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2021-03 Semiconductors Toshiba Semiconductor and Storage

[Mar 20 2021] Toshiba Electronic Components & Storage Corporation announced the launch of two DC brush motor driver ics for automotive applications such as electronic throttle valves - "TB9054FTG" and "TB9053FTG". The "TB9054FTG" adopts wettable wing VQFN package, and the "TB9053FTG" adopts power QFN package. Samples of TB9054FTG are now available and mass production is expected to begin in March 2022. Samples ...

2021-03 Passive Components Vishay

[Mar 19 2021] Vishay Intertechnology's Optoelectronics Group has introduced the industry's first four-quadrant silicon PIN photodiode in a standard surface-mount package for automotive applications. The Vishay Semiconductors K857PE combines high light sensitivity with low 0.1% crosstalk and virtually no tolerance between segments to provide a wide range of sensor and control applications for the automotive, co ...

2021-03 Semiconductors Lattice Semiconductor Corporation

[Mar 19 2021] Lattice Semiconductor Corporation, a leader in low-power programmable solutions, announced the launch of the second generation of its highly successful security control field programmable gate array (FPGA) family: the Lattice Mach-NX FPGA family. Mach-NX FPgas build on the capabilities of Lattice's MachXO3D family, announced in 2019, providing enhanced security features and fast, energy-efficient ...

2021-03 Connectors Silicon Labs

[Mar 18 2021] Silicon Labs has announced a new family of small size, high performance crystal oscillators (XOs) and voltage controlled crystal oscillators (VCXOs) for low jitter and frequency flexible clock synthesis. The Si54x/6x Ultra Series XO/VCXO offers jitter performance down to 80 femtoseconds (fs) for integer and decimal frequencies throughout its operating range, providing excellent jitter margins for ...

2021-03 Passive Components Nexperia

[Mar 18 2021] Nexperia has announced a new pin-free ESD protection device for CAN-FD applications. The device is in a pin-free package with wettable tin-soldable side pads that support the use of AOI tools. The PESD2CANFDx family of components is fully AEC-Q101 compliant while providing industry-leading ESD and RF performance, saving PCB space. The DFN1412D-3 and DFN1110D-3 packages for automotive and industri ...

2021-03 Connectors Maxim Integrated

[Mar 17 2021] The new MAX78000 chip from Maxim Integrated. Based on a dual-core MCU, the MAX78000 combines ultra-low power deep neural network accelerators to provide the computing power needed for high-performance artificial intelligence (AI) applications, making it ideal for applications such as machine vision, facial recognition, object detection and classification, timing data processing, and audio process ...

2021-03 Sensors Signal Transformer

[Mar 17 2021] ScioSense has announced the introduction of its new indoor air quality sensor, ENS160, which uses a sophisticated sensor fusion algorithm to calculate measurement output for more natural air purification than any other sensor on the market. ScioSense, a manufacturer of integrated environmental and flow sensors, used four separate, highly integrated MEMS micro-heating substrates to create a new mu ...

2021-03 Power Renesas Electronics America

[Mar 16 2021] Renesas Electronics, a global semiconductor solutions provider, announced the launch of a new 32-bit RA4M3 microcontroller (MCU) product group, expanding its RA4 MCU product family. The RA4M3 MCU uses the Arm® Cortex®-M33 core based on the Armv8-M architecture to increase operating speeds up to 100MHz. The RA4M3 portfolio features high performance, Arm TrustZone technology, Renesas secure encrypt ...

2021-03 Power Recom Power

[Mar 16 2021] RECOM's "3D PowerPackaging" enables an increase in current in the RPMH high input voltage switching regulator range without an increase in size. RECOM, an industry leader in power conversion, has expanded the rated current range of its non-isolated switching regulator RPMH from 0.5A to 1.5A with no increase in size, leveraging the company's expertise in 3D power packaging. The highly efficient de ...

2021-03 Passive Components EOS Power

[Mar 15 2021] Empower Semiconductor, a global leader in integrated voltage regulators (IVR), today announced a breakthrough in its highest performance, most configurable, and smallest commercial line of capacitors. E-CAP is an extremely superior capacitor, far superior to the semiconductor industry's previous leading multi-layer ceramic capacitor (MLCC). Capacitors are one of the most basic and fundamental com ...

2021-03 Connectors TDK

[Mar 15 2021] TDK Group has introduced the new ERU16 series of chokes comprising ten different models, once again expanding its EPCOS ERU SMT power inductors portfolio. The new B82559B*A016 series, which replaces the previous B82559A*A016 model, extends the inductance range from 1.0 µH to 30 µH, and the saturation DC current range at 25°C corresponds to 10.3 A DC to 40.4A DC. The highlight of the new power ind ...

2021-03 Semiconductors Semtech

[Mar 14 2021] Semtech Corporation announced the launch of the LoRa Edge portfolio, a new Lora-based low-power platform that can be software-set defined. LoRa Edge will provide a diverse portfolio of applications for indoor and outdoor asset management, with target markets including industrial, building, home, agriculture, transportation and logistics. The first product in the family is a geolocation solution t ...