Technology Articles

2021-09 Power Power Integrations

[Sep 18 2021] Power Integrations, a well-known company in the field of gate driver technology for medium and high voltage inverter applications, introduces the new plug-and-play SCALE-iFlex™ LT dual-channel gate driver. The new driver improves the performance of multiple parallel EconoDUAL modules by 20 percent, allowing users to save one out of every six modules from the power inverter and converter stack. In ...

2021-09 Sensors TDK

[Sep 18 2021] TDK has expanded its Micronas 3D HAL sensor portfolio with the new Hall sensors HAR 3900 and HAR 3930*. These products support stray field compensation position detection in automotive and industrial applications while meeting ISO 26262 compliant development requirements. According to ISO 26262, the sensor supports SEooC and ASIL B for system-level development of ASIL D. They can perform 3D magne ...

2021-09 Connectors STMicroelectronics

[Sep 18 2021] The STDRIVEG600 half-bridge gate driver of STMicroelectronics has large output current and the propagation delay of high-low output signal is the same, both 45ns, which can drive GaN enhanced FET high-frequency switch. The drive supply voltage of up to 20V is also suitable for driving N-channel silicon-based MOSFET tubes. When driving GaN devices, the 6V gate-source voltage (VGS) can be flexibly ...

2021-09 Sensors Bosch Sensortec

[Sep 17 2021] The new Application Board version 3.0 offers a versatile development solution that enables engineers to quickly and easily operate all Bosch Sensortec sensors on one platform. The new application board simplifies the evaluation and prototyping of sensors for a wide range of applications, especially in Industry 4.0, the Internet of Things, smart home systems, and wrist and head-worn wearables. To ...

2021-09 Connectors Renesas Electronics America

[Sep 17 2021] Renesas Electronics, a global provider of semiconductor solutions, announced the introduction of the 32-bit microcontroller (MCU) RX671, adding a new high-performance, versatile single-chip solution with contactless operations such as touch sensing and speech recognition to the popular RX family of products. Part of Renesas' popular mainstream RX600 series, the RX671 MCU is built on an RXv3 CPU c ...

2021-09 Connectors Texas Instruments

[Sep 17 2021] Texas Instruments introduces the industry's leading 70W brushless direct current (BLDC) motor driver to provide sensorless trapezoidal and field-oriented control (FOC) without programming. The newly released device enables engineers to start BLDC motors in 10 minutes, reducing weeks of design time for engineers designing a variety of industrial systems, such as large and small household appliance ...

2021-09 Power Teledyne LeCroy

[Sep 16 2021] Teledyne FLIR introduces the Neutrino SX8 Medium Wave infrared (MWIR) camera module and six Neutrino IS series modules integrated with Teledyne FLIR CZ lenses. Designed for integrated solutions that require high-definition midwave infrared imaging while being limited by size, weight, power, and cost (SWaP+C), commercial, industrial, and defense original equipment manufacturers (Oems) and system i ...

2021-09 Connectors STMicroelectronics

[Sep 16 2021] STMicroelectronics' STEVAL-NRG011TV evaluation board helps designers quickly develop 200W digital power supplies and adapters for LED and OLED TVS, meeting stringent regulatory requirements for energy efficiency and standby energy consumption. Based on ST's STNRG011 digital PFC (Power factor Corrector) and resonant LLC power converter, the STEVAL-NRG011TV uses a proven and reliable topology to co ...

2021-09 Connectors L3 Narda-MITEQ

[Sep 16 2021] Lynred, a global supplier of high-quality infrared detectors for the aerospace, defense and commercial markets, has announced the ATI320 series, the first advanced thermal imager with embedded image signal processing capabilities. Optional lenses and embedded image signal processing capabilities are designed to accelerate the development and manufacturing of integrated thermal imaging application ...

2021-09 Connectors Renesas Electronics America

[Sep 15 2021] Renesas Electronics and eProsima, a SME company specializing in middleware solutions, announced that the EK-RA6M5 evaluation Kit based on RA MCUS has become the official support hardware platform for the micro-ROS development Framework, a robotic operating system for MCUS. Renesas teamed up with eProsima, the lead developer of the micro-ROS framework, to port micro-ROS to the RA MCU. The micro-RO ...

2021-09 Power Infineon Technologies

[Sep 15 2021] In the power electronics and semiconductor markets, the systems approach is gaining momentum. To support this trend, Infineon Technologies has introduced a pre-tested industrial reference design that significantly reduces the time to market for customers to develop products. The reference design is a general-purpose motor driver with a power rating of 22 kW that can operate directly on a three-ph ...

2021-09 Power Microchip Technology

[Sep 15 2021] The combination of performance and low power consumption for edge computing applications is driving the need for developers to use field programmable gate arrays (FPgas) as energy-efficient accelerators, which can also provide flexibility and speed time to market. However, much of the edge computing, computer vision, and industrial control algorithms were developed natively in C++ by developers w ...