Hawk study suggests a way to catch rogue drones

Rogue drones could be captured using a strategy observed amongst Harris hawks, by the University of Oxford’s department of zoology. “Previous research has shown that falcons intercept prey using the same guidance law as homing missiles, called proportional navigation,” according to the university. “This guidance law is optimal against smoothly-manoeuvring aerial targets, but is prone ...

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4G and 5G RF front-end has quad DAC and quad ADC

Analog Devices has introduced an RF front-end combining four DACs and four ADCs with a 1.2GHz channel bandwidth. “AD9081 allows manufacturers to install multi-band radios in the same footprint as single-band radios, which as much as triples call capacity available in today’s 4G LTE base stations. It also enables wireless carriers to add more antennas to ...

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Apple reported in talks to buy German part of Intel modem unit

Apple is reported by The Infpormation to be talking to Intel about buying the German part of its modem operation. Intel acquired modem expertise when it bought Infineon’s mobile chip unit in 2011 for $1.4 billion. Following the resolution of the Apple-Qualcomm spat in April, Intel said it was pulling out of modem development. It ...

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105 dc-dc PSUs for 2xMOPP medical use

Powerbox has introduced 15W, 20W and 30W board-mount dc-dc converters for medical applications. Including a total of 105 models, PMM15, PMM20 and PMM30 are certified to the 3rd Edition of the IEC/EN/ANSI/AAMI ES 60601-1 medical safety standard and include 2xMOPP – two means of patient protection. Clearance and creepage distance are 8mm, typical leakage current ...

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TI Chip integrates transceiver and controller for CAN-FD

TI has introduced an automotive system basis chip which integrates a controller and transceiver for Controller Area Network with Flexible Data Rate (CAN FD). Designed to meet the high-bandwidth and data-rate flexibility needs of in-vehicle networks, the TCAN4550-Q1 uses the Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) bus of almost any microcontroller to implement, with minimal hardware changes, ...

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Panasonic choke coil resists heat and vibration

Panasonic has introduced a Power Choke Coil with high resistance to heat and vibration in addition to  support for large current. Thanks to the use of ferrous alloy magnetic material, the ETQP5M2R5YSK provides  inductance stability even at high bias current input and over a broad temperature range up to 150°C. The Power Choke Coil is AEC-Q200 ...

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