Tough connector integrates into clothing

LP360 is the first of the Fischer Freedom series of connectors which have been designed to integrate with clothing. Designed for easy connection, the key-less plug and socket can be presented to each other as any angle around the mating axis “ensuring that the cable can always go straight to the device. No more twists ...

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3A buck converter in 1 x 2 x 3mm package

Texas Instruments has introduced a 3.8 to 36Vin synchronous dc-dc buck regulator in a 1 x 2 x 3mm thermally-enhanced quad flat no-lead (QFN) package – with wettable flanks for post-solder optical inspection. Called LMR33630, and capable of delivering up to 3A, 75mΩ and 50mΩ power switches are integrated, efficiency is up to 92% and switching ...

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ADI claims widest bandwidth RF transceiver

ADI claims to have  the industry’s widest bandwidth RF transceiver with  a single radio platform IC to deploy 5G, sustain 2G/3G/4G coverage, and simplify phased array radar design. The ADRV9009 RF transceiver delivers twice the bandwidth (200 MHz) of previous generation devices and replaces as many as 20 components, cutting power in half and package size ...

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Researchers discover unique spin-orbit interactions in silicon

Researchers from  from Purdue University, the Technological University of Delft, Netherlands and the University of Wisconsin-Madison have discovered that silicon has unique spin-orbit interactions that can enable the manipulation of qubits using electric fields, without the need for any artificial agents. “Qubits encoded in the spins of electrons are especially long-lived in silicon, but they ...

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Dialog and Synaptics reported to be in talks

Synaptics, the keyboard interface specialist by founded by  Federico Faggin and Carver Mead, is reported by Bloomberg to be in talks with Dialog about a possible tie-up. The companies are similar in size – Dialog has a market cap of $1.4 billion and Synaptics has a market cap of $1.6 billion. Last October, Dialog bought ...

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MMIC has 0.6dB noise figure

Custom MMIC has come up with jts Ultra Low Noise Amplifier (ULNA) MMIC which provides a 0.6 dB noise figure, rivalling discrete component implementations. Designated CMD283C, it operates over a frequency range of 2 GHz to 6 GHz (S & C-band) and has output IP3 of +26 dBm. Four members of a GaAs MMIC digital attenuator family ...

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