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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 …
News Unlocking the future of computing: The Analog Iterative Machine’s lightning-fast approach to optimization
“Picture a world where computing is not limited by the binary confines of zeros and ones, but instead, is free to explore the vast possibilities of continuous value data. Over the past three years a team of Microsoft researchers has …
“The revolutionary UNO R4, announced on Arduino Day, is now available on the Arduino Store! The fourth version of the iconic, beloved UNO adds a whole new dimension to the world of DIY and making revolutionized by the simple 8-bit …