PLS Universal Debug Engine supports SafeRTOS for safety critical applications

PLS Programmierbare Logik & Systeme has expanded its Universal Debug Engine (UDE) to cover the SafeRTOS real-time operating system. UDE is intended for debugging, testing and analysing microcontroller applications, and this addition gives it functions software development of real-time and safety-critical applications. SafeRTOS is a pre-emptive, safety critical RTOS from Wittenstein High Integrity Systems, available ...

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Mouser signs global distribution agreement wiht Essentra Components

Distributor Mouser Electronics has signed a global distribution agreement with Essentra Components to supply its plastic injection moulded, vinyl dip moulded and metal components. This includes fittings, hardware, electronic components and fasteners, cable clips and clamps, cable ties, snap lock supports and rivets. The cable clips and clamps to protect and route wires are available ...

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Europrocessor takes Arm licence

SiPearl, the company that is designing the microprocessor for the European exascale supercomputer, has taken an Arm licence. The agreement will enable SiPearl to benefit from the Arm NeoverseTM platform, codenamed ‵‵Zeusʺ, as well as leverage the Arm ecosystem. Taking advantage of the Arm “Zeus” platform, including Arm’s POPTM IP, on  FinFET technology enables SiPearl ...

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Queen’s Award: Brompton Technology

Brompton Technology has won a Queen’s Award for Enterprise in the International Trade category. Based in West London, the company designs and manufactures LED video processing products – which have been used the global tours of Metallica, Massive Attack and U2, as well as for ‘green screen’ replacement in film and TV. “It is really gratifying ...

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Conflicted approach to Bluetooth contact tracing

The use of Bluetooth in contact tracing has been widely supported on the Continent but there is disagreement there on how to implement it. A German approach called  Pan-European Privacy-Preserving Proximity Tracing (PEPP-PT https://www.pepp-pt.org) conflicts with a Swiss approach, called DP-3T,  which links into the Google-Apple contact tracing app. PEPP-PT is seen as centralised – ...

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Design IP market grew 5.2% last year

Design IP revenue grew 5.2% last year, according to IPnest. Arm remains the No.1 vendor with a 40% market share. Although Arm  license revenues have grown by 13.8% its  royalty revenues have declined by 6%. Arm attribute this loss in royalty to the smartphone volume decline. It will be another two years before the impact, ...

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LeapMind offers AI inference accelerator IP

In the autumn, LeapMind, the Tokyo AI startup, plans to ship  “Efficiera”, an ultra-low power AI inference accelerator IP for ASICs and FPGAs. “Efficiera” is an AI Inference Accelerator IP specialized for Convolutional Neural Network inference calculation processing; it functions as a circuit in an FPGA or ASIC device. Its “extreme low bit quantization” technology, ...

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RF filters with configurations up to 18GHz

Smiths Interconnect has introduced its Planar X Series of RF filter solutions with bandpass, bandstop, lowpass and highpass configurations up to 18 GHz (Ku Band). The new Planar X Series is part of an initiative that entails the creation of cutting-edge board-level ceramic-based thick film RF filters, designed and tested to support various applications markets. ...

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Fraunhofer IIS seeks to join-up Industry 4.0

The German government has kicked-off a project intended to use artificial intelligence (AI) at various levels of the manufacturing process to enable condition-based, predictive maintenance for factory equipment and to monitor product quality on the fly during production. Called ‘KI-Predict’ it has come out of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and ...

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