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VNA wafer test supports high data rate requirements of 5G
VNA wafer test supports high data rate requirements of 5G
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Anritsu Corporation has introduced the Universal Fixture Extraction (UFX) option for its VectorStar® vector network analyzers (VNAs) to provide signal…
RF Energy Toolkit to accelerate time-to-market
RF Energy Toolkit to accelerate time-to-market
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MACOM Technology Solutions have unveiled a development kit targeted to help commercial OEMs quickly and easily adapt their product designs…
Baseband vector signal transceiver targets envelope tracking, digital pre-distortion and 5G test
Baseband vector signal transceiver targets envelope tracking, digital pre-distortion and 5G test
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National Instruments (NI) have announced a baseband model of the second-generation Vector Signal Transceiver (VST) – the PXIe-5820 module. This…
Scalable PXI microwave signal generator delivers complex waveforms for emerging 5G
Scalable PXI microwave signal generator delivers complex waveforms for emerging 5G
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Keysight Technologies claims to offer the industry’s first scalable PXIe microwave signal generator with frequency coverage up to 44 GHz…

New liquid metal battery may solve renewable energy storage problem
New liquid metal battery may solve renewable energy storage problem
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Researchers in Norway are developing a membrane-free sodium-zinc liquid metal battery that could be used with renewable energy systems.
VR headset design: Time to rethink pixel density vs wider FOV?
VR headset design: Time to rethink pixel density vs wider FOV?
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Which is better: higher pixel density or wider field of view? This is one of the key VR headset design decisions that product developers have been wrestling with. So far,…
2,250ppi LCD targets VR, AR and 3D applications
2,250ppi LCD targets VR, AR and 3D applications
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Exhibiting at DisplayWeek, Samsung Display has revealed a 1.96" LCD panel specifically developed for VR/AR applications, with a resolution of 2,250ppi, so that even when magnified through lenses the pixels…
Low-cost perovskite solar cell achieves 10,000-hour+ stability
Low-cost perovskite solar cell achieves 10,000-hour+ stability
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Researchers at EPFL in Zurich have developed a low-cost perovskite solar cell that has operated for more than a year without loss in its 11% efficiency and could mark the…
High linearity DC to 20 GHz wideband GaAs MMIC distributed PA
High linearity DC to 20 GHz wideband GaAs MMIC distributed PA
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Custom MMIC has added a packaged distributed amplifier, CMD201P5, to its growing portfolio of Broad Range Distributed Amplifier MMICs. Beyond ultra-wideband performance of DC to 20 GHz, this latest distributed…
Hyper-local air pollution maps show air quality at street level
Hyper-local air pollution maps show air quality at street level
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Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin have developed what is claimed as the "most detailed and extensive local map of air pollution" ever produced for an urban area.
SMA coaxial test probe assemblies target RF module test over DC to 18 GHz
SMA coaxial test probe assemblies target RF module test over DC to 18 GHz
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Amphenol RF has expanded its line of coaxial cable assemblies with SMA test probes, ideal for RF module test, such as those found in various IoT applications including smart lighting,…
Audio control energizing microphone, speaker markets
Audio control energizing microphone, speaker markets
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Microphones, microspeakers, and audio ICs have become the focus of a newly energized audio ecosystem being targeted by consumer giants such as Apple, Amazon and Google for equipment control.
RF-powered pacemaker cuts risks by eliminating wire leads
RF-powered pacemaker cuts risks by eliminating wire leads
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Researchers at Rice University (Houston, TX) have developed a microwave-powered pacemaker that eliminates battery packs and wire leads and allows the device to be inserted directly into the heart.
Automotive telematics modules target data, voice and eCall
Automotive telematics modules target data, voice and eCall
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U-blox has introduced a family of automotive-grade telematics modules supporting LTE Advanced (Cat 6) with HSPA+ and 2G fallback. The TOBY-L4 modules include a CPU with a processing power of…
Electromobility, digitization promise boom for car industry
Electromobility, digitization promise boom for car industry
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Autonomous driving, connected vehicles and Big Data analytics are triggering massive growth in the automotive and related industries, states a study from market researcher Frost & Sullivan.
