Analog Devices’ SmartMesh could help with predictive maintenance of the largely metal and concrete buildings which include industrial plants, data centres, commercial buildings, bridges and tunnels.

South Africa • South Africa will soon join the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution Network (C4IR Network) alongside China, India and Japan by launching an affiliate ...

The InP1012 from Teledyne is a monolithic, reflective SPDT (single-pole double-throw) active RF switch that operates from DC to 60 GHz. It has an insertion loss of 3,7 dB, a return loss of 26 dB and provides ...

In the field of electronics, Mil Spec – or Military Specification – has a very clear and understood meaning. It denotes equipment designed and made to exacting standards, in accordance with precise rules ...

Verotec has been selected by a top 10 global defence contractor to supply seven different variants of VMEbus system hardware, backplanes and PSU sub-systems for a land-based US anti-tank system. The ...

New dual- and single-core dsPIC33C digital signal controllers (DSCs) have been released by Microchip Technology, with more options to meet changing application requirements across memory, temperature ...

The new K32 microcontroller (MCU) series from NXP Semiconductors is optimised for energy efficiency in real-time embedded applications, and enables advanced security with physical tamper protection in ...

Atlanta Micro announced a new product line of miniature power and control line filters named the AM35. The product range provides 6 filters in a tiny 1,5 x 3 mm package for filtering spurious signals ...

Murata Manufacturing has collaborated with Cypress Semiconductor to develop the Type 1LV (CYW43012) low-power, small form factor Wi-Fi and Bluetooth module. This product is designed to improve battery ...

Antenova’s M20057-1 is a compact active GNSS (global navigation satellite system) antenna module using a high-performance LNA (low-noise amplifier) with an on-board SAW (surface acoustic wave) filter ...

Telemecanique Sensors offers a wireless solution to collect data from remote equipment and use this data, via the Internet, on a PC or mobile device. The XIOT cloud-connected switch (model XIOT11SE5MRCL) ...

Microwave ovens are much-used appliances in many kitchens today. Used not only for cooking food from frozen but also for reheating last night’s curry or the cup of coffee you left to go cold, they provide ...

Renesas’ new encapsulated hybrid digital power modules offer high power density and efficiency for advanced FPGAs, DSPs, ASICs and memory. The ISL8210M and ISL8212M feature power density of 115 mA/mm2 ...

The superior properties of Li-ion batteries, such as high energy density, light weight, no memory effect, and less self-discharge, make them a very popular option in portable applications. ICs with ...

The escalating trade war between the US and China has the global economy on high alert, and unless things normalise soon it is going to have massive ramifications on many industries. Following US president ...

The ESP32-S2 from Espressif Systems is a highly integrated, low-power, 2,4 GHz Wi-Fi microcontroller SoC (system-on-chip) supporting Wi-Fi HT40 and 43 general-purpose I/Os. Based on an Xtensa single-core ...

Custom MMIC’s CMD283 is a broadband MMIC low-noise amplifier (LNA) that operates from 2 to 6 GHz (S and C bands). The device delivers 27 dB of gain with a corresponding noise figure of 0,6 dB at 4 GHz ...