Microchip has added two integrated circuits for implementing USB Type-C Power Delivery (PD) designs USB705x family is for fast device charging and introduces PD implementations called HostFlexing and PDBalancing (see below) – combined with 5Gbit/s SuperSpeed data rate from USB 3.1. UPD301A is a stand-alone USB Type-C PD with basic USB Type-C PD charging functions ...
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Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) J2657 specification is the target Diodes is aiming at with its XRQ range of crystals for tyre pressure monitoring – now a mandatory safety feature for new cars marketed in territories worldwide, according to the firm. Infotainment, telematics, and driver assistance systems are other potential applications. The crystals are capable ...
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Ventec has added two thermally-conductive thin isolation foil materials to its range of thermal interface materials under its distribution agreement with EMI Thermal. Both feature high tensile strength, designed to prevent cut through and electrical shorts, are UL94-V0 recognised and have no viscosity (see table below for characteristics). Intended applications include: PSUs, telecoms, visual devices, ...
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Thingy:91 is a cellular and GNSS IoT prototyping platform with world-wide coverage across 700MHz to 2200MHz, created by Nordic Semiconductor and Fractus Antennas. Based on Nordic’s nRF9160 SiP multimode LTE-M/NB-IoT system-in-package with GPS, the battery-powered Thingy:91 comes with a roaming SIM card, 16 sensors and a nRF52840 for short-range wireless communication with Bluetooth 5, Thread, Zigbee and ANT. ...
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Silicon Labs is aiming at switching industrial loads with a family of quad 24V 700mA isolated 145mΩ switches for resistive or inductive loads – solenoids, relays or lamps, for example, in programmable logic controllers (PLCs). “The switches are capable of providing up to 0.5A of IEC61131-2 compliant continuous current in a quad channel configuration,” said ...
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Texas Instruments has introduced a reset chip for voltage rails between 1.5V and 10V, that can work on 24V rails with additional resistors (see below). Called the TPS3840 family, supply current is typically 300nA, and is 700nA max over temperature. Threshold voltage is fixed, and versions are available from 1.6 to 4.9V in 0.1V steps – ...
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Rohm is claiming 97% efficient operation with a 200mA load and 2.8µA quiescent current from a buck-boost dc-dc converter that produces 2.5V or 3.3V (selectable) from 2.0-5.5V. Up to 1A is available at 3.3V with the input above 2.7V (see bottom table). This is all from a 1.20 x 1.60 x 0.57mm 12pin WL-CSP UCSP50L1C package, including the four ...
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Pico Technology has added DALI decoding and analysis to its PicoScope software, with an update to version 6. “Networked DALI devices are at the heart of modern buildings management. Engineers and systems integrators developing modules and deploying DALI networks need tools to identify timing and signal integrity problems when they occur,” said Pico business development ...
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Hampshire-based Link Microtek designs and manufactures microwave and RF subsystems and components. Its latest project has been a complex microwave feed assembly for a customer’s Ku-band mobile satellite-communications antenna system. It interfaces with the system’s transmit amplifier, conical feed horn and receive LNB, and incorporates a feed arm, transmit filter, receive filter, rotary joint and an ...
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Cheltenham-based design company Duku has developed a pop-up electric vehicle charge point, claiming it to be a world first. Six of them are on trial in Oxford. A pop-up design was adopted to reduce street clutter, but the amount of historical architecture and utilities under Oxford pavements meant minimal available underground space. “It’s an absolute mess ...
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