Design

A few years ago, a guilt-ridden Melbourne train commuter’s note warning other travellers not to sit in their spilled coffee puddle made the international news. Actually, 'the spilled coffee effect' is nothing new in the rail industry, referring to bumps and jolts that cause passenger discomfort. Here, Mark Jeffrey, Technical Director at Recab UK, explains how its embedded computing and PCBs help passengers ride comfortably and safely, ...

SiTime has announced that DASAN Network Solutions is using SiTime’s silicon MEMS timing solutions. DASAN’s electronics, such as FTTx OLT/ONT, 5G mobile backhaul and Ethernet switches, as well as access products, offer superior resilience and reliability by using SiTime’s MEMS oscillators such as the Elite Platform.

WIN Enterprises has announced the PL-50040, a rugged fanless embedded industrial computer designed for space-constrained applications. The device supports 8th/9th Generation Intel Core Processors and the second version of the LGA 1151 chipset supporting Intel’s Coffee Lake processors.

AMD and technology partner, Penguin Computing, a division of SMART Global Holdings, have announced that New York University (NYU), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Rice University are the first universities named to receive complete AMD-powered, high performance computing systems from the AMD HPC Fund for COVID-19 research.

Telemis has just released a new iteration of the company’s widely-deployed Telemis-Medical platform. Through the technological advances encompassed within Telemis-Medical Version 4.95, physicians will hopefully be able to perform functions much quicker - leading to time savings and greater convenience.

Rambus has announced it has achieved a 4Gbps performance with the Rambus HBM2E memory interface solution consisting of a fully-integrated PHY and controller. Paired with the industry’s fastest HBM2E DRAM from SK hynix operating at 3.6 Gbps, the solution can deliver 460 GB/s of bandwidth from a single HBM2E device.

A new custom version of the PSpice simulator from Cadence Design Systems has been announced by Texas Instruments.

Bentley Systems has announced the availability of OpenGround Cloud, a new cloud service that enables geotechnical professionals to access reliable geotechnical data for better engineering decision support and to improve collaboration across the entire supply chain.

Evonetix has announced a collaboration with Analog Devices. The companies will work together on the advancement and commercial scale-up of Evonetix’s proprietary microelectromechanical systems (MEMS)-based silicon chips and accelerate the development of Evonetix’s first product, a DNA desktop writer. 

There are thousands and thousands of demo boards, development platforms and reference designs that you can select from when starting your next electronic design. Choosing the right one will make all the difference in development time, effort required and path to success. Designers need to keep six key criteria in mind for board selection, but it will be up to you to decide how important each of them are relative to each other. By David Sand...