Engineers Without Borders UK, the environmental engineering charity, has celebrated its 15th anniversary with a special evening for its members, partners and trustees. Held at the London headquarters of its sponsor Anglo American – in St. James’s – the event aimed to bring together those that had played a key role in the organisation’s history. ...
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Mouser Electronics is now stocking Analog Devices Inc’s ADF4371 and ADF4372 microwave wideband synthesizers. The ADF4371 delivers a continuous RF output range of 62MHz to 32GHz, the widest currently available according to the firm, while the ADF4372 operates at 62MHz to 16GHz for designs that don’t require the higher frequency. Analog Devices’ ADF4371 and ADF4372 ...
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Flex Power Modules has announced the BMR490 DC-DC converter with active current sharing. This feature enables two or more converters to be used in parallel for demanding datacom applications, thus delivering higher power on a single rail or creating redundancy. The BMR490 is a non-isolated DC-DC converter in the quarter-brick form factor 58.4×36.8×14.5mm. It can ...
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Binder is aiming at factory automation with a 12 contact version of its IP67 (once coupled) Series 718 connectors that mount through an 8mm hole using an in-built M8 thread. “The UL-approved screw coupling M8 connectors give installers a high degree of flexibility as they are quick and simple to install,” according to the firm. “The ...
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Samsung has added software updates to its PCIe Gen4 solid state drive (SSD) series. The three software innovations are: 1) ‘fail-in-place (FIP) technology’ that ensures a ‘never-die’ SSD, 2) ‘virtualization technology’ that provides independent virtual workspaces for multiple users, 3) ‘V-NAND machine learning technology’ that utilizes big data to accurately verify data validity even when ...
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Imec’s business accelerator program, imec.istart, has put out a call for applicants which is open until Oct. 1, 2019. Start-up projects with technological inventiveness, an initial proof-of-concept, and the potential and ambition to be a global company are encouraged to apply. Selected startups in the year-long acceleration program receive €50,000 (~$55,000) as pre-seed funding, tailored coaching and ...
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After slowing in the past couple of years, semiconductor M&A activity strengthened in the first eight months of 2019 with the combined value of about 20 M&A agreement announcements reaching $28.0 billion for the purchase of chip companies, business units, product lines, intellectual property (IP), and wafer fabs between January and the end of August. ...
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Dialog has introduced a power management product family of four sub-PMICs that offer in-circuit digital programmability. The product family of Buck converters, which consists of the DA9217, DA9220, DA9121 and the DA9122, represents Dialog’s first sub-PMIC family with a 4MHz switching frequency that reduces inductor size and height to allow use of smaller external components. The ...
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Nichia and Infineon are developing a high-definition (HD) light engine with more than 16,000 micro-LEDs for front light applications. The intention is to have a product for sale in 2023. Unlike current HD solutions, the new device will provide high resolution light to the entire field of view of the driver. “Our new LED matrix ...
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