October 23, 2012 - ProTek Devices says it is now offering individual unpackaged die for LEDs in wafer form, available as unidirectional and bidirectional electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection diodes. The new LED die (<6 mils thickness) ...
Tags: LED lighting, LED, lighting
Researchers in China and Canada have developed air-bridge field plates for nitride semiconductor high-electron-mobility transistors (HEMTs) that increase the breakdown voltage and offer more stable performance at raised temperatures [Xie ...
Intersil has joined with Renesas Electronics to develop a sensor signal conditioning reference design for thermocouple, pressure and strain gauges. The design incorporates two boards - an Intersil board with analogue front-end chips ...
Tags: Intersil, Renesas Electronics, thermocouple
Ericsson has a digitally-controlled 12V bus converter designed for powering Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) and Network Attached Storage (NAS) hard-disk applications that operate with high capacitive loads up to 15mF. Designed ...
Tags: Ericsson, Digital Power Contol, RAID Systems
Toshiba Corporation today announced that it has launched an LED driver for LED display and illumination equipment that can illuminate 8 RGB-LEDs with a single IC. Samples are available now and mass production is scheduled for March 2013. ...
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Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) is a balanced high-speed communication standard that is widely used around the world. Until recently, the majority of its applications were in non-hostile environments. New applications in industrial control and smart ...
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Suzhou Institute of Nano-tech and Nano-bionics (SINANO) in China has been using double-gated nitride semiconductor high-electron-mobility transistors (HEMTs) to understand the effects of field-plates in improving dynamic performance [Guohao ...
Tags: SINANO, China, double-gated nitride semiconductor, HEMTs
Small computer pioneer Via Technologies has announced a 12x12.5x3cm ARM Cortex-A8-based machine. ARMTiGO A800 is "the world’s smallest ARM system for embedded applications, including hotel automation, digital signage and, ...
Dutch start-up Anagear has released a power management IC (PMIC) for wireless sensor nodes, that consumes an average of 600nA, said the firm. Typically, wireless sensor nodes have a microcontroller that spends most of its time in sleep, ...
Soundmatters®, a leader in high-quality, portable speakers founded by former NASA engineer/audio legend Dr. Godehard Guenther, announced today foxL® DUET, a high-powered compact desktop and travel friendly stereo hi-fi satellite and ...
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Intersil has introduced a single-cell boost converter that can deliver 5V at 400mA at efficiencies around 90%across a Li-ion cell operating range. It will also deliver 5V 100mA from 1.2V at around 80%efficiency,and will work down to 0.8V ...
Tags: Li-ion cell, converter, USB-OTG
Raspberry Pi interface board PiFace will be shipping to the public in the next few weeks. The board adds eight output and eight inputs to Raspberry Pi, as well as various LEDs, switches, and a couple of relays. Most ...
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RF Micro Devices Inc of Greensboro, NC, USA has launched the RFPA520x series of three-stage WiFi power amplifier (PA) modules, designed for 802.11b/g/n applications. Other applications include: consumer premise equipment (CPE); picocells ...
Tags: RFMD, WiFi, RF Micro Devices, premise equipment
RF and microwave component distributor RFMW Ltd of San Jose, CA, USA has announced design and sales support for the TQP7M9106, a high-linearity driver amplifier with frequency coverage from 50MHz to 1.5GHz made by RF front-end product maker ...
Tags: RFMW, high-linearity amplifier, family
There are a many reasons an application might call for titanium due to its exceptional strength-to-weight ratio. In its unalloyed form titanium is a strong as some steels yet 45% lighter. However the welding of titanium demands a more ...
Tags: titanium, strength-to-weight ratio, welding of titanium, 45%lighter