Joyson Safety Systems are equipping the Cadillac CT6 with a system for semi-autonomous driving, dubbed ‘Super Cruise’ and claimed to be industry’s first true hands-free driving technology for the highway by Osram Opto, which is providing LEDs that help check where the driver is looking. According to Osram: Super Cruise represents the next evolution of ...
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Vishay has introduced its first automotive-grade AEC-Q101 qualified, phototransistor optocoupler. Called VOMA617A, it operates at 5mA and has a current transfer ratio between 50% and 600% – which can be specified, within bands, when ordering. Operating temperature is across -55 to +110°C. Maximum collector-emitter potential is 80V, and 3,750Vrms isolation between input and output circuits ...
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French research lab Leti has teamed up with low-volume chip firm CMP to provide 200mm multi-project wafers (MPWs) including non-volatile memory OxRAM. “Leti’s integrated silicon memory platform is developed for backend memories and non-volatility associated with embedded designs,” said the lab. “The technology platform will be based on titanium-doped hafnium oxide [HfO2/Ti] active layers.” The ...
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Engineers at UCLA have designed a graphene-based photodetector that is sensitive and can work anywhere in the electromagnetic spectrum from ultra-violet to microwaves. The work is published in Nature Light Science & Applications in the paper ‘Gold-patched graphene nano-stripes for high-responsivity and ultrafast photodetection from the visible to infrared regime‘, whose title explains just about ...
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Kent-based PCB manufacturer Minnitron was called in when Welsh artist Stefan Samociuk needed a gold-plated panel as part of his ‘metasurface’ series. The 484 x 484mm singl-sided PCB has 190,969 pads ranging in diameter from 0.35mm to 0.9mm, plus solder mask, and was mounted on a backlit LED panel within a surround. The metasurface series ...
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Tektronix is offering four 8GHz channels on its latest scope range, with simultaneous 25Gsample/s on each channel. “For example, a DDR3 clock and three DDR3 data channels can be viewed and analysed simultaneously, decreasing the time it takes to fully characterise a design with an instrument that shares sampling systems between channels,” said the firm. ...
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AD5767 from Analog Devices includes 16 12bit voltage output DACs in the same package, and is intended to reduce the system footprint for wired telecommunications systems, providing the necessary bias ranges for the coherent fibre-based medium and long-haul optical systems – particularly indium phosphide Mach-Zehnder modulator biasing. “The DAC delivers a broad range of unipolar or ...
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AMS has boosted the performance of its existing CCS801 and CCS811 volatile organic compound (VOC) sensor IC with up-dated software. The chips sense a relative value for total VOC (TVOC), or equivalent CO2 (eCO2) Two things have changed: The 48hour initial burn-in period have been cut to an hour for three of the five operating modes. Air quality ...
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MIT has taught its 40kg Cheetah 3 robot to run across rough terrain and climb litter-strewn staircases by touch alone. “There are many unexpected behaviours the robot should be able to handle without relying too much on vision,” said MIT robot designer Sangbae Kim. “If you rely too much on vision, your robot has to ...
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Texas Instruments has created a 16bit ADC that runs from as little as 315µA. Called ADS112C04, it is a ΣΔ device that will run from supplies between 2.3 and 5.5 V over -40 to +125°C. Interfacing on the digital side is I2C-compatible two-wire at up to 1Mbit/s, with two address pins that allow selection of 16 different ...
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