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Avnet Abacus names Rudy Van Parijs as president

Avnet Abacus has announced the appointment of Rudy Van Parijs as president.  Van Parijs has been running EBV Elektronik’s South Europe region for the last eight years. He joined EBV Elektronik, an Avnet company, in 1991, as a field application engineer. Slobodan Puljarevic, president EBV Elektronik writes:  “He is highly qualified to step into the ...

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French research centre sets up autonomous vehicle project with Transdev

French research institute, Leti has teamed up with Transdev, a provider of services for autonomous vehicles, and the IRT Nanoelec research centre in a project to characterise and assess LiDAR sensors to improve performance and safety of autonomous vehicles. LIDAR (or Light Detection and Ranging) is a sensing technique used in moving vehicles that uses ...

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Teledyne e2v qualifies QorIQ Power PC multi-threaded CPUs

Teledyne e2v has qualified and released the first two up-screened versions of NXP’s T-Series processors to operate at -55°C to 125°C.  The T-Series is the latest generation of QorIQ Power PC multi-threaded CPUs. The military grade qualified devices are available in both RoHS and leaded packages.   As part of Teledyne e2v’s Semiconductor Lifecycle Management ...

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Smiths Interconnect small pitch coaxial socket for high speeds

Smiths Interconnect has introduced a 0.65mm pitch coaxial socket as part of its DaVinci 45G range of high speed testing sockets. The higher speed socket with 0.65mm pitch will be used for testing graphics processors and CPUs.  The socket’s signal probe design and patented IM-coated body structure are intended to achieve high reliability and superior ...

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UK scientists work on advanced accelerator at EU-based CERN

Engineers from the UK-based Cockcroft Institute claim to have made discoveries that could improve the design of next generation particle accelerators. Working closely with colleagues from around the world at CERN, the North West England based team has demonstrated that it is possible to create head-on collisions of proton beams using a crab-like motion.  Work ...

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Green Hills supports Automotive Grade Linux with secure RTOS

Green Hills Software has announced that its Integrity Multivisor secure virtualization and advanced development tools now support implementation of Automotive Grade Linux (AGL) on different 64-bit automotive grade SoCs.  This means that AGL applications can be added to automotive systems meeting the ISO 26262 safety levels. So that AGL-based connected car applications will run in secure partitions ...

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Intel FlexRAN reference designs deployed in 5G infrastructure

California-based design firm Aricent is developing 5G networks software frameworks running on the Intel FlexRAN reference architecture. Aricent’s 5G framework will be integrated with the Intel FlexRAN reference architecture, supporting features compliant to 3GPP specifications for non-standalone modes. The firm’s 4G LTE framework based on Cloud-RAN (C-RAN) architecture also supports Intel’s FlexRAN. Harmeet Chauhan, president, ...

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UK distributor in search for engineers and sales staff

Anglia Components is recruiting staff as it continues a five year plan to grow UK electronic component distribution market share to 10%, with a turnover of £100 million.   The distributor is looking for field application engineers, field sales and head office personnel.   Steve Rawlins, CEO, Anglia, writes:  “Our biggest challenge is getting the additional ...

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DAC: Cadence builds its cloud-based design world

Cadence Design Systems a cloud-based chip and system design tool portfolio which has both Cadence-managed and customer-managed environments. It brings the scalability of the cloud into play for developers allowing them to securely manage high complexity designs, with  scalable compute resources available in minutes or hours instead of months or weeks. The announcement was made ...

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Microchip adds chip-level security to Arm microcontrollers

Microchip’s latest Arm Cortex-M23 core based 32-bit microcontrollers feature Arm TrustZone for Armv8-M. This is a programmable security environment that provides hardware isolation between certified libraries, IP and application code.  SAM L11 MCUs also have chip-level tamper resistance, secure boot and secure key storage. The aim is to protect IoT designs from both remote and ...

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