Silicon Labs has launched a pair of Bluetooth Low Energy system-in-packages: BGM220S is small – 6 x 6mm 1.1mm tall BGM220P is slightly larger, optimised for greater range “BGM220S and BGM220P are among the first Bluetooth modules to support Bluetooth Direction Finding, all while delivering up to ten-year battery life from a single coin cell,” according ...
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It is Electronics Weekly‘s 60th birthday today, and as part of the celebration we have had the very first edition scanned so that you can enjoy it. Get a cup of tea and a couple of digestive biscuits, sit yourself comfortably, and then click here to see to see just how much the electronics industry has ...
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Adding just the right amount of noise can improve signal to noise ratio in certain non-linear systems. The effect is known as ‘stochastic resonance’, where mixing of noise and signal in the system non-linearity can sometimes push a previously buried signal just above the noise floor. Now researchers at Penn State University have exploited it ...
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Can something be made to run on the power of its buttons being pushed? Northwestern University thinks so. Working with Delft University of Technology, its researchers built something that looks, feels and works like an 8bit Nintendo Game Boy. “It’s the first battery-free interactive device that harvests energy from user actions,” claimed Northwestern engineer Josiah ...
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French research lab CEA-Leti has created a novel x-ray photon-counting detector module (PCDM) for CT scanners, based on cadmium telluride (CdTe). CT scanners computer-process combinations of many X-ray images taken from different angles to produce 3D data. “Current x-ray CT scanners produce images with energy-integrating detectors [EIDs], which are based on indirect conversion technology: X-ray photons are first ...
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Arm has announced its first 64bit, Linux-capable Cortex-R processor, designed for computational storage solutions. Called the Cortex-R82, it is a successor to the 32bit Cortex-R5 and Cortex-R8 processors used in solid-stare drives. “These systems have historically required less then 4Gbyte of DRAM and addressable space, and have not had a need to run Linux,” according to ...
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Zortrax has introduced cloud-based printing management for its range of professional grade 3D printers. Called ‘inCloud’, the system “enables remote management of Zortrax 3D printers from anywhere in the world”, according to the company. “This solution will manage the 3D printing manufacturing processes for both single-device users and businesses running large 3D printing farms.” The ...
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TT Electronics has been awarded a contract from BAE Systems for the design, development and qualification of a flight control system dc-dc converter to support project Tempest, the UK-Italian fighter aircraft concept. “All this work will be completed in the UK,” TT Electronics marketing manager Josh Slater told Electronics Weekly. The aircraft consortium, called Team Tempest, includes BAE Systems, Rolls Royce, Leonardo, and MBDA, ...
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Intended to partner home healthcare products, California-based TrumPower has released a family of medically-approved IP54 rated desktop ac-dc adaptors. Inputs range over 90 – 264Vac and 47 – 63Hz (drawing 2Arms at 115V and 1A at 230V). Power handling varies slightly with output voltage, spanning 132-150W across the family as voltage rating varies from 12V to ...
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TorqSense is torque sensor from Sensor Technology, based in Oxfordshire. It is wireless, needing physical with the shaft being monitored. If you manufacture in the UK, please read to the bottom Instead, two two surface acoustic wave (SAW) devices are attached to the shaft and are interrogated through an RF link to the stationary electronics inside ...
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