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.
The XRF8™ Xilinx RFSoC Gen 3 system-on-module is now available from Avnet. The XRF8 module and Avalon™ software suite enable production-ready system development using the Xilinx ZynqUltraScale+ RFSoC Gen3 for RF applications demanding small footprint, high-speed serial connectivity and real-time processing. It is capable of RF direct conversion of signals with…
STMicroelectronics has introduced L6981 synchronous step-down regulators, extending the family of high-efficiency converters that simplify the power-supply design by integrating power elements, feedback circuitry, and safety features on-chip.
Rated to deliver up to 1.5A, with 90% typical efficiency at full load, the L6981 converters are…
The new PESD4USBx series of high-performing 4-channel ESD protection devices by Nexperia offer ideal signal integrity for automotive multimedia and video link applications. There are a total of 12 ESD protection devices in the series that aim to protect the ever-increasing number of high-speed interfaces found in automotive applications, especially the in…
Maxim Integrated Products and Aizip Inc, a company focused on artificial intelligence (AI) for applications in the Internet of Things (IoT), today announced that Maxim Integrated’s MAX78000 neural-network microcontroller detects people in an image using Aizip’s Visual Wake Words (VWW) model at just 0.7 millijoules (mJ) of energy per inference. This is 100 times lower than…
VA1200 from Vesper is the piezoelectric MEMS voice accelerometer that enables high-fidelity Voice Pickup (VPU) in earbuds, TWS (True Wireless Stereo), VR (Virtual Reality), AR (Augmented Reality), smart-frames, and smart-glasses. Easily integrated into in-ear hearable products, this disruptive, low-power bone conduction vibration sensor reduces design time and design…
Infineon Technologies introduced XENSIV IM67D130A to address the need for high-performance, low-noise MEMS microphones for automotive applications. This new device in the PG-LLGA-5-4 package is fully qualified for the AEC-Q103-003 standard for automotive applications and can help simplify the design-in efforts for the industry and reduce the risk of…
The AOZ2263VQI-01 and AOZ2263VQI-02 application-specific EZBuck regulators from Alpha and Omega Semiconductors come with adjustable output voltage using 2-bit VID provides the high power density solution for Intel rocket lake CPU VCCIO rails. The new devices come in QFN 4x4 packages and offer the compact footprint to support VCCIO rails in Intel Rocket Lake platforms used in…
With the release of a new 16-bit general-purpose RL78/G23 microcontroller (MCU), Renesas Electronics Corporation has strengthened its RL78 family of low-power microcontrollers. Optimized for IoT endpoint applications, this new line of microcontrollers increases the on-chip flash memory capacity to 768 KB and expands on-chip peripheral functions, which extend functionality…
Integrating two symmetrical 650V gallium nitride (GaN) power transistors with 225mΩ RDS(on), the new MasterGaN4 power device from STMicroelectronics can simplify the design of high-efficiency power-conversion applications up to 200W. This latest addition to ST’s MasterGaN family uses wide-bandgap GaN power semiconductors by taking away the complex gate-control and circuit-…
Infineon Technologies has enhanced its 600 V CoolMOS S7 family by adding two new optimized devices, industrial-grade CoolMOS S7 10 mΩ, and the automotive-grade CoolMOS S7A. Developed by optimizing the renowned CoolMOS 7 technology platform, these devices offer the best price-performance ratio at high-quality standards with emphasis on conduction performance, energy…
The new DC/DC buck converters, LM25149-Q1 and LM25149 from Texas Instruments are designed with an integrated active EMI filter to enable engineers to achieve the smallest low-EMI power designs. With the help of these buck converters, designers can reduce the area of the external EMI filter by half, lower the conducted EMI of the power design by as much as 55 dBµV across…
Extending the family of high-efficiency converters that simplify power-supply design, STMicroelectronics has introduced integrated 1.5A L6981 synchronous step-down regulators. Simplify high-efficiency power conversion; these regulators deliver 90% typical efficiency at full load.
Available in two variants, the L6981 synchronous step-down converters…
