At Embedded World 2020, the group editor of Electronics Weekly, Clive Couldwell, shares his thoughts and observations on the show so far. Attendance may be down, he notes, but that gives the show space to breathe and actually increases the opportunities for interesting discussions with engineers. A chance to look at what you may not ...
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Panthronics is aiming at wireless chargers for earbuds, lifestyle-tracker wristbands with a sinewave power driver for inductive antennas. PTX100W can deliver over 2.5W to devices batteries smaller than 500mAh and small antennas, using NFC-like connections. “Qi wireless charging, popular in smartphones, is unsuitable for smaller devices because it requires a large antenna and costly circuitry,” according ...
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At Embedded World 2020, we caught up with Michael Melvang of EDT (Emerging Display Technologies), as part of our promotional coverage for the event. He discusses the company’s human-machine-interface platform – its Smart Embedded Display, which is a high-performance industrial TFT display with capacitive touch panel sensor (CTP) and cover lens plus integrated Driving Board ...
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Allegro MicroSystems has announced “industry’s first fully-integrated, back-biased GMR [giant magneto-resistive] transmission speed and direction sensor”. “By monolithically integrating our GMR technology with digital processing we’ve set a new standard for transmission speed sensing,” claimed Allegro business unit director Peter Wells. “ATS19580’s ability to reach formerly unachievable air gaps with the best vibration performance on ...
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At Embedded World 2020, we caught up with Cristian Ionescu-Catrina of Power Integrations, as part of our promotional coverage for the event. He discusses Power Integrations’ BridgeSwitch integrated half-bridge motor-driver IC family, which supports applications to 400W. Thank you to Cristian for his time. Read all our Embedded World 2020 coverage » Video: David Berman, ...
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TDK-Lambda has introduced 600W 3 x 5in open-frame mains PSUs with efficiencies of up to 96%. Called CUS600M, the ac-dc supplies are certified to medical and ITE (information technology equipment) standards for Class I and II (no earth ground connection) operation and are aimed at professional applications such as healthcare, dental, test, measurement, broadcast, audio and ...
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Dialog has added a new member to its IO-Link product family – the CCE4503. The IC both expands the company’s reach into the IIoT market and connects the smallest and most price-sensitive IO-Link Device sensors and actuators. The CCE4503 is the first IO-Link IC to be launched by Dialog following its acquisition of Creative Chips in ...
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Graphcore the Bristol AI processor company run by Nigel Toon and Simon Knowles (pictured), has raised another $75 million to bring its total funding up to $450 million. Last month Graphcore raised $75 million in a Series D round and this latest $75 million is an extension to last month’s D round. It now has ...
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Imec and ASML have made a breakthrough in litho by printing 24nm pitch lines, corresponding to the dimensions of critical BEOL metal layers of a 3nm node process. By combining advanced imaging schemes, innovative resist materials and optimized settings on ASML’s NXE:3400B system in Imec’s cleanroom, the system is capable of printing lines/spaces at 24 ...
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Direct Insight, the Oxfordshire systems integrator and module vendor, has launched the TRITON-TX8M. The SODIMM-format SoM is based on NXP’s i.MX8M Mini Quad ARM Cortex-A53 processor that features four 64-bit ARM Cortex-A53 cores running at up to 1.6GHz. The 68mm x 26mm (LVDS version: 28mm) TRITON module comes with 1024MB or 2048MB DDR3L and a ...
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