PAYG 5G ASIC design service

EdgeQ of Santa Clara has introduced what it calls the  industry’s first 5G chipset-as-a-service model. The EdgeQ ASIC design service tailors cost to features – scaling price, performance, and features as a function of need and use. With 5G expected to address multiple end points, the traditional silicon approach of a highly leveraged, single priced design for all markets is no longer viable, argues ...

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Pressure sensor which eliminates need for water cooling

Piezotronics has brought out a pressure sensor for combustion testing and thermoacoustic pressure measurements which eliminates the need for water cooling and has  a temperature rating of 1400 °F (760 °C). The device measures combustion dynamics as well as gas turbine measurements, thermoacoustic measurements, rocket motor combustion instability or any high temperature, dynamic gas pressure ...

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Wisa Woodsat wooden CubeSat heading to Earth’s orbit

A wooden satellite is being prepared in Finland, the Wisa Woodsat, to test the applicability of wooden materials, especially WISA-Birch plywood, in spacecraft structures. The proposed nanosatellite is based on the CubeSat standard, measuring roughly 10 x 10 x 10cm. It will be exposed to extreme space conditions – heat, cold, vacuum and radiation – ...

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Fume extractor gets smarter for better data for analytics around laser part marking and engraving

Portable fume and particulate extraction equipment maker BOFA is aiming at high volume laser marking and engraving processes with an intelligent extractor operating system. Called iQ2, it will be seen in the company’s AD Oracle iQ2 extraction system. To guide filter replacement, it provides visual overview of whole system status in real-time on a multi-language colour touchscreen ...

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High-reliability SMD fuses in 0603 and 1206

Bourns has introduced two series of high-grade surface-mount fuses, rated to 150°C. SF-0603SA-M and SF-1206SA-M have slow-blow characteristics, conducting for at least four hours at rated current, and clearing within 5s at room temperature and 2.5x rated current. They come in EIA 0603 and 1206 footprints respectively, and are of multilayer ceramic construction with protection against thermal ...

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UK grass health robot company wins investment

Robot grass measuring company E-Nano has raised “a six-figure sum” with University of Sussex backed investor matching service Suss Ventures. “Support from Suss Ventures was key to put us in front of an early-stage fund that could act as lead investor,” according to E-Nano co-founder Christian Von Scheidt. “Their team has been professional all the way ...

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ST strips down NFC transceiver to make IC for passive peer-to-peer, card-emulation and reader use

ST Microelectronics has striped down its flagship ST25R3916 NFC reader to create a lower cost IC for identifying accessories for power tools and personal healthcare devices, for example. Called ST25R3918, it works with the company’s ST25 tags, and can be used as an NFC-A/B (ISO 14443A/B) card reader up to 848kbit/s, an NFC-V (ISO 15693) reader ...

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12bit 1.6Gsample/s quad ADC qualified for space use

Teledyne has qualified its four channel 12bit 1.6Gsample/s EV12AQ600 ADC for space use, describing it as “industry’s first four-channel analogue-to-digital converter to be qualified for space deployment”. It now meets NASA and ESA requirements, complying with MIL-PRF-38535 (QML-Y) and ESCC 9000. The most recent testing was to evaluate total ionising dose (TID) tolerance, where it scored ...

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Xilinx acquires Silexica and its C/C++ tools

Xilinx  has acquired German C/C++programming tool provider, Silexica.  The privately held company produces C/C++ programming and analysis tools for automotive, aerospace and defence,  wireless comms, robotic and financial markets. Its SLX FPGA tool suite is used to manage the HLS  (high level synthesis) design flow. In February this year, Silexica and Xilinx co-presented at the ...

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5G delivering 100Mbps+ downloads in four UK cities

5G network testing by RootMetrics in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Cardiff and Nottingham has shown that while Vodafone and O2 delivered strong 5G median download speeds, EE is the leader when it comes to providing consistently broad availability plus fast speeds. RootMetrics uses a measure it calls  “Everyday 5G” performance which is a combination of results recorded ...

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