Technology Articles

2017-03 Power Maxim Integrated

[mar 21 2017] Maxim introduces the MAX17222nanoPower boost with the industry's highest efficiency and minimum static current (IQ) of 300nA to help wearable and consumer IoT designs achieve maximum battery life with minimum area. The MAX17222 is a boost regulator with input voltage range 0.4V-5.5V, output voltage range 1.8V-5V and input current limit of 500mA, which reduces the scheme area by up to 50% compared ...

2017-03 Sensors Bosch Sensortec

[mar 20 2017] "The Internet of Things is booming at an incredible pace, and Bosch Sensortec is also driving innovation." Stefan Finkbeiner, CEO of Bosch Sensortec, said: "The focus is not only on the way devices communicate or sense their surroundings, but increasingly on the way technology interacts with humans. As an amazing new solution, the laser projection virtual interface opens up a world we have never ...

2017-03 Power Panasonic

[mar 20 2017] Pasternack, Inc., an industry-leading supplier of RF, microwave and millimeter wave products, has announced six new IQ mixers that operate in the radio frequency (RF) and local oscillator (LO) bands from 4GHz to 38GHz with synchronous and orthogonal intermediate frequency (IF) bandwidths from DC to 4.5GHz. Typical uses for these mixers include point-to-point and point-to-multipoint radios, very s ...

2017-03 Power Analog Devices

[mar 19 2017] Analog Devices announced the launch of the next generation of accelerometers designed for long-term monitoring of the physical condition of high-value assets. The ADXL372 Micro-Power large-range MEMS accelerometer has extremely low power consumption and is targeted for Internet of Things (IoT) solution applications, avoiding situations where the function, safety or reliability of the device is ad ...

2017-03 Power Khatod

[mar 18 2017] KLA-Tencor introduces four innovative measurement systems for the development and mass production of integrated circuit (IC) devices below 10 nanometers (sub-10nm) : The Archer 600 Stack measurement system, WaferSight PWG2 pattern chip geometry measurement system, SpectraShape 10K Optical Critical Dimension (CD) measurement system and SensArray HighTemp 4mm real-time temperature measurement syste ...

2017-03 Connectors United Chemi-Con

[mar 16 2017] U-blox, a global leader in wireless and positioning modules and chips, announced the launch of two new Wi-Fi modules for the industrial market. NINA-W131 and NINA-W132 are ultra-low power Wi-Fi modules that support the 2.4GHz ISM band 802.11b /g/n standard. They are the first two variants of the new NINA-W1 module family. Developed with the concept of security and reduced time-to-market, the NINA ...

2017-03 Semiconductors Cypress Semiconductor

[mar 15 2017] Cypress Semiconductor Corporation announced that its leading dual-band 802.11ac combination solution is now in production, enabling high-speed Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity using advanced algorithms for coexistence of Bluetooth and Wi-Fi. The solution has been adopted in the new Nintendo Switch to support online gaming and communication with the innovative Joy-Con controller. The Nintendo Swit ...

2017-03 Power STMicroelectronics

[mar 14 2017] STMicroelectronics, a leading global supplier of semiconductors across multiple electronic applications, announced the addition of a powerful plug and play solution to its STSAFE family of security units, providing advanced security protection for Sigfox low-power wide-area Internet of Things (LPWAN) devices. The new STSAFE-A1SX Secure Unit (SE) is based on tamper-proof Common Criteria EAL5+ cert ...

2017-03 Power STMicroelectronics

[mar 13 2017] STMicroelectronics, the world's leading semiconductor supplier and the world's top MEMS supplier across multiple electronic applications, and DSP Group, the world's leading provider of converged communication wireless chipset solutions, and the world's largest developer of voice interfaces and keyword detection algorithms Sensory Co., LTD., jointly announced the technical details of the high effi ...

2017-03 Connectors Maxim Integrated

[mar 12 2017] Maxim Integrated introduces the MAX30034, a new defibrillator protection device that can be used in a wide range of medical devices such as defibrillators, ECG diagnostics and monitoring to protect them from defibrillation pulses and electrostatic discharge (ESD). Compared to existing processing methods and devices, the device can simplify design, save more than 75% of space, reduce the material ...

2017-03 Passive Components Littelfuse

[mar 11 2017] Littelfuse announced the launch of the smallest (5.0×5.0×4.2 mm) square gas discharge tube (GDT) on the market today, with a surge capacity of 5kA and an off-state capacitance of ≤0.7pF. The SH series GDT is designed to provide a high level of protection against fast-rising transients caused by lightning interference. Its low off-state capacitance can meet the requirements of high bandwidth appli ...

2017-03 Power WIMA

[mar 10 2017] Wiwynn Corporation, a leading provider of cloud infrastructure and data center rack solutions for high-quality computing and storage products, previewed its 48V server platform M1 at the OCP Summit, which will be presented at Booth B3. The server platform design will not only meet the growing demand for 48V servers and reduce the total cost of ownership (TCO), but also meet the increasing power n ...