EPC is aiming at mild hybrid vehicles and battery back-up Units with a 1.5kW gallium nitride bidirectional power converter demonstration board. Nominally 48 to 12V and back, it can produce 12 at 125A from 20 to 60V, or 48V at 29A from 12 to 15V. Peal efficiency is 97%. “The design of this demonstration board is ...
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STMicroelectronics has GaN-based 250W industrial power supply demonstration board – the first for its MasterGaN power devices. Called EVLMG1-250WLLC, it is designed to produce 24Vdc 10A from a nominal 400Vdc supply with maximum efficiency above 92%. The main component is a MasterGaN1, an IC-like package containing a half-bridge driver and two normally-off 650V GaN transistors – ...
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Cortec has created a packaging shrink film that can be composted. It is called EcoShrink Compostable Film. “EcoShrink takes both the beginning and the end of the shrink wrap product life cycle into account,” according to Cortec. “It is sourced from certified commercially compostable resins and contains 45% biopolymers. After use, it can be disposed ...
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RS Components introduced version 10.0 of its two PCB design packages: DesignSpark PCB and DesignSpark PCB Pro. Changes to free-of-charge DesignSpark PCB include: disconnect from signal nets option component-to-component SMT check output drill data to Gerber library item time stamps improvements to the new component wizard Pay-for DesignSpark PCB Pro gets those changes, and also: intelligent ...
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EMS specialist ESCATEC is to buy JJS Manufacturing. The acquisition adds electro-mechanical production facilities in the UK and Czech Republic to ESCATEC’s manufacturing locations. The deal allows ESCATEC, to supply OEM brands requiring products to be manufactured or assembled in the UK or Central Europe. ESCATEC’s production capacity in Europe has been centered on a design ...
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A survey conducted by the Nikkei at Semicon in Shanghai finds that Chinese chip manufacturing equipment makers are falling behind in their technology development. Difficulties in getting parts and materials from abroad were cited. “Our mainstay lithography machines are 90 nanometer models. Our 28 nm and 14 nm models have room for improvement in terms ...
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Total NEV (New Energy Vehicle, which includes both BEV (Battery Electric Vehicle):and PHEV (Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle, but excludes HEV (Hybrid Electric Vehicle) sales for the 1Q21 period reached 1.09 million units, according to TrendForce. Of this figure, BEVs accounted for 750,000 units in sales, a 153% growth YoY, while PHEVs accounted for 340,000 units ...
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One Web, the Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite communications company that is part owned by the UK government, is looking to buy the US company TrustComm. OneWeb says the acquisition of the Texas-based company – creating a US government-focused subsidiary – will enable it to offer its Low Earth Orbit (LEO) network and connectivity services ...
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NeoPhotonics is shipping initial quantities of Class 60 versions of its Coherent Driver-Modulator (CDM) and Intradyne Coherent Receiver (Micro-ICR) which address 96 GBaud and above systems, to multiple customers. The devices are mechanically compatible with their Class 40 counterparts and provide an upgrade path to higher baud rates supporting data rates that include 800G applications. Optical ...
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