Industry News

From bulky vacuum tubes to compact high performance microprocessors the evolution of electronic components over the years has always been evident.  This section covers all the recent technological advancement in the electronics industry and the new-age products that have hit the electronics market recently.

The IQ Vertiq 6806 is the latest commercial-grade drone and robotics motor module from IQ Motion Control. Designed for high-performance commercial UAV applications, the 4x IQ 6806-sized perfectly blends IQ’s unique hardware design and proprietary software maximizing torque output, efficiency, and precision, while minimizing motor vibration, cost, and footprint too.

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According to the World Health Organization (WHO), fever is a symptom in around 88 percent of confirmed Covid-19 cases and the frontline of the healthcare industry is putting themselves at risk during this Covid-19 pandemic. For contactless measurement and continuous monitoring of patient temperature, Nordic Semiconductor’s first official module partner in India, CWD…

STMicroelectronics has introduced the BlueNRG-LP, a BLE 5.2-certified, Bluetooth LE System-on-Chip (SoC) that has been designed to increase communication range, raise throughput, strengthen security, and save power. Consuming a very low power of 3.4mA in receive mode and just 4.3mA while transmitting, the new ultra-low-power radio (BlueNRG- LP) can reduce the battery…

Expanding its motor control offering, Microchip Technology has come up with the new digital signal controllers (DSCs) and microcontrollers (MCUs). These newly added MCUs and DSCs are supported by design tools, development hardware, a torque-maximizing algorithm, and a refrigerator compressor reference design. These devices ensure to simplify motor control system design…

Pictured here is an open-source flight controller and mini drone by Shao's Gadget. YMFC (Your Multicopter Flight Controller) as it is named is a mini drone by itself or a flight controller for a full-size F450 drone that can be programmed with Arduino IDE. The open-source nature and simple design control of YMFC make it apt for the people who are working on some kind of…

The Renesas electronics corporation has extended its RX Functional Safety solution, with the release of its Functional Safety over EtherCAT (FSoE) Application Software Kit for industrial automation applications. Developers can obtain FSoE protocol stack, RX microcontroller (MCU) along with safety support, and the software in one single package, this will…

JOYCE from Immervision is the first humanoid robot developed by the computer vision community to help machines gain human-like perception and beyond. This humanoid robot JOYCE invites the community to help her gain a better understanding of her environment by upgrading her optics, sensors, and AI algorithms to further advance computer vision technologies.

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STMicroelectronics has unveiled the BlueNRG-2N Bluetooth 5.0-certified network processor, lowering power consumption and adding support for the latest Bluetooth features that increase data throughput and enhance privacy and security.

The BlueNRG-2N network coprocessor comes pre-programmed, ready for connecting to a host controller to…

Gameduino 3X Dazzler by Excamera Labs is an Arduino shield open-source, easy-to-use, and completely hackable audiovisual platform designed for game designing using Arduino or CircuitPython and projects that require high text visualizations. The shield comprises a BT815 GPU, a Xilinx Spartan-6 FPGA, an HDMI port, and two Wii Classic ports that give users the…

Panasonic Industry, Europe has launched a new series of surface mount Conductive Polymer Aluminum Solid capacitors OS-CON. The newly introduced SVT capacitors with low ESR and excellent noise reduction capability, the SVT capacitors are ideal for industrial applications.

Panasonic SVT series capacitors are Halogen free and RoHS compliant. They work…

Power Integrations have introduced the LYT6078C, a new member of its LYTSwitch-6 family of safety isolated LED drivers for smart lighting applications. The LYT6078C uses the Power Integrations’ PowiGaN™ gallium nitride (GaN) technology for better efficiency and performance benefits. The LYT6078C comes in an SOP-24 surface mount package and incorporates a 750V power switch…

Digi-Key Electronics announced that it has expanded its product portfolio to include certain NI software-connected test and measurement products. This initiative greatly expands Digi-Key’s overall offerings in automated tests.

Companies continue to face the challenge of getting quality products to market with shorter timelines. Engineers using Digi-…