Endress+Hauser has acquired German company SensAction AG, a manufacturer of systems for measuring the concentration of liquids…

 

Modern Water says it can turn around its struggling membrane division sales following a restructuring to break even by 2018…

 

The recent clean-room fire at Crolles could have a more serious effect than first suspected. Last November ST was reported to have signed a ‘huge’ order with Apple for image sensors. Presumably for iPhone8 – Apple’s 10th anniversary iPhone. According to analysts BlueFin, Crolles is the only manufacturing site ST has for its Time-of- Flight-based …

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Avnet Silica is now offering a secure Transport Layer Security (TLS) as part of its partnership with UbiquiOS Technology which has a wireless stack that supports Transport Layer Security (TLS1.2) functionality in a microcontroller-based Secure Element provided by Trusted Objects. Trusted Objects provides microcontroller-based authentication embedded in IoT devices, which secures the machine-to-machine interface. According to the companies, this will …

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Nordic Semiconductor has launched its first Thread SDK, which uses the IEEE 802.15.4 PHY support in the firm’s nRF52840 chip.

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Software code analysis and test tools firm LDRA will demonstrate at Embedded World this week is tool suite integrated with the Green Hills IDE and RTOS for automotive, industrial safety and medical devices. The aim is to provide developers with lifecycle traceability. The software tools will provide static code analysis including safety features as defined in MISRA, CERT, and CWE. There …

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IAR Systems has updated its ARM development tools to provide support for the C11 and C++14 language standards. The firm’s IDE for ARM includes its C/C++ Compiler and this latest version 8.10 of the development tools adds compliance with the latest C language standard ISO/IEC 9899:2011 as well as the latest C++ standard ISO/IEC 14882:2014. IAR has also improved …

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Future Electronics is now selling displays from manufacturer Tianma NLT in Europe and the rest of the EMEA region, following an extension of its franchise agreement. This will allow Future Embedded Solutions to offer a range of displays in sizes ranging from 1-inch to 20-inch, with resolution up to Full HD. Configuration options include optical bonding and touchscreen overlays. The …

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Lapis Semiconductor is showing its data logging microcontrollers at Embedded World in Nuremberg today. The ML630Q464/466 MCUs integrate functions required for data logging such as USB, clock generation, RC oscillation type AD converter, data display, and PDF file generation on a single chip. Data loggers are typically attached to packages and in many cases disposable. …

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Microchip’s PIC18F ‘K42’ microcontrollers are available with up to 128kbyte (from 16kbyte) of flash memory in packages from 28-48 pins. Max clock speed is 64Mbit/s and there is up to 1kbyte data EEPROM and 8kbyte of SRAM. The firm has gone big on its ‘core independent peripherals’ (CIP) to allow functions to be implemented in hardware, …

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