Dr Frederik Schulze Spüntrup joins BrightSparks judging panel

For its fourth year, the EW BrightSparks programme, in partnership with RS Components, sees Dr Frederik Schulze Spüntrup join its experienced judging panel. Schulze Spüntrup is the elected president of the European Young Engineers, a European umbrella organisation representing the voice of more than 350,000 young engineers, fostering mobility, education and the awareness of the ...

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IoT and semi investor joins Crayfish.io China-focused accelerator fund

Shenzen-based DB investment management (DBI) has joined the Crayfish.io accelerator as the second anchor investor opening up further opportunities for UK and European semiconductor and IoT companies to join the programme and get ‘China-ready’. Two months since its launch, the ‘China-ready’ investment programme for UK and European companies has increased by £2.33m. DBI’s investment focus ...

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Pyreos TO-39 quad detectors for multi-gas and food detection

Pyreos has announced its taking orders for a range of four channel (quad) pyroelectric detectors in TO-39 packaging and will ship the first samples this month. The detectors are targeted at gas and food analysis applications such as refrigerant detection, anaesthesia, exhaust gases, carbon monoxide and hydrocarbons. A pre-configured list of 30 filters is now ...

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Renesas and Minebea Mitsumi collaborate on stepping motor

Renesas and Minebea Mitsumi have announced the joint development of resolver-based (angle sensor) stepping motor and motor control solutions for use in robots, office automation (OA) equipment, and medical/nursing care equipment. These applications require motors with precision control, miniaturized form factors, and resistance to environmental influences. For its part in the collaboration, Minebea Mitsumi has ...

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Southampton Uni spin-off reduces 5G latency by 16x

AccelerCom, the Southampton University spin-out, has announced general availability of the 5G NR LDPC version of its error correction software which reduces latency up to 16x to support numerology 4 in 3GPP 38.211 and also results in significant power savings for mobile networks with lower order numerology networks. The company’s LDPC IP is optimized and configurable ...

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Tieto and ST combine on OTA auto firmware upgrades and V2X

Tieto and ST are to develop Central Control-Unit (CCU) software for ST’s Telemaco Platform. Over-the-air update needs have led ST to develop the Telemaco family of automotive, multi-processor SoCs  and its associated Telemaco3P Modular Telematics Platform (MTP), which provides an open development environment for prototyping advanced Smart Driving applications. The Telemaco3P automotive SoC embeds an ...

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RISC-V support for VxWorks

WindRiver has  announced RISC-V open architecture support for its VxWorks RTOS. VxWorks is the most widely deployed commercial RTOS to have support for the RISC-V open hardware ISA. WindRiver has also joined the RISC-V Foundation, a non-profit consortium chartered to standardize, protect, and promote RISC-V ISA together with its hardware and software ecosystem for use in ...

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Samsung bags up 74% of 5G phone market

Samsung took 74% of the Q3  5G phone market, says IHS Markit, shipping 3.2 million 5G phones out of total market shipments of 4.3 million. In Q2 Samsung has 83% pf the shipments. Korea has been a pioneer in the 5G market, with its wireless operators commencing service in April. This  has helped Samsung and LG, ...

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OpenHW Group to tape out heterogeneous multi-core processor

With the CORE-V Chassis project, the recently formed OpenHW Group aims to tape out a heterogeneous multi-core processor evaluation SoC, capable of running the Linux operating system during the 2nd half of 2020. The CORE-V Chassis will see a CV64A 64-bit core running alongside a CV32E 32-bit coprocessor core. Based on the NXP iMX platform, ...

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