Software creates digital twins to double productivity rates

Ahead of DAC next month, ANSYS has announced the 19.1 software which allows the developer to build, validate and deploy simulation-based digital twins of products in a single workflow. A digital twin combines physics-based virtual replicas of a product (medical, aerospace, wireless or automotive, for example) which can alert the design team to potential operating ...

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225W medical ac-dc supply in 4 x 2 x 1inch

Gresham Power Electronics has introduced a 225W mains power supply for medical applications, in an industry 2 x 4 x 1inch (50.8 x 101.6 x 25.4mm) package. Called OFM225 input is universal 85-264Vac or 390Vdc and efficiency is up to 94%. Active input power factor correction (PFC) is included. Output voltage is a choice between 12, 15, 24, ...

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Semtech launches LoRa tranceivers for IoT WANs

SX1261 and SX1262 are sub-GHz LoRa transceivers from Semtech, designed to extend battery life by operating at 4.2mA active receive consumption. “The transceivers support LoRa modulation for low power wide-area network applications, as well as (G)FSK/MSK modulation for legacy applications, and include a new spreading factor of SF5 for dense networks,” said distributor Mouser, which is ...

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Maxim Class D efficient amplifiers claim Class AB performance

Maxim claims two new Class D Speaker amplifiers provide Class AB audio performance with Class D efficiency for superior audio quality The  Class D efficient amplifiers  MAX98357 and MAX98358 deliver 3.2W of Class AB audio performance. Traditionally, electronics designers use analog amplifiers requiring a DAC and line driver amplifier on the application processor. This adds ...

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Small Robot Company taps Indiegogo

Today, Small Robot Company of Shropshire, the agritech start-up, launches a campaign for funds on Indiegogo. Money raised will be spent on Harry (pictured)  – the company’s digital planting robot. The Company is looking forv £50,000 backing to commercialise Harry. Harry recently won a Horizontal Innovation Award from the IETvand the High Value Manufacturing Catapult ...

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Record wafer shipments

Reaching their highest recorded quarterly level ever, worldwide silicon wafer area shipments jumped to 3,084 million square inches during Q1, a 3.6% increase over Q4 area shipments of 2,977 million square inches and a 7.9% rise over first quarter 2017 shipments, according to the SEMI Silicon Manufacturers Group (SMG) in its quarterly analysis of the ...

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Crossbar to license ReRAM technology

Crossbar, the ReRAM technology specialist, today announced its ReRAM technology for artificial intelligence (AI) is available for licensing. Crossbar claims its ReRAM for AI accelerates object classification with deterministic performance. “The biggest challenge facing engineers for AI today is overcoming the memory speed and power bottleneck in the current architecture to get faster data access ...

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