According to Wolfspeed, its C2M0045170D is the industry’s first 1,700V, 45mΩ silicon carbide mosfet.

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PiCapture is a video capture system that enables all of the video processing and software capability of the Raspberry Pi by emulating  the Raspberry Pi camera. The developers behind the video capture system are Al Testani and Marshal Linder, founders of a new company, Lintest Systems. Al Testani writes: “Until now, only the Raspberry Pi camera …

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Mike Patterson, founder and CEO of security analytics firm Plixer, noticed that even after disabling everything he could find to stop this data transfer, some form of metadata is still sent to suppliers of software on his computer. The content was encrypted in a way that made it impossible to determine what was being sent. This extra …

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Design Council will showcase more than a dozen pioneering products from its Spark innovation fund and accelerator programme, at the London Design Festival on 20 September. The best will be awarded further funding of up to £150,000 to help take their product to market. With the support of this year’s partner, the charity Arthritis Research …

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ADI buys the Cyber Security Solutions (CSS) business of Sypris Electronics, to boost its aerospace and defense capabilities in the area of secure radio communications.

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Datwyler has now said that it won’t raise its bid for Premier Farnell after suggesting last week that it might. In June, Datwyler bid £795 million then, in July, Avnet made an £868 million bid. Last week, the Datwyler board said ‘With respect to the potential acquisition of Premier Farnell, in light of the higher …

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Green Hills Software has announced that it has completed all of the RTCA/DO-178B Level A certification requirements for its Integrity-178 tuMP multicore real-time operating system (RTOS) for Esterline CMC’s next generation of integrated avionics computers and smart displays.

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Airbus has a group in Silicon Valley which is developing flying taxis. This sort of thing is beginning to catch on in the US. In June, the State of Nevada licensed a passenger-carrying drone. The Airbus project, called Vahana, is led by Rodin Lyasoff. “Many of the technologies needed, such as batteries, motors and avionics …

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Canadian company Allo has created a HAT-compliant Hi-Fi audio stack for Raspberry Pi. It features: 2x50W stereo amplifier, DAC+headphone amplifier, re-clocker and the firm’s own Sparky single-board computer.

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There was once a boy who emigrated with his parents from Belarus to the USA at the age of 9. He started work at 15 when his father got TB. He rose from office boy to president of his company after demonstrating the commercial attractions of radio as a broadcast, rather than a point-to-point medium, …

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