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Samsung certifies Mentor Tessent tools for 8LPP process 

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Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., has certified Mentor‘s Tessent products for Samsung Foundry’s 8-nanometer (nm) LPP (Low Power Plus) process.

These tools provide design and test time improvements for very large designs targeting markets such as mobile communications, high-speed network/server computing, cryptocurrency, and autonomous driving.

Very large designs in today’s leading semiconductor devices can suffer from requiring large compute resources, and pattern-generation times that are too long or are being performed too late in the design flow.

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Ricardo invests in manufacturing for car transmission systems

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Ricardo has commissioned a state-of-the-art £500k Gleason GP300ES Gear Shaping Machine as part of a strategic multi-year investment programme to consolidate Ricardo’s position in transmission design and manufacturing for worldwide premium motorsports and supercar customers.

This highly advanced manufacturing centre incorporates a totally new shaping head featuring a backlash-free direct drive for the cutter spindle.

With the appropriate software, additional generating cutter rotational motion required for helical gears can be superimposed electronically on the spindle rotation, making it suited for the manufacture of some of the most advanced transmissions systems demanded for motorsport and high-performance supercars.

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Briefing – Products and Markets: Time running out for chipset manufacturers to meet IoT forecasts

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In this contributed article, Ville Ylläsjärvi, of Haltian, asks whether companies should choose LTE-M or NB-IoT chipsets

According to the McKinsey Global Institute, the internet of things will generate revenues of up to $11 trillion by 2025, with some experts predicting there will be more than 26 billion devices connecting to the Internet of Things by 2020. 

In addition to the McKinsey forecast is another from market research company IHS Markit, which claims that more than 75 billion smart devices will be in use by 2025. That’s a 400 per cent increase over the approximately 15 billion devices in use today.

Putting this in perspective, chipset manufacturers must build microchips at a rate six times greater than has ever been produced since they were first developed in 1958 by Texas Instruments.  [Read more…] about Briefing – Products and Markets: Time running out for chipset manufacturers to meet IoT forecasts

Daimler Trucks confirms ‘significant increase’ in unit sales worldwide

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Daimler Trucks claims it is seeing a “significant increase” in unit sales across many key regions around the world.

As part of its Capital Market & Technology Day, Daimler Trucks today confirmed its positive outlook for unit sales and earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT) and remains optimistic about its outlook for the current business year.

In the Trucks division, the world’s most successful manufacturer of commercial vehicles anticipates a significant increase in unit sales and EBIT compared with the previous year.  [Read more…] about Daimler Trucks confirms ‘significant increase’ in unit sales worldwide

Bossa Nova Robotics raises $29 million in latest funding round

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Bossa Nova Robotics, a provider of real-time, on-shelf product data for the global retail industry, has closed a $29 million funding round led by Cota Capital.

With new participation from China Walden Ventures, LG Electronics, and existing investors, this brings Bossa Nova’s total funding to $70 million.

The company says the funding will support the growth in the number of employees by 50 percent and will further its research and development efforts. Additionally, the company is exploring opening international offices due to high global retailer interest.  [Read more…] about Bossa Nova Robotics raises $29 million in latest funding round

ABB launches new digital robot controller OmniCore

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ABB has launched a new robot controller called “OmniCore”, which it describes as introducing a new era of “digital robot control” to increase flexibility, reliability and performance.

The new OmniCore robot controller family offers the broadest motion control options, more tailored solutions for the connected “Factory of the Future”, a current ABB theme.

The OmniCore is one the first offerings in ABB’s new era of “flexible, intelligent and tailored solutions”, and the company says it provides high-performance applications and seamless digitalization on the factory floor.  [Read more…] about ABB launches new digital robot controller OmniCore

Siemens acquires Austemper Design Systems to strengthen product lifecycle management offering

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Siemens has entered into an agreement to acquire Austin, Texas-based Austemper Design Systems, a startup software company that offers analysis, auto-correction and simulation technology.

This technology allows customers to test and harden integrated circuit designs for functional safety in applications such as automotive, industrial and aerospace systems where functional safety and high reliability are mandatory for compliance to safety standards like ISO 26262.

ICs in these applications require three types of functional safety verification:

  • for systemic faults;
  • malicious faults; and
  • random hardware faults.

The acquisition of Austemper will strengthen Siemens’ product lifecycle management software suite, much like Siemens’ acquisition of Mentor did. [Read more…] about Siemens acquires Austemper Design Systems to strengthen product lifecycle management offering

Emtas and HMS Industrial Networks agree partnership for CAN-based industrial communication

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Emtas and HMS Industrial Networks have formed a partnership to develop CAN-based industrial communication.

The collaboration will involve the distribution and development of protocol software for CANopen and SAE J1939, as well as the distribution of the IXXAT CAN hardware products from HMS in combination with Emtas software tools.

CAN stands for controller area network and is a communications standard which enables microcontrollers and devices to communicate with each other without a host computer.

The collaboration enables both companies to leverage their combined experience in this area, targeting to further improve the offering for CANopen, SAE J1939 and CAN/CAN-FD.  [Read more…] about Emtas and HMS Industrial Networks agree partnership for CAN-based industrial communication

ABB claims its ‘world first’ digital connected paint atomizer can save ‘millions of dollars’

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ABB has launched what it claims is the “world’s first digital connected paint atomizer”, adding that the technology could potentially save “millions of dollars” for users.

The new solution – the ABB Ability Connected Atomizer – combines “state-of-the-art hardware” with ABB Ability digital platform to achieve “breakthrough paint performance”, says ABB.

The connected, sensor-equipped, robotic paint atomizer allows for real-time smart diagnostics and precise paint control to optimize painting quality, says ABB.  [Read more…] about ABB claims its ‘world first’ digital connected paint atomizer can save ‘millions of dollars’

Siemens showcases wide range of ‘digital enterprise’ solutions at Automatica

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Engineering giant Siemens has been showcasing a wide range of “digital enterprise” solutions at the ongoing Automatica event, in Germany.

Siemens says its solutions demonstrated how machine builders and users can benefit from Industrie 4.0, and can be found at a specially constructed page for Automatica on Siemens website.

Exhibiting under the banner “Digital Enterprise – Implement now!”, Siemens focused on integrated, user-oriented solutions from its digital enterprise portfolio for enterprises of all sizes and branch of industry – along the entire value chain from product design and production planning, through the engineering process, to new data-based services.  [Read more…] about Siemens showcases wide range of ‘digital enterprise’ solutions at Automatica