A “lackluster” economic environment in France has been labelled as part of the reason for a dip in revenues from SUEZ’s European water division…

UltraSoC has extended the capabilities of its on-chip monitoring and analytics semiconductor intellectual property (IP), to include debug, monitoring and analysis features for the ARM AMBA-5 Coherent Hub Interface (CHI). The CHI Monitor is the newest in UltraSoC’s family of protocol-aware monitors for interconnect and extends that from bus monitors to debugging and fine-tuning the …

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Intel has announced Atom processors for IoT ‘edge’ processing – pre-processing data to reduce its bulk before it is sent on to the internet. “IoT is expected to be a market with 50 billion devices creating 44 zettabytes [44 giga terabytes] of data annually by 2020, require much more processing power at the edge in …

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Martin Bielesch, European president of Arrow Electronics talks to Electronics Weekly, about taking a global view of the UK referendum vote, how he sees potential in crowd-funded projects and the inevitable ever-presence of IoT for the broadline component distributor’s business. Are you concerned the Brexit vote in the UK is having negative effect on the European market? …

Read full article: Brexit and Indiegogo, Arrow Europe president talks to EW

Touch sensors that have an object recognition capability will mean that touchscreen in shops or museums will be activated to display information when specific objects or products are placed on the screen. A technology collaboration between Tyne & Wear-based touch sensor firm Zytronic and Tangible Display from France will demonstrate an object recognition capability on multi-touch …

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Europe’s consumers are embracing mobile payments but if we are to instil the necessary level of trust in the system’s security must be based on user behavioural patterns, writes Robert Capps Payments made via mobile devices are ever increasing. New market research from Visa has shown that the number of consumers regularly using a mobile device …

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Murata has released two kits of passive components matched to Nordic Semiconductor Bluetooth and ANT 2.4GHz wireless reference designs based around nRF51x22 and nRF52x32 chips. “The inclusion of all the passive components needed in one package greatly reduces the amount of time and effort required by designers to procure sample-use components,” said Murata. Kits include ceramic …

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Never has there been a more exciting time for ambitious and talented graduates in this country to start a career in electronics engineering. The need for engineers of all disciplines to drive a digital economy is growing dramatically. But the referendum vote and the UK’s proposed exit from the European Union could impact the potential …

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Renesas Electronics, Express Logic and IAR Systems are to collaborate on the development of a secure IoT platform based around ARM’s v8-M architecture. It will involve Express Logic’s ThreadX RTOS and IAR’s Embedded Workbench software development environment, both of which support ARM’s TrustZone security hardware within ARMv8-M. “These technologies will be a foundation for the …

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Beta Layout is offering a single-source prototyping and small-series manufacturing service for 3D mechatronic interconnect devices (MIDs). It will be demonstrated at the Electronica exhibition in Munich next month. With this prototyping service the company produces circuit carriers of the three-dimensional circuit boards using 3D printing. The advantage of the this technique, says Beta Layout, is that …

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