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Rohm has announced USB Power Delivery (USBPD) transmitter/receiver evaluation boards. “USBPD extends the power supply range from the conventional 15W to up to 100W,” said the firm. “This enables larger devices such as laptops and TVs to be powered via USB while contributing to the transformation of infrastructure as the number of USB ports in …

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TE Connectivity is aiming at servo motor manufacturers with a range of connectors for different types of electric motors. “Trends in motor connectivity focus on miniaturisation, reduction of installation times and improvements in reliability,” said TE product manager Wenbo Zhou. “Our engineers find ways to address these trends, and one example of this is our …

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How the latest power converters can help make the most of your batteries

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The Trump-Putin cyber-security initiative is exactly what’s needed. It would be better if it was a Trump-Putin-Merkel-Jinping initiative because, unless the world comes to some general agreement on hacking along the lines of the 1960s Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, we’re going to be faced with increasing chaos. We live in an age when our leaders’ core …

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The University of Nottingham has been awarded £9.4 million by the Higher Education Funding Council for England through the UK Research Partnership Investment Fund (UKRPIF). The money will go towards to the development of the University’s new ‘Research and innovation centre for power electronics and machines’. “The centre will play a role in developing the …

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Another thing that I missed. I was looking at the Arduino 101 (AKA Genuino 101), which has an Intel Curie module on-board as a processor. Which is based around Intel Quark SE C1000 silicon. And that silicon has an x86 core, and a ‘sensor sub-system’. And that sensor sub-system has an ARC EM4 processor* (1.81 DMIPS/MHz, 4.02 …

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Fabless power semiconductor firm Helix Semiconductors is sampling its first production chip for use in electricity grids. The US firm says it can reduce the power consumed by electronic appliances when in an inactive, or standby, mode. Dubbed ‘Zero Power,’ the goal is specified as less than or equal to 5mW. Based on a patented …

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How to avoid voltage rail blind-spots in digital power management

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Input protection for switched mode inverters and converters affects an increasing number of sectors

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