Linear Technology Corporation introduces the LTC3128, a high efficiency, input current-limited buck-boost supercapacitor charger with active charge balancing for 1 or 2 series supercapacitors. The LTC3128 features an average input current ...
A new small packaging options delivers up to an additional 50 percent PCB area savings and solidifies the company’s position as a market leader in small form factor, single-chip programmable logic solutions Microsemi Corporation, ...
Tags: FPGA, Microsemi Corporation, non-volatile configuration
To keep up with ever-changing consumer demands for different package sizes and materials, manufacturers need flexible packaging equipment that has many configuration options for quick product changeovers. Known for its flexible, ...
I don't know exactly who was the first person to figure out that robots could be used for long-exposure light painting (although it may have been the guy linked to from here), but it's something that I've dabbled in for science, as have ...
Tags: Robot, long-exposure light painting, inspired by the Tangram
Acuity Brands, Inc., a market leader in innovative energy-efficient lighting solutions, announced today the introduction of the ECOdrive® family of LED drivers from eldoLED® and its launch to the OEM market. The driver family is ...
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The U.S. government, finally realizing that it has to take action to ensure a minimum level of cybersecurity in networks that manage the nation's energy, water and financial services, presented the Framework for Improving Critical ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics
Spreading salt on roadways is still the most cost-effective tool for preventing death, injury, and property damage from winter traffic accidents around the world. In 2011, highway departments in the U.S. alone spread 19.6 million tons ...
With all the buzz around the Internet of Things,it's easy to lose sight of the fact that the electricity grid already operates with millions of connected meters and sensors.Yet writing applications for these programmable machines is too ...
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In the 42 years since its founding, Digi-Key Corp. has grown—and grown—into one of the world’s largest electronic-component distributors. Its online catalog features nearly a million parts and products. Last year it sold ...
Tags: Mouser Electronics, IEEE Spectrum, SpaceX, Digi-Key
Alliance Memory has extended its 64M and 128M lines of high-speed CMOS synchronous DRAMs (SDRAM) with a new 2M x 32 device in the 90-ball 8mm by 13-mm by 1.2mm TFBGA package and a 4M x 32 device in the 86-pin 400mil plastic TSOP II package. ...
After two years of difficult and meticulous work examining, refurbishing, and testing the aging workhorse watt balance called NIST-3, PML researchers have used the instrument to obtain their latest measured value of the Planck constant ...
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Nuheat will launch Signature, a WiFi floor heating thermostat. Signature will give homeowners full access to all thermostat settings with wireless remote access through a smartphone app (iOS or Android) or a web browser. Changing the ...
Tags: Nuheat, WiFi, floor heating thermostat, thermostat settings
Harvard stem cells scientists at Brigham and Women's Hospital and MIT can now engineer cells that are more easily controlled following transplantation, potentially making cell therapies, hundreds of which are currently in clinical trials ...
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M/A-COM Technology Solutions Holdings Inc of Lowell, MA, USA, which makes semiconductors, components and subassemblies for RF, microwave and millimeter-wave applications, has made available samples of the newest addition to its portfolio of ...
Silicon Labs (NASDAQ: SLAB), a leader in high-performance, analog-intensive, mixed-signal ICs, today introduced a new family of relative humidity (RH) and temperature sensors that simplify RH sensing designs while providing industry-leading ...
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