The US Space Force has awarded an OCX 3F contract to Raytheon Intelligence and Space to build up its GPS capabilities. Specifically, the Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) has awarded a $228 million contract for the GPS next-generation Operational Control System (OCX) Follow-On (OCX 3F). It extends an initial contract with the aerospace and ...
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Antenova has created a new software tool to help designers place antennas in a wireless design. The tool displays the optimum position for embedded antennas on the PCB, depending upon the dimensions of the PCB and the specifications of the antennas. It places each individual antenna on the PCB in the best location for signal ...
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Navitas Semiconductor has given its 650V GaN power switching ICs 66% more current capability with the introduction of the 70mΩ NV6128. “With the higher-power NV6128, we extended the effective power range to 500W for the consumer market and look beyond that to multi-kW data centre, e-mobility and new energy applications,” said company CEO and founder Gene ...
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Diodes has created its first automotive-compliant USB 2.0 passive signal mux-demux switches with over-voltage signal and power rail protection. PI3USB4000DQ is a 2:1/1:2 switch for differential bi-directional DPDT PI3USB4002AQ is a 1:1 switch for differential bi-directional DPST switching 24Vdc withstanding is provided on one high-speed data port (‘C0’ pins), enabling them to tolerate shorts between D± and ...
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UK-based Trend Networks has acquired US fibre test equipment manufacturer Terahertz Technologies. Trend was known as Ideal Networks until March this year. It is a manufacturer of data cable, network and CCTV testers. Terahertz makes testers for OTDR, PM/LS, OLTS, PON, DWDM and CWDM. “Businesses handling fibre optic cables can now depend on us for a ...
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Tesla’s automated driving capability is at Level2, says the California Department of Motor Vehicles. The DMV made the remark in a memo following a tweet from Elon Musk that some Tesla cars had a beta version of a “full self-driving” programme installed. “Elon’s tweet does not match engineering reality. Tesla is at Level 2 currently,” says the DMV. ...
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Melexis, the Belgian fabless IC company, is targeting white goods, consumer electronics, and smart-metering applications with the MLX90392 three-axis magnetic field sensor, which can operate from a 1.8 V power rail shared with other components such as logic devices. Requiring no dedicated LDO or regulator, the competitively priced MLX90392 simplifies design, trims bill-of-materials costs and ...
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ST has announced a new family of ST Intelligent and Integrated Gallium Nitride (GaN) devices designated STi2GaN. The family combines a monolithic power stage along with drivers and protections in GaN technology as well as System-in-Package (SiP) solutions for application-specific ICs with additional processing and control circuitry. The Devices use ST’s bond-wire-free packaging technology to ...
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Airbus Defence and Space has awarded Northrop Grumman a contract for the design, development and production of 24 ship sets of solar arrays for its OneSat satellite product line. The solar arrays are a 20kW-class system that deploys over 18 meters in order to provide energy to the satellite, says Northrop. They will power the ...
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2D spin-logic devices could benefit from magnetic graphene that can efficiently convert charge to spin current, and can transfer this spin-polarisation over long distances, according to the University of Groningen. Graphene is a favoured amongst 2D materials for transporting spin information, but is cannot generate spin current unless its properties are modified – conventionally cobalt ferromagnetic ...
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