Technology Articles

2016-05 Connectors Silicon Labs

[May 14 2016] Silicon Labs, a leading provider of energy-efficient microcontroller (MCU) solutions for the Internet of Things (IoT), has announced the latest addition to its EFM8 8-bit MCU portfolio, designed to meet the demand for ultra-low power, small size packages and capacitive touch sensing in IoT applications. The new EFM8SB1 Sleepy Bee MCU is the industry's smallest MCU and supports a 1.78mm×1.66mm waf ...

2016-05 Sensors Microsemi

[May 13 2016] Microsemi Corporation, a leading provider of differentiated semiconductor technology solutions in terms of power, safety, reliability and performance, announced the introduction of the LX3301A, the first device in a new family of sensor interface integrated circuits (ics) based on inductive sensing technology. It is the first induction sensor IC product on the market to utilize linear variable di ...

2016-05 Semiconductors Cypress Semiconductor

[May 12 2016] Cypress Semiconductor has introduced a high-throughput, low-power SuperSpeed USB controller that converts Gigabit Ethernet (GigE) data to USB 3.0 data. This EZ-USB® GX3™ controller application is targeted at laptops with ultra-thin USB Type-C ports and without bulky Ethernet ports. GX3 provides driver support for all major operating systems, including Windows, MacOS, Linux, Android and Chrom, and ...

2016-05 Power Microchip Technology

[May 11 2016] Microchip Technology, the world's leading provider of integrated microcontroller, mixed-signal, emulator and flash memory proprietary solutions, introduces a new 32-bit PIC32MX1/2 microcontroller (MCU) family featuring 256 KB of high-capacity flash configuration and 16 KB of RAM in a compact package. As a popular addition to the MCU family, the new device provides flexibility for low-cost applica ...

2016-05 Power Diodes Incorporated

[May 10 2016] Diodes Incorporated's new 600V 8A ultra-high speed rectifier, the DSR8F600, is specially designed for use in boost diodes with power factor correction and continuous on-mode. The target market is to provide switching power supplies with high output of over 75W in end devices such as flat panel TVS, servers and telecommunications systems to meet new and higher energy efficiency standards in Europe ...

2016-05 Connectors Linear Technology/Analog Devices

[May 9 2016] Linear Technology Corporation introduces the dual output synchronous buck DC/DC controller LTC3887-1 with an I2C-based PMBus interface for digital power system management. Unlike the previously introduced LTC3887, the LTC3887-1 provides a three-state PWM signal, which allows the use of DrMOS, power modules, or similar power level components. The LTC3887-1's enhanced feature set includes a 70ms po ...

2016-05 Connectors Texas Instruments

[May 8 2016] Texas Instruments has introduced the industry's first 20A and 30A synchronous DC/DC buck converters. This converter synchronizes noise and EMI/EMC frequency reduction, and a power management bus (PMBus) interface for Adaptive voltage scaling (AVS). TI's SWIFT 20A TPS544B25 and 30A TPS544C25 converters incorporate MOSFETs and are specifically packaged in a small PowerStack square flat leadless (QF ...

2016-05 Connectors Linear Technology/Analog Devices

[May 7 2016] Linear Technology Corporation introduces a double-balanced mixer, the LTC5549, that operates as both an up-converter and a down-converter with a very wide RF frequency range of 2GHz to 14GHz. The LTC5549 delivers excellent 24.4dBm IIP3 high linearity at 9GHz. The device incorporates an LO buffer that requires only a 0dBm drive level and can be used to enable high-efficiency microwave transmitter ...

2016-05 Power Silicon Labs

[May 6 2016] Silicon Labs, a leading provider of high-performance clock solutions for Internet infrastructure applications, announced the industry's highest performing and cost-effective packet-switched network synchronous clock IC. The new Si5348 clock IC is a highly integrated, standards-compliant solution with the best jitter performance, the smallest size in the industry and the lowest power consumption. ...

2016-05 Power Microsemi

[May 5 2016] Microsemi Corporation releases for defense, intelligence, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and other defense-related Network Area Storage (NAS) applications And Serial Advanced Technology attached (SATA) solid-state drives (SSDS) with the highest level of security and capacity. As the use of high-resolution sensors increases, the way data is stored is also changing, driving the need for higher-densi ...

2016-05 Power ECS

[May 4 2016] EPC2106, a single-chip half-bridge enhanced gallium nitride transistor, has been announced by EPC2106. By integrating two eGaN® power field effect transistors into one integrated circuit, mutual inductance and the required gap space between the devices on the PCB can be removed, thereby increasing efficiency (especially at higher frequencies) and increasing power density while reducing the assemb ...

2016-05 Connectors Cypress Semiconductor

[May 3 2016] Cypress Semiconductor Corporation has introduced a 1Mb non-volatile static random access memory (nvSRAM) with four serial peripheral interfaces (SPIs). The new nvSRAM's four SPI interfaces allow the device to surpass the data throughput of larger parallel interface devices at a smaller size. The nvSRAM can preserve high-throughput data without battery in the event of a power failure for RAID stor ...