The EU has fined Google $5 billion for antitrust violations related to Android. The EC says that Google used Android to boost its market share in search by insisting that phone manufacturers who used Android pre-installed Google Search. “Google has used Android as a vehicle to cement the dominance of its search engine,” says Competition Commissioner ...
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Renesas has launched two PMBus compliant, fully digital DC/DC controllers that provide single output point-of-load (POL) conversions for FPGAs, DSPs, ASICs, network processors and general purpose system rails. The ISL68300 with integrated MOSFET drivers and ISL68301 with PWM output simplify designing power supplies for data center, wired and wireless communications, and factory automation equipment. The ISL68300 ...
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The Small Robot Company, the Shropshire developer of agricultural robots, has raised £50,000 on Indiegogo. The company aims to make farms more profitable, and increase yield and efficiency, through using small robots instead of tractors. Its arable farming robots Tom, Dick and Harry enable farmers to be kinder to soil, kinder to the environment, more ...
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HVM Technology, the Texas specialist in miniature high voltage power converters, has released a miniature 15kV Opto-Coupler. The OPTO-150 is a miniature; 15kV rated high voltage opto-coupler which integrates low voltage LED drivers with high voltage photo detector diodes. Typical applications for the OPTO-150 include high voltage switching, high voltage isolation, external voltage sensing, voltage ...
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CommScope has published an FTTX eBook, “Fiber to the X Fundamentals,” encompassing all aspects of outside plant fibre deployment. The entire 49-page book is available for download now. “We get so many questions from our customers – who are either deploying an FTTX network for the first time or are curious about new technologies – ...
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Vayyar Imaging and Mini-Circuits are offering educational project kits for engineers and students. These kits will introduce highly advanced practices with a focus on electromagnetic, RF and microwave technologies in university classrooms and programs The first kit includes all the elements required to build vector network analyzers and algorithms for RF devices. The kit will features ...
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A survey of over 100 founders of London-based start-ups found that less than one third (28%), have considered relocating following the vote, with 72% “happy to stay put regardless of this development”. Nearly a quarter (24%) felt the government should do more to educate start-ups on how Brexit policies will affect their business. [Although this does ...
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Reserve a date in your diary for a Linux and Security training day in September, run by Doulos and Electronics Weekly.
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Tektronix is offering four 8GHz channels on its latest scope range, with simultaneous 25Gsample/s on each channel. “For example, a DDR3 clock and three DDR3 data channels can be viewed and analysed simultaneously, decreasing the time it takes to fully characterise a design with an instrument that shares sampling systems between channels,” said the firm. ...
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AD5767 from Analog Devices includes 16 12bit voltage output DACs in the same package, and is intended to reduce the system footprint for wired telecommunications systems, providing the necessary bias ranges for the coherent fibre-based medium and long-haul optical systems – particularly indium phosphide Mach-Zehnder modulator biasing. “The DAC delivers a broad range of unipolar or ...
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