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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Comment: Post-Brexit UK will depend on engineering

Never has the future of the technology sector been so important to the whole country’s success. The government’s industrial strategy for a post-Brexit economy seems to depend on UK companies making a success of emerging technology markets such as artificial intelligence (AI), autonomous vehicles and big data. It also puts a new urgency into pressure ...

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Leti wristband monitors sleepers

Leti has developed a wristband that measures physical indicators of a range of conditions, including sleep apnea, dehydration and dialysis-treatment response. APNEAband provides real-time detection of sleep-apnea events caused by pauses in breathing or shallow breaths during sleep. The wristband measures heart rate, variation in the time interval between heartbeats, oxygen saturation levels in the ...

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Sweat-charged batteries woven into fabric

Seokheun Choi, a researcher at Binghamton University,  researcher has woven microbial fuel cells charged by bacteria into a flexible fabric which could be used for clothing. Choi’s microbial fuel cells (MFCs) use bacteria to trigger reduction/oxidation reactions, which swap electrons between molecules to generate electricity. “Humans possess more bacterial cells than human cells in their ...

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Toshiba sampling UFS 2.1-compliant eNAND for auto

Toshiba is sampling shipments embedded NAND flash memory products for automotive applications that are compliant with JEDEC UFS version 2.1. The products meet AEC-Q100 Grade 2[3]requirements, support the wide temperature range of -40°C to +105°C, and offer the enhanced reliability capabilities that are required by increasingly complex automotive applications. The devices  integrate NAND chips fabricated ...

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