Anglia announces battery pack service targeting untethered electronics

Anglia has announced a battery pack service, offering design-in support on standard, customised and bespoke packs based on primary or rechargeable cells in a choice of output voltages and capacities. The service caters for chemistries including lithium-ion, lithium polymer, lithium iron phosphate, NiMH, lithium thionyl chloride as well as other non-rechargeable options. Anglia can also ...

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Deeply-on-chip magnetics make agile PCUs and slash PCB footprint

New York-based fabless chip firm Ferric has teamed up with TSMC to put magnetic components on the metal layers of integrated circuits. The first product of the collaboration, Fe1038D, has a 2.0 x 3.2mm flip-chip die (<400μm thick) that includes all magnetics and passives needed to deliver 3A at between 0.6V and 1.5V from 1.8V-2.5V, with efficiency peaking ...

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Mouser shipping Texas Instruments’ mmWave sensors for industrial

Mouser Electronics is stocking the IWR1843 industrial radar sensor from Texas Instruments (TI). Based on TI’s proprietary low-power 45nm RFCMOS process, these wideband millimetre wave (mmWave) sensors enable “exceptional” levels of integration, the manufacturer says. The sensors are supplied in a 0.65mm pitch, 161-pin 10.4×10.4mm flip chip BGA package. Among the target applications for these ...

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Anritsu introduces the MS46131A 43.5 GHz 1-port VNA family

Anritsu Corporation has introduced the Shockline MS46131A USB vector network analyser (VNA), a modular 1-port VNA that supports measurement frequencies up to 43.5GHz. 8GHz and 20GHz models are also available in the series. MS46131A enables the measuring of antennas and other 1-port 5G devices at sub-6GHz, as well as in the 28GHz and 39GHz millimeter ...

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Sponsored Content: NFC pushes IoT applications further afield

Ross Murgatroyd, Senior Global Product Manager at Farnell considers the use of NFC in IoT use-cases where continuous connectivity is either impractical or unnecessary. The technologies behind the internet of things (IoT) is making the world around us more intelligent. In many implementations, the sensor nodes that are installed to relay data constantly to servers ...

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Intel to return to 2-2.5 year process cadence

Intel intends to return to a 2 to 2.5 year process cadence. “We want to get back to a two to two-and-a-half year cadence,” says CEO Bob Swan (pictured), “and shortly after launching 10, our expectations is we will have our first 7 nanometer product launch in the latter part about 2021 with CPUs to ...

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Ada Lovelace Institute to investigate biometric data

The Ada Lovelace Institute has commissioned Matthew Ryder QC to lead an independent review of the governance of biometric data. The review will examine the existing regulatory framework and identify options for reform that will protect people from misuse of their biometric data, such as facial characteristics, fingerprints, iris prints and DNA. Technologies which capture, ...

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Vodafone tops Ofcom complaints league table

Ofcom has published its Q3 quarterly complaints league table: For fixed broadband: EE and Sky generated the lowest volume of fixed broadband complaints per 100,000 subscribers in Q3 2019. Vodafone generated the highest volume of fixed broadband complaints per 100,000 subscribers. For landline: EE and Sky generated the lowest volume of landline complaints per 100,000 ...

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