To facilitate the fast-growing electronics industry, the semiconductor companies and component manufacturers constantly improve their designs and announce new products and components that are smaller, more efficient and powerful than the exiting ones. This section covers all the latest electronic components introduced in the market to enable design engineers to be aware about the latest options and helping them to keep their designs up-to-date for competing in the ever-evolving market.
Microchip Technology Inc. has announced the release of a new microcontroller PIC32CM LS60 that combines a secure subsystem and Arm TrustZone technology in a single package and is designed to protect products and the end-user from remote or physical attacks on their smart home devices, smartphones, or tablet accessories, portable medical devices,…
Analog Devices, Inc. has introduced the DS28E30 1-Wire ECDSA Secure Authenticator which is a cost-effective solution to detect and help protect products from counterfeiting or misuse. Combining a fixed-function cryptographic toolbox based on the industry-standard FIPS 186 elliptic curve digital signature algorithm (ECDSA), secure storage of keys and…
Microchip Technology Inc. has introduced the new SAMA7G54 Arm Cortex A7-based MPU that includes both a MIPI CSI-2 camera interface and a traditional parallel camera interface enabling developers to design low-power stereo vision applications with more accurate depth perception. The SAMA7G54 MPU extends this low-power trend into the 1 GHz…
STMicroelectronics has announced the new ASM330LHHX inertial measurement unit (IMU) that moves smart driving another step closer to high levels of automation with its machine-learning (ML) core. The ML core enables fast real-time response and sophisticated functions with low system power demand. The automotive-qualified ASM330LHHX IMU houses a 3-axis…
STMicroelectronics has introduced new common-mode filters that have an extremely wide differential bandwidth of 10.7GHz and are designed to protect antenna sensitivity in adjacent wireless circuitry from the latest serial digital interfaces. The 2-channel ECMF2-40A100N10 and 4-channel ECMF4-40A100N10 common-mode filters are compatible with…
Murata has announced its collaboration with NXP Semiconductors to develop the Type 1XL high-performance Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth 5.3 module. Based on the NXP 88W9098 combo chipset, this ultra-small dual-band module supports IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n/ac/ax 2×2 multi-user, multiple-input, multiple-output (MU-MIMO) and Bluetooth 5.3 Low Energy (LE). This module…
Infineon Technologies AG has expanded the LITIX Power family with the dual-channel, stand-alone DC-DC controller TLD6098-2ES that can drive a full LED headlamp by itself without an additional microcontroller and can also operate the four standard LED front light functions: High Beam (HB), Low Beam (LB), Daytime Running Lights (DRL) and Turn…
STMicroelectronics has introduced the new 200mA low-dropout voltage regulator LD56020 that operates with a supply from 1.1V to 5.5V and has low output noise for applications that demand excellent stability and long battery runtime. Ideal for mobiles, vision sensors, and wireless modules, the LD56020 regulator has an extremely low dropout voltage…
Allegro MicroSystems, Inc. has introduced two new full-bridge gate drivers for automotive and industrial applications that are available with direct control (A89505) and pulse-width modulation (A89506) options. These devices up-integrate critical features to make system design easier, replacing mechanical relays with solid-state drivers to improve…
STMicroelectronics has released the new IPS1025H and IPS1025H-32 single high-side switch ICs that are able to drive capacitive, resistive, or inductive loads with one side connected to the ground and feature low RDS-ON which makes them suitable for the applications with up to 2.4 A/ 5.6 A steady-state operating current.
…u-blox has announced the new MAYA-W2 tri-radio module that brings Wi-Fi 6 technology to industrial and consumer mass-market applications in industrial automation, smart building & energy management, healthcare, smart home, and many other applications. Supporting Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth low energy (LE) 5.2, and IEEE 802.15.4 (Thread and Zigbee) on a…
USB-Cereal is a powerful, fully open-source development tool that simplifies the testing, development, debugging, and manufacturing of devices that utilize USB-C. This USB-Cereal fork by 0xDA makes robust capabilities available to developers and enables simple UART serial communication with the host device using the sideband pins typically dedicated to…