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2020-12 Passive Components Silicon Labs

[Dec 30 2020] 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 ...

2020-12 Passive Components Bourns

[Dec 30 2020] Bourns introduces the DR334A line filter series. These current compensated double choke filter inductors have higher current capability than typical standard signal line common mode chokes, as well as high stray inductance and differential mode noise suppression. These features make the DR334A series the ideal line filter solution for consumer, industrial and other markets for power line applicat ...

2020-12 Passive Components Vishay

[Dec 30 2020] Vishay Intertechnology has announced the introduction of new B and C enclosures to expand its EP1 wet tantalum capacitors to meet the needs of defense and aerospace applications. Capacitors offer the highest capacity in the industry for every voltage class and form factor, radial through-hole or surface-mount end, and are available in A, B and C housing codes, each with the option of bolting for ...

2020-12 Connectors TE Connectivity

[Dec 29 2020] TE Connectivity, the global leader in innovative connectivity solutions for high-speed computing and networking applications, announced the launch of a new portfolio of high-current pins and sockets designed to address the need for high current ratings in high-speed board-to-board and board-to-bus data communications applications. The portfolio includes ICCON Block and ICCON Insert connectors tha ...

2020-12 Sensors Melexis Technologies NV

[Dec 29 2020] Melexis has announced the launch of an AEC-Q100 certified QVGA time-of-flight sensor IC, the MLX75026, which is now in volume production. The MLX75026 is Melexis' third-generation QVGA ToF chip, further expanding this portfolio. In terms of quantum efficiency and range accuracy, the MLX75026 performs twice as well as the previous generation of ToF sensor ics. In addition, the MLX75026 has softwar ...

2020-12 Sensors ams

[Dec 29 2020] Ams introduces the industry's thinnest dedicated sensor for blood oxygen saturation (SpO2) measurement, enabling remote monitoring capabilities that are critical signals for small consumer products such as earplugs, smartwatches, and wristbands, as well as medical devices such as patches and oximeters. The high performance of the new AS7038RB SpO2 sensor also means that it is suitable for innovat ...

2020-12 Sensors ams

[Dec 28 2020] Ams introduces the industry's first optical sensor, the TMD3719, that integrates ambient light sensing, proximity detection and light source flicker detection in a single module and is placed optimally under the OLED screen of a smartphone. As a leading sensor supplier in the field of optical sensors for the mobile phone industry for more than a decade, AMS has developed the TMD3719 with its tech ...

2020-12 Sensors Sensirion AG

[Dec 28 2020] Environmental sensing specialist Sensirion has announced the launch of its new STS32 temperature sensor. The digital sensor comes with an ISO 17025 certified three-point calibration certificate. Calibration data and sensor specifications comply with Good Distribution Practice (GDP) for pharmaceuticals and medical logistics. Data logger manufacturers can eliminate costly and technically difficult ...

2020-12 Power Microchip Technology

[Dec 28 2020] The growing adoption of the free and open source RISC-V Instruction set Architecture (ISA) is driving the need for an economical, standardized development platform that is embedded in RISC-V technology and utilizes a diverse RISC-V ecosystem. To meet this demand, Microchip Technology announced the industry's first RISC-V-based SoC FPGA development kit. The Icicle development kit is built for the ...

2020-12 Semiconductors Power Integrations

[Dec 27 2020] Power Integrations introduces the newest member of the LYTSwitch™-6 family of secure isolated LED driver ics - the new LYT6078C for smart lighting applications. The new LYTSwitch-6 IC uses Power Integrations' PowiGaN™ Gallium nitride (GaN) technology, which showcases its efficiency and performance benefits in the company's new Design paradigm report (DER-920), released simultaneously. The Powigan ...

2020-12 Power Xilinx

[Dec 27 2020] Xilinx announced the introduction of T1 telecom accelerator cards for O-RAN distributed units (O-DU) and virtual Baseband units (VBBUS) in 5G networks. Developed using field-proven Xilinx chips and IP that is being widely deployed in 5G networks, the Accelerometer is the industry's only "2-in-1" board that can run the O-RAN forward protocol and provide L1 offloading in a versatile PCIe size speci ...

2020-12 Semiconductors Nexperia

[Dec 27 2020] Nexperia, a specialist in high-capacity production of semiconductor base components, has introduced four new TrEOS ESD protection devices that are AEC-Q101 certified for automotive applications and can withstand temperatures up to 175°C. At the same time, like all TrEOS devices, these new automotive devices have low capacitance, ensure high signal integrity, and have low clamp voltage and high ro ...