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2020-08 Semiconductors Trinamic Motion Control GmbH

[Aug 20 2020] TRINAMIC Motion Control, the world's leading developer of motor and motion control technology, announced the TMC5160. This new single-axis stepper motor driver IC with serial communication interface is designed for 2-phase bipolar stepper motors with external MOSFETs, with motor currents up to 20A per coil. Michael Randt, founder and CEO of Trinamic, explains: "It successfully combines our techno ...

2020-08 Semiconductors NXP

[Aug 19 2020] NXP Semiconductors announced the launch of its voice solution SLN-LOCAL-IOT. This is a fully integrated development platform for offline voice control. The solution includes a complete hardware module design and the necessary associated software for implementing far-field voice control with customizable wake words and local commands. Based on the i.MX RT106L crossover microcontroller (MCU), the s ...

2020-08 Sensors Allegro MicroSystems, LLC

[Aug 19 2020] Allegro MicroSystems, a global leader in power and sensing solutions for motion control and energy saving systems, announced the introduction of the ATS19580, the industry's first fully integrated, back-biased giant magnetoresistive (GMR) transmission speed and orientation sensor. The ATS19580 achieves the highest system performance in transmission applications while reducing system size, complex ...

2020-08 Sensors Bourns

[Aug 18 2020] Bourns has introduced a new environmental pressure sensor model that offers high accuracy, 3.3V and ultra-low pressure range capabilities. The Bourns BPS125 pressure sensor is based on state-of-the-art micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) technology and delivers precise performance in miniature package sizes. The Bourns model BPS125 is designed for space-constrained 3.3V digital systems that re ...

2020-08 Semiconductors STMicroelectronics

[Aug 18 2020] With the introduction of the STWLC68 series, STMicroelectronics brings to market industry-leading wireless charging solutions with high transmission energy efficiency, safety and reliability. St's latest wireless charging products can be used as both high power receivers and power transmitters, enabling fast transmission and power sharing, and feature FOD(foreign object detection) and other key S ...

2020-08 Semiconductors Dialog Semiconductor GmbH

[Aug 17 2020] Dialog Semiconductor, a supplier of highly integrated power management, charging, AC/DC power conversion, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth low power technologies, announced the launch of its latest IO-Link IC product, the CCE4503. The latest IO-Link IC expands Dialog's presence in the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) market by providing connectivity for the smallest, cost-sensitive IO-Link device sensors ...

2020-08 Semiconductors Diodes Incorporated

[Aug 17 2020] Diodes Incorporated announced the introduction of its first line of clock generators and clock buffers that meet the PCIe®5.0 specification while still meeting the requirements of PCIe 4.0 and the previous generation. This gives product developers the forward compatibility they need when developing server, storage, and networking equipment for data centers that now use PCIe 4.0 but must prepare f ...

2020-08 Semiconductors Maxim Integrated

[Aug 16 2020] Maxim Integrated Products announced the introduction of the industry's fastest and smallest light detection and ranging (LiDAR) IC to help enable higher speed autonomous vehicle driving. The MAX40026 high-speed comparator and MAX40660/MAX40661 wideband interresistance amplifiers provide more than twice the bandwidth compared to the closest competing solutions, adding 32 additional channels in a s ...

2020-08 Connectors Harwin Inc.

[Aug 16 2020] Harwin has expanded the award-winning Gecko-SL (Screw-Lok) product range to include horizontal male connectors. The highly successful Gecko family of products has won the favor of many engineers, offering solutions that are more compact and lightweight than traditional Micro-D connectors. If the male connector is set to a 90° Angle from the PCB, it provides greater board layout flexibility to max ...

2020-08 Power Infineon Technologies

[Aug 15 2020] Infineon Technologies AG has further expanded its silicon carbide (SiC) portfolio with the launch of 650V devices. Its newly released CoolSiC™ MOSFETs address the growing demand for energy efficiency, power density and reliability in a wide range of applications, including servers, telecommunications and industrial SMPS, solar systems, energy storage and battery formation, uninterruptable power s ...

2020-08 Power Power Integrations

[Aug 15 2020] The BridgeSwitch IC integrates two enhanced FREDFETs (field effect transistors with fast recovery epitaxial diodes) for the upper and lower tubes of the half-bridge circuit, and has lossless current detection, enabling inverter efficiency of 99.2% in brushless direct current (BLDC) motor driver applications. Power Integrations has announced a new expansion of the BridgeSwitch™ Integrated Half-bri ...

2020-08 Connectors Diodes Incorporated

[Aug 14 2020] Diodes Incorporated introduced the AP62600 synchronous DC-DC buck converter for point-of-load (POL) conversion in applications such as televisions, displays, white goods, home appliances, consumer electronics and large integrated circuits. The AP62600 has a supply voltage output of up to 6A from 4.5V to 18V. The device incorporates high - and low-side integrated MOSFETs with resistors of 36 Mω an ...