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2022-05 Power Renesas Electronics America

[May 4 2022] Renesas Electronics Group, a global supplier of semiconductor solutions, announced the launch of the RA6T2 MCU product group, which features rich peripheral functions and hardware accelerators designed for motor control and is ideal for home appliances, smart homes, industrial and building automation, and inverter control. The latest motor control design provides an excellent combination of perfo ...

2022-05 Power Power Integrations

[May 4 2022] Power Integrations, a well-known company deep in the field of high-voltage integrated circuit high-efficiency power conversion, has launched the highly integrated InnoSwitch3-TN series of constant voltage/constant current offline flyback switch ICs. The InnoSwitch3-TN IC is housed in a safety-compliant thin MinSOP™-16A package and integrates a 725V primary MOSFET, a feedback mechanism for primary ...

2022-05 Semiconductors ON Semiconductor

[May 4 2022] Leading the way in smart power and intellisense technology, ON Semiconductor has released a new 600 V SUPERFETÒ V MOSFET series. These high-performance devices enable power supplies to meet stringent energy efficiency regulations such as 80 PLUS Titanium, especially under challenging 10% load conditions. The three product groups under the 600 V SUPERFET family - FAST, Easy Drive and FRFET are opt ...

2022-05 Power Recom Power

[May 3 2022] RECOM has added the RSH2 series to its DC/DC converter family, a fully regulated, low noise, isolated 2W surface mount DC/DC converter. The series features nominal inputs of 3.3V (2.8-5.5V), 5V/9V (4.5-13.2V), 12V (9-18V) and 24V (18-36V) for use in battery or bus powered systems. The outputs are 3.3V, 5V, 12V, 15V and 24V. These modules feature short-circuit and overcurrent protection and requir ...

2022-05 Sensors Melexis Technologies NV

[May 3 2022] Melexis announced the launch of new LIN BLDC motor pre-driver chip solutions for automotive electromechanical applications, the MLX81340 and MLX81344, which combine the advantages of small size, high performance and high power. The MLX81340 (32KB Flash) and MLX81344 (64KB Flash) contain three channels of high-side and low-side drivers. External NFETs with up to 60nC capacitance can be controlled ...

2022-05 Power STMicroelectronics

[May 3 2022] STMicroelectronics expands ST8500 G3-PLC (Power Line Communication) Hybrid dual-mode communication chipset certification approved frequency band, in addition to the 9kHz-95kHz frequency band specified by the European Electrotechnical Commission CENELEC-A regulations, now also covers FCC (Federal Communications Commission) 10kHz - 490kHz band. This allows for higher data rates, greater design flex ...

2022-05 Power Analog Devices

[May 3 2022] Analog Devices, Inc. announces two nanoPower modules from a family of fundamental analog high-efficiency power ICs with built-in inductors that help designers extend battery life and reduce size in space-constrained Internet of Things (IoT) devices. The MAXM38643 offers a 1.8V to 5.5V input, 330nA quiescent current (IQ), 600mA step-down module, and the MAXM17225 offers a 0.4V to 5.5V input, 300nA ...

2022-05 Power Texas Instruments

[May 3 2022] Texas Instruments (TI) has introduced an ultra-small 24-bit wide-bandwidth analog-to-digital converter (ADC) that enables industry-leading signal measurement accuracy over a wider bandwidth than comparable ADCs. The ADS127L11 is a new product in TI's precision wide-bandwidth ADC family. Its package size has been reduced by 50%, enabling ultra-precision data acquisition and greatly optimizing powe ...

2022-05 Connectors American Technical Ceramics

[May 3 2022] xMEMS Labs introduces Tomales, the first single-chip MEMS tweeter. Tomales' top-voicing and side-voicing package options and a thin 1mm thickness simplify speaker assembly and placement for direct-to-ear audio delivery in smart glasses and extended reality (xR) headset applications. In a 3cm free-air, Tomales can reach 75dB SPL (sound pressure level) at 2kHz, 90dB at 4kHz, and over 108dB at 10kHz ...

2022-05 Power Vishay

[May 2 2022] Vishay announces the launch of a new AEC-Q200 qualified IHSR high temperature inductor, the IHSR-2525CZ-5A, in a 7.4 mm x 6.6 mm x 3.0 mm 2525 form factor. The Vishay Dale IHSR-2525CZ-5A is designed for polyphase high current power supplies and filters, with 50 % lower DC internal resistance (DCR) than typical power inductors, over the entire operating temperature range compared to ferrite soluti ...

2022-05 Sensors Analog Devices

[May 2 2022] Analog Devices, Inc. (ADI) introduces the ADI EagleEye ADSW4000 people counting algorithm for detecting and counting people in indoor spaces such as conference rooms or offices. The ADSW4000 is the first in a series of application-level software algorithms that are part of the ADI EagleEye platform, which also includes an ADI Blackfin embedded digital signal processor (DSP)-based hardware subsyst ...

2022-05 Power Microchip Technology

[May 2 2022] Microchip Technology Inc. announced a significant expansion of its gallium nitride (GaN) radio frequency (RF) power device portfolio with new monolithic microwave integrated circuits (MMICs) and discrete transistors at frequencies up to 20 gigahertz (GHz). Combining high power-added efficiency (PAE) and high linearity, these devices provide new levels of performance for applications such as 5G, e ...