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AI domain-specific architecture
Spectrum Concepts, Enclosures, Racks, Cabinets & Panel Products

Designing a new product is often an exercise in priorities, carefully balancing a range of capabilities to obtain the best overall result.
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Advanced HMI delivers enhanced durability
Fox Controls Rand, Opto-Electronics

This compact touchscreen HMI from IDEC provides essential visualisation and high-performance multitouch control, even in the most space-limited applications.
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Front panels for electronics
Seven Labs Technology, Opto-Electronics

In the world of electronics, the significance of a well-designed front panel cannot be overstated as it serves not only as the first point of interaction between users and devices, but also plays a crucial role in the functionality and aesthetics of electronic products.
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Hi-Rel quarter-brick converters
Accutronics, Power Electronics / Power Management

Gaia Converter’s quarter-brick series DC-DC power modules provides output power levels ranging from 75 to 250 W in fixed output voltages.
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Robust and customisable SBC
Altron Arrow, DSP, Micros & Memory

Pairing the powerful i.MX8M Plus System on Module (SoM) from SolidRun, which features the i.MX 8M Plus SoC from NXP, this high-performance SBC is set to transform industrial environments.
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PCIe 7.0 technology. Too soon or not fast enough?
Spectrum Concepts, Editor's Choice

Data scientists, AI system architects, IC designers, optical engineers, interconnect providers like Samtec, and other solutions providers, are rethinking system topologies.
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RFID in aviation: the ultimate solution to baggage mishandling
Osiris Technical Systems, Editor's Choice, Telecoms, Datacoms, Wireless, IoT

Creating a solution that enables real-time tracking of airline baggage on a global scale seems like an impossible task when considering the number of airlines, airports, and passengers that flow through and between them.
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The power of UWB
EBV Electrolink, Editor's Choice, Telecoms, Datacoms, Wireless, IoT

Ultra-Wideband, the robust wireless communications technology commonly known as UWB, is such a versatile technology, capable of doing so many different things, that it can be hard to categorise.
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Microchip SoC FPGA
ASIC Design Services, DSP, Micros & Memory

Microchip Technology introduced the RT PolarFire SoC FPGA, the first real-time Linux capable, RISC-V-based microprocessor subsystem on a proven RT PolarFire FPGA platform.
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Infineon launches Edge Ai software solution
Altron Arrow, Analogue, Mixed Signal, LSI

Infineon has introduced DEEPCRAFT, a new software solution category brand for Edge AI and machine learning, after the company recognised the huge potential of Edge AI for the market.
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Low noise 3-axis MEMS accelerometers
Altron Arrow, DSP, Micros & Memory

The ADXL357 and ADXL357B from Analog Devices are digital outputs, low noise density, low 0 g offset drift, low power, three-axis accelerometers with selectable measurement ranges.
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3,75 GHz RF inductor
RF Design, Passive Components

The ceramic chip wire wound inductor from Coilcraft features a DC resistance of 1 O, a DC current of 175 mA, and a self-resonant frequency of 3,75 GHz.
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Upgraded power inductor series
iCorp Technologies, Passive Components

Sunlord’s multiphase co-fired power inductor HTF-MP series has upgraded the single-phase HTF-H products in terms of integrated applications.
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Wine farm turns to solar installation for power
Current Automation, Power Electronics / Power Management

Slanghoek Wine farm opted into a power purchase agreement to lower overall electricity costs and enter a true sustainable future, with a price-competitive edge on lower running costs.
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QLC Flash memory using BiCS tech
EBV Electrolink, DSP, Micros & Memory

KIOXIA announced it had started shipping its 2 Tb Quad-Level-Cell memory devices with its 8th-generation BiCS FLASH 3D flash memory technology.
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Generate waveforms at 10 GS/s
Vepac Electronics, Computer/Embedded Technology

New flagship arbitrary waveform generator cards from Spectrum Instrumentation generate waveforms with 2,5 GHz bandwidth and 16-bit vertical resolution.
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Quad-port 10GBASE-T controller
Rugged Interconnect Technologies, Computer/Embedded Technology

he SN4-DJEMBE, available from Rugged Interconnect, is a networking adaptor card for CompactPCI Serial systems, equipped with four individual controllers for 10GBASE-T.
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ST’s biosensing tech enables next-gen wearables
Future Electronics, DSP, Micros & Memory

The highly integrated biosensor device combines an input channel for cardio and neurological sensing, with motion tracking and embedded AI core, for healthcare and fitness applications.
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