Datwyler of Switzerland is to buy Premier Farnell for £792 million. “Both companies share very similar strategic values and are highly complementary in terms of product range, distribution channels and geographic footprint,” says Premier Farnell. The combined group is expected to have £1.3 billion revenues. The two companies employ 4,900 people. Datwyler, with a market …
Four channel remote temperature sensor works to -40°C
Microchip has introduced a four channel temperature sensing IC for use with remote sensing diodes. Called MCP9904, it has advanced features such as resistance error correction as well as beta compensation, the latter to support CPU diodes requiring the BJT/transistor model – those on 45nm processes, for example. “Beta compensation eliminates temperature errors caused by …
Microwave power amplifier comes on line at Aspen
Aspen Electronics is selling RF and microwave solid state power amplifiers designed for both commercial and military applications from US firm Exodus Advanced Communications. Exodus products feature LDMOS, GaN, GaAsFET discrete and chip and wire hybrid modules with amplifier designs covering octave through decade frequency ranges from 0.01MHz to 40.0GHz – with power levels exceeding …
Surge-rated, 24V transient protection on seven lines
Semtech has introduced a 7-line surge-rated, 24V transient protection array for protecting industrial interfaces against transient voltage threats. The µClamp2417P offers a 10A (8×20µs waveform) surge immunity level in a small 2.6 x 2.6mm QFN package. It can be used for protecting industrial data interfaces from electrical transient threats including electrostatic discharge (ESD), electrical fast …
Result: Reader survey on European Union Referendum
Should the UK stay in the EU or leave? Electronics Weekly asked for your views. Ahead of next week’s European Union Referendum, we analyse the results of our reader survey.
Weightless SIG joins ETSI
The Weightless SIG is partnering with the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI). In a move to consolidate the LPWAN space the Weightless SIG will offer its Weightless-N standards activities into the ETSI LTN initiative within TG28, ensuring that all those interested in UNB solutions are represented in a single forum. ETSI is a globally accepted …
Ireland is Sigfox-enabled for IoT
Sigfox and Irish telecoms firm VT Networks have rolled out a long-range low data rate IoT network in less than eight months. The two companies expect to connect over a million devices by 2017. Remote nodes on Sigfox networks, which are low data rate and ultra-narrowband, are expected to run for over 10 years on …
Orange builds IoT smart cities in France
Orange has decided to use the IoT wireless technology, known as LoRa, to connect “smart city” deployments across France. This is one of the largest IoT connected city deployments to be announced and follows pilot testing in Grenoble of the LoRa wireless standard in long range wide-area networks. The LoRaWAN protocol, which is one of …
Updated: Micro-sequencing crams 8051 into tiny FPGA space
Californian start-up MicroCore Labs has announced an 8051 soft processor core, four of which will fit into 1227 LUTs on a Xilinx Artix-7 FPGA. The core is called MCL51. “Because it is based on a microsequencer, this four-core demonstration is even smaller than a single soft-core gate-based 8051,” the company founder, known simply as Edward, told Electronics …
One week to go – Functional Test Webinar
There’s just one week to go until the first Electronics Weekly webinar, which involves Test & Measurment – Combining the Power of Functional Test and Embedded System Access