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For RF inductor selection, José Martos and Heinz Zenkner stress the importance of evaluating inductance, natural resonant frequency, quality, DC resistance and rated current for high-frequency applications. High frequency inductors are used in a variety of industries, from consumer products to highly specialised scientific applications. Typical functions include resonance tuning, impedance matching, filtering and attenuation of high frequency overshoots in ...

Transient gate overvoltage ringing during turn-on is a common phenomenon in GaN-based power converters, but a lifetime equation can account for all bias conditions with respective fractional lifetime, say Shengke Zhang, Han Gao and Siddhesh Gajare. Gate overvoltage spikes during device turn-on transients are commonly observed in GaN HEMTs (high electron mobility transistors) under high frequency, fast-switching conversion applications. The ...

Analog semiconductor manufacturer ABLIC Inc. embarked on a new start under a new company name in 2018, against the backdrop of a rich history spanning over 50 years. In June 2023, five years later, Seiji Tanaka took office as the new president. While focusing on planning and development capabilities as well as high-value-added products, Tanaka is also strengthening initiatives in ...

MikroElektronika has announced a shield board that adapts its Click modules to Red Pitaya, the FPGA software-defined instrument and development tool, “The size of a credit card, Red Pitaya combines the functionalities of oscilloscope, signal generator and spectrum analyzer with programming capabilities and open-source software,” said MikroE. There are two sockets for Click boards (each with switchable 3.3 and 5V ...

Nexperia has unveiled analogue switches that can work with control logic from 1.8 to 5V, regardless of supplies between 1.5 and 5.5V. There are two versions: NMUX1308, an 8:1 analogue multiplexer/demultiplexer which is compatible with, but more capable than, existing 4851 and 4051 analogue switches, and the NMUX1309 dual 4:1 analogue mux/demux which can replace 4852 and 4052 devices. All ...

The Z-Wave Alliance has announced its ZWLR (Z-Wave Long Range) specification for the European market has been completed. It’s slated to be made available to member companies in an upcoming release. It marks the first steps towards members and manufacturers within the EU region being able to begin product development plans and certification of Z-Wave devices with ZWLR capabilities, the ...

Digi International and SparkFun Electronics have designed a development board that adds peripherals around a socket for Digi’s XBee wireless modules. Called ‘SparkFun Digi XBee development board’, it is designed for prototyping cellular IoT applications using one of several Digi’s XBee wireless modules – the socket footprint is Digi’s 13 x 19mm XBee 3 micro form factor – in particular ...

Zurich Instruments has introduced three 8GHz instruments for controlling and analysing microwave-implemented qubits. “The product line, SHF+, enables high-fidelity qubit control for more reliable manipulation of fragile quantum states,” according to the company. “The ‘+’ versions receive a newly designed analogue front-end with reduced noise floor and phase noise.” SHFSG+ is an 8.5GHz signal generator with four or eight channels, depending ...

Component distributor Richardson RFPD is to stock a range of 0603 (1.5 x 0.7mm) RF components from TTM Technologies, all branded ‘Xinger’ and “designed to meet the density and performance challenges of next-generation 5G transceiver and power amplifier applications”, according to Richardson. They include: Three Xinger 90° 3dB hybrid couplers at 1.8 – 2.3GHz, 2.2 – 2.8GHz or 3.1 – ...

Advantech is aiming to put artificial intelligence into heavy industry with a computer built around an Nvidia’s 100Top/s Jetson Orin NX system-on-module. This processor gives it an octo-core 64bit Arm Cortex A78AE CPU plus a 1,024-core Nvidia Ampere GPU with 32 Tensor cores – partnered with 16Gbyte of LPDDR5 memory. Called MIC-715-OX, it is IP67-rated, and all the IO connectors ...