CambridgeIC has launched a range of arc position sensors, measuring the angle of a rotating ‘target’ relative to a fixed arc-shaped sensor built from a PCB. The UK fabless chip company specialises in angle sensing chips. CambridgeIC’s R48mm 100° Arc Sensor “The arc position sensors use the same technology behind our linear sensors, and are ...
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Nordic Semi has introduced a Bluetooth 5 chip for cost-sensitive applications. Called nRF52810, it is a sub-set of the nRF52 Series. “This new product offers essential performance benefits of Bluetooth 5 to the most cost-sensitive and high-volume applications by offering: two times the data bandwidth [2Mbit/s] of the Bluetooth low energy implementation of Bluetooth 4.2, and ...
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Imagination is up for sale. The company put its MiPS business up for sale recentky and has now decided to put the whole company on the block. The downtrun began with Apple saying it would stop being a customer in two years’ time. Apple accounts for half Imagination’s revenues and has recently been recruting Imagination GPU ...
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Gas Sensing Solutions of Cumbernauld is claiming a speed record for its SprintIR6S ‘non-dispersive infra-red (NDIR) CO2 sensor: up to 20 reading/s for a 0-10% step change in CO2 flowing at 0.1 litre/min, said the firm. www.gassensing.co.uk Inside, the sensor measures differential light absorption between light at 4.2 and 4.4μm. The device is 23.8mm in diameter and 24mm tall ...
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Silicon Labs has introduced a multiband version of its Wireless Gecko system-on-chip device which now supports full Bluetooth 5. Designated EFR32xG13, the device family supports all Bluetooth 5 features which means twice the speed and eight times greater broadcasting capacity than Bluetooth 4. The chips feature a 2Mbit/s PHY and also integrate a new 125kbit/s ...
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Harting has developed a way to mix electrical and compressed air up to 10bar in the same connector, aiming it at production lines. The pneumatic module (‘Pneumatic Module Metal’) is rated to be plugged and unplugged at least 10,000 times. “It means that users can exploit the benefits of compressed air technology in frequently converted production ...
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With the LPC84x family of 30MHz ARM Cortex M0+ processors, NXP is pitching for entry-level IoT design-ins. “Upon power-up, its ‘fast access initialisation memory’allows the clocks to be started in a low frequency mode, keeping start-up current consumption to a minimum. Additionally, its input and output ports can come up immediately and in its desired ...
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