ARM has expanded its ARM DesignStart initiative to offer simplified and expedited access to EDA tooling and design environments from Cadence and Mentor Graphics. The new partnership builds on the benefits of free access to ARM Cortex-M0 processor IP offered through the DesignStart portal. The new ARM Approved Design Partner program also provides DesignStart users …

ARM expands DesignStart – 45 sample SoCs for $16k

The phone market is changing dramatically with phablets growing well but smartphone growth slowing down. In 2014 smartphones grew 27.8%. In 2015 they grew 10.8%. But this year they’ll only grow 3.1%, says analyst IDC. On the other hand phablets, defined as devices with 5.5 inch screens or bigger, are forecast to have annual double …

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Swivvel your head in this direction. Check out the cheeky animatronic activities of two undergraduates at the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA).

Students get a head start with cheeky animatronics

The US Department of Energy has charted an SSL technology course intended to deliver in excess of 200 lm/W at the luminaire or lighting-system level by 2025.

AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory (Enterprise Edition), also known as Microsoft AD, is now available in the EU (Frankfurt) Region. This makes it possible for you to use an AWS fully managed Active Directory in the cloud. Among the use cases supported by Microsoft AD, you can: 

Egypt is to build five new desalination plants to serve the drinking water needs of residents in the Sinai Peninsular.

The world now adds more renewable power capacity than it does fossil fuel capacity each year, with 147 GW of renewable energy capacity added in 2015.

US supplier Energy Recovery has won $5.4 million of contracts to supply desalination “mega projects” in the Middle East.

Significant new rural wastewater treatment capacity will be needed if Egypt is to secure its water supply over the next decade, according to a new report, Suitable Technologies for Egypt’s Wastewater Treatment Upgrade.

Exar, the mixed signal specialist, is to sell its subsidiary Integrated Memory Logic Limited (iML) to Beijing E-Town Chipone Technology (“E-Town Chipone”). E-Town Chipone is consortium comprised of Beijing-based IC design and solutions manufacturer Chipone Technology (“Chipone”) and its financial partner Beijing E-Town International Investment & Development (“E-Town Capital”). iML provides power management and colour …

Exar sells unit to China