Test the cable and the network in one instrument

Fluke has introduced a cable and network tester for installers and maintenance technicians. Called LinkIQ Cable+Network, it makes frequency-based cable measurement and shows the maximum data rate the cable can support, up to 10Gbit/s. It also displays information on the cable distance-to-fault and, if connected, details of the nearest switch port, including its name, VLAN ...

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Arrow bobs and weaves with ROOQ

Boxers can monitor and review their performance in the ring, using data gathered by sensors worn on wrist straps. This data was only previously available under laboratory conditions, says German sports analysis company, ROOQ which has developed ROOQ Box with Arrow Electronics. The sensors record movements and the data is analysed using the ROOQ app and ...

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Versal AI Edge ACAP drives up ML compute and adds memory for AI

Xilinx has enhanced its Versal AI Edge adaptive compute acceleration platforms (ACAPs) with the introduction of AI Engine-ML which increases machine learning by a factor of four, compared with the earlier AI Engine architecture. It has also integrated an accelerator RAM with enhanced memory hierarchy to accommodate AI algorithms. According to the company, these enhancements quadruples ...

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4 channel 1Gsample/s USB 3.0 oscilloscope with 240µV of noise

Netherlands-based TiePie has introduced a 1Gsample/s four-channel USB 3.0 oscilloscope with 0.25% accuracy, 240 µVrms noise and 250MHz analogue bandwidth (-3dB at 75% full scale) per channel. Resolution is adjustable 8 to 16bit and bandwidth can be limited 150, 100 or 50MHz. As is usual with PC scopes, sampling rate, number of active channels, bit width and memory depth are all traded ...

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ABB gets power converter contract for Dogger Bank wind farm

ABB has a contract to deliver 95 medium voltage converters to GE Renewable Energy for the Dogger Bank Wind Farm – ABB’s first major order under its long-term supply agreement with GE. The PCS6000 voltage converters will be installed in 220m diameter 13MW GE Haliade-X wind turbines. “Currently, the most powerful offshore wind turbines in ...

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Auto chips lose market share and fall in price

Despite the shortage of  automotive chips,  the ASP of automotive application-specific ICs in 1Q21 was less than it was in 2020, reports IC Insights, while the percentage of the total IC sales taken by auto IC sales fell to 7.5% last year from 8.7% in 2019. Figure 1 shows that since 1998, only the automotive and communications ...

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Siemens buys Nextflow Software

Siemens Digital has bought  Nextflow Software, an independent provider of advanced particle-based computational fluid dynamics (CFD) solutions. Nextflow Software will become part of Siemens Digital Industries Software, where its offering will expand the Simcenter software portfolio, part of the Siemens’ Xcelerator portfolio of software and services, with rapid meshless CFD capabilities to accelerate the analysis ...

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Mipsology launches Zebra FPGA

In Q3, Mipsology will ship Zebra FPGA IP which accelerates the development and deployment of FPGA and adaptive SoC-based machine learning systems.. The Zebra neural network accelerator can be combined with ARM CPUs and GPUs, and video decoders on Xilinx multiprocessor systems on chips (MPSoCs) to deliver complex processing. Zebra FPGA IP uses only a ...

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Digi-Key partners Rochester Electronics for component supply

Rochester Electronics is joining the Digi-Key Marketplace, which started last year to widen access to more product lines. The partnership is intended to address concerns about the ongoing semiconductor shortages. Digi-Key says it anticipates the overall component shortfall in the industry will likely last into 2022, but the Rochester Electronics partnership will help continuity of ...

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Skylo, Inmarsat team up for satellite-based IoT connectivity

Inmarsat has agreed to provide the capacity backbone to deliver the IoT systems of Skylo, a satellite-based narrow-band IoT specialist. The agreement pairs the UK-based Inmarsat’s satellite network with Skylo’s IoT services for connecting machines and sensors. It will, they claim, provide “even the most remotely located application users with real-time, actionable insights”. The companies ...

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