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Toshiba expands portfolio of single channel motor driver ICs

Toshiba Electronics has added the TB67H451FNG to its line-up of single channel brushed DC motor driver ICs. Housed in an HSOP8 package, the IC features non-latching overcurrent detection. The IC can drive brushed DC motors and supports battery powered devices or any devices with a 5V USB power supply. It’s also suitable for use with ...

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UCC12050 dc-dc power converter from TI available at Mouser

Mouser is now stocking Texas Instruments’ UCC12050 and UCC12040 isolated dc-dc converters. The devices supply isolated power to circuits that require a bias supply with regulated output voltages. They’re suitable for applications including protection relays and smart breakers, PLC analog input and output modules, patient monitoring, and isolated voltage and current sensing. The UCC12050 and ...

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Silicon Labs Secure Vault suite addresses emerging regulations for IoT

Silicon Labs has announced Secure Vault, a security suite designed to address increasing threats and regulatory pressures arising from IoT connected devices. The wireless Gecko series 2 platform uses Secure Vault, combining software security features with physically unclonable function (PUF) hardware technology. Secure Vault’s hardware features are implemented in a wireless SoC package. The security subsystem, ...

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CSconnected semiconductor cluster aims to encompass supply chain

As part of Wales Week London, compound semiconductor cluster CSconnected held an event at the IET in London promoting its strategy to build a collaborative supply chain from chip design to end products in a single geographic region. Hosted by Maggie Philbin OBE, the event saw three representatives from CSconnected discuss the cluster’s aims and ...

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RS stocking Keysight test and measurement kits for embedded and RF

RS Components has added Keysight test and measurement equipment to its portfolio. It’s stocking the Infiniivision 4000X and 6000X series of oscilloscopes, which feature a “zone trigger” function, designed to help engineers isolate hard-to-capture signals. The multi-function scopes have a waveform update rate of one million waveforms per second. They’re aimed at embedded system design ...

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Embedded World: Embedded Vision Everywhere?! Panel discussion

Last week at Embedded World, EW attended the Embedded Vision Everywhere panel discussion. The informative one-hour session covered use-cases, challenges, and the increasing role of AI in embedded vision systems. The panel consisted of Jan-Erik Schmitt, md of Vision Components, Dr. Christopher Scheubel, executive director of Cubemos, Jason Carlson, ceo of Congatec, Bengt Abel of ...

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Marvell and Samsung collaborate on 5G infrastructure products

Marvell and Samsung are extending their collaboration to encompass infrastructure across additional segments of the radio access network (RAN). The companies have collaborated on baseband and transport processing solutions for base stations based on Marvell’s Octeon and Octeon Fusion processors. In addition, the companies are collaborating on radio unit architectures designed to meet the compute ...

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Element14 Learning Circuit video series covers BBC micro:bit

Element14, Farnell’s online community dedicated to engineering discussion and education, is supplementing classroom-based STEM with a free series of videos entitled ‘The Learning Circuit’. First launched in 2017, the series, hosted by Karen Corbeill, still sees regular uploads. A recent series focused on the BBC micro:bit, taking viewers through “different ways to learn and explore with ...

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Embedded World: Segger releases AppWizard for GUI design

Segger launched AppWizard at Embedded World 2020, a tool for creating ready-to-run applications for the company’s emWin embedded graphics library. AppWizard comes with its own built-in resource management capabilities and facilitates the use of emWin’s core functions, such as the rendering of animations, language management and widgets. The program includes what the firm is calling ...

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Embedded World: Congatec expands 3.5-inch offering with SMC1 board

After entering the 3.5-inch SBC market in the middle of last year, Congatec announced at Embedded World it’s introducing a carrier board in this standardized footprint, which features with a socket for Arm based Smarc modules. Its I/Os are designed for use with the manufacturer’s NXP i.MX8 module portfolio and it comes in 12 different ...

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