DIN rail redundancy power modules from TDK-Lambda at RS

RS Components has announced availability of the DRM40/B series of DIN rail mounted redundancy power modules from TDK-Lambda. Designed for automation and general-purpose industrial applications, the DRM40 and DRM40B power modules offer 20 to 40A current handling capability and can be used in N+1 redundancy systems and applications; alternatively, two supplies can be placed in ...

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Ranplan Wireless selected for EU 5G network slicing research project

Ranplan Wireless has been selected as a contributor to a €1.4m EU Horizon project, taking place over a four-year period starting 1 December 2019. Focused on realising the concept of network slicing in preparation for mass-market deployment of programmable 5G networks, this EU initiative brings Ranplan Wireless in partnership with CNR of Italy, Orange Labs of ...

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Finding out how neural nets do what they do

Even when the connections and weightings in a neural network are displayed for all to see, it is not clear how most of them actually achieve their results – they are trained black boxes that remain opaque under close scrutiny. Now scientist from Italian research institute SISSA and the Technical University of Munich have found ...

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Wisekey, ON Semi and Tatwah claim world’s first secure IoT beacon

Wisekey, ON Semiconductor and Tatwah have collaborated on a secure IoT beacon device. The device, claimed to be the first of its type, will be introduced at Trustech 2019, an event for payments, identification and security technology, held from November 26-28 in Cannes, France. It embeds the Bluetooth 5 RSL10 SIP from ON Semiconductor. The RSL10 family ...

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Automotive LED driver can be boost, buck-boost or sepic

Aiming at powering LEDs in automotive applications, Taiwan Semiconductor has introduced a dc-dc controller chip that can be operated in boost, buck-boost and sepic topologies from rails between 4.5V and 42V. Operation is specified for discontinuous, continuous and boundary conduction modes. Diagram note: the single LED represents a series string of LEDs. Output regulation is based on ...

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Giant Orkney tidal turbine gets blades from Hampshire

Scotland’s Orbital Marine Power is ordering the final major parts for the 2MW O2 floating tidal turbine. The four blades, two for each rotor, will be made by A C Marine & Composites (ACMC) of Gosport in Hampshire. Each of the composite blades is 10m long, giving the machine a swept area of over 600m2, ...

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Panasonic quits chips

After 67 years Matsushita/Panasonic is quitting the chip industry. Between 1985 and 1990 the company was a top ten player. Now it is to be sold to Nuvoton Technology of Taiwan which is 61% owned by Winbond. Nuvoton is paying $250 million for the unit which designs power-management chips and sensors for smartphones, cars and security ...

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Amazon extends smart speaker lead

Amazon reinforced its lead in the smart speaker market with sparkling Q3 sales. Amazon shipped 10.5 million of its Echo smart speakers in Q3 2019, its second highest ever total for a single quarter as the company stretched its lead over its closest rivals. The global market for smart speakers grew 55% year-on-year to 34.9 ...

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Secure IoT beacon

WISeKey of Switzerland, ON Semiconductor and Tatwah claim to have produced the first secure IoT beacon. The beacon embeds the Bluetooth 5 RSL10 SIP from ON Semiconductor. The RSL10 family is supported by an SDK featuring an Eclipse-based IDE, mobile applications and support for FreeRTOS, FOTA and mesh networking. The beacon has tamper-resistant microcontrollers- the VaultIC405 and ...

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