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University College London revealed a 30MHz impedance spectroscopy IC for analysing biological samples at ISSCC in San Francisco this week. The chip exhibits a 92.7dB signal to noise ration and 99.6% accuracy, while consuming only 3.18mW. At 30MHz, triple the bandwidth of most bio-impedance amplifiers according to the IC’s designers, magnitude and phase errors are 0.39% and 0.57°. The device ...
A whole session was set aside for energy harvesting ICs at this week’s IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference in San Francisco. Described as “inductor-less capacitor-less”, a harvesting IC from Delft University of Technology and Fudan University connects to two harvesters simultaneously: one electromagnetic and the other piezoelectric. Both harvesters are on the same vibration-driven cantilever, resonant at 30Hz and outputting ...
Kyocera AVX has released an on-line supercapacitor calculator for its SCC and SCM series. It takes into account discharge requirements, initial and end-of-life capacitance values, and initial and final voltage, in constant current, constant power or constant resistance modes, then offers a selection of part numbers to meet the requirements. “Users can identify recommended supercapacitor solutions ranging from single cells ...
Power Integrations added high-temperature motor drive optimisation to its MotorXpert brushless dc motor software suite. “In this version 3.0 release, we have added a two-phase modulation scheme, which is ideal for applications that work in high temperature environments such as hot-water circulation pumps,” said company marketing manager Cristian Ionescu-Catrina. “Version 3.0 also features a five-fold improvement to our waveform visualisation tool ...
For electronic control units (ECUs) built around Infineon TriCore or Aurix processors, and Vector’s ‘Microsar Classic’ software, Vector has teamed up with development tool company PLS to created a timing bundle “which can be used to identify and eliminate timing problems in early project phases”, according to PLS. Available from Vector, it combines PLS’ UDE (‘universal debug engine’) and Vector’s ...
Iceotope Technologies has opened a liquid cooling lab at its headquarters in Sheffield, built with Efficiency IT. Intended to test CPU and GPU coolers, as well as cooling components such as manifolds, it has two temperature-controlled test rooms. “We can run full rack level testing to simulate a liquid cooled data centre environment,” the company told Electronics Weekly. “We have ...
Arrow Electronics has developed an ISO 15118 vehicle-to-grid data communication evaluation module. “The software, developed at Arrow’s engineering centre in Gdansk, contains protocol stacks for ISO 15118 V2G. There is also sample application code, as well as support for OCCP [Open Charge-Point Protocol] and Control Pilot interfaces as defined in IEC 61851 and SAE J1772,” said the company. ” V2G ...
Systems integrator, Direct Insight, based in Oxfordshire, UK, has partnered with German SoM and SBC provider, MicroSys Electronics. The partnership covers the UK and Ireland. The minority of embedded designs are in-house, said Direct Insight’s CEO, David Pashley (pictured), often prohibited by NRE costs. The company’s strategy is to advise development teams to upgrade hardware (SoCs, FPGAs) and software, by ...
Power supply company Pulsiv has developed a graphical technique – a nomogram – to determine critical transformer parameters for fly-back converters operating in discontinuous conduction mode. “This intuitive tool can replace more complex equation-based methods, providing a fast and accurate visual process for identifying primary side inductance and minimum duty cycle,” according to the company. How to use it: Find ...
For professional applications, engineering and software development consultancy DMC has joined Arduino’s system integrators partnership programme. Initially, said DMC, the partnership will focus on producing commercial solutions for manufacturing, logistic centres and factories, using Arduino’s Opta PLC (pictured) and Portenta Machine Controller, and the development of embedded products using Portenta and Nicla modules. “For automation and design projects, especially in ...
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