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Mobile tester targets railway GSM-R communications systems testing
Mobile tester targets railway GSM-R communications systems testing
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Cobham Wireless has launched a mobile tester designed to test railway GSM-R communications systems.
Quantum entanglement revealed at room temp in SiC wafers
Quantum entanglement revealed at room temp in SiC wafers
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Researchers at the University of Chicago have shown that quantum entanglement – the phenomenon whereby the states of pairs of…
Automotive-qualified Transient Voltage Suppression for data buses
Automotive-qualified Transient Voltage Suppression for data buses
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Semtech has added to its protection devices with an AEC-Q100 qualified device designed to safeguard the high-speed data lines found…
Microsemi ups its bid to win PMC-Sierra
Microsemi ups its bid to win PMC-Sierra
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Microsemi Corp. (Aliso Viejo, Calif.) has entered into an agreement to acquire PMC-Sierra Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.), a maker of chips…

Tandem thin film solar cells add perovskite to boost efficiency
Tandem thin film solar cells add perovskite to boost efficiency
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A low cost procedure that makes it possible to produce thin film tandem solar cells which uses a thin perovskite layer has been developed by Swiss researchers at Empa.  …
Latest Infineon S5 Series IGBTs, in distribution
Latest Infineon S5 Series IGBTs, in distribution
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Distributor Mouser Electronics has the TRENCHSTOP 5 S5 insulated gate bipolar transistors (IGBTs) from Infineon. This new series in the ultra-thin wafer TRENCHSTOP 5 family has a low typical saturation…
Power-quality monitor addresses on-site testing and troubleshooting
Power-quality monitor addresses on-site testing and troubleshooting
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Yokogawa has introduced a general-purpose power measuring instrument for field and on-site testing and troubleshooting.
Functional safety package combines FPGA with “Lockstep” processor
Functional safety package combines FPGA with “Lockstep” processor
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Altera's Functional Safety Lockstep solution for the Nios II embedded processor is aimed at reducing risk in design cycles and helping system designers simplify certification for industrial and automotive safety…
Starting all over again on plastic: ARM
Starting all over again on plastic: ARM
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Reviewing over 30 years of ARM's history during ARM TechCon, CTO Mike Muller put side by side the ARM1 designed at the 3000nm (3um) node with 25k transistors and the…
Microsemi sees off Skyworks to win PMC-Sierra
Microsemi sees off Skyworks to win PMC-Sierra
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Microsemi Corp. (Aliso Viejo, Calif.) has entered into an agreement to acquire PMC-Sierra Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.), a maker of chips for optical storage and communications.
Bluetooth adapter speeds data exchange with mobile terminal devices
Bluetooth adapter speeds data exchange with mobile terminal devices
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The Bluetooth adapter from Phoenix Contact enables data exchange between interface products and mobile terminal devices. Wireless connections enable more convenient control and regulation processes in industrial applications.
Multiprotocol I/O modules support flexible industrial production
Multiprotocol I/O modules support flexible industrial production
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Belden has launched the LioN-Power Active I/O modules, a multiprotocol solution that meets both EtherNet/IP and PROFINET specifications for the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) and detects both input and…
Secure web access over PROFINET
Secure web access over PROFINET
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Renesas Electronics Europe and Sevenstax joined their forces to commercialize a secure connectivity solution for industrial automation applications, that supports secure web access using standard internet protocols over a PROFINET…
Flexible sensor detects multiple ions in fluids
Flexible sensor detects multiple ions in fluids
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Imec and Holst Centre have demonstrated a prototype of a single-chip electrochemical sensor for simultaneous detection of multiple ions in fluids.
