Automotive Systems-on-Chip capable of delivering more than 25,000 DMIPS
March 26, 2013 10:20 am | Renesas | Product Releases | CommentsRenesas Electronics Corporation and Renesas Mobile Corporation announced the availability of a new member of the R-Car Series of automotive Systems-on-Chip (SoCs). Capable of delivering more than 25,000 DMIPS, the R-Car H2 provides high performance and state-of-the-art 3D graphics capabilities for high-end multimedia and navigation automotive systems.
LISTED UNDER: Chip Sets
Silicon photonics chips boast 100 gigabits per second 4x25 QSFP package
March 22, 2013 4:42 pm | Product Releases | CommentsKotura announced a silicon photonics industry first. The company unveiled its Optical Engine in a Quad Small Form-factor Pluggable (QSFP) package. Kotura's Optical Engine uses Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM), in which different signals can share the same path.
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Silicon photonics chips offer both 100G WDM and 100G feature WDM in QSFP package
March 21, 2013 3:01 pm | Product Releases | CommentsKotura, Inc. announced it is rolling out an optical engine in a quad small form-factor pluggable (QSFP) package. The optical engine uses wavelength division multiplexing (WDM), in which different signals can share the same path. It is demonstrating WDM in a
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Flyback controller surpasses Energy Star 5 requirements for 10-W to 65-W AC adapters
March 19, 2013 2:28 pm | Texas Instruments | Product Releases | CommentsTexas Instruments announced a flyback controller that exceeds Energy Star 5 standby power requirements for 10-W to 65-W AC/DC adapters used with notebooks, motor control, smart meters, micro-inverters and other high-powered applications. Used in conjunction with
LISTED UNDER: Power Supply Circuits | Pulse Width Modulators
Rectifier designed for high frequency systems
March 15, 2013 4:13 pm | Central Semiconductor Corp. | Product Releases | CommentsCentral Semiconductor has released the CSIC10-1200, 10 Amp, 1200 Volt silicon carbide Schottky rectifier designed for high frequency systems where energy efficiency and thermal performance are critical design elements
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Kit promises everything needed to fully evaluate high-speed data converters
March 15, 2013 10:55 am | Texas Instruments | Product Releases | CommentsTexas Instruments introduced what is said to be the industry's first complete high-speed data converter system evaluation kit (HSDC-SEK). The HSDC-SEK-10 includes a pattern capture card, pattern generator card, low-jitter clock source, clean 10-MHz signal source and a multi-output regulated power supply.
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Schottky rectifier designed for high frequency systems
March 15, 2013 10:27 am | Central Semiconductor Corp. | Product Releases | CommentsCentral Semiconductor's CSIC10-1200 is a silicon carbide Schottky rectifier designed for high frequency systems where energy efficiency and thermal performance are critical design elements.
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Development board features dedicated eGaN driver
March 15, 2013 9:42 am | Efficient Power Conversion | Product Releases | CommentsEfficient Power Conversion Corporation (EPC) introduced the EPC9010 development board to help engineers start designing with a 100-V enhancement-mode gallium nitride (eGaN) field effect transistor (FET) in applications such as high-speed DC/DC power supplies, point-of-load converters, class D audio
LISTED UNDER: Development | FET
Six-hundred-Volt GaN-on-silicon power devices are JEDEC-qualified
March 14, 2013 11:39 am | Transphorm, Inc. | Product Releases | CommentsTransphorm Inc. announced the Total GaN family of GaN (Gallium Nitride) on silicon transistors and diodes, establishing what is believed to be the world’s first JEDEC-qualified 600 V GaN device platform, according to the company. Based on Transphorm’s EZ-GaN technology, the TPH3006PS GaN high
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CFP2 SR10 optical transceiver targets high-density 100G Ethernet, OTN apps
March 13, 2013 2:44 pm | Product Releases | CommentsAvago Technologies announced a new 100G CFP2 optical transceiver, the AFBR-8420Z. The device is a 10-channel pluggable, multi-mode parallel optic transceiver module designed for high-density 100G Ethernet and Optical Transport Network (OTN). The transceiver is designed to
LISTED UNDER: Data Communications
SiC MOSFET promises high efficiency, smaller size for power conversion systems
March 13, 2013 12:22 pm | Product Releases | CommentsCree, Inc. announced the release of its second generation SiC MOSFET, positioned as enabling systems to have higher efficiency and smaller size at cost parity with silicon-based solutions. These 1200-V MOSFETs deliver desirable power density and switching efficiency at
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GPIB Driver controls test instruments on Windows 8 operating systems
March 13, 2013 10:22 am | Ics Electronics | Product Releases | CommentsToday, ICS Electronics announced the release of their updated GPIB Driver for controlling test instruments on Windows 8 operating systems. Designated as 488.2V4, this updated driver fully supports 32 and 64-bit Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8 operating systems.
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Low-power microcontroller family features up to 1MB of on-chip Flash
March 7, 2013 10:44 am | Renesas Technology America, Inc. | Product Releases | CommentsRenesas Electronics America announced the availability of a large number of new low-power, low voltage microcontrollers (MCUs). By expanding the low-power, low-voltage RX200 Series to include versions offering from 64 KB to 1 MB of on-chip flash memory, and package sizes from 48-pin LQFP to 145-pin LGA, Renesas now offers the broadest range of low-power 32-bit solutions in the industry.
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Platform for Kinetis KL05Z MCUs delivers desirable energy efficiency, performance
March 6, 2013 4:52 pm | Product Releases | Commentselement14 has announced the global availability of a new board for evaluating Kinetis KL05Z MCUs (FRDM-KL05Z). Based on a microcontroller built on the ARM Cortex-M0+ processor, the new platform gives design engineers the ability to use the latest 32-bit technology with low energy consumption and
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Driver matches flash LED input current with safe output capability of battery in real time
March 5, 2013 2:02 pm | Product Releases | Commentsams AG introduced a new intelligent LED driver for mobile phone cameras that maximizes the brightness of the flash without causing the phone’s battery to fall below its minimum operating voltage. The AS3649 LED driver uses an innovative “diagnostic pulse” – a burst of controlled high current lasting a few milliseconds – immediately before every flash operation.
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