San Diego Foundation grants will fund projects in City of Solana Beach and at San Diego International Airport

Raytheon UK has developed a positioning and navigation system that adds 3D dead-reckoning to global navigation satellite systems (GNSSs, GPS for example), allowing navigation inside buildings. Called ‘Strider’, it comes in two parts – a ‘boot-mounted unit’ (BMU) and a phone app. Inside the BMU are MEMS accelerometers, gyros and a pressure sensor (height). This …

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Wolfspeed (part of Cree) has introduced a 1,000V silicon carbide mosfet. C3M0065100K is a 65mΩ device in a four-lead TO-247-4 package – it has a second source pin for the driver. “This package provides lower switching losses with minimal gate circuit ringing due to the Kelvin gate connection,” said Richardson RFPD, which is stocking the …

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Future trends, technologies and engineers were the subjects for the keynote of NIDays 2016, National Instrument’s Graphical System Design Conference in London.

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QuickLogic is to license its FPGA technology to SoC designers wanting hardware acceleration or reconfigurability. The FPGA core being licensed is ArcticPro eFPGA,. The initial foundry being used is GloFo, and the initial processes available are 65nm and 40nm with 22nm FD-SOI available next year. More foundries will be added next year. “With nearly three …

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Why are London buses like eFPGA companies? Because zilch happens for ages, then three come along at the same time. In October I spoke to three CEOs aiming to to license FPGA cores. Although conceding that embedded FPGA is an idea whose time has one, each of them denied that they were influenced by the …

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Four firms have partnered to offer a system on chip design platform for the RISC-V open source embedded processor. BaySand, Codasip, Codeplay and UltraSoC are offering an IoT development platform based on the RISC-V open processor instruction set architecture (ISA). Elements of the platform which was unveiled at the 5th RISC-V Workshop in California are: – BaySand’s foundational IP …

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Flex Logix is offering FPGA cores for TSMC’s 40nm, 28nm and 16nm processes, Flex Logic is a two and a half year-old start-up backed by $7.4 million of venture capital. The Flex Logix technology has the ability to stitch cores together and, with 49 linked 2,500 LUT cores, can put 100,000 LUTs on an SoC. …

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V-Tac has lunached ‘Nano-Plastic’ T8 LED lighting tubes with A++ efficiency The tubes are available in 60, 120 or 150cm lengths and are GS approved. A ‘Nano-Plastic’ shell is claimed to allowing for better light transmittance “With a shell less than 0.5mm thick, the light emitted is softer and spreads more evenly, diffusing any glare, …

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Nichia thinks it has a record-breaker on its hands with its 319A high-power LED

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