Looking to help automotive manufacturers meet stringent functional safety requirements for battery systems, Freescale has launched the MC33772, a device which can control from three to six Li-ion cells. According to the company, the device’s performance and functional safety features have been optimised for 14V Li-ion battery packs, allowing...

Bosch will debut a battery technology for electric cars that could be production-ready in as little as five years. In addition to its own development in the area of battery technology, Bosch now has crucial know-how in innovative solid-state cells for lithium batteries as well as exclusive patents, thanks to the acquisition of the US start-up Seeo...

Altium has announced the next major update to its flagship PCB design tool Altium Designer. According to the company, the addition of new automation and productivity tools to the package will allow engineers to get designs done more quickly and with fewer errors.“The increasing complexity of today’s electronic designs requires the m...

Scientists from ITMO University, Australian National University and Aalto University have called into question the results of a study published by researchers from Cambridge University which claimed to have found the ‘missing link’ in electromagnetic theory.However, according to the critics, having read the paper carefully, it becam...

The University of Surrey has opened the 5G Innovation Centre (5GIC), the world’s largest academic research centre dedicated to next generation mobile and wireless connectivity and a facility which it says will secure the UK’s leading role in the development of next generation communications technology.The centre, which will accommod...

RFEL has announced qu-IQ, a flexible, resource rich development platform for demanding signal processing applications. With a Xilinx Kintex 7 FPGA, a Xilinx Zynq 7045 SoChip and 3Gbyte of on board DDR3 memory, the platform is housed on a PCIe 2.0 host card.The qu-IQ features 750k logic cells and nearly 2500 DSP48 slices, which provides a resource f...

A €7.3million pan European project involving industry, research institutes and universities from four countries will evaluate the infrastructure required for next generation communications networks and services.According to the project – called 5G XHaul – its goal is to find solutions to the growing demand for broadband. It wil...

Researchers at the Italian National Research Council (SPIN-CNR) and the Italian National Enterprise for nanoScience and nanoTechnology (NEST-CNR) claim to have devised an inexpensive way to turn low frequency signals into higher frequencies.The approach makes use of a Josephson junction, currently used to make extremely sensitive voltmeters and...

Hitaltech has been appointed as an authorised distributor for Omron Electronic Components. As part of the deal, Hitaltech will offer Omron’s range of FPC-FFC connectors, including the XF3M, pictured, said to be ideal for applications requiring a connection between an LCD panel and a PCB or for other board to board connections.“We ar...

Conrad Business Supplies has extended its range of power supplies and supporting accessories, with the addition of more than 650 products from Delta Electronics. The company’s product range is said to offer high efficiency performance in applications requiring a wide input voltage range.Delta Electronics provides high performance off the...