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Functional safety AVR MCUs, with a touch controller

Microchip is aiming at automotive and industrial control applications with human interaction, with a series of MCUs that combine functional safety and a touch controller – branding them AVR ‘DA’. “Functional safety-ready designation is applied to devices that incorporate safety features and are supported by safety manuals, FMEDA [failure modes, effects, and diagnostic analysis] reports ...

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High voltage automotive-grade aluminium capacitors for electric vehicles and industry

Vishay Intertechnology has introduced two series of automotive grade, surface-mount aluminium electrolytic capacitors that combine working at up to 450V and up to +125°C with a useful life up to 6,000 hours, aiming them at automotive and industrial applications. 152 CME and 192 CTX series capacitors (see table below) are polarised and have a non-solid electrolyte. They are ...

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Cheap UK open-source 3D printed medical microscope uses Raspberry Pi camera and processing

The University of Bath has designed an open-source medical-grade microscope that can be made for as little as £15 in its most basic form Called OpenFlexure microscope, “it is unique among 3D-printed microscope in its ability to yield high-quality images,” according to the university.” It has been designed to be easy to use, with an ...

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Single-board computer for secure IoT end-points

OKdo, one of the RS Component family of companies, has introduced its first own-branded single board computer – aimed at those developing secure IoT endpoints. Called ‘E1’, it was developed with NXP and is built around an Arm Cortex-M33-based microcontroller, NXP’s LPC55S69. “In addition to forming the basis for secure IoT endpoints, the E1 is ...

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High-Q RF and microwave capacitors

Exxelia’s CH series of surface-mount ceramic capacitors are designed with high Q-factor and stable operation for rf applications in medical MRI scanners, scientific, industrial and cellular base stations Options ranging across 0.1pf to 1,000pF and 50V to 1500V are available with low ESR, high-Q and high self-resonant frequencies (see graphs). They are “available with nickel or ...

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Nanotube’s cut thermal resistance of heatsink interface

Fujitsu Laboratories has created a thin flexible adhesive sheet thermal interface material for heatsinking that achieves up to 100W/mK thermal conductivity. “Unlike previous technologies, the carbon nanotube adhesive sheets are also flexible, making them easy to cut and handle for use on variety of surfaces,” according to the lab. “This technology promises to deliver practical improvements and ...

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COM Express Type 6 module with AMD Ryzen

Congatec has announced a COM Express Type 6 module with AMD Ryzen Embedded V1404I Series processors for use across -40°C to +85°C. Called conga-TR4, it is available with optional burn-in and cold-soak stress screening for increased reliability. “The most demanding graphics and compute workloads benefit from the modules’ four cores, eight threads and eight GPU ...

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ISSCC 2020: RC oscillator hits 6.15ppm/°C

After delving into Texas Instrument’s crystal-replacing bulk acoustic wave (BAW) oscillator recently, Electronics Weekly is taking a look at an advanced version of the humble RC oscillator, reported at the International Solid State Circuits Conference earlier this year (ISSCC 2020). The work of Delft University of Technology, the 180nm CMOS oscillator has been given so ...

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Phase noise analyser for precision oscillator characterisation

Microchip is aiming at engineers make accurate measurements of frequency signals, including those generated by atomic clocks and other high-performance frequency references with a phase noise analyser. Called 53100A, it works up to 200MHz and characterises the phase noise, jitter, Allan deviation (ADEV) and time deviation (TDEV) – with a variety of configurations by allowing up ...

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Phase noise analyser for precision oscillator characterisation

Microchip is aiming at engineers make accurate measurements of frequency signals, including those generated by atomic clocks and other high-performance frequency references with a phase noise analyser. Called 53100A, it works up to 200MHz and characterises the phase noise, jitter, Allan deviation (ADEV) and time deviation (TDEV) – with a variety of configurations by allowing up ...

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