Demcon acquires slice of FPGA specialist Qbaylogic

UT spin-off Qbaylogic intends to position its Clash language as the third language for programming FPGAs, in addition to and above VHDL and Verilog. Demcon’s involvement will enable the company to grow further and develop new products.

Fine-tuning the design of piezoelectric transducers

They are compact, reliable, self-generating, and can be found in various industries: piezoelectric transducers. The design of such devices is a multiphysics problem involving electric current, pressure acoustics, mechanics, etc. Want to know how to improve the performance of your piezoelectric transducer? Read more!

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UT quantum computing institute doesn’t pick sides

Philips speeds up diagnosis and treatment of lung cancer

Sioux expansion builds production abilities

Benelux solar teams fill the podium at European Solar Challenge

Tesla takes battery production in-house to build 25k car

Noldus digs its heels in against damning Amnesty report

Salvia’s neurostimulatory foils raise 26 million

Better every day

Anneke Keller and Yassine Elouazzani work at the Jumbo Tech Campus, the part of Jumbo that takes care of its software engineering. During the Software-Centric Systems Conference in Eindhoven on 25 September, they will tell you how they support fast innovation with technology. The goal is to be practical and helpful for others to learn.

NLR launches first drones beyond the visible line of sight

With swarms of drones now filling the sky, air traffic safety is identified as a primary challenge. In a joint European effort to address these concerns, NLR is ushering a public-private collaboration for the implementation of new regulations.

In other news

GNU founder Stallman resigns over Epstein comments (Vice)

Germany to drive transport transition with €75 billion (Electrive)

3D capacitors printed with additive manufacturing (Electronics Weekly)

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Low code is not no code

The use of low-code platforms will increase dramatically as organizations want to build software at ever-growing speeds to meet staggering demands. However, software engineers will continue to write code and will need to keep up with the exponential changes in their industry.

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