4-20mA sensor transmitter from Maxim

Maxim has launched a 4-20mA sensor transmitter for industrial automation applications The MAX12900 is for automation and process control, loop-powered 4-20mA current transmitters, remote instrumentation and smart sensors. The device  increases system accuracy with 10 ppm/°C voltage reference for up to 3.5x lower drift compared to traditional solutions. The 5mm x 5mm package size of the ...

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Murata claims smallest chip filter

Murata announces the NFZ03SG_SN series, an RF filter in 0201 size for audio lines in portable devices such as smartphones and tablets. The NFZ03SG_SN series, now in mass production, claims to be the smallest chip filter on the market at 0201 size giving high attenuation at communication frequencies while introducing very low distortion to audio ...

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Nokia helps French utility EDF test IoT device deployment

Nokia has been selected by French power utility EDF’s R&D unit to test the performance of its low power wireless networks for internet of things (IoT) device deployment. Thought to be one of first of its kind in the industry the firms will evaluate whether LPWA technologies can support real-world industrial applications. EDF R&D will use ...

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Aspen stocks 5G mm-wave devices from Farran Tech

5G/WiGig 60GHz components and mm-wave vector network analyser (VNA) test systems from Farran Technology are now available in the UK at Aspen Electronics. The 5G products include the WR-15 harmonic mixer 50-75GHz with low conversion loss and flat frequency response. It also has an unbiased anti-parallel diode pair. There is also a noise source enclosure ...

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NI increases channel density in semiconductor test push

NI has introduced a PXI-based source measure unit (SMU), which provides six times more DC channel density than its previous PXI SMUs for testing RF, MEMS, and mixed-signal and other analogue semiconductor components. According to Eric Starkloff, NI executive vice president of global sales and marketing, semiconductor test is “a strategic focus” and the company ...

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5G expertise supports major European network project

The 5G NORMA consortium is a Europe-wide project looking at developing a flexible 5G network architecture that will support network slicing. A report considering the technical and economic aspects of the proposed 5G NORMA network architecture has been published after more than two years of research and modelling. The report “Evaluation architecture design and socioeconomic ...

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DC-DC converters for railway applications

Vicor’s next generation of dc-dc converter modules operate across 43-154V for rail transport and infrastructure applications. For most versions maximum output power is 240W, despite the 36 x 23mm (‘3623’) footprint. The outputs are regulated and isolated, and efficiency is up to 93%. “Modern rail infrastructure requires a wide range of DC-DC converters to power ...

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Hynix launches 4TB SSDs made with 72-layer NAND

Hynix has announced SSDs based on 72 layer 3D NAND memory chips. The SSDs are targeted at data centre and enterprise usage, and  come in capacities up to 4TB. The SSDs have 512Gb dies. They come in both SATA and PCIe interface versions. Sequential reads and writes of the SATA drive are 560MB/s and 515MB/s respectively. ...

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Melexis embarks on €75m expansion in France and Bulgaria

Melexis, the Belgian fabless auto IC specialist,, has announced a five-year plan to expand in Sofia, Bulgaria and Corbeil-Essonnes, France. Melexis has been present in Sofia since 2000 and is planning to double the manufacturing space as well as significantly extending the R&D and Warehousing facilities, adding a further 15,000 sq. m. to the 7,500 ...

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Samsung to put $12bn into second line at Pyeongtaek

Samsung is to put $12.6 billion into a second line at its Pyeongtaek fab. Line 1 at Pyeongtaek, which cost $14.4 billion, is for NAND. Line 2 is for DRAM. Earlier this week Samdung xigned an MOU with China’s NRDC to respond to the shortage in DRAM which has been affecting  the profitability of China’s ...

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