VR headset design: Time to rethink pixel density vs wider FOV?
VR headset design: Time to rethink pixel density vs wider FOV?
Technology News |
Which is better: higher pixel density or wider field of view? This is one of the key VR headset design decisions that product developers have been wrestling with. So far,…
2kW dc/dc ref design for UPS, energy storage systems
2kW dc/dc ref design for UPS, energy storage systems
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Texas Instruments (Dallas, TX) has developed a 2 kW isolated bidirectional DC/DC converter reference design for 48V to 400V uninterruptable power supplies (UPS) and energy storage systems. Designers can use…
Laptop ac/dc adaptor ref design uses GaN to boost power density
Laptop ac/dc adaptor ref design uses GaN to boost power density
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Gallium nitride (GaN) power device maker Efficient Power Conversion (El Segundo, CA) is quoting one of its design wins as an example of the benefits of using wide-bandgap power devices.
RF-powered pacemaker cuts risks by eliminating wire leads
RF-powered pacemaker cuts risks by eliminating wire leads
Technology News |
Researchers at Rice University (Houston, TX) have developed a microwave-powered pacemaker that eliminates battery packs and wire leads and allows the device to be inserted directly into the heart.
Audio control energizing microphone, speaker markets
Audio control energizing microphone, speaker markets
Market news |
Microphones, microspeakers, and audio ICs have become the focus of a newly energized audio ecosystem being targeted by consumer giants such as Apple, Amazon and Google for equipment control.
Bluetooth 5 SoC targets wearables, peripherals
Bluetooth 5 SoC targets wearables, peripherals
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The latest in the nRF52 Series of Bluetooth low energy SoCs from Nordic Semiconductor (Trondheim, Norway), the nRF52810 SoC is a peripheral and memory-optimized variant that represents the most accessible,…
Bosch, TomTom tap radar sensors to create road maps
Bosch, TomTom tap radar sensors to create road maps
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Automated driving requires very exact, concurrent virtual roadmaps. These maps are normally composed by the camera images from the vehicles. Together with map services provider TomTom, Bosch has developed a…
Bosch, TomTom tap car radar to create maps for robo cars
Bosch, TomTom tap car radar to create maps for robo cars
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Automated driving requires very exact, concurrent virtual roadmaps. These maps are normally composed by the camera images from the vehicles. Together with map services provider TomTom, Bosch has developed a…
Hyper-local air pollution maps show air quality at street level
Hyper-local air pollution maps show air quality at street level
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Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin have developed what is claimed as the "most detailed and extensive local map of air pollution" ever produced for an urban area.
Broadcom tipped to win Toshiba memory business
Broadcom tipped to win Toshiba memory business
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Toshiba Ltd. (Tokyo, Japan) has decided to negotiate with semiconductor company Broadcom Ltd. (Singapore) on the disposal of Toshiba's memory business, according to the Asahi Shimbun newspaper, which referenced unnamed…
ARM tweaks its way to higher graphics and AI performance
ARM tweaks its way to higher graphics and AI performance
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ARM has made changes to its MALI line of 3D accelerator core IP to support the new DynamIQ Cortex A75 and A55 cores for graphics and AI in 10nm system-on-chips…
2kW bidirectional power reference design for more efficient UPS
2kW bidirectional power reference design for more efficient UPS
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Texas Instruments (TI) has developed a 2 kW isolated bidirectional DC/DC converter reference design for 48V to 400V uninterruptable power supplies (UPS) and energy storage systems. Designers can use the…
Instrument cluster runs in a virtual machine
Instrument cluster runs in a virtual machine
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At the 7th Annual Connected Car Conference in Detroit (USA), embedded software vendor OpenSynergy (Berlin) is demonstrating a virtual instrument cluster running on the COQOS SDK hypervisor from embedded software…


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