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Battery pack with integral charger supports cost sensitive mobile applications
Battery pack with integral charger supports cost sensitive mobile applications
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GlobTek has introduced the GlobTek GS-1907 battery pack, which includes battery charger circuits, thermal cut-outs and dedicated safety circuit and…
Hardware-in-the-loop simulation now integrated with LabVIEW
Hardware-in-the-loop simulation now integrated with LabVIEW
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LDRA has integrated its LDRA tool suite with National Instruments' LabVIEW Virtual Instruments. The LDRA-NI solution offers hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) simulation,…
Beacon tower light segmented with up to four different colour LEDs
Beacon tower light segmented with up to four different colour LEDs
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Banner Engineering's EZ-Light TL50 beacon tower light is a hybrid of the company’s TL50 Tower and K50 Beacon lights. The…
RS Components’ online tool enhances Tektronix’oscilloscope probe selection
RS Components’ online tool enhances Tektronix’oscilloscope probe selection
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RS Components has introduced a new interactive, online probe selector tool from Tektronix. The selector tool enables users to quickly…

Hyperspectral imaging: seeing the invisible
Hyperspectral imaging: seeing the invisible
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Shrimps see what we, humans don't see. Mantis shrimps have a compound eye which allows them to see in the ultraviolet down into the infrared whereas human eyes can only…
95% efficiency boost converter drives multiple high brightness LEDs
95% efficiency boost converter drives multiple high brightness LEDs
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ZMD AG has launched its first step-up converter with integrated 35 V power switch for high brightness LEDs. It is optimal for driving multiple white LEDs connected in series from…
XIMEA unveils world’s smallest USB 3.0 industrial camera
XIMEA unveils world’s smallest USB 3.0 industrial camera
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XIMEA GmbH is claiming to have set a new benchmark for high-speed industrial cameras with the introduction of the MQ series USB 3.0 SuperSpeed industrial machine vision cameras based on…
Fault protected full-/half-duplex RS485 transceivers achieve 20-Mbps
Fault protected full-/half-duplex RS485 transceivers achieve 20-Mbps
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Linear Technology Corporation is introducing a family of rugged, high voltage tolerant RS485/RS422 transceivers for elimination of field failures without the need of costly external protection devices. In practical RS485…
Sixteenth-brick power converters focus on low-profile applications
Sixteenth-brick power converters focus on low-profile applications
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Ericsson has introduced two new isolated DC/DC power converters that come in an industry-standard sixteenth-brick form factor and deliver an output current up to 20 A, or an output power…
Boost converter drives multiple high brightness LEDs in low-voltage lighting applications
Boost converter drives multiple high brightness LEDs in low-voltage lighting applications
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ZMDI AG has introduced the company’s first step-up converter with integrated 35 V power switch for high brightness LEDs. It is optimal for driving multiple white LEDs connected in series…
Atmel’s maXTouch to support Samsung’s Focus Flash and Focus S touchscreens
Atmel’s maXTouch to support Samsung’s Focus Flash and Focus S touchscreens
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Samsung has selected Atmel's maXTouch E Series solution to power the company’s new Samsung Focus Flash 1677 and Samsung Focus S 1937. The Samsung Focus Flash runs on Windows 7.5…
The 12 DACs/ADCs of Xmas – TI’s acquisition of National Semiconductor leads to a year to remember for data converters
The 12 DACs/ADCs of Xmas – TI’s acquisition of National Semiconductor leads to a year to remember for data converters
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We are only a few months after Texas Instruments absorbed National Semiconductor but the new business is already making it clear that it sees data converter technologies as being its…
24-V, 15-A monolithic synchronous step-down regulator offers differential output sensing and clock synchronization
24-V, 15-A monolithic synchronous step-down regulator offers differential output sensing and clock synchronization
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Linear Technology Corporation has introduced a high frequency controlled on-time synchronous step-down DC/DC converter with differential output voltage sensing and clock synchronization. The controlled on-time, valley current mode architecture enables…
Farnell gets distribution exclusivity on Peccater’s thermal circuit protection devices
Farnell gets distribution exclusivity on Peccater’s thermal circuit protection devices
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Farnell has secured an exclusive distribution agreement with electrical and electronic equipment safety product specialist Peccater. The distributor will offer Peccater' innovative Thermiac devices that provide a unique solution to…
Atmel’s maXTouch supports Samsung’s latest Focus Flash and Focus S touchscreens
Atmel’s maXTouch supports Samsung’s latest Focus Flash and Focus S touchscreens
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Samsung has selected Atmel's maXTouch E Series solution to power the company’s new Samsung Focus Flash 1677 and Samsung Focus S 1937. The Samsung Focus Flash runs on Windows 7.5…
Thin-film solar startup raises $130 million
Thin-film solar startup raises $130 million
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Stion Corp., a startup formed to manufacture thin-film solar modules, has announced a $130 million equity investment led by AVACO and a number of Korean private equity funds. Existing investors…
High-g triaxial piezoresistive shock accelerometers up to 60,000 g
High-g triaxial piezoresistive shock accelerometers up to 60,000 g
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The Endevco model 7274 series from Meggitt Sensing Systems is a family of rugged, undamped, high-g triaxial piezoresistive shock accelerometers designed for high-acceleration shock measurements across three mutually perpendicular axes.
Linear Technology acquires Dust Networks
Linear Technology acquires Dust Networks
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Linear Technology has acquired Dust Networks a provider of low-power wireless sensor network (WSN) technology.
High brightness LED optimized for elevated outdoor video screens
High brightness LED optimized for elevated outdoor video screens
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Cree has announced a series of high-brightness LEDs, the Screen Master C4SMT and C4SMD 4mm devices, with a 20 degree tilted viewing angle optimized for elevated outdoor screens (often seen…
Flamac and imec combine expertise to develop new materials for solar cells
Flamac and imec combine expertise to develop new materials for solar cells
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Imec is working together with Flamac, a division of SIM vzw (Strategisch Initiatief Materialen in Vlaanderen or Strategic Initiative Materials in Flanders) to develop novel semiconductor materials for solar cell…
Two-wire Hall-effect latch for increased protection against high-voltage transients
Two-wire Hall-effect latch for increased protection against high-voltage transients
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The A1244 from Allegro MicroSystems Europe is a two-wire Hall-effect latch featuring on-chip transient protection and a zener clamp to protect against overvoltage conditions on the supply line. The device…
Sensing electrical potentials for touchless control
Sensing electrical potentials for touchless control
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Every engineer is familiar with the voltages and currents in an electric circuit. These quantities can be measured easily enough with the two probes of a digital voltmeter. But few…
650V rated power MOSFETs boast lowest on-state resistance at 0.029 Ohms
650V rated power MOSFETs boast lowest on-state resistance at 0.029 Ohms
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The STW88N65M5 MDmesh V MOSFET introduced by STMicroelectronics features an on-state resistance of 0.029 Ohms, the lowest in the industry for 650V devices in the standard TO-247 package according to…
CompactPCI serial system meets the PICMG CPCI-2.30 standard for test laboratories
CompactPCI serial system meets the PICMG CPCI-2.30 standard for test laboratories
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Elma's CompactPCI PlusIO test system is equipped with eight slots in total; one system slot for the CPU, four for peripheral cards and the remaining three for CompactPCI legacy cards.
Synchronous step-down regulator offers differential output sensing and clock synchronization
Synchronous step-down regulator offers differential output sensing and clock synchronization
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Linear Technology Corporation has introduced a high frequency controlled on-time synchronous step-down DC/DC converter with differential output voltage sensing and clock synchronization. The controlled on-time, valley current mode architecture enables…
Ultralow noise and spurious 350-MHz to 6-GHz integer-N PLL/synthesizer suppresses system noise
Ultralow noise and spurious 350-MHz to 6-GHz integer-N PLL/synthesizer suppresses system noise
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Linear Technology has unveiled a high performance 6 GHz integer-N frequency synthesizer with outstanding -226 dBc/Hz normalized closed-loop in-band phase noise, excellent -274 dBc/Hz normalized in-band 1/f noise, a wideband…
Solar PV companies shift focus to profitability gains in 2012
Solar PV companies shift focus to profitability gains in 2012
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Financial challenges are forcing solar photovoltaic (PV) companies to prioritize a return to profitability and shift focus from seeking market share, finds NPD Solarbuzz’s latest Solarbuzz Quarterly report. The market…
Saft begins deliveries of first lithium-ion batteries produced at new Jacksonville plant
Saft begins deliveries of first lithium-ion batteries produced at new Jacksonville plant
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Saft has started shipping the first cells to roll off the production lines at the world’s most advanced automated lithium-ion battery factory, in Jacksonville, Florida, USA. The first deliveries from…


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