OMC launches fibre-optic LED emitter and moulded backlight series

OMC, optoelectronics designer and manufacturer, is exhibiting at the Engineering Design Show, Ericsson Exhibition Hall, Ricoh Arena, Coventry on 16 and 17 October. On Stand L30, OMC will be showcasing products including its FDE854LBF fibre optic transmitter and its Mouldshare backlight series, which OMC says offers lower set up costs and MOQs than standard injection ...

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Metallised film caps replace electrolytics in high-rel dc links

Electrocube 958A high current metallised polypropylene film dc link capacitors are intended to provide durability in extreme operating conditions. “The series is rated at 100,000 hours at 70°C,” according to New Jersey based component distributor New Yorker Electronics, which is stocking the parts. “In applications such as electric vehicle power conversion, aircraft power systems, battery chargers ...

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Adaptable, flexible and open source: the wish list for young engineers

The working practices of today’s young engineers are very much on Victor Peng’s mind. The president and CEO of Xilinx explained why the company’s Vitis, the software platform announced at the Xilinx Developers’ Forum in San Jose, California. He conceded that the company has not normally been associated with open source products. Now it is ...

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Toshiba morphs into Kioxia

Toshiba, one of the most respected names in the history of the semiconductor industry, has decided to call itself Kioxia. Along with the new name comes a new ‘brand identity’, a corporate colour and a ‘fun-driven culture.’ Silver will be the company’s official corporate color, ‘meant to represent the superior quality of its memory technology.’ ...

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Pickering wins Queen’s Award

Pickering Interfaces of Clacton-on-Sea has won  a Queen’s Award for Outstanding Short Term Growth in overseas sales over the last three years. Pictured receiving the award from HM Lord Lieutenant, Mrs. Jennifer Tolhurst, Pickering CEO, Keith Moore commented: “Pickering is a family-run business and we are honoured to have won such a prestigious award. Our ...

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LoRa Corecell reference design

Semtech has issued a LoRa Corecell reference design for indoor gateway applications. The reference design is developed to the LoRaWAN protocol and targeted for home, building and factory automations. The LoRa Corecell reference design provides the “minimum optimized solution” to build a gateway application, which is represented in the name, “core” and “cell.” The reference ...

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Risc-V day: Greenwaves’ pushes AI to the very edge of IoT

GAP 8 is an ultra-low-power Risc-V AI processor from Grenoble-based GreenWaves, aimed at inferencing (executing already-trained neural networks) inside battery-operated IoT sensors. “Battery-operated sensors have, until now, been restricted to simple data sources such as temperature and humidity,” according to the firm. “But there is increasing interest in processing richer data sources such as images, sounds, ...

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Risc-V day: Microchip adds Risc-V hard IP to PolarFire FPGAs

Microchip detailed an FPGA family with a quad core 64bit RISC-V processor alongside the programmable array. Called ‘PolarFire SoC’, the “architecture brings real-time deterministic asymmetric multiprocessing capability to Linux platforms in a multi-core coherent CPU cluster”, according to the firm, which worked with Risc-V specialist SiFive to create the devices. Real-time operation is included for ...

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Maxim buck-boost converter 96% efficient with quiescent current of 6µA

Maxim Integrated has introduced the Max77827, a buck-boost converter featuring a quiescent current (IQ) of 6µA and peak efficiency of 96%. It addresses the power requirements of low-power wide-area network (LPWAN) applications, asset tracking devices and IoT applications. The 1.5A compact converter (2.04×1.64mm WLP size and less than 15mm² total) allows 1.8-5.5V input and 2.3-5.3V ...

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Mouser signs MATRIX

MMouser has signed a global distribution agreement with MATRIX Industries the Silicon Valley materials science and thermal engineering specialists. Through the agreement, Mouser is now stocking MATRIX Mercury energy harvesting DC/DC boost converters and associated kits, perfect for IoT or wearable engineers — from hobbyists to design engineers in large companies. MATRIX Mercury DC/DC boost ...

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