Quartet is a four-axis motion controller for a total of 20kW of servos from Israeli firm Elmo Motion Control. Four 5kW servo drives on a single board work with a single central processing core. “Small enough to fit in the palm of a hand, Quartet combines the simplicity and high power of centralised control with the ...
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Rohm is to sponsor German student electric racing car enthusiasts Team Starcraft, of the Technical University Ilmenau. Formula Student, accordinr to Rohm, has three divisions: combustion vehicles, electric vehicles and autonomous vehicles. “Teams compete in an international design and racing competition that is not just about the fastest car. The goal of every team is to ...
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Gemini Data Loggers of Chichester has announced fist-sized data loggers that run for up to two years on a battery. Called the Tinytag Instrumentation range, they measure: voltage 0-2.5Vdc – 0.1mV resolution 0-25Vdc – 1mV resolution current 0-25mAdc – 1μA resolution impulses 0-14,000 – 50 counts per second max When connected to a variety of ...
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University of Cambridge spin-out Sorex Sensors has launched the first product based on its film bulk acoustic resonator (FBAR) technology. It is a particulate sensor, and has been delivered alongside a development kit. Use dust control systems inside air purifier systems and atomic layer deposition tools is expected. Claimed mass sensitivity is down to femtograms. “This makes it ...
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Prusa has announced a 3D printer with a 180 x 180 x 180mm build volume. The firm, based in Prague, has walked-the-walk for several years, using 500 of its own filament deposition printers in a farm that prints the structural plastic parts of those same printers – of which it has shipped ~130,000. As such, ...
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Siglent has launched a ‘plus’ series of spectrum analysers that improve upon the specs of its existing SSA3000X instruments. Called ‘SSA3000X-plus’, they are available in bandwidths of 2.1GHz and 3.2GHz and include a 10.1in touch screen. Bandwidths go from 9kHz to 2.1GHz or 3.2GHz, with the smallest resolution bandwidth (RBW) of 1Hz and -161dBm displayable noise ...
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SiFive has added a ‘micro instruction cache’ option to its Risc-V e2 core – the smallest of its Risc-V intellectual property offerings. Introduced in release 19.05, the micro instruction cache (see μ$ for cache in diagram) sits between the instruction fetch port and the memory system, and offers a speed-up in execution when operating from ...
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Carbon nanotubes sprinkled onto graphene make a transparent conductor that is better than either on their own, according to Aalto University. But not because the graphene acts as a parallel conductor. Instead, temperature-dependent transport measurements indicate that the graphene substrate reduces the tunnelling barrier heights between nanotubes, according to the paper ‘Enhanced tunneling in a ...
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STMicroelectronics has created four motor driver development PCBs in the Click board format for microBus-equipped host boards. It worked with MikroElektronika, creator of the Click and microBus formats. The development PCBs are plug-n-play, and built around ST’s STspin ICs, that include control features, a protected output stage and safety functions including non-dissipative over-current protection. “The ...
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The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award this year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry for “for the development of lithium-ion batteries”, according to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. “This lightweight, rechargeable and powerful battery is now used in everything from mobile phones to laptops and electric vehicles. It can also store significant ...
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