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Q1 EDA revenues up 16.3% y-o-y

Q1 EDA  revenue was up  16.3% y-o-y at $2.6 billion, says to the Electronic System Design (ESD) Alliance. “The EDA industry overall reported double digit increased revenue in Q1 compared to Q1 2018, with all categories, except services, reporting double digit increases,” says Wally Rhines (pictured) CEO Emeritus of Mentor and a member of the ...

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Moscow researchers reveal monolayer phase in organic semiconductor

A team of researchers from Russia, Germany, and France featuring materials scientists from the Moscow Institute of Science and Technology (pictured) has investigated how the electrical properties of dihexyl-quaterthiophene thin films depend on their structure. This material is an organic semiconductor with prospects for flexible electronics. It turned out that once the thin films undergo ...

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Farnell signs Renesas

Farnell  has expanded its embedded systems product offering with the addition of the Renesas range. Renesas provides a range of embedded solutions: MCU, analogue, mixed-signal, power ICs, SoCs for the automotive, industrial, cloud computing and IoT markets. Farnell will stock over 1,500 products from Renesas, with 30% available for re-reeling.  

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A UK first – a zero-emission ice cream van

Nissan and Scottish ice-cream vendor Mackie’s have created a zero-emission ice cream van. Based on Nissan’s e-NV200 electric van, it comes with a soft-serve machine, freezer drawer and drinks fridge. Ice cream is served from a side-hatch. Payment is by contactless bank card and smartphone via a ‘tap-and-pay’ panel mounted on the side. The van ...

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Fan reduces Raspberry Pi 4 heat from 80℃ to 40℃

ICE Tower CPU Cooling Fan for Raspberry Pi (Support Pi 4) $19.90 The Raspberry Pi 4 is much more powerful than its predecessors, but with great power comes a lot of heat. This cooling fan can reduce the temperature of the Raspberry Pi from 80℃ to 40℃ DockerPi PowerBoard $18.99 DockerPi PowerBoard is used to power the Raspberry ...

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Pride in STEM at IET

Last Friday,  IET Venues celebrated  #LGBTSTEMDay for diversity in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics). This international day recognises the global challenges LGBTQ+ scientists and engineers face, from discrimination in their own institution or country, and IET Venues are proud to support them to conduct their research safely and successfully whether domestically or abroad. IET ...

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Imec spin-off simplifies transportation data systems

DigiTrans is a spin-off  from the University of Antwerp and imec which handles data for transportation systems. The transport sector struggles with rigid systems, often specialized in a single task, that require a lot of manual handling, human interactions and multiple checking. Digitrans is a uniform middleware product that connects to any data source or ...

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