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In April Cambridge-based smart metering specialist Sentec has been given a Queen's Award for Enterprise in recognition of its growth over the last three years, during which the company more than trebled its overseas earnings to £4.3m.

Clifford Dive, business development director at Sentec, will present a keynote presentation on Thursday October 21 at Embedded Live, which takes place at Earls Court, London.
   
Sentec's smart metering technology is now included in over five million - around half - of the smart electricity meters installed in the US.

Clifford Dive's presentation is aimed at the 'Connected M2M Devices' audience,  particularly in the smart metering and smart grid sector.

Coming initially from a technical background in the early days of real-time microprocessor products, a large part of Clifford's business life has been dedicated to embedded software development

Before joining Sentec this year, Dive woked for three years with mobile phone giant Qualcomm, initially leading the professional services team, and later promoting product innovation in the User Focused Innovation Team.

Embedded Live 2010 is now taking delegate registrations for the UK exhibition which takes place at Earls Court, London 20-21 October 2010.

At Embedded Live (Earls Court, London, 20-21 October), Arrow Electronics will be presenting products and technology available through its Arrow Embedded Solutions (AES) team.

Alongside Arrow representatives there will be product specialists from manufacturers including Microsoft, Sharp, Intel, Freescale, Traco, Telit, Digital View and Advantech.

Among the products on display will be: Microsoft Windows Embedded Standard 7 operating system; AC/DC and DC/DC power supplies from Traco; and short range radio devices and 2G/3G cellular modules from Telit Wireless Solutions.

Also featured will be Freescale Semiconductor's Kinetis ARM Cortex-M4 32bit microcontrollers, i.MX applications processors, Z-Star accelerometers and ZigBee development tools.

Fujitsu Semiconductor Europe is to demonstrate its second generation 8-bit analogue-to-digital converter (ADC) for 100Gbit/s optical transport designs based on coherent detection. 

Learn more from Fujitsu Semiconductor at Embedded Live 2010 which takes place at Earls Court, London 20-21 October.

Implemented in a high-performance 0.9V 40nm CMOS technology, the 65GSa/s ADC demonstration chip has power dissipation for a single channel of 1.2W.

This is 50% less than previous ADC which was fabricated on a 65nm process.

"With this architecture, the ADC is no longer the limiting factor on speed and power," said Ian Dedic, chief ¬engineer of Fujitsu's communications business unit.

ByteSnap Design has become a Silver Partner in the Windows Embedded Partner Programme and will be presenting its capabilities at Embedded Live 2010 which takes place next month at Earls Court, London.

Rohde & Schwarz surprised the test industry in July when it announced its first ever oscilloscopes, which will be on show for visitors to try out at Embedded LIve (October 19-21) in London next month. 

This is a big commitment by the Germany-based RF and microwave test systems specialist.

Rohde & Schwarz has said these first 2GHz and 500MHz product families are the first in a planned line of oscilloscopes.

Peter Kasenbacher, European manager for the oscilloscope product lines at Agilent Technologies, believes this is an exciting period in the oscilloscope market with many technology announcements and product launches this year already.

"I am enthusiastic about the opportunities ahead in oscilloscopes. I believe that ongoing innovation with new scope platforms is particularly important in this environment," says Kasenbacher.

When ARM executives got their hands on some of the first ARM processor-based netbooks available they were understandably excited.

As many as 15 netbooks (engineeering samples) were distributed amongst ARM executives last year. 

Bob Morris, director of mobile computing at ARM, descriobed his first impressions in his blog. http://tinyurl.com/matrdx

Bob's was a 10.1-inch netbook with an 800MHz Cortex-A8 processor.

He got 4.5 hours life on a two cell battery with"screen at full brightness and Wi-Fi on".  

Fair to say he was impressed.

See ARM at Embedded Live 2010 which takes place at Earls Court, London 20-21 October 2010.

Distributors continue to provide design support in the embedded market and big names like RS, Avnet and Arrow will be exhibiting at Embedded Live in Earls Court, London on October 19-21st.

Silica has extended its support for developers of RFID (radio frequency identification) and near-field communication (NFC) embedded applications by introducing the SERIZ design tool.

The design tool will be one of the technologies Silica will be demonstrating at Embedded Live which is being held at Earls Court, London in October 20-21.

Embedded Live 2010 is now taking delegate registrations for the UK exhibition which takes place at Earls Court, London 20-21 October 2010.

Confirmed exhibitors include: NXP Semiconductor, RS, ARM, Tektronix, Nokia - Qt Software, XJTAG, Pebble Bay Consulting and Pico Technology.

To register please visit the Embedded Live website registrations page.

Boundary scan test and embedded design? Yes, it does make sense.

Tektronix will be leading the way for test firms at Embedded Live Exhibition, which is due to take place at Earl's Court, London in 19-21 October.

More big name test firms are expected to present their oscilloscopes, analysers and generators, which are used so extensively in embedded system design.

"In step with increasing functionality and performance, engineers often have to work with both analogue and digital signals in their designs," says Trevor Smith from Tektronix.

The Connected M2M Devices pavilion, on the Embedded Live show floor, will be the opportuntiy to see what is possible with embedded wireless.

NXP Semiconductors will be presenting its ARM Cortex-M0 microcontroller at Embedded Live in October.

Measuring just 5mm sq. it is claimed to be the world's smallest MCU.