Orbital Marine Power’s O2 has begun feeding power into the national grid from the European Marine Energy Centre in Orkney. The floating turbine, claimed by Orbital to be the worlds largest, has been fabricated using ship-building technology in Dundee, and is anchored in the Fall of Warness. 74m long O2 is Orbital’s first commercial turbine, ...
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Amphenol RF is aiming at test, measurement and industrial applications with a line of BNC cable assemblies using low-loss Times LMR‐UF cable. LMR cable is designed with improved shielding compared to standard RF coaxial cables and is intended to achieve low attenuation at high frequencies – bandwidth is up to 3GHz. The 50Ω ohm assemblies are ...
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Innovate UK has approved funding for the £1.5m ‘Silicon anode battery for rapid electrification’ (Sabre) project, intended to improve energy density in electric vehicle grade lithium ion batteries. The money, via Faraday Battery Challenge at UK Research and Innovation, will go to Nexeon, Britishvolt and University College London (UCL) to deliver Li-ion test cells with a silicon ...
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Renesas is developing voice-controlled AI for contactless image processing in IoT and edge systems, giving self-checkout machines, security cameras, video conference systems and smart appliances such as robotic cleaners as example applications. To do this, it has teamed up with Californian deep learning chip company Syntiant, and is combining Renesas’ RZ/V vision AI MCUs with ...
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XGS 16000 is a 16Mpixel global shutter image sensor for factory automation by On Semiconductor. Consuming 1W at 65frame/s, it fits into standard 29 x 29mm industrial cameras with C-Mount lenses – it has a 1:1 square aspect ratio. It also shares a common architecture and footprint with other XGS CMOS image sensors, enabling users to ...
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STMicroelectronics has manufactured its first 200mm silicon-carbide bulk wafers at its Norrköping Sweden facility. “The transition to 200mm SiC wafers will bring substantial advantages to our automotive and industrial customers as they accelerate the transition towards electrification,” said ST president of automotive Marco Monti. The company is claiming high quality with minimal crystal-dislocation defects through expertise ...
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Microchip has added 1,700V mosfets to its silicon carbide portfolio, as die, discretes and in modules. Features include gate oxide stability, according to the company, which “observed no shift in threshold voltage even after 100,000 pulses in repetitive un-clamped inductive switching [R-UIS] tests. R-UIS tests also indicated avalanche ruggedness and stability in other parameters. They also ...
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Tuxera and eSol have teamed up to integrate the former’s Reliance file system to the latter’s eMCOS real-time operating system (RTOS) for safety-critical automotive use. “As data becomes increasingly significant in monitoring and managing vehicle safety, the requirements on data-handling are more stringent than ever before,” according to Tokyo-based eSol. “From security concerns and edge-storage limitations ...
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STMicroelectronics will procure 50% of the energy for its Bouskoura site in Morocco from renewable sources by 2022, compared to 1% in 2020. The electricity of 12 wind turbines in North Morocco will be fed into Morocco’s national power grid and then purchased by ST. These are on a 10ha wind farm near the coast at Oualidia, ...
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Fujitsu is developing artificial intelligence based safety cameras at the German Nuerburgring motor racing circuit. The 21km Nordschleife version of the circuit is where the experiments are taking place. “In contrast to the Grand Prix circuit, the Nordschleife has not yet been equipped with cameras and is therefore out of sight from race control,” according to Fujitsu. ...
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