MikroElektronika of Serbia has launched its 1,000th Click board: EtherCAT Click which can add EtherCAT to processors with an SPI interface. Click boards are used to add interfaces to microcontroller development boards – the company created its accompanying 16pin mikroBus standard ten years ago. Mikroe now releases a new Click board nearly every day at ...
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Eutelsat Communications, the Paris satellite operator, is to pay $550 million in cash for a 24% stake in the OneWeb satellite constellation owned by the UK government, Softbank and Bharti Global. Last July the UK government and Bharti bought the bankrupt OneWeb for $1 billion with Bharti and the UK each putting up $500 million and ...
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The circular connector specialist binder has announced right-angle housing versions of its M12 and M16 connectors. Specifically, the the 423, 713, 715 and 825 series will expanded with a shielded, two-part right-angle housing. This provides new options to widen the range of applications and increase future demand, says the company: “[The] 423, 713, 715 and ...
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Telecom Italia (TIM) has deployed its first O-RAN network in Europe – establishing a 4G service in the city of Faenza near Bologna provided by JMA Wireless of the US. The radio node on the 4G network was built by combining JMA’s software baseband with the radio units provided by Microelectronics Technology (MTI) of Taiwan. ...
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How can I prepare myself for something I do not yet know? Scientists from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and from the Fritz Haber Institute Of Berlin have addressed this almost philosophical question in the context of machine learning. Learning is no more than drawing new decisions on prior experience. In order to deal ...
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C&K has developed a miniature tactile switch designed for wearable and portable IoT devices that occupies 4.6 x 2.2 x 2.6mm. The company describes it as ‘surface-mount’, but ‘edge-mount might’ be a better term as it is designed to fit onto the edge of a PCB, protruding 0.95mm above the PCB surface height. PTS847 is ...
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RJ Industrial MultiFeature from Harting is an updated version of the RJ45 connector, intended to save assembly time and be tough enough for industrial IoT use. The housing is metal and integrated knives automatically shorten wire strands to the correct length during assembly – although they still need to be de-shielded and un-twisted by hand. ...
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CUI Devices has added miniature slide switches as small as 10 x 2.5 x 5.9mm to its portfolio. Called the MSS series, the parts have 2.54mm pin pitches and are through-hole or gull-wing solder mount with single-pole change-over switching. Rating is 12V at 500mA or 24V at 300mA, and over -40 to 85°C. Taking the MSS-102545-14A-SV-SMT ...
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Microchip is offering a pair of radiation-hardened Arm Cortex-M7 ICs: the SAMRH71 MPU and the SAMRH707 MCU, developed with the support of the European Space Agency and French space agency Centre National D’Etudes Spatiales (CNES). “The introduction of Arm technologies for space applications opens up new perspectives by enabling the use of the same ecosystem ...
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Belgium-based Cissiod has introduced silicon carbide three-phase intelligent power modules with either: liquid-cooling for e-mobility or with a lightweight AlSiC flat baseplate for natural convection or forced cooling in aerospace and industry. The products including sophisticated gate drivers. “The embedded gate driver solves multiple challenges related to fast-switching SiC transistors: negative drive and active Miller clamping ...
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