AIM Establishes Young Professionals Industry Group
AIM Global has created a new initiative in the Young Professionals Industry Group, designed to attract, develop, and retain the next generation of industry leaders.
This new work group will serve as a dedicated space for early-career professionals working in barcoding, RFID, IoT, mobile computing, and the wider AIDC ecosystem. According to AIM leaders, through regular meetings, discussions, and mentoring opportunities, participants will be able to network with peers and experienced professionals; explore career growth paths and industry challenges; share ideas and success stories; and learn about emerging technologies and trends.
“As an industry, it’s vital that we invest in the people who will lead it forward,” said Mary Lou Bosco, CEO of AIM said in a statement. “This group will transform their careers with unique opportunities, speaker events, and leadership development while building lasting friendships with like-minded young professionals.”
Anyone early in their AIDC career is welcome to participate. To learn more and register for upcoming meetings, visit the landing page.
Commure, QLog Partnership Targets Healthcare Industry
Commure has formed a strategic partnership and licensing agreement with QLog, a leading Israeli innovator in real-time location systems (RTLS) and Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) technologies for healthcare.
Under the agreement, QLog technology will power the Strongline Enterprise Visibility Platform (EVP), Commure’s staff duress, RTLS, and smart hospital workflow offering. Strongline EVP powered by QLog will be available to hospitals around the country, integrating and communicating with the BLE devices and beacons at hospitals. The collaboration ensures that while a legacy contractual dispute is resolved in the courts, Commure’s Strongline offering, including sales, implementation, and operations, can continue delivering uninterrupted staff duress and RTLS services to hospitals in need.
QLog brings over eight years of expertise building and deploying RTLS and duress applications in hospital settings around the world. Strongline currently protects and optimizes location-based workflow for more than 230,000 healthcare professionals across the U.S.
“This partnership reflects our unwavering commitment to ensuring that frontline caregivers remain protected at all times,” said Dan Warner, SVP and General Manager at Commure. “QLog’s technology is best-in-class, and their deep domain experience makes them an ideal partner as we evolve the Strongline platform into its next chapter with reliability at its core.”
Siemens Acquires Excellicon
Siemens Digital Industries Software has entered into an agreement to acquire Excellicon, bring their software for the development, verification, and management of timing constraints to Siemens’ EDA portfolio of software for IC design. Terms of the acquisition, which is expected to close in a few weeks, were not disclosed.
The planned acquisition enables Siemens to deliver both implementation and verification flows, enabling System-on-a-Chip (SoC) designers to improve power, performance and area (PPA), accelerate design closure, enhance functional and structural constraint correctness, improve productivity and address key gaps in the current workflows.
The integration of Excellicon’s timing constraint verification and management technology into Siemens will strengthen both implementation and verification flows, said Mike Ellow, CEO, Siemens EDA, Siemens Digital Industries Software
“Effective timing constraints management is crucial for the overall success of semiconductor system-on-chip designs,” said Ellow. “Excellicon’s constraint verification and management solution complements Siemens’ existing EDA offerings and expands our portfolio into key market segments in flows with the Questa, Tessent, Aprisa and PowerPro products.”
The addition of Excellicon’s product portfolio covers the entire spectrum of timing constraints authoring, compiling, verification, formal validation and management using a multi-mode approach that bridges early design concepts with their physical implementation—offering insights into partitioning schemes for optimal floorplans and timing.
“We are delighted to join Siemens and bring our knowledge and expertise in timing constraints management to the wider Siemens EDA community,” said Himanshu Bhatnagar, CEO, Excellicon. “Together, we’ll be able to provide better process coverage and enable our customers to deliver robust innovation to market more quickly and overcome the ever-growing complexity challenges facing the IC industry.”
Renesas Debuts New Group in Popular RA0 Series
Renesas Electronics Corporation, a supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, has introduced the RA0E2 microcontroller (MCU) Group based on the Arm Cortex-M23 processor. The new devices offer extremely low power consumption, extended temperature range, and a wide variety of peripheral functions and safety features.
RA0E2 MCUs are fully compatible with RA0E1 devices, offering pin-expansion while maintaining the same peripherals and ultra-low power. This compatibility lets customers re-use existing software assets. The new devices deliver industry-leading power consumption of only 2.8mA current in active mode, and 0.89 mA in sleep mode. In addition, an integrated High-speed On-Chip Oscillator (HOCO) enables the fastest wake-up time for this class of microcontroller.
Renesas’ RA0E1 and RA0E2 ultra-low power MCUs deliver solution opportunities for battery-operated consumer electronics devices, small appliances, industrial system control and building automation application. The new RA0E2 Group MCUs are supported by Renesas’ Flexible Software Package (FSP). The FSP enables faster application development by providing all the infrastructure software needed, including multiple RTOS, BSP, peripheral drivers, middleware, connectivity, networking, and security stacks as well as reference software to build complex AI, motor control and cloud solutions. It allows customers to integrate their own legacy code and choice of RTOS with FSP, thus providing full flexibility in application development.
“The market reception for our RA0 Series has exceeded even our own high expectations,” said Daryl Khoo, Vice President of the Embedded Processing Marketing Division at Renesas. “The RA0E2 Group MCUs deliver the same ultra-low power and price point that have been so popular with our customers. The addition of extended temperature range and more memory opens up even more applications and use cases.”