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Same Sky has released a family of 62 plastic knobs, designed for 6mm diameter D-cut shafts. All numbered SPK…, these offer: a variety of colours, diameters from 10 to 32.5 mm, heights from 8.5 to 19.45mm, ribbed or smooth surfaces, and compatibility with shaft lengths from 4.2 to 15.6mm. Use is foreseen with rotary potentiometers and encoders. Find the Same ...

At Hardware Pioneers Max 2025 we caught up with Lee Harrison, Director of Product Marketing at Siemens, and Dr. Shahram Mossayebi, Founder and CEO of Crypto Quantique, as part of our promotional coverage for the event. They discuss how design for test is a critical part of any semiconductor, but with DFT requirements around the collection of in-life silicon health ...

Toshiba has introduced an opto-isolated SiC gate driver, that includes an active Miller clamp to tame self-turn-on behaviour in the driven device. Named TLP5814H, it is a “gate driver photocoupler suitable for driving silicon carbide mosfets in industrial equipment like inverters, uninterruptible power supplies and photovoltaic inverters which experience harsh thermal environments”, according to the company. “The Miller clamp circuit ...

WeEn Semiconductors has unveiled a pair of 2,000V rectifiers in TO247 packaging, one rated at 90A and the other at 60A. They are the WND90P20W  and the WND60P20W respectively. “These devices are engineered to mitigate voltage spikes in electric vehicle charging loads,” according to the company, which went on to emphasise their  forward voltage drop and thermal resistance. Digging into ...

It is very unlikely that the EU will meet its target of a 20 % share of the global market for microchips by 2030, says the European Court of Auditors. The EU’s Digital Decade strategy set a target for the Union to gain a 20 % share of global production value in cutting‑edge and sustainable microchips by 2030. “The EU ...

Kurt Sievers (pictured right) CEO of NXP Semiconductors is to resign on October 28th and hand over to Rafael Sotomayor (pictured left). Sievers joined NXP in 1995 and became CEO in 2020. He has been a member of NXP’s executive management team since 2009. He lead the strategy development for intelligent edge systems in automotive and Industrial & IoT. In ...

Biomass, a flagship satellite developed in the UK for the European Space Agency, is set to become the first in the world to measure, in 3D, the condition of the Earth’s forests from space. Biomass Specifically, the satellite will assess “terrestrial carbon stocks and fluxes from an altitude of 666km above the Earth”. And it is due to launch today ...

Automotive connectors play a crucial role in the circuitry of vehicles, as their dependability directly affects the overall functioning of the vehicle system. As the demands for automotive safety, environmental consciousness, comfort, and intelligence continue to increase, the requirements for automotive connector products have also intensified. These products now need to possess enhanced capabilities such as miniaturization, integration, resistance to ...

Mikroe has added a smart 85V 10A stepper motor driver to its range of interchangeable ‘Click’ boards. Called Power Step 2 Click, the board “is based on the powerSTEP01, a 1/128 microstepping controller from STMicroelectronics that integrates eight n-channel mosfets with ultra-low Rds(on)”, according to Mikroe. “It features a 5MHz SPI interface, multiple safety protections, and additional control pins for ...