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Hirose Electric ix Industrial Ethernet Mating Interface | New Product Brief

Hirose Electric ix Industrial Ethernet Mating Interface | New Product Brief

Hirose ix industrial connectors are new, standardized miniature ethernet connectors for use in factory automation, data centers, and transportation applications.


More Power at Higher Temperatures: A New Modular Power Solution from Vicor

More Power at Higher Temperatures: A New Modular Power Solution from Vicor

The new ZVS power modules from Vicor offer high efficiencies at high temperatures.


News Mar 15, 2018 by Nick Davis
Vishay IHLE Series E-Field Shielded Inductors | Tech Specs

Vishay IHLE Series E-Field Shielded Inductors | Tech Specs

E-M-I: three dreaded letters for any designer. And while I can’t solve all your EMI problems, the Vishay IHLE power inductors can certainly help.


new products Mar 08, 2018 by TTI, Inc
How to Design Low-Cost Contactless Position Sensors

How to Design Low-Cost Contactless Position Sensors

In this video, we’ll demonstrate an inductive sensing technique used for contactless position sensing.


Crash Landing on Venus to Proposing the World Wide Web: The March 2018 Hardware History Roundup

Crash Landing on Venus to Proposing the World Wide Web: The March 2018 Hardware History Roundup

Venera 3 crash lands on Venus, the Homebrew Computer Club meets for the first time, and the World Wide Web is proposed. Check out this hardware history roundup for March!


News Mar 04, 2018 by Chantelle Dubois
How to Run From a Coin Cell for 10 Years

How to Run From a Coin Cell for 10 Years

Check out this buck converter that is designed to extend battery life from months to years in IoT applications, like sensor nodes and beacons.


Vishay WSBS Power Metal Strip Battery Shunt Resistors | Tech Specs

Vishay WSBS Power Metal Strip Battery Shunt Resistors | Tech Specs

Let's talk about something big, and that’s a big power to resistor size ratio.


new products Mar 01, 2018 by TTI, Inc
AVX Kyocera Automotive Clock Oscillators | New Product Brief

AVX Kyocera Automotive Clock Oscillators | New Product Brief

AVX Kyocera MC2016K are 1.5 to 80 MHz clock oscillators for automotive applications, including radar, cameras, ethernet, and V2X.


Solid-State LiDAR Is Coming to an Autonomous Vehicle Near You

Solid-State LiDAR Is Coming to an Autonomous Vehicle Near You

Solid-state LiDAR may be the path forward for developing sensing systems for autonomous vehicles.


News Feb 20, 2018 by Mark Hughes
Tricking Autonomous Driving Systems Could Be as Simple as Subtly Altering Street Signs

Tricking Autonomous Driving Systems Could Be as Simple as Subtly Altering Street Signs

Recent research indicates that it may be easier to dupe a vision system in an autonomous vehicle than previously thought.


News Feb 16, 2018 by Chantelle Dubois
Molex FAKRA RF Connectors | Tech Specs

Molex FAKRA RF Connectors | Tech Specs

Making connections is an important part of life. But connections might be even more important in automotive electronics.


new products Feb 15, 2018 by TTI, Inc
What Happens to a Tesla in Space? (Or, Why Spacecraft Aren’t Built Like Sports Cars)

What Happens to a Tesla in Space? (Or, Why Spacecraft Aren’t Built Like Sports Cars)

It is probably unlikely the car was launched with its full suite of electronics on board, but just for fun, let’s take a look at what would happen if a fully outfitted, typical Tesla Roadster were sent into space.


News Feb 12, 2018 by Chantelle Dubois
Harwin Datamate Power Contacts | Tech Specs

Harwin Datamate Power Contacts | Tech Specs

Sometimes you need to put phenomenal power in an itty-bitty space, and that’s just what Harwin does with the Datamate High Current contacts.


new products Feb 08, 2018 by TTI, Inc
STMicroelectronics L20G20IS Two-Axis MEMS Gyroscope | New Product Brief

STMicroelectronics L20G20IS Two-Axis MEMS Gyroscope | New Product Brief

STMicroelectronics L20G20IS is a compact two-axis MEMS gyroscope for use in optical image stabilization and similar applications.


Engineer Spotlight: Kristof Richmond, GNC Engineer at Stone Aerospace and Frontier Astronautics

Engineer Spotlight: Kristof Richmond, GNC Engineer at Stone Aerospace and Frontier Astronautics

Kristof Richmond is a guidance, navigation, and control (GNC) engineer for Stone Aerospace. Learn more about Richmond’s fascinating career, and how he ended up building robotic explorers meant for Europa in this AAC Engineer Spotlight.


News Feb 02, 2018 by Chantelle Dubois
A Small, Powerful, and Versatile DC/DC Converter—But One That Requires Thought and Deliberation

A Small, Powerful, and Versatile DC/DC Converter—But One That Requires Thought and Deliberation

A new DC/DC converter that offers boost, SEPIC, and voltage inverting functionality, making it suitable for a variety of applications from automotive to telecom to portable electronics.


News Jan 29, 2018 by Nick Davis
Breakdown on Piezo Actuators from TDK at CES 2018

Breakdown on Piezo Actuators from TDK at CES 2018

TDK has just released a new line of piezo actuators with haptic feedback. The PiezoHap comes in three compact sizes - 2.5G, 7G, and 15G, with a large acceleration of 2.5 g. 7 g, and 15 g, respectfully, under a load of 100 grams.


News Jan 26, 2018 by Donald Krambeck
A New High-Performance MEMS Relative Humidity and Temperature Sensor from IDT

A New High-Performance MEMS Relative Humidity and Temperature Sensor from IDT

IDT’s new high-performance MEMS relative humidity and temperature sensor requires no user calibration and comes in four different accuracy levels.


News Jan 24, 2018 by Nick Davis
Working with Fluctuating Input Supplies: A New Tiny DC/DC Buck Regulator from Linear Technology

Working with Fluctuating Input Supplies: A New Tiny DC/DC Buck Regulator from Linear Technology

A new, smaller, and more versatile DC/DC step-down voltage regulator that's designed for noisier applications such as avionics, factory automation, and industrial robotics.


News Jan 19, 2018 by Nick Davis
Amphenol ICC MUSBR Series USB 3.0 Type A Connectors | Tech Specs

Amphenol ICC MUSBR Series USB 3.0 Type A Connectors | Tech Specs

“Rugged” and “fast” are rarely used to describe the same thing, but they perfectly describe Amphenol ICC’s MUSBR series USB 3.0 Type A connectors.


new products Jan 18, 2018 by TTI, Inc