Technology Articles

2015-03 Power Infineon Technologies

[mar 27 2015] Infineon Technologies introduces the LITIX™ Basic series of LED drivers for low - and medium-power automotive exterior lighting applications. This highly integrated family of LED drivers reduces system complexity and improves the reliability of steering, taillight, parking and reverse LED lights. With fewer parts and more functionality than vertical designs, the LITIX Basic series enables automak ...

2015-03 Power Silicon Labs

[mar 26 2015] SiliconLabs has announced a new family of 32-bit wireless MCUS designed to simplify the development of a wide range of IoT connected applications. With optimal energy efficiency and sub-GHzRF performance, the new EZR32 wireless MCU meets the needs of all applications for longer battery life, increased wireless transmission distance, small form factor and flexibility, and supports proprietary prot ...

2015-03 Semiconductors Cypress Semiconductor

[mar 25 2015] Cypress Semiconductor Corporation announced the launch of a new product family in the PSoC 4 programmable system-on-chip architecture. The new PSoC 4 M Series extends the award-winning PSoC 4 architecture with additional programmable analog and digital modules, 128KB of flash memory, a direct memory access controller, two control local Area Network (CAN) interfaces, and 55 general-purpose I/O and ...

2015-03 Passive Components Schurter

[mar 24 2015] SCHURTER's popular power input modules, the KFA series, are now equipped with an additional grounding choke to suppress high-frequency interference caused by the grounding loop of the grounding wire. In addition, the new grounding wire choke improves the high frequency asymmetric attenuation in the medical filter model. The KFA series' existing common mode chokes with phase and neutral lines, as ...

2015-03 Semiconductors C&K

[mar 23 2015] C&K Components has introduced the new CCM01 MK5 series of small size smart card connectors. The range complies with Europay, MasterCard, Visa (EMV) and Payment card industry (PCI) standards and is perfect for point-of-sale (POS), mobile point-of-sale (mPOS), transaction and identification services. The CCM01 MK5 series smart card connector features a sealed card detection switch and a stable arch ...

2015-03 Connectors TDK

[mar 22 2015] TDK Group has launched EPCOS Buffer Capacitor Finder - an innovative online tool that helps users simplify and speed up the search for suitable buffer capacitors to protect IGBT modules from voltage spikes. With the buffer capacitor finder, users simply enter the manufacturer's IGBT code number at the search mask, and the online tool's integrated database covering the integrated data of more than ...

2015-03 Power Microchip Technology

[mar 21 2015] Microchip Technology announced the release of its new PIC16(L)F1769 series 8-bit PIC microcontroller (MCU) products. The series is the first PIC MCU to offer up to two independent closed-loop channels. This is achieved through the addition of a programmable ramp generator (PRG) that automatically realizes slope and compensates for slope, increasing the stability and efficiency of hybrid power con ...

2015-03 Power Xilinx

[mar 20 2015] Xilinx and BEEcube announced the launch of the world's first millimeter Wave (mmWave) prototyping platform solution to support innovative development of 5G applications. Xylinx's new 256QAM 500MHz mmWave modem IP, combined with the BEEcube BEE7 baseband platform, provides a complete out-of-the-box solution to meet the needs of the 60GHz backrange market, enabling designers to immediately launch i ...

2015-03 Sensors Allegro MicroSystems, LLC

[mar 19 2015] Allegro MicroSystems introduces a new Hall effect speed and direction sensor IC with hysteresis detection. The A1232 is an ultra-sensitive temperature-stabilized magnetic induction device that is ideal for ring-shaped speed and direction sensing systems in harsh automotive and industrial applications. The A1232 is the first of its kind and has the ability to detect when it is in the hysteresis ba ...

2015-03 Connectors STMicroelectronics

[mar 18 2015] Experience the speed and convenience of STMCube software development on STMicroelectronics STM32 microcontrollers. The STMCube development tool is available to support all current production STM32 microcontrollers. The STM32Cube makes it easier for designers to get started, thereby speeding up STM32 microcontroller application development and simplifying cross-system code migration. From ultra-lo ...

2015-03 Connectors STMicroelectronics

[mar 17 2015] STMicroelectronics has fully upgraded the capabilities of the STM32F0 Value series ARM® Cortex®-M0 microcontrollers. In order to increase support for cost-sensitive applications such as consumer electronics, smart meters, communication gateways and the Internet of Things, the new products add USB interfaces and increase flash memory capacity. A total of six new products were introduced, targeting ...

2015-03 Connectors Linear Technology/Analog Devices

[mar 16 2015] Linear Technology Corporation introduces the LTC6950, a low-phase noise integer N synthesizer core with an ultra-low jitter clock distribution output circuit. The LTC6950 is ideal for generating and distributing low-jitter signals essential for high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) clock data converters. When digitizing or synthesizing high analog frequencies, keeping the data converter clock jitter l ...