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Agile Analog signs first licensee in China

Cambridge-based Agile Analog has its first Chinese intellectual property licensee. “We opened our APAC regional sales and engineering office in January this year, and we are delighted to have signed our first license for the region in just a couple of months,” said Agile CEO Barry Paterson. “Key to the deal is us having local ...

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Xaar commits to support young people in the East of England

Cambridge ink-jet print head company Xaar is to support East of England youth charity Break for the next three years, pledging to match all funds raised by its employees up to a sum of £20,000 per year. “Break provides a brighter future to local children and young people on the edge of care, in care ...

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Embedded World: 13.3inch display update to R&S GHz oscilloscopes

Rohde & Schwarz has updated its 4 to 16GHz RTP oscilloscope range with a 13.3inch HD touchscreen and redesigned front panel. “Improving overall usability so that test engineers could focus on the design problems at hand and not on operating the test equipment was paramount to our R&D engineers when we decided to update the R&S ...

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Motor controller IC has dual Arm Cortex-R52 and industrial Ethernet

Renesas has revealed MCUs with dual 800MHz Arm Cortex-R52 cores and Ethernet for motor control in ac servo drives, inverters and industrial robots. “RZ/T2M is capable of controlling the servo motors that drive robots at extremely high speed and with high precision,” said company industrial automation v-p Toshihide Tsuboi. “I anticipate that it will contribute to ...

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Tektronix 500MHz scope is 38mm thick for field and bench

Tektronix has unveiled flat-profile mixed-signal oscilloscopes intended to be used on the bench and in the field. Called ‘2 Series Mixed Signal Oscilloscope’, they maximise frontal area for display (10.1in touchscreen) and control by being only 38mm thick. Weight is 1.8kg and they “can go seamlessly from the bench to the field and back, enabling ...

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Imagination Technologies recruits engineers in Manchester

Imagination Technologies has opened an office in Manchester, adding to existing sites in Cambridge, and Bristol, and its Kings Langley headquarters. “At the beginning of 2022 we set a recruitment goal to match our growth as a company, and to enable acceleration in new areas such as RISC-V CPU,” said Imagination CEO Simon Beresford-Wylie. “Manchester has ...

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Autosar-ready dsPICs from Microchip for automotive functional safety

Microchip has announced Autosar-ready ISO 26262-compliant dsPIC33C MCUs for vehicle use. Developed following ISO 26262 process, the dsPIC33CK family has hardware features intended to simplify functional safety certifications for ASIL-B and SIL-2 automotive and industrial safety-critical applications. The dsPIC33CK1024MP7xx part of the family has 1Mbyte of flash and “enables applications running automotive software like Autosar, OS, ...

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3kW transient supression

Vishay Intertechnology has introduced a series of surface-mount bidirectional transient voltage suppressors in SMC (DO-214AB) packaging for automotive, industrial and telecom use. Surge capability is 3kW at 10/1,000μs to meet the specifications of ISO 16750-2 Pulse b. Called the SMC3KxxxCAHM3_A series, leakage current can be as low as 1μA from 22 to 120V, and operatioj is up ...

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Embedded World: 11th Gen Intel Core CPUs in COM Express Type 6 and 3.5inch SBCs

Seco has introduced a COM Express Type 6 Compact Module and a 3.5inch single board computer built around 11th Gen Intel Core processors – also known as Tiger Lake UP3. “11th Gen Core processors combine CPU/GPU engines with integrated artificial intelligence acceleration and deep learning capabilities in a low power processing platform, built on Intel ...

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Sumida improves 12.5mm inductor offering

Sumida’s CDRH12D78E/LD is a 12.5 x 12.8 x 8mm magnetically shielded power inductor family. The parts are “ideal for DC/DC converters such as a buck-boost, SEPIC [single-ended primary-inductor converter] and zeta for non-automotive applications”, according to distributor New Yorker Electronics, which is stocking the parts. “This new model is an upgrade to the CDRH127/LD,” it added. ...

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