MWCA: Antennas aimed at narrow-band IoT

Taoglas has announced the first three antennas a range of narrowband IoT (NB-IoT) antennas called ‘Extensis‘, including what it claims are the world’s smallest ceramic NB-IoT antenna that covers Bands 5, 8 and 20 simultaneously with a single matching configuration. There is also a thin, flexible multi-band antenna that supports all LTE bands—including the new ...

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Ka-band rotary joint includes Tx, Rx and power

Link Microtek has introduced a compact integrated rotary joint and slip-ring assembly (RJSA) for use in the stabilised antennas of commercial and military Ka-band satellite-on-the-move (SOTM) communication systems. “By combining the functions of the microwave rotary joint and slip ring into one device, the AM28RJDSR assembly helps SOTM system manufacturers minimise the height of their ...

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Panasonic adds to conductive polymer hybrid caps for auto

Panasonic is expanding its conductive polymer hybrid aluminium electrolytic capacitor range with its ZF series rated at 1,000 hours at 150°C, enabling devices to support power train and engine-mounted applications in the automotive sector. Besides the high temperature rating, ZF Series hybrid capacitors are the first available in Through Hole Technology. Hybrid capacitors are one of ...

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Intel buys NetSpeed

Intel has bought San Jose SoC design tool and interconnect IP specialist, NetSpeed Systems. The NetSpeed team is joining Intel’s Silicon Engineering Group (SEG) led by Jim Keller. NetSpeed co-founder and CEO, Sundari Mitra (pictured centre front row) will continue to lead her team as an Intel vice president reporting to Keller. “The challenge is ...

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Birmingham researchers find way to replace lithium with sodium in li-ion batteries

Birmingham University researchers see a way  to swap the lithium in lithium-ion batteries with sodium. Lithium is expensive and resources are unevenly distributed across the planet. Large amounts of drinking water are used in lithium extraction and extraction techniques are becoming more energy intensive. With the ever increasing demand for electric cars, the need for ...

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Open-source software stack for INS/GPS algorithm development

ACEINNA of Massachusetts has brought out OpenIMU – a professionally supported, open-source GPS/GNSS-aided inertial navigation software stack for low-cost precise navigation applications. Whether you are developing autonomously guided vehicles for industrial applications, autonomous cars, factory or industrial robots, drones, ROVs, any kind of smart machine which needs to move – fast or slow, on land, in ...

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Molex tightens pin spacing for smaller 11A PCB power connector

Molex has shrunk its Fit family of wire-to-PCB connectors – to 3.5mm pin-pitch to produce the Ultra-Fit range – the size of the one pictured, looking straight into the pins, is 10 x 14mm. For single row parts (2-8pins) capacity is 14A per pin in tin plate versions and 12A for gold. In dual row ...

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Hot-swap data and clock protection for I2C and SMBus, and increased fan-out

Diodes has announced a hot-swap chip for I2C and SMBus connections that prevents the corruption of data and clock lines during hot-swap in rack-based systems – for PCI, cPCI, VME or AdvancedTCA systems, for example. “These critical systems need to deliver upwards of 99.999% availability, which makes prolonged maintenance and unplanned downtime unacceptable,” said the ...

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Mentor automates photonic layout and updates in minutes

  Photonic sensors are increasingly being used in healthcare, lidar for autonomous vehicles, high performance computing (HPC) and networking, yet layout design is typically slow. Mentor, a Siemens business, aims to reduce development time with the introduction of the LightSuite Phototonic Compiler. The automated layout tool is a unlike any other Mentor tool, said Tom ...

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