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RS Components to host ‘Guess and Win’ competition on DesignSpark in partnership with TraceParts

LONDON, UK, 26 October, 2017 – RS Components (RS), the trading brand of Electrocomponents plc (LSE:ECM), the global distributor for engineers, has teamed up with TraceParts, one of the world’s leading providers of 3D digital content for engineering, to run a joint month-long competition during November 2017.

The ‘Guess and Win’ competition will be hosted at Read More → "RS Components to host ‘Guess and Win’ competition on DesignSpark in partnership with TraceParts"

The Industrial Internet Consortium Publishes Industrial IoT Analytics Framework Technical Report

NEEDHAM, MA – OCTOBER 24, 2017 The Industrial Internet Consortium® (IIC™), the world’s leading organization transforming business and society by accelerating the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), has published the IIC Industrial IoT Analytics Framework Technical Report (IIAF). It is the first IoT-industry technical document to include a complete set of instructions that IIoT system architects and business leaders can use to deploy industrial analytics systems in their … Read More → "The Industrial Internet Consortium Publishes Industrial IoT Analytics Framework Technical Report"

FCI selects IAR Embedded Workbench as the preferred toolchain for new low-power Wi-Fi IoT SoC platform

Arm TechCon, Santa Clara, California—October 25, 2017—IAR Systems®, the future-proof supplier of software tools and services for embedded development, announces that it has been selected by FCI as the preferred tools vendor for FC9000, a new low-power Wi-Fi SoC enabling year-plus battery life for most designs. Using IAR Embedded Workbench® for Arm® together with FC9000, developers are able to take full advantage of all the low-power features of the SoC platform, boosting development of battery-powered connected products within the Internet of Things (IoT).

FCI, a … Read More → "FCI selects IAR Embedded Workbench as the preferred toolchain for new low-power Wi-Fi IoT SoC platform"

Green Hills Software Delivers the Most Advanced Compiler for Embedded and IoT Processors

SANTA CLARA, CA — October 25, 2017 — Arm® TechCon, Booth #720 — Green Hills Software, the largest independent software vendor for the Internet of Things (IoT), today announced its latest Read More → "Green Hills Software Delivers the Most Advanced Compiler for Embedded and IoT Processors"

AVX Announces Limited-Release Energy Harvesting Applications Design Kit

FOUNTAIN INN, S.C., Oct. 25, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — AVX Corporation, a leading manufacturer … Read More → "AVX Announces Limited-Release Energy Harvesting Applications Design Kit"

LoRa Alliance™ Enables Global IoT Roaming and Device Deployment; Convenes in China for 9th All Members Meeting Hosted by ZTE

Suzhou, China – Oct. 17, 2017 – The LoRa Alliance™, the global association of companies backing the open LoRaWAN™ standard for internet of things (IoT) low-power wide-area networks (LPWANs), released its latest technical specifications to kick off the organization’s 9th All Members Meeting (AMM) taking place in Suzhou, China and hosted by ZTE. New features in the latest specification releases include roaming and separation of backend nodes, which will enable IoT devices to connect to and move between LPWANs around the world. This supports large-scale deployments and enables new global services such as cargo tracking. Such features are critical in … Read More → "LoRa Alliance™ Enables Global IoT Roaming and Device Deployment; Convenes in China for 9th All Members Meeting Hosted by ZTE"

Menta Joins GLOBALFOUNDRIES’ FDXcelerator™ Partner Program

Montpellier, France – October 23, 2017 – Menta today announced that it has joined GLOBALFOUNDRIES’ FDXcelerator™ Partner Program. As part of the Program, Menta will provide embedded FPGA (eFPGA) IP that enables a new level of built-in hardware programmability in 22FDX® System-on-Chip (SoC) designs targeting automotive applications such as ADAS, vision processors and ISP.

GF’s FDXcelerator Program provides a framework for partners across the supply chain (EDA, ASIC, test, design, IP and packaging) to integrate products or services into validated design solutions, providing a catalog of offerings that can be re-used and adapted to accommodate a range of customer and … Read More → "Menta Joins GLOBALFOUNDRIES’ FDXcelerator™ Partner Program"

Cadence and Arm Deliver First SoC Verification Solution for Low-Power, High-Performance Arm-Based Servers

SAN JOSE, Calif., Oct. 24, 2017—Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CDNS) and Arm today announced early access to the Cadence® Xcelium™ Parallel Logic Simulation on Arm®-based servers, providing a first-of-its-kind low-power, high-performance simulation solution for the electronics industry.

Prior to manufacturing, verifying that SoC designs function correctly is a massive task accounting for over 70 percent of the EDA compute workload, and is a key driver for growth and transformation of the datacenter. The Xcelium simulation runs natively on Arm-based servers delivering significant power and capacity benefits, … Read More → "Cadence and Arm Deliver First SoC Verification Solution for Low-Power, High-Performance Arm-Based Servers"

STMicroelectronics’ STM32 Power Shield: EEMBC™-Approved Power-Monitoring Technology for Energy-Critical Embedded Development

Geneva, October 24, 2017 — STMicroelectronics’ STM32 Power Shield enables developers to check the power consumption of their embedded designs accurately, using the same hardware chosen by EEMBC™[1] as the new reference platform for the IoTConnect and ULPMark™ (Energy Monitor V2.0) benchmarking frameworks.

Compatible with STM32 Nucleo development boards, the STM32 Power Shield (Read More → "STMicroelectronics’ STM32 Power Shield: EEMBC™-Approved Power-Monitoring Technology for Energy-Critical Embedded Development"

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