VicControl Go Stamp is a 4mm high module that adds local voice control to products. “Unlike Amazon Alexa or Google Home, the voice control takes place without an internet connection,” according to VoiceInterConnect, the German company responsible for the board. “Therefore, your speech data remains protected and are not stored on central servers. Voice control ...
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Rigol has announced what it calls its “most powerful oscilloscope ever”, with a 5GHz bandwidth and 20Gsample/s. It is called DS70000, and provides four channels with 10Gsample/s on all channels (or 20Gsample/s on fewer), 1 million waveform/s capture, 2Gpoint maximum storage, and 8bit ADCs with resolution up to 16bit. There is also a 3GHz version. For ...
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Shortages, tight supplies, and higher prices drove up most O-S-D (opto, sensor and discretes) products in the economic rebound while CMOS image sensor sales were muted by U.S.-China disputes and softness in some systems, says IC Insights. Worldwide sales of optoelectronics, sensors and actuators, and discrete semiconductors (O-S-D) each climbed to record-high levels during the ...
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MacFarlane Packaging has launched the Packaging Optimiser – an interactive tool designed to help businesses identify the total cost and environmental impact of their packaging operation. ThePackaging Optimiser uses bespoke software to demonstrate the potential cost and CO2 savings that the correct packaging solution can have on any supply chain. The digital tool enables the Macfarlane team to work collaboratively ...
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TT Electronics has extended its partnership and made an investment in Radwave Technologies, an electromagnetic tracking platform company. The latest development marks the expansion of the strategic partnership and will provide Radwave with advanced manufacturing capability for its next-generation systems under an exclusive five-year contract. “TT will help accelerate our growth as we start delivering production ...
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The Blue Origin space company, owned by Jeff Bezos, is buying the Colorado-headquartered Honeybee Robotics, which specialises in space-based robotic systems. Honeybee will become a wholly owned subsidiary of Blue Origin, which is headquartered in Kent, Washington. And the deal – between Honeybee’s parent company, Ensign-Bickford Industries, and Blue Origin – is expected to close in mid-February. According to the ...
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Power Integrations has switched from a 900V silicon mosfet to a 1,700V silicon carbide transistor to make its automotive-qualified InnoSwitch3-AQ dc-dc converter compatible with 600, 800 and 1200V electric vehicle batteries. What sort of transistor is it? “We don’t go into details of the device,” Power Integrations’ director of automotive business Peter Vaughan told Electronics Weekly. ...
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Rohm teamed up with battery maker NGK to create a thin power source demonstration kit for wearables and industrial IoT. REFLVBMS001-EVK-001 consists of NGK’s novel Li-ion-based 38 × 27 x 0.45mm 27mAh EnerCera EC382704P-C cell with a Rohm BD70522GUL buck converter, which has a quiescent current of 180nA, and a BD71631QWZ charger-discharger-monitor – the latter can work ...
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Following the signing of a distribution franchise agreement, New Yorker Electronics will distribute Raltron Electronics’ range of frequency control products. The range comprises crystals, oscillators, antennas and frequency management products. Raltron was founded in 1983 and specialises in metal can and ceramic package crystals and oscillator devices for wireless comms, computer and storage equipment, industrial ...
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Toshiba has launched two normally open 1-form-A photo-relays that do not need more than 2mA through the input to operate. The input current “reduces energy consumption by approximately 33% when compared to existing Toshiba products such as the TLP240x series”, according to the company. There are two parts: TLP223GA 400Vmax 120mA 17Ω output turn-on 1ms ...
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