Consumer

August 2024

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Figure 1: Fully assembled IMR and the exploded view

By: Yesie Brama, Robotics System Architect, Infineon Technologies AG

Mobile robots are now commonly found in commercial and industrial applications. On a high level, they can be categorized into two main types: Automated Guided Vehicle (AGV): moves along predefined marked paths (e.g., wires, magnetic tapes, lasers/barcodes), guided by external means, and not fully autonomous

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Date:

08/31/2024

Nexperia Expands Power Device Portfolio to Include Standard and Automotive Qualified Ideal Diodes

Nexperia announced the addition of two new ideal diode ICs to its continuously growing portfolio of power devices. The NID5100 is suitable for standard industrial and consumer applications while the NID5100-Q100 has been qualified for use in automotive applications. Ideal diodes are MOSFET based de

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Date:

08/22/2024

Taiwan Semiconductor's New ESD Protection Devices are Optimized for High-Density Electronics

Taiwan Semiconductor – global supplier of discrete power electronics devices, LED drivers, analog ICs and ESD devices – introduces a new series of new ultra-small ESD protection devices optimized for wearables and other high-density electronic products. All DFN0603-packaged models in the 3.3V and 5.0V TE

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Date:

08/19/2024

Littelfuse Enhances KSC2 Tactile Switch Series to Empower Designers with Precise Electrical Height

Littelfuse, Inc., an industrial technology manufacturing company empowering a sustainable, connected, and safer world, announced a product update on the C&K Switches KSC2 Sealed Tactile Switch product line. This surface-mounted, waterproof tactile switch series now incorporates the Electrical Height enhancement. The KSC2 seri

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Date:

08/09/2024

Photo of a water-powered, electronics-free dressing (WPED) for electrical stimulation of wounds.

Electric Bandage Holds Promise for Treating Chronic Wounds

NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY

Researchers have developed an inexpensive bandage that uses an electric field to promote healing in chronic wounds. In animal testing, wounds that were treated with these electric bandages healed 30% faster than wounds treated with conventional bandages. Chronic wounds are open wounds that heal slowly, i

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Date:

08/09/2024

Infineon Introduces new CoolGaN Drive Product Family of Integrated Single Switches and Half-Bridges with Integrated Drivers

Many different trends are taking center stage in both consumer electronics and industrial applications, such as portability, electrification, and weight reduction. All of these trends require compact and efficient designs. They also go hand in hand with unconventional PCB designs with severe space constraints th

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Date:

08/06/2024

Navitas Powers Expanded Samsung Galaxy Smartphone Portfolio

Navitas Semiconductor announced that Samsung had expanded adoption of Navitas’ GaNFast ICs from the original flagship Galaxy S22, S23 and S24 to the mainstream Galaxy A, and revolutionary Galaxy Z Fold6 and Galaxy Z Flip6 smartphones with enhanced Galaxy AI features. GaN runs up to

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Date:

08/05/2024

Ally Winning, European Editor, PSD

AI or Eh Why?

Ally Winning, European Editor, PSD

Like most people interested in technology, I have been keeping a close eye on AI, especially generative AI, which is intended to be used for content creation. The number of articles written on (and by) AI recently has been astronomical, but how much of it is hype and how much is substance? As a content generator my

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Date:

08/01/2024