Tag: news

5
Jun

Yuasa UK adds Modules based on LIM Family of Industrial Li-ion Batteries

Yuasa Battery Sales (UK) has announced the availability of new battery modules for its LIM family of industrial Li-ion batteries. Designed for use in a wide range of applications including energy storage, traction motors and regenerative energy recycling, the new battery modules incorporate multiple LIM series battery cells along with a battery monitoring unit (ACS) and a temperature sensor. The

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4
Jun

TI adds RF gain blocks, mixers and modulator to product lineup

DALLAS, June 3, 2014  — Texas Instruments  expanded its RF portfolio today with the addition of high-performance RF gain blocks, down-converting mixers and a complex modulator that provide the industry’s best combination of power and performance. The new RF devices are being demonstrated this week in TI’s booth at the International Microwave Symposium and complement TI’s existing portfolio of transmit

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4
Jun

ADI targets multi-band 4G basestations with tunable chips

Analog Devices has addressed the needs of wideband 3G/4G mobile basestation design with a higher level of functional integration in its RF modulator, demodulator and mixer ICs. The devices are tunable from 700MHz to 2,700MHz and ADI has integrated PLL and balun circuits to support high dynamic range and wideband radio channels. The ADRF6720 is a 700MHz to 3GHz quadrature

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4
Jun

65V 500mA step-down converter fits automotive applications

The trend in automobiles and industrial systems is to replace mechanical functions with electronics, thus multiplying the number of microcontrollers, signal processors, sensors, and other electronic devices throughout. The issue is that 24V truck electrical systems and industrial equipment use relatively high voltages for motors and solenoids while the microcontrollers and other electronics require much lower voltages. As a result,

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4
Jun

The Circuit Designer’s Companion: Inter-board interfacing, star grounding & shielding

There is one class of signals we have not yet covered, and that is those signals which pass within the unit from one board to another. Typically these are digital control signals or analog levels which have already been processed, so are not low-level enough to be susceptible to ground noise and are not high current enough to generate significant

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4
Jun

Supercapacitor Gets Boost From Graphene And Carbon Nanotubes

Scientists have taken a large step toward making a fiber-like energy storage device that can be woven into clothing and power wearable medical monitors, communications equipment or other small electronics. The device is a supercapacitor—a cousin to the battery. This one packs an interconnected network of graphene and carbon nanotubes so tightly that it stores energy comparable to some thin-film

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4
Jun

Inverter Improves Large-Scale PV Plant Performance at Reduced System Cost

Bonfiglioli Vectron GmbH today announced global availability of the Ampt Mode™ version of its RPS TL inverter series. The new Bonfiglioli RPS TL inverters in Ampt Mode(TM) are deployed with dc optimizers from Ampt, LLC to increase PV plant performance at lower total system cost. At Booth B3.150 during Intersolar Europe 2014, Bonfiglioli will have its RPS TL inverter series

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4
Jun

Victron Energy Expands Solar Charge Controller Range

Victron Energy B.V. has introduced four new models to their ultra-fast BlueSolar charge controller (MPPT) range. The series now comprises eight models, including the BlueSolar MPPT 100/30, BlueSolar MPPT 100/50, BlueSolar MPPT 150/35 and BlueSolar MPPT 150/85. In expanding the range, Victron have increased customer choice and further enhanced the ideal matching of solar charge controllers for any given system.

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4
Jun

High-Performance 400W cPCI PSU for MIL and Harsh Industrial Applications

Gresham Power Electronics announces the availability of a Compact PCI power supply ruggedized for MIL and industrial applications. The new 7602 model is a 6U ac-dc cPCI PSU which is conformally-coated in accordance with IPC-CC-830 and has been redesigned to meet the requirements of MIL-STD-461F surge test per MIL-STD-1399, withstand ESD to 8KV, has very low output ripple and noise

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3
Jun

MCUs boost performance, bolster functional safety support

Texas Instruments has augmented its Hercules MCU line with the addition of its RM57Lx and TMS570LCx MCUs, which feature two ARM Cortex-R5F floating-point CPUs operating in lockstep. The new MCU lines offer additional on-chip flash and RAM as well as a 50% performance increase over earlier TI Cortex-R-based MCUs. The new families are intended to accelerate development of applications required

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