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.
Designers creating next-generation wearable health and fitness applications can reduce temperature measurement power by 50 percent with the MAX30208, as well as shrink optical solution size by 40 percent with the MAXM86161 from Maxim Integrated. In addition, design engineers can improve both sensitivity and accuracy with the highest signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) using the…
SiTime Corporation unveiled its Endura™ MEMