Cruden simplifies hardware driving simulator design 

Dutch firm Cruden has developed a simulation tool for automotive R&D that combines hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) set-ups and driver-in-the-loop (DIL) simulators. As an example, Cruden installed a driver simulator merged with a dSPACE HIL set-up at the Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences in Germany, where students can integrate hardware into the driving simulator. HIL set-ups, for ...

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Airbus helps PMR networks meet new EU security directive

A European directive on network and information security (NIS) comes into force next year. The aim of the NIS directive is to improve the member states’ cooperation and protection against attacks. The European Union’s directive on network and information security (NIS), was adopted in summer 2016, and national governments will have to implement the legislation ...

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Teledyne e2v expands business ties with China

Teledyne e2v has opened a new healthcare and security facility to support its growing business in China. The facility in Chaoyang District, Beijing will be customer facing for radiotherapy, security and other high-power RF applications. Ewan Livingstone, President RF Power: Commercial, officially opened the site on 4 December 2017, and Teledyne e2v is looking forward ...

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Panasonic offers single-side stable 16A LZ-N relay

Panasonic’s latest electromechanical switch is a single side stable 16A relay. The normally open contact as well as the change-over contact can switch loads up to 16A/250V at ambient temperatures of up to 105°C. The clearance and creepage distance between contact and coil is min. 10mm despite the relay’s very compact dimensions of 12.5 x 28.8 ...

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Maxim’s integrated USB Type-C charger

Maxim’s USB Type-C charger for 2-series Li-ion battery packs integrates a charger, USB Type-C charger detection, 28V over-voltage protection, and power path onto a single chip. The MAX14748 supports legacy USB BC1.2-compliant and other non-standard chargers and enables USB Type-C charging at twice the power of Micro USB solutions. A programmable Automatic Input Current Limiting ...

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Toshiba and Western Digital settle

Earlier today, Toshiba and Western Digital announced that they had agreed to withdraw all lawsuits and arbitration claims they had filed against each other. The companies ‘have entered into a global settlement agreement to resolve their ongoing disputes in litigation and arbitration, strengthen and extend their relationship, and enhance the mutual commitment to their ongoing ...

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Components market grows 17% in 2017

Growth in the 2017 UK electronic components market is set to continue into 2018 and for years to come, distributors forecast. The UK market for electronic components is likely to continue its stellar 2017 growth well into next year, according to forecasts from the Electronic Components Supply Network (ECSN). The organisation, which represents distributors, has ...

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Digi-Key moves to double its capacity

US distributor takes aim at the European market with a proposal to extend its Minnesota site. US distributor Digi-Key Electronics is planning to break ground on a new $300m extension to its distribution centre that will more than double its capacity in a move to increase its market share in Europe. The business, which sends ...

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ST buys Atollic

ST has bought software-development tools specialist Atollicm the supplier of TrueSTUDIO, for $7 million. TrueSTUDIO is an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for the embedded development community focusing on Arm Cortex-M microcontrollers. ST reckons the addition will strengthen its 32-bit MCU line TrueSTUDIO is an  open-source Eclipse-based IDE platform which already  supports the STM32 family of Cortex-M ...

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