RF signal generators stretch to 6GHz

Describing them as mid-range and compact, Rohde & Schwarz has introduced the SMB100B analogue RF signal generator and the SMBV100B vector signal generator, aiming them at RF semiconductor development, telecommunications, aerospace and defence. They are available in various configurations, with frequency ranges from 8kHz to 1GHz, 3GHz or 6GHz, customers can choose among three different ...

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Functional safety position sensor has two devices in one package

Magnetic angle sensing with 12-bit resolution, and a maximum non-linearity error of ±1° is available from either or two completely separate sensors in a common package for use in functional safety systems, such as in the gear shifters and pedals in automotive electrified power-train applications such as shift-by-wire, as well as potentiometer replacement in knobs and ...

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TI aims at automotive and industry with high-performance ~30V op-amps

TI has revealed early fruits from the latest in its long-running series of BiCom advanced bipolar processes: the 27V 200MHz low-noise OPA2810 and the 36V zero-drift 14MHz OPA189, which are aimed at signal conditioning in automotive and industrial environments. “These are the first few of many other amplifiers focussed in this area, the beginning of ...

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MIPS bought by Wave Computing

MIPs, which was bought by Imagination and had to be divested when Imagination was sold to Chinese interests, has been bought by Wave Computing. ’The acquisition will accelerate Wave’s strategy of offering AI acceleration from the Datacenter to the Edge of Cloud by extending the company’s products beyond AI systems to now also include AI-enabled ...

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IEEE publishes IRDS roadmap

The IEEE has published the  2017 edition of the International Roadmap for Devices and Systems (IRDS). “Over the past decade the structure and requirements of the electronics industry have evolved well beyond the semiconductor’s industry requirements,” says Paolo Gargini, (pictured), IEEE and Japan Society of Applied Physics (JSAP) Fellow, and Chairman of IRDS, “in line with ...

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Purdue connects surveillance cameras to smartphones

  Purdue University  researchers havevcreated a technology that allows public cameras to send personalized messages to people without compromising their privacy. The team developed a real-time end-to-end system called PHADE to allow process, known as private human addressing. While traditional data transmission protocols need to first learn the destination’s IP or MAC address, this system ...

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German disties report 7% y-o-y Q1 growth

Despite the poor supply situation affecting numerous electronic components, German distributors reported continued growth during the first quarter of 2018. For the period January to March 2018, the distribution companies organised under the Fachverband Bauelemente Distribution (FBDi e.V.) reported sales of 978 million euros – up 7% compared with Q1/2017. Orders rose 8% to 1.09 ...

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Laser scan mooted as alternative to x-ray mammography

Novel laser scans could scan breast for cancer without x-rays, if research at Caltech proves fruitful. Photoacoustic computed tomography, or PACT, works by shining a near-infrared laser pulse into the breast tissue, which is absorbed by oxygen-carrying hemoglobin molecules in red blood cells, causing the molecules to vibrate ultrasonically. Those vibrations travel through the tissue and ...

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Flexible micro-LED array could open door to TV screens

Korean research lab KAIST has created a flexible array of thin-film blue micro-LEDs, following-on form a similar red array. The team transferred thousands of <2μm-thick blue vertical micro LEDs onto plastic in one go. Electrical connections are via silver wires. Optical power density around 30mW/mm2 was demonstrated. claimed by KAIST to be three times higher that ...

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iCIRRUS project completed

The EU iCIRRUS project to develop various solutions for the intelligent cloud-Radio Access Network (RAN) in the new 5G mobile communications standard has been completed. This approach puts handovers into effect faster and makes the system more robust against interference; it also enhances the security of communication by preventing unauthorized interception and external attacks. The ...

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