Technology Articles

2012-02 Semiconductors Lattice Semiconductor Corporation

[feb 5 2012] Lattice Semiconductor Corporation announced the availability of low-power, high-speed, and mini-package devices added to the highly successful LatticeECP3™FPGA family. The new value-added devices are ideal for power - and space-constrained professional cameras, surveillance cameras, medical imaging, video communications, and small-size wired and wireless applications. LatticeECP3 low-power FPGas ...

2012-02 Connectors Silicon Labs

[feb 4 2012] Silicon Laboratories announced the expansion of its PCI Express (PCIe) clock generator and clock buffer portfolio to provide the industry's broadest range of clock solutions to meet the stringent requirements of the PCIe Gen 1/2/3 standard. Silicon Labs' expanded PCIe timing portfolio includes the existing Si5214x clock generator and Si5315x clock buffer for power - and cost-sensitive PCIe applic ...

2012-02 Semiconductors Renesas Electronics America

[feb 3 2012] Intersil Corporation announced the introduction of the ISL28407, ISL28417 and ISL28408 40V low power, high ESD protection class amplifiers with superior DC accuracy and noise performance, further expanding its portfolio of precision amplifiers. These new four-channel amplifiers are ideal for 12-bit to 24-bit process control, instrumentation and data acquisition applications. Based on Intersil's P ...

2012-02 Power Molex

[feb 2 2012] Molex announced that its Stac64 Stackable Connection System has been successfully approved by major automotive original equipment manufacturers from Germany, France and Japan. OEM) the most stringent specification verification. In addition, a new patent has been issued for the Stac64 design. Selvan Wilhelm, Global Product Manager at Molex, said: "Since the launch of the Stac64 product line two ye ...

2012-02 Connectors Silicon Labs

[feb 1 2012] Silicon Labs announced the expansion of its PCI Express (PCIe) clock generator and clock buffer portfolio to provide the industry's broadest range of clock solutions to meet the stringent requirements of the PCIe Gen 1/2/3 standard. Silicon Labs' expanded PCIe timing portfolio includes the existing Si5214x clock generator and Si5315x clock buffer for power - and cost-sensitive PCIe applications. ...

2012-01 Semiconductors Cypress Semiconductor

[gen 31 2012] Cypress Semiconductor announced a breakthrough feature for its Gen4 TrueTouch touch screen controller that significantly improves system performance at no additional cost. Cypress has now developed a new proprietary technology based on the patent-pending Gen4 high voltage Tx driver. Tx-Boost™ extends Gen4's performance leadership by tripledsignal-to-noise ratio (SNR) without the need for performa ...

2012-01 Semiconductors Microsemi

[gen 30 2012] Microsemi Corporation has announced the world's first single-chip, standardized Synchronous Ethernet (SyncE) solution that enables synchronous Ethernet (SyncE) transmission over Optical Transport network (OTN) channels without the need for additional frequency conversion phase locked loops (PLL). The new ZL30153 and ZL30154 clock devices support Ethernet clock frequencies and all OTN clock freque ...

2012-01 Connectors IRTouch Systems

[gen 29 2012] International Rectifier Corporation (IR) introduces the AUIR0815S, an automotive IC with A high output current of more than 10 A, capable of driving large IGBTs and MOSFETs at the inverter level. Suitable for power systems in hybrid and electric vehicles. The AUIR0815S 'ultra-low output impedance and low power losses allow it to operate in harsh and high-temperature environments. Typical output r ...

2012-01 Power Xilinx

[gen 28 2012] Xilinx announced the launch of its first targeted design platforms to accelerate the development and integration capabilities of 28nm 7-series FPGA systems. Xilinx's targeted design platform approach to FPGA system design and integration offers the industry's most comprehensive development kit, including development boards, ISE design kit tools, IP cores, reference designs, and FPGA sandwich card ...

2012-01 Connectors Linear Technology/Analog Devices

[gen 27 2012] Linear Technology Corporation introduces the LTC5585, an ultra-wideband wide direct conversion I/Q demodulator with superior linear performance (IIP3 = 25.7dBm, IIP2 = 60dBm at 1.95GHz). The LTC5585 delivers more than 530MHz of baseband output demodulation bandwidth to meet the bandwidth needs of next-generation broadband LTE multimode receivers and digital predistortion (DPD) receivers. I/Q demo ...

2012-01 Semiconductors Infineon Technologies

[gen 26 2012] Infineon Technologies AG has introduced an innovative packaging technology that delivers greater current tolerance and efficiency for demanding automotive electronics applications such as pure electric and hybrid vehicles. The new TO package complies with the JEDEC standard H-PSOF (heat-dissipating plastic small shape flat lead). The first products to be introduced in the H-PSOF package technolog ...

2012-01 Power Cirrus Logic Inc.

[gen 25 2012] Cirrus Logic announced the introduction of the CS5844/80/90 Analog Front End (AFE) IC product line with the industry's highest electrical energy measurement accuracy, bringing designers of single-phase and multiphase utility meters and smart energy products an outstanding combination of proven electrical energy calculation, flexibility, performance and low cost. According to IMS, a research firm, ...