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Industrial displays are low power, high visibility

Two 12-inch TFT-LCDs released by Display Technology are designed for applications that require consistent readability in challenging conditions or full HD with low power consumption.  The AUO G121EAN01.2 12.1-inch WXGA display has white luminance of 1000Cd/m2 (typical) to display images, graphics, and text clearly under a high level of ambient light. It has a wide ...

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Suite of tools addresses ASIL-D safety design

An Israeli company, Optima Design Automation has introduced two tools for automotive design. The Optima Safety platform consists of Optima-HE and Optima-SE, both based on the company’s Fault Injection Engine (FIE) and designed for fault analysis, targeting safety analysis fault injection for SoC design. The FIE uses parallel simulation and formal verification, rather than fault ...

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LTE data card addresses network appliances

Rutronik UK adds the Telit LM960A18 Mini PCIe (mPCIe) data card. It uses Advanced LTE to deliver high-speed data rates for network appliances, such as routers, mobile gateways and access points. The card is based on LTE Category 18 and achieves up to 1.2Gbps download and 150Mbps upload. It supports uplinke with 2x carrier aggregation ...

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Low clamping voltage, high surge TVS devices protect USB Type-C PD in smartphones

Low clamping voltage, high surge transient voltage suppressors (TVS) from Alpha and Omega Semiconductor (AOS) are designed for Vbus protection. The AOZ8621UNI series of six TVS are suitable for USB Type-C Power Delivery (PD), in laptops and smartphones and any application using the PD protocol that can deliver up to 100W. The series covers a ...

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GaN FET aids vehicle lidar systems’ accuracy

A 15V gallium nitride (GaN) FET has been added to the eGaN offering from Efficient Power Conversion (EPC). The automotive-qualified EPC2216 is designed for lidar applications in self-driving cars and can also be specified in other time-of-flight (ToF) systems, such as facial recognition, healthcare, warehouse automation, drones, mapping and smart advertising systems. The 26mΩ, eGaN ...

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Hakko signs HK Wentworth as sole UK distributor

Soldering, de-soldering, PCB rework and fume extraction equipment by Hakko is available in the UK from HK Wentworth, following an agreement that the latter will be the sole authorised distributor of Hakko products in the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland. Following HK Wentworth’s recent acquisition of the UK’s previous distributor of Hakko tools, Dancap Electronics, ...

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TFT LCD displays meet rail environments

300 Litemax TFT LCDs have been supplied by Display Technology in a major transportation contract for a rail CCTV system. The  1068E 10.4inch TFT LCDs emits 1600 nits LED backlighting and boasts high brightness of 1600 cd/m2 with a resolution of 800 x 600 (SVGA) and a viewing angle of 65°(H) and 65°to 45°(V). The ...

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Adaptable, flexible and open source: the wish list for young engineers

The working practices of today’s young engineers are very much on Victor Peng’s mind. The president and CEO of Xilinx explained why the company’s Vitis, the software platform announced at the Xilinx Developers’ Forum in San Jose, California. He conceded that the company has not normally been associated with open source products. Now it is ...

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Xilinx puts new life into HTC and AI development

Xilinx embraces open source community and introduces the Vitis software platform for hardware and software development. At this year’s Xilinx Developers Forum, the company introduced the Vitis software platform, which tailors the hardware architecture to the software of algorithm code without intervention. President and CEO, Victor Peng, explained that the unified platform was developed to ...

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CEVA adds system awareness to AI inference processor

The company introduced the second-generation NeuPro architecture for edge devices. NeuPro-S processors address the need to scale up its NeuPro architecture to work in heterogeneous systems, explained Yair Siegel, director of segment marketing. There are three processors available, targeting the mobile, home and automotive markets, all have safety standards enabled, added Siegel. Launched at this ...

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