RS Components is playing a part in the inaugural ‘Electronica Experience’ at this year’s Electronica, which aims to deliver advice and a first-hand technology experience to young people to help inspire them to pursue a career in engineering. Located in Hall C6, the Experience will include 224m² of space where RS will present Titan II, ...
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ZF Switches and Sensors, and On Semi, have teamed up to demonstrate a Bluetooth 5 LE switch powered by the mechanical action of the rocker. It combines ZF’s electromechanical energy-harvesting switch assembly (right) with On’s RSL10 SIP – a low-power Bluetooth 5 certified system-in-package from ON Semiconductor. “The SIP solution features such ultra-low-power characteristics that ...
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Automotive product announcements appear to be dominating the Electronica build-up, and Osram is no exception as it will be revealing details of its intelligent RGB LED for vehicle interior lighting. Part of the Osire product family, E4633i, includes three LED die – red, green and blue – as well as a serial control driver “thus ...
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At Electronica next week, On Semi will be aiming at on-board electric vehicle charging with power modules. FAM65xxx is a family of APM16-packaged devices, with one device outline covering H-Bridge, power factor correction and bridge rectifier configurations. Internally, the devices have a direct-bonded copper (DBC) structure that is isolated to 5kVac “making them easier to ...
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British agri-tech start up Small Robot Company officially unveiled ‘Harry’, its digital planting robot, at Agri-Tech East’s REAP 2018 Conference in Cambridge. Harry is a prototype of what Small Robot claims will be the world’s first digital drilling robot for combinable crops, one of three smart robots called Tom, Dick and Harry robots that are ...
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MAX22190 is an IEC 61131-2 compliant industrial digital input device, which translates eight 24V current-sinking inputs to an SPI-compatible serial output that interfaces with 3V to 5.5V logic. A current setting resistor allows it to be configured for Type 1, Type 2, or Type 3 inputs. “Designed to reduce power, system cost, and size for ...
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A flexible sensor developed by University of California Berkeley can map blood-oxygen levels over large areas of skin, tissue and organs. It is an array of alternating red and near-infrared organic LEDs and organic photodiodes printed on a flexible material. “When you hear the word oximeter, finger-clip sensors come into your mind,” said Berkely engineer ...
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Renesas has introduced a safety analysis tool intended to ease the integration of the firm’s products into safety-critical automotive systems “while increasing user confidence in system compliance to the latest safety standard”, it said. The failure mode effects and diagnostics analysis (FMEDA) software is optimized for ISO 26262, which addresses safety of electrical and electronic systems ...
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Murata’s non-dispersive infra-red (NDIR) CO2 sensors are implemented in such a way, according to the firm, to retain calibration regardless of any degradation that may occur over time in the IR light source, optical path or IR sensor. Inside, an IR beam is focussed to pass through any gases present, including CO2. After passing through ...
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At Electronica, test gear maker Rigol will be showing a pair of new multi-function signal geenrators and a high-performance scope. Intended to be ‘low-cost’ DG800 and DG900 are the multi-functional generators – combing: function generator, arbitrary signal generator, pulse generator, harmonic generator, modulator (analog/digital) and counter. In addition using direct digital synthesis to provide stable, ...
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