Minmax is aiming at household appliances with 3W (AAF-03) and 5W (AAF-05) encapsulated power modules safety approved for EN60950-1 (ITE) and EN60335-1 (household appliance). Size is ~ 26 x 26 x 16mm for the PCB-mount version, and there is chassis-mount option with terminal strips available on 5W models. “Their small size offers designers the opportunity ...
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A European Radio Equipment Directive is set to become UK law following what some industry insiders believe has been a “frustrating implementation period”. Industry body techUK has highlighted inconsistencies between wording in the UK Regulations and the text of the Directive. It also believes the government has made a major underestimation of the cost of ...
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National Instruments has introduced a remote control module for laptop control of PXI systems using Thunderbolt 3. The PXIe-8301 offers PCI Express Gen 3 connectivity through two Thunderbolt 3 ports this will support up to 2.3 Gbyte/s of data throughput. The second port can be used to daisy chain additional Thunderbolt 3 or USB-C devices. ...
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Microchip has announced MPLAB ICD 4, an in-circuit programming and debugging tool for PIC microcontrollers and dsPIC digital signal controllers. All headers from the earlier MPLAB ICD 3 are supported, and inside is a 300MHz 32bit microcontroller. “MPLAB ICD 4 includes all the features of the MPLAB ICD 3 debugger while a faster processor and ...
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DLI’s V Series, single layer ceramic capacitor series has been designed to provide higher capacitance in a smaller footprint at high frequency compared with multi-layer (MLCC) types. They are wire-bondable and have a 0.77 x 0.77mm footprint, allowing for high density mounting. “Excellent in high frequency characteristics compared with general purpose MLCC’s, the impedance of ...
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Intel CEO Brian Krzanich has resigned from President Trump’s manufacturing advisory council after the President did not move far enough and fast enough in condemning the white supremacist fracas in Charlottesville, Virginia last week Krzanich said his decision was based on the worrying direction of U.S. politics. “I resigned to call attention to the serious ...
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DRAM, NAND and automotive analogue/logic are the fastest growing IC product segments this year which are driving the semiconductor market to its first double digit growth year since 2010, says IC Insights. The fastest growing product segments are: Topping the chart of fastest-growing products is DRAM, which comes as no surprise given the strong rise ...
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Western Digital has won a preliminary battle in its fight with Toshiba over its rights in the auction process for Toshiba’s memory unit. ‘ On August 14, 2017, the Superior Court of California for the County of San Francisco granted Western Digital a preliminary injunction enjoining Toshiba from preventing certain employees from accessing shared databases and ...
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GaN Systems, the Ottawa fabless GaN specialist, has made available a new set of LTSpice simulation files that helps engineers model systems at three levels, ranging from an initial overview of circuit performance to detailed analysis and fine tuning of the design: Level 1: Basic adjustment and analysis of switching speeds, optimized for quick simulation. ...
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A harmonic radar that can track bees has been developed by Professor Tsai Zuo-min of the Department of Electrical Engineering at Taiwan’s National Chung Cheng University, reports Digitimes. A chip, with an antenna as thin as a cicada’s wing, is attached to a bee and, when it receives a radar signal transmitted at a frequency ...
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