Technology Articles

2017-07 Passive Components Littelfuse

[lug 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

[lug 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

[lug 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

[lug 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

[lug 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 ...

2017-07 Power TechNexion

[lug 26 2017] Tektronech Technologies has expanded its PAM4 test solution line to provide a full range of 400G electrical interface conformance testing for the OIF-CEI-56G VSR/MR/LR PAM4 standard specification. The latest 400G-TXE software package runs on Tektronix's high-performance DPO70000SX real-time oscilloscope, a product family that includes multiple models and offers bandwidth up to 70 GHz. The new tur ...

2017-07 Semiconductors Cypress Semiconductor

[lug 25 2017] Socionext, a leader in soc-based image solutions, today announced the launch of a 360° panoramic camera design solution with a built-in Milbeaut family of image signal processors. Socionext's product portfolio includes two products designed to meet the growing demand for 360° camera applications. The semi-professional model is based on the company's SC2000 high-performance processor and features ...

2017-07 Semiconductors Rohm Semiconductor

[lug 24 2017] In recent years, the trend of energy saving has been accelerating, and the standards for energy saving of home appliances have been revised continuously. Compared with the traditional focus on energy saving at the start of equipment with larger power loads and under rated conditions, the trend of more energy saving at normal operation with smaller loads has been rising in recent years. It is said ...

2017-07 Sensors ams

[lug 23 2017] Ams AG has announced the launch of the first true color sensor IC based on the XYZ tri-stimulus, the TCS3430. The new sensors take up little space and are suitable for consumer electronics such as laptops, smartphones and tablets. The industry standard in the color field is the CIE1931 "Standard Observer" XYZ three-stimulus model. The digitized output of the TCS3430 is a proportional output of th ...

2017-07 Passive Components Littelfuse

[lug 22 2017] Littelfuse has introduced the 40A series of standard high temperature silicon controlled rectifier (SCR) thyristors suitable for use as switches in rectifier and phase control applications, such as voltage regulators, heating and motor speed control. The new SJxx40x series is Littelfuse's first SCR thyristor capable of handling 600V, 40Arms and junction temperatures up to 150°C. The SJxx40x serie ...

2017-07 Power Silicon Labs

[lug 21 2017] To help developers simplify the design of Internet of Things (IoT) mesh-networked devices and speed time to market, Silicon Labs has introduced a complete suite of software and hardware that supports the latest Bluetooth mesh networking specifications. The latest Bluetooth mesh networking solutions benefit from Silicon Labs' proven mesh networking expertise, including development tools, software ...

2017-07 Power United Chemi-Con

[lug 21 2017] U-blox, a global leader in wireless and positioning modules and chips, announced that it has started laboratory and field testing on a new narrowband IoT(NB-IoT or Cat NB1) network in Brazil with key players in the IoT ecosystem, Huawei, Vivo, CAS Tecnologia and PinMyPet. The first test has been conducted since the first quarter of 2017 and will initially focus on the scale and tracking applicati ...