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Professional 3D printers and accessories are ideal prototyping equipment for design engineers

RS Components is extending its portfolio of high-quality 3D printers with two new high-reliability printers from Zortrax for a wide range of professional users. The printers provide design engineers with the ability to produce detailed, acc

RS Components | Subs & Systems | 17-05-2017

Ultra-compact power supplies offer high performance and reliability to OEMs

Luso Electronics has introduced Qualstar’s new N2Power-branded XL270 family of AC/DC modules that provide significantly more power in an ultra-compact 50.8mm x 101.6mm package than comparable solutions available in the market. The serie

Luso | Products | 17-05-2017

EDLCs offer superior ageing characteristics and low leakage current

Panasonic Automotive and Industrial Systems Europe announces the introduction of the LF Series in its stacked-coin type line-up of Electric Double Layer Capacitors (EDLCs). The series offers low resistance, and minimal leakage current combi

Panasonic | Products | 17-05-2017

New dual USB XLR format connectors available with two different housings

Cliff Electronics has added dual USB2.0 and USB3.0 24mm Mounting (Rectangular) connectors to its fast growing range of XLR format standard and Feedthrough connectors. The new dual USB XLR format connectors are available with two differe

Cliff Electronics | Products | 17-05-2017

Thick film chip resistors save space, reduce component counts and costs

Vishay Intertechnology has introduced a new series of thick film surface-mount wraparound chip resistors with high power ratings of 0.33W in the compact 0805 case size. Offering a power density over 2.5x higher than standard devices in this

Vishay | Products | 17-05-2017

Small footprint and high efficiency PMIC for application processors and system power

Intersil has introduced a highly integrated programmable PMIC that delivers 91% efficiency at 1.1V output voltage for application processors, GPUs, FPGAs and high-performance system power. The new PMIC’s low RDS(on) MOSFETs and programmable

Intersil | Products | 17-05-2017

New passive component design kit for IoT applications provides engineers with a broad range of component solutions

AVX Corporation has released a new IoT design kit. Comprised of a broad sampling of passive components ideally suited for use in the three primary IoT device networks - input voltage filtering and decoupling networks, timing device networks

AVX | Products | 17-05-2017

Humidity and temperature extension board enables smarter use of battery life

Sensirion’s SHTW2 Xplained Pro, available now from RS Components, is a dual humidity and temperature extension board for use with Atmel’s SAMD20 Xplained Pro Board. With two SHTW2 humidity and temperature sensors, the extension board enable

RS Components | Products | 16-05-2017

New tap-to-transfer module enables quick download of digital content between two devices

Mouser now stocks the TJM35420XLQ TransferJet compliant wireless module from Toshiba. Designed to address the needs of the rapidly growing market for proximity wireless applications, the module contains RF components and a crystal oscillato

Mouser Electronics | Products | 16-05-2017

Stand Alone Single Cell 3-A Fast Charger with High Input Voltage and Power Path

The Texas Instruments bq25606 device is a highly-integrated standalone 3A switch-mode battery charge management and system power path management device for single cell Li-Ion and Li-polymer battery. The low impedance power path optimizes sw

Texas Instruments | Products | 16-05-2017

Silicon Designs – Single axis MEMS VC accelerometers for measurement versatility on three orthogonal axes

Silicon Designs has announced the added versatility of its Model 2210 Series, to include measurement capabilities on one, two, or three orthogonal axes. Low-noise single axis Model 2210 accelerometer modules integrate a MEMS VC accelero

Silicon Designs | Products | 16-05-2017

Impedance spectroscopy for lithium ion batteries

Rutronik together with the Chemnitz University of Technology are presenting their research project “Expanding monitoring and analysis functions in the battery management system based on impedance spectroscopy”. It allows impedance spectrosc

Rutronik | Products | 16-05-2017

Electronic manufacturer solves complex PCB inspection challenges

Nikon Metrology has recently provided its high-precision, flat-panel based X-ray inspection system, XT V 160 to help Michigan company, Saline Lectronics inspect its most complex and challenging technical assemblies to the highest standard.

Nikon Metrology | Products | 16-05-2017

Ultra small RPMA module offers significant size and cost savings

U-blox has announced SARA-S200, one of the smallest modules for the Machine Network, based on RPMA (Random Phase Multiple Access), a LPWA technology. The Machine Network is a wireless network built by Ingenu, the creators of RPMA techno

U-Blox | Products | 16-05-2017