Omron has launched its second high in-rush relay in a month, this time aimed at energy storage for solar panels or vehicle-to-home charging – the previous one was for smart lighting. Called G5PZ-X, it is a PCB-mount 200Vdc 20A SPST-NO relay with a 15.2 x 26.4mm footprint, and designed so that two can be connected in series to switch ...
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u-blox is aiming at centimeter-level positioning for industrial navigation and robotics with a pair of GNSS (global navigation satellite system) correction receivers and a corresponding up-grade to its existing ZED-F9P high-precision GNSS receiver module. The correction receivers stream correction data from communication satellites. The “new correction service receivers offer broad geographical coverage across Europe, continental US ...
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Quantum advantage, the point at which a quantum computer out-perform classical computers in some tasks, may only be two years away if improvements in error rate and qubit count continue as they have over the last two years. The figures were presented by IBM at a quantum computing event held at its Zurich research centre ...
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Schurter has added a low-trip-temperature variant to its RTS thermal fuse range, originally launched in 2018. Rather than >210°C, they are rated at >175°C. They have been developed to protect power semiconductors from over-heating – particularly from thermal-runaway when the semiconductors are in a confined space. In such an event, the thermal fuse interrupts the circuit, ...
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IAR Systems has added support for NXP’s new S32K3 automotive microcontrollers to Embedded Workbench for Arm. “IAR Embedded Workbench for Arm and is used by many large automotive part suppliers,” said IAR automotive director Kiyofumi Uemura. “Thanks to our collaboration with NXP, we have been supporting the S32K1 family since its launch in 2017.” S32K3 MCUs are ...
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NXP has started production of its S32K3 automotive MCU family, built around Arm Cortex-M7 cores, and launched real-time software (called ‘Real-Time Drivers’) alongside it to support S32K3 and all S32 automotive processors featuring Arm Cortex-M or Cortex-R52 cores – so existing S32K1/S32G families too. Intended for body control, S32K3 family includes single, dual and lockstep M7 ...
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Programmierbare Logik & Systeme (PLS) is covering NXP’s new S32K3 automotive MCU family trace and debug in the latest version of its Universal Debug Engine (UDE). S32K3 MCUs are based on the Arm’s Cortex-M7 core in single, dual and lock-step configurations for ISO 26262 functional safety applications up to ASIL D. Devices are offered in a range ...
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Silicon carbide mosfets and Schottky diodes are both subject to the unipolar limit – the trade-off between breakdown voltage and specific resistance of the drift layer. Super-junction transistors bypass this limit, and bipolar transistor are not subject to it, but both require p-type semiconductor layers in otherwise n-type unipolar devices. To create p-type SiC, it ...
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In the US state of Illionois, nine coal power stations are being converted into batteries, some with local solar generation. The sites were aquired by a Texas company called Vista in 2018, and coal burning is being terminated for a variety of reasons including running costs and legal decision over pollution. Power station Net coal ...
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Diodes has introduced a digital stereo audio amplifier with built-in boost converter that allows 8+8W to be delivered from one Li-ion cell and 12+12W from two cells in series. Called PAM8965, more detailed figures are: One cell (Vbatt = 3.7V) 8W/channel at 10% THD+N (6Ω load 1kHz) 6.4W/channel at 1% THD+N (6Ω load 1kHz) 20mA ...
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