Locus EIM SaaS will streamline water activities for one of the largest water firms in the US that specializes in the planning, design, and construction of water and wastewater facilities.

PSE&G Installs and Commissions 1 MWh Eos Aurora Battery System for Solar 4 All®Microgrid to enhance storm resiliency

Maybe I am a bit late in noticing the Eastgate Building in Zimbabwe – it was built in 1996. It is actually a pair of buildings, that only consume 10% of the energy usually required to heat and cool similar but conventional buildings because they store heat in the day and let it out at …

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Scientists take an important step towards using ‘twisted’ light to deliver free-space optical communications for wireless, high-capacity data transmission.

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Intel says it has begun shipping its Intel Stratix 10 SX FPGA —the only high-end FPGA family with an integrated quad-core ARM Cortex-A53. It is manufactured on Intel’s 14nm finfet process. With densities greater than 1 million logic elements (MLE), Intel Stratix 10 SX FPGAs provide the flexibility and low latency benefit of integrating an ARM …

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AVX has come up with an Energy Harvesting Application Design Kit.   The kit consists of low-loss components selected to help design engineers involved in energy storage, blocking, IC support, output filtering, and external connections in thermoelectric generators, solar cells, piezoelectric devices, and micro wind turbines, including MLCCs, supercapacitors, Schottky diodes, inductors, and connectors.   Components included …

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NXP had Q3 operating income of $163 million – up 226% sequentially but down 6% y-o-year. Q3 revenue was $2.39 billion, up 8% sequentially but down 3% y-o-y. The y-o-y decline was due to the sale of its standard products division. HPMS revenue was $2.29 billion, an increase of 9% sequentially anf y-o-y. Automotive Q3 …

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ST had Q3 revenues of $2.14 billion up 11.1% on Q2 and up 18.9% on Q3 2016. Gross profit was $845 million and net profit was $236 million with a gross margin of 39.5%. “All product groups recorded double-digit year-over-year revenue growth, driven by strong demand across all geographies in our focus application areas of …

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Intended to help teachers and students to learn about programming, electronics, design, and logic, Grove Zero Kit is a collection of plug-and-play modules, each including a pre-configured microcontroller, from Seed Studio. The modules are colour-coded according to function, such as sensor input or LED output, and snap together via magnetic connectors that allow students to …

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Diodes has introduced 600V half-bridge drivers that are compatible with 3.3V logic. Numbered DGD2103M, DGD2104M and DGD2304, the chips have a floating high-side driver capable if driving an n-channel mosfet. “These drivers suit a wide range of motor control and power supply applications in industrial automation and white goods, that require AC and DC motor …

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