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Würth offers USB-3.1 components
Würth offers USB-3.1 components
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Würth Elektronik eiSos has developed connectors, jacks, and cables for the USB-3.1 standard.
Tesla gears up for energy storage market surge
Tesla gears up for energy storage market surge
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Tesla is anticipating that sales this year of the company's batteries could be as much 60 percent larger than the…
Japanese researchers develop low-cost thermoelectric thin films
Japanese researchers develop low-cost thermoelectric thin films
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NEC, NEC Tokin and Tohoku University have co-developed a thin-film spin Seebeck thermoelectric device which they hope could be cheaply…
Nanoscale-printed smart sensor consortium formed
Nanoscale-printed smart sensor consortium formed
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Northeastern University (Boston, MA) has been awarded a $3 million grant to establish the Advanced Nano-manufacturing Cluster for Smart Sensors…

Magnetic sensors come in space-saving package
Magnetic sensors come in space-saving package
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Targeting safety-critical automotive applications, the analog technology experts form Austria-based AMS AG have developed two magnetic position sensor chips. As required for these applications, the AS5170 and AS5171 meet the…
MISRA clarifies safe and secure uses of the C language
MISRA clarifies safe and secure uses of the C language
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MISRA is releasing new documents to clarify use of the MISRA C Guidelines in developing any application with high integrity or high reliability requirements – both safety related and security-related.
Discovery could enable batteries with unlimited lifetime
Discovery could enable batteries with unlimited lifetime
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A team at the University of California, Irvine report – almost inadvertently - inventing nanowire-based battery material that can be recharged hundreds of thousands of times, moving us closer to…
Light ‘trick’ could lead to better solar cells, LEDs
Light ‘trick’ could lead to better solar cells, LEDs
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Researchers at University of Twente (Enschede, Netherlands) have turned light propagating in a layer of scattering nanoparticles - which typically is associated with a principle of diffusion and creates a…
ESD: The most common threat to the IoT
ESD: The most common threat to the IoT
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The Internet of Things (IoT) promises to provide a wide range of new capabilities with respect to monitoring and quantifying systems our environment and even ourselves. However, these benefits are…
Helium pumps $20m into smart environmental monitoring sensor
Helium pumps $20m into smart environmental monitoring sensor
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IoT company, Helium, which has raised $20 million in a new funding round for the company's smart industrial sensor business, has launched a smart sensor with multiple environmental sensing capabilities…
3D dead reckoning receiver leverages sensor-fusion for 100% coverage
3D dead reckoning receiver leverages sensor-fusion for 100% coverage
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SkyTraq Technology's S1722DR8 GNSS dead-reckoning receiver integrates a 3-axis gyroscope/accelerometer and a barometric pressure sensor with a GNSS receiver.
Sensor data test platform boosts factory energy efficiency
Sensor data test platform boosts factory energy efficiency
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TE Connectivity (TE) has collaborated with ifm, SAP, and the OPC Foundation to develop a test bed that shows how all sensor data can be transmitted from machines to an…
Nanoscale-printed smart sensor consortium formed
Nanoscale-printed smart sensor consortium formed
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Northeastern University (Boston, MA) has been awarded a $3 million grant to establish the Advanced Nano-manufacturing Cluster for Smart Sensors and Materials (ANSSeM).
LED-based ring light offers customzation flexibility
LED-based ring light offers customzation flexibility
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Global Lighting Technologies has introduced a ring light that is a bright and uniform circle of LED-based illumination which lends a special look and appeal to lighting applications.
US forms printed smart sensor consortium
US forms printed smart sensor consortium
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Northeastern University has been awarded a $3 million grant to establish the Advanced Nano-manufacturing Cluster for Smart Sensors and Materials (ANSSeM).
Fogale buys Altatech for high-end metrology presence
Fogale buys Altatech for high-end metrology presence
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Metrology company Fogale Nanotech SA (Nimes, France) has acquired wafer inspection company Altatech SAS (Grenoble France) for an undisclosed cash sum.
Bi-directional autofocus actuator fit for 16-megapixel smartphone cameras
Bi-directional autofocus actuator fit for 16-megapixel smartphone cameras
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Alps Electric has developed the “ATMJ1Z95 Series” bi-directional autofocus actuator for integration into 16-megapixel smartphone camera modules.
Single-phase filter for currents up to 60A at 250 V AC
Single-phase filter for currents up to 60A at 250 V AC
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Schurter's new FMAB filter family offers three different levels of design flexibility. FMAB NEO design N comes with two large X capacitors that offer high symmetrical attenuation in the lower…
ESD Standard Vis a Vis IoT applications
ESD Standard Vis a Vis IoT applications
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Looking at the most common threat to IoT, electro static discharges, and how to deflect them.
0.8A step-up DC/DC converters in a 1.28×1.08×0.4mm WLP
0.8A step-up DC/DC converters in a 1.28×1.08×0.4mm WLP
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Torex Semiconductor's XC9141/XC9142 series of 0.8A step-up DC/DC converters come with an input–output disconnection function (load disconnection function) to prevent malfunctioning during standby, and for device functionality that enables power…
Gel-coated nanowires yield batteries with ‘indefinite’ cycle life
Gel-coated nanowires yield batteries with ‘indefinite’ cycle life
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A team at the University of California, Irvine report – almost inadvertently - inventing nanowire-based battery material that can be recharged hundreds of thousands of times, moving us closer to…
Samsung details foundry roadmap
Samsung details foundry roadmap
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Officials from Samsung Semiconductor Inc. (SSI) detailed the company’s foundry roadmap, which includes expanding FD-SOI production and offering low-cost alternatives to existing FinFET technologies.
Current meters focus on hard to reach conductors
Current meters focus on hard to reach conductors
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Martindale Electric has released a range of True RMS flexible current meters designed to help electrical professionals access hard to reach conductors.
MISRA clarifies safe and secure uses of the C language
MISRA clarifies safe and secure uses of the C language
Technology News |
MISRA is releasing new documents to clarify use of the MISRA C Guidelines in developing any application with high integrity or high reliability requirements – both safety related and security-related.
DC/DCs have 5.2 kV isolation to power SiC MOSFET drivers
DC/DCs have 5.2 kV isolation to power SiC MOSFET drivers
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Recom (Neu-Isenburg, Germany) has optimised two series of 2W DC/DC converters specifically for a role in powering SiC MOSFETs. One of the challenges of driving SiC MOSFETs, the company notes,…
Precision oscillator IP aids low-power features in Bluetooth SoCs
Precision oscillator IP aids low-power features in Bluetooth SoCs
IP vendor Dolphin Integration (Grenoble, France) observes that, as an enabling technology for IoT, the Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) protocol is designed to enable very low-power consumption devices. To save…
Non-isolated DC/DC regulators for battery or distributed power systems
Non-isolated DC/DC regulators for battery or distributed power systems
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Powersolve's PSR30 and PSR60 series of DC/DC switching regulators isdesigned for battery or distributed power applications and delivers non-isolated outputs of up to 60W with efficiencies as high as 96%.
Californian researchers create battery mechanism with ‘indefinite’ cycle life
Californian researchers create battery mechanism with ‘indefinite’ cycle life
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A team at the University of California, Irvine report – almost inadvertently - inventing nanowire-based battery material that can be recharged hundreds of thousands of times, moving us closer to…


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