German membranes specialist WTA Vogtland has introduced a new submerged membrane module suitable for limited tank heights and sizes.

Conwed netting is used in hundreds of industrial and consumer products worldwide.

These are the smallest precision crystals, at 1.2 x 1.0mm (1210 size) and +/-20ppm across -30 to 85°C, claims Murata, which is aiming them at wireless comms – Wi-Fi and Bluetooth in phones wearables and hearing aids, for example. Called the XRCED series, the firm is trumpeting the equivalent series resistance (ESR) which is 60Ω max. Maximum …

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Avnet Silica will be handling Fairchild components following ON Semiconductor buying Fairchild. “We are glad to extend the franchise of these newly acquired products to Avnet Silica,” said Avnet v-p sales Jeff Thomson. “This is a natural step considering our long lasting cooperation.” All products from the ON Semiconductor power group, analogue group, and image …

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Infineon is in volume production of high-power LED drivers specifically designed for automotive front lights. The drivers are available within the LITIX Power Flex series and the LITIX Power series. They address flexible DC/DC driver solutions supporting LED systems of up to 50W and even above. Application setups can vary: many medium-power LEDs with string …

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Scope in Space, or “2 Min 2 Win”, was an eye-catching competition, based on the R&S rugged ScopeRider scope. The challenge was to find the most innovative use of the device, in difficult conditions, and film it.

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CMD240P4 from Custom Mimic of Massachusetts is DC to 22 GHz GaAs microwave distributed amplifier housed in a QFN leadless 4x4mm surface mount package. Gain is greater than 15dB of gain with a 2.2dB noise figure and 1dB compression point of +19dBm at 10GHz. There is a +28dBm IP3 and 50Ω matching eliminates the need for external …

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Toshiba has launched JEDEC e∙MMC Version 5.1 compliant embedded NAND flash memory products with an enhanced operational temperature range of -40°C to +105°C . They integrate NAND chips fabricated with 15nm process technology and are designed for industrial applications. The line-up offers densities of 8GB, 16GB, 32GB and 64GB. Sample shipments start from today, with …

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Having written a little about quadature decoder chips, I have had a look around for circuits that do a similar job – sadly, I cannot recall the circuit of the one built years ago for a college lecturer who had been given a machine too with encoders, but without interfaces – all I remember is …

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Leti will deploy a 5G framework on the MINATEC campus in Grenoble to demonstrate a new post-OFDM multicarrier waveform. Leti recently was granted a six-month license from Arcep, France’s telecommunications regulatory agency, to run a field trial with multiservice transmission at 3.5 GHz TDD band with 40MHz bandwidth. 3.5GHz might be the first carrier frequency …

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