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Off-line LED driver comes with PWM dimming

Torex Semiconductor’s new XC9401C is a highly efficient, step-down constant current controller for offline LED driver applications that can operate from 85VAC to 270VAC. It uses a constant off-time control method that naturally reduces EMI and provides a stable power supply for LED lighting.

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Cambridge Pixel’s Secure-X software speeds up radar-camera sensor integration

Cambridge Pixel, a developer of sensor processing and display solutions, has unveiled its Secure-X family of software modules. Secure-X is designed to help engineers developing radar and camera security solutions to quickly and cost-effectively integrate disparate sensor types into their security surveillance solution and so reduce development time and cost. Secure-X provides a toolkit of proven, best-in-class software building blocks for radar and camera interfacing, processing and display with modules for radar acquisition, processing, scan conversion, tracking of radar and video targets, fusion, recording and display

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Rutronik offers IoT Gatway solutions from Advantech and Intel

Rutronik is now stocking Advantech’s new and comprehensive IoT solution: the UTX-3115 fanless and wide-temp embedded box coupled with the Intel Gateway Solutions for the Internet of Things (IoT). It simplifies customer deployment of IoT products and allows secure data aggregation, filtering and analysis from edge devices to the cloud through WiFi and/or 4G technologies.

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Cypress expands PSoC 4 architecture with entry-level PSoC 4000 devices

Cypress Semiconductor has introduced a new product family from its PSoC 4 architecture that offers a low-cost, entry-level 32-bit ARM-based system-on-chip for quick, simple upgrades of legacy 8-bit and 16-bit MCUs. The PSoC 4000 family delivers design flexibility, along with CapSense, Cypress’s capacitive sensing technology, to cost-sensitive and high-volume applications.

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X-REL Semiconductor signs distribution agreement with Charcroft

X-REL Semiconductor - a manufacturer of High-Reliability / High-Temperature Integrated Circuits operating from -60°C to +230°C – has announced that it has signed a distribution agreement with UK-based Charcroft Electronics, a specialist distributor of high reliability and state-of-the-art passive, power, interconnect and electromechanical components for space, military, industrial and Hi Rel markets.

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Luso extends availability of safety covers and enclosures for N2Power power supplies

Luso Electronics, the UK and Ireland distributor for N2Power’s range of ultra-small high-efficiency AC-DC and DC-DC power supplies, has announced wider availability of N2Power’s latest range of safety covers and universal enclosures and the possibility to serve customers with bespoke power supply module solutions.

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Passive safety pole connector makes lighting installation easier and quicker

Molex Incorporated has introduced a cost-efficient interconnect solution that speeds up installation, maintenance, repair and removal of roadside equipment and furniture, such as street lighting, traffic signals and road signage. Already tried and tested within parts of Europe, the new Passive Safety Pole Connector includes safety devices and systems that operate without need for human input or action, supporting new EU legislation.

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Microchip extends portfolio of digitally-enhanced power analogue controllers with integrated MCU

Microchip has announced that it is expanding its Digitally Enhanced Power Analogue controller product line. With the introduction of the MCP19114 and MCP19115 devices, Microchip’s diverse range of intelligent DC/DC power-conversion solutions now includes controllers supporting flyback, boost and SEPIC topologies.

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New 16-bit, 210Msps ADC delivers 80dB SNR for comms and instrumentation systems

Linear Technology’s new LTC2107 is a 16-bit 210Msps high performance high-speed analogue-to-digital converter (ADC) for high-end communications receivers and instrumentation applications. The LTC2107 has been designed to provide superior AC performance specifications, achieving 80dB SNR performance and an industry leading 98dB SFDR at baseband.

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Han Hood Link speeds cable-to-cable connection

HARTING has expanded its Han B industrial connector product portfolio with the addition of Han Hood Link: a new locking system that speeds cable-to-cable connection by allowing the connection of two standard HARTING 16B hoods while simultaneously achieving an IP 65 degree of protection.

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