UK component distributor Anglia has introduced a new inventory management service called 80/20 for SMEs. 80/20 is essentially Anglia’s take on VMI (vendor managed inventory), previously available only to large customers, in a special version designed to meet t...

By Sally Ward-Foxton | 13-05-2016

Driver ICs that have output currents from 2.5 to 8A have been developed by power electronics company, Power Integrations. The company says this is the highest output current performance available without using an external booster. These galvanically isolated s...

By Paul Whytock | 12-05-2016

MOSFET on-resistance cut by 17% A new generation of super junction (SJ) deep trench semiconductor technology for high-efficient power MOSFETs was unveiled at the show by Toshiba Electronics Europe. The devices are based on the new DTMOS V process and the comp...

By Paul Whytock | 10-05-2016

ASIC, FPGA and IP specialists EnSilica has designed and launched eSi-ECDSA cryptographic IP to assist with the high security communication and latency requirements of car-to-car (Car2Car) and car-to-infrastructure (Car2x) applications that are essential in the...

By Paul Whytock | 09-05-2016

As Enzo Ferrari once said, "racing cars are neither beautiful nor ugly. They become beautiful when they win." Whether or not you disagree with that is a matter of personal reflection but winning is obviously the ambition of the Mouser Electronics-sponsored Reb...

By Paul Whytock | 06-05-2016

The Confederation of British Industry (CBI) and electronics giant IBM, say that “pioneering” companies in the UK are suffering from techno-lethargy with just over half of companies adopting digital technologies and processes, while the other half lag behind. T...

By Paul Whytock | 05-05-2016

Ambition is a fine thing, it helps drive progress. But when German chip maker Infineon broadcast in a press release headline recently that its eight inch sensor chips could reveal the mysteries of the Universe I thought that was taking ambition an astronomic s...

By Paul Whytock | 04-05-2016

The Internet of Things (IoT) is proceeding at a relentless pace, prompting new applications, form factors and technologies. Here are five ways that IoT applications are driving technological innovation in the world of connectors. Increased capacity and speed i...

By Martin Keenan | 26-04-2016

System-on-Chip specialists, Imagination Technologies, and fabless supplier of low-power semiconductor radio devices Cascoda, have teamed-up to integrate Cascoda’s communications technology into Imagination’s Creator Ci40 microcomputer. This is the board at the...

By Paul Whytock | 22-04-2016

This week sees three technical collaborations that could provide the first automatic geo-referenced RF enabled map system, a DSP system-on-module innovation and a flexible haptic actuator for wearable devices. On the right track Mapping experts TRX Systems are...

By Paul Whytock | 18-04-2016

A few weeks ago I wrote about how that incredibly lightweight and microscopic material graphene was poised to become a heavyweight contender in terms of its global usage. And that statement has now been born out in a new report called World Graphene published...

By Paul Whytock | 13-04-2016

Bluetest, a specialist in reverberation chamber technology testing of wireless devices and test and measurement company Keysight have collaborated to provide what is said to be a simpler and more advanced form of OTA testing. Over-the-air (OTA) measurements ar...

By Paul Whytock | 12-04-2016

Half-bridge 15MHz Half-Bridge development boards that use eGaN FETs and high-frequency synchronous bootstrap topology have been launched by California-based power specialists, the Efficient Power Conversion Corporation (EPC). The company says the EPC9066, EPC9...

By Paul Whytock | 31-03-2016

A module that is pre-certified, Bluetooth 4.1 compliant and features 3dBm output power for apps requiring up to a 50 metre range has been developed by Texas-based Silicon Labs. It is based on the company's Blue Gecko wireless SoC. Being 4.1 compliant is import...

By Paul Whytock | 30-03-2016