Technology Articles

2017-08 Passive Components KEMET

[Aug 7 2017] KEMET announced the expansion of its surface-mount high-voltage multilayer ceramic capacitor portfolio by adding the EIA 0603 housing size (1608 metric) with C0G temperature characteristics. These devices offer the smallest sizes in their class, allowing designers to continue to meet the trend toward miniaturization in their designs while still maintaining operating voltages up to 1000VDC. This a ...

2017-08 Power Power Integrations

[Aug 6 2017] Casambi Technologies OY, the world leader in high efficiency and high reliability LED driver ics, has today jointly released a new reference design (DER-612). This is a constant voltage (CV), constant current (CC) 12 W isolated flyback power supply with power factor correction for smart lighting applications. The 3.3V power supply in the design powers the Casambi CBM-001 Bluetooth® wireless modul ...

2017-08 Connectors Microchip Technology

[Aug 5 2017] Microchip Technology announced the launch of the SAM D5x and SAM E5x single-chip microcomputer (MCU) families. These new 32-bit MCU families offer a wide range of connectivity interfaces with robust performance and reliable hardware-based security features for a wide range of applications. The SAM D5/E5 microcontroller combines the performance of an ARM Cortex-M4 processor with a floating-point u ...

2017-08 Passive Components Vishay

[Aug 4 2017] Vishay Intertechnology has announced the introduction of new JEDEC MO-137 variation AB and AE compliant 16pin and 24pin versions, expanding its OSOP series of surface-mount dual inline thin film network resistors in a 25mil pin-pitch QSOP package. Vishay Dale thin film network resistors are available in isolated, shared end-PIN and custom circuitry with resistance relative tolerances of ±0.025% a ...

2017-08 Connectors Texas Instruments

[Aug 3 2017] Texas Instruments introduces a pair of highly flexible single-chip buck-boost battery charging controllers for 1 to 4 (1S to 4S) designs. The BQ25703A and BQ25700A Synchronous charging controllers provide efficient charging of end devices such as laptops, tablets, mobile power supplies, drones and smart home applications via USB Type-C and other USB ports. Today, more and more electronic products ...

2017-08 Semiconductors Cypress Semiconductor

[Aug 2 2017] Cypress Semiconductor Corporation announced that DENSO, a global automotive parts and systems supplier, has adopted the Cypress Traveo automotive MCU family and FL-S Serial NOR flash memory to provide advanced graphics display capabilities for the 2017 Toyota Camry vehicle dashboard. DENSO's dashboard features the industry's first Traveo dashboard MCU with 3D display capability, based on an ARM® ...

2017-08 Power Infineon Technologies

[Aug 1 2017] Automakers are looking to in-vehicle electronic systems to dramatically improve energy efficiency in the smallest possible space. Infineon Technologies is supporting this development with its new power IC manufacturing technology, SMART7. The technology was developed specifically for automotive applications, such as body control modules or power distribution centers. The SMART7 power IC drives, d ...

2017-07 Passive Components Littelfuse

[Jul 31 2017] Littelfuse, the global leader in circuit protection, announced the Schottky Barrier rectifier family. The product family performs better than traditional switching diodes in commercial, industrial and automotive applications. The DST series Schottky barrier rectifiers combine ultra-low forward voltage drop, high current handling capability, high junction temperature capability and low leakage per ...

2017-07 Connectors Silicon Labs

[Jul 30 2017] Silicon Labs has expanded its energy-efficient industrial-grade microcontroller (MCU)EFM32 Gecko portfolio to deliver higher performance, more features and lower power consumption. The new EFM32GG11 Giant Gecko MCU family offers the most advanced feature set in the low-power MCU market for applications such as smart meters, asset tracking, industrial/building automation, wearables and personal he ...

2017-07 Power Rubycon

[Jul 29 2017] Rohde & Schwarz announces ZNLE, a vector network analyzer that meets customer testing requirements for antennas, attenuators, filters and PCBS. The meter itself weighs only 6Kg and has a length and width of 408 mm x 235 mm, which can save customers about 2/3 of the workbench space compared to the same class of vector network analyzer. In addition to saving space for customers, the two-port vector ...

2017-07 Power Canon

[Jul 28 2017] Cadence Corporation announced the launch of the Cadence Tensilica HiFi 3z DSP IP core designed for system-on-a-chip (SoC) applications in the latest mobile and home entertainment applications. Applications include smartphones, augmented reality (AR)/ 3D glasses, digital TVS and set-top boxes (STBS), among others. Compared to the previous generation HiFi 3 DSP, which dominated the industry's audio ...

2017-07 Connectors FLIR Lepton

[Jul 27 2017] With the continuous progress of society, people's demand for electricity is increasing. With the hardware equipment of power plants becoming more and more modern, the healthy operation of electrical equipment as the core hardware equipment of power plants is related to the normal operation of the economy of the entire power consumption region. In order to detect hidden dangers early, improve the ...