Diodes has introduced 600V half-bridge drivers that are compatible with 3.3V logic. Numbered DGD2103M, DGD2104M and DGD2304, the chips have a floating high-side driver capable if driving an n-channel mosfet. “These drivers suit a wide range of motor control and power supply applications in industrial automation and white goods, that require AC and DC motor ...
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For those needing to remote control many TVs or set-top boxes (STBs) from one PC, RedRat has launched a device that supports IR and RF links – the latter via optional Bluetooth or RF4CE add-on modules – according to the firm, RF is being increasingly used to control 4K and UHD TVs and associated set top boxes, ...
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Vishay has added tapped holes to some of its high-current shunt resistors to aid PCB and wire mounting. WSBS8518…M3 and WSBS8518…M4 are 36W battery shunt resistors featuring M3 and M4 tapped holes (close to the centre in the photo), respectively. The resistors are 85 x 18 x 3mm With resistance values down to 50µΩ, Vishay ...
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Advances in ink jet printing have allowed photonically active structures to be printed, according to researchers at the University of Cambridge and the Hitachi Cambridge Laboratory. “Most inkjet printers push the ink through the nozzle by heating or applying pressure, producing ink droplets about the size of the diameter of a human hair,” said Dr Vincenzo ...
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Photonics can be added to silicon CMOS, creating infra-red LEDs and photo-diodes using layers of molybdenum telluride, according to MIT. As a back-end process over CMOS, the team fabricated a p-n junction with an infra-red bandgap from a bi-layer of the two-dimensional dichalcogenide MoTe2. “Researchers have been trying to find materials that are compatible with silicon, ...
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Nordic Semiconductor has licensed Embedded Studio from Segger Microcontroller on behalf of Nordic customers – in particular those developing applications for its nRF51 and nRF52 Bluetooth chips – both of which have spare user-accessible processing power. Embedded Studio is an integrated development environment (IDE) for managing, building, testing, and deploying embedded applications, which includes: a project ...
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Yorkshire start-up Quantum Technology Supersensors has been set-up to exploit a pressure-sensing technology that can produce 2D position sensors the size of a room, down to tiny touch pads. Referred to as QTSS, it is based electron-tunnelling between shaped particles of ‘magnetite’ buried in various elastomers. If this sounds familiar, company founder David Lussey also ...
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Better drive-trains for third-generation electric vehicles is the target of a European Horizon 2020 project, to be headed by French research lab Leti. Called ModulED, the three-year, €7.2m project will consist of 10 European research institutes, selected from the automotive-industry and universities (see below), and will cover boosting drivetrain performance, efficient manufacturing, reduced environmental impact and vehicle cost. ...
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Fujitsu Laboratories has created artificial intelligence that automatically creates patches for software bugs after learning from archived bug reports and bug patches. It works on bugs in object-oriented programmes, typically used for business application software development, and reduces average time to diagnose and fix single-fault-location bugs by 28.8%, claims Fujitsu, compared to the conventional heuristic-search-based patch generation ...
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Infineon releases a family of custom mosfets targeted specifically for hot-swap, e-fuse and battery protection.
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