12bit PC acquisition cards offer 6.4Gsample/s

Spectrum Instrumentation has pushed PC-based data acquisition to 12.8Gbyte/s using 16-lane Gen 3 PCIe. “That is nearly twice as fast as any other PCIe digitiser currently on the market,” claimed the German company. “It allows the cards to continuously run at their maximum sampling rate of 6.4Gsample/s with 12bit resolution, and transfer the acquired data ...

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Farnell sparkles

Farnell‘s  Q2 sales were up  35.3% YoY to $441 million while operating margin grew to 13.7% in Q2, up from 10.9% in Q1 and 8.3% in the final quarter of FY21. Farnell’s growth has been driven in large part by continued investments in expanding the global product portfolio. The business planned to add 250,000 new SKUs ...

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Sponsored Content: E2E Next series of inductive sensors from Omron

Top-quality automation solutions. Inductive sensors – an indispensable element of modern automation Inductive sensors are an extraordinarily important group of control system components that is present in every automated industrial plant, but also more and more commonly in households. Thanks to their simple design and a wide array of sizes they guarantee very long and ...

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Foundry market to grow 20% this year

The foundry market grew 26% last year and is forecast to grow 20% this year, says IC Insights. After dropping 2% in 2019, the market rebounded in 2020 as application processor and other telecomm device sales into 5G smartphones acted as strong drivers. The market continued its growth surge in 2021, registering a 26% jump. ...

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EFFECT Photonics raises $20m and buys tech from Viasat

EFFECT Photonics, the Eindhoven University spin-out, is buying  coherent optical DSP and forward error correction (FEC) technology from Viasat. With the purchase comes a Viasat engineering team. EFFECT will now own the entire coherent technology stack of all optical functions, including a high-performance tunable laser, together with DSP and FEC. This will enable the Company ...

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Intelsat appoints David Wajsgras to become its CEO

Five months since its current CEO, Stephen Spengler, announced his intention to leave, Intelsat has appointed its next CEO, David Wajsgras. The Virginia-based communications satellite services provider, which was formerly an intergovernmental consortium, has recently completed its exit from Chapter 11 in the US. After two years of financial restructuring – concentrated around C-band spectrum changes for ...

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BAE buys military specialist Bohemia Interactive Simulations

BAE Systems has completed the acquisition of Bohemia Interactive Simulations (BISim) in a deal valued at $200 million.   The Orlando, Florida-based company – a specialist in military simulation and training – will join BAE Systems as a wholly-owned subsidiary, joining the BAE Systems Intelligence & Security sector. The global market for military training and ...

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Semtech adds to Tri-Edge portfolio

Semtech is sampling additions to its Tri-Edge clock and data recovery (CDR) transmitter ICs for data centre long reach (LR) optical links. The GN2555 is a quad channel PAM4 CDR with integrated directly modulated laser (DML) drivers. The GN2556 is a quad channel PAM4 CDR with integrated externally modulated laser (EML) drivers. The GN2555 and ...

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Arduino’s professional machine learning vision building block

Arduino is aiming at professional machine vision and edge computing with an intelligent camera board that can run TinyML for artificial intelligence. Called Nicla Vision and measuring 23 x 23mm, it is intended to stand-alone, image processing on the edge. “The STM32H747AII6 at the heart of Nicla Vision supports image-processing through its dual processor, including ...

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AMD Ryzen Threadrippers now have 64 cores and 128 threads

AMD has announced workstation processors with up to 64 ‘Zen 3’ cores and 128 threads. All within the Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5000 WX series. there are five devices, from the top-end PRO 5995WX down to the 12 cores and 24 thread PRO 5945WX (see table). “Enterprise security features, manageability and scalability, higher frequencies and an enhanced ...

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