EE continued to dominate the mobile performance metrics across the UK, winning or sharing awards across all six categories tested, whilst also recording the fastest aggregate median download speed across the UK at 36.5 Mbps, finds RootMetrics in its latest survey of UK wireless telco performance. Vodafone remained a close competitor to EE, ranking second ...
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THine, the Japanese serial interface and image signal processing specialist, has high-volume availability of its GPIO / LVCMOS transceiver IC, THCS251. The device allows engineers to aggregate up to 37 lines of different data rates into just 4 lines that can be received and transmitted in the same chip. With the THCS251, manufacturers can lower ...
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Designers that want to use Infinera InP open foundry services, part of the Infinera Optical Innovation Center, will benefit from a design workflow that starts from a graphical photonic IC design and system simulation environment. The workflow is enabled by VPItoolkit PDK Infinera— a pluggable toolkit extension to VPI Photonic Circuits – which adds by support of the PDK building blocks for ...
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ON Semiconductor has launched a family of four devices, two LED drivers and two current controllers, for use in automotive exterior and interior lighting. Aimed specifically at low power solid state lighting, the devices are designed for systems that incorporate movement and variable intensity within rear combination lamps (RCLs), turn signals, fog lamps, and other ...
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DC-DC onverters from Mornsun, the CF0505XT series are available from Relec and are designed to meet the battery managment system needs of electric vehicles (EVs) and hybrid EVs (HEVs). The AEC-Q100-approved, compact DC-DC converters have a wide operating temperature range of -40℃ – +105℃ and are fully IATF16949-compliant and provide continuous self-recovery short-circuit protection. Isolation ...
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This photo-acoustic sensor has been constructed from two silicon wafers: A sensor wafer includes a MEMS mechanical diaphragm microphone and piezoresistive gauges, together with capillaries and fluidic ports, and a second wafer caps the first, and includes the photo-acoustic cell, an expansion volume, SiGe waveguides to get light into the cell and electric contacts. It was made ...
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Accion Systems, which develops advanced satellite propulsion systems and was spun out of MIT, has raised $11m in Series B Funding. The backing is being co-led by Boeing HorizonX Ventures and Shasta Ventures, the company has announced, bringing Accion’s total funding to date to $36 million. This includes $14 million in U.S. Department of Defense ...
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The date for prohibiting the sale of ICE cars has been brought forward by five years. Theresa May set the date at 2040, but this morning Boris revised that to 2035. “We have to deal with our CO2 emissions, and that is why the UK is calling for us to get to net zero as ...
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RS Components has announced a technology hub for the DesignSpark website, incorporating free design tools along with product and system development information. Sponsored by Maxim, the DesignSpark power technology hub features learning material, application examples, products, reference designs and software tools for use by design engineers working on power systems for the requirements of various ...
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2019 semiconductor sales were 12.1% down y-o-y at $421 billion says the SIA. December sales were 5.5% down y-o-y at $36.1 billion, which was a 1.7% decline from November. Q4 sales were 5.5% down y-o-y at $108.3 billion which was 0.9 percent higher than Q3. Global semiconductor sales in December 2019 were 5.5 percent lower than sales from ...
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