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DirectOut’s EXBOX.MD Adding Network Control and Dante Support to ANDIAMO Series
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DirectOut’s EXBOX.MD Adding Network Control and Dante Support to ANDIAMO Series

DirectOut Technologies has implemented DO.Net daemon to its EXBOX.MD Dante/MADI interface to remotely access and control the entire ANDIAMO Series. The combination of an EXBOX.MD and any ANDIAMO also upgrades the popular audio converter series with a Dante IO. The latest globcon beta, released at the same time, also introduces source selection (Auto/Manual) and MIDI triggering to EARS, the automatic input switching function of the EXBOX.MD, upgrading and completing this unique feature of the audio networking device.
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Western Digital Announces Plans to Open Source New RISC-V SweRV Core to Accelerate RISC-V Processor Development
by Cristina Costa

Western Digital Announces Plans to Open Source New RISC-V SweRV Core to Accelerate RISC-V Processor Development

During the RISC-V Summit, in Santa Clara, CA, Western Digital announced three new open-source innovations designed to support Western Digital’s internal RISC-V development efforts and those of the growing RISC-V ecosystem. In his keynote address, Western Digital’s Chief Technology Officer Martin Fink unveiled plans to release a new open source RISC-V core, an open standard initiative for cache coherent memory over a network and an open source RISC-V instruction set simulator.
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AgigA Tech Awarded Patent for Adaptive Management of Supercapacitors
by Cristina Costa

AgigA Tech Awarded Patent for Adaptive Management of Supercapacitors

AgigA Tech, a provider of high-speed, high-density, battery-free non-volatile memory solutions and a subsidiary of Cypress Semiconductor, announced the issuance of United States Patent No. 10,134,451 relating to the adaptive training and adjustment to changing capacitor values based upon age and usage behavior. The patent brings AgigA Tech’s portfolio total to 22 granted. Having focused on the development of non-volatile DIMM, or NVDIMM, and related technology for more than 10 years, many of the patents in AgigA Tech’s portfolio are fundamental to this increasingly pervasive product category.
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New RISC-V SoC FPGA Architecture Supports Real-Time Linux Development
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New RISC-V SoC FPGA Architecture Supports Real-Time Linux Development

Microchip Technology, via its Microsemi Corporation subsidiary, extended its Mi-V ecosystem by unveiling the architecture for a new class of SoC FPGAs that combine the industry's lowest power mid-range PolarFire FPGA family with a complete microprocessor subsystem based on the open, royalty-free RISC-V instruction set architecture (ISA). Demonstrations took place during RISC-V Summit (Dec. 4-5) to show size, power and performance benefits of integrating PolarFire SoC's Hard CPU Subsystem with Programmable Logic.
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Tascam Launches TH-07 High-Definition Monitoring Headphones
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Tascam Launches TH-07 High-Definition Monitoring Headphones

Since TEAC and Tascam have returned from the dead, miraculously surviving the debacle of Gibson's bankruptcy, it seems there's a new sense of focus and inspiration in those great brands. After launching the fantastic Model 24 Digital Multitrack Recorder, a flashback into the glory days of Tascam, now with an integrated USB audio interface in a sexy analog mixer, the brand announces its TH-07 High Definition Headphone Monitors to match.
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Lectrosonics Updates Firmware for Duet Digital Wireless Monitor IEM/IFB System
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Lectrosonics Updates Firmware for Duet Digital Wireless Monitor IEM/IFB System

Understanding that offering dedicated wireless audio solutions needs to be much more than just reliably transmitting multiple channels of audio, and instead creating a complete wireless production environment, Lectrosonics announced a major firmware update for their acclaimed Duet digital wireless monitor IEM/IFB system, V2.0. The Rio Rancho, New Mexico, manufacturer expanded the functionalities of the Duet system and its audio processing capabilities in order to respond to users' needs.
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FabFilter New Pro-Q 3 Equalizer Plug-in with Dynamic EQ
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FabFilter New Pro-Q 3 Equalizer Plug-in with Dynamic EQ

Once again, the Amsterdam-based software company FabFilter provides a great example of high quality audio processing software. The now available FabFilter Pro-Q 3, a major update to the acclaimed Pro-Q equalizer plug-in, improves on its predecessor in every area, introducing dynamic EQ, surround support, per-band mid/side processing, and much more, while maintaining the pristine sound quality and exceptional ease of use for which Pro-Q is known.
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Artificial Intelligence Tool Promises to Revolutionize Patent Analysis
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Artificial Intelligence Tool Promises to Revolutionize Patent Analysis

Aistemos, a London-based company in the field of harnessing artificial intelligence (AI) to analyze patents, announced the launch of its Cipher n / d service, a new approach to analyzing patent information designed to increase rational licensing and reduce patent litigation. Aistemos developed Cipher n / d as a new approach to IP analytics in collaboration with AST, the member-driven collaborative and leading provider of proactive patent defense solutions, which provided Aistemos with access to AST’s rich taxonomy and data of classifications of technologies and patents.
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New IsoAcoustics OREA Bronze Isolators for Lighter Audio Components and Turntables
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New IsoAcoustics OREA Bronze Isolators for Lighter Audio Components and Turntables

The OREA Bronze was now added to the OREA series of Isolators from IsoAcoustics, announced the Canadian company. The new OREA Bronze Isolators provide extraordinary levels of isolation for high fidelity audio components and turntables and are now available. In order to create this newest addition to the OREA series, IsoAcoustics had to lower the weight threshold in the series in order to achieve adequate isolation performance with lighter components including amplifiers, DAC's, CD players, small speakers and turntables.
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Meyer Sound Conducts Research on the Effect of Variable Atmospheric Conditions on Concert Sound Reinforcement
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Meyer Sound Conducts Research on the Effect of Variable Atmospheric Conditions on Concert Sound Reinforcement

Thanks to its unprecedented partnership with Denmark’s Roskilde Festival, Meyer Sound realized a rare opportunity to make precision measurements on the effect of variable atmospheric conditions on concert sound reinforcement. Working under the direction of Meyer Sound Senior Scientist Roger Schwenke, a technical team installed multiple weather sensors and measurement microphones during last summer’s event to measure the effects of atmospheric conditions on audio system response at varying distances above ground level.
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