Subaru quickly brings its first hybrid vehicle to market using PXI for HIL testing

Read full article: Subaru Saves 2000 Man Hours

Three power firms are bidding to re-define power supply design in software. Murata Power Solutions, CUI and Ericsson Power Modules explain the motivations and aims of the AMP project.

Read full article: Software defined power control saves energy, say power firms

Robotics and machine learning are becoming the next big thing for embedded system hardware and software suppliers, writes Glenn Perry from Mentor Graphics.

Read full article: Robotics of things – the next big thing in embedded

Yokogawa Electric has developed a field wireless vibration sensor based on the ISA100.11a standard. This means it includes ISA100.11a-2011 communications, an application layer with process control industry standard objects, device descriptions and capabilities, a gateway interface, infrared provisioning, and a backbone router. Real-time vibration measurement is used for predictive maintenance of industrial equipment. Conventional methods for …

Read full article: Yokogawa has first ISA100.11a wireless vibration sensor

People still like to sneer at the US President-Elect but he seems to be doing a good job of repairing the election discord. According to ReCode he’s got Larry Page, Tim Cook Sheryl Sandberg, Satya Nadella, Jeff Bezos (maybe), Chuck Robbins, Ginni Rometty, Brian Krzanich and Safra Catz turning up for a chin-wag at Trump …

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Maria Marced, president of TSMC Europe has been appointed to the board of directors of Ceva, the processor IP firm, as an independent non-executive director. Peter McManamon, chairman of the board of Ceva, believes Maria Marced will provide Ceva with a broad perspective on the semiconductor landscape and end market trends as the IP firm grows and …

Read full article: Ceva appoints TSMC Europe president to board

Maria Marced, President of TSMC Europe and EMEA Chairperson of the GSA, has been appointed to the board of DSP licensing specialist CEVA.

Read full article: Maria Marced joins CEVA board

Lattice Semiconductor has increased the specification of its iCE40 range of low power FPGAs for mobile applications.

Read full article: Lattice gives iCE40 more power, I/O and memory

Google releases stats for the latest split of Android platform share. Covering December 2016, it’s based on active devices interacting with Google Play over the period of a week.

Read full article: Nougat barely nudges up in Android platform stats

You can now use the standard Python logging module to log error and warning messages from Amazon Redshift user-defined functions (UDF). You can then query the SVL_UDF_LOG system view to retrieve the messages logged from your UDF’s and troubleshoot your UDF’s easily.