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650 V HALF-BRIDGE SOI DRIVER FAMILIES WITH INTEGRATED BOOTSTRAP DIODES OFFERS SUPERIOR ROBUSTNESS

Infineon Technologies AG broadens its EiceDRIVER™ portfolio with the 650 V half-bridge gate drivers based on Infineon’s unique silicon on insulator (SOI) technology. The products provide leading negative transient voltage immunity, monolithic integration of a real bootstrap diode, and superior latch-up immunity for MOSFET and IGBT based inverter applications. These unique features enable more robust and reliable designs […]

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3D IMAGE SENSOR REAL3 FOR FACE AUTHENTICATION ANNOUNCED AT CES 2020

Infineon Technologies AG has collaborated with software and 3D Time-of-Flight (ToF) system specialist pmdtechnologies ag to develop reportedly the world’s smallest, most powerful 3D image sensor. Designated the REAL3, the single-chip solution measures just 4.4 x 5.1 mm and is the fifth generation of time-of-flight deep sensors from Infineon. The sensor can be incorporated into even the smallest devices with just

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MEET THE ARTICKOALA! THE FPGA DEVELOPMENT BOARD BASED ON LATTICE CROSSLINK-NX

Barely a week after Lattice semiconductor announced the launch of the CrossLink-NX family of FPGA, Greg Davill, in his amazing way of posting the entire development process in a twitter thread, has announced the launch of a development board based on the Lattice Crosslink-NX 72QFN. The new board which is called the ArcticKoala was created using some of the sources from recent FPGA tools like

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AXIOMTEK LAUNCHES A 15-INCH ULTRA SLIM FANLESS TOUCH PANEL COMPUTER – GOT115-319

Axiomtek – a world-renowned leader relentlessly devoted in the research, development and manufacture of series of innovative and reliable industrial computer products of high efficiency – is pleased to introduce the GOT115-319, a 15-inch fanless touch panel computer with a thickness of only 50 mm for used in space-constrained environments. It is powered by the Intel® Celeron® processor

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UP XTREME SBC RELAUNCHES ALONG WITH UPX EDGE SYSTEM BASED ON IT

AAEON’s UP project has launched an edge computing enabled kit called the UPX Edge. The system which was developed to power industrial automation, robotics, AI, and IoT applications, is built around the Intel 8th Gen Whiskey Lake-U based UP Xtreme board and comes preloaded with an Ubuntu 18.04 image based on Linux kernel 5.0 It was initially available on Kickstarter

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NEXTPCB.COM SERVICE REVIEW

Printed Circuit boards are an important part of the development of any electronics product. They provide an easy, neat and repeatable ways of connecting components together. Thus, ensuring quality from their design to production is so critical that, failure at any point in the process could lead to a lot of money going to waste

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GOOGLE ANNOUNCES NEW CORAL PRODUCTS FOR 2020

Being one of the frontrunners in AI development and having an understanding of the potentials and opportunities in Edge Computing and Local AI, Google started its sojourn into the provision of hardware components and companion software tools for the development of Local AI products last year, with the launch of the Coral Platform. The platform which comprises hardware

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BUILDING AN EXTREMELY HIGH POWERED 1-12V LAB POWER SUPPLY ON THE CHEAP

For a number of years now I’ve had a couple of high powered switching power supply units made by Power-One. They’re typically found in I.T. equipment and provide a single output rail of either 12 V or 48 V with a very high current rating. The other cool thing is that in the case of

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TOREX & NGK PARTNER ON POWER MODULE REFERENCE DESIGN FOR IOT DEVICES

Torex Semiconductor Co., Ltd. and NGK Corporation will exhibit a compact power module sample that can be processed through high-temperature surface mount with using Torex power management ICs and NGK EnerCera series batteries at CES 2020 (January 7th to 10th, 2020 at Las Vegas in the USA). [via] By combining the characteristics of NGK EnerCera batteries which

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300W GAN-BASED ULTRA-HIGH POWER DENSITY AC-DC ADAPTER REFERENCE DESIGN

GaN Systems and ON Semiconductor announced the availability of the NCP13992UHD300WGEVB, the world’s highest power density 300W ac-dc adapter reference design using GaN Systems’ 650V, 15A gallium-nitride (GaN) E-HEMTs and multiple ON Semiconductor controller and driver ICs, including the NCP51820, NCP13992, NCP1616, and NCP4306. This complete system reference design is a highly versatile and low cost, allowing designers to

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