Renesas has introduced a pair of 100V half-bridge mosfet gate drivers. HIP2211 is a pin-compatible upgrade to the company’s existing ISL2111 and has separate high-side and low-side PWM input pins, leaving dead-time control up to the hose microcontroller. PWM inputs are 3.3V logic and Vdd tolerant. Comes in 8-lead SOIC or 10-lead 4 x 4mm TDFN. ...
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Lattice Semiconductor has released the second family of devices developed from its Nexus 28nm FDSoI platform, equipping them with fast PCI Express (PCIe) and Gigabit Ethernet interfaces for co-processing, signal bridging, and system control. Certus-NX FPGAs, as they will be known, are intended to be general purpose, aimed at applications from data processing in automated ...
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NewTek’s HATR series of ac-operated LVDT displacement sensors are hermetically-sealed for use in tough contaminated environments such as pulp and paper mills. “As ac-operated linear position sensors, HATR Series is not limited by internal electronics that can fail in extreme environments,” according to the company. They have welded 19mm metal housing and can operate at ...
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Vicor is aiming at VPX conduction-cooled chassis in avionics and ships with a 1kW multi-output PSU that runs from a 28V dc rail. Called VITA-62, it is designed for 6U OpenVPX rund runs on 18 – 42V, while producing 3.3V (0-30A), 5V (0-32A), 12V (0-70A), 12V (1A), -12V (1A) – the 5V rail and high-power 12V rail ...
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Scientist in Australia have used a custom perovskite solar cell to increase the efficiency of solar hydrogen production close to the point thought to be commercially viable. Solar-to-hydrogen production from water and light was 17.6% efficient, despite the relatively humble solar materials involved – silicon and perovskite – compared to a 20% target set by ...
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Nexperia has announced a range of automotive-qualified discrete semiconductors in DFN packages, claiming it to be industry’s widest portfolio. Included are bipolar transistors, n-channel mosfets, p-channel mosfets, Schottkys, Zeners, switching diodes and protection diodes, as well as resistor-equipped transistors and LED drivers. “Automotive qualified discrete leadless packages range from the very small DFN1006BD-2 [1 x 0.6 ...
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CEA-Leti scientists have made FDSOI CMOS at 500°C, “while showing strong performance gains especially in p-type MOS logic devices”, according to the French lab, which has branded the process ‘CoolCube’. 500°C processing is important when trying to shrink die by building CMOS with p-channel mosfets above rather than next to their n-channel counterparts – called a ‘3D ...
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Maxim has added error-code correction (ECC) to both flash, RAM and cache in a increased-reliability microcontroller for industrial, healthcare and IoT use. Called MAX32670, it is built around an Arm Cortex-M4 with floating-point unit, and this EEC is capable of single error correction and double error detection. “In many industrial and IoT applications, high energy particles and other ...
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Engineers at University of California Los Angeles have found a way to create a stretchable adhesive skin chemistry sensor without serpentine electrical conductors. Instead, they persuaded the liquid sweat to move sideways through the film – maintaining stretchability – while electrical connections are made through the thickness of the sensor to a rigid electrode array at the ...
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Analog Devices and the University of Limerick have announced two scholarship programs to honour late ADI CTO Peter Real (pictured), a Limerick alumnus – ADI has research labs in Ireland and research connections with the University. “The Peter Real Analog Devices Bernal Fulbright PhD Scholarship will be awarded in partnership with the Bernal Institute at UL ...
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