3d printable polymer can take a battering under the bonnet

Intended for under-bonnet automotive applications, amongst others, Arnilene AM6001 GF (G) is a glass-filled polypropylene material for fused granulate fabrication 3d printing from Royal DSM in the Netherlands. “Popular for its thermal, mechanical and chemical performance, polypropylene is the second most used polymer worldwide in traditional manufacturing,” according to the company. “Despite broad adoption of 3D printing, no ...

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Self-driving vehicle watches human to cope better in strange environments

Self-driving vehicles can learn from human drivers, then sometimes out-drive them, according to US Army research. The team designed an algorithm that allows an autonomous ground vehicle to improve its existing navigation systems by watching how a human driver remote-controlled the same vehicle, calling the approach ‘adaptive planner parameter learning from demonstration’ – APPLD. The approach ...

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Automotive always-on dc-dc controllers need only a few µA

Renesas has introduced a pair of automotive dc-dc converter chips with low operating current for ‘always-on’ applications. Both are designed to work with external mosfet power stages. ISL78264 is a 50W-200W synchronous dual buck controller intended to manage the intermediate first stage dc-dc conversion, stepping down the 12V battery system to 5V and 3.3V to ...

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G2 looms

Foxconn, which assembles most of Apple’s iPhones, sees a world split into two markets – one dominated by China the other by the USA, reports the Nikkei. “The global trend toward a G2 is inevitable. How to serve the two big markets is something that we’ve always been planning for,” said Foxconn chairman Young Liu ...

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Lattice Guard protects Sentry

Lattice Semiconductor has launched the Lattice Sentry solutions stack and the Lattice SupplyGuard supply chain protection service. The Sentry stack is a combination of customizable embedded software, reference designs, IP, and development tools to accelerate the implementation of secure systems compliant with NIST Platform Firmware Resiliency (PFR) Guidelines (NIST SP-800-193). The Lattice SupplyGuard service extends the ...

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Wideband amplifier has gain of 24 dB with a noise figure of 5 dB.

Richardson RFPD is supplying a wideband low-noise amplifier from ERZIA Technologies. The ERZ-LNA-1800-4200-24-6 provides a gain of 24 dB with a noise figure of 5 dB. The device’s compact size and modularity make it ideal for a wide range of applications, including industrial, SATCOM, aerospace and military. Additional key features of the ERZ-LNA-1800-4200-24-6include: Frequency range: ...

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