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.

Designers requiring longer uptime for industrial automation applications can accelerate troubleshooting and communicate across larger networks with the MAX33012E controller area network (CAN) bus transceiver and the MAX33072E RS-485 half-duplex transceiver from Maxim Integrated Products. These devices are designed to increase industrial system uptime for factory-floor…

Digi-Key Electronics, who offers the world’s largest selection of electronic components in stock for immediate shipment, announced that it has partnered with Machinechat to deliver the industry’s most affordable and easy-to-use IoT data management solution to accelerate IoT development and deployments.

Machinechat’s JEDI One is an all-in-one…

Most of the human vision disorders are directly related to the irregularities in the iris. As a solution to this, Imec, a Belgian research institution, Ghent University, Spain’s Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Fundación Jiménez Díaz, and Holst Centre in the Netherlands have developed an artificial iris which when embedded in a smart contact lens can automatically set…

The Renesas Electronics Corporation has introduced the new high speed, low power DDR5 data buffer for data center, server, and high-performance workstation applications. The new JEDEC compliant DDR5 data buffer 5DB0148 can lower the latency for load reduced dual inline memory modules (LRDIMMs) in the new class applications like real-time analytics, machine learning, HPC, AI…

There has been ongoing research taking place over the decades to develop an actuator at micrometer resolutions that can work with semiconductor processing and can be triggered using conventional electronic signals. The rudimentary microscopic robots have been developed, but all of them have limited functionality as conventional silicon electronics have not been used…

Murata has added the new LBAA0PC1RMH298 module to its Type1RM family of ultra-small Medical Implamplant Communication System (MICS) band radio modules. The new module has been designed especially for body-worn and implantable monitoring/diagnostic devices that can address the most data-intensive of optional requirements.

With the smallest dimension…

Microchip has come up with the PolarFire SoC Icicle, a development board built around the company's first 64-bit Linux-capable RISC-V CPU cluster and field-programmable gate array (FPGA) system-on-chip (SoC). The Icicle kit includes two gigabit Ethernet ports, a 40-pin general-purpose input/output (GPIO) header compatible with the Raspberry Pi pinout, a mikroBUS socket, a…

Digi-Key Electronics announced today that it has partnered with Septentrio, a leader in high-precision GNSS positioning solutions. Digi-Key now offers mosaic-X5™ globally for customers who need secure and reliable high-accuracy positioning in a compact and low-power form factor.

Septentrio mosiac-X5™, a high-end GNSS receiver module delivering…

ST Microelectronics has introduced a new EVL400W-EUPL7 evaluation board that delivers a ready-to-use 400-Watt power-supply solution to meet eco-design norms. The board leverages innovative features of ST’s L4984D current-mode PFC controller and L6699 resonant half-bridge controller to maximize energy efficiency in multiple operating modes.

Full…

Petoi Bittle is a palm-sized cute programmable, budget-friendly quadruped robot dog with a plastic frame. The tiny robot is easily customizable and comprises of five major components i.e. the body frame, actuator, electronics, battery, and the software to coordinate all the hardware to perform different tasks.

Bittle is an open platform to blend…

Renesas Electronics has come up with a 48V Mobility Solution to help customers speed up the development process of e-scooters, e-bikes, UPS, and energy storage systems. Featuring the ISL94216 16-cell battery front end (BFE), robust HIP2211 100V MOSFET drivers, and RX23T 32-bit microcontroller (MCU), the modular solution with a built-in floating-point unit (FPU) and six high-…

Arduino Platform has introduced Arduino IoT Cloud which is an end-to-end solution to help IoT enthusiasts and professionals to make connected projects easily. Arduino IoT Cloud provides a full-stack approach that is ready-to-use, by combining hardware, firmware, cloud services, and knowledge support needed to deliver an end-to-end IoT solution. It enables users to collect,…