Analog semiconductor maker Skyworks Solutions Inc of Woburn, MA, USA is partnering with SMC Networks, a customer premise equipment (CPE) manufacturer for multi-service operators (MSOs), to develop wireless connectivity solutions for ...
Tags: semiconductor, Electrical, Electronics
Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Suzhou Institute of Nano-Tech and Nano-Bionics (SINANO) has extended its work on double-gated nitride semiconductor high-electron-mobility transistors (DG-HEMTs) [Guohao Yu et al, IEEE Electron Device ...
Tags: Nitride HEMTs, Electrical
In booth #930 at the IEEE MTT International Microwave Symposium (IMS 2013) in Seattle (4-6 June), M/A-COM Technology Solutions Inc of Lowell, MA, USA (which makes analog semiconductors, components and subassemblies) has launched a broadband ...
Tags: Macom, Broadband VGA
GaAs-based broadband wireless and wireline communications component maker Anadigics Inc of Warren, NJ, USA has introduced a new style of RF power amplifier (PA) optimized to power 3G and 4G small-cell base-stations. Paired with digital or ...
Tags: Anadigics, Electrical, Electronics
Xidian University has developed a nitride semiconductor field-plated metal-insulator-semiconductor high-electron-mobility transistor (FP MIS-HEMT) with ‘negligible’ current collapse, along with high maximum current and enhanced ...
Tags: Silicon Nitride, Electrical
Researchers in the USA at BAE Systems and Purdue University have developed atomic layer deposited (ALD) aluminium oxide as passivation for nitride semiconductor high-electron-mobility transistors (HEMTs) [Dong Xu et al, Electron Device ...
Tags: Oxide Passivation, Electronics, Atomic Layer
Micrel has introduced a +/-0.5% accuracy voltage supervisor, with manual reset input, watchdog timer and dual outputs in 1.6mm x 1.6mm thin DFN package. The MIC826 offers eight reset threshold options and is intended to monitor 1.8V to ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics
Electronic component distributor Richardson RFPD Inc (an Arrow Electronics Company) of LaFox, IL, USA has introduced a new 0.7-3.8GHz ultra-low-noise amplifier made by Skyworks Solutions Inc of Woburn, MA, USA. The SKY67151-396LF is a ...
Tags: Richardson RFPD, Electronics
The open-source RF design initiative, dubbed Myriad, has the support of US-based distributor Richardson RFPD. Richardson RFPD will begin stocking and selling the Myriad-RF-1 board to customers around the world via its website immediately. ...
Researchers at Purdue and Harvard universities have developed gallium arsenide (GaAs) enhancement-mode (E-mode) surface/n-channel metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors (NMOSFETs) with a maximum drain current of 336mA/mm, which ...
Tags: NMOSFETs, GaAs, GaAs transistor ALE
Microchip has introduced the PIC24F 'KM' family with "a new level of integrated analogue functionality", said the firm, "including a 12bit ADC with threshold detection, 8bit DACs for control loops, precision comparator references, and ...
Tags: 16bit PICs, Fewer Pins, Consumer Electronics
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 ...
Arduino has gone mobile by offering a GPRS/GSM add-on module to the Arduino motherboard. This will allow the development platform to connect to the internet via GSM mobile phone networks. The module, or shield, was developed in ...
Tags: Arduino, add-on module, company news
Lime Microsystems has launched an open-source RF initiative to support the wireless design community. Dubbed Myriad-RF, the non-profit initiative, aims to attract the interest of hobbyists and design engineers with low-cost RF boards and ...
In conjunction with the 2013 Government Microcircuit Applications and Critical Technology conference (GOMACTech 13) in Las Vegas (11-14 March), RF front-end component maker and foundry services provider TriQuint Semiconductor Inc of ...
Tags: TriQuint, GaN Ku-Band PA, Broadband Integrated Limiter/LNA