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.
Packed in the small form factor, the Exynos W920 wearable processor from Samsung Electronics offers high performance, efficiency, and LTE connectivity demanded by the next-generation wearable devices. Integrated with an LTE modem, this new processor from the company is built with an advanced 5-nanometer (nm) extreme ultra-violet (EUV) process node.
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Sensirion has introduced three next-generation sensors - SFM3003, SFM3013, and SFM3119 as part of SFM3xxx platform. Available worldwide via Sensirion distributors, these new flow sensors are suitable for inspiratory applications at ambient pressure. All three flow sensors offer high accuracy, very low-pressure drop, and fast signal sampling. Moreover, these devices…
RAA215300 from Renesas is a new high-performance, low-cost 9-channel PMIC designed for 32-bit and 64-bit MCU and MPU applications. This highly integrated PMIC (Power Management IC) is optimized for RZ/V2L and RZ/G2L microprocessors (MPUs) designed for AI-enabled applications.
The new RAA215300 PMIC comes with a wide range…
Maxim Integrated’s new MAX78000 ultra-low power neural-network microcontroller detects and localizes faces in video and images using Xailient’s proprietary Detectum neural network. Xailient’s neural network draws 250x lower power (at just 280 microJoules) than conventional embedded solutions available in the market, and at 12 milliseconds (ms) per inference, the network…
Jupiter Nano from Starcat is a small yet high-performance open-source development board that is equipped with a Microchip SAMA5D27C-LD1G running at 498 Mhz and is capable of running NuttX RTOS or Linux. Measuring just 1.125″ x 2.5″, the tiny 48-pin form factor is similar in size to Teensy 4.1.
Ideal for Arduino users who need a tiny,…
Espressif Systems has introduced an IEEE 802.15.4 + Bluetooth 5.2 (LE) RISC-V SoC, ESP32-H2 that enables ultra-low-power, energy-efficient operation in smart home applications. The device is operable in the 2.4 GHz band and comes with an integrated DC-DC converter. It has a single-core, 32-bit RISC-V microcontroller that can be clocked up to 96 MHz.
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Enabling new application areas to ease down the customer interaction, the new NFC transceiver, ST25R3918 from STMicroelectronics supports peer-to-peer functionality and NFC card-emulation mode as well as NFC reader operation. This multi-purpose device delivers most of the functionality of the flagship ST25R3916 NFC reader at a highly competitive price, the…
Toshiba has added new Arm Cortex-M4 Microcontrollers to its TXZ4A+ series. The mass production of 12 new devices in the M4K group for motor control as first products in the TXZ+ family advanced class has already started and the company plans to start the mass production of 10 products in the M4M group next month. These new products that have lately been added to the M4K…
LUNA is a powerful multi-tool designed by Great Scott Gadgets for building, analyzing, and hacking USB device in a cost-effective manner. Based on a Lattice Semiconductor, LFE5U-12F ECP5 FPGA, this all-in-one tool is built around a unique FPGA-based architecture with fully customizable hardware. LUNA can be used as high-speed USB protocol analyzer, USB-…
Microchip Technology has expanded its silicon carbide portfolio with high-efficiency, high-reliability 1700V silicon carbide MOSFET die, discrete and power modules. The new 1700V silicon carbide technology is smart alternative to silicon IGBTs and unlike previous technology doesn’t ask designers to compromise on performance and eliminates the need to use complicated…
Ricoh Electronic Devices has launched a high-voltage buck DC/DC controller series with a wide input voltage range of 5.0 V to 60 V and maximum rating of 80 V. The R1260 Series is optimized for use in automotive and industrial applications and its output voltage is externally configurable in the range of 1.0 V to 16.0 V. Due to its high operating voltage up to 60 V, it can…
With the shift to self-driving and other high-functionality vehicles, the demand for multilayer ceramic capacitors has increased. This further has raised the demand for the reduction in the number of components being used.
Meeting the market needs of compact capacitors with large capacity and low ESL to improve the reliability and decrease the…
