Efficient Power Conversion has announced a pair of 100V gallium nitride (GaN) power transistors. EPC2218 3.2mΩmax 60A (231A pulsed) LGA 3.5 x 1.95 EPC2204 6mΩmax 29A (125A pulsed) 2.5 x 1.5mm LGA They have almost 20% lower Rds(on) that the company’s previous generation of GaN devices, it said. With 5V on the gate, EPC2204 has ...
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BCL Enclosures of Harrogate is aiming domestic, commercial and office spaces with a range of “unobtrusive enclosure for situations where aesthetics are important” with two series’ of enclosures: one matt and one polished. Standard colours are black or white, and the company can supply other RAL colours on request. AB Series consists of two-part ABS ...
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Microchip has added an autonomous LCD driver to its list of MCU peripherals, that can change the display while the CPU sleeps to save power. “Most display applications involve a few common animations like periodically alternating between displays and blinking of pixels to indicate operation,” according to the company. “By using the integrated LCD driver ...
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STMicroelectronics has a 650V GaN transistor half bridge sharing a package with drivers and control logic – describing it as “the world-first platform embedding a half-bridge driver based on silicon technology along with a pair of gallium-nitride (GaN) transistors”. ST has named it MasterGaN1, and is aiming it at consumer chargers and power adaptors, and industrial ...
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UK-based IC test company Smiths Interconnect has extended its DaVinci Test Socket Series to 67GHz. 67GHz is for analogue signals though the 0.8mm pitch connectors, digital can go up to 56Gbit/s NRZ. The part has spring probes in a patented insulated housing, resulting in a coaxial structure. The whole signal path is shielded and 3A ...
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Diodes Incorporated has introduced a pair of low-power analogue multiplexers that can operate from 10V to 36V or ±5V to ±18V. Supply current for either device is typically 135μA. PS508 is a bi-directional single-pole eight way switch PS509 is a bi-directional dual-pole four-way switch – suitable for 4:1 switching of differential signals Both work across -40°C to ...
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Hover-in-place tethered drones are a thing, developed by a US company called Dragonfly Pictures. 8 to 10kW of power for continuous flight at up to 150m altitude is sent up the tether at high voltage. Electronics Weekly got to hear of this because the on-board power system uses Vicor modules – BCM VIA low-profile modules that ...
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Arm is aiming at autonomous decision-making in automotive and industrial applications with three increased-safety cores: Cortex-A78AE CPU Mali-G78AE GPU Mali-C71AE ISP vision processor They are “engineered to work together in combination with supporting software, tools and system IP to enable silicon providers and OEMs to design for autonomous workloads,” according to Arm. “These products will ...
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STMicroelectronics has revealed microcontrollers built around Arm’s Cortex-M7 core and operate at 550MHz, “the fastest core speed in the market among MCUs that integrate flash storage on-chip to run deeply embedded applications”, claimed ST. “At the same time, the devices can interact with off-chip storage while ensuring full execution performance and security.” The single-core devices are ...
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Kent-based distributor Recab is stocking single-board computers from Congatec based on the Intel Tiger Lake processors, as well as the Intel Elkhart boards announced by Congatec last week. Tiger Lake is the 11th generation of its Intel’s Core product range, and offers more computing power and graphics power than Elkhart processors. “One of the most ...
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