Synopsys has joined the GloFo’s FDXcelerator Partner Program, an ecosystem designed to facilitate 22nm FD-SOI (FDX) SoC designs.

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Our IoT Design 2016 event in London is not to be missed! It takes place on Thursday 15 September, and the venue is CodeNode in central London.

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Avnet Embedded has signed a global distribution agreement with VMware, a supplier of virtualisation and cloud infrastructure software. Virtualisation is a software design technique which reduced cost of hardware by running virtual machines on standard multi-core processors. The concept essentially separates software applications from the underlying hardware platform and enables multiple operating systems and applications …

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Hampshire-based single board computer manufacturer BVM has expanded its design and manufacturing facilities with a substantial investment in both people and equipment. The firm has added design resources such as the latest Solidworks 3D modeling software for system design and Altium PCB layout and design software capable of handling the latest high speed PCIe signals …

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Don’t call it an iWatch, and don’t call it Apple Watch ii. Instead, welcome the Apple Watch Series 2, announced at an Apple event in California this weekend.

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In an exclusive interview Naomi Climer, president of the IET, says she sees challenges but also opportunities in a post-Brexit tech sector

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After World War II the Americans occupying Japan decided to break up the zaibatsu – the industrial conglomerates which controlled Japan’s economy. The four biggest – Mitsui, Mitsubishi, Sumitomo and Yasuda – controlled a quarter of the country’s economy. In 1946, Konosuke Matsushita, who’d built his own company unlike most of these venerable organisations, was …

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Trident Energy has developed multi-kW linear electromagnetic generators for wave power. Electronics Weekly spoke to Trident CEO Steve Packard to find out how these monsters of the sea work, and what they can do. In principle, they are simple: the movement of a long cylindrical multi-pole magnet through a wound armature generates power every time …

Read full article: More on: PowerPod wave-to-grid energy transducer

With skills training and STEM education always a big issue, my eye was drawn to a report entitled “Kids in Engineering report”, which has just been published.

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The top ten most popular articles on ElectronicsWeekly.com in the last week, with PiCapture, ARM, electric cars and Sigfox comms all figuring prominently…

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