Last week I attended the SmallSat symposium in Mountain View. This is the first of around half a dozen Small Satellite conferences that I’ll attend in 2018. That sounds like a lot of small satellite conferences, but there are actually many more that I…
Taking Steps to Ensure Security of Supply
One of the reasons that the Arm architecture is so popular is that it addresses customers concerns about security of supply. In the event that an Arm-based chip is no longer available to buy, the legacy software that was developed for it can be ported…
- over 2 years ago
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Rad-hard Arm-Cortex MCU Increases Likelihood of CubeSat Success
CubeSats are miniaturized satellites in a 10cm cube form-factor that are becoming enormously popular due to the benefits of standardization. The standards were originally driven by academia but have now been widely adopted for commercial and government…
- over 2 years ago
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Whitepaper: How automotive body electronics are changing
Body control applications can sometimes be overlooked in favour of application areas which at face value are seeing a greater rate of change, such as advanced driver assistance, safety and electrified powertrains. However, the sheer volume of body domain…
- over 2 years ago
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Arm and CSNE from the University of Washington partner to develop brain-implantable chips
The human brain is one of the final frontiers for technological innovation. Imagine a future where paralysis resulting from spinal cord injuries is only a temporary obstacle, rather than a permanent state. Imagine artificial limbs that can send the user…
- over 3 years ago
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Just one word...Plastics
Electronics packaging technology has moved on a bit since that classic line about ‘plastics’ was delivered in The Graduate movie, 50 years ago. Plastic packages are now capable of operating comfortably at 200˚C and there is a now a willingness from some…
- over 3 years ago
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ARM Cortex-M0 MCU set to Conquer Space
It was a thrill for us that a VORAGO Technologies ARM Cortex-M0 microcontroller was part of the payload that was rocketed to the International Space Station on the SpaceX Falcon 9 this week.
Space electronics technology has not kept up the pace of innovation…
- over 3 years ago
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ZymKey secures Raspberry Pi and Linux devices
More times than not, developers are faced with two bad options: either deliver a substandard product quickly, or reinvent the wheel and miss the market altogether. Luckily, one Santa Barbara-based startup has come up with a solution, not just a band-aid…
- over 4 years ago
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Predicting the future using CES, part 1
Its the first official day of CES today (Jan 6, 2015) and the circus is in full swing. It's hard to miss the big stories of the show because every major media outlet in the world is there and the tech press in particular flock there en masse (…
- over 5 years ago
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A maker for makers, elegantly simple bluetooth for wearables
Laura Kassovic has a vision for designing game changing wearables so if you are in the market or about to be then listen up. Laura is CEO of MbientLab and has her first Kickstarter under her belt; the MetaWear Bluetooth development platform:
Laura…
- over 5 years ago
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Hey Hobbyists, dust off your breadboards - DIP package is back!
Really, it is a blast from the past. Soon you can get ARM Cortex-M0 microcontrollers in a DIP28 package, along with SOP20, TSSOP20 and TSSOP28 packages. Recently NXP announced the new additions of the LPC1100 microcontroller family, which will have these…
- over 6 years ago
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