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Tester helps check out digital coherent optical modules
Medical Design Technology - 4 Mar 2020 14:36
The VIAVI 800G FLEX DCO Module provides a wide range of critical test and measurement capabilities that manufacturers need to design and validate pluggable digital coherent optical modules. Native support for both 400G c...
A Connector Solution To Achieve 112 Gbps PAM4 Data Rates
Medical Design Technology - 4 Mar 2020 23:53
By Danny Boesing, Product Marketing Director, Samtec, Inc. Design Challenges Of High Data Rate As data rate requirements approach and surpass 112 Gbps PAM4, developers are challenged with balancing increasing throughput,...
DSP architecture targets 5G Intelligent Radio Access Networks (RAN) and enterprise access points
Medical Design Technology - 4 Mar 2020 16:10
CEVA, Inc. announced its powerful DSP architecture, the Gen4 CEVA-XC. This new architecture delivers unmatched performance for the most complex parallel processing workloads required for 5G endpoints and Radio Access Net...
Thirdhand Smoke: Study Finds Smokers' Clothes are Carrying Cigarette Chemicals Indoors
Discover - 4 Mar 2020 22:24
A new study reveals chemicals from cigarettes linger on a person's clothes in higher amounts than we realized. As a result, nonsmokers are unknowingly being exposed to the toxins.
Report: 5G can't fall back to LTE
Medical Design Technology - 4 Mar 2020 21:50
A report by Information Gatekeepers (IGI Group) says that the two largest U.S. carriers are not spending enough on 5G rollout. That's what author Clifford Holliday told 5G Technology World. In Analyst: 5G is all about th...
Scientists demonstrate first non-volatile nano relay operation at 200°C
Science Daily - 4 Mar 2020 21:16
Researchers have come up with a new type of nanoelectromechanical relay to enable reliable high-temperature, non-volatile memory. The work is an important development for all-electric vehicles and more-electric aircraft ...
New insights into evolution: Why genes appear to move around
Science Daily - 4 Mar 2020 21:16
Scientists have proposed an addition to the theory of evolution that can explain how and why genes move on chromosomes. The hypothesis is called the SNAP Hypothesis.
Biomaterial discovery enables 3D printing of tissue-like vascular structures
Science Daily - 4 Mar 2020 21:15
An international team of scientists have discovered a new material that can be 3D printed to create tissue-like vascular structures.
Breastfeeding and risks of allergies and asthma
Science Daily - 4 Mar 2020 21:15
In an Acta Paediatrica study, exclusive breastfeeding for the first 3 months was linked with a lower risk of respiratory allergies and asthma when children reached 6 years of age.
Fighting hand tremors: First comes AI, then robots
Science Daily - 4 Mar 2020 21:14
Robots hold promise for a large number of people with neurological movement disorders severely affecting the quality of their lives. Now researchers have tapped artificial intelligence techniques to build an algorithmic ...
New material could turn clothing into a health monitor
Science Daily - 4 Mar 2020 21:14
Researchers have reported a new material, pliable enough to be woven into fabric but imbued with sensing capabilities that can serve as an early warning system for injury or illness.
The difference between SWR and TDR meters
Medical Design Technology - 4 Mar 2020 21:08
In setting up transmission lines, it is often desirable to measure the amount of signal reflection. The relevant metric is the standing wave ratio (SWR). SWR is defined as the ratio between the amplitude of a partial sta...
Scientists discover new repair mechanism for repairing alcohol-induced DNA damage
Science Daily - 4 Mar 2020 21:07
Researchers have discovered a new way in which the human body repairs DNA damage caused by a degradation product of alcohol. That knowledge underlines the link between alcohol consumption and cancer.
Coriolis flowmeters, Part 3: Flowmeter design
Medical Design Technology - 4 Mar 2020 20:14
The Coriolis effect, a subtle and often-misunderstood principle of physics, has been adapted for highly accurate mass flowmeter instrumentation. The application of the Coriolis force offered a new way to solve the long-s...
Why So Many Epidemics Originate in Asia and Africa -- and Why We Can Expect More
Discover - 4 Mar 2020 20:00
COVID-19 is not the first -- nor likely the last -- to emerge from the two continents.
Coriolis flowmeters, Part 2: The principle
Medical Design Technology - 4 Mar 2020 19:46
The Coriolis effect, a subtle and often-misunderstood principle of physics, has been adapted for highly accurate mass flowmeter instrumentation. The first part of this article briefly explained the issues associated with...
Power converter modules handle 36-V inputs
Medical Design Technology - 4 Mar 2020 19:11
The MagI³C FDSM power modules with fixed 3.3 or 5 V output voltages are now also available with an input voltage of 36 V, following on from versions with maximum input voltages of 28 and 42 V. The components in a SIP-3 ...
Superjunction MOSFETs target bridge rectification, inverters, low-frequency power switching
Medical Design Technology - 4 Mar 2020 19:08
Infineon Technologies AG develops solutions for highest efficiency and quality requirements. The newly launched 600 V CoolMOS S7 product family leads the way for power density and energy efficiency for applications where...
Web simulation tool verifies circuitry for power devices and ICs
Medical Design Technology - 4 Mar 2020 15:39
Rohm announced a web simulation tool, "ROHM Solution Simulator", that allows designers of electronic circuits and systems in the automotive and industrial markets to simultaneously verify power devices and ICs on 44 diff...
Power quality analyzer includes synchrophasor, frequency measurement functions
Medical Design Technology - 4 Mar 2020 15:38
A new plug-in module for the PM180 eXpertMeter Power Quality Analyzer adds synchrophasor and frequency measurement functionality. With the introduction of the Phasor Measurement Unit (PMU) plug-in module, the flexible PM...
Dual/quad-channel USB-to-UART/MPSSE bridge ICs host Type-C/PD controllers
Medical Design Technology - 4 Mar 2020 15:34
FTDI Chip's latest series of multi-channel USB interface ICs have the capacity to deal with next-generation power requirements, as larger items of hardware start to make use of the protocol. Available in both 2-channel (...
Digital modulation basics, part 2: QAM and EVM
Medical Design Technology - 4 Mar 2020 08:00
In Digital modulation basics, part 1 we examined the concept of quadrature modulation and signal generation. We showed a common block diagram for generating a quadrature signal (Figure 1). There is a corresponding receiv...