Staff from RS Components have completed an epic charity cycle ride, covering 1,100 miles from Aberdeen to London, raising £230,000 for Children with Cancer UK. . More than 60 employees took part in the ‘Tour de Branch’, which called at the firm’s 16 UK branches over 12 days, finishing at its London HQ where participants were greeted ...
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Sometimes the simplest ideas at the best, and this surface-mount test probe pint from French form Nicomatic is certainly simple. Called the C12000 series, they are intended to present a mechanical test hook interface on an SMD PCB to allow an operator to clip on a test probe to the PCB, from an oscilloscope, for ...
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US fast FPGA maker Achronix has chosen Moortec’s 7nm embedded temperature sensor intellectual property for integration into its Speedster7t FPGAs. Based in Plymouth, Moortec is a provider of on-die PVT (process, voltage, temperature) monitoring sub-systems. “Achronix chose to use Moortec’s 7nm embedded in-chip temperature sensor in our Speedster7t FPGA devices based on their accuracy and ...
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Rohm has included a 1.7kVsilicon carbide mosfet in its latest ac-dc converter IC to allow operation from 400Vac industrial power rails. “Incorporating a SiC mosfet and control circuitry optimised for auxiliary power supplies for industrial equipment in a single package significantly reduces the number of parts required when compared to the conventional designs. It also ...
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Wireless charging pads fro phones don’t need to have dead-spots, if materials with unnatural electromagnetic properties – meta-materials – are used, according to University of Oxford spin-out Metaboards. The company has been set-up to exploit meta-materials in a variety of applications. “We will focus on wireless power and data, and then move on to other ...
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Analog Devices has consolidated its UK sales offices into a single site, at what was the EMI record factory at Hayes, west of London, which has been refurbished into office space. “We really think the UK is one of the places to be”, said ADI v-p of EMEA sales Mike Britchfield at the facility’s official ...
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The town of Kempten in southern Germany has extended its experiment in buffering locally-generated renewable energy, installing a sixth grid storage battery to increase capacity to 3MW and 2MWh. “The number of days each year when wind and solar energy production around midday exceeds consumption is steadily increasing. By now the figure has reached 153 ...
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Rogue drones could be captured using a strategy observed amongst Harris hawks, by the University of Oxford’s department of zoology. “Previous research has shown that falcons intercept prey using the same guidance law as homing missiles, called proportional navigation,” according to the university. “This guidance law is optimal against smoothly-manoeuvring aerial targets, but is prone ...
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Analog Devices has introduced an RF front-end combining four DACs and four ADCs with a 1.2GHz channel bandwidth. “AD9081 allows manufacturers to install multi-band radios in the same footprint as single-band radios, which as much as triples call capacity available in today’s 4G LTE base stations. It also enables wireless carriers to add more antennas to ...
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Powerbox has introduced 15W, 20W and 30W board-mount dc-dc converters for medical applications. Including a total of 105 models, PMM15, PMM20 and PMM30 are certified to the 3rd Edition of the IEC/EN/ANSI/AAMI ES 60601-1 medical safety standard and include 2xMOPP – two means of patient protection. Clearance and creepage distance are 8mm, typical leakage current ...
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