UKSA’s National Space Innovation Programme funds 21 UK organisations

The UK government is investing £7 million, via the National Space Innovation Programme, in 21 UK organisations working on innovative space technologies. The idea is that it represents cash injections for “high-risk, high-reward” projects of both companies and universities. Areas addressed include monitoring climate change through Earth Observation and satellite communications to provide greater connectivity to ...

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Quarter brick DC/DC converter can deliver 2450W peak power

Flex Power Modules has added to in its BMR491 series of high-density DC/DC converters with built-in digital interfaces. The BMR491 converter can deliver 2450 W peak power for periods of up to one second, with a continuous output power rating of up to 1540 W, thus making it the highest power density digital DC/DC isolated ...

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Digi-Key Electronics signs agreement with GLF Integrated Power

Digi-Key Electronics has announced a global distribution partnership with GLF Integrated Power, the maker of ultra-efficient, ultra-small, silicon power control and protection ICs. The products target the IoT, smart wearable, TWS earbuds, smart medical device, automotive, smartwatch optical modules, asset tracking, and home security markets. The agreement means GLF Integrated Power silicon power control and ...

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Renesas expands RA4 MCU series

Renesas has  expanded its RA4 Series MCUs with RA4M3 devices operating at up to 100 MHz using the Arm Cortex-M33 core based on Armv8-M architecture. The M3 MCUs have Arm TrustZone technology, Renesas’ Secure Crypto Engine, and a suite of new memory enhancements. They arevdesigned for low-power IoT applications that require a balance of high ...

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Graphcore benchmarks outperform Nvidia

Graphcore has released the first set of performance benchmarks for its latest AI compute systems – the IPU-M2000 and scale-up IPU-POD64. Across a range of popular models, Graphcore technologies significantly outperformed nVidia’s A100 (DGX-based), both at training and inference. Highlights include: Training EfficientNet-B4:      18x higher throughput ResNeXt 101:          3.7x ...

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Swindon Silicon backs the industry’s Elektra Awards 2020

Electronics Weekly are very pleased to highlight that Swindon Silicon is again backing the industry’s prestigious Elektra Awards. The company is once again sponsoring the Design Tools and Development Software category in the virtual event taking place on 25 March 2021. “Swindon Silicon Systems are delighted once again to sponsor the Elektra Awards 2020,” said ...

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50MHz precision op-amp has 6.5nV/√Hz input noise

STMicroelectronics has introduced a dual 5V op amp with 50MHz gain-bandwidth product with low input offset voltage and 6.5nV/√Hz input voltage noise. Called TSV792, the op amp is unity-gain stable and has rail-to-rail inputs and outputs. “The typical 50MHz gain-bandwidth product enables accurate amplification of high-frequency signals,” according to the company. “Adding a slew rate of ...

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Marvell launches O-RAN platform

Marvell has introduced its 5G O-RAN portfolio with a virtualized radio access network (vRAN) platform. With Open Ran Alliance compliance, Marvell’s O-RAN platform solution brings established, leading-edge DPU and connectivity technology to the emerging open RAN and vRAN markets. Marvell’s OCTEON Fusion baseband processors, OCTEON multi-core DPUs and Prestera switches have enabled telcos  to  deploy ...

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BrainChip shipping evaluation board

BrainChip, the Australian spiking neural network specialist, started shipping evaluation boards last month. The board complements the Company’s Akida Development Environment (ADE) for Early Access Partners (EAP) that have developed Akida compatible networks. The ADE is a development environment that allows potential customers to design a neural network as a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) and ...

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Lattice increases security in Gen 2 Mach FPGA family

The second generation of Mach FPGAs from Lattice Semiconductor have heightened security features and the processing capability to implement a real time hardware root of trust (HRoT) operation for servers, computing, comms, industrial and automotive systems. Mach-NX FPGAs are based on the company’s Nexus FPGA platform. To thwart bad actors attempting to exploit firmware vulnerabilities, ...

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