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UAV lift-off: Will 31.6 percent solar energy efficiency record breaker prove critical?
UAV lift-off: Will 31.6 percent solar energy efficiency record breaker prove critical?
Technology News |
Alta Devices has achieved a 31.6% solar energy efficiency record which could drive to changes in the fundamental economics of…
Macom sues Infineon over GaN rights
Macom sues Infineon over GaN rights
Business news |
MACOM Technology Solutions Holdings announced it has initiated legal action against Infineon Technologies and International Rectifier (acquired by Infineon in…
Reserachers make dissolvable memristor based on eggs
Reserachers make dissolvable memristor based on eggs
Technology News |
Researchers at two Chinese universities, the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge University and the University of Bolton in the UK, have…
High accuracy 7½-digit DMM in PXIe format
High accuracy 7½-digit DMM in PXIe format
New Products |
National Instruments' PXI Express DMM forms, the company says, the foundation for more accurate, smarter test systems: PXIe-4081 is a…

Solid-state lithium battery targets IoT
Solid-state lithium battery targets IoT
New Products |
Ilika plc (Southampton, England) has launched the Stereax M250 solid-state battery, which it claims will enable smaller, higher energy density batteries for Internet of Things (IoT) applications.
Neural network stick promises new smart applications, products
Neural network stick promises new smart applications, products
New Products |
Movidius Ltd. (San Mateo, CA), a private company that set out in Dublin, Ireland, to develop vision processors more than a decade ago, has announced the Fathom Neural Compute Stick,…
Solar efficiency record promises new opportunities in UAVs, IoT
Solar efficiency record promises new opportunities in UAVs, IoT
Technology News |
Alta Devices (Sunnyvale, CA) has achieved a 31.6% solar energy efficiency record, which could drive changes in the fundamental economics of operating Unmanned Aerial Vehicles.
Solid-state lithium battery targets IoT
Solid-state lithium battery targets IoT
New Products |
Ilika plc (Southampton, England) has launched the Stereax M250 solid-state battery, which it claims will enable smaller, higher energy density batteries for Internet of Things (IoT) applications.
Movidius shows neural network stick
Movidius shows neural network stick
New Products |
Movidius Ltd. (San Mateo, Calif.), a private company that set out in Dublin, Ireland, to develop vision processors more than a decade ago, has announced the Fathom Neural Compute Stick,…
Embedded SW dev platform for autonomous vehicles offers total solution
Embedded SW dev platform for autonomous vehicles offers total solution
Market news |
Data management software provider ITTIA (Bellevue, WA) has teamed with Green Hills Software (Santa Barbara, CA), INTEGRITY Security Services (San Francisco, CA), and Crank Software (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) to create…
TI Tops Estimates on Automotive IC Strength
TI Tops Estimates on Automotive IC Strength
Business news |
Buoyed by strong sales of automotive chips and improved sales of devices for communications and industrial equipment, Texas Instruments Inc. Wednesday (April 27) reported higher than expected first quarter sales…
Pre-driver IC for electric drives integrates photocoupler
Pre-driver IC for electric drives integrates photocoupler
New Products |
Inverters in electric and hybrid powertrains in most cases use opto-isolated IGBT pre-driver circuits to separate high voltage for the motors from the electronic control crcuitry. Toshiba Electronics Europe now…
Ilika launches better lithium battery for IoT
Ilika launches better lithium battery for IoT
New Products |
Ilika plc (Southampton, England) has launched the Stereax M250 solid-state battery, which it claims will enable smaller, higher energy density batteries for Internet of Things (IoT) applications.
Marvell drives automotive Ethernet development in new design center
Marvell drives automotive Ethernet development in new design center
Feature articles |
With ADAS and infotainment systems generating ever-increasing amounts of data, the necessity for an adequate means of transport for these data inside the car is increasing rapidly. Fabless chip vendor…
Small signal simplifications
Small signal simplifications
Feature articles |
Gustavo Castro discusses what constitutes a small signal in an analog system and the implications for some design approximations and simplifications.
28-V, 30-W GaN HEMT bare die targets diverse applications
28-V, 30-W GaN HEMT bare die targets diverse applications
New Products |
Wolfspeed, a Cree Company, has released a 28-V, 30-W GaN HEMT bare die designed for up to 8 GHz operation at the IEEE Wireless and Microwave Technology Conference (WAMICON.
Most accurate 7½-digit DMM in PXIe format, from NI
Most accurate 7½-digit DMM in PXIe format, from NI
New Products |
National Instruments' PXI Express DMM forms, the company says, the foundation for more accurate, smarter test systems: PXIe-4081 is a 7½-digit high-performance DMM and 1.8 Msample/sec isolated digitiser. NI positions…
Eggs used to make dissolvable memristor
Eggs used to make dissolvable memristor
Technology News |
Researchers at two Chinese universities, the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge University and the University of Bolton in the UK, have produced a so-called memristor device made from egg proteins, magnesium…
Wake up primary-side regulated flyback
Wake up primary-side regulated flyback
Technology News |
Michael O’Loughlin, Senior Applications Engineer, Texas Instruments discusses a technique for PSR flyback converters that speeds up the transient response and reduces the amount of output capacitance that the design…
UAV lift-off: Will 31.6 percent solar energy efficiency record breaker prove critical?
UAV lift-off: Will 31.6 percent solar energy efficiency record breaker prove critical?
Technology News |
Alta Devices has achieved a 31.6% solar energy efficiency record which could drive to changes in the fundamental economics of operating Unmanned Aerial Vehicles.
Most accurate 7½-digit DMM in PXIe format, from NI
Most accurate 7½-digit DMM in PXIe format, from NI
New Products |
National Instruments' PXI Express DMM forms, the company says, the foundation for more accurate, smarter test systems: PXIe-4081 is a 7½-digit high-performance DMM and 1.8 Msample/sec isolated digitiser. NI positions…
Superfast light source made from quantum dots
Superfast light source made from quantum dots
Technology News |
Researchers at the Niels Bohr Institute (København, Denmark) have shown that light sources can be made much faster by using a principle that was predicted theoretically in 1954.
USB Type-C cable compliance testing with PXIe VNA
USB Type-C cable compliance testing with PXIe VNA
New Products |
Keysight Technologies' method-of-implementation (MOI) for cable assembly compliance tests, as defined in Rev. 1.1 of the USB Type-C specification and Rev. 1.0 of the USB Type-C Compliance Test Specification (CTS),…
Flexible pressure sensors enable stepless controls
Flexible pressure sensors enable stepless controls
Technology News |
Silicone (not silicon) is so soft that it yields under the pressure of a finger. Researchers make use of this property to control systems and instruments continuously. At the Hannover…
Macom sues Infineon over GaN rights
Macom sues Infineon over GaN rights
Business news |
MACOM Technology Solutions Holdings announced it has initiated legal action against Infineon Technologies and International Rectifier (acquired by Infineon in 2015), to defend its rights to use the pioneering and…
Simulation boosts ARM energy-efficient IP for IoT & cloud servers
Simulation boosts ARM energy-efficient IP for IoT & cloud servers
Business news |
Design win; Ansys power, noise and reliability solutions assist power-efficient IP design for ARM – the simulation vendor has licensed its engineering simulation tools to ARM for power efficiency, performance…
Design win; DSP IP from CEVA in V2X vehicle-to-everything chipset
Design win; DSP IP from CEVA in V2X vehicle-to-everything chipset
Technology News |
DSP IP vendor CEVA has disclosed that its CEVA-XC DSP is employed in Autotalks’ - provider of integrated V2X chipsets - second-generation V2X communications solution supporting concurrent IEEE802.11p and IEEE802.11a/b/g/n/ac…
Segger’s J-Link now for STM32 Nucleo & Discovery MCU boards
Segger’s J-Link now for STM32 Nucleo & Discovery MCU boards
New Products |
Segger (Hilden, Germany) now has J-Link firmware for the embedded ST-LINK on STM32 Nucleo, STM32 Discovery and other microcontroller unit (MCU) evaluation boards from STMicroelectronics.


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