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High-performance ATS cooling for AMD Kria system-on-modules – immediate stock availability
Astute Group, the global franchised distributor and procurement specialist, has announced the immediate availability of Advanced Thermal Solutions, Inc.’s (ATS) latest thermal management range for AMD Kria system-on-modules (SOMs) products.
Stocked locally at Astute’s UK warehouse, components are ready for immediate dispatch across Europe, EMEA, India and Australia & New Zealand for rapid testing, evaluation and production deploy- ment.
As a participating member of the AMD Embedded Partner Net- work, ATS has engineered these cooling solutions to unlock max- imum performance-per-watt for intensive applications including factory automation, multi-axis robotics, smart cities and embedded vision.
Immediate stocking & global logistics advantage To eliminate lead times and reduce costs, Astute has invested in a comprehensive range of ATS inventory – shipped directly from China to the UK to avoid tariff drag.
Products available for immediate order:
Cooling for AMD Kria K26 SOMs: Engineered for vision AI applications in smart cameras, security, and retail analytics. Astute stocks these solutions in straight fin or ATS maxiFLOW spread fin designs, across four passive versions (capable of removing 20W of heat at 300 LFM) and two active versions. Each kit includes pre-assembled high-per- formance thermal interface material (TIM) and mounting hardware for direct attachment to the standard K26 SOM heat spreader plate. Cooling for AMD Kria K24 SOMs: Built for space-constrained in- dustrial motor control, medical devices, and sensor fusion systems based on AMD Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC These units mount directly to the K24 SOM’s standard clamshell thermal plate, sharing a com- pact 41.3 x 60 mm footprint with heights ranging from 9.8mm to 20.0mm. They deliver a thermal resistance as low as 0.67°C/W under ducted airflow conditions.
Early indications suggest these will be highly popular parts, with sample quantities already moving quickly across international mar- kets for testing.
An expanded collaborative push
This stocking initiative marks a key milestone in the franchised partnership between Astute Group and ATS, which extends across Europe into broader EMEA, India, Australia and New Zealand. By combining ATS’s world-class thermal engineering with Astute’s international technical sales reach, the collaboration ensures de- sign engineers have frictionless access to vital hardware. “Investing in local, ready-to-ship seeding stock is vital for our cus- tomers in the fast-moving industrial and embedded vision spaces,” said Jon Sypula, supplier business manager at Astute Group. “These ATS solutions ensure that cutting-edge AMD Kria modules can run at full throttle under continuous, high-power workloads without risk- ing thermal throttling.”
ASTUTE GROUP
https://www.astutegroup.com 44 JUNE 2026 | ELECTRONICS FOR ENGINEERS
Making twins truly identical: Accurate data acquisition drives accurate, actionable digital twins
Digital twins promise to mirror every move on the fac- tory floor, from production flows to equipment health. But a twin is only as good as the quality of the data that feeds it.
Across industry, digital twins have moved from C-suite concept to operational infrastructure. By 2023, “29 per cent of global manufacturing companies have either fully or partially implemented their digital twin strategies” using them to optimise throughput, acceler- ate production cycles and stabilise quality while simu- lating operational changes before making physical adjustments.
The ambition is clear: create a digital representation of physical assets that is accurate enough to support real-time decisions. But digital twins live or die on data quality at the edge.
Data you can trust
Every digital twin begins with the sensor. Physical inputs such as vibration, torque, pressure and temperature must be captured, conditioned and converted into digital signals before algorithms can interpret them. Signals that are noisy, misaligned or unstable do not cause dramatic failure; they gradually erode confi- dence, delay predictions and distort correlations. As twins move into real-time control loops, the de- mands intensify. Vision systems guide robots dynamic- ally rather than merely inspecting outputs. Production lines adjust parameters in response to torque signa- tures or harmonic distortion. Maintenance systems rely on tightly correlated vibration and current measure- ments to predict failure before downtime occurs. In all these applications, high-resolution signals from mul- tiple inputs must be captured simultaneously, aligned precisely in time and sampled reliably if digital models are to reflect physical behaviour accurately. But most general-purpose processors were never designed for this level of real-time processing. They evolved to execute discrete logic and monitor relatively low-frequency status signals, not to manage tightly correlated analogue inputs across microsecond time- scales with sustained stability over years of continuous operation.
SWI496 Image 1 Making twins truly identical: Accurate data acquisition drives accurate, actionable digital twins
SWINDON SILICON SYSTEMS
https://www.swindonsilicon.com
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