PRODUCT SHOWCASE
Freeview Plus TV upgrade
Freeview Australia, a consortium
of free-to-air TV stations, has delivered the new Freeview Plus service
to more than 2.2 million Freeview
Plus-enabled TVs across Australia.
Freeview Plus is designed to make
content discovery easier than ever before, offering a simplified user experience, additional features and a fresh
look and feel.
Freeview Plus is a hybrid digital
television service that provides access to catch-up free-to-air programming on TVs and led the world when
it launched in 2014, winning local
and international accolades for its
ground-breaking technology and user
interface.
There are currently around 2.2 million TV receivers in Australia that are
Freeview Plus-enabled with an 85%
Smartphone
Temperature Datalogger
connection rate.
Key to the upgrade has been the implementation of world’s best practice
interface design which now features
image-based browsing and the introduction of the My TV function.
My TV presents the viewer with image-based carousels including personalised recommendations and viewers’
favourites along with live TV, catch up
and genre-based browsing.
Other Freeview Plus upgrade features include an easy-to-use guide
with backwards navigation to catch-up
content and a simplified Mini Guide
for quick program discovery.
For more information, visit www.
freeview.com.au or view the how-to
video at siliconchip.com.au/l/aaem
New record for LONGi 60-cell Solar Module: 325.6W
LONGi Solar received a test report showing its latest 60 cell Hi-MO1
module achieved a power output of 325.6W under standard testing
conditions (STC) with the conversion efficiency reaching 19.91%.
The module incorporates monocrystalline PERC cells based on
mass production technology with a 21.9% conversion efficiency. The
test was completed at the
Contact:
TUV Rheinland Shanghai
LERRI Solar Technology Co Ltd
Lab with the open-circuit
201, Building 8 Sandhill Plaza, Lane 2290, Zuvoltage and short-circuit chongzhi Rd, Pudong, Shanghai, China
current reaching 40.79V and Tel: (0011) 86 021 6104 7322
10.160A respectively.
Website: http://en.longi-solar.com
Rail-to-rail op amp with inbuilt EMI protection
EMI – electromagnetic interference – is the
bane of engineers and circuit designers
everywhere.
Among a
host of problems, EMI
causes DC errors, increased current
consumption and unwanted tones.
Now Microchip have introduced the
MCP6411, a single, general purpose
op amp offering integrated EMI protection and rail-to-rail input/output
over the 1.7 to 5.5V operating range.
This amplifier has a typical GBWP of
1 MHz, with typical quiescent current
of 50µA. The MCP6411 is available in
SC-70 and SOT-23 packages.
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Integrated EMI protection, when
used with proper circuit/PCB design
techniques, eliminates external components that increase system cost, design complexity and footprint.
Many applications could benefit
from integrated EMI protection, including medical instrumentation, automotive electronics, data acquisition
equipment, battery powered portable
systems, sensor amplification and
conditioning and analog active filters.
You can find the MCP6411 data
sheet at siliconchip.com.au/l/aael
Contact:
Microchip Technology Inc
Unit 32, 41 Rawson St, Epping NSW 2121
Tel: (02)9868 6733 Fax: (02) 9868 6755
Website: www.microchipdirect.com
The new TagTemp-S,
from Novus Automation, is a cost-effective data logger recommended for use in
warehouse and
transportation
applications.
It is an IP65
rated sealed
unit with a
temperature
range of -30 to 60°C and can operate for
2 years at a 5-minute acquisition interval.
It can store up to 4020 readings.
The stored data is transferred through
a smartphone equipped with an embedded NFC interface or by an NFC interface
connected to a computer through a USB
port (both not included).
The LogChart-NFC smartphone app
allows the user to configure the logger and
view and graph the temperature history.
The NOVUS Cloud Portal is offered as an
optional service to TagTemp-NFC users.
The LogChart-NFC Android app can be
configured to send out temperature recordings read from TagTemp-NFC devices
straight to
the internet portal.
Once
stored on
NOVUS
Cloud,
records
can be
checked
from any
internet
browser.
Prices
start at
$59.00
+GST
each.
Contact:
Ocean Controls
PO Box 2191, Seaford BC, VIC 3198
Tel: (03) 9782 5882 Fax: (03) 9782 5517
Website: www.oceancontrols.com.au
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