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WCSIM chooses Young Engineer of the the Year 2017

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Finlay Cuffe from Sutton Grammar School and Shahab Fazal from Loreto Sixth Form College in Manchester have both been named as WCSIM (Worshipful Company Of  Scientific Instrument Makers) Young Engineer of the Year 2017. The nominations entitle them to participate, along with more than 1,700 other students from around the world, in the Intel-sponsored International Science …

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Imec makes tiny 896Gb/s Si photonics transceiver

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Imec has made an 896Gb/s silicon photonics transceiver of just a few mm2, targeting future Tb/s optical links and highlighting the scalability of Imec’s iSiPP50G silicon photonics platform. Driven by exponential demand for interconnect bandwidth in datacenters, single-mode optical transceivers will need to scale to Tb/s capacity and be tightly integrated with network switches. Imec …

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ARM launches new microarchitecture – DynamIQ

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ARM has introduced a new microarchitecture for its Cortex-A series called DynamIQ. DynamIQ allows up to eight cores to be put on a chip with different configurations like 1+7 (i.e. 1xbig and 7xLITTLE CPUs), 2+4, 1+3 to deliver scalable solutions The first phones using DynamIQ will be out early in 2018. DynamIQ aims to allow …

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Rohde & Schwarz makes RF spectrum analyser software upgradable

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Rohde & Schwarz’s latest RF spectrum analyser starts with a 1GHz model, and it can be upgraded to 2- or 3GHz with a software keycode. Upgrades can be purchased as needed and are available as soon as the keycode is entered. Recalibration is not required. Noise performance can also be upgraded by software. The R&S …

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Photonics stars at IQE

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IQE has reported 2016 Revenues which were up 16% to £132.7mm, profit up 17% to £22.1m, cash generation up 7.1% to £22.5 million, and capex of £19 million. “IQE delivered a strong set of results in 2016, with revenues up 16%, PBT up 17%, and EPS up 15%,” says IQE CEO Dr Drew Nelson (pictured), …

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Top 10 most reputable brands in the UK, show Brexit effect

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Tech firm Dyson is seen by the general public as the UK’s most reputable company, according to a “corporate reputation” survey by the Reputation Institute. And other tech firms in the top ten include Intel, Sony and Samsung, despite its Galaxy 7 woes. The UK RepTrak 150 ranking, which was taken in the first quarter of 2017,  found …

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Free DO-178C / ED-12C handbook

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AdaCore has published a handbook covering its technologies for DO-178C / ED-12C. Written by Quentin Ochem of AdaCore and certification expert Frédéric Pothon, aside from describing the firm’s own products, it puts the DO-178C / ED-12C standard and its technology supplements  into perspective and explains many of their more subtle aspects in the context of several …

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