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The OPS-260 series is the latest addition to the OCS/ODX/OVX series of rugged dc-ac inverters by Premium PSU available from Relec Electronics. The inverters are designed for harsh environments and outdoor use. Suitable for railway applications, it is It is certified to EN50163:2006 (supply voltages of traction systems), EN50124-2:2017 (insulation co-ordination over-voltages and related protection) with ...
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Power modules from Vicor are now available from Avnet, following a global distribution agreement. The agreement means that customers can access Vicor’s power modules through the distributor’s design and supply chain. Commenting on agreement, David Krakauer, vice president of the industrial business unit and corporate marketing at Vicor said: “Working with Avnet will better position ...
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Intel has made a move from four bits per cell to demonstrate a 1.7Tbit NAND flash IC, which it described at ISSCC 2023 this week. Fabricated over 192 layers (cross section, right) of floating gates, the actual capacity is 1.67Tbit, spread over 73.3mm2 – equating to 23.3Gb/mm2 – which can be down-shifted to 1.33Tbit 4bit/cell (18.6Gb/mm2) ...
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Future Horizons has issued a research bulletin reiterating its forecast of a 22% decline in the semiconductor market this year. “At .January 2023 industry update webinar, we reconfirmed our May 2022 forecast for a 22 percent double-digit decline in 2023, despite the fact most (if not all?) other industry pundits were suggesting only a minor ...
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At ISSCC 2023 in San Francisco, Belgian research lab Imec presented transistor designs shrunk beyond the capabilities of silicon. It argued that finfet and gate-all-around designs can only go so far with silicon as, to get fast access to the carriers inside a channel, the channels have to be so thin that physics takes its ...
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Infineon Technologies has introduced a first-look design tool for LCC power converters. “Power factor correction plus LCC resonant topology for constant current output has proven to offer outstanding efficiency combined with a large output voltage range in high-power LED lighting applications,” according to the company. The “topology is 5 to 6% more efficient than other ...
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Mouser has signed a global distribution agreement with Asahi Kasei Microdevices (AKM), the specialist in sensors and analogue/digital mixed-signal ICs. AKM’s products combinea the compound semiconductor technology mainly used for magnetic sensors with silicon ASIC/analogue technology. The new agreement gives design engineers easy access to AKM’s sensors and audio chips for mobile, automotive, industrial, and consumer markets. The ...
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Imec has come up with a novel digitally calibrated charge-pump (CP) phase-locked loop (PLL) that can generate high-quality frequency-modulated continuous-wave (FMCW) signals for mmWave radars at low power consumption. The novel PLL is a critical building block for future short-range automotive (in-cabin and out-of-cabin) and industrial (e.g., on-cobot sensing) radar applications. FMCW mmWave-based radar sensors ...
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Ubotica, the space AI specialist, has announced its CogniSAT-XE2 hardware platform to support the use of AI in space, for in-orbit data analysis. Building on its existing CogniSAT technology, the mechanical and power envelope of CogniSAT-XE2 (with a PC/104 form factor) is compatible with small satellites such as to CubeSats and delivers increased compute performance ...
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