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Rugged UltiMate connectors from Fischer

Fischer Connectors has extended its flagship series of rugged harsh-environment connectors with: UltiMate 80, a field-ready NATO STANAG 4695-compatible connector (right) Size 15 connectors in the standard Fischer UltiMate range (below) with 2, 4, 8, 4+12 or 27 signal and power contacts “Intermateable with other NATO STANAG 4695 connectors, the field-ready UltiMate 80 connector comes in ...

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3D magnetic sensor measures rotation and translation in many ways

Allegro has created a 3d magnetic sensor that can perform rotary and translation motion measurement both on-axis and off-axis (see diagram). Called A31315, it includes configurable signal processing, linearisation and angle calculation allows it to resolve the absolute rotary or linear position of a moving magnetic target. It has “excellent native angle error over temperature in any ...

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Sub-nanosecond phase coherence wins Spectrum a place in mini-MRI machine

Quick tech support and sub-nanosecond phase coherence won German data acquisition card maker Spectrum a place in a mini MRI machine that has been designed for babies. Start-up Neoscan is behind the machine. “We we used this route of standard cards providing a platform to run our software on. This meant that we could focus ...

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Cambridge UK: Agile Analog closes $19m funding round

Agile Analog of Cambridge has closed a $19m funding round led by Canadian pension company Omers Ventures, and backed by existing investors Delin Ventures, firstminute capital and MMC Ventures. “What excites us about Agile Analog is the potential for scale,” said Omers partner Henry Gladwyn. “Every other analogue IP supplier is restricted to selling a ...

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Board turns a stepper into a servo

Trinamic Motion Control claims to be making the “smallest single-axis servo controller-driver module with integrated motion control”. TMCM-1321, as it is known, controls two-phase bipolar stepper motors and includes a magnetic encoder and digital inputs for an optical encoder. It is a 28 x 28mm module, although it needs more space than this because “it ...

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GaN 1.5kW bidirectional 48-to-12V dc-dc demo board for automotive

EPC is aiming at mild hybrid vehicles and battery back-up Units with a 1.5kW gallium nitride bidirectional power converter demonstration board. Nominally 48 to 12V and back, it can produce 12 at 125A from 20 to 60V, or 48V at 29A from 12 to 15V. Peal efficiency is 97%. “The design of this demonstration board is ...

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‘Smallest’ Gen 2 RFID chip is 125 x 245μm

“As far as we can tell, it’s the world’s smallest Gen2-compatible RFID chip,” according to Paul Franzon, a professor of electrical engineering at North Carolina State University. He was talking about a 125 x 245μm integrated circuit die presented at the IEEE International Conference on RFID. It has -2 dBm sensitivity in the 860-960MHz band and its small ...

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GaN demo board delivers 24V 250W

STMicroelectronics has GaN-based 250W industrial power supply demonstration board – the first for its MasterGaN power devices. Called EVLMG1-250WLLC, it is designed to produce 24Vdc 10A from a nominal 400Vdc supply with maximum efficiency above 92%. The main component is a MasterGaN1, an IC-like package containing a half-bridge driver and two normally-off 650V GaN transistors – ...

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