A cubic perovskite α-formamidinium lead iodide known as ‘α-FAPbI3‘ would be a promising solar cell material if it did not gradually turn into useless δ-FAPbI3 at room temperature under the ...
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Following its acquisition of Steradian Semiconductors in August, Renesas entered the automotive radar market this week when it introduced a multi-channel 76 – 81GHz transceiver at Electronica. Designed for driver assistance and Level 3 (and higher) autonomous driving, the MMIC (monolithic microwave integrated circuit) is aimed imaging radar, long-range forward radar and ‘4D’ radar, “but ...
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For Profinet, Hirose Electric has expanded its ix Industrial connector series to include an in-line jack version. “Specified as a new standard interface connector for Ethernet applications by Profinet, the ix Industrial I/O connector series features optimised EMI and ESD shielding for data transmission up to 10Gbits.s, said the company, adding: “In addition to in-line ...
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The US National Semiconductor Technology Center, which is responsible for implementing the $11 billion R&D element of the US. Chips Act, has identified four high-priority tasks Evaluating potential gaps in research and engineering that could be filled by the NSTC. As part of the whole-of-government effort, the NSTC will complement the many excellent centers already ...
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Diodes has created a servo motor controller, complete with H-bridge mosfets and provision for potentiometer position feedback, for brushed dc motors in automotive manual headlight beam servos and industrial control servos. Called ZXBM5408Q, operation is over -40 to +125°C and 8 to 18V (45V transient survival), and up to 800mA (1.5A peak). It integrates voltage ...
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Industrial computer manufacturer OnLogic has announced Factor 202, built around a Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4. “When Raspberry Pi unveiled the CM4, they mentioned that over half of the Raspberry Pi computers sold were being used for industrial and commercial applications,” said OnLogic product manager Mike Walsh. Factor 202 (FR202) measures 201 x 121 x ...
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High-quality OLED, LCD, TFT and VFD displays. The range of optoelectronic components available in the TME catalogue has just been expanded to include products by Newhaven Display. This is an American supplier specialising in universal displays manufactured in compliance with various standards, with a wide range of technologies applied and versions available. These solutions are ...
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Texas instruments has introduced a precision bi-directional current sense amplifier than can measure voltage drops across shunt resistors over a common-mode range of -5 to 110V, with survival across -20 to +120V. Bias current is 35µA within the operating range, and that operating range is independent of the 2.7 to 20V single rail supply voltage, ...
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The UK and Irish comapaies Open Cosmos and Ubotica Technologies have signed an agreement to deliver CogniSat-6, which they describe as the first AI centric CubeSat mission to include autonomous capabilities. As part of the agreement, CogniSat-6 will carry the flight proven (TRL-9) CogniSat edge computing platform to LEO (low earth orbit). It will provide ...
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At Electronica in Munich today, Power Integrations announced a family of digitally controllable, off-line constant-voltage constant-current zero voltage switching (CV CC ZVS) fly-back ICs for compact power adaptors. Called InnoSwitch4-Pro, they have integrated 750V GaN (gallium nitride) primary switches, handle up to 220W, and switch at up to 140kHz with planar transformers. 10mV/step and 30mA/step ...
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At Electronica 2022, we caught up with Jason Chonko, Marketing and Applications Specialist at SIGLENT Technologies, as part of our promotional coverage for the event. He talks about RF test and measurement and LIDAR and RADAR, new applications, K Band RF signal sources and spectrum analysers, enabling more than one engineer to have the product ...
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Texas Instruments announced plans to open a product distribution centre in Frankfurt, at Electronica. To be open by the end of 2024, it is being built to provide same-day delivery in central Germany and next-day delivery to most European-based for industrial and automotive customers. “We are excited to expand our European presence in Frankfurt, as it ...
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GaN semiconductor maker EPC has announced an 80V 4mΩ power transistor at Electronica in Munich, with a 1.5 x 2.5mm footprint and “double the power density compared to EPC’s prior-generation products”, said the company. “This is just the first product of a new generation of discrete transistors and integrated circuits for EPC,” said company CEO ...
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Rohm and Suzuki are joining the consortium led by the private equity fund Japanese Industrial Partners (JIP) to take over Toshiba, reports the Nikkei. The engineering group Taisei is also expected to join. Leasing company Orix and Chubu Electric Power are also said to have signed up. Other companies said to have been asked to ...
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The winners of the IEEE Competition on Non-Terrestrial Networks (NTN) for Beyond 5G and 6G have been announced at the Connecting the World from the Sky conference. First place, and a prize of $10,000, was awarded to a proposed solution for integrating of terrestrial and non-terrestrial networks, dubbed Multi-Mode High Altitude Platform Station (HAPS) for ...
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After revealing it would make and stock Rock single-board computers earlier this year, component distributor OKdo announced availability of the Rock 5B today at Electronica. This is an octo-core computer that delivers “the kind of desktop PC level performance required for compute intense activities such as AI or gaming, as well as object recognition, predictive ...
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NGK Insulators has revealed a fuel-gauging evaluation kit for its novel Enercera lithium ion cells, some of which are amongst the few Li-ion cells to be chargeable below 0°C, and some of which can be float-charged. “As part of development support,” said the company, “NGK will provide all customers that use EnerCera with reference designs ...
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At Electronica today, Onsemi announced a series of silicon mosfets with top-side cooling for automotive motor control and dc-dc conversion. They come in a 5.1 x 7.5mm TCPAK57 package (aka ‘TCPAK10’, recommended footprint 5.2 x 8.7mm) with a 16.5mm2 thermal pad on the top side. “This allows heat to be dissipated directly into a heatsink ...
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Six year-old Cambridge GaN Devices has raised $19 million in a Series B funding round. led by Parkwalk Advisors and BGF, with participation from IQ Capital, CIC, Foresight Williams Technology and Martlet Capital. “GaN provides the optimum conversion solution, reducing power losses by more than 50% and increasing energy conversion efficiency to above 99%,” says ...
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NXP is aiming at electric vehicles traction inverters for up to two motors with its S32K39 microcontrollers. “The MCUs support IGBT as well as SiC and GaN,” according to the company. “It has enough compute power to support six-phase or two three-phase motors controlled by dual 200 kHz control loops, while hosting AI, machine learning ...
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