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Analog Devices’ New Easy Drive™ SAR ADCs Simplify Design While Delivering Industry Leading Performance

Wilmington, MA – May 3, 2022 – Analog Devices, Inc. (Nasdaq: ADI) today introduced a new portfolio of next-generation 16-to-24-bit, ultra-high precision successive approximation register (SAR) analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) that simplify the often complex process of designing ADCs into instrumentation, industrial and healthcare applications. The new high-performance SAR ADC family features ADI’s patented Easy Drive™ technology and versatile Flexi-SPI serial peripheral interface (SPI) that solve system design challenges … Read More → "Analog Devices’ New Easy Drive™ SAR ADCs Simplify Design While Delivering Industry Leading Performance"

IAR Systems enables leading telecommunications company NTT DOCOMO to innovate smart agriculture platform

Tokyo, Japan—April 27, 2022—IAR Systems®, the world leader in software and services for embedded development, today announced that the complete development toolchain IAR Embedded Workbench® for Arm® has been used by NTT DOCOMO, a leading telecommunications company in Japan, for the development of its smart agriculture support platform Farm Assist.

NTT DOCOMO’s Farm Assist service was launched in 2019 and collects data obtained from sensors installed in a farm via access points to a company’s cloud, enabling users to check and manage farm conditions using smartphones and PCs. The … Read More → "IAR Systems enables leading telecommunications company NTT DOCOMO to innovate smart agriculture platform"

SiTime Precision Timing Technology Enables Cadence’s Emulation and Prototyping Platforms with Quick and Easy Adoption

SANTA CLARA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–May 2, 2022– SiTime Corporation (Nasdaq: SITM), a market leader in MEMS precision timing, announced today that Cadence Design Systems is using SiTime MEMS timing solutions for the Cadence® Palladium® Z2 Enterprise Emulation and Protium™ X2 Enterprise Prototyping platforms. SiTime oscillators and Cascade Platform™ clock generator deliver superior performance and … Read More → "SiTime Precision Timing Technology Enables Cadence’s Emulation and Prototyping Platforms with Quick and Easy Adoption"

Analog Devices’ MEMS Accelerometer Provides Ultralow Power for Healthcare and Industrial Applications

WILMINGTON, Mass. – Analog Devices, Inc. (ADI) today announced a three-axis MEMS accelerometer designed for a wide range of healthcare and industrial applications, including vital signs monitoring, hearing aids, and motion-enabled metering devices. The ADXL367 accelerometer improves power consumption by two times versus a previous generation of the device (ADXL362) while improving noise performance by up to over 30 percent. The new accelerometer also provides extended field time that maximizes battery … Read More → "Analog Devices’ MEMS Accelerometer Provides Ultralow Power for Healthcare and Industrial Applications"

The 59th Design Automation Conference Returns with a Strong Technical Program and Expanded Training Sessions; Advance Registration Now Open

SAN FRANCISCO, CA – April 28, 2022 – The Design Automation Conference (DAC) returns for its 59th year with an all-start line up of Keynotes, SKYTalks and TechTalks. Founded in 1964, DAC is the longest-running and largest event focused on research and technology for the design and the design automation of electronic chips to systems. The conference is recognized as the event that attracts the entire system design and development … Read More → "The 59th Design Automation Conference Returns with a Strong Technical Program and Expanded Training Sessions; Advance Registration Now Open"

Ionic Liquid-Based Reservoir Computing: The Key to Efficient and Flexible Edge Computing

Physical reservoir computing (PRC), which relies on the transient response of physical systems, is an attractive machine learning framework that can perform high-speed processing of time-series signals at low power. However, PRC systems have low tunability, limiting the signals it can process. Now, researchers from Japan present ionic liquids as an easily tunable physical reservoir device that can be optimized to process signals over a broad range of timescales by simply changing their viscosity.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is fast becoming ubiquitous in the modern society and will feature a broader implementation in the coming years. … Read More → "Ionic Liquid-Based Reservoir Computing: The Key to Efficient and Flexible Edge Computing"

PIC® and AVR® Microcontrollers Anchor the Majority of Embedded Designs Today

CHANDLER, Ariz., April 28, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — With smartphones, autonomous vehicles, and 5G wireless connectivity dominating the landscape of embedded design in 2022, Microchip’s 8-bit PIC® and AVR® microcontroller (MCU) families are gaining market share. Over the past 50 years, the market for 8-bit MCUs has grown steadily and Microchip currently sells one device for every human in the western hemisphere each year. To support this ongoing trend, Microchip Technology Inc. (Nasdaq: MCHP) today announces the release of Read More → "PIC® and AVR® Microcontrollers Anchor the Majority of Embedded Designs Today"

Newark Partners with Champion Sailor-Engineer to Reimagine Nautical Autopilot

Chicago – April 28, 2022: Newark, an Avnet company and global distributor of electronic components, products and solutions, is teaming up with champion competitive sailor Alberto Riva – oceanic sailor, design engineer and Newark’s brand ambassador – to redesign his nautical autopilot.

Newark is enlisting the help of its global element14 Community to develop new and innovative ideas through its “Ready for Tomorrow” challenge to help improve the … Read More → "Newark Partners with Champion Sailor-Engineer to Reimagine Nautical Autopilot"

Keysight Enables GCF to Activate Certification of 5G mmWave Devices in Standalone Mode

SANTA ROSA, Calif. April 28, 2022 

Keysight Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: KEYS), a leading technology company that delivers advanced design and validation solutions to help accelerate innovation to connect and secure the world, has enabled the Global Certification (GCF) to activate a certification test plan that validates compliance to specifications defined by the global standards organization 3GPP, covering radio frequency (RF) performance and protocol validation of 5G new radio (NR) mmWave devices operating in standalone (SA) mode.  

The 5G NR frequency range 2 (FR2) test plan certification was activated by the … Read More → "Keysight Enables GCF to Activate Certification of 5G mmWave Devices in Standalone Mode"

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