investing a record $15 billion ...

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Renesas IC supports CC-link IE TSN

Renesas has developed the R-IN32M4-CL3 IC for Industrial Ethernet (IE) communication with support for CC-Link IE Time Sensitive Networking (TSN), a communication standard for Ethernet TSN technology. The chip satisfies the specifications of less than one-millionth of a second time synchronization accuracy between applications, accelerating TSN support for applications such as AC servos, actuators, and vision ...

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UltraSoC joins OpenHW Group

UltraSoC, the Cambridge on-chip analytics IP specialist, has joined the Open Hardware Group (OpenHW) to further the adoption of open source processors  for high volume SoCs. UltraSoC will contribute its experience and IP in system-level debug and processor trace. The OpenHW Group has announced a range of cores, dubbed CORE-V, based on the RISC-V open ISA. ...

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