A famous, billionaire VC was once sent a letter by a film producer saying: “I want to make you the star of our new reality television show. I want you to meet and play with a dozen twenty-five year-old stunningly beautiful girls and, at the end of our thirteen weeks series, you will marry the …

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I have wanted to make a pulse generator for years. I know you can buy perfectly good ones, but not if you want non-overlapping outputs to drive the mosfets in synchronous-rectified dc-dc converters. My thoughts were re-kindled by wondering if a Microchip TC4428 mosfet gate driver (think giant cmos inverter) would make a good output  …

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Infineon  is sampling the AIROC CYW20829 Bluetooth LE SoC –  a Bluetooth 5.3 core spec-compliant device for IoT, smart home and industrial applications. The chip is designed to support the entire spectrum of BLE use cases for home automation, sensors, lighting, Bluetooth Mesh, remote controls and any other Bluetooth LE-connected IoT application. The device integrates …

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CEVA has enhanced the software offerings and tool kits for its Bluebud wireless audio platform with the addition of Bluebud-HD, a pre-configured software package that includes all the audio, voice and context-aware software required in premium TWS earbuds, gaming headsets, hearables, wearables and other smart audio products. CEVA also announced today that its SenslinQ software …

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Server shipments will grow 4-5% this year, says TrendForce, with North American data centres growing at approximately 13-14%.   There are three primary factors driving market momentum. First, the introduction of the Intel Sapphire Rapids and AMD Genoa platforms. Second, the market generally believes that transformational needs like WFH will continue to drive the cloud …

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Digi-Key Electronics is highlighting how it expanded its portfolio in 2021 by adding more than 500 new suppliers across its core business, along with adding more than 125,000 new SKUs in 2021. Some of the key companies added to its portfolio in 2021 include Siemens, Schneider and QuickLogic. The addition of more than 500 new …

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NXP claims the industry’s first monolithic tri-radio family which support Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.2 and 802.15.4, and  enables simultaneous transmit and receive for higher performance in smart solutions The device, which is sampling now. supports Matter, the interoperable, secure connectivity standard for the future of the smart home, providing unprecedented coexistence, performance, and radio integration. …

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Review Display Systems (RDS) is stocking a 10.4inch TFT P-series display module from industrial display manufacturer Tianma. P1040XGF1MA00 is XGA (1920 x 1080 pixels) with the classic 4:3 aspect ratio and includes ‘Super Fine TFT’ (SFT) technology for wide viewing angle and consistent colour, said RDS. Contrast ratio is 1000:1 and viewing angle is 85° …

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Toshiba has launched three quad Form-A voltage driven photorelays, claiming one of them with one of the smallest mounting areas in the industry. They are Toshiba’s first four-circuit, 4-Form-A, relays, in a 12.5mm2 (2 x 6.25 x 1.3mm) package dubbed S-VSON16T. “The area is approximately 14% less compared with the mounting area of four one-channel …

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IoT communication service provider Sigfox is to create energy harvesting modules with chip maker Nowi and Brazilian design house HT Micron. Nowi already has a solar power module for SigFox and its competitor LoRa “This collaboration marks the first step for Sigfox towards a commercial development of energy harvesting modules to equip IoT devices,” according to SigFox. …

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