Mains PSU works immersed in cooling liquid

Powerbox is aiming at data centres that use electronics flooded in liquid for cooling  – so called ‘immerged applications’ – with a mains-to-12V power supply. Called OFI600A12, it is the result of two years research and development, according to the firm: “Beside requiring a new mechanical approach to facilitate fluid circulation through and around the ...

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OMC announces 15 and 60 degree surface-mount LEDs to view from afar.

OMC has introduced two surface-mount LEDs, one with a 15° beam and one at 60°. Both LEDs are produced in a range of package styles at different wavelengths including infra-red versions. “Narrow beam angle LEDs are often challenging for designers to source with the move to surface-mount components,” according to OMC. “This wasn’t so much ...

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UWB IC lets phone unlock car

A UWB chip could allow your phone to unlock your car. That is one application for the IC which NXP is working on with car manufacturers. UWB provides precise, secure, real-time localization capabilities unrivaled by other wireless technologies such as Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and GPS, says NXP. The technology is designed to give spatial awareness to UWB-equipped ...

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Mentor aims at automotive functional safety with tool ecosystem

Mentor is addressing the functional safety requirements of ICs in autonomous vehicles with an initiative called ‘Tessent Safety Ecosystem’ which links the firm’s own functional safety tools, including those acquired when it bought Austemper, to those from external partners – notably Arm through its Functional Safety Partnership Program. At the same time, it announced a related ...

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Arrow Electronics offers expanded sensor portfolio from Invensense

Arrow Electronics has expanded its sensor portfolio through an EMEA distribution agreement with Invensense, a TDK company. The Invensense portfolio features MEMS motion sensors, MEMS microphones, and ultrasonic time-of-flight (ToF) range sensor solutions. Invensense offers MEMS analogue and digital microphones with its Smartsound platform for home automation and IoT applications. The company’s Smartsonic platform comprises ...

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Foremost adds rugged switches from Elma

Electromechanical component distributor, Foremost Electronics, has added switching products from Elma Electronics to its linecard. These include the X4 and  MR50 rotary switches. The former is a designed for the toughest requirements, says the company, and has an optional pushbutton function. The switch incorporates a magnetic, Hall effect (contactless) sensing system for rugged, reliable, long ...

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Lapis ML7421 achieves data rate demodulation of 300kbps

Rohm group company Lapis Semiconductor has announced the availability of a multiband (sub-1GHz/2.4GHz) wireless communication LSI, ML7421, aimed at applications requiring low power consumption over distance, such as smart meters, alarms, smart agriculture and building security systems. The ML7421 supports both sub-1GHz (400MHz to 960MHz) and 2.4GHz. By supporting the 2.4GHz band available world-wide, a ...

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Wind River, Xilinx tie up on ADAS

Wind River and Xilinx are co-developing an automated driving platform using Wind River’s  automotive software and Xilinx’s ACAP chip. The collaboration will provide carmakers with a flexible compute platform for delivering connected and automated driving vehicles. The platform will deliver the foundation to enable a software architecture approach needed for autonomous driving applications, and make integration ...

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20A 40Vdc EMI filters for MIL-COTS applications

TDK-Lambda has announced quarter brick EMC filters with a rating of ±40Vdc at 20A and a choice of flanged or non-flanged baseplates. Called the FQA series, they are intended for harsh and demanding environments including MIL-COTS vehicle and airborne. Differential and common mode noise attenuation is described as sufficient to simplify system level compliance to MIL-STD-461G by the firm, ...

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