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- Ensuring LiDAR automotive distance sensor precision with the right TIA (01/04/2021)
  
  For autonomous vehicles to succeed, passengers must trust the car’s sensors & software to guide them safely & accurately to the destination. The key to delivering on this trust lies in the fusion of inputs from various sensor types to enhance accuracy, redundancy & safety, a technique that has been enabling advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS).
- Keysight & MediaTek join forces to establish 5G connectivity based on 3GPP release 16 (01/04/2021)
  
  Chipset maker uses Keysight’s 5G test platform to deliver modem solutions for smartphones, PCs & mobile hotspots.
- Layered materials grant sight to electronic chips (01/04/2021)
  
  Chip based on layered materials classifies images 1,000x faster than conventional machine-vision systems.
- Performance Mark for electrical & electronic (EE) manufacturers, suppliers & retailers launched (30/03/2021)
  
  Inspection, verification, testing & certification company, SGS has launched the ‘SGS Performance Mark’, a third-party, independent product testing, evaluation & verification programme developed specifically for the electrical & electronic (EE) industry to help the EE production & supply chain – manufacturers, suppliers & retailers – build consumer trust & gain market share.
- New RF DTC to open up higher 5G mobile phone bands from Nanusens (26/03/2021)
  
  Nanoscale sensors pioneer, Nanusens will soon be shipping evaluation samples of its RF DTCs (digital tunable capacitors), which open up power efficient use of higher 5G bands. Its work on the DTCs has also been recognised with a recent electronics industry award, winning 'Design Team of the Year' at the Elektra Awards.
- Commercial EV charging points the way to green driving (23/03/2021)
  
  Solid State Group estimates that it can accelerate customers’ time-to-market by as much as 70% through, among other technologies, use of its pre-certified modular, boxed & off-the-shelf 'system-on-module' (SoM) products for processing & connectivity.
- Microchip’s SyncServer S600 Series time server now defends against GPS jamming & spoofing (22/03/2021)
  
  BlueSky™ technology now integrated into the SyncServer® instrument to protect integrity of its time & frequency outputs.
- Smarter & safer: licensing & protection for intelligent devices & machine learning (18/03/2021)
  
  Software protection, licensing & security technologies firm, Wibu-Systems has added support for protecting Python code in its native form with all the ease & versatility of its popular CodeMeter ecosystem. The Python programming language has recently enjoyed a resurgence in popularity, particularly in the artificial intelligence & machine learning fields, due to its simplicity, as well as the clarity & elegance of the code.
- Party time for really outside-the-box thinking: Sondrel designs its first rad-hard chip (18/03/2021)
  
  IC design & delivery consultancy, Sondrel is designing its first radiation-hardened (rad-hard) chip for a customer, which is due to tape out shortly. The satellite modem will be used in communication satellites & therefore has to be able to withstand the challenges of the high levels of ionising radiation found in orbit, which can cause glitches.

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