From bulky vacuum tubes to compact high performance microprocessors the evolution of electronic components over the years has always been evident. This section covers all the recent technological advancement in the electronics industry and the new-age products that have hit the electronics market recently.
Digi-Key Electronics is now an official Raspberry Pi authorized distributor and will carry the full line of Raspberry Pi products. With more than 36 million platforms sold, Raspberry Pi has become a go-to solution for everything from rapid prototyping to production ready designs.
Raspberry Pi's full line of products includes low-cost, high…
To tackle the ever-increasing need for more computational power, researchers from Yokohama National University, Japan have successfully developed a 4-bit AQFP prototype microprocessor named MANA (Monolithic Adiabatic iNtegration Architecture). This new microprocessor is developed using superconductors that are about 80 times more energy-efficient than the ones found in…
Nuvoton Technology, the Taiwan-based semiconductor manufacturer, has today announced the launch of its new series of ARM Cortex-M0, 32-bit Microcontrollers that features a dual-mode for Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE5.0) and 2.4GHz Proprietary. These new NuMicro M031BT microcontrollers can operate between 1.8V to 3.6V at a frequency of 47MHz and provides up to 128KB Flash memory…
With Electric Vehicles becoming increasingly common and affordable, companies across the world have begun turning their attention towards setting up EV charging infrastructure and developing newer, faster, and efficient methods to charges these EVs. Lately, Volkswagen has given us a first glimpse of the prototypes of its ‘mobile charging robot’ that can be used for fully…
According to the IC Insights report - A Complete Analysis and Forecast of the Integrated Circuit Industry, Fabless Company's share of worldwide IC sales will set a new all-time record at 32.9%. There is a 22% jump expected in the company sales this year, led by a forecasted $2.8 billion sales increase by AMD as compared to only a 6% IC sales increase forecast for the IDMs.…
Tomu family of USB devices has come up with a new compact QuickLogic EOS S3 SoC named Qomu that can fit inside any USB port with ease. Integrating an Arm Cortex-M4F MCU and an embedded FPGA (eFPGA) in a thumbnail-sized package, this compact SoC comes with 100% vendor-supported open source tools and FPGA tools. The board has two dedicated multipliers that can be used to…
Digi-Key Electronics has announced that it has expanded its product portfolio to include a global distribution partnership with GLF Integrated Power, Inc. GLF Integrated Power provides breakthrough, ultra-efficient, ultra-small, silicon power control and protection integrated circuits (ICs) to the IoT, smart wearable, TWS earbuds, smart medical device, automotive, smartwatch…
Renesas Electronics has released a high-performance ISL73141SEH single-chip 14-Bit, 1-MSPS successive-approximation-register (SAR) analog-to-digital converter (ADC) to support telemetry, tracking, and control payloads in radiation-hardened (rad-hard) space applications. This new analog-to-digital converter delivers high dynamic and static performance including…
Octonion SA, a deep tech software company specializing in Artificial Intelligence (AI) at the Edge for industrial-equipment diagnosis, announced a STM32Cube expansion package optimized for STM32L4+ microcontroller-based industrial-application development boards. The solution enables industrial-equipment vendors to quickly evaluate Octonion’s embedded AI models, running…
Trinamic (part of Maxim Integrated) has announced the new PD42-1-1243-IOLINK intelligent actuator that could enable modern smart factories to quickly and remotely adjust an actuator’s electrical characteristics, to help factories minimize downtime and maximize throughput. This new actuator can reduce power by more than 50 percent and drive size by 2.6x, and also boost…
Toshiba has developed a prototype for a new type of rechargeable lithium-ion battery that uses water as the aqueous electrolyte. This new battery does not have any flammable organic solvents allowing it to operate at low temperatures of even -30°C and demonstrate a low risk over long term usage, even in the event of a fire. It also delivers high durability of 2,000 charge…
VL53L5 from STMicroelectronics is the 64-zone multi-zone Time-of-Flight (ToF) laser-ranging sensor that breaks a scene into separate areas to help an imaging system build the most detailed spatial understanding of a scene. The new sensor comprises a 940 nm Vertical Cavity Surface Emission Laser (VCSEL) light source, a System-on-Chip sensor integrating a VCSEL…
