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By Steve Bush
Avnet Silica will be handling Fairchild components following ON Semiconductor buying Fairchild. “We are glad to extend the franchise of these newly acquired products to Avnet Silica,” said Avnet v-p sales Jeff Thomson. “This is a natural step considering our long lasting cooperation.” All products from the ON Semiconductor power group, analogue group, and image …
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Infineon is in volume production of high-power LED drivers specifically designed for automotive front lights. The drivers are available within the LITIX Power Flex series and the LITIX Power series. They address flexible DC/DC driver solutions supporting LED systems of up to 50W and even above. Application setups can vary: many medium-power LEDs with string …
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Scope in Space, or “2 Min 2 Win”, was an eye-catching competition, based on the R&S rugged ScopeRider scope. The challenge was to find the most innovative use of the device, in difficult conditions, and film it.
Read full article: Debugging Mars Rover in the field wins ScopeRider compo
By Steve Bush
CMD240P4 from Custom Mimic of Massachusetts is DC to 22 GHz GaAs microwave distributed amplifier housed in a QFN leadless 4x4mm surface mount package. Gain is greater than 15dB of gain with a 2.2dB noise figure and 1dB compression point of +19dBm at 10GHz. There is a +28dBm IP3 and 50Ω matching eliminates the need for external …
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Toshiba has launched JEDEC e∙MMC Version 5.1 compliant embedded NAND flash memory products with an enhanced operational temperature range of -40°C to +105°C . They integrate NAND chips fabricated with 15nm process technology and are designed for industrial applications. The line-up offers densities of 8GB, 16GB, 32GB and 64GB. Sample shipments start from today, with …
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8power, a Cambridge spin-out with $1 million in seed capital, expects its first self-powered wireless sensor products to be out in Q2 with early customers trialling the products soon after. 8power has licensed a vibration-based electricity harvesting technology based on parametric resonance from the University. The company is targeting industrial customers who want to use …
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Leti will deploy a 5G framework on the MINATEC campus in Grenoble to demonstrate a new post-OFDM multicarrier waveform. Leti recently was granted a six-month license from Arcep, France’s telecommunications regulatory agency, to run a field trial with multiservice transmission at 3.5 GHz TDD band with 40MHz bandwidth. 3.5GHz might be the first carrier frequency …
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By Steve Bush
Having written a little about quadature decoder chips, I have had a look around for circuits that do a similar job – sadly, I cannot recall the circuit of the one built years ago for a college lecturer who had been given a machine too with encoders, but without interfaces – all I remember is …
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It looks like being a memorable year for memory makers with vendors seeking profits instead of share and with capex constrained. Samsung forecasts a Q4 profit from semiconductors of around $4 billion largely thanks to rising memory ASPs. PC DRAM is expected to see a Q1 ASP increase of ‘nearly 30%’ says DRAMeXchange, while server …
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A programmable temperature and process controller for use by the maker community has been designed to be Arduino-compatible. Called the SmartPID it can be programmed on a PC via the USB port using the Arduino IDE. Developer Davide Arzarello has a crowd-funding campaign running on Indiegogo. It is described as an “open platform” that can collect temperature from multiple sensors, apply programmable control logic, and drive different loads …
Read full article: Arduino temperature controller aimed at makers