Texas Instruments has introduced a gate driver that can a 200V half-bridge pair of GaN transistors at up to 50MHz. Called LMG1210, it is designed to work with enhancement mode GaN and has a 10ns propagation delay. “The device provides a low switch-node capacitance of 1 pF, with user-adjustable dead-time control which helps improve efficiency,” ...
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With increasingly tight global pollution standards for even small engines, STMicroelectronics and Arrow Electronics have produced am electronic control unit (ECU) reference design for single and twin-cylinder fuel-injected petrol engines. Called SPC5-L9177A-K02, the ECU reference design is aimed at motorcycles, scooters, and three wheelers – particularly those which must satisfy Euro 5, Bharat Stage VI (BSVI), and China ...
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Turkish universities dominated the annual global ‘CanSat’ avionics and aeronautics competition, getting first, second and fifth places. Held this year in Texas, the competition has nothing to do with satellites, but it does involve rockets, payload deployment, telemetry and, this year, autogyros. In a nut shell, CanSat 2019 required students to construct a two-part payload that ...
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Toshiba Memory will re-brand in October, from whence it will call itself ‘Kioxia’ – pronounced ‘kee-ox-ee-uh’. “I am delighted to take the next step in our company’s evolution,” said Toshiba Memory Holdings executive chairman Stacy Smith. Toshiba Memory Europe GmbH will become Kioxia Europe GmbH on 01 October, and the name Kioxia will be adopted for the ...
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ST microelectronics has introduced a secure microcontroller that includes a 13.56MHz RF interface for contactless operation and a serial interface for contact operation. Called ST31P450, it is built on a 40nm flash process and is aimed at contactless and contact applications in banking, identity, transportation and pay-television. The RF interface includes an RF UART for contactless comms ...
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ST microelectronics has introduced a secure microcontroller that includes a 13.56MHz RF interface for contactless operation and a serial interface for contact operation. Called ST31P450, it is built on a 40nm flash process and is aimed at contactless and contact applications in banking, identity, transportation and pay-television. The RF interface includes an RF UART for contactless comms ...
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Chinese chip maker Mornsun has created a push-pull dc-dc converter chip IC with integrated mosfets that can deliver up to 1W through an isolation transformer – and the firm offers a selection of transfomers. “To maximise the reliability, the chip design has incorporated three key technologies: a soft start function, output short-circuit protection and integrated over temperature protection,” ...
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Chinese chip maker Mornsun has created a push-pull dc-dc converter chip IC with integrated mosfets that can deliver up to 1W through an isolation transformer – and the firm offers a selection of transfomers. “To maximise the reliability, the chip design has incorporated three key technologies: a soft start function, output short-circuit protection and integrated over temperature protection,” ...
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STMicroelectronics is aiming at all-n-channel three-phase bridges with a 600V six-channel gate driver IC. Called STDRIVE601, it is intended to operate with mosfets or IGBTs and is protected against negative voltage spikes down to -100V, and responds to logic inputs in 85ns. It has what the firm describes as smart-shutdown circuitry, turning off “the gate-driver outputs immediately ...
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Silicon carbide can be used to add telecoms-wavelength (1.55μm) emission to CMOS, according to researchers at MIT and Singapore University of Technology (SUTD), who demonstrated an amorphous SiC ring resonator with a Q of 1.6×105, claimed to be the highest quality factor achieved in a SiC micro-ring resonator. “We are able to show one order of ...
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