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AVL and Rohde & Schwarz announce strategic vehicle-in-the-loop collaboration

January 20, 2021

Rohde & Schwarz and AVL have intensified their collaboration with the integration of a Rohde & Schwarz radar test system into the AVL DRIVINGCUBE™ toolchain, creating new possibilities for testing radar enabled ADAS features and validating autonomous driving functions with a vehicle-in-the-loop test bed. Now complex driving scenarios can be generated and tested in a safe and reproducible environment.

The validation of complex advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and automated driving (AD) functions such as emergency braking, adaptive cruise control and highway chauffeur in all possible driving scenarios and environmental conditions requires huge amounts of functional and … Read More → "AVL and Rohde & Schwarz announce strategic vehicle-in-the-loop collaboration"

Powerful FPGA Design Creation and Simulation IDE Adds VHDL-2019 Support & OSVVM Enhancements

Aldec’s Active-HDL™ enables FPGA designers to take full advantage of the many features within the latest revision to VHDL and helps improve design verification efficiency.

January 20, 2021

Henderson, NV – January 20, 2021 – Read More → "Powerful FPGA Design Creation and Simulation IDE Adds VHDL-2019 Support & OSVVM Enhancements"

element14 Community Launches ‘Design for a Cause’ Design Challenge

Together with Arduino, element14 gives its community members the chance to create solutions to help in a global disaster

January 20, 2021

Chicago, January 20, 2021 – element14, an Avnet Community, is giving its members the opportunity to come up with creative and altruistic solutions for global disasters. Members are encouraged to think outside the box and share ideas that could potentially be used to combat anything from global droughts and flooding, to world hunger or even complications from long term COVID-19 symptoms or other large-scale … Read More → "element14 Community Launches ‘Design for a Cause’ Design Challenge"

InnovationLab and Bitquadrat demonstrate smart mattress cover for real-time patient monitoring in hospitals and senior living facilities

Integration of printed pressure sensors and healthcare software enables dramatic risk-reduction in dangerous pressure ulcers

January 20, 2021

HEIDELBERG, Germany – January 19, 2021 – InnovationLab, the expert in printed electronics “from lab to fab,” today demonstrated a smart mattress cover that may reduce by up to 88% the risk of developing decubitus ulcers^[i], the potentially life-threatening pressure ulcers that affect up to 2.5 million hospital patients in the U.S. annually^[ii]. Combining InnovationLab’s flexible printed sensors with Bitquadrat’s specialized health-monitoring … Read More → "InnovationLab and Bitquadrat demonstrate smart mattress cover for real-time patient monitoring in hospitals and senior living facilities"

ON Semiconductor Enhances IoT Asset Management with Angle of Arrival (AoA) Location Technology

The software solution features the Quuppa Intelligent Locating System™ for asset tracking and monitoring applications

January 20, 2021

PHOENIX, Ariz. – Jan. 19, 2021 – ON Semiconductor (Nasdaq: ON), driving energy efficient innovations, today announced the availability of the Quuppa Intelligent Locating System™ for the RSL10, the industry’s lowest power Flash-based Bluetooth® Low Energy radio System on Chip (SoC). Provided in a user-friendly CMSIS-Pack format, the solution allows manufacturers to design ultra-low-power indoor asset tracking applications with Direction Finding features and advanced Angle of Arrival (AoA) technology.

The Quuppa Intelligent Locating System is a powerful technology platform for location-based services and applications. Its unique Direction Finding methodology and positioning algorithms enable real-time tracking of tags and devices, with … Read More → "ON Semiconductor Enhances IoT Asset Management with Angle of Arrival (AoA) Location Technology"

Sondrel Selects Synopsys Fusion Design and Verification Platforms to Displace Legacy Design Tools

Sondrel Accelerates SoC Design and Packaging with Synopsys Solutions

January 20, 2021

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Jan. 19, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Read More → "Sondrel Selects Synopsys Fusion Design and Verification Platforms to Displace Legacy Design Tools"

MIPI Specifications and Testing

January 19, 2021

Elevate Semiconductor, San Diego, California — June 24, 2020.

The mobile industry processor interface (MIPI®) standard defines industry specifications for the design of mobile devices such as smartphones, tablets, laptops and hybrid devices. MIPI interfaces play a strategic role in 5G mobile devices, connected car and Internet of Things (IoT) solutions. The MIPI standard defines three unique physical (PHY) layer specifications: MIPI D-PHY®, M-PHY® and C-PHY®. MIPI D-PHY and C-PHY physical layers support camera and display applications, while the high-performance camera, memory and chip-to-chip applications are supported on top of the M-PHY layer.

MIPI is managed by MIPI … Read More → "MIPI Specifications and Testing"

Versinetic launches Charging Blox to accelerate EV charge point rollout

Flexible hardware and software tools combine to create complete EV charge point solutions, providing a faster route to market for UK and EU smart charging point manufacturers

January 19, 2021

Birmingham, 19 January 2021 – Electric vehicle (EV) charging consultancy, Versinetic, has announced the general availability of a suite of bespoke charging solutions aimed at accelerating the rapid rollout of smart charge points across the UK and Europe.

Recognising that, despite growing EV adoption, there is still a need for more rapid development of EV charging solutions, Versinetic’s full suite of hardware and software solutions, called < … Read More → "Versinetic launches Charging Blox to accelerate EV charge point rollout"

Broad market launch of Variscite’s i.MX 8M PLUS System on Module solutions

January 19, 2021

[Tel-Aviv, Israel, January 19, 2021] Variscite is pleased to announce the broad market launch of VAR-SOM-MX8M-PLUS and DART-MX8M-PLUS with the latest i.MX 8M Plus production silicon from NXP.
The general availability launch takes place following Variscite’s highly successful selective launch in early 4Q2020. More than a hundred of its early access customers and partners already received the complete VAR-SOM-MX8M-PLUS and DART-MX8M-PLUS development kits for their own evaluation and end-product design.

Renesas Launches New General-Purpose 64-Bit RZ/G2L Group of MPUs with Latest Arm Cortex-A55 for Improved AI Processing

January 19, 2021

Düsseldorf, January 19, 2021 – Renesas Electronics Corporation (TSE:6723), a premier supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, today announced the expansion of its RZ/G2 general-purpose 64-bit microprocessors (MPUs), delivering improved AI processing for a wide range of applications. The expanded product lineup includes three new entry-level MPU models built around the latest Arm^® … Read More →