Vicky Mellor has joined Charcroft as a director of Powys distributor and manufacturer Charcroft. “This is an exciting time to join Charcroft Electronics,” said Mellor. “Despite the challenges posed by Covid, Charcroft has continued to flourish. With the recent acquisition of ICW and growing market share in existing sectors, I am looking forward to becoming ...
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Wi-Fi and Bluetooth IoT modules from Microchip, based on 8- and 16-bit PIC or AVR microcontrollers are available from TME. The distributor offers six modules with smart, connected or secure functionalities implemented using a dedicated microcontroller, comms module or authentication chip. The AVR-based or PCI-based modules have a debugger for use with the IDE for ...
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STMicroelectronics has joined the Zeta Alliance, which promotes the Zeta low-power wide area network (LPWAN). Zeta is a competitor to LoRa, Sigfox and NB-IoT, and came out of Shanghai-based ZiFiSense. “ST is actively engaged with the industry bodies for all leading LPWAN standards for IoT connectivity and offers a portfolio of solutions,” according to ST. “Zeta ...
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Sodium-ion technology would be a cheaper alternative to lithium-ions for batteries, if only its propensity to self-destruct could be tamed. Advances are being made in small steps, the latest of which is an anode material from the Korea Maritime and Ocean University which has kept working through 11,000 charge-discharge cycles at 100A per gram. One ...
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U-blox has combined LPWA (low-power wide-area) connectivity and GNSS (satellite navigation) into a single 14 x 14 x 1.5mm package – half the size of the company’s functionally-similar Sara-R5 module (16 x 26 x 2.2mm). Called Alex-R5, it is based on u-blox’ secured UBX-R5 LTE-M and NB-IoT, plus its M8 GNSS chip. “By bringing all ...
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Graphcore and Cirrascale Cloud Services are harnessing the full power of AI in the cloud with the first publicly available Mk2 IPU-POD scale-out cluster, offering a simple way to add compute capacity on-demand, without the need to own and operate a datacentre. Graphcore recognises that the tremendous opportunity offered by AI brings with it a unique set ...
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Ajit Manocha, CEO of SEMI the chip manufacturing equipment trade body, has written to the US Department of Commerce asking that it should agree common rules with the governments of other equipment exporting countries instead of putting unilateral export restrictions on US companies. Manocha said that non-US competitors were tagging their equipment as “free from ...
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Ofcom has put back the auction of the 700MHz and 3.6-3.8GHz radio bands until March. The spectrum is being offered with a reserve price of over £1 billion. Its use should improve the coverage, capacity and quality of mobile data. 80MHz within the 700MHz band is to be sold in six lots of 10MHz with ...
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The latest addition to the Imperas RISC-V Verification IP (VIP) software has Floating-Point architectural validation test suites covering the RISC-V Specifications for 32bit Single-Precision (32F), 64bit Single-Precision (64F), and 64bit Double-Precision (64D). These tests extend the current Imperas range of tests for ratified and near-ratified specifications tests. The latest RISC-V verification ‘step-and-compare’ methodology can be ...
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Nasa has added a powerful new antenna – Deep Space Station 56 (DSS-56) – to its Space Communications and Navigation’s Deep Space Network (DSN). This network connects the agency to the space robots exploring the solar system, it says. And the dish is now online and ready to communicate with a variety of missions. These ...
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