At the London ‘Getting started with Risc-V’ seminar last week, Onno Martens of German motor drive chip firm Trinamic described why it had chosen Risc-V over other processor architectures for Rocinante sub-kW 60V field-oriented motor control silicon. Risc-V offers a choice of is an instruction sets to cover a range of performance levels, then offers ...
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Western Digital SweRV Core EHX1 is a 32-bit, 2-way superscalar, 9-stage pipeline core, originally designed to be used inside the firms data storage own products. Currently at version 1.1, it is open-sourced for the RISC-V community and, based on internal testing, is expected to deliver up to 4.9 CoreMarks/Mhz. “It offers capabilities for embedded devices ...
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Microchip is offering high security IoT authentication to companies with no prior security knowledge, that are producing as few as 10 units. Authentication, in this case, is proving the identity of a device attempting to connect across a network using a secret number key only stored in two places – once on the device and ...
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AMS is claiming operation through smudged and dirty glass for a miniature time-of-flight auto-focus sensor intended for phones. “TMF8801 maintains high accuracy through use of its on-chip histogram processing”, according to the firm – which includes automated dirt and smudge detection and compensation – and the circuit “enables dark and sunlight environment distance measurement within ...
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RS Components has added a 0 to 1,000°C non-contact infra-red thermometer to its RS Pro range. “Maintenance engineers often ask RS for a small temperature sensor that can fit into tight spaces, and that shows the measured temperature in situ, so they do not have to return to the control room to check it,” said ...
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PicoVNA Interface Wizard links Pico Technology’s PC-based vector network analyser National Instruments’ AWR Design Environment. It allows: Controlling and viewing PicoVNA output from inside a design environment One-click measurement transfer to electronic design automation (EDA) software Comparison of ideal, modelled and measured component through to subsystem data between test and simulation environments Extension of measured data ...
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Aiming at improved dog food,Cambridge Design Partnership has created a smart pill for dogs that both senses and samples. Mars is the customer, and trails were at the Waltham Centre for Pet Nutrition in Melton Mowbray. “It was certainly an unusual request and a major challenge,” says Will Bradley, who led the project for CDP. “Mars ...
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Two high-power infra-red lasers are available for lidar from Osram – AEC-Q102 qualified four-channel and a single-channel pulsed lasers. Output is 125Watt/diode, 40A/diode, and efficiency is up to 33%. 480W total is possible with the quad diode device. Packaging is surface-mount: 3.35 x 2.45 x 0.65mm for the quad (SPL S4L90A_3 A01) and 2.0 x ...
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Artificial intelligence in BeagleBone AI comes from two Texas Instruments C66x DSPs and four ’embedded vision engine’ (EVE) cores (dubbed the ‘Vision AccelerationPac’ by TI) with TI Deep Learning (TIDL) support – an TIDL machine learning OpenCL API with pre-installed tools. Up to thirty-two 16 x 16bit fixed-point multiplies are available per cycle All of this hardware ...
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Technical University of Munich used eight electric motors with a combined power of 320kW to win SpaceX Hyperloop Pod competition in Los Angeles. Taking place on an aluminium rail within SpaceX’ mile-long evacuated tube, the 76kg carbon fibre chassis vehicle accelerated at almost 2g and reached 463km/h – before coming to a controlled halt, as the ...
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