Link Microtek designs and manufactures complex microwave assemblies

Hampshire-based Link Microtek designs and manufactures microwave and RF subsystems and components. Its latest project has been a complex microwave feed assembly for a customer’s Ku-band mobile satellite-communications antenna system. It interfaces with the system’s transmit amplifier, conical feed horn and receive LNB, and incorporates a feed arm, transmit filter, receive filter, rotary joint and an ...

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UK pop-up EV charging point saves street clutter

Cheltenham-based design company Duku has developed a pop-up electric vehicle charge point, claiming it to be a world first. Six of them are on trial in Oxford. A pop-up design was adopted to reduce street clutter, but the amount of historical architecture and utilities under Oxford pavements meant minimal available underground space. “It’s an absolute mess ...

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Mapping on-line hate reveals team work is the only useful countermeasure

Policing on-line hate from within a single platform, such as Facebook, can make the spread of hate worse, and will eventually generate global ‘dark pools’ in which hate will flourish, is one of the findings the finding in a recent scientific paper in Nature. The paper was written after analysis using a “first of its ...

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Farnell launches solder tip selector

Farnell has launched a soldering tip selector. The soldering tip selector helps customers choose the right tip for over 100 different soldering systems and stations, from 1,500 tips. All are in stock and all available from Farnell for next day delivery. Soldering efficiency depends on the soldering station used, the soldering irons and tips, as well ...

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SK Telecom gets a million 5G subscribers

SK Telecom today announced that it became the first mobile operator in the world to have more than a million 5G subscribers. The company’s 5G subscribers now take up more than 3.5 percent of its total subscriber base of 28 million.  It has taken 140 days since the launch of the 5G service to attracted the ...

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Semi industry more bullish on AI than other industries

The semiconductor industry is the most bullish about adopting AI and understanding the impact it will have on their industry, according to Accenture Semiconductor Technology Vision 2019. Three-quarters of semiconductor executives surveyed for the report (77%) said they have adopted AI within their business or are piloting the technology. In addition, nearly two-thirds of semiconductor ...

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Integrated fuel gauges for battery protection

Battery protectors with with integrated fuel gauges from Maxim offer configurable settings for battery safety and allow the fine tuning of voltage and current thresholds based on various temperature zones. The newest 1-cell, pack-side ICs in this portfolio are the MAX17301 and the MAX17311. These ICs also offer a secondary protection scheme in case the ...

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CML modulator simplifies transmit design

CML Microcircuits has brought out the CMX7146, a flexible data modulator that simplifies the design of transmit-only solutions using BPSK (binary phase shift keying) and differential BPSK modulation (also referred to as PRK, phase reversal keying, or 2PSK). The CMX7146 generates precise baseband analogue in-phase and quadrature signals with programmable signal filtering. This generates with ...

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Raspberry Pi gets MIT’s Scratch 3.0

Scratch 3.0, a visual language programming language from MIT Media Lab, can now run on  Raspberry Pi’s Raspbian. OS. The Pi people have been working with MIT ever since Scratch 3 was released in January to develop an offline, installable version for Raspberry Pi 4. It’ll probably need a Raspberry Pi 4 with 2GB of ...

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