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Panasonic says infrared sensor with lens increases radial sensitivity

Panasonic has added a patented lens to its infrared sensors which it says will increase the sensitivity for radial movements. Pyroelectric passive infrared sensors use lenses to direct the incoming heat radiation to the sensor elements. If an object with a temperature that differs from the surroundings moves into the detection area, the sensor reacts. ...

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Amazon deal opens use of accelerated Xilinx FPGA software design

Xilinx has made its software defined development environment, SDAccel available on Amazon Web Services (AWS). This means it will be used with Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) F1 instances to provide reconfigurable, custom-hardware acceleration with the firm’s 16nm Virtex UltraScale+ FPGAs. SDAccel automates the acceleration of software application written in C, C++ or OpenCL ...

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Brexit cliff-edge fear for manufacturers with no CE mark

A commitment to the European CE mark on consumer products after Brexit is vital for UK manufacturers, say a lobby of business groups And they are calling on the UK Government to commit to keeping the CE mark as it prepares to leave the EU. TechUK’s director of market engagement, Paul Hide, writes: “Keeping CE ...

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Samsung invests in safety-critical Ethernet networks for cars and satellites

Samsung Electronics has made a €75m investment in deterministic Ethernet safety networking firm TTTech. The aim of this investment and technology partnership with the Austrian firm is to develop safety-critical networking to in-car systems using the real-time Ethernet implementation. It is hoped this will lead to open autonomous and ADAS technologies needed for autonomous vehicle ...

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Rohde & Schwarz and Huawei demo super fast 4G at 1.2Gbit/s

Rohde & Schwarz and Huawei Technologies have demonstrated a 4G mobile phone downlink of 1.2Gbit/s using the LTE-A-Pro specification. This is thought to be pone of the fastest data downlinks speeds for 4G mobile phone downlink yet demonstrated. Peak 1.2Gbit/s download speeds were achieved by using a combination of up to three downlink FDD carriers ...

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CST Global’s new III-V semiconductor line benefits students in Glasgow

CST Global, the Glasgow-based manufacturer of millimetre wave and optical semiconductors using a non-silicon III-V process, is readying its new, metalorganic chemical vapour deposition (MOCVD) machine. This is a collaboration with the University of Glasgow and commissioning of the processing machine is expected to be completed in time for the 2017 / 2018 academic year. ...

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Arrow’s all-in-one IoT platform has Renesas Synergy MCU and Bosch sensors

Arrow Electronics has launched its latest IoT development platform based on the Renesas IoT Synergy ecosystem. Incorporating hardware and software the ARIS EDGE platform features a Renesas Synergy S124 32MHz ARM Cortex-M0+ microcontroller. On-board MEMS sensors from Bosch Sensortec include the 9-axis Absolute Orientation sensor BNO055 this is an application specific sensor node which integrates a ...

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Micro server has 16-core Intel Atom C3000 processor

German embedded computer firm, congatec has introduced its highest performance server module in the COM Express Type 7 format. It has a 16-core Intel Atom C3000 processor and four 10GbE bandwidth data interfaces. Micro servers are now being used in industrial system configurations as factory gateways and storage systems for micro data centres. They must ...

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LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman invests in UK seed investor

Entrepreneur First, the London-based start-up seed investor, has secured £9.5m in funding and its backers include California-based venture capital firm Greylock Partners led by LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman. Entrepreneur First (EF) was founded by Alice Bentinck and Matt Clifford in 2012, and it has helped seed over 120 technology companies. Most notably London-based artificial intelligence start-up, ...

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Rohde & Schwarz adds 5GHz bandwidth option for analysers

Rohde & Schwarz is offering a wideband extension for its RTO2064 digital oscilloscope and FSW85 signal and spectrum analyser. The FSW-B5000 extension module, with equalised 5GHz signal analysis bandwidth, can be used to capture IEEE 802.11ay wideband signals for post-processing and to perform measurements on waveform candidates for the future 5G standard. The amplitude and ...

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