Intelsat to buy Gogo in-flight broadband connectivity

Intelsat, the communications satellite services provider, is buying the commercial aviation business of Gogo, a Chicago-based provider of in-flight broadband connectivity. The deal is worth $400 million with the company still being under voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, which it entered in May this year. Intelsat aims to pair its global satellite and ground network ...

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402-405MHz version added to Murata’s MICS family

Murata has added a 402-405 MHz frequency band radio module to its family of  Type 1RM Medical Implant Communication System (MICS) band radio modules. The LBAA0PC1RMH298 module supports a 128 kbps data rate and can cover a communication range of up to 2m. The device is designed for use in body-worn and implantable monitoring/diagnostic devices, ...

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Flyback controller with secondary-side regulation

Infineon has brought out a flyback controller with secondary-side regulation for  LED designs. The XDPL8219 provides high power factor and constant voltage output. The device operates in quasi-resonant mode (QRM) to maximize the efficiency and minimize the electromagnetic interference (EMI) over a wide load range. It accommodates active burst mode (ABM) at light load to ...

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Silicon Labs wins IoT security certification from PSA and ioXt Alliance

Silicon Labs has earned IoT security certifications from both PSA Certified and the ioXt Alliance. The company’s ‘Secure Vault’ is a suite of security features including: secure boot based on hardware root of trust, secure debug, physical tamper, secure identity for attestation, and physically unclonable function (PUF) key management. It will feature in Wireless Gecko ...

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A tale of two low-power temperature sensors

Maxim has announced a pair of temperature sensors, one accurate with an I2C bus, and the other with a multi-drop 1-Wire interface. MAX31889 is accurate: ±0.25°C accuracy from -20°C to +105°C ±0.65°C accuracy from -40°C to +125°C 16bit resolution 32 word temperature data FIFO high and low threshold temperature alarms 1.7V to 3.6V operation 68µA ...

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Viavi delivers O-RAN test gear to China Mobile

Viavi Solutions has delivered 5G O-RAN fronthaul and optical transport test solutions to China Mobile Research Institute (CMRI), the research division of the world’s largest mobile operator, China Mobile.  As 5G commercial deployments continue to ramp up, and multi-vendor, disaggregated architectures emerge, the need for performance validation and service assurance becomes ever more critical. As ...

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TT Electronics gets PSU design-and-qualify contract from BAE Systems

TT Electronics has been awarded a contract from BAE Systems for the design, development and qualification of a flight control system dc-dc converter to support project Tempest, the UK-Italian fighter aircraft concept. “All this work will be completed in the UK,” TT Electronics marketing manager Josh Slater told Electronics Weekly. The aircraft consortium, called Team Tempest, includes BAE Systems, Rolls Royce, Leonardo, and MBDA, ...

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Desktop PSU for home medical appliances has 2x MOPP

Intended to partner home healthcare products, California-based TrumPower has released a family of medically-approved IP54 rated desktop ac-dc adaptors. Inputs range over 90 – 264Vac and 47 – 63Hz (drawing 2Arms at 115V and 1A at 230V). Power handling varies slightly with output voltage, spanning 132-150W across the family as voltage rating varies from 12V to ...

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Imagination launches RISC-V architecture course

Imagination has announced a complete course on RISC-V computer architecture for undergraduate teaching as part of its Imagination University Programme (IUP). “RVfpga: Understanding Computer Architecture” includes teaching materials and practical exercises to help students understand the key elements of processor architecture, including IP cores, modifying a RISC-V core and their microarchitectures. Professor David Patterson, who shares ...

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