Jacarem signs franchise for EDAC connectors

Connector distributor and cable assembly manufacturer, Jacarem, has signed a franchise distribution agreement with interconnect specialist, EDAC. The latter provides card edge, rack and panel, RJ45 and telecomms jacks, USB and FireWire, waterproof connectors and PLCC sockets. MH Connectors, which manufactures connectors, hoods and covers, is also part of the EDAC group. The D-sub hoods ...

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600V super-junction mosfets optimised for soft switching

STMicroelectronics’ MDmesh M6 600V super-junction transistors are aimed at medium-power resonant and hard-switching converter topologies. There are 37 part numbers covering 13 to 72A, with threshold voltage optimised for soft switching, suiting the transistors LLC resonant converters and boost-PFC converters. Rds(on) to as low as 36mΩ. For hard-switching topologies, the capacitance profile is claimed to enhance ...

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Putting the boot into Industry 4.0 education

Students in the School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering at University College Dublin can learn production technologies for Industry 4.0, or the smart factory, with hands-on experience via an automated factory demonstration unit, donated by Maxim Integrated Products. The football factory demo was popular at exhibitions around Europe, where it was used to showcase the ...

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Gyrfalcon launches AI accelerator with eMRAM.

Gyrfalcon Technology, the 11-month-old Milpitas specialist in AI accelerator ICs, has announced commercial availability of a 22nm ASIC with embedded MRAM called the LightspeeurÒ 2802M. Gyrfalcon claims the chip is the industry’s first AI Accelerator to use MRAM. The chip has a density of  50 F and and a read speed of 45-60ns. It has 40MB of memory, which can support ...

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Compound semiconductor Catapult gets CTO

A CTO has been appointed for the fledgling Compound Semiconductor Applications (CSA) Catapult growing in Cardiff. It is Martin McHugh, who most recently headed up business and technology development for Microsemi’s (now part of Microchip) advanced packaging business. “He brings with him a wealth of technology experience having worked in technical and commercial roles with responsibilities covering the ...

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LED for crop scanning

Osram is aiming at farmers, horticulturists and viticulturists with a broad-band near-infra-red LED for in-field reflection spectroscopy. “One of the most important decisions that farmers and vineyard owners have to make involves getting the timing right for the harvest,” it said. “Simply scanning fruit or cereal crops with the near-infra-red LED installed in a smartphone ...

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Toshiba adds to dual H-bridge motor driver ICs

Toshiba has added to its line-up of dual H-bridge driver ICs for DC brushed motors and stepping motors. The TC78H653FTG delivers the low voltage (1.8V) and high current (4.0A) essential for motor-based equipment powered by dry-cell batteries such as mobile devices, electronic products for the home and USB drives. The chip suitable for applications including ...

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Power trends according to GaN Systems.

GaN Systems identifies four trends for the power industry in 2019. Electric Vehicles and Autonomous-Driving Vehicles Mobility as a Service (MaaS) will gain more mind share. Change in the social relationship between individuals and vehicles will continue to move from individual ownership to convenient on-demand use. On-demand itself will start to evolve to increasingly include fleets ...

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