Beverly, Massachusetts, USA – September 9, 2014 – IXYS Integrated Circuits Division (ICD), Inc., an IXYS Company, (NASDAQ: IXYS), announced the availability of the NCD2100, non-volatile digital programmable capacitor.
The NCD2100 is a dedicated electronic calibrator for capacitanceThat property of a system of conductors and dielectrics which permits the storage of electricity when potential difference exists between the conductors. Its value is expressed as the ratio of a quantity of electricity to a potential difference. A capacitance value is always positive. critical circuits, a typical example of which is capacitive offset trimming of a crystal oscillator. Digitally controlled capacitanceThat property of a system of conductors and dielectrics which permits the storage of electricity when potential difference exists between the conductors. Its value is expressed as the ratio of a quantity of electricity to a potential difference. A capacitance value is always positive. trimming information is communicated via a two-wire serial bus, with the calibration value stored in the internal, non-volatile memory.
The NCD2100 has a tuning ratio of 5.7:1, and a capacitanceThat property of a system of conductors and dielectrics which permits the storage of electricity when potential difference exists between the conductors. Its value is expressed as the ratio of a quantity of electricity to a potential difference. A capacitance value is always positive. range of 6.6 – 37.55 pFUnit of capacitance. The basic unit of a measure of a capacitor. A capacitor charged to 1 volt with a charge of 1 coulombA coulomb is the unit of electric charge. It is named after Charles-Augustin de Coulomb.1 coulomb is the amount of electric charge transported by a current of 1 ampere in 1 second. It can also be defined in terms of capacitance and voltage, where one coulomb is defined as one farad of capacitance times one volt of electric potential difference. would have a capacitance of 1 farad. 1 microF = .000001 Farads. in very small 63 fF steps for shunt configuration. The device will retain the programmed capacitanceThat property of a system of conductors and dielectrics which permits the storage of electricity when potential difference exists between the conductors. Its value is expressed as the ratio of a quantity of electricity to a potential difference. A capacitance value is always positive. value stored in its internal non-volatile memory, which becomes the ideal solution for trimming purposes. Restoring this memory to its initial factory default code is also possible, so that future corrections are possible to manage system variations as aging or re-tuning processes. Other features include: very small size, minimum current draw, wide operating voltage range from 2.5V to 5.5V, and MSL 1 rating.
