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World’s most powerful open LLM
AI & ML

With a staggering 180 billion parameters, and trained on 3,5 trillion tokens, Falcon 180B has soared to the top of the Hugging Face Leaderboard for pretrained LLMs.
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Schneider Electric partners with Drakenstein Municipality
Schneider Electric South Africa, Power Electronics / Power Management

Drakenstein Municipality, situated in Paarl in the Western Cape, is one of the first distribution utilities globally to implement Schneider Electric’s green, SF6-free RM AirSeT switchgear with pure air technology and native digital connectivity.
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Using AMD HLS to supercharge your design performance
DSP, Micros & Memory

This workshop explores the power and capabilities of High-Level Synthesis (AMD Vitis HLS) to dramatically accelerate embedded software to hardware speeds.
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E-Mobility: navigate safety, interoperability and conformance
Concilium Technologies, Power Electronics / Power Management

Although the concept of electric vehicles is not a new one, the market remains in its infancy, and is not well-regulated or fully operational. This presents a number of challenges for manufacturers throughout the EV and EVSE ecosystem.
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High-speed AWG generates up to 20 sine waves
Vepac Electronics, Test & Measurement

Spectrum Instrumentation has released a new firmware option for its range of versatile 16-bit Arbitrary Waveform Generators, with sampling rates up to 1,25 GS/s and bandwidths up to 400 MHz.
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Identifying interference in 5G and LTE networks
Test & Measurement

The latest Field Master software release provides a dual display of the LTE or 5G Frame structure, with automatic placement of gates on the Uplink slots alongside the RF spectrum of the gated time slots.
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The 8-bit survival syndrome – Part 2
DSP, Micros & Memory

Just like the 4-bit pre-microcontroller, the 8-bit MCU has been finding ways to stick around. Their features and speeds have been improving, offering competitive reasons to work with them.
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Webinar: Enabling the digital transformation of IIoT with Bluetooth
Telecoms, Datacoms, Wireless, IoT

Key industrial use cases for Bluetooth will be reviewed, including the main performance requirements for Bluetooth in industrial applications, and the technical features available.
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Microchip expands its mSiC solutions
EBV Electrolink, Power Electronics / Power Management

The highly integrated 3,3 kV XIFM plug-and-play digital gate driver is designed to work out-of-the-box with high-voltage SiC-based power modules to simplify and speed system integration.
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Service excellence with attention to detail
Deman Manufacturing, Editor's Choice

The vision of industry pioneers Hugo de Bruyn and Charles Hauman led to the birth of Deman Manufacturing, a company that sets new standards for innovation and performance within the industry.
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Antennas to meet all connectivity requirements
Electrocomp, Telecoms, Datacoms, Wireless, IoT

Kyocera AVX RF antennas meet today’s connectivity demands in the LTE, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GNSS, and ISM wireless bands, available in surface mount, patch or external configurations.
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LoRaWAN-certified sub-GHz module
Altron Arrow, Telecoms, Datacoms, Wireless, IoT

The STM32WL5M from ST Microelectronics is the company’s first LoRaWAN-certified module which incorporates two cores, one of them being a wireless stack to optimise the creation of sub-GHz applications.
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Quectel announces module for RedCap comms
Quectel Wireless Solutions, Telecoms, Datacoms, Wireless, IoT

The Quectel RG255G offers downlink performance of 220 Mbps, and uplink performance of 121 Mbps on 256QAM or 91 Mbps on 64QAM.
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Duxbury launches a cellular coverage solution
Telecoms, Datacoms, Wireless, IoT

Duxbury Networking has announced the South African availability of the Nextivity CEL-FI GO G43 multi-operator cellular coverage solution, that ensures customers and employees have reliable mobile coverage.
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3D depth sensing sensor
Avnet Silica, Telecoms, Datacoms, Wireless, IoT

A recent announcement by STMicroelectronics has revealed an all-in-one, direct Time-of-Flight (dToF) 3D LiDAR (Light Detection And Ranging) module with 2,3k resolution.
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Dual-port USB-C power delivery solution
Altron Arrow, Power Electronics / Power Management

Infineon’s CYPD7272-68LQXQ is the tray packing option of the company’s dual-port USB-C power delivery solution and features an integrated dual-port USB-C PD + DC-DC controller.
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High-power three-phase supplies
Current Automation, Power Electronics / Power Management

The units from Meanwell can either be supplied with a three-phase three-wire delta input of 196 to 305 V AC, or they can use a three-phase four-wire star connection of 340 to 530 V AC.
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Parallel redundancy power module
Conical Technologies, Power Electronics / Power Management

The LIR40-40 is a wide input range DC-DC module, with a constant output of 48 V at a nominal output current of up to 40 A.
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