Self-setting crankshaft and camshaft sensors for hybrid vehicles

Allegro MicroSystems has released two automotive magnetic sensors, one for crankshafts and one for camshafts, both using the giant magnetoresistance (GMR) effect. Although both come in a simple three-pin single in-line package, they are sophisticated digital processing ICs, and system-in-packages as they also incorporate a bias magnet and EMC protection components. Crankshaft The ATS16951 crankshaft sensor ...

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Viewpoint: Will PoE be the saviour of smart offices and smart cities?

Power over Ethernet (PoE) is rapidly gaining market share, in some rather unexpected places, writes Philip Lechner of Avnet Abacus. In fact, for a technology with relatively humble origins, PoE is shaping up very well indeed. A recent report from ResearchAndMarkets.com predicts that the global market for Power Over Ethernet (PoE) Solutions will reach $1.1 Billion ...

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380MHz to 6GHz RF amplifier

Rohde & Schwarz has revealed a RF amplifier that can work across 380MHz to 6GHz, delivering up to 180W. The all-new BBA300-CDE “provides a single amplifier that eliminates the need to switch instruments or bands during a test,” according to R&S. A second model, BBA300-DE, operates from 1GHz to 6GHz. There are also 15, 25 ...

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ESZ opens Anritsu calibration service for Europe

ESZ has joined Anritsu’s certified service provider scheme, allowing it to calibrate certain Anritsu systems to DAkkS and ISO17025 in Europe. It will also offer functional testing, maintenance and repair. The contract currently covers: power meters, power sensors, signal generators, spectrum analysers (electronic and optical), vector network analysers, counters (and counter modules), short-range wireless testers, optical time-domain ...

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space grade 4Gbyte DDR4

Teledyne e2v is shipping 4byte radiation-tolerant space-grade DDR4 memory. The device, called DDR4T04G72, is a 15 x 20 x 1.92mm multi-chip module that can operate at 2.4Gtransfer/s. Its bus assigns 64bits to data and an additional 8bits to error correction. The company sees it being used with its own Qormino processors, and the memories are compatible with ...

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Bluetooth indoor positioning antenna

U-blox has created an indoor positioning antenna for Bluetooth, designed to be built into end-user products. Bluetooth indoor positioning uses the angle-of-arrival of a signal to at several fixed points in a room. The signal is emitted by the mobile entity to be tracked – a Bluetooth tag, for example. Location is measured to sub-metre accuracy ...

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Bentley to build a new EV every year for five years

Bentley will build one new EV model every year for the next five years, said the company yesterday. Bentley announced a profit of €389 million for 2021, compared with €20 million in 2020 with sales up 31% to 14,659 cars.  “Brand strength has been key to Bentley’s financial performance in 2021, with new models such ...

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Q4 Top Ten foundry sales grew 8.3% q-o-q

The Top Ten foundries had Q4 sales of $29.5 billion – up 8.3% q-o-q, reports TrendForce.   Constrained capacity and rising ASPs drove the increase. The 5 foundries account for nearly 90% of global market share. TSMC had 4Q revenue of $15.75 billion, a QoQ increase of 5.8%. Samsung had 4Q revenue of $5.54 billion, ...

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Shenzhen shuts down

Shenzhen, a city of 17.5 million people, has been locked down because of 66 Covid cases. The lockdown is expected to last a week. A city health official, Lin Hancheng, told a press conference: “If prevention and control is not strengthened in a timely and decisive manner, it could easily become large-scale community transmission.” The ...

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