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Rohm starts lab in China for automotive power electronics

Japanese power component supplier Rohm has teamed up with Chinese electric power train company Leadrive Technology to build a joint silicon carbide power laboratory in the Shanghai free trade zone. The two companies have been collaborating since 2017, when Leadrive was established. “Establishing a joint research lab centred on vehicle power modules and inverters utilising ...

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Alps squeezes linear force sensor into 1.50 x 0.85 x 0.68mm

You have to hand it to Alps for managing to make a surface-mount force sensor that is only 1.50 x 0.85 x 0.68mm while maintaining 2% of full scale linearity. The company is aiming at the business ends of force-sensitive drawing styli with the HSFPAR007A, as it will be know. It follows on from a larger ...

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Imagination aims at automotive with ISO 26262 GPU and ADAS processor

Imagination technologies has created a GPU product line specifically for automotive use, building functional safety throughout the design to minimise the need for system-level safety intervention when meeting ISO 26262 requirements, according to the company. The automotive market is important to Imagination, which claims that over 200 million vehicles already have its GPUs in their digital ...

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NXP and Auterion partner for high-reliability drone control

NXP and drone software company Auterion are to co-develop high-reliability integrated hardware and software for the commercial unmanned aerial systems industry. “With the development of regulations and the increased number of autonomous systems in the field, the requirement for components and software that are certifiable and the ability to deploy intelligence on the edge is ...

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Anritsu boosts MP1900A analyser for 400 and 800Gbit Ethernet

Anritsu has added forward error correction symbol capture and bathtub test to its 116Gbit/s PAM4 error detector (MU196040B) for developers of 400 and 800Gbit/s Ethernet devices. For use in the company’s MP1900A signal quality analyser, the functions can be downloaded from the MP1900A website. “Data centres are investigating speed upgrades from 100Gbit Ethernet to 400Gbit Ethernet ...

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600W 915MHz ISM pallet

Ampleon has announced a 600W 915MHz RF LDMOS module for industrial, scientific and medical applications operating in the ISM band. Dubbed BPF0910H9X600, it operates across 902MHz to 928MHz and has 50Ω matching on input and output. Power gain is typically 19dB and harmonic suppression 27dBc. 600W is specified at 1dB compression. It needs a 50V power ...

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1kV isolated voltage sensors meet IRIS for rail traction

LEM is aiming at rail traction and industrial applications with a series of isolated voltage sensors for ac, dc and pulsed use. DVC 1000 series sensors are panel-mount and measure 29 x 51 x 89mm – 131.6cm3– and 57g.  A DIN rail mounting adaptor is an option. “LEM developed the DVC 1000 to be compliant with the ...

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Dc-dc works straight from 400V EV battery

Power Integrations has qualified its 550V LinkSwitch-TN2 dc-dc converter IC to AEC-Q100 for automotive use. Designed for non-isolated down-conversion, and numbered LNK3206GQ, it can deliver 7W in a fly-back circuit or 360mA in buck converter form, from 60 to 550Vdc in either case. Regulation, claims the company, i sbetter than +/-5% across line voltage, load, temperature and ...

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