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Recom has EN60335-certified power converter for smart homes

A range of 3W and 4W power converters from Recom is designed for powering sensor and actuator nodes in smart home systems. The RACxx-GA range of converters is certified to EN60335 for household equipment. They have a specified no-load power consumption of only 75mW. The voltage outputs are  3.3, 5, 12, 15 and 24VDC. The ...

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Cyber Resilience Week aims to protect UK firms from attacks

A cyber security awareness initiative is taking place across the UK this week. Called Cyber Resilience Week, it is intended to raise awareness of how organisations can be more resilient to cyber threats. Minister for Digital Matt Hancock writes: “We have world-leading businesses, but recent cyber attacks have shown the serious effects of not getting cyber ...

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Amplicon Intel Atom PC has 15 year lifecycle

A range of Industrial PC’s from Amplicon are Apollo Lake based and powered by the Intel Atom E3950 processor. A feature of the PCs is a lifecycle of over 15 years. The Impact-R 1110F and Impact-E 150AL PCs have a power draw of 14-16W. And the E3950 processor provides system scalability. Designed to be lightweight ...

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ST introduces STM8 core MCU with $0.2 price tag

STMicroelectronics has come up with a lower cost 8-bit STM series microcontroller in the SO-8 package. With a price tag as low as 200 cents for orders of 1000 pieces, the STM8S001 has I2C, UART, and SPI interfaces. And the memory offering is good too – 8kbyte flash, 1kbyte RAM, 128-byte EEPROM, and there is ...

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Chomerics makes thermal compound for ECUs and processors

Chomerics Europe has introduced its TC50 high performance thermal compound for conducting heat between hot electronic components and heatsinks or enclosures. It is intended to provide low thermal impedance at multiple gaps to permit the deployment of commonly used spreaders. It only requires low compressive force to deform under assembly pressure. This is intended to ...

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Rohm has dual-standard wide-area radio chip for IoT

A smart meter wireless comms device that supports both Sigfox and IEEE802.15.4k radio standards has been introduced by Lapis Semiconductor, part of the Rohm Group. Designated the ML7404, the chip will be supplied with the protocol stack for IEEE802.15.4k as open-source from partner stack vendors. The Sigfox standard is a subscription-based low power wide-area wireless ...

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Automotive supplier opens PCB plant in Lancashire

Scorpion Automotive, the Lancashire-based supplier to the automotive and marine sectors, has opened a new PCB production plant in Chorley with a ceremony conducted by the Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons and Chorley MP, Lindsay Hoyle. Scorpion Automotive is a manufacturer and supplier of vehicle security and telematics systems for cars, LCVs, HGVs, ...

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Leti offers chip start-ups access to an emulator with Mentor

French microelectronics research organisation, Leti will provide access to the Mentor Veloce emulator for small firms and startups following a partnership with the EDA firm. Emulation is a technique used by major chip firms in the development of complex ICs, which allows them to debug the design at early stages by validating software before committing ...

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