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Ac-dc DIN rail PSUs fit are Class II and low-profile

XP Power has released three series of DIN rail mount ac-dc PSUs for industrial electronics, controls and building management. “The low-profile case allows DRC series power supplies to be positioned alongside circuit breakers within consumer unit boxes,” according to the company. “The convection cooled units offer Class II operation, eliminating the need for a safety ...

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Ac-dc DIN rail PSUs fit are Class II and low-profile

XP Power has released three series of DIN rail mount ac-dc PSUs for industrial electronics, controls and building management. “The low-profile case allows DRC series power supplies to be positioned alongside circuit breakers within consumer unit boxes,” according to the company. “The convection cooled units offer Class II operation, eliminating the need for a safety ...

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2 MOPP inlet connectors add medical-grade protection

Schaffner has introduced a series of filtered IEC mains input connectors designed not to compromise two MOPP (means of patient protection) safety precautions in medical equipment. Called FN9274, they have been designed according to Class II medical equipment standard IEC / EN 60601-1. The enclosure is plastic for higher dielectric strength insulation and C18 inlet receptacles do ...

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Imagination extends mobile GPUs to automotive and data centres with 6Tflop B-Series

Imagination Technologies is aiming at automotive and data centre application on top of its usual market of phones and digital TVs with its latest family of graphics processor: the B-Series, with introduces multi-core options and ISO26262 functional safety. Up to 30% reduction in power and 25% area reduction is claimed over previous generations of Imagination ...

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Tough magnetic switches are IP67 sealed for dirty environments

C&K’s MPSR series of magnetic sensors are designed for non-contact position and proximity detection in tough dirty environments. The 61mm long housing is aluminium with a stainless steel cable, and operating life is 4 million actuations in spite of dirt, dust, oil, grease and water, according to the company. The switches are electro-mechanical, with Form C (change-over) ...

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3D camera is IP65 to give robots robust eyes

IDS has extended its 3D camera series with compact and robust devices designed specifically for robotics and automated series production. Ensenso N40 and N45 are IP65/67 protected for use in harsher environments, with fibre-reinforced plastic cases making them the lightest stereo vision cameras equipped with Gigabit Ethernet in the IDS product range. Rounded corners minimise ...

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Raspberry Pi STEM design competition for young people in the UK

PA Consulting has launched its ninth UK Raspberry Pi competition for young people in various age groups, in parallel with its third competition in the Netherlands. The competition promotes STEM education by challenging schoolchildren to invent products and processes that could benefit society using their technology and coding skills. This year’s competition asks students to ...

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Updated: More on: Maxim’s AI chip for battery-powered products also adds Risc-V

Earlier today, Maxim announced an AI processing chip for battery-powered devices needing convolutional neural networks (CNNs). What the company has done, is to put custom CNN processing hardware alongside a conventional 100MHz Arm Cortex-M4F core – 4F is the floating point M4 – and squeezed in the added surprise of a 60MHz 32Bit Risc-V core for ...

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Global shutter CMOS image sensor for machine vision

ON Semiconductor has introduced a 2.3Mpixel 120frame/s global shutter image sensor for machine vision and mixed-reality displays. Called AR0234CS, te CMOS sensor captures 1080p video and single frames, and “produces crisp and clear images by minimising frame-to-frame distortion in high-speed scenes and reducing the motion artifacts”, according to the company, which also sees the device being used in AR ...

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ST’s Bluetooth LE 5.2 chip supports concurrent connections to 128 nodes.

STMicroelectronics has introduced a third generation of Bluetooth chip, describing it as “the world’s first Bluetooth LE 5.2-certified SoC to support concurrent connections up to 128 nodes”. Called BlueNRG-LP, according o the company it can consume as little as 3.4mA in receive mode, 4.3mA when transmitting, and under 500nA when quietly waiting for wake-up events. ...

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