Electronica

IQD’s IOSC-EV board can be used to test standard surface mount clock oscillators, VCXOs or TCXO/VCTCXOs. The IOSC-EV board comes with six smaller boards that can be snapped from the side of the main board and onto which different size 4 pad packaged oscillators can be soldered. The smaller board can then be soldered to the main PCB. The six ...

Power Integrations has up-graded its LinkSwitch-XT2 range of off-line ac-dc power supply chips for use on 480Vac three-phase industrial power rails, swapping the original 725V internal mosfet for a 900V version. Intended for use up to 8W in industrial equipment it can be used in both isolated and non-isolated fly-back topologies. It can also be used in “high-quality consumer products destined ...

Zettler will be showing relays for electric vehicles, solar and more at Electronica in November. AZEV116 and AZEV132 are IEC mode 2 electric vehicle charging relays in development for release in 2019, and are designed to survive high momentary currents that may occur on short circuits without contact welding. They also have a potential monitoring contact, as required by IEC62752:2016. ...

IoT is what gets Silicon Labs CEO Tyson Tuttle up in the morning.

 Harwin has extended the scope of its Gecko (Gecko-SL) 1.25 mm pitch connectors  – mainly aimed at avionics, military and autosport deployment. “We are the market leader for small pitch rectangular connectors that must not fail,” Harwin’s Andrew McQuilken told the Publitek pre-Electronica meeting in Tegernsee this morning. A reverse fix orientation has now been made available for the  stainless ...

The added value of a distributor in the future will depend on its exploitation of the internet as a communications platform, said Frank Behrens of RS Components (pictured) at Publitek’s Pre-Electronica meeting in Tegernsee this morning. “The internet is not just a platform for ordering goods it’s a communications platform and we need to drive this communication,” said Behrens, “prices change rapidly ...

Dialog has demo-ed Stereo High Fidelity (HiFi) quality audio streaming over BLE. Dialog has developed an implementation of True Wireless Stereo audio over BLE running on its SmartBond SoC’s. “It’s necessary to have less than 100 microseconds latency between the earbuds to avoid unwanted sound effects and our solution delivers 1 microsecond latency,”said Dialog’s Mark Hopgood at Publitek’s Pre-Electronica meeting ...

Congatec has introduced industrial Mini and Pico-ITX motherboards based around Intel’s Apollo Lake processors. Conga-PA5 is Pico-ITX and Conga-IA5 is Thin Mini-ITX, and both of them are long-term available, said Congatec, and come with a choice of Atom, Celeron or Pentium processors (see table below). “System engineers can immediately deploy them to upgrade existing Pico-ITX and Mini-ITX designs and benefit ...

Digi was showing off its newly released ConnectCore for i.MX6UL module at Electronica. It is designed to support the rapid development of smart and secure connected devices.

The mood was bullish at Electronica for Digi-Key Electronics with the company reporting an almost 15% growth in sales for the UK in the last year.