MWC: CCS launches 12Gbit/s comms for unlicenced 60GHz mmWave

Cambridge Communication Systems (CCS) has launched its Metnet 12Gbit/s unlicensed 60GHz mmWave access and back-haul unit. The multi-point system is the first element in a software-defined mesh network architecture, with multiple Metnet 60GHz nodes operating as a centrally managed SDN-capable networking switch. Operating in the unlicensed 57-71GHz band, it has automated interference avoidance and low ...

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KiCad is big news for schematic capture, says Digi-Key

Digi-Key Electronics has put a new library of nearly 1,000 common parts for use by the open source, KiCad schematic capture and printed circuit board tool on beta release on its website. The distributor has selected the most popular parts for users of KiCad and created a library that links the schematic symbols and printed ...

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Qualcomm increases offer for NXP

Qualcomm has increased it offer for NXP to $127.50 per share representing a purchase price of $44 billion. Qualcomm’s previous bid was $110 per share worth $39 billion. Before the new offer NXP stock was trading at $118.50. Qualcomm has entered into binding agreements with nine NXP stockholders who collectively own more than 28% of ...

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1MHz rail-to-rail op-amp draws only 55μA

Microchip’s MCP6411 operational amplifier can operate with a single supply voltage as low as 1.7V, while drawing 55μA quiescent current (max). Called MCP6411, input offset is ±1.0mV max, and both input and output operate rail-to-rail. Compensation means it is unity gain stable, and it has a gain bandwidth product of 1 MHz (typ). “The MCP6411 ...

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LED lighting drives boom in vertical farms in China

LED lighting is having a major impact on the way plants are grown commercially in greenhouses. As a result the horticultural lighting market reached almost $3.8bn in 2017, according to market data from Yole Développement. But changes to the horticultural LED lighting market indicate that greenhouse applications may only be the tip of the iceberg. ...

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Samsung selling 30TB SSD

Samsung Says it has begun mass producing the industry’s largest capacity Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) solid state drive (SSD) – the PM1643 – for use in next-generation enterprise storage systems. Leveraging Samsung’s 64-layer, 3-bit 512-gigabit (Gb) V-NAND chips, the 30.72 terabyte (TB) drive delivers twice the capacity and performance of the previous 15.36TB high-capacity lineup ...

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Infineon buys Merus Audio

Infineon has bought Merus Audio, the Copenhagen-based start-up founded in 2010 by Hans Hasselby-Andersen (pictured) and Mikkel Hoyerby. Merus Audio creates energy-efficient integrated audio amplifier solutions. They maximize audio performance and battery playback time for smart home and battery-powered speakers while minimizing heat and design space. After the integration of Merus Audio, Infineon will be ...

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Embedded World: Digitally-tunable RF filters dodge spectrum congestion

The Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS has developed digitally tunable and reconfigurable RF filters. In a congested spectrum “devices that send and receive data must function reliably”, said the organisation. “But with coexistence and interference issues on the rise, we can expect significant constraints and problems when it comes to transferring data. Fraunhofer IIS ...

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EEF to slam government on Brexit, immigation and apprenticeship levy

The chair of  the EEF, the former Engineering Employers Federation, is to lay into into the government on the terms of the Brexit transition at the EEF annual dinner. “Secretary of State I cannot stress enough the urgency with which we need clarity on any transition deal,” Dane Judith Hackitt (pictured) is due to say ...

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RS signs Cressall

Cressall, the resistor manufacturer, has  signed a global distribution agreement with RS that will see items from its range of resistors and portable load bank units made available across the world. The deal will enable industrial customers to purchase Cressall’s resistors and portable load banks from any of the 32 countries that RS operates in. ...

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