Arrow Electronics is selling a hardware and software platform for developing IoT applications, which is based on the Renesas Synergy development framework. Arrow developed the ARIS board with the Italian design house Reloc. The Renesas Synergy Platform offers developers the benefit of qualified hardware and software, and Arrow said the aim with the ARIS board …

Arrow uses Renesas Synergy to speed IoT development

Linear Technology has introduced a constant frequency peak current mode synchronous step-down DC-DC converter with temperature-compensated ultralow DCR current sensing and clock synchronisation. The LTC7130‘s architecture eases compensation and offers the ability to directly parallel multiple ICs for higher current capability, according to the company. It also enhances the signal-to-noise ratio of the current sense …

LTC launches 20V, 20A monolithic synchronous step-down regulator

The Linux Foundation, the organisation working on open source software initiatives, is offering developers an open source compliance course which is available for free. It is designed to provide software developers with knowledge about legal and licensing issues for building and using open source software. According to the Linux Foundation, complying with open source licences …

Linux developers offered free compliance and copyright training

Wuerth is adding to its Ethernet modules with LAN transformers for speeds of up to 10 Gbit/s. The transformers support Power over Ethernet (PoE) up to 100 W and currents up to 1 A per channel. Würth Elektronik eiSos says it is the only manufacturer to offer 10-Gbit LAN transformers with an extended temperature range …

Würth transformers operate up to 10Gb/s

The European Investment Bank Is to provide £500 million to reinforce electrical connections between wind, wave and tidal renewable energy schemes and the national power network. The transmission link will supply equivalent electricity to meet the needs of around 2 million Scots. The new investment is the largest investment in the electricity network in the …

Caithness gets £500m EIB transmission investment

One wonders what the RSPCA might think of this one – radio-controlled beetles. Technologists at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore and the University of California at Berkeley are using electronics to control beetles in flight. Electrodes are put on beetles’ legs, optic lobes and flight muscles and controlled by radio signals which make the beetles …

Poor Bloody Beetle

Researchers have determined that quantum rather than classical physical behaviour is responsible for superconductivity in high-pressure hydrogen sulphide, a result which could benefit the design of high-temperature superconductors, said the University of Cambridge. Last year, German researchers identified superconductivity in H2S at -70°C, said to be the highest temperature yet. To get it working, the …

High-temperature superconductivity yields another secret

Imagination Technologies has created a number of IoT development boards under the Creator brand which are now being sold by Mouser Electronics. Imagination used Kickstarter to fund the initial supply of the Creator products which are now available from Mouser Electronics. These include the Creator Ci40 IoT hub and Ci40 kit (now available for pre-order) …

Mouser brings Imagination’s IoT design boards to market

Both Foxconn and Sharp now say the deal is done and there will be a signing ceremony on Saturday. It’s been a marathon. When, in 2012, Foxconn started negotiating for a stake in Sharp, Sharp’s shares stood at 550 yen. The deal has now been done at 88 yen per share. Foxconn is to get …

Patient Foxconn Finally Bags Up Sharp

Raspberry Pi 3 has got its own ABS plastic case. Although the Raspberry Pi 3 LED indicators are now on the opposite side of the board, the case from supplier Cyntech Components uses a light-pipe so that the LEDs can be viewed when the case is closed. Security is a key requirement when the Raspberry …

Raspberry Pi 3 has extendable case for add-on boards