Melexis has launched the MLX91377 hall-effect sensor IC, designed for use in automotive applications such as electric power-assisted steering. With an operating temperature between -40℃  and 160℃, the firm says the device combines high linearity with excellent thermal stability, including low offset and sensitivity drift. It’s been developed as a safety element out of context (SEooC), and complies with the ...

TDK has announced the introduction of three 0 – 200V, 19” wide, rack-mount, programmable DC power supplies. These additions to the firm’s Genesys+ series are available with output power levels of 5kW, 10kW and 15kW. The 200V models are designed for testing solar panels, semiconductor fabrication, battery charging, DC motor control, heaters and process control applications. All models in the ...

Anglia has formed a task force to coordinate and allocate available inventory and FAE resources for customers designing or manufacturing ventilators and other medical equipment to help address the covid-19 pandemic. The firm assures its fast-track service is resourced with a dedicated team to ensure it remains able to support all of its customers’ needs whether they are manufacturing medical ...

TTI has moved the assembly of Souriau 851 bayonet connectors to its Munich facility. The distributor says the decision will strengthen its value-add, cutting lead times to a maximum of one week. Souriau’s 851 series bayonet connectors are designed for rugged applications, such as road-building equipment, machine tools and robotics, military telecommunications systems, water-measurement equipment, aircraft, and the oil and ...

Toshiba has launched two 80V N-channel power mosfets based on its U-MOSX-H process. The devices are said to be suited to power applications where low-loss operation is important, including ac-dc and dc-dc conversion in data centres and communication base stations as well as motor drive equipment.  Both the TPH2R408QM and TPN19008QM exhibit a reduction of around 40% in drain-source on-resistance ...

Segger says its strengthening its position in relation to the risc-v instruction set architecture by implementing support for Sifive’s Insight debug/trace on J-Link probes. The company’s products are already fully compatible with Sifive’s RISC-V processor cores. The Insight support includes Sifive’s latest Nexus-based trace implementation, which enables ongoing monitoring and recording of processor instruction execution. Via Segger’s J-Link Plus, Pro ...

With UK schools closed for the foreseeable future due to covid-19, classrooms have been moved online. STEM Learning, a government, charity and industry backed education provider, has made a tranche of resources available on its site to assist teachers during current circumstances. The organisation has launched an area on its website to host materials generated by itself and other trusted ...

Following one of its Taiwan employees testing positive for covid-19 on 18 March, TSMC has put a remote working policy in place for non-production line workers, Taipei Times reports. 30 other employees have been asked to enter quarantine while the infected member of staff has been taken to hospital for treatment. Additional measures include the halting of all non-essential overseas ...

Würth Elektronik is supplying the PCBs needed for the rapid manufacture of intensive care and mobile ventilators from its three production sites in Germany. In order to ensure the supply of medical ventilators for coronavirus patients in Germany, the German government has placed several orders with different manufacturers at short notice.     At the plants in Niedernhall, Rot am See and ...

RS Components has introduced the DAQ973A data-acquisition system from Keysight, a three-slot modular mainframe unit with a choice of nine plug-in modules and a sampling rate of 800kSa/s. Keysight has re-used the measurement engine from its test and measurement equipment inside the DAQ973A for modular flexibility and universal inputs with built-in signal conditioning. The unit also offers a built-in 6½-digit ...