Skyworks Solutions Inc of Woburn, MA, USA (which manufactures high-reliability analog and mixed-signal semiconductors) says it is supporting Samsung’s Galaxy S 4 smartphone platforms with multiple high-performance analog and front-end ...
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The EMerge Alliance Group will present new members and new products and host an accredited educational session on DC power grids for LED-based lighting at Lightfair International. At Lightfair 2013, the EMerge Alliance is introducing 21 new ...
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Mazda Australia is recalling more than 1500 Mazda 6 models after identifying a potential fault with the vehicles’ electrical system. Part of a global safety recall of approximately 15,000 Mazda 6 models in direct response to two ...
Advanced Power Electronics has announced the APE2902, a high-efficiency VFM Step-up DC/DC converter for small, low input voltage or battery powered systems with ultra-low quiescent supply current. Devices can operate from a positive input ...
NXP has announced a 3.6V loudspeaker driver that can deliver 3.4Wrms into an 8Ω speaker. The voltage headroom required comes from an on-chip dc-dc converter with a 9.5V output. Aimed at mobile phone use, it can deliver a lot of ...
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GaAs-based broadband wireless and wireline communications component maker Anadigics Inc of Warren, NJ, USA has expanded its dual-band ProEficient-Plus power amplifier (PA) family with the introduction of the AWT6765, optimized for LTE bands ...
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German Siemens Company recently acquired VePoint Company of Semikron International, in order to further expand the business of E-Car. VePoint Company, located in Nuremberg, Germany, has 30 staff. Siemens and Semikron didn’t publish ...
GaAs-based broadband wireless and wireline communications component maker Anadigics Inc of Warren, NJ, USA says it is shipping production volumes of its AWT6651 ProEficient power amplifier (PA) to Samsung Electronics for the Galaxy Music ...
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Held every year in February in San Francisco, the IEEE's International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) is the world showcase for innovative circuit design. This is the 60th conference, and year's theme is '60 years of (em)powering ...
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ISSCC 2013 - 60th Anniversary Held every year in February in San Francisco, the IEEE's International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) is the world showcase for innovative circuit design. This is the 60th conference, and year's ...
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Microchip has introduced a digitally-controlled analogue DC-DC converter chip for power converters between 50 and 150W, including high current point-of-load converters. Called MCP19111, both microprocessor and analogue blocks are on the ...
HB (high-brightness) LEDs require a large amount of current to operate. When driving HB LEDs from a voltage source, you can set the required current with a suitable series resistor. If the voltage source is a battery, then, as the battery ...
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Scientists at the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE in Freiburg, Germany have successfully tested power transistors made of gallium nitride (GaN) in power electronic systems. By using such transistors the researchers says ...
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RF Micro Devices Inc of Greensboro, NC, USA says that the components in its new RF73xx series of high-power, high-efficiency linear power amplifiers are designed for use as the final amplification stage in 3V, 50Ω LTE mobile cellular ...
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Lexus, a luxury vehicle division of Japanese automaker Toyota, has unveiled its 2013 GS 450h hybrid sedan with an improved performance and handling. The new GS 450 hybrid is powered by a 3.5-liter V6 engine featuring a new D-4S direct and ...
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