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Anritsu adds test upgrade for high speed LTE-Advanced mobiles

Anritsu is supporting the testing of RF transceiver characteristics for 6CC CA with new software options for its MT8821C test system for LTE-Advanced/LTE-Advanced Pro terminals. The new software upgrade will support the implementation of faster LTE-Advanced/LTE-Advanced Pro network speeds: Carrier Aggregation (CA), which aggregates multiple component carriers (CCs). With support for RF and PHY layer ...

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Plextek joins global community for mission-critical comms

Plextek, the Cambridgeshire-based RF design firm, is joining global mission-critical communications organisation, TCCA. TCCA addresses the ongoing development of the TETRA open standard as well as promoting the development of mission-critical broadband communications. For its part, Plextek is involved in the development of systems for both Long-Term Evolution (LTE) and digital Professional Mobile Radio (PMR) ...

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Belfast researcher’s work on hurricane comms in Newton Prize final

A researcher at Queen’s University Belfast has been shortlisted for the 2017 Newton Prize for his work designing a wireless communications system for use when natural disasters, such as an earthquake, tsunami or hurricane, strike. Dr Trung Duong, who is originally from Vietnam and based at the Institute of Electronics, Communications and Information Technology at ...

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Green Hills verifies multicore OS for future airborne systems

Green Hills Software is to verify conformance of its Integrity-178 operating system with the technical standard for Future Airborne Capability Environment (FACE) edition 2.1. Certon, the critical systems certification firm, will help carry out the verification Time-Variant Unified Multi Processing (tuMP) operating system for three different multicore architectures, or Units of Conformance (UoC): Intel, ARMv8 and PowerPC/QorIQ. ...

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NI radar test system targets autonomous vehicle design

NI has introduced a system for testing car radar technology. The system is designed around millimetre-wave (mmWave) front end technology to test 76–81GHz radar systems which are being used in advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS). The system, dubbed VRTS, uses a 76–81GHz vector signal generator/analyser designed for dynamic obstacle generation and comprehensive RF characteristic measurements. ...

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Audio chip brings context aware processing to voice-activated smartphones

An audio processor which aims to improve the quality of voice-activated smartphones has been developed by US-based firm Knowles. It does this, says the firm, by improving recognition especially in far-field and high noise environments. Increased data processing adds context awareness to voice recognition. The design of the IA8508 audio processor achieves this with four ...

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Bosch 48V battery targets hybrid vehicle growth in China

Bosch has developed a 48V battery for use in hybrid vehicles. Bosch says the 48V battery has been designed to offer a comparatively inexpensive way of cutting fuel consumption in hybrid vehicles through use of a boost recuperation system (BRS). This involves storing the energy normally lost when braking and applying it when the driver ...

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Intel to ship first neural network processing silicon in two months

Intel says it will ship its first silicon for neural network processing before the end of this year. This will be the Nervana neural network processor (NNP) and Intel’s target is the growing interest in artificial intelligence (AI) computing in areas such as medical diagnosis and autonomous vehicles. Behind the development of a range of ...

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Surface mount circuit protection device runs at high temperatures

Littelfuse says it can supply a silicon-controlled rectifier (SCR) thyristor circuit protection device with a junction temperature of 150°C in a surface-mount package. The SJ series thyristors have a low gate current trigger level of 6mA or 15mA maximum at approximately 1.5V. The most sensitive devices feature a gate trigger current of less than 200μA, ...

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Welsh chip design IP firm gets funding boost

Wales-based analogue IP re-use firm Thalia Design Automation has secured $865k (£640k) funding in its latest round. The firm said it has achieved “significant customer traction within the last 18 months”. Thalia also plans to recruit more analogue IC developers. The company has developed technology for transferring RF, analogue and mixed-signal IP designs to silicon, ...

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