Melexis chip improves car cabin lighting

Melexis, the Belgian automotive IC specialist, has a LIN-to-LIN gateway that overcomes the limitation of  16 devices on a typical LIN bus. Each MLX81120 connects as a LIN slave on the main LIN bus and is controlled directly from the vehicle’s Body Control Module (BCM). The new device allows for up to 16 LIN RGB ...

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TJ wins Cypress battle

TJ Rodgers has won his battle with Cypress over the constitution of the board. TJ, who resigned as CEO last year from the company he founded in 1982, brought an action against Cypress calling for the removal of two directors Ray Bingham and Erc Benhamou. Bingham resigned in June. At a subsequent election Dan McCranie ...

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Panasonic IoT wireless modules pre-certified at Avnet Abacus

Avnet Abacus is now selling Panasonic’s RF and wireless modules after extending its European distribution agreement with the supplier. The RF modules from Panasonic cover a range of communication protocols with ready-to-use modules for Bluetooth, Bluetooth Low Energy and Wi-Fi. “This extended distribution deal with Avnet Abacus delivers an even better choice for engineers looking to ...

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Farnell and TraceParts offer CAD files

Farnell and TraceParts are offering CAD designs for 10,000 TE Connectivity products available to customers to download in multiple formats. Content provided within the library includes high-resolution images, technical documentation, attribution, features and benefits along with descriptions to assist customers with their design selection. “We are always seeking new ways to help our customers design ...

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IC integrates sensors, logic and memory using CNTs and RRAM

A 3D chip which combines sensors, logic and memory using carbon nanotubes and RRAM has been made by Stanford University researchers. The chip has 1 million RRAM cells and 2 million CNT FETs built on top of eachother and connected by ultra-dense wires. Logic made from carbon nanotubes can be an order of magnitude more ...

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Inductors rated for under the bonnet power circuits

TT Electronics has introduced a range of coupled inductors with high temperature rating and AECQ200 certification for use in automotive power converter applications. The HA78D series shielded SMD inductors have been designed specially for use in DC/DC converter configurations including flyback, multi-output buck, SEPIC and Zeta applications. A high leakage inductance will make them suitable ...

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Is this the first graphene transistor?

Graphene researchers in Sweden believe they have created a prototype of a transistor-like device for future computers. By combining graphene with another two-dimensional material, researchers at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg have created a prototype of a transistor-like device which uses electron spin as the information carrier. Spintronics, as it is called, can result in ...

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Imagination increases revenues, reduces losses

Imagination saw a 19% y-o-y increase in revenues in its financial year to the end of April (FY 2017) to reach £145.2 million. FY 2017 operating profit was £7.79 million up from the FY 2016 loss of £26.7 million. However tax and the costs of discontinued businesses and financing costs ended in a net loss of ...

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