NI PXI and LabVIEW delivers an 11x reduction in the cost of a MEMS test system
Fujitsu wireless module uses Nordic BLE SoC
Fujitsu has announced a Bluetooth 4.2 module measuring 15.7 x 9.8 x 1.7 mm with integrated antenna based upon Nordic Semiconductor’s Bluetooth Smart SoC. The nRF52832 QFN-package wireless module has been designed around a 32-bit ARM Cortex-M4F CPU with 512kB + 64kB RAM. The embedded 2.4GHz transceiver supports Bluetooth Smart, ANT and proprietary 2.4 GHz …
Stackable PC/104 module has 2Gbyte/s data bandwidth
Sundance Multiprocessor Technology, the UK-based manufacturer of embedded modules, has developed a range of boards for the “OneBank” PC/104-compatible format. Dubbed the EMC2-family, the range of industrial-grade and deployment-ready PC/104 boards are based on either a Xilinx Zynq SoC or Xilinx Artix/Kintex FPGAs. The EMC2-KU35 is the latest member and has two banks of 16-bit …
LG Chem wins contract to supply new Sohar plant with reverse osmosis membranes
LG Water Solutions is to provide its high rejection NanoH20 reverse osmosis membranes to the new 250 million litres per day desalination plant that is slated to be built in Sohar, Oman, by 2019.
Eben Upton gets CBE
Eben Upton, chief executive of Raspberry Pi, has been awarded a CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list. “The great thing about the Raspberry Pi is it’s Cambridge all the way down, designed here, and developed here,” says Upton. The Pi has sold 8 million since introduction in 2012 – more than any other UK-made …
Australia’s Water Corporation weighs the options for climate-independent water
Australia’s Water Corporation is looking at “a range of options” for its next climate-independent source of water for western Australia, as it reaches the halfway mark of a 10-year strategy to ensure a climate-independent water supply.
Italmach acquires Compass, adds manufacturing base in North America
Italmach Chemicals has acquired Compass Chemical International, adding a strategically important site in Texas that it hopes will support its growth in the oil and gas industry.
Embedded FPGA used to tweak SoC design without re-spins
Embedded FPGA intellectual property developer Menta is offering embedded programmable logic as both custom and pre-defined IP cores based on its eFPGA fabric. Already available for TSMC 28nm HPM and STMicroelectronics 28nm FDSOI process technologies, the IP is now available for GlobalFoundries 14nm LPP process. Menta’s eFPGA technology was demonstrated this week at the Design …
Open source hypervisor runs multiple OS in IoT designs
An open source hypervisor can now be used with Imagination’s OmniShield ready MIPS CPUs. Designed for a small footprint, the L4Re hypervisor, which is maintained by Kernkonzept, can run on the hardware virtualization technology in MIPS CPUs. The aim of this is to provide more efficient context switching and to make better use of CPU …
Android Nearby snags you for Bluetooth beacons
Maybe it’s just me, but I just get this. Google is creating a new Android feature called Nearby, “Introducing Nearby: A new way to discover the things around you”.