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The Predictive Power of Engineering Models for Printed Circuit Boards

CAMBRIDGE, MA—January 20, 2022—Printed circuit board (PCB) manufacturers are boosting their investment in inspection, test and analytics to meet the increasingly stringent demands for reliability. The result is a growing demand for predictive design techniques that enable engineers to hone manufacturing performance and reconfigure operations to be more efficient and reduce waste.

Predictive design is about analyzing current and historical data and generating a model to help predict future outcomes.

Now, a new predictive design tool, developed by … Read More → "The Predictive Power of Engineering Models for Printed Circuit Boards"

Industry’s First COTS Mezzanine with 64 GSps ADC/DAC Sample Rates Is Introduced by Annapolis Micro Systems

Annapolis, Md. (January 21, 2022) – Annapolis Micro Systems, a leading FPGA board and systems supplier, today announced the availability of the industry’s first COTS FMC+ Mezzanine Card to feature Jariet Technologies’ Electra-MA chip with 64 GS/s, 10-bit ADC and DAC capability. It is targeted at demanding applications requiring direct sampling frequency coverage anywhere from 0.1 to 36 GHz, and/or wide instantaneous bandwidths.

This breakthrough, direct sampling Jariet transceiver performs … Read More → "Industry’s First COTS Mezzanine with 64 GSps ADC/DAC Sample Rates Is Introduced by Annapolis Micro Systems"

Industry-driven DINPAS consortium paves the way for fully autonomous systems by advancing globally available, highly accurate positioning

Thalwil, Switzerland – January 20, 2022 – Autonomous vehicles, machines, drones, and other automated systems rely on sensors to accurately locate themselves in their environments. While today’s autonomous systems primarily rely on absolute position data for navigation, future applications will also use it to share sensor data with other systems and the infrastructure. Moreover, accurate absolute positioning will play a growing role in evaluating and testing autonomous systems as well as in collecting training data for the development of AI and machine learning algorithms.

Autonomous systems will likely be essential for the development of flexible, scalable airports with optimized and … Read More → "Industry-driven DINPAS consortium paves the way for fully autonomous systems by advancing globally available, highly accurate positioning"

E-PEAS Creates Ultra-Compact Custom Power Management Solution for Cartier’s First Solar Energy Harvesting Watch

20th January 2022 – Once again underlining the heightening interest in the company’s power management ICs (PMICs) for energy harvesting applications, plus its ability to work with the world’s leading brands, e-peas announces completion of a major project for Swiss manufacturer of luxury watches Cartier®.

Cartier’s new addition to its timelessly stylish Tank watch collection is enabling long-term energy autonomy, so wearers do not … Read More → "E-PEAS Creates Ultra-Compact Custom Power Management Solution for Cartier’s First Solar Energy Harvesting Watch"

Automotive dual high-side gate driver EiceDRIVER™ 2ED4820-EM with SPI protects dependable 48 V battery systems

Munich, Germany – 20 January, 2022 – Battery systems for 48 V are used in multiple, growing market categories including Mild Hybrid Electrical Vehicles, trucks, e-wheelers and battery packs for solar panels. These Li-ion battery systems need to be protected against negative and positive voltages. In addition, these batteries must be able to quickly … Read More → "Automotive dual high-side gate driver EiceDRIVER™ 2ED4820-EM with SPI protects dependable 48 V battery systems"

Pony.ai Achieves Development Milestone with New Autonomous Computing Unit Built on NVIDIA DRIVE Orin

  • Pony.ai to offer a portfolio of scalable AV computing configurations (including one or more NVIDIA DRIVE Orin processors and automotive-grade NVIDIA Ampere architecture GPU), accelerating the development of mass-production platforms for robotaxis and autonomous trucks
  • The evolution from industrial-grade to automotive-grade solutions allows Pony.ai to deliver high-performance automated systems that scale from base-level to fully autonomous
  • With this revolutionary integration, Pony.ai has conducted road tests with NVIDIA DRIVE Orin, optimizing the software to run at low latency and with real-time performance.

Read More → "Pony.ai Achieves Development Milestone with New Autonomous Computing Unit Built on NVIDIA DRIVE Orin"

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