Melexis, the Belgian auto IC specialist, has announced the MLX90374, the latest addition to its 3rd Generation of Triaxis Hall sensors, and the first to offer multiple outputs from a monolithic device. With dual outputs for the sensed motion, the  MLX90374 can remove the need for a second position sensor in a range of applications. ...

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Optimized for best conduction and switching performance in soft-switching circuits, STGWA40IH65DF and STGWA50IH65DF 650V STPOWER IGBTs increase the energy efficiency of resonant converters in the 16kHz-60kHz switching-frequency range. Extending ST’s trench field-stop (TFS) IGBTs for soft-switching applications, which also include the HB and HB2 series for power supplies, welders, and solar converters, the new IH-series ...

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In Q2, Power Integrations will sample the InnoMuX chipset for display power supplies. The chipset’s single-stage power architecture reduces losses in display applications by increasing overall efficiency in constant-voltage and constant-current LED backlight driver stages by 50% compared to conventional solutions, achieving up to 91% efficiency. Additionally, TV and monitor designers can realize over 50% reduction ...

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Toshiba has started shipping two new series of small surface mount LDO regulators for application in the power supply of mobile devices, imaging and audio-visual products. The 40 regulators in the TCR5BM series support a dropout voltage (VDO) as low as 100mV and a maximum output current of 500mA, while 40 additional devices in the ...

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Leti has developed prototypes  of centimetre-size portable optical sensors for chemical detection of gas.  The photo-acoustic sensors are based on mid-infrared photonic integrated circuits (MIR PICs). These silicon PICs, created by integrating optical circuits onto millimeter-size silicon chips, make extremely robust miniature systems, in which discrete components are replaced by on-chip equivalents. This makes them easier to ...

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ON Semiconductor is leveraging its  image sensor modeling technology to provide real-time data to the NVIDIA DRIVE Constellation simulation platform. The open, cloud-based platform performs bit-accurate simulation for large-scale, hardware-in-the-loop testing and validation of autonomous vehicles. ON’s  Image Sensor model receives both scene information and control signals from DRIVE Constellation to calculate and output a ...

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The Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation (CDEI) is being set up to investigate whether  algorithms used in criminal and justice systems, legal systems financial services, recruitment and local government are biased by humans. Algorithms have huge potential for preventing crime, protecting the public and improving the way services are delivered. But decisions made in ...

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