Intersil has announced rad-hard quad power supply sequencers designed to drive point-of load (POL) regulators that power high performance FPGAs and complex, multi-rail power systems. Up to four power supplies can be fully sequenced by a single device or multiple devices can be cascaded to sequence an unlimited number of power supplies. Intersil’s power supply ...
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ADI has announced a series of five inertial measurement units (IMUs) for drones. The ADIS16470, ADIS16475 and ADIS16477 IMUs have standard surface mount assembly. The ADIS16465 and ADIS16467 IMUs offer similar performance in a ruggedised enclosure option. The new IMUs bring the same benefits to Autonomous Machine applications in fields such as Smart Agriculture where ...
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Spectrum Instrumentation has introduced a new generation of 16bit digitiser cards with a PCIe interface. Called M2p, they offered doubled sample rate and less noise compared with the previous 12, 14 and 16bit M4i generation, which they will replace. 13 new models are available for general sale, with different combinations of sampling rate (20, 40 ...
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4G LTE mobile communications could transform in-flight connectivity and there is no reason why it can’t happen, says ip.access, the London-based small cell supplier. The firm has presented an argument for aviation companies to provide cellular coverage to its passengers. It outlines the value of deploying small cells to improve the efficiency of in-flight connectivity with ...
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NI has announced a PXI FlexRIO architecture that integrates mezzanine I/O modules with Xilinx Kintex UltraScale FPGAs. The first products based on this architecture will include two digitisers, three coprocessor modules and a module development kit that helps with custom front-end development. The PXIe-5763 and PXIe-5764 digitiser modules provide 500MS/s and 1GS/s sampling rates, respectively. ...
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A small fanless industrial PC with quad-core Intel Apollo Lake processor has been introduced by Tiny Green PC. It measures just 112mm x 84mm x 34mm with an integrated heatsink. It is designed as a rugged process control unit and with 5W power consumption can be used for data collection, monitoring and processing applications. The PC ...
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A Royal Air Force chief technician turned businessman has opened an RF testing facility in South Yorkshire. Ian White founded Gaddon, an RF engineering and test consultancy, 10 years ago, in that time it has carried out work for the Ministry of Defence (MOD). A new workshop at Hoyle Mill in Penistone near Barnsley will ...
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Samsung Is in volume production of chip-on-board LED lighting packages, labelled the “Samsung D-series Special Colour.” The packages are engineered to bring out the most desirable colour tones of objects whose viewing is particularly colour-sensitive, making them optimal for many commercial lighting applications. Through spectrum engineering, colour spectrums within the D-series have been tuned to ...
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AMS has announced a configurable capacitive sensing front end which allows speed and resolution to be traded to optimise designs. Called PCap04, it can capture and digitise 50,000 times per second at its fastest setting, or achieve 8aF resolution at its most sensitive. “Configurability also enables sensor manufacturers to trade measurement speed off against ...
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A company called 3devised is working on a high-resolution 3D printer that occupies only 155 x 155 x 290mm* but can print 85.4 x 48 x 130mm. Called Pluto, it uses stereolithography, with a liquid print medium which polymerises to a solid under the influence of ultra-violet light. In this case, the light comes from a ...
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