Weightless SIG has named Applus+ as its official testing and certification laboratory for wireless devices which use Weightless connectivity technology. Applus+ will additionally provide development support services to Weightless technology adopters as part of its new IoT Lab offering. Professor William Webb, CEO of the Weightless SIG commented “Applus are an excellent partner for Weightless, ...

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Wolfspeed has extended its family of 50 V transistors and introduced an unmatched, gallium nitride (GaN) high electron mobility transistor (HEMT). The device was created for the growing ultra-high frequency (UHF) radar market, in which defense, public safety and land mobile radio applications seek to upgrade performance and component lifecycle availability by implementing GaN RF ...

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Texas has introduced two families of wide-VIN synchronous DC/DC buck regulators optimised for EMI and thermal performance. The  5-A and 6-A LM73605/6 and 2.5-A and 3.5-A LM76002/3 step-down voltage converters feature an optimized pinout and thermal coefficient to simplify the process of achieving EMI compliance and higher reliability for rugged industrial and automotive power supplies. ...

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Imec has designed and fabricated a 16,384-electrode, 1,024-channel micro-electrode array (MEA) for high-throughput multi-modal cell interfacing. The chip offers intracellular and extracellular recording, voltage- and current-controlled stimulation, impedance monitoring and spectroscopy functionalities thereby packing the most cell-interfacing modalities on a single chip, and being the only one to enable multi-well assays. With this new chip, ...

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Broadcom CEO Hock Tan came out fighting yesterday with a feisty appearance on CNBC’s Squawk Box programme. Tan took a crack at Qualcomm’s business practices which have left it with heavy fines from national regulators. “The last three years, we realised Qualcomm was hit with fines which are more than what they made in profit ...

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Ricoh has launched the R1800 Buck DC/DC Converter, designed for use in energy harvesting devices. Target applications include wearables for sports and healthcare, wireless sensors and IoT devices. This is a DC/DC converter collecting energy generated from a photovoltaic or vibration energy harvester cell and stores it in a super capacitor or rechargeable battery. An ...

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The  LTC3777 is a 150V high efficiency (up to 99%) 4-switch synchronous buck-boost DC/DC controller, which operates from input voltages above, below or equal to the regulated output voltage. Its 4.5V to 150V input voltage range operates from a high input voltage source or from an input that has high voltage surges, eliminating the need ...

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Farnell element14 is selling the GraspIO Cloudio – a Raspberry Pi add-on board with Drag and Drop programming interface on iPhone, iPad, Android. Among other features, it incorporates Voice Assistant Capabilities, IFTTT (“If This Then That”) Integration, IoT Cloud Service, Sensor Monitor and Dashboard, Custom Notifications with Image and Video and One Tap Multi-Board Upload. ...

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Broadcom has written a letter to Qualcomm offering to pay $8 billion to Qualcomm if its bid gets rejected by regulators. One of the key defences put up by Qualcomm to the Broadcom bid is that a takeover is unlikely to get regulatory approval. The size of this failure fee shows that  Broadcom is confident ...

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