Eben Upton, chief executive of Raspberry Pi, has been awarded a CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list. “The great thing about the Raspberry Pi is it’s Cambridge all the way down, designed here, and developed here,” says Upton. The Pi has sold 8 million since introduction in 2012 – more than any other UK-made …

Eben Upton gets CBE

Italmach Chemicals has acquired Compass Chemical International, adding a strategically important site in Texas that it hopes will support its growth in the oil and gas industry.

Australia’s Water Corporation is looking at “a range of options” for its next climate-independent source of water for western Australia, as it reaches the halfway mark of a 10-year strategy to ensure a climate-independent water supply.

An open source hypervisor can now be used with  Imagination’s OmniShield ready MIPS CPUs. Designed for a small footprint, the  L4Re hypervisor, which is maintained by Kernkonzept, can run on the hardware virtualization technology in MIPS CPUs. The aim of this is to provide more efficient context switching and to make better use of CPU …

Open source hypervisor runs multiple OS in IoT designs

Embedded FPGA intellectual property developer Menta is offering embedded programmable logic as both custom and pre-defined IP cores based on its eFPGA fabric. Already available for TSMC 28nm HPM and STMicroelectronics 28nm FDSOI process technologies, the IP is now available for GlobalFoundries 14nm LPP process. Menta’s eFPGA technology was demonstrated this week at the Design …

Embedded FPGA used to tweak SoC design without re-spins

Could EDA be used to solve the world’s most difficult problems e.g. access to food and water, and ending disease and global warming? EDA solves some of the most complex problems known to man where huge numbers of different inputs have to be taken into account to arrive at a result which works. EDA’s methods …

Could EDA Save The World?

Maybe it’s just me, but I just get this. Google is creating a new Android feature called Nearby, “Introducing Nearby: A new way to discover the things around you”.

Android Nearby snags you for Bluetooth beacons

Le Jardin de Rabelais will now grow more year-round juicy tomatoes with specially tuned horticultural lights from Philips.

The project is part of a major upgrade to BCWSA system in Feasterville to include a new pipeline energized to bring new purchased water into the area from North Wales.

In support of the response to the Flint Water Crisis, Tetra Tech implemented the iFormBuilder platform as part of their data collection and management workflows.