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“EPFL engineers have developed a silicone raspberry that can help teach harvesting robots to grasp fruit without exerting too much pressure. Raspberries are the ultimate summer fruit. Famous for their eye-catching scarlet color and distinctive structure, they consist of dozens …
News STMicroelectronics’ galvanically isolated high-side switches with diagnostics control and protect industrial loads
“STMicroelectronics has launched a family of octal high-side switches that combine galvanic isolation for robustness, RDS(on) below 260mΩ for energy efficiency, and protection and diagnostics for reliability and fault recovery. The 8-channel switches, ISO808, ISO808A, ISO808-1, and ISO808A …
News STMicroelectronics’ integrated high-voltage driver shrinks and simplifies high-performance ultrasound scanners
“The STMicroelectronics STHV200 ultrasound IC integrates linear and pulse drivers with clamping, switching, and diagnostic circuitry to simplify, miniaturize, and cut the bill of materials in medical and industrial scanners. With 3A linear and 2A pulse output, typical applications for …
News STMicroelectronics’ STM32 USB PD microcontrollers now support UCSI specification to accelerate Type-C Power Delivery adoption
“STMicroelectronics has added a USB Type-C® connector system interface (UCSI) library in the STM32Cube software ecosystem for STM32 microcontrollers (MCUs) to accelerate development of USB-C Power Delivery (PD) applications. The X-CUBE-UCSI is a turnkey UCSI-certified solution …
“By adding weak linkers to a polymer network, chemists dramatically enhanced the material’s resistance to tearing. A team of chemists from MIT and Duke University has discovered a counterintuitive way to make polymers stronger: introduce a few weaker bonds …
“By all accounts, this planet shouldn’t exist, new international research co-authored by UNSW Sydney shows. Stars tend to get violent when they’re about to die. Take our Sun, for example: in about 5 billion years, after running out …
“Step aside self-driving cars, self-driving boats are here — and they can do more than take you on a cruise. Researchers at The University of Texas at El Paso have constructed a fully autonomous boat that can carry out bathymetric surveys …
News Toshiba Introduces ARM® Cortex®-M3 Microcontrollers “TXZ+™ Family Advanced Class” with 1MB Code Flash Memory Supporting Firmware Updates without Interrupting Microcontroller Operation
“Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation (“Toshiba”) has added new products “M3H group (2)” to the “M3H group” of the 32-bit microcontroller product group “TXZ+™ Family Advanced Class” equipped with Cortex®-M3 using the 40nm process. In recent years, the need …
News Toshiba Releases 100V N-Channel Power MOSFET That Supports Miniaturization of Power Supply Circuits
“Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation (“Toshiba”) has launched “TPH3R10AQM,” a 100V N-channel power MOSFET fabricated with Toshiba’s latest-generation process, U-MOS X-H. The product targets applications such as switching circuits and hot swap circuits[1] on the power lines …
News Towards Efficient Lithium–Air Batteries with Solution Plasma-Based Synthesis of Perovskite Hydroxide Catalysts
“With global warming on the rise, it has become imperative to reduce fossil fuel dependency and switch to alternate green energy sources. The development of electric vehicles is a move towards this direction. However, electric vehicles require high energy density …