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Increasing satellite communications traffic has seen Inmarsat launch the first of its third generation models. These have...

A European project to develop an intelligent real-time surveillance system that automatically identifies violence on underground transport has finished, with a demonstration installed in the Barcelona metro. The system could find an eager market: Last week the British Transport Police released figures showing that last year violent crime on the London Underground rose by 22 per cent. The three-year project, ...

Verification is always a hot topic in EDA not only because it takes up an inordinate amount of time in the chip design cycle but because of the rising cost of making an error in terms of mask charges and lost market share. A few years ago, the EDA industry was claiming that the answer lay in formal verification. It ...

It’s wise to check you have your keys with you before you shut the front door as this small amount of extra effort each morning pays untold dividends every time you are not locked out in the evening. In electronic design automation (EDA) there is a divide between what are traditionally called front-end processes: the creation of a design in ...

Automating the analogue and RF design process is currently an area where a number of start-up companies are claiming to have made real strides, filling gaps in established flows. Wireless and multimedia designs are the product sector of the moment, and small firms are coming up with niche tools that offer to solve specific problems, for example synthesising PLLs, or ...

The inclusion of affordable wireless communications in a range of industrial security, control and monitoring systems has been made possible through the availability of embedded wireless systems modules. Relatively high cost GSM/GPRS data communications technology has successfully made the leap from being just a mobile phone technology to a widely used embedded wireless communications standard. The slow but steady adoption ...

Cable modems and digital phone lines based on ISDN or ADSL technologies may be able to provide faster Internet access and, as a...

There is a general concern in the industry that component availability can mean that certificates of conformance may not be worth the paper they are written on. Speaking at a recent meeting of the Component Obsolescence Group, Charles Battersby, a consultant with Semelab, highlighted the problems posed by product obsolescence, saying that while any system offering an approval or a ...

Display Solutions is moving to larger premises and recruiting staff in response to an expansion of its embedded computer design and manufacturing business. The new facility, which becomes operational at the end of the month, includes a system configuration and test area for a rapid prototyping service. It can currently get prototypes manufactured in Taiwan in three weeks but the ...

<b>Testing arm goes at Inchcape</b><br /> Inchcape, the international distribution group, is determined to sell all its worldwide testing businesses by the end of the year. The plan, unveiled after...