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SST adds to Optomax portfolio
Feb
These devices offer the same functionality and operational performance as standard Optomax switches, but with greater overall electrical robustness and flexibility.
They are capable of accepting supply voltages from 4.5VDC to 15.4VDC or 8VDC to 30VDC and have built-in protection against over-voltage, reverse polarity, and the presence of voltage transients or e…
Littelfuse continues its acquisition trail with IXYS acquisition
Feb
“As the largest acquisition in our 90-year history, this is an exciting milestone for Littelfuse,” said Dave Heinzmann, president and CEO, Littelfuse, when the acquisition was first announced. “IXYS’ extensive power semiconductor portfolio and technology expertise fit squarely within our strategy to accelerate our growth within power control and industrial…
Melexis brings out autograde fan driver IC
Feb
The US168KLD and US169KLD are automotive grade single-chip solutions for driving single-coil brushless DC fans and motors.
According to Melexis, as a result of their soft-switching characteristics, they ensure low levels of EMI and acoustic noise, making them suitable for in-cabin automotive applications such as sensor fans or cooling fans for wireless chargers, …
Rolec boxes have more size options
Feb
Separate screw channels outside the enclosure’s interior maximise the space available for components.
The enclosure’s bevelled lid is recessed to accommodate a membrane keypad or front plate. The lid screws are made of corrosion-resistant stainless steel and are captured to avoid accidental loss.
Threaded screw bosses in the lid and base enable the installatio…
Omron’s tactile button has 2mm profile
Feb
The B3SE is rated at 1 million operations.
The silver plated switch is sealed conforming to IP67 (IEC 60529) standards providing high contact reliability in dusty environments and sealing against ingress of flux or fluids during manufacturing.
The B3SE can withstand temperatures between -25C to +70C degrees with no icing or condensation.
Andries de Bruin, Europea…
Powering up wearable devices for the military
Feb
The global demand for connected devices is growing, with trends such as the internet of things (IoT) and home automation setting certain expectations from users.
This is driven by developments in communications protocols and sensor technology, which has made it easier to integrate network connectivity and remote-control systems into an increasingly wide variety of …
ReefShark chipsets halve MIMO antenna size
Feb
The chipsets can halve the size of MIMO antennae without affecting performance and also reduce power consumption in baseband units by 64%, compared to such units in use today, says Nokia.
The chipsets comprise a ReefShark digital front end for LTE and 5G radio systems to support large MIMO, and an ReefShark RFIC front end module and transceiver for a MIMO adaptive …
Price freeze, with robust electronic shelf labels
Feb
The company has announced a bendable EPD, designed for freezer rail type, electronic shelf labels. The 11.5 x 0.5-inches label can withstand repeated bending and ‘installation abuse’ and can be read in the typically harsh lighting used in retail outlets. It operates at temperatures down to -10°C. Tests found that updates were displayed in less than two second…
Fast SoC module is supported with build environment
Feb
The module has up to 747,000 systems logic cells across six Arm processors, a GPU and up to 294 user I/Os. Built-in interfaces include two Gigabit Ethernet, USB 3.0 and USB 2.0, 16 master guide tables (MGTs) with speeds of up to 12.5Gbit per second), as well as PCIe Gen2 x4. With up to 4GByte of DDR4 SDRAM with bandwidths of 19.2GByte per second and ECC, as well a…
Comment: Bringing the power outlet into the world of IoT
Feb
Despite the fact that we rely on them to power our appliances, devices, homes, and ultimately our lives, we don’t give them much thought. That lack of attention prevented the outlet from changing since its introduction by Harvey Hubbell in 1903. The problem is, every other device at every other point in our electrical grid, along with everything that it powers, …
Arm introduces IP for machine learned in edge devices
Feb
The suite includes scalable machine learning and object detection processors, claimed to enable trillions of machine learning operations per second on mobile devices.
As well as machine learning, the suite is intended to deliver neural network functionality for a new class of device with advanced compute capabilities including object detection.
The initial launc…
EW: Video Interview – Lattice advancing Edge Connectivity and Edge Computing
Feb
He explains how the company’s small form-factor, low-power FPGAs and wireless technologies are enabling intelligence at the edge, for industrial, automotive and consumer applications.
Thank you to Deepak for his time.
Read all our Embedded World 2018 coverage »…
IoT dev kit has security, Bluetooth, touch and zero-power display
Feb
It is based around a programmable logic chip that includes a 150MHz ARM Cortex-M4 core and a 100MHz Cortex-M0+ core.
“Active power can be as low as 22µA/MHz on the Cortex-M4 and 15µA/MHz on the Cortex-M0+ cores, and dynamic voltage and frequency scaling ensures energy efficiency as the load varies,” said RS Components, which is stocking the kit, called PSoC…
Green Hills adds to secure RTOS support for Xilinx Zynq
Feb
Zynq UltraScale+ integrates 64-bit ARM Cortex-A53 processor cores and an FPGA fabric which is being used in applications for automotive intelligence, industrial vision and defence.
The secure RTOS allows software of different levels of criticality to run on the same processor.
The are plans to offer the option of the Integrity Multivisor secure virtualisation ex…
LuxLive trips the light fantastic
Feb
‘Lighting’ is used in the broadest sense here, because LuxLive is fast becoming half a networking show as people not only control lighting wirelessly, but use light fittings as the perfect vantage point to track retail customers, to transfer data from, and all sorts of IoT activities.
And it is not just LuxLive that is on, as co-located are the Strategies in …