Design

Synopsys has announced that the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has selected Synopsys as a prime contractor for the Automatic Implementation of Secure Silicon AISS program. The program's goal is to automate the inclusion of scalable hardware security mechanisms in IP and system-on-chips (SoCs) to explore security versus other design trade-offs.

Septentrio has announced the launch of AsteRx-m2 Sx OEM board. With this GNSS receiver Septentrio has introduced a new approach to high-accuracy positioning. Septentrio’s latest core GNSS technology is integrated with a sub-decimeter correction service enabling simple plug-and-play positioning solutions.

Nexperia has announced a wide portfolio of automotive-qualified AEC-Q101 discretes in space-saving, thermally-efficient, AOI-compatible DFN (Discrete Flat No leads) packages. The AEC-Q101 range of devices available cuts across all Nexperia’s product groups and includes switching, Schottky, Zener and protection diodes, bipolar junction transistors (BJTs), N- and P-channel MOSFETs, resistor-equipped transistors and LED drivers.

Kontron has been certified as a 'Preferred Partner' under the NVIDIA partner program and uses NVIDIA GPUs (Graphics Performance Units) in its AI platforms, such as the Kontron rackmount server KISS V3 4U SKX, which was developed for AI and Inference applications.

Availability and full design support capabilities for a new platform of evaluation boards for Class D audio systems from GaN Systems is announced by Richardson RFPD.

BlackBerry has introduced BlackBerry AtHoc Managed Service. BlackBerry AtHoc Managed Service delivers the full featured BlackBerry AtHoc system as a service managed and delivered by BlackBerry. The service allows any organisation, of any size, to quickly establish and maintain a crisis communications capability used traditionally by larger organisations.

BlackBerry has announced that its QNX software is now embedded in more than 175 million cars on the road today. This is an increase of 25 million cars since the company last reported its automotive footprint in June 2019.

Mouser Electronics is now stocking the PSoC 62S2 Wi-Fi BT Pioneer Kit from Cypress Semiconductor.

The new GS-EVB-AUD-xx1-GS audio EVB platform from GaN Systems is in stock at distributor Mouser Electronics.

Oxbotica has developed and deployed a deepfake technology that is capable of generating thousands of photo-realistic images in minutes; helping to expose its autonomous vehicles to the near infinite variations of the same situation - without real world testing of a location having ever taken place.