Recom’s multiple supply option DC/DC converters at Rutronik UK

The DC/DC converter series REC15E-Z from Recom comprises 15W devices with wide input voltage ranges. The converters accept several standard bus voltages. Due to their 1×1” footprint, the converters are suitable for cost-sensitive applications where board space is at a premium. The REC15E-Z series is available from Rutronik UK. Without minimum load and with 1600VDC ...

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Xilinx adds to accelerator card portfolio.

Xilinx will expand its Alveo data center accelerator card portfolio with the launch of the Alveo U50 which is currently sampling with general availability planned for the autumn. The U50 card is a low profile adaptable accelerator with PCIe Gen 4 support, designed to supercharge a broad range of critical compute, network and storage workloads, ...

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Toshiba launches sensorless control pre-driver IC for BLDC motors

Toshiba Electronics has announced the launch of a sensorless control pre-driver IC for brushless DC (BLDC) motors used in industrial and automotive applications. The main applications will include electric pumps for water, oil and fuel as well as electric fans. The TB9062FNG pre-driver can control BLDC motors using a simple pulse-width modulation (PWM) input, without ...

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Ploss gets two more years

Infineon CEO Reinhard Ploss (pictured) has had his contract extended for another two years from its original expiry date of September 20 2020 to December 31st 2022. “Infineon is developing in a highly dynamic manner, systematically expanding its leading position in central future-oriented fields of semiconductor technology,” says Infineon chairman Wolfgang Elder, “ I would ...

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AEF to launch online database for ISO-certified agri-tech

The Agricultural Industry Electronics Foundation will speak at Agri-Tech East’s ‘Re-visiting the Vision of the Connected Farm’ about its initiative to provide a database of information to farmers about ISOBUS certification. The event will be held on Tuesday 15 October 2019, at Barclays Eagle Labs, Cambridge. Visitors to ‘The Connected Farm’ will experience the agricultural ...

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Huawei smartphone with proprietary OS arriving Q4

On Friday, Huawei is set to unveil its HongMeng OS – its alternative to Android which the US government is preventing Huawei from using. Huawei could put a smartphone using the HongMeng OS on the market in Q4, reports the China newspaper Global Times. It is reported that the first use of HongMeng in a ...

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Glasgow tongue has a taste for whisky

Glasgow University researchers have made a bionic tongue which can tell the difference between Glenfiddich, Laphroaig, Glen Marnoch and between different vintages of each brand sampled at the ages 12, 15 and 18. The researchers exploited the optical properties of gold and aluminium to construct the tongue. Sub-microscopic slices of the two metals, arranged in ...

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Samsung in volume production of 256GB SSD

Samsung has begun mass producing a 256GB SATA SSD that integrates the company’s sixth-generation (1xx-layer) 256-gigabit (Gb) three-bit V-NAND. By launching a new generation of V-NAND in 13 months, Samsung has reduced the mass production cycle by four months. “With faster development cycles for next-generation V-NAND products, we plan to rapidly expand the markets for ...

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Toshiba’s persistent memory

Next month, Toshiba will sample a Storage Class Memory (SCM) called XL-FLASH which is a BiCS 3D flash memory  with 1-bit-per-cell SLC, claiming to deliver low latency and high performance to data center and enterprise storage. Mass production is expected to begin in 2020. XL-FLASH is going after the same slots (persistent memory) as Intel’s phase-change memory ...

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