One-resistor-tunable timer ICs operate over wide supply voltage range
April 3, 2013 11:09 am | Product Releases | CommentsTouchstone Semiconductor added four, high-accuracy, micropower timer ICs to its rapidly expanding family of “NanoWatt Analog” timer integrated circuits. These higher-single-supply voltage, second-generation timer ICs operate over a wide supply voltage range
LISTED UNDER: Clocks/Synthesizers | Timers/Oscillators
MOSFETs provide a 5% improvement in thermal dissipation compared to conventional solutions
March 27, 2013 4:51 pm | Mouser Electronics | Product Releases | CommentsMouser Electronics, Inc. is now stocking Power CSP MOSFETs from Panasonic that provide a 5% improvement in thermal dissipation and a dramatically reduced size compared to conventional solutions. Panasonic Electronic Components FJ3P02100L and FK3P02110L power MOSFET transistors provide improved thermal performance....
LISTED UNDER: Power
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.
LISTED UNDER: Chip Sets
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
LISTED UNDER: Data Communications
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
LISTED UNDER: High Current
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.
LISTED UNDER: Development | A/D | D/A
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.
LISTED UNDER: Schottky Barrier
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
LISTED UNDER: High Voltage | Power
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
LISTED UNDER: FET
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.
LISTED UNDER: Peripheral
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.
LISTED UNDER: Development Boards
