RS Components signs global agreement with Yageo

Passive components from Yageo are now available from RS Components, following the signing of a global franchise agreement. The portfolio of chip resistors includes general-purpose thick-film components and thin-film high-precision high-stability resistors, automotive-grade components, current sensing devices, resistor array networks, high-voltage and surge resistors, RF attenuators and sulphur-resistant devices. Yageo supplies commodity and speciality versions of resistors, capacitors ...

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Mouser adds CIPOS Tiny inverter modules by Infineon

Three-phase inverter modules from Infineon, are now available from Mouser Electronics. The CIPOS Tiny series of   intelligent power modules (IPMs)  offer high power density for variable-speed motor drives in washing machines, range hoods, room air conditioning and commercial and industrial fans. They are based on Infineon’s Trenchstop IGBT 6 and have a footprint that is 33% less than the earlier ...

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Farnell ships Omron’s facial recognition system

Able to detect human body, face and hands, and estimate the gaze, blink, age, gender and facial expressions such as happiness, surprise, anger and sadness, the Human Vision Component is an imaging sensing unit, comprised of a camera module and a separate main board that can be installed on the edge of a flat display. ...

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Digi-Key signs GCT Connectors for standard and custom designs

Digi-Key Electronics has signed a distribution agreement with connector specialist, GCT (Global Connector Technology). The distributor will stock USB, SIM and memory card connectors, including the SIM8060 hinged nano SIM connector with card detection and the USB4085 Type-C connector that is an alternative to MicroUSB for power charging mobile devices. All GCT products are supported ...

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Modular grid storage experiment expanded in Germany

The town of Kempten in southern Germany has extended its experiment in buffering locally-generated renewable energy, installing a sixth grid storage battery to increase capacity to 3MW and 2MWh. “The number of days each year when wind and solar energy production around midday exceeds consumption is steadily increasing. By now the figure has reached 153 ...

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Strawberry4Pi to launch Raspberry Pi IoT control HAT on Kickstarter

Strawberry4Pi is hoping a  Kickstarter campaign will allow it to launch their new IoT control system in the form of the Strawberry4Pi 2 Raspberry Pi HAT and companion smartphone application which enables you to control projects from your smartphone in just a few minutes. The IoT control system is now available on  Kickstarter with early ...

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Korea makes anti-drone system

SK Telecom, Silla University, the 53rd Homeland Defense Infantry Division of the Korean Army and Hanbit Drone demonstrated a complete end-to-end anti-drone system on June 12, 2019.  On the same day, the four parties also signed an MOU to jointly establish an advanced anti-drone system. Under the MOU, they will also create a solution package ...

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Hopes that first China DRAM will be made this year

Changxin Memory Technologies, previously known as Innotron Memory, and previously to that known as either Hefei Chang Xin or Heifei Rui-li IC Manufacturing, is said to be targeting 10k wpm DRAM production by the end of the year. The company is said to have invested $8 billion in a fab (pictured) in the city of Hefei. ...

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