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AI camera reference design runs from a battery and includes AI hearing

Maxim has a unveiled a camera reference design to demonstrate artificial intelligence embedded in space-constrained battery-powered edge devices. MaxRefDes178# “is a cube camera reference design based on the MAX78000 and MAX32666 microcontrollers to help AI at the edge device designers to accelerate their proof-of-concept to the market phase,” according to the company. Measuring 41 x 44 x ...

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Ad-dc chip drives LED lighting at 125W

Infineon is aiming at LED lighting with a family of single-stage fly-back off-line controller chips for constant voltage outputs. Called ICL88xx, up to 125W can be delivered in primary-side-regulated (right) and opto-coupler secondary-side-regulated configurations. They are optimised as secondary-side regulated constant-voltage output controllers. ICL8800 is the basic variant ICL8810 has added burst-mode operation for <100mW stand-by ...

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UK Government aims to make digital identities secure and legal

The Government is planning to boost the legal status of digital identities to make them “as widely recognised as driver’s licences and bank statements”, according to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), which is seeking “Easily recognised trust-marks to be issued for digital identity products to build public confidence.” Such digital identities will ...

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60A dc-dc for networking fits in 3cc

ABB has introduced a 60A dc-dc converter for 5G, IT and IIoT networking equipment that fits inside 3cm3. Branded MicroDLynx IITM, but numbered UJT060A0X43-SRPZ, the converters is 20.3 x 11.4 x 13mm. DC input voltage range is nominally 12V and can range across 7.5 to 14.4V. The non-isolated output is digitally controlled and set over PMBus between 500mV ...

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Realtek licences Imagination GPU for DTV

Realtek has licensed Imagination Technologies’ IMG B-Series BXE-4-32 GPU for a system-on-chip aimed at mass market digital television. BXE-4-32 was selected, said Imagination, for area efficiency while processing four pixels per clock, plus its multi-core capability and cache configurability. BXE also features Imagination’s IMGIC multiple-quality-level real-time image compression technology that “enables DTV platforms with a BXE-4-32 ...

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Multi-channel space radio covers 300MHz to 6GHz

CesiumAstro has announced a credit-card-sized software-defined radio for use in space for commercial, government and defence applications. Called the SDR-1001 (cover removed right), and tested to NASA GEVS standards, it has four transmit and four receive channels tunable from 300MHz to 6GHz. Bandwidth is 100MHz per channel. At the heart is an FPGA “with 70% resources available for custom designs”, ...

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Concentrated solar power and desalination combined

A 2MW combined solar power and desalination plant is to be built by the European and Gulf researchers and companies. It is part of a project called ‘Desolination’, intended to improve the efficiency of both concentrator solar power and desalination. “Not only will improvement be made on the independent systems but also on their coupling taking ...

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First 3D printed footbridge is filled with sensors

The world’s first 3D-printed footbridge, unveiled today, is a living laboratory – filled with sensors that will be used to train a ‘digital twin’ model. The 12m long bridge was developed by Imperial College and The Alan Turing Institute, built by Dutch company MX3D, and is installed in Amsterdam’s city centre. The whole process took four ...

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Farnell stocks pro-grade 3D printers from BCN3D

Farnell has added professional-grade 3D printers from Barcelona-based BCN3D Technologies to its portfolio. “3D printing is becoming extremely important in the research and development and industry, and BCN3D are right at the forefront of developing olutions to overcome challenges associated with 3D printing,” said Farnell head of tool and productions supplies James McGregor. Included are the ...

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MikroE Dev board covers all Microchip PICs

MikroElektronika has redesigned its development board for all Microchip PIC, dsPIC, PIC24, PIC32 microcontrollers around its own interchangeable add-on board formats, including ‘SiBrain’ MCU boards. Called ‘Fusion for PIC v8’, it has five mikroBus ‘Click’ peripheral  expansion sockets (photo right) – Click is another MikroE format, there are over 1,000 to choose from. Display board sockets allow ...

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