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.
STMicroelectronics has introduced the SRK1001 secondary-side synchronous rectification controller that is available with adaptive features that cut bill-of-materials costs, minimize circuit size, and simplify the design of power adapters, chargers, USB Power Delivery outlets, and lighting power supplies based on flyback topologies. The controller has been designed for fast…
Saelig has introduced a compact, multi-channel CDP-07M UHF Narrow-Band Transmitter/Receiver Pair namely the CDP-TX-07M (transmitter) and the CDP-RX-07M (receiver) that contain almost all of the components necessary for radio transmission in a compact housing. The new transmitter and receiver are designed to be compact and to have high functionality along…
STMicroelectronics introduced a new Smart Gateway Platform (SGP) to meet the demand for high-performance Smart-Gateway and Domain-Controller Electronic Control Units. The new SGP was built on gigabit Ethernet communication between the secure and ASIL-B Telecomaco3P microprocessor (MPU) and the ASIL-D SPC58/Chorus microcontroller (MCU) that delivers powerful processing…
KEMET Corporation has launched a new family of metal composite power inductors to address the stringent demands of the automotive market. The MPXV product offering enhances the company’s METCOM range and is AEC-Q200 qualified for use in the automotive sector.
The new power inductors provide efficient power conversion while minimizing Electromagnetic…
Power integrations have expanded its InnoSwitch 3 families with the introduction of the new INN3x78C devices, a new family of offline CV/CC flyback switcher ICs. The new devices incorporated a smaller size-8 750V PowiGaN transistor that enables a compact and efficient power supply between 27W and 55W without a heat sink. The PowiGan technology can deliver efficiency up…
STMicroelectronics has introduced new STM32L4P5 and STM32L4Q5 Microcontrollers (MCU) that bring the performance of the Arm Cortex-M4 core to cost-sensitive and power-conscious smart connected devices, including utility meters, industrial and medical sensors, fitness trackers, and smart-home products. The STM32L4+ MCUs delivers the most economic performance in Compact…
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation has released a compact and low-cost LiDAR solution to enhance the safety and security of self-driving vehicles. Equipped with a micro-electromechanical system (MEMS), the LiDAR product offers an extra-wide horizontal scanning angle to autonomous vehicles and helps improve the accuracy in detecting the shapes and distance of objects.
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The Renesas Electronics Corporation has introduced a next-generation wideband mmWave synthesizer to meet the customers’ demanding frequency range, phase noise, and output power requirement. The flagship 8V97003 has been designed with the industry’s high performance and unique features for 5G and broadband wireless applications.
The 8V97003 delivers…
Researchers at the University of Washington have taken wearable technology to another level with a smart wearable device called AuraRing, a ring and wristband combination that can detect the precise location of someone’s index finger and continuously track hand movements. It is a wearable 5-DoF electromagnetic tracker with a resolution of 0.1 mm and dynamic accuracy of 4.4mm…
Texas Instruments (TI) has introduced, a 40A SWIFT DC/DC buck converter TPS546D24A, which can deliver up to 160A of output current at 85°C ambient temperature. This new converter provides stackability of up to four ICs with higher efficiency than any other 40A DC/DC converter, this allows the engineers to design systems to deliver up to 160A of output current and also…
Power Integrations have introduced a new SCALE 2 single-channel +15/-10V, plug and play gate driver for 4500V press pack IGBT (PPI) modules. The 1SP0351 is designed with a simple and easy to use plug and play feature that facilitates commissioning and allows immediate operation after installation. The conformal coating increases the ruggedness and reliability of the driver…
Diodes Incorporated has introduced a synchronous DC-DC buck converter for point-of-load (POL) conversion. The AP62600 converter IC can deliver up to 6A output with a supply voltage of 4.5V to 18V, it is designed with high side and low side MOSFETs with 36mΩ and 14mΩ on resistance, respectively. AP62600 is available in a 2mm x 3mm package, hence they can be used in the…
