1kV isolated voltage sensors meet IRIS for rail traction

LEM is aiming at rail traction and industrial applications with a series of isolated voltage sensors for ac, dc and pulsed use. DVC 1000 series sensors are panel-mount and measure 29 x 51 x 89mm – 131.6cm3– and 57g.  A DIN rail mounting adaptor is an option. “LEM developed the DVC 1000 to be compliant with the ...

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Dc-dc works straight from 400V EV battery

Power Integrations has qualified its 550V LinkSwitch-TN2 dc-dc converter IC to AEC-Q100 for automotive use. Designed for non-isolated down-conversion, and numbered LNK3206GQ, it can deliver 7W in a fly-back circuit or 360mA in buck converter form, from 60 to 550Vdc in either case. Regulation, claims the company, i sbetter than +/-5% across line voltage, load, temperature and ...

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Canada signs up to build Canadarm3 for Lunar Gateway

Canada has formalised its involvement in the Lunar Gateway program by committing to build the space robotics system that is dubbed Canadarm3. Navdeep Bains – Canada’s Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry – announced Canada intends to enter into a contract with Brampton-based company MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates (MDA) to build the system. It will ...

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Renesas adds SOTB-based controller to RE line-up

The newest member of the RE01 Group lineup is a 256 kilobytes (KB) flash memory variant in addition to the 1.5 megabytes (MB) flash memory embedded controller, already in mass production. Featuring a minimum 3.16 mm × 2.88 mm package size, the new embedded controller is optimized for use in more compact product designs in ...

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Versarien gets £5m Innovate UK loan for graphene production

Versarien the Cheltenham advanced materials engineering group, has received a £5 million loan from Innovate UK Loans Limited. Innovate UK has been running an extended pilot innovation loans programme over the past three years with £75 million committed to the scheme with normal loan amounts of up to £1million. The innovation loans are targeted at UK small ...

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Samsung supplied half the smartphone memory market in Q1

Samsung supplied half the memories in smartphones in Q1, reports Strategy Analytics. Figure 1. Smartphone Memory DRAM Market Revenue Share Q1 2020 (Graphic: Business Wire) Samsung, Hynix and Micron took almost 84% of the revenue from smartphone memory market in Q1 2020. Samsung had 44% of the NAND revenues from smartphones followed by Kioxia with 21% ...

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Amazon Web services aim for space with new space business segment

Amazon has announced that it is introducing a new business segment dedicated to the aerospace and satellite industry. The Aerospace and Satellite Solutions business segment will bring AWS services to space enterprises, it says, and work with customers and partners around the world. A company blog post by Teresa Carlson, vp for Amazon Web Services’ ...

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Purdue on track to spawn 275 startups

Purdue University will have spawned 275 startups within the next 12 months backed by more than $400 million dollars in VC support and other investments, making it the third best US university for startup creation according to IP Watchdog. Companies have invested $2.3 billion to acquire 10 Purdue startups, which are: Endocyte Inc., a life ...

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