TT Electronics has launched an SiC power mosfet for high temperature, power efficiency applications with a maximum junction temperature of +225°C. As a result of this operating potential, the package has a higher ambient temperature capability and can therefore be used in applications, including distribution control systems with greater environmental challenges, such as those in close …
White Paper: Panasonic’s infrared array sensor explained
Recently, the progress of uncooled infrared (IR) sensors has been remarkable due to microelectronic systems (MEMS)-based pixel structure, in which free standing thermal isolation structures are adopted with thin film IR absorbers. Many applications are being developed, such as thermography, human detection, night vision and so on. Quantification of this energy allows users to determine …
Ekinops transponder/muxponder line doubles network capacity
Ekinops is introducing a flexible rate transponder/muxponder line which allows network operators to double their transport capacity. Using an advanced digital signal processor (DSP) combined with Ekinops’ enhanced T-Chip (transport-on-a-chip) technology to support both DP-QPSK and 16QAM modulation formats on a single line card, Ekinops is able to deliver a low-cost, programmable 400G solution. This …
Women engineers needed to address skills shortage
UK head of a leading engineering company believes women have the potential to solve some of the world’s biggest engineering problems and address the skills shortage in the sector. On National Women in Engineering Day, the president of Bosch UK believes the internet of things (IoT) could be an opportunity to encourage more woman to …
GPS chip adds inertial dead-reckoning for car tracking
u-blox of Switzerland has introduced a GPS receiver that works with inertial sensors to add dead-reckoning navigation when satellites signals are weak or before the receiver has locked-on. It requires an external MEMS inertial sensor and flash memory, and also works with other satellite navigation (GNSS) systems (list below). “EVA-M8E adapts automatically to installations anywhere …
Danish firm creates “first” IoT hearing aid
A Danish company has created an internet connected hearing aid. The designer, Oticon says it will allow the hearing aid to communicate directly with connected devices such as door bells, smoke detectors and baby alarms. Called Opn, the hearing aid is compatible with the web-based service IFTTT (If This Then That) for communicating with other …
Raspberry Pi 3 becomes Hi-Fi audio player with Sabre DAC
A French firm has designed an open source audio player based on a Raspberry Pi 3 computer module. Called RaspTouch, the audio player is the work of Bordeaux-based Audiophile, which is looking to fund the product introduction on Kickstarter. The firm has created an aluminium chassis for the player which has an ESS Sabre ES9018K2M …
Zeolites could make LEDs cheaper and more efficient
Researchers from KU Leuven (Belgium), the University of Strasbourg, and CNRS have discovered a new phosphor that could make next-generation fluorescent and LED lighting even cheaper and more efficient. The team used highly luminescent clusters of silver atoms and the porous framework of minerals known as zeolites. Silver clusters consist of just a few silver …
COM Express gets Intel Xeon quad-core 14nm processor
Embedded board design kits for COM Express Type 6 modules based on the 6th generation of Intel Core processors, these are the previously codenamed Skylake U and H processors, have been introduced by Avnet Embedded. The Skylake H CPUs range from Celeron dual-core, Core i3, i5 and i7 all the way up to Xeon quad-core 14nm …
STM32 developers get access to low-layer APIs
STMicroelectronics has added low-layer application program interface (LL API) software to its STM32 development tool set. This is for experienced designers and will allow them to work with the ARM Cortex-M microcontrollers (MCUs) down to register-level code, to controlling device peripheral and to optimise performance and run-time efficiency. The LL APIs are integrated into the STM32Cube …