Freescale Semiconductor LDMOS power transistor
17 January, 2011 byFreescale Semiconductor has introduced what it claims is the first 50 V, 300 W LDMOS power transistor that delivers its full rated gain and power even after withstanding a load mismatch of 65:1 VSWR across all phase angles.
austriamicrosystems AS3676 lighting management unit
16 September, 2010 byaustriamicrosystems has announced the AS3676, an integrated lighting management unit with ambient light sensing and dynamic luminance scaling.
Diodes 74LVC1Gxx and 74LVCE1Gxx single-gate logic series
16 September, 2010 byDiodes has released its first family of single-gate logic products. Built on a 5 V CMOS process, the 74LVC1Gxx series provides users with the eight most popular standard logic functions in SOT25 and SOT353 package options and the 74LVCE1Gxx series offers enhanced performance versions of these same functions.
austriamicrosystems AS3900 27 low-power transceiver
16 September, 2010 byaustriamicrosystems has introduced the AS3900 27 MHz FSK (frequency shift keying) low-power transceiver.
Maxim MAX8930 integrated power-management IC
06 September, 2010 byMaxim has released the MAX8930, an integrated power-management IC for mobile phone displays.
Avnet power MOSFETs
06 September, 2010 byThe power MOSFETs featuring IR’s latest silicon technology are designed for switching applications including DC to DC converters for network and telecom equipment, AC-DC SMPS and motor drive switches.
Linear Technology TimerBlox power devices
06 September, 2010 byLinear Technology has announced the TimerBlox family, a set of simple, small, accurate and low power devices for five commonly used timing functions: voltage-controlled oscillator, low frequency oscillator, pulse width modulated oscillator, monostable pulse generator (one-shot) and delay.
Maxim MAX14548E/MAX14548AE bidirectional level translators
06 September, 2010 byMaxim has released the MAX14548E/MAX14548AE, ±15 kV ESD-protected, 16-channel, bidirectional level translators.
Maxim MAX4805 and MAX4805A octal buffers
06 September, 2010 byMaxim has introduced the MAX4805 and MAX4805A octal high-voltage-protected buffers optimised for use with piezoelectric transducers and capacitive micromachined ultrasound transducers.
Maxim MAX31C80/MAX31D80 spread-spectrum generators
06 September, 2010Maxim has introduced the MAX31C80/MAX31D80 spread-spectrum generators that provide EMI peak-noise reduction.
Wolfson Microelectronics WM2002 stereo headphone driver
13 August, 2010 byWolfson Microelectronics has introduced the WM2002 stereo headphone driver for what is claimed as the world’s first digital ambient noise-cancelling application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC).
iBase ET830 Atom-based Nano ETX computer-on-module
19 July, 2010 byThe ET830 Atom-based Nano ETX computer-on-module from iBase has been released.
Maxim 1.0625 to 11.3 Gbps transmit/receive chipset
02 July, 2010 byMaxim has introduced a 1.0625 to 11.3 Gbps transmit/receive solution composed of the MAX3946 laser driver with impedance-mismatch tolerance and the MAX3945 dual-path limiting amplifier.
Measuring chip temperature without additional sensors
16 June, 2010 by Dr Uwe Scheuermann, manager product reliability, SemikronStress induced by thermal cycles causes power electronic systems to have a finite service life. To estimate this service lifetime, accurate information on the thermal profile in the chips under the given operating conditions is required.
Texas Instruments coin cell demo for Bluetooth low-energy standard
10 February, 2010 byTexas Instruments has released the claimed world’s first coin cell demo for the Bluetooth low-energy open standard based on the company’s upcoming CC2540 singlemode system-on-chip.
