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3D Hall magnetic sensor is accurate to 2.6% full-scale

Texas Instruments is claiming “industry’s most accurate 3D Hall-effect position sensor” for one that provides 2.6% full-scale total error at room temperature. The first device in a family of 3D Hall-effect position sensors, TMAG5170 is intended for factory automation and motor-drives. Using the SPI interface, sensitivity is individually settable for each axis over ±25, ±50 ...

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New Yorker Electronics signs Orion Fans with Knight Electronics

New Yorker Electronics has signed up as a franchised distributor of Texas-based Knight Electronics and its subsidiaries Orion Fans and Io Audio Technologies. Orion Fans designs, develops and manufactures fans, fan trays, motorised impellers and blowers. Io Audio Technologies designs, develops and manufacturers audio, video and lighting products including cables, cable protectors, connectors and wires. ...

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Updated: Vicor helps squeeze up to 2kW down data cables

US company VoltServer has a scheme with the similar aims to Power-over-Ethernet, but at much higher power. Digital Electricity, as it has been branded (rooftop installation right), “uses standard data cables and endpoint transformation to efficiently deliver significant power safely across long distances”, according to Vicor, which is providing power converters for the receive end. ...

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UK start-ups: More investment for Agile Analog of Cambridge

Cambridge analogue IP building block start-up Agile Analog has pulled in more investment, this time from In-Q-Tel in the US, which describes itself as a ‘non-profit strategic investor’. “In-Q-Tel invests in companies from the start-up community which have the potential to strengthen the security of the US and its allies,” according to Agile. “Agile Analog’s ...

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Functional safety in touch controllers for industry and the kitchen

Microchip is introducing a touchscreen controller certified to IEC/UL 60730 Class B that will work on displays over 10in across. Called MXT448UD-HA, it is also compliant with IEC61000-4-6 Class A for conducted noise immunity up to 10Vrms (level three for industrial use). “This enables products with a touch screen interface to function in very harsh factory ...

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Diodes and Schottkys in 1 x 0.6mm with wettable flanks, some automotive

Vishay has introduced surface-mount small signal diodes in the 1 x 0.6 x 0.45mm DFN1006-2A plastic package with wettable flanks. Designed to save space and improve thermal performance in automotive and industrial applications, the 40V BAS40L Schottky and 100 V BAS16L switching diodes are each available in AEC-Q101 qualified versions. “The diodes released today occupy 90% less board space than ...

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Green Hills covers Risc-V with Integrity

Green Hills Software has announced a version of its safety and security-enhanced Integrity real-time operating system for RISC-V. The RTOS is integrated with hardware boards from Microchip (PolarFire Icicle kit) and SiFive (HiFive Unmatched board), processor intellectual property from SiFive and can be used with Microchip’s PolarFireSoC and Mi-V ecosystem. “The integration of safety and ...

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Super-junction mosfets for fly-back converters

STMicroelectronics is aiming at lighting with 800V super-junction mosfets for fly-back converters. The transistors are part of the company’s MDmesh K6 series, which it claims have the best Rds(on) x area for similar 800V devices, and enhance several parameters to minimise power losses: “it is especially suited to applications such as LED drivers and HID lamps, as well as ...

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Rugges USB Type-C connectors

Bulgin has added USB Type-C 3.2 Gen 2×2 connector options to its Buccaneer range of robust connectors. The 4000 Series connectors have a USB-C 2×12 contact arrangement and can support 20Gbit/s (1m length cable USB3.2 Gen 2×2, 10Gbit/s over 2m cable). Power rating is 100W, in line with Type-C Power Delivery specs. Mating endurance is 1,000 ...

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Funding available to improve UK cyber-security

The UK government’s Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund (ISCF) is to spend up to £8m on projects that improve UK cyber security, in grants from £200,000 to £1.4m, which will be allocated after a competition ending on 08 December. Part of the Government’s ‘Digital security by design challenge’ (DSbD challenge), the aim of the ‘Software ecosystem ...

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