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Motor Industry Must Invest In Skills To Keep Pace With Change
The IMI (Institute of the Motor Industry) has today emphasised the importance of raising skills in the industry to ensure employees meet the challenges caused by technological change.
Measuring the Growth and Adoption of Cloud Computing (Stats)
As data and information grows rapidly online, cloud computing represents an efficient way to manage that digital explosion. But, how do you measure the growth of the cloud? And, what is the current state of cloud adoption globally. This video from AMD provides insight into those important questions, while also detailing the crucial importance of the underlying infrastructure of the cloud.
Rigel 288 passes the test at leading medical devices company
MEDRAD, one of the world’s leading suppliers of advanced medical devices, has specified Rigel Medical 288 electrical safety analysers to improve the safety testing of contrast injectors used at sites across the UK and Western Europe.
NASA Grants 4DSP License for Sensing Technology
4DSP LLC announced today that it has licensed a signal processing technology from NASA that overcomes the inherent limitation found when deploying a certain type of fiber optic sensing systems. The emergence of fiber optics sensors in recent years has seen a number of applications embrace this novel way of characterizing the environment in harsh conditions.
Imec and Cadence Deliver Automated Solution for Testing 3D Stacked ICs
Imec, a world-leading nanoelectronics research institute based in Belgium, and Cadence Design Systems announced new technology that delivers an automated test solution for design teams deploying 3D stacked ICs (3D-ICs). The technology addresses the test challenges involved as electronics companies increasingly turn to 3D-ICs as a way to increase circuit density and achieve better performance at lower power dissipation for mobile and other applica...
Magma Announces Silicon One Initiative – Brings Together Superior Technology, Design Expertise and Customers’ Creativity to Deliver Profit-Driving Differentiated Silicon
Magma Design Automation launched Silicon One, an initiative intended to bring focus to making silicon profitable for customers by providing differentiated solutions and technologies that address business imperatives facing semiconductor makers today – time to market, product differentiation, cost, power and performance. Magma is debuting its solution-oriented Silicon One offerings at the 48th annual Design Automation Conference, opening today ...
MYDATA makes a splash with Chernobyl children
Working in conjunction with the charity Chernobyl Children’s Life Line, MYDATA, one of Europe’s most innovative suppliers of SMT equipment, is sponsoring water sports and swimming activities for children whose lives have been blighted by the aftermath of the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. This is the second year that MYDATA has supported these activities.
Renesas Electronics and Renesas Mobile Introduce SuperH Microcontroller Supporting High-Resolution Displays and Gigabit Ethernet
Renesas Electronics, a premier provider of advanced semiconductor solutions, and its subsidiary, Renesas Mobile Corporation, an innovative supplier of advanced cellular semiconductor solutions and platforms, today announced the availability of its new 32-bit microcontroller (MCU), the SH7734, with improved graphics and network functionality for automotive, industrial and consumer applications that include an LCD panel. The SH7734 MCU features an ...
Imec and Target present innovative flexible forward error-correction solution for software-defined radios
Today imec and Target Compiler Technologies present a C-programmable flexible FEC (forward error correction) solution fit for future cellular, connectivity and broadcasting standards. This so-called “flex FEC” solution competes in area and throughput with dedicated fixed-function hardwired implementations, yet offers the flexibility to support multiple standards thanks to software programmability. The C-programmable flex FEC ASIP (application...
Cortus APS3 Processor Licensed by Certicom
Cortus today announced that Certicom, a wholly owned subsidiary of Research In Motion Limited (RIM), and an industry leader in Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) security has licensed the Cortus APS3 CPU for use in their hardware security technology. This technology enables chip manufacturers and other rights holders to securely manage their assets from the silicon foundry to their consumers. The Cortus APS3 processor was chosen for its ease of in...