Skyworks Solutions Inc. announced that its high-reliability optocouplers are providing vital connectivity functionality in implantable cardiac defibrillators from a leading medical device provider. Skyworks’ photovoltaic optocouplers establish the critical link between power supply circuits and control electronics.
Fujitsu Limited and Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. announced they have developed a crystal structure that both increases current and voltage in GaN HEMTs, effectively tripling the output power of transistors used for microwave transmitters. The higher power GaN HEMT technology can serve as a power amplifier for equipment such as weather radar, expanding the observation range of the radar by approximately 2.3x and enabling early detection of cumulonimbus clouds that can develop into torrential rainstorms.
China Mobile Hong Kong is the first network provider in Hong Kong to successfully complete end-to-end 5G network testing (client terminal to application). By using CPE (Customer Premises Equipment), the company has successfully built a 5G network that enables an end-to-end connectivity to the Internet, computers or non-5G mobile terminals can also connect to this 5G network via Wi-Fi emitted by CPE for a smooth Internet connection. 5G compatible smartphones are yet to be widely available until the second half of 2019, thus early 5G network is expected to provide Wi-Fi connectivity to 5G applications via CPE.
Analog Devices announces LTC6363-0.5, LTC6363-1 and LTC6363-2 Precision, Fixed-Gain, Fully Differential Amplifiers, creating a family of ultra-precision fixed-gain variants of the successful LTC6363 amplifier. The new offerings are available in fixed gains of 0.5, 1 and 2 V/V which provide flexibility when scaling inputs to the full range of ADCs.