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For nerds like me, looking at an elegantly designed circuit schematic is like looking at a piece of art from a master craftsman. While anyone can enjoy a piece of art, if you know what to look for, your enjoyment can be enriched by finding hidden deeper meanings and signature trademarks from the artist. The same is true for...

Navitas Semiconductor and Digi-Key Electronics, a global electronic components distributor, today announced a distribution agreement to provide worldwide, 24-hour availability and accelerate market penetration and revenue ramp of GaNFast power ICs. The world's first GaNFast power ICs enable power systems to simultaneously achieve MHz-frequency and highest-efficiency operation. These advances translate to smaller, faster, lighter and lower cost power conversion in mobile fast...

Amphenol RF is pleased to announce the expansion of the SMP product line – a high-frequency, subminiature board-to-board solution – to include several new bullet adapters and a straight cable plug. This connector series is designed for blind mate applications with a variety of board spacing and package size requirements. The additional SMP bullet adapters feature a straight plug to...

As per the Interim budget announcement today, India is aiming to become a $10 Tn economy in the next 8 years & $5 Tn economy in the next 5 Years. We welcome the decision to make 1 lakh villages digital in the next 5 years. This combined with Jan Dhan, Aadhaar mobile, and direct benefit transfer will be game changers...

Prashanth G J, CEO at TechnoBind "The one thing that stood out in the Budget is the putting up of the Vision 2030. While there are no details available as yet in terms of the implementation of this vision the fact that the government is thinking long term is well appreciated. The focus on the Digitisation will go a long way...

STMicroelectronics announced that its automotive NFC Reader IC (ST25R3914) and its automotive 8-bit microcontroller (STM8AF) have been chosen for the Qi-compliant automotive wireless charging reference design from Rohm. Contactless communication based on NFC is already in extensive use for functions such as mobile payment by smartphone and in recent years, NFC use has been rapidly widening from mobile devices...

As the LoRa (Long Range) technology ecosystem accelerates, security remains an area for improvement in the market due to vulnerabilities that leave the network and application server keys accessible in the memory of modules and microcontrollers (MCUs) paired with a LoRaWAN™ stack. If keys are accessed in a LoRaWAN device, a hacker can impersonate it and authorize fraudulent transactions, which...

Arduino is a popular platform for IoT product development and is commonly used for STEM/STEAM projects. All around the world, hundreds of thousands of designers, engineers, students, developers, and Makers are building with Arduino for music, games, toys, smart homes, farming, autonomous vehicles, and more. This new "connected" paradigm where digital meets physical enables anyone to create applications that...

2018 saw some very unique and attention-grabbing data security incidents such as the largest distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack ever recorded at 1.7Tbps., the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) that came into effect on May 25, 2018, imposing strict new rules on how personally identifiable information (PII) is collected, processed and controlled and not to miss mentioning crypto miners infiltrated...

Amphenol RF is pleased to introduce the small form factor AMC4 connector series. This micro-miniature product series features the popular push-on coupling design and is ideal for IoT applications which require space efficient, economical designs. The AMC4 PCB jack connector offers excellent electrical performance from DC to 6 GHz and operates at 50 ohms. This precision stamped and formed connector...