Following six years of R&D, Raytheon has opened a silicon carbide fab in Glenrothes Scotland which will offer foundry services as well as its own line of high-temperature ICs. Its SiC process has been developed on-site, with Government ...
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Atego, the supplier development tools for safety-critical systems and software, has launched a database of software for publication and reuse. Called Atego Asset Library, it is based on the OMG’s Reusable Asset Specification (RAS). ...
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Could the personal healthcare and fitness market be an important target for BlackBerry's 4G smart phone, the BlackBerry 10? The inclusion of Bluetooth Smart and NFC follows the trend we have seen from other smartphone suppliers such as ...
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Lantronix has signed a distribution agreement with Arrow Electronics throughout the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region. Arrow has been a distributor of the supplier's M2M communications products in North America for more than fifteen years. ...
Companies using virtual servers have been warned to be vigilant, following a survey conducted by data security firm Varonis. 48% of respondents either reported or suspected unauthorised access to files on their virtualised servers. ...
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Vishay has introduced a series of moulded solid tantalum chip capacitors for space-constrained consumer electronics. The TL8 series devices come in case sizes down to 0805 and profiles from 0.8 to 1.0mm. For example, there is a 10V ...
Curtiss-Wright Controls Defense Solutions says it has introduced the first Xilinx Virtex-7 OpenVPX based DSP engine which is commercial off the shelf (COTS) for the military market. The CHAMP-WB board is designed to support any ...
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A low-cost board for x86-based embedded system development is available from GizmoSphere. It is based on an AMD Embedded G-Series Accelerated Processing Unit (APU). Gizmo is a 4 x 4in x86 development board that runs Android, Linux, ...
A head-up display for joggers has been designed by German firm o-synce. The display system, which is mounted in the runner's hat, uses a 2.4GHz transceiver from Nordic Semiconductor to provide wireless links to up to eight ...
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A small ozonizer module developed by Murata can be used to generate ozone in a range of deodorising applications in consumer, industrial and automotive accessory applications. Bacteria can proliferate in many appliances such as ...
As the UK and Europe commits to 4G (LTE) technology, its successor LTE-A (LTE-Advanced) is already waiting in the wings to deliver the equivalent of a fixed-line broadband experience to the end user, promising peak data rates of around ...
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Glasgow is to receive £24m of government investment to become "a city of the future". Glasgow is to host the Technology Strategy Board’s ‘Future Cities Demonstrator’ for showing the impact technology can ...
Small computer pioneer Via Technologies has announced a 12x12.5x3cm ARM Cortex-A8-based machine. ARMTiGO A800 is "the world’s smallest ARM system for embedded applications, including hotel automation, digital signage and, ...
The market for semiconductors used in power supplies is forecast to grow by 6.5% in 2013, following a largely flat market for power supplies in 2012, says market analyst IMS Research. Strongest growth is predicted for MPU/MCU/DSP/DSC ...
The government has set up a £1m funding competition for robotics and autonomous systems (RAS) technology in the UK. The investment by the Technology Strategy Board is for feasibility studies to accelerate the development of RAS ...
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