UK 20 drone swarm collaborates beyond-line-of-sight

Bedfordshire autonomy company Blue Bear Systems Research has demonstrated a 20 drone swarm collaborating out of sight. The heterogenous swarm consisted of five different types and sizes of fixed wing drones carrying six different types of payload from five different companies. Linking them together was Blue Bear’s technology. Payloads and payload support came from Plextek DTS, ...

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UK made: test jigs for low-volume manufacture

Nottingham-based Ignys is aiming at low volume manufacturing with a fixture concept for PCB testing, programming or calibration. “For high volume products, there are conventional ways of arranging tests but these are often too expensive and too slow for the start-up community or low volume manufacturers to benefit from,” according to the company. “We’ve developed ...

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EMI receiver spans 9kHz to 3GHz

PMM has introduced a CISPR 16-1-1 compliant EMI receiver for conducted or radiated emission test measurements from 9kHz to 3GHz. “Its use of gapless FFT technology allows rapid troubleshooting since a fully compliant scan can take as little as two seconds in frequency band B [250 – 500MHz] and only one minute in bands C and ...

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80V DC/DC controllers support data centre servers, 48V telecom and rugged industrial equipment

Renesas has announced a pair of 80V DC/DC controllers that support the extra voltage margin needed for data center servers, 48V telecom and rugged industrial equipment. The ISL81801 buck-boost controller acts like a “UPS on a chip” by enabling bidirectional current flow (forward or reverse) using constant-voltage and constant-current regulation. This allows a battery or ...

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Nokia adds Telia to 5G customer base

Nokia has been selected by Telia Company as the exclusive provider of 5G RAN in Finland adding to its 5G standalone (SA) core customer base in Denmark, Estonia, Lithuania, Norway and Sweden in the Nordic and Baltic regions. The Telia deal in a five-year contractthat includes the modernization of legacy networks and will cover 7,500 ...

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Cree selling LED business to focus on SiC and GaN devices and materials

Cree has agreed to sell its LED business (‘Cree LED’) to memory maker Smart Global Holdings. “We are pleased to announce the sale of our LED products business to Smart, which represents another milestone in our journey to create a pure-play global semiconductor powerhouse,” said Cree CEO Gregg Lowe. “This transaction positions us with a ...

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Qualcomm producing 5G telecoms infrastructure

Qualcomm is to make modules for 5G telecoms infrastructure ranging from macro base stations with massive MIMO to micro base stations with compact designs, to accelerate the cellular ecosystem transition toward virtualized and interoperable radio access networks (RAN).  Qualcomm is introducing three 5G RAN platform offerings: Qualcomm Radio Unit Platform, Qualcomm Distributed Unit Platform, and ...

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NXP expands UWB portfolio

In its efforts to promote UWB as the standard for fine-ranging and high-precision sensing, NXP, has expanded its UWB offering from mobile and automotive ICs, to chips to enable IoT use cases such as smart locks and real-time location system (RTLS) tags delivering “relative position”. The new UWB ICs are  dubbed Trimension SR040 and SR150. ...

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GaN Systems launches 650V, 60A transistors for automotive

GaN Systems has announced availability of the first product in a family of new 650V, 60A transistors for the automotive market. The GS-065-060-5-T-A is designed to meet automotive reliability standards including AEC-Q101 qualification and GaN Systems’ AutoQual+ testing and qualification. AutoQual+ is an enhanced AEC-Q test sequence based on the company’s collaboration with automotive partners ...

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