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Scottish Renewables has joined the steering board of SusWind, the wind turbine blade recycling programme started in 2021 by the UK’s National Composites Centre (NCC) and the Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult. On the steering board, “Scottish Renewables joins The Crown Estate, Crown Estate Scotland, BVG Associates, RenewableUK, ZeroWaste Scotland, Net Zero Technology Centre and Vestas”, said NCC. “Collectively, they ...

CSA Catapult, the organisation tasked with commercialising UK compound semiconductor innovation, is to expand into centres in Bristol, Glasgow and Durham. Currently based in Newport, South Wales, it will open: Future Telecoms Hub at the Bristol and Bath Science Park, CSA Scotland at the University of Strathclyde’s Technology Innovation Centre, and an office with the Satellite Applications Catapult at NETPark ...

Cambridgeshire-based IC design intellectual property company Agile Analog has created a range of analogue peripheral blocks that are already wrapped in digital logic to connect them to a standard on-chip bus, such as AMBA APB. The aim is to “reduce the effort required to integrate multiple analogue IPs into any asic by allowing the IP to be dropped straight into ...

Cambridge-based Agile Analog has announced RC oscillator intellectual property for IC designers. Called ‘agileOSC RC’, it “is based on a traditional architecture which allows the frequency to be trimmed to remove the effects of process variation,” according to the company. It can also be configured as a free running clock where a high accuracy clock is not required. Start-up is typically ...

UK Asic design consultancy Sondrel has recruited industry veteran Gareth Jones, with over 25 years of asic and foundry experience, to head up its asic services. Jones (pictured) joins from TSMC where he was EMEA director of marketing. “Gareth has the perfect set of skills to drive the expansion of our turn-key asic services,” said Sondrel CEO Graham Curren. “He ...

Cambridge-based Agile Analog has its first Chinese intellectual property licensee. “We opened our APAC regional sales and engineering office in January this year, and we are delighted to have signed our first license for the region in just a couple of months,” said Agile CEO Barry Paterson. “Key to the deal is us having local support for the customer to ...

Swedish EMS company Note has bought Buckinghamshire EMS company iPro. “iPRO manufactures electronics-based products with customers mostly found within greentech, but also in medtech and industrial sectors,” according to Note. “The company will strengthen Note’s growing position in the greentech customer segment. iPro’s business model is similar to Note’s and is based on long-term customer collaborations, quality and delivery performance. ...

University of Plymouth power supply spin-out Pulsiv has raised £620,000 in equity funding, bringing its total to £1.5m, and has appointed senior staff.  Darrel Kingham has become CEO having left Aixtron as general manager. He was formerly with Arm. The man behind Pulsiv’s technology, Dr Zaki Ahmed (pictured), has moved from his post at the University of Plymouth to be full-time ...

The British Standards Institution has published its the first taxonomy for specifying the operational design domain of automated driving systems. ‘PAS 1883 Operational design domain (ODD) taxonomy for automated driving systems (ADS)’ is a specification intended to help enable safe automated driving by defining a common language for describing the operating conditions, such type of roads, traffic and weather, an automated vehicle ...

SlugBot will be the world’s first robotic monitoring and bio-molluscicide treatment system for slugs, according to a UK consortium. The partners are: Crop Health and Protection (CHAP) – an agri-tech centre funded by Innovate UK Small Robot Company (SRC) – agri-tech start-up Cosmonio – deep learning computer vision start-up AV and N Lee – agricultural contracting The aim is autonomous slug monitoring and ...