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Nanusens Moves Headquarters and Receives Funding for Expansion
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Nanusens Moves Headquarters and Receives Funding for Expansion

Nanusens, the innovative research venture working on nano-sensors built inside CMOS devices, recently received significant funding that will enable it to expand its operations and hire new staff. Nanusens is also a finalist for the Design Team of the Year in the prestigious Elektra Awards 2020. The company, headquartered in the United Kingdom, with R&D centers in Barcelona, Spain and Shenzen, China, has designed a novel way to enable the higher frequency bands needed by 5G mobile phones, something that presents a challenge with current technology.
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Keysight Introduces Smart Bench Essentials Connected Instruments
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Keysight Introduces Smart Bench Essentials Connected Instruments

Keysight Technologies, the electronics test and measurement company that was spun off from Agilent in 2014, has launched a new portfolio of Smart Bench Essentials (SBE) lab bench instruments. These new solutions are targeted at remote access labs and teaching institutions that require a unified, powerful graphical interface with integrated data management and analysis, that can be configured, controlled, and monitored from a single screen, also allowing sharing instruments and data remotely with peers.
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DSP Group Opens Audio Signal Processing and AI Innovation Lab in Germany
by Joao Martins

DSP Group Opens Audio Signal Processing and AI Innovation Lab in Germany

DSP Group announced the opening of an audio innovation lab in Straubing, Germany, focused on advancing the state-of-the-art in audio signal processing and artificial intelligence (AI) for acoustic engineering. The lab is already staffed with experts, each with 20+ years of experience in the areas of voice and audio processing algorithm development and deployment, speaker non-linear processing, AI-based audio processing, active noise cancellation (ANC), and rapid prototyping and tuning.
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PK Sound Introduces Trinity Install Line Array Element
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PK Sound Introduces Trinity Install Line Array Element

PK Sound, the robotic line array company from Calgary, Alberta, has released an installation-focused iteration of Trinity, its flagship large-format line array element. Trinity Install brings the voicing and coverage control features of the Trinity family to performance installations and live event spaces in discreet new all-black enclosures. Instead of the fully robotic features of the touring models, vertical and horizontal angles are set during installation using a fixed rigging system.
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Can Audio Quality Criteria Be Classified by Machines Using Artificial Intelligence?
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Can Audio Quality Criteria Be Classified by Machines Using Artificial Intelligence?

The IEEE Broadcast Technology Society and the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) are promoting a webcast on March 24 to discuss the use of machine learning and artificial intelligence to address audio quality classification. The topic will be addressed by Musician Tyler Morris, Tufts Graduate School of Electrical Engineering, Undergraduate WPI Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Dr. Karen Panetta, Dean of Graduate Education for the School of Engineering, authors of a paper on the subject.
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Plugin Alliance Launches Lindell Audio 50 Series Dual Channel Strip Plug-In
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Plugin Alliance Launches Lindell Audio 50 Series Dual Channel Strip Plug-In

Plugin Alliance announced availability of the new Lindell Audio 50 Series software plugin, that transforms Digital Audio Workstations (DAWs) into an analog mixing console by capturing the legendary sound of original API circuits as a dual console channel strip and bus path. The software plugin was created using the patented Tolerance Modeling Technology (TMT) licensed from Brainworx, creating what Plugin Alliance describes as "the most convincing model of these classic consoles to date."
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SnapEDA Makes PCB Part Libraries Available Inside Autodesk Fusion 360, ExpressPCB, DipTrace and Proteus PCB
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SnapEDA Makes PCB Part Libraries Available Inside Autodesk Fusion 360, ExpressPCB, DipTrace and Proteus PCB

SnapEDA, the electronics design search engine, released SnapEDA for Fusion 360 in collaboration with Autodesk. Electronics designers can now search and place free cloud-based symbols, footprints and 3D models from SnapEDA directly within Fusion 360. And the SnapEDA search engine for electronics design is now also integrated through plug-ins available for popular software tools such as ExpressPCB, DipTrace and Proteus PCB, among others.
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AES Audio Product Education Institute Invites Design Houses to Discuss How to Quickly Bring Audio Products to Market
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AES Audio Product Education Institute Invites Design Houses to Discuss How to Quickly Bring Audio Products to Market

The AES Audio Product Education Institute (APEI), will host its sixth online event addressing Supply Chain & Sourcing on Wednesday, March 17 (12:00pm EDT). The online session will feature top executives from Cardinal Peak and One Point Zero discussing the role and contributions of design houses as a critical support option in bringing new products to market.
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Sony Reaches Out to Creators with ECM-W2BT Wireless Microphone and ECM-LV1 Compact Stereo Lavalier Microphone
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Sony Reaches Out to Creators with ECM-W2BT Wireless Microphone and ECM-LV1 Compact Stereo Lavalier Microphone

Sony Electronics announced two new microphones with the launch of the ECM-W2BT Multi-interface, shoe compatible wireless microphone and ECM-LV1 compact stereo lavalier microphone. High-quality wireless audio recording with lower noise and stable connection is possible with the ECM-W2BT wireless microphone, especially when paired with the ECM-LV1 stereo lavalier microphone and one of Sony's cameras with digital compatibility.
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Meridian Delivers Performance, Technology and Luxury Audio to New Kia K8 Sedan
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Meridian Delivers Performance, Technology and Luxury Audio to New Kia K8 Sedan

Meridian continues to expand its automotive audio business working in close cooperation with car makers. The British audio pioneer has now unveiled the results of its work with Kia Corporation taking in-car audio to another level in the brand new K8 modern sedan. Featuring a purpose-designed 14-speaker surround sound system, Meridian has worked with Kia to provide an exceptional audio inside the new K8 model exploring all the possibilities of its proprietary DSP audio technologies.
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