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.
To meet the rising demand of small footprint, easy to use drivers, Infineon Technologies has released a new generation single-channel EiceDRIVER X3 compact 1ED31xx isolated gate driver in DSO-8 300 mil package. The new device offers a separate sink and source output, accurate and stable timing, active shutdown for silicon carbide (SiC) MOSFET 0 V turn off in…
Renesas Electronics Corporation has introduced the ZMOD4410, a software configurable Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) sensor platform with IP67 qualified waterproof option. The unique hermetically sealed package protects the device from water and dust with the help of the hydrophobic and oleophobic material that is permeable to humidity and volatile organic compounds (VOCs) at the…
TDKCorporation has introduced a new compact and efficient i7A series of 33A 500W rated non-isolated DC/DC converters in a 1/16th brick pinout package for industrial and battery-powered applications. These new converters come with an output adjustment of 3.3V to 24V and can accept a wide range input voltage of 18 to 60V. The devices can be used to derive additional high-power…
The latest addition to the VIPerPlus series, the VIPer31 compact high-voltage converter IC from STMicroelectronics enables robust power-converter solutions that deliver excellent reliability and meet energy-saving eco-design norms while saving bill-of-materials (BoM) costs.
VIPer31 is optimized for commonly used offline AC/DC…
Toshiba Electronics has introduced two new brushed DC motor driver ICs - TB9054FTG and TB9053FTG to meet the rising demand for system miniaturization and cost reduction in automotive applications. Housed in 6.0 mm x 6.0 mm small QFN packages, these new motor drivers will help downsize automotive electronic control units (ECUs). Both TB9054FTG and TB9053FTG ICs are AEC-…
The new Arm Cortex-based 32-bit RA4M3 microcontrollers from Renesas can boost the operating performance up to 100 MHz in Low-power Metering, Industrial, HVAC, and IoT applications. Combining TrustZone technology with Renesas’ enhanced Secure Crypto Engine, these new microcontrollers enable customers to realize secure element functionality in a wide variety of IoT-edge…
TSV792 from STMicroelectronics is a high bandwidth (50MHz) low offset (200µV) rail-to-rail 5V Op amp that enables accurate amplification of high-frequency signals in various industrial and smart home systems. This new device offers a fast slew rate of 30V/µs and is suitable to be used in photodiode-signal conditioning in battery-powered smoke detectors.
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Melexis has announced the release of two new isolated integrated current sensors, MLX91220 (5 V) and MLX91221 (3.3 V), to increase performance and lower design complexities in various automotive and industrial applications. With 300 kHz bandwidth, these Hall-effect based current sensors can be used in different power conversion applications lower than 50 A RMS.
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The new radar sensing chipset solutions from NXP Semiconductors enables designers to form a 360-degree safety cocoon around vehicles and address NCAP requirements for corner and front radar applications. This new solution comprises of 77GHz transceivers and radar processors and can not only measure the range and speed of objects but can also use its 4D-…
The new analog (1ED34xx) and digital (1ED38xx) EiceDRIVER X3 Enhanced gate driver ICs from Infineon Technologies can increase design flexibility, reduce hardware complexity, and shorten evaluation time in various industrial applications. These devices provide a typical 3A, 6A, and 9A output current; short-circuit detection, a Miller clamp, and soft turn-off. The 1ED34xx…
Microchip Technology has announced its low-Power Radiation Tolerant FPGAs (PolarFire RTPF500T) in engineering silicon to be available for the designers working on space-qualified hardware prototypes. The company is qualifying its RT PolarFire FPGAs to Mil-Std 883 Class B, QML Class Q, and QML Class V, which is the highest qualification and screening standard for…
The new 32-bit RA2L1 from Renesas Electronics is a series of Arm Cortex-M23-based ultra-low-power MCUs with advanced capacitive touch sensing for cost-effective and energy-efficient IoT node HMI applications. These general-purpose MCUs operate up to 48 MHz and come with several integrated features to lower BOM costs, including capacitive touch sensing, embedded flash memory…
