Powerbox added two intelligent dc-dc battery chargers to its automotive product line. Called ENA200, the chargers are small (116 x 88 x 18mm), efficienct (>95%) and include a microcontroller with switch-selectable charging algorithms for standard Pb-acid batteries as well as absorbed glass matte (AGM), gel cell and calcium types – plus application-defined profiles can be …

Read full article: Automotive battery charger also works for industry

ON Semiconductor has shrunk the size of its latest CMOS image sensor in the Python family. Python 480, which will be on view at Electronica in Munich next week, has the same pixel design and SVGA (800 x 600 pixel) resolution as the existing Python 500, but comes in a package which is 85% smaller …

Read full article: Electronica 2016: ON Semi shows tiny Python imager

A sensor system platform, with the ARM mbed hardware development kit (HDK), from Maxim Integrated Products is intended for high-end fitness monitor designs. The hSensor Platform, which will be seen next week at Electronica in Munich, is offered as the MAXREFDES100# reference design, includes an hSensor board, firmware with drivers, a debugger board, and a graphical …

Read full article: Electronica 2016: Maxim goes mbed for fitness

Viva Viveland? HTC has opened its first VR theme park, called Viveland, this week. It’s located in Taipei and showcases HTC’s VR technology.

Read full article: Picture of the day: HTC VR theme park Viveland opens in Taiwan

June 1st is a very important day in Japan – it is Radio Waves Day. This doesn’t sound a big deal, but it is for Japan which, this year, celebrated its 66th Radio Waves Day. ‘Under the enactment and promulgation of the new Radio Waves Las in 1950, radio waves, which were previously monopolised by …

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E2V is claiming a world first with a DAC that can generate K-Band (18-27GHz) signals directly, without a mixer. Called EV12DS460, conversion is 12bit at at 6Gsample/s guaranteed, with operation possible up to 7Gsample/s. “Removing up-conversion stages in our customers’ systems operating up to K-band will help them simplify system design,” said company v-p semiconductors Laurent Monge. …

Read full article: E2V K-Band DAC outputs 26.5GHz

Here are the top ten most popular articles on ElectronicsWeekly.com in the last week, with the Brexit, Electronica, ADI, Arrow and Good old H2 all figuring prominently…

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At Electronica next week, Panasonic is going to be showing the gate driver for GaN power transistors it has been talking about for months, and more. According to Panasonic: “Optimised for high frequency switching, the gate driver un-locks the full performance of the company’s line-up of 600V enhancement mode X-GaN transistors.” It will be interesting to see …

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The 47.5% share should boost the company’s IoT and smart cities push.

You can now use Apache Flink 1.1.3 and upgraded versions of Apache Zeppelin (0.6.2) and Apache HBase (1.2.3) on Amazon EMR release 5.1.0 . Also, the interactive notebook in Hue now supports querying data using Presto.