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University of British Columbia researchers are aiming at long-distance entangled quantum networks with a coherent microwave-to-optical photon converter, that can theoretically be fabricated on a silicon wafer. Such a network would have fibre optic long-distance communication, possibly many km long, connecting microwave qubits. “The technology could serve as a translator for quantum computers, enabling them to talk to each other ...

Alif Semiconductor has integrated Arm’s Ethos-U85 neural processing unit (NPU) into its second generation of its ‘Ensemble’ microcontrollers for AI and machine learning. It is “the world’s first implementation of the Ethos-U85 in an endpoint AI MCU”, according to Arm IoT general manager Paul Williamson. “With Alif’s high bandwidth memory and power management, [the new parts] support NPU operators required ...

Arteris is supporting Armv9 automotive cores and ASIL D functional safety with release 3.6 of its Ncore cache coherent network-on-chip. “In 2020, Arteris announced a partnership with Arm and the alignment of our roadmaps to support CHI-E and ASIL B and ASIL D safety,” Arteris told Electronics Weekly. “We confirm the expansion of that partnership with a pre-validation of our ...

UK distributor, Aerco, has signed a partnership agreement with Belden to become a Belden Partner. this provides Aerco access to a large range of cable and connectivity products from the US manufacturer. Belden’s cable and wire products, and its Hirschmann and Lumberg Automation ranges of industrial networking products. Electronics components supplier, Aerco, already supplies Belden’s Alpha Wire of copper wire, cable ...

SignatureIP is offering a trial of its processor agnostic network-on-chip (NoC) configuration software. Called iNoCulator, the “tool enables users to find the optimal NoC configuration, and the company believes that it is the fastest on the market”, it said. “This try-before-you-buy offer will enable engineers to see for themselves just how easy it is to design a NoC with our tool.” ...

Powered and operated through a USB Type-C cable, Analog Discovery 3 is a 9MHz (or 30MHz) 125Msample/s 14bit oscilloscope, a logic analyser, an arbitrary waveform generator and more from Digilent. “Analog Discovery 2, AD3’s predecessor, has been used as a learning tool in hundreds of universities, and as a flexible benchtop tool by thousands of professional engineering companies and organisations ...

Bel Power Solutions has announced a series of power supplies that offer Titanium level efficiency (up to 96%) for server, storage and networking. The TEC series is built to meet Intel’s Common Redundant Power Supplies (CRPS) standard, and the first models are rated to deliver 2.2, 2.4 or 2.6kW. 800W, and 1.3, 1.6 and 2kW versions will follow. The main output ...

In the The Lighting Up Aberdeen project, North has worked with Aberdeen City Council to build an urban LoRa wireless IoT network to manage over 37,000 lighting units across the city, all from a central management system. “The lighting system also includes custom dimming profiles to manage the level of energy required at any given time, automated fault reporting for ...

Everactive has a development kit for its battery-less IoT system in the pipeline. “The company’s self-powered hardware and managed network is purpose-built to acquire and deliver the dense physical-world data,” it said. The development kit includes two of Everactive’s  batteryless IoT devices (left), each with a sensors to measure temperature, humidity, pressure and tri-axial acceleration. Power comes from a low-light ...

NXP is claiming first, for a microcontroller that includes a Gbit time-sensitive networking switch and traditional industrial busses for industrial IoT. Called i.MX RT1180, the family can handle real-time industrial ethernet protocols such as Profinet, Ethernet/IP, EtherCAT, CC-Link IE Field and HSR, as well as TSN standards compliant to IEC 60802. Protocols include OPC UA Pub-Sub, Profinet over TSN and CC-Link ...