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Thick resin 3D printing for tough end products

Barcelona-based 3D printer maker BCN3D has developed a process to build objects from highly viscous resins: “50x more viscous than the industry standard”, it claims, allowing chemists to formulate materials that print into tougher end-products – for example incorporating long chain oligomers or fillers such as fibres (even abrasive fibres) or elastomer particles. “Without a ...

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Renesas and Fixstars partner for automotive deep learning

Renesas and Fixstars are collaborating on automotive deep learning – establishing a laboratory to support early development and operation of driver-assistance and autonomous driving systems. “Fixstars possesses both software for deep learning and optimisation technology that allows more efficient utilisation of hardware,” said Renesas automotive v-p Takeshi Kataoka. “I am confident that our collaboration will ...

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NI’s 5G NR analysis software for Tek’s 6 Series B scopes

Tektronix has released SignalVu 5G NR analysis software for its 6 Series B MSO oscilloscopes. The package enables pass/fail testing of the 5G NR physical layer to qualify transmitter designs per the 5G NR standard established under the 3GPP release of 15/16 test specifications. It includes signal quality measurements such as error vector magnitude (EVM), ...

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Driving assistance radar processing from Green Hills and NXP

Green Hills Software has teamed up with NXP to support driver assistance radar image processing. NXP is providing the hardware: the 16nm S32R45 imaging radar processor, while Green Hills is providing its Integrity real-time operating system (RTOS) and software development tools. “Common software and hardware architecture spanning the S32R45 and S32R41 radar processors enables OEMs ...

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Ice Lake-D processors on COM-HPC and COM Express

Adlink has added Intel Xeon D processors to two computer-on-module form-factors: COM-HPC size-D and COM Express Type 7. They are the Ice Lake-D D-2700 and D-1700 series processors, some of which offer 8x 10Gbit Ethernet, 32 PCIe Gen4 lanes, and AI acceleration. “With industrial-grade reliability and extended temperature range make these modules especially suitable for mission-critical edge ...

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Polish 3d printer pulls out of Russian investment deal

Zortrax, Polish maker of professional 3D printers, has walked away from negotiations with Rusatom Additive Technologies, which was offering to invest up to $65m in exchange for <50% of Zortrax shares. The formal end was today, when Zortrax chose not to sign an annex prolonging negotiations. “Russian aggression against Ukraine left us all shocked and outraged,” ...

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ISSCC: Incremental zoom ADCs, and others

Incremental zoom ADCs can be made in CMOS and are showing up in IoT sensing applications where high-resolution and accuracy has to be combined with low-power operation from low-voltage rails. In a nutshell, these use a coarse (~6bit) successive approximation ADC to set, via a DAC, the references of a ΣΔ converter – the latter is ...

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ISSCC 2022: MEMS senses zeptograms

‘Zeptogram’ caught the eye at ISSCC 2022 conference last week, as researchers from French lab CEA-Leti produced a mass sensor with 170zg resolution for weighing molecules. Not only did they make one such sensitive weighing scale, but 1,024 of them in an array which can be scanned at high speed. The weighing part had been ...

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ISSCC: UK-made bendable 6502 MCU has 16,000 thin-film transistors

The fastest bendable 8bit thin-film microcontroller was describe at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference this week. Designed by Belgian research lab Imec and nearby university KU Leuven, it was made by UK-based PragmatIC Semiconductor. Called Flex6502, is has 16,000 0.8µm gate-length IGZO (indium gallium zinc oxide) transistors over a 4.5 x 5.5mm active area (see photo, ...

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60V 30A GaN motor drive for drones, robotics and e-bikes

EPC is offering a three-phase motor driver evaluation board built around 80V 3.6mΩ GaN power transistors, sized for drones, robotics and e-bikes. “The small size of this inverter allows integration into the motor housing resulting in the lowest EMI, highest density and lowest weight,” said the company. Called EPC9167HC, the design uses two paralleled EPC2065 ...

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