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.
STEP400 is a 4-axis stepper motor driver designed around the Microchip SAM D21 Motor Driver IC. This new motor driver board provides a simple and creative coding environment to generate motion. The package comes with an Arduino Zero, Ethernet shield, sensor inputs for homing and limiting, and four stepper motor drivers placed together on one PCB board.
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Melexis has introduced the MLX92214, a new Hall-effect latch with high magnetic sensitivity, and delivers the robustness of a high-quality device in the cost-sensitive applications. The new device uses the mixed-signal CMOS technology and has an integrated chopper-stabilized amplifier that eliminates output offset.
The low power consumption of the…
Microchip Technology Inc. has introduced the new VSC8540/41ET Gigabit Ethernet PHY RMII / RGMII Transceiver, a Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) based device for avionics and military applications. The new device comes in a military-grade, high-reliability (HiRel) plastic package, which is essential for various applications such as fighting vehicles to cockpit…
The Infineon Technologies AG has introduced the industry-leading TRENCHSTOP IGBT7 in a discrete TO-247 Housing with a breakdown voltage of 650V. The TRENCHSTOP family portfolio is available with the current ratings of 20A, 30A, 40A, 50A, and 75A, hence they are suitable for applications such as industrial motor drives, power factor correction, photovoltaic and…
Vishay Intertechnology has extended its EP1 wet tantalum capacitor to meet the requirements of military and avionics applications. The new device delivers the industry’s highest capacitance of 3,600 µF to 40,000 µF in the B case code and 5,300 µF to 58,000 µF in the C case code with an average voltage rating ranging from 25 VDC to 125 VDC.
The new…
Nuvoton Technology Corporation has introduced a new low power grade NuMicroM251/M252 series of microcontrollers for industrial control applications. The new series of microcontrollers is based on Arm Cortex-M23 secure core for Armv8-M architecture running up to 48 MHz with up to 256 KB Flash and 32 KB SRAM.
The NUMicro M251/M252 series provides a…
STMicroelectronics has added a QFN48 package to the STM32WLE5 wireless System-on-Chip (SoC) portfolio, bringing the device’s extensive feature integration, power efficiency, and multi-modulation flexibility to a wider variety of industrial wireless applications.
The STM32WLE5 combines ST’s STM32L4 ultra-low-power microcontroller…
The Microchip Technology Inc. has introduced a RISC-V-based System-on-Chip (SoC) Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) development kit for PolarFire® SoC FPGA. The Icicle Development Kit allows the designers who need a programmable RISC-V based SOC FPGA to develop and evaluate the broad network of RISC-V ecosystem products such as Real-Time Operating Systems (RTOS),…
Nexperia has introduced four new AEC-Q101-qualified TrEOS ESD protection devices for automotive use. The new TrEOS components can withstand high temperatures up to 175°C, and they combine extremely low capacitance for high signal integrity, extremely low clamping, and high robustness for modern automotive interfaces.
The capacitance of the device is…
Toshiba Electronic Devices and Storage Corporation have introduced three new photo relays namely, TLP3480, TLP3481, and TLP3482 in a P-SON4 package. All the three devices have an OFF-state output terminal voltage rating and ON-state current rating ranging from 30V and 4.5A to 100V and 2A.
With a small mounting area of 7.2mm2 (typ.), and an ON…
The Renesas Electronics Corporation has introduced the P9415-R, a 15W wireless power receiver that features up to 5W of transmit power capability in transmitter/receiver (TRx) mode and receives up to 15W on Qi transmitters. The new wireless power receiver has been designed with Renesas’ exclusive WattShare technology and it enables quick and convenient charging of mobile…
The Traco power has introduced the TEN 60WIR, a ruggedized 60 Watt, wide 4:1 input voltage range (9–36, 18–75, 36–160 VDC) DC/DC converter series with a specially designed preassembled heatsink. The railway approved converter comes in a 2x1 metal package and provides increased resistance against electromagnetic interference, shock/vibration, and thermal shock.
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