Medical, Healthcare & Wellness

    June 2022
    Personal Health Trackers May Include Smart Face Mask, Other Wearables

    An infrared image of a person wearing a smart mask concept.

    ­For years, automotive companies have developed intelligent sensors to provide real-time monitoring of a vehicle’s health, including engine oil pressure, tire pressure and air-fuel mixture. Together, these sensors can provide an early warning system for a driver to identify a potential problem before it may ne
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    Date:
    06/27/2022
    High-Density Medical Desktop Power Supply is Half the Size

    High-Density Medical Desktop Power Supply is Half the Size

    ­XP Power has released a new range of ultra-compact medical desktop power supplies that meet the need for space-saving fan-less solutions in both home healthcare and hospital applications with power densities up to 11W/in3. Compared to existing solutions currently on the market, the new solutions reduce the
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    Date:
    06/14/2022
    System on Chip Features Flexibility, Low Power, and High-Performance Connectivity

    System on Chip Features Flexibility, Low Power, and High-Performance Connectivity

    ­Infineon Technologies AG is adding the AIROC CYW20820 Bluetooth & Bluetooth LE (low energy) system on chip (SoC) to its AIROC Bluetooth Portfolio. The AIROC CYW20820 Bluetooth & Bluetooth LE SoC is a Bluetooth 5.2 core spec compliant device tailor made for IoT applications. It is designed to
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    Date:
    06/14/2022
    Vishay VCNL3036X01 High-Resolution Proximity Sensors at TTI

    Vishay VCNL3036X01 High-Resolution Proximity Sensors

    ­TTI, Inc., is now stocking VCNL3036X01 Proximity Sensors from Vishay. These sensors are targeted to meet the requirements of various medical, process automation and industrial sensing applications. Vishay’s VCNL3036X01 integrates a proximity sensor (PS), a mux and a driver for up to three external IREDs int
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    Date:
    06/09/2022
    Custom Voltage Transformers Extend Broad Applications

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    ­As governments and regulatory bodies strive to improve safety and reduce environmental impact, custom transformers are increasingly used to meet increasingly exacting performance and regulatory requirements. Approvals for these transformers need to run from design, development, and manufacture through to installation an
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    Date:
    06/01/2022
    Back to the Office, or Not?

    Ally Winning, European Editor, PSD

    ­Since the beginnings of the COVID pandemic, one thing that I have heard regularly is that when it is over, things would never return to what they were before. There would be a whole “new normal”. Hopefully, as I said in my ViewPoint column earlier, the success of PCIM last month showed that it need not be
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    Date:
    06/01/2022
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