A power management IC that can implement a buck or buck/boost regulator to convert automotive battery voltages into a tightly regulated voltage whilst providing changes between buck and boost modes has been developed by Allegro MicroSystems Europe. Designated...

Insights | By Paul Whytock | 09-08-2016

Yoshimasa Goto, Product Engineer at Murata, explains how technical innovation has produced high-capacitance MLCCs, suitable for smoothing applications. The vast majority of applications today, use an AC power adapter or AC/DC power supply to provide a DC vo...

By Yoshimasa Goto | 08-08-2016

Forums, blogs, links, direct mail, downloads. There now exists a true plethora of routes to find the information you need online. How the world has changed since the days when sales execs would arrive on a company’s doorstep armed with data books, product sele...

Articles | By Nigel Watts | 04-08-2016

Forums, blogs, links, direct mail, downloads. There now exists a true plethora of routes to find the information you need online. How the world has changed since the days when sales execs would arrive on a company’s doorstep armed with data books, product sele...

Insights | By Nigel Watts | 04-08-2016

A microcontroller is the natural choice for designers who want to develop embedded applications that need to bring together, analyze and act on real-time data. But when you want to get a prototype together as quickly as possible, you want a microcontroller fam...

Environment | By Paul Whytock | 03-08-2016

Japanese industrial automation, test and measurement and software company Yokogawa Electric Corporation is investing in a Californian startup called FogHorn Systems, a developer of fog computing technology. But what exactly is fog computing and why is it neede...

Articles | By Paul Whytock | 03-08-2016

Japanese industrial automation, test and measurement and software company Yokogawa Electric Corporation is investing in a Californian startup called FogHorn Systems, a developer of fog computing technology. But what exactly is fog computing and why is it neede...

Insights | By Paul Whytock | 03-08-2016

The latest generation of its BiCS FLASH 3D flash memory has been launched by Toshiba and the company says it is the first 64-layer device in the world to start sample shipments. The device has a stacked cell structure which is said to create significant densit...

Articles | By Paul Whytock | 28-07-2016

The latest generation of its BiCS FLASH 3D flash memory has been launched by Toshiba and the company says it is the first 64-layer device in the world to start sample shipments. The device has a stacked cell structure which is said to create significant densit...

Insights | By Paul Whytock | 28-07-2016

The answer of course is they will not. The plan is to just drop the package at your doorstep. Tricky if you live in a multi-story block of apartments. Amazon may be testing the idea of delivering packages by drone but don’t expect the service to start anytime...

Articles | By Paul Whytock | 27-07-2016

The answer of course is they will not. The plan is to just drop the package at your doorstep. Tricky if you live in a multi-story block of apartments. Amazon may be testing the idea of delivering packages by drone but don’t expect the service to start anytime...

Insights | By Paul Whytock | 27-07-2016

History repeats itself as we witness the sale of yet another one of our cutting edge British electronics companies following the £24billion purchase of ARM by Japanese company SoftBank. OK, so that acquisition is yesterday’s news but for those of us who were i...

Articles | By Paul Whytock | 21-07-2016