Texas Instruments claims its latest lithium-ion battery charger IC can reduce charge time by 50% in smartphones and tablets compared to today's designs. The bq2419x family of 4.5A output, 20V input-rated switch-mode chargers have a I2C ...
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Toshiba has announced its first ARM Cortex-M4 microcontroller with DSP extensions, a floating point unit (FPU) and a programmable servo/sequencer controller (PSC). The TMPM4440 microcontrollers are available with 768kbyte or 1024kbyte of ...
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Lattice Semiconductor has revealed the smallest of its iCE40 FPGAs. Called the LP384, the chip is intended to provide I/O expansion, sensor interfaces, sensor fusion and bus bridging - I2C to I2S, for example. Static power ...
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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Infineon has released samples of its ARM Cortex-M0 based LED lighting microcontroller family. Included in the family, called XMC1000, are MCUs that include a peripheral, the brightness and colour control unit (BCCU), that can dim and ...
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At the SIL conference, Atmel announced a driver IC family designed specifically for high-CRI lamps and luminaires that use a mix of phosphor-converted white LEDs and red or amber LEDs that combined deliver good light quality and high ...
Tags: Atmel, LED Driver ICs, High-CRI Color-Mix SSL Applications
Analog Devices has introduced a 16-bit dual digital-to-analogue converter (DAC) in its nanoDAC series of small package devices. Relative accuracy is specified at ±2-LSB INL and the device has an on-chip 2.5V reference with ...
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"HomePlug AV is used in set-top boxes in Europe and is starting in the US," Greenvity CEO Hung Nguyen. "Any lighting system needs to be interoperable with set-top boxes. HomePlug Green PHY co-exists and inter-operates with HomePlug AV." ...
Tags: HomePlug AV, set-top boxes, US
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 ...
Sainsbury's this morning (14 November) reported an increase in half-year profits, a period in which the UK retailer said it had "outperformed" its competitors. Pre-tax profits were up 2.5% to GBP405m in the 28 weeks to 29 September. ...
Tags: Sainsbury's, half year profits, increase, food industry
Vishay has introduced a surface mount proximity sensor that can pick up objects 200mm away. Called VCNL30204, the 4.85x2.35x0.83mm devices includes lenses, an IR emitter, PIN photodiode, a 16bit ADC and a signal processing IC. ...
In booth 3745 at Super Computing 2012 (SC12) in Salt Lake City (10-16 November), high-speed fiber-optic interconnect firm Molex Inc of Lisle, IL, USA has announced the availability of its QSFP+ low-power 56Gbps Fourteen Data Rate active ...
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Everlight Electronics Co.,Ltd. [TSE:2393], a leading player in the global LED and optoelectronics industry, announces its latest innovation APM-16D25-11-DF8 which combines an ambient light and proximity sensor with an integrated IR ...
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Tektronix has introduced lower priced oscilloscopes in its MSO/DPO2000B series in time for Electronica. The MSO/DPO2000B series oscilloscope are available at prices ranging from 948(830 pounds)for a two-channel 70MHz DPO2002B oscilloscope ...
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Texas Instruments has reduced the entry price for ARM Cortex-M4F microcontroller design with its Stellaris LM4F120 LaunchPad evaluation kit,costing$5. With integrated analogue and floating point capabilties,the MCU will be used for ...
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