Technology Articles

2012-04 Power Cirrus Logic Inc.

[Apr 8 2012] Cirrus Logic has expanded its Apex Precision Power amplifier portfolio with the introduction of a new dual-channel booster amplifier product, the PB63. With a swing rate of 1,000 V/µs and a power bandwidth of 1 MHz, the PB63 can triple the performance of power amplifiers compared to the company's previous power amplifier products that represent the industry benchmark. By combining the highly cost ...

2012-04 Power Renesas Electronics America

[Apr 7 2012] Renesas Electronics, in collaboration with its power line partner Ariane Controls and its smart energy partner Grid2Home, announced the launch of an SE-CPM evaluation and development platform for communication between electric vehicles (EVs) and electric vehicle supply devices (EVSE). The platform is based on the Renesas V850 series microcontroller (MCU), the most widely used microcontroller in t ...

2012-04 Semiconductors NXP

[Apr 6 2012] Increasing in-vehicle electronics applications are driving the demand for higher power supply voltages in the automotive industry, and NXP Semiconductor today announced the introduction of a new FlexRay transceiver family to support the adoption of 48V power supply voltages in future vehicle models. The new 48V FlexRay product complements the original 48V CAN transceiver family. At the Internatio ...

2012-04 Power Microchip Technology

[Apr 5 2012] Microchip Technology announced the introduction of a new line of simplified C compilers, MPLAB XC, to provide optimal execution speed and code size for all more than 900 PIC MCU and dsPIC Digital Signal Controllers (DSC). The MPLAB XC8, XC16, and XC32 compilers reduce design development complexity for 8 -, 16 -, and 32-bit designers, and are available in three cost-effective optimization levels - ...

2012-04 Semiconductors NXP

[Apr 4 2012] NXP Semiconductors and HID Global announce a partnership to launch NFC solutions that support today's universal mobile access control systems. Based on existing contactless standards, NFC enables secure and convenient information exchange between devices over short distances, making it ideal for simple operation in mobile access control applications. Together, HID Global and NXP created the card ...

2012-04 Semiconductors Cypress Semiconductor

[Apr 3 2012] Cypress Semiconductor Corporation has announced that the EZ-USB® FX3 USB 3.0 controller has been selected for the Microsoft SuperMUTT USB Test Tool. SuperMUTT works with almost any host drive that supports USB 3.0 to detect USB compatibility with Microsoft's upcoming Windows 8. Microsoft SuperMUTT requires a highly flexible USB controller that can connect to any platform (such as Cypress's EZ-USB ...

2012-04 Connectors Cirrus Logic Inc.

[Apr 2 2012] Cirrus Logic has announced the launch of digital LED controllers, officially entering the emerging high-growth LED lighting market. The LED controller can directly solve the dimming compatibility problem, which is also a major barrier to consumer adoption of LED bulbs. The CS161X series controllers are powered by Cirrus Logic's new digital TruDim™ technology and have been proven to be nearly 100% ...

2012-04 Connectors Analog Devices

[Apr 1 2012] Analog Devices introduces a line of dual-core, 1GHz Blackfin processors. The ADSP-BF608 and ADSP-BF609 are optimized for embedded vision applications and both feature a high-performance video analysis accelerator called the Pipeline Vision Processor (PVP). PVP consists of a configurable set of processing modules designed to accelerate up to five parallel image algorithms for extremely high analys ...

2012-03 Semiconductors ON Semiconductor

[Mar 31 2012] ON Semiconductor, the premier provider of high-performance silicon solutions for energy-efficient electronics, introduces two new multichannel differentially switched integrated circuits (ics) in single-pole double-throw (SPDT) switching configurations. For high frequency signals such as PCI Express 3.0 and DisplayPort 1.2 input/output (I/O) signals, target applications include notebooks, desktop ...

2012-03 Connectors Microchip Technology

[Mar 30 2012] Microchip Technology announced at the DESIGN West Conference in SAN Jose, USA, that it has expanded its 8-bit PIC16F(LF)178X enhanced mid-core single-chip microcomputer (MCU) family to incorporate a variety of advanced analog and integrated communication peripherals. Such as on-chip 12-bit analog-to-digital converters (ADCs), 8-bit analog-to-digital converters (Dacs), operational amplifiers and h ...

2012-03 Power Molex

[Mar 29 2012] Molex Corporation announced the launch of two series of push-pull 6-way and 8-way micro-SIM card sockets developed specifically for portable communication devices such as ultra-thin smartphones, tablets, GSM/UMTS modems and PC cards. The height of the Molex78727 series socket is 1.40mm with a detection switch; The 78646 series has a height of 1.45 mm without a detection switch. An outstanding fea ...

2012-03 Sensors STMicroelectronics

[Mar 28 2012] STMicroelectronics presented the world's most accurate indoor location application for mobile phones at the just concluded Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The demonstrated smartphone incorporates CSR's cutting-edge SiRFusionTM positioning technology and ST's optimized MEMS (Micro-electro-mechanical System) inertial measurement unit. This demonstration proves that positioning accuracy can be a ...