Achronix has announced two new programs to enable research institutions, consortia, and companies full access to Achronix’s leading Speedcore eFPGA technology. Embedded FPGA (eFPGA) technology is rapidly becoming must-have IP for programmable hardware-acceleration for SoC-based CPU-offload that is used in a wide variety of applications including AI/ML, blockchain, network acceleration, SmartNICs, and intelligent IoT. These ...

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Applied Materials has announced plans for the Materials Engineering Technology Accelerator (META Center), a major expansion of the company’s R&D capabilities aimed at creating new ways for Applied and its customers to drive innovation as classic Moore’s Law scaling becomes more challenging. The primary goal of the META Center is to speed customer availability of ...

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Imperas has announced the RISC-V Open Virtual Platform Simulator (riscvOVPsim) as a reference Instruction Set Simulator (ISS), including open source model, specifically for the RISC-V community of software developers, implementers and early adopters. riscvOVPsim is a free RISC-V simulator and model of a complete single-core RISC-V CPU, delivering commercial high-level simulation performance and quality for ...

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IXYS Integrated Circuits Division, now part of Little fuse, is in production  of the  CPC1984Y, a 600V, Normally Open Power SIP Relay, rated for up to 1A DC/1Arms continuous load current. The device uses optically coupled MOSFET technology to provide 4000Vrms of input-to-output isolation. The relay offers the best combination of load voltage and load current available ...

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Xilinx has migrated its defence grade Ultra-Scale parts to 16nm. The parts include the XQ Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoCs and RFSoCs as well as XQ UltraScale+ Kintex and Virtex FPGAs. XQ UltraScale+ on16nm delivers twice the performance-per-watt of preceding-generation systems. This portfolio includes  Defense-grade heterogeneous multi-processor SoC devices, combining flexible and dynamically reconfigurable high-performance programmable logic ...

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Farnell element.14 has begun to ship 65,000 micro:bit  computers to schools in Denmark as part of an order from Boarding on behalf of the Danish Broadcasting Corporation. The three-year ‘ultra:bit’ programme, will use the micro:bit in the classroom to help transform Danish Year 4 students from passive technology consumers to digital pioneers. “Programmes like this ...

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RoboSense, the Chinese LiDAR specialist, has received $45 million in funding fromg Cainiao Smart Logistics Network, the logistics arm of the Alibaba Group; SAIC Motor Group(Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation), and BAIC Group (Beijing Automotive Industry Holding Co.) electric vehicle company. With an over 50% market share of all LiDAR sold in Asia, RoboSense is the ...

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