Startups challeged to tackle biggest 5G hurdles – latency and resiliance
Startups challeged to tackle biggest 5G hurdles – latency and resiliance
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The job of defining the next generation of cellular networking has lots of pieces and players. All sides agree they will finish the puzzle before the end of 2019, but…
Lithium-sulfur licensing deal takes aim at Li-ion battery market
Lithium-sulfur licensing deal takes aim at Li-ion battery market
The US Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (Oak Ridge, TN) and Solid Power Inc. (Louisville, CO) have signed an exclusive licensing agreement relating to lithium-sulfur materials for next-generation…
In aircraft, sensors learn to talk wirelessly
In aircraft, sensors learn to talk wirelessly
In large aircraft, sensors and controls are increasingly connected to the electronics infrastructure. Since, this results in an impenetrable thicket of cables, wireless networks could be a solution – if…
Low-power communication DSPs address IoT, M2M connectivity
Low-power communication DSPs address IoT, M2M connectivity
CEVA Inc. (Mountain View, CA) has introduced two power- and cost-optimized communication processors designed to address the growing demand for multimode connectivity for Internet of Things (IoT) and Machine-to-Machine (M2M)…
Wireless sensor measures brain injury
Wireless sensor measures brain injury
Scientists at Purdue University (West Lafayette, IN) have developed a wireless sensor implant to record how brain tissue deforms when subjected to the kind of shock that causes blast-induced trauma…
Trillion Sensors Roadmap outline set to debut
Trillion Sensors Roadmap outline set to debut
The MEMS and Sensors Industry Group (Pittsburgh, PA) has announced that the outline of the TSensors (Trillion Sensors) Roadmap will be released on December 9 at the 2015 TSensors Summit,…
Xilinx’ Spartan-7 FPGAs; flexible, I/O-Intensive programmables
Xilinx’ Spartan-7 FPGAs; flexible, I/O-Intensive programmables
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Xilinx' Spartan-7 FPGA family is intended to deliver I/O intensive devices for cost-sensitive applications. The family targets connectivity requirements across markets including automotive, consumer, industrial IoT, data centre, wired and…
PROFIBUS Slave Stack for Renesas’ R-IN Industrial Automation System
PROFIBUS Slave Stack for Renesas’ R-IN Industrial Automation System
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Renesas Electronics Europe and TMG TE have announced a PROFIBUS slave stack for the R-IN Family. The two companies are providing system solutions for Renesas' R-IN32M3 Series of industrial Ethernet…
SOI process for low-loss smartphone RF switches moves on a generation
SOI process for low-loss smartphone RF switches moves on a generation
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Toshiba has announced a next-step in its Toshiba Advanced RF SOI (silicon-on-insulator) – TaRF - process, and says that this give it the lowest-available insertion Loss in the Industry for…
ams boosts image sensing market presence with CMOSIS acquisition
ams boosts image sensing market presence with CMOSIS acquisition
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Austrian sensor and mixed-signal semiconductor house ams has acquired CMOSIS, supplier of high-end area scan and miniature medical CMOS image sensors; the move expands ams’ optical sensor portfolio with high-value…
Cypress adds M0+ and M4-core MCUs to ARM portfolio
Cypress adds M0+ and M4-core MCUs to ARM portfolio
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With two additions to its range of ARM Cortex based microcontrollers, Cypress Semiconductor is addressing ultra-low-power internet of things applications with an energy-efficient Cortex-M0+ series: and safety-critical industrial systems and…
Industrial drive control SoC accepts digital & analogue sensor inputs
Industrial drive control SoC accepts digital & analogue sensor inputs
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Under its C2000 Delfino branding, Texas Instruments has combined microcontroller and DesignDRIVE Position Manager technology to eliminate challenges in interfacing with position sensors in industrial servo and AC inverter drives.
Wireless sensor measures blast-induced brain trauma shocks
Wireless sensor measures blast-induced brain trauma shocks
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Scientists from Purdue University have developed a wireless sensor implant to record for the first time how brain tissue deforms when subjected to the kind of shock that causes blast-induced…
Graphene light trapping discovery promises faster internet speeds
Graphene light trapping discovery promises faster internet speeds
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Researchers from the University of Exeter in collaboration with the ICFO Institute in Barcelona have used a ground-breaking technique to trap light at the surface of graphene using only pulses…


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