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AI-based smartphone app estimates user’s health risks
AI-based smartphone app estimates user’s health risks
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VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has developed artificial intelligence (AI)-based data analysis methods used in a smartphone application of…
Why do variable speed drives fail and how do we test them?
Why do variable speed drives fail and how do we test them?
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Freezing cold, intense heat, vibration, corrosive chemicals… It’s impossible to know what sort of dangers drives might face. The answer…
Smart farms: Avoiding power quality issues with automated systems
Smart farms: Avoiding power quality issues with automated systems
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Big data, industry 4.0 and the Internet of Things (IoT). Terms most of us associate with professional services companies, not…
How well is your smart farm running?
How well is your smart farm running?
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Big data, industry 4.0 and the Internet of Things (IoT). Terms most of us associate with professional services companies, not…

High density, Low profile connectors benefit from new breed of spring-loaded pin
High density, Low profile connectors benefit from new breed of spring-loaded pin
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Connector manufacturers are turning to more affordable H-Pins over traditional pogo-style options without sacrificing performance. For decades, connector manufacturers have relied on traditional spring-loaded, or pogo-style pins, to provide highly…
MIT: Demystifying neural nets and deep learning
MIT: Demystifying neural nets and deep learning
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[Editor’s note: this post from the information office at MIT (Cambridge, MA) offers an accessible introduction to some of the “buzz-words” of the moment, and gives some often-overlooked historical context;…
MIT researchers de-mystify neural nets and deep learning
MIT researchers de-mystify neural nets and deep learning
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[Editor’s note; this post from the information office at MIT offers an accessible introduction to some of the “buzz-words” of the moment, and gives some often-overlooked historical context; we liked…
Proceed with confidence
Proceed with confidence
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With its roots in the software industry, RTL linting is a form of automatic Design Rule Checking (DRC) that can greatly assist hardware engineers developing FPGAs and ASICs as it…
Hunting interference to reduce churn and drive profits
Hunting interference to reduce churn and drive profits
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A continuous decline in revenue is one of the biggest challenges currently weighing heavily on the minds of mobile operators. In a recent report, McKinsey estimated that revenue and cash…
Online tools simplify high voltage power supply design
Online tools simplify high voltage power supply design
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High voltage power supplies are ubiquitous whether you are designing an AC/DC adapter or your high voltage on-board power supply for industrial applications. You find them commonly to step down…
Smart mailbox prototype is hyper-connected
Smart mailbox prototype is hyper-connected
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Exhibiting at IoT World's Paris edition, RF solutions distributor Giga-Concept (Avrainville, France) was showcasing a smart letter box prototype designed in cooperation with the French postal services, as well as…
RF solutions distributor smartens things up
RF solutions distributor smartens things up
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Exhibiting at IoT World's Paris edition, RF solutions distributor Giga-Concept was showcasing a smart letter box prototype designed in cooperation with the French postal services, as well as the simplest…
5G and phased array antennas driving SMT packaging and lowering costs of microwave ferrite circulators and isolators
5G and phased array antennas driving SMT packaging and lowering costs of microwave ferrite circulators and isolators
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The market is rocketing towards automated assembly and will drive component manufacturers towards surface mount tape-and-reel packaging of devices such as microwave ferrite circulators and isolators – lowering costs and…
How Apple will dodge an Imagination lawsuit
How Apple will dodge an Imagination lawsuit
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Once the best of friends processor licensor Imagination and consumer electronics giant Apple look set to fall out at the end of a relationship that has lasted more than a…
Will AI condition human behavior?
Will AI condition human behavior?
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) is all the rage and certainly a topic that's now trending more than the Internet of Things (whose acronym all marcom guys have had to insert in…
Is AI about to normalize human behaviour?
Is AI about to normalize human behaviour?
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) is all the rage and certainly a topic that's now trending more than the Internet of Things (whose acronym all marcom guys have had to insert in…
Machine learning in embedded vision systems
Machine learning in embedded vision systems
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One of the hottest topics within the embedded vision space at the current time is machine learning. Machine learning spans several industry mega trends, playing a very prominent role within…
Machine learning in embedded vision applications
Machine learning in embedded vision applications
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One of the hottest topics within the embedded vision space at the current time is machine learning. Machine learning spans several industry mega trends, playing a very prominent role within…
ARM Cortex-A9 based UDOO NEO for hands-on embedded Linux
ARM Cortex-A9 based UDOO NEO for hands-on embedded Linux
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In a company blog, Khaled Benkrid, director of education and research at ARM announced the launch of the ninth and latest Education Kit from the ARM University Program: the Embedded…
ARM: IoT marks a watershed
ARM: IoT marks a watershed
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Since its formation in 1990 processor IP licensor ARM Ltd. (Cambridge, England) has continually added layers of engineering activity to its primary business of circuit design licensing.
Why ARM wants to do more
Why ARM wants to do more
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Since its formation in 1990 processor IP licensor ARM Ltd. (Cambridge, England) has continually added layers of engineering activity to its primary business of circuit design licensing.
IoT in education: Keysight offers ready-to-teach applied courseware
IoT in education: Keysight offers ready-to-teach applied courseware
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With the Keysight U3800 Series Internet of Things (IoT) applied courseware, Keysight Technologies wants to make it easy for educators to teach their students about IoT development.
Farnell launches ‘Win a Lab Makeover’ competition
Farnell launches ‘Win a Lab Makeover’ competition
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Aimed at education organisations in the UK, the ‘Win a Lab Makeover’ competition launched by Farnell element14 is an opportunity for a selected few to have their teaching space refurbished.
Zero unplanned downtime – dream or reality?
Zero unplanned downtime – dream or reality?
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British science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke famously stated in his third law of prediction that “any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” Predictive analytics is not quite magic,…
Wearable tech: Are we nearly there yet?
Wearable tech: Are we nearly there yet?
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We’ve seen wearable technology accelerate fast but with every year that passes we’re promised that this year will be ‘the’ year for wearable tech and yet we still seem to…
Are we nearly there yet?
Are we nearly there yet?
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We’ve seen wearable technology accelerate fast but with every year that passes we’re promised that this year will be ‘the’ year for wearable tech and yet we still seem to…
Free light-sensing reference design boards at Embedded World
Free light-sensing reference design boards at Embedded World
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Distributor Future Electronics will be giving away 300 Intersil ‘Flower Power’ reference design boards at its stand 3.225 at the upcoming Embedded World exhibition.
Power management considerations for wearables
Power management considerations for wearables
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The market for wearable devices is growing strongly, with an estimated 600 million devices to be sold in the coming years and a future certainly optimistic also linked to the…


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