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Low-power STM32U5 MCUs with advanced performance
STMicroelectronics has announced a new generation of extreme power-saving microcontrollers (MCUs), theSTM32U5* series, to meet the most demanding power/performance requirements for smart applications including wearables, personal medical devices, home automation, and industrial sensors.
Automated quality control in pharmaceutical manufacturing
As the pharmaceutical sector is ramping up production of vaccines against COVID-19, it faces enormous manufacturing and logistics challenges. Quality assurance is a key part of the pharmaceutical manufacturing process, ensuring that products conform to requirements and are not defective. Here, Stephen Hayes, Managing Director of Beckhoff UK,an automation and motion technology specialist, has explained how new technologies integrate automated qual...
Top 5 power products for February
Electronic Specifier takes a look at the top power products to have been released in February.
JAXA’s Hayabusa2 Spacecraft enabled by Rad-Hard ICs
Renesas Electronics hasannounced that its radiation-hardened (rad-hard) integrated circuits (ICs) were onboard theHayabusa2spacecraft that returned asteroid samples to Earth in an armored re-entry capsule on 6thDecember, 2020. Operated by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Hayabusa2 launched onboard the H-IIA rocket from the Tanegashima Space Center on December 3, 2014.
Buck regulators support Intel Tiger Lake for notebook and desktop computing
Alpha and Omega Semiconductor has introduced two application-specific EZBuck regulators, designed to support VCCIN_Aux rails in Intel Tiger Lake processors.
COTS-based radiation-hardened power converters
As reliance on communication and weather satellites grows and space research expands in scope and mission, new technology is required to help speed spaceflight system design and production. Microchip Technology has announced the expansion of its SA50-120 power converter family with nine new units based on its Commercial Off-the-Shelf (COTS) technology. This technology provides developers with space-qualified power converters that help to minimise...
BlackBerry Jarvis named ‘Best In Breed’ tool
BlackBerry has announced thatBlackBerry Jarvis, a software composition analysis tool, has been recognised as ‘Best in Breed’ by an Internal Research & Development project (IRAD).
Autonomous vehicles in the military sector
In 2019, the US undersecretary of defense for research and engineering predicted that the army would have driverless vehicles before they were commercially available. More recently, Elon Musk has claimed that Tesla will have the technology for fully autonomous vehicles within a year. So, who is winning the race for Autonomous Vehicle (AV) technology? Here, Roger Brereton, Head of Sales atPailton Engineering, surveys the AV landscape in the milita...
Cold chain control for maritime corridor with LoRaWAN
Semtechhas announced thatWITRAC, a company developing solutions with real-time location and telemetry capabilities, has integrated the LoRaWAN protocoland LoRa 2.4GHz into its global track and trace platform to provide customers with full control and traceability of assets in the supply chain.
Deterministic Ethernet in military front lines
In military and defence applications, speed is crucial. Whether that is the response time of deployed soldiers or the speed at which information is communicated from the field to outposts or command centres. This is wheredeterministic Ethernet comes into play.