Flex Power Designer version 3.2 adds numeric conversion calculator

Flex Power Modules has added features to its Designer software, improving its ease-of-use for digital power system design and broadening the products it supports. The 3.2 version adds a numeric conversion calculator, enabling designers to calculate linear/Vout and linear/direct formatted values seen from monitoring data. The software also includes a display address resistor suggestion feature, ...

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Peltier units shift up to 60W

CUI Devices has added two Peltier cooling units to its thermal management range. These are 70 x 70mm closed assemblies rather than open types. “As complete Peltier cooling units, the models feature a tighter seal structure for water resistance and absorption of thermal stress as well as easy installation,” Called CPM-2C and CPM-2H, they are ...

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Torq Sense transducers used in agricultural applications

Torq Sense transducers from Sensor Technology have been used by Gloucestershire-based animal shearing and clipping equipment supplier, Lister Shearing. The sensors, based on surface acoustic wave (saw) technology, are being used by the company as an aid to evaluating the performance of miniature electric motors. “An issue commonly encountered with powered hand tools, which form ...

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Electro-optic beam-steerer is easy to make, ‘3D’ displays could follow

Surface acoustic waves can be used to steer laser beams, in ways that could lead to glasses-free ‘3D’ displays, according to the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory in Massachusetts. The proof-of-concept device has been made using techniques that could be scaled for production, according to Draper research engineer Gregg Favalora: “We can report the first demonstration, ...

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MS and Google disagree over EU face recognition approach

Google and Microsoft are taking different views in the EU’s proposed ban of face recognition technology. The EU is proposing a 3-5 year ban on using the technology until appropriate regulations for its use are formulated. “I think it is important that governments and regulations tackle it sooner rather than later and give a framework ...

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Power measurement tool for CLEC systems

Sundance Multiprocessor Technology has launched LynsynLite, a power measurement tool for the development of embedded and customized low-energy computing (CLEC) systems that require a high degree of energy efficiency. Lynsyn Lite provides accurate measurement of a system’s energy consumption based on application behaviour, significantly easing the time-consuming process of tracking down the root causes of ...

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Printed RFID chip for UHF

Toray Industries claims to be the first company to communicate wirelessly across the UHF  band with a printed semiconductor. The RFID device employs a semi-conductive carbon nanotube composite. The tag shows the potential for manufacturing UHF RFIDs by low-cost printing processes to streamline retail and logistics operations such as in  automating cash registers and efficient inventory ...

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