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Invent for the Planet 2020 winners announced

The competition for engineering students, Invent for the Planet, has announced this year’s winning projects. The competition challenges young engineers to solve real-world issues such as microplastics in oceans, sustainable airline waste management and single use plastics. Over 800 students from 40 universities in 20 countries took part in this year’s competition, run by Texas ...

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Subaru launches Levorg model with stereoscopic camera ADAS

The vehicle has been launched in Japan this week with an enhanced version of EyeSight, the vehicle manufacturer’s vision-based ADAS. The Levorg’s EyeSight is powered by Xilinx’s automotive-qualified (XA) 16nm Zynq UltraScale+ multiprocessor SoC (MPSoC). According to the company, it delivers the high-performance, ultra-low latency, and functional safety (ASIL) capabilities to accurately depict and react ...

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Xilinx design competition seeks creative design for startups and independent developers

Designs to solve real world problems using Xilinx’s Vitis development environment and Vitis AI are sought in a competition organised by Xilinx in partnership with Hackster.io. There is a Startup Design contest and an Independent Developer contest, all based on designs using Vitis / Vitis AI to create a new application designed to show hardware acceleration ...

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Digi-Key customers can access EAO’s selector tool

The varieties of configurations offered by EAO’s emergency stop switches number more than 2,000, but the company’s Digital Product Selector tool can help engineers and designers to select and configure a switch to meet specific needs. The tool is now available at Digi-Key Electronics as part of the global partnership between the components distributor and the ...

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Design industry collaborates to combat software piracy

EDA companies, Cadence, Mentor, a Siemens Business, Synopsys and semiconductor equipment industry association, SEMI, have joined forces to jointly develop the SEMI Server Certification protocol, to combat EDA software piracy. The protocol will define how servers can be identified to ensure that it is authentic and not a cloned version that is using software licenses ...

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Integrated front end module boosts short range wireless signals

Rutronik UK now offers the nRF21540 2.4GHz RF front end module from Nordic Semiconductor. The range extender can be combined with the company’s nRF52 and nRF53 series multi-protocol wireless SoCs, or other radios, to extend range. There is an integrated power amplifier for output and the low noise amplifier for input to minimise external components. ...

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The RISC-V rundown from DAC 2020

It has been an unusual DAC this year, as the show went virtual due to the Covid-19 pandemic. There was no exhibition floor as such, but there was a comprehensive programme of keynote speeches, presentations, tutorials and panel discussions. There was a lot of activity around RISC-V, including a presentation by Imperas Software (www.imperas.com) entitled What’s ...

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Display Technology adds touch option to fire tested monitors

Display Technology, the UK subsidiary of Fortec Elektronik, offers  a touch screen option for the BLO-Line monitors that are certified for fire protection. Integrated touch control is usually ruled out for fire monitors as the fire-protection glass used in the monitors is constructed in such a way that a PCAP touch sensor will not function ...

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DAC 2020 takes a virtual look at design challenges

The Covid-19 pandemic has meant that the Design Automation Conference (DAC) will be a virtual exhibition and conference this year. It will take place from Monday 20 July to Friday 24 July. Highlights of the show is a keynote on the opening morning by Philip Wong, chief scientist, TSCMC: Semiconductor Technology: A System Perspective on ...

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