UK motor company installs instrument-grade torque sensors

Devon-based Ashwoods Electric Motors has chosen torque sensors from Isle-of-Wight-based Datum for its suite of automated dynamometers, which Ashwoods designed in-house. “The team wanted a relatively small torque sensor that could fit into their existing dynamometers to ensure the electric motor operate at optimal efficiency,” claimed Datum. Chosen was the M425 sensor, which has a wide-enough operation ...

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ST puts phase-change memory in MCUs

ST is sampling automotive MCUs containing phase-change memory made on a 28nm FDSOI process. Full technology qualification is expected in 2020. “Having applied ST’s process, design, technology, and application expertise to ePCM, we’ve developed an innovative recipe that makes ST the very first to combine this non-volatile memory with 28nm FD-SOI for high-performance, low-power automotive ...

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Mouser signs Terabee

Mouser has signed a global distribution agreement with Terabee, designers of small, high-performance distance sensors for drone, robotics and IoT applications. Through the agreement, Mouser is now shipping a variety of Terabee’s TeraRanger sensors. The TeraRanger Evo distance sensors measure a single axis and return distance values in millimeters at high speed. The 29 mm ...

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NPL teams up with Manchester graphene centre

The National Physical Laboratory (NPL) is to be a partner of The University of Manchester’s Graphene Engineering Innovation Centre (GEIC). GEIC (pronounced ‘geek’, and officially opened yesterday), is the University’s second graphene facility – the other is the National Graphene Institute (NGI) – see below. “Together the two centres cement Manchester’s position as the home of ...

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John Lewis trials Small Robot

The John Lewis Partnership has announced a three-year trial with the Small Robot Company to test its revolutionary farmbots at the company’s farm in Leckford, Hampshire. The Leckford Estate, which grows produce for Waitrose & Partners including mushrooms, rapeseed, apples and many other products, will see three small robots – Tom, Dick and Harry – ...

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STT-MRAM performance fits HPC last-level cache

Imec has presented the first power-performance-area comparison between SRAM- and SST-MRAM-based last-level caches at the 5nm node. The analysis, based on design-technology co-optimization and silicon verified models, reveals that STT-MRAM meets the performance requirements for last-level caches in the high-performance computing domain. Moreover, for larger memory densities, significant energy gains are found for SST-MRAM compared to ...

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Material thickens as it stretches

Leeds University researchers has developed a synthetic material that becomes thicker at the molecular level as it is stretched. Liquid Crystal Elastomers (LCEs) have completely new properties when they are linked with polymer chains to form rubbery networks. “Our results demonstrate a new use for liquid crystals beyond the flat screen monitors and televisions many ...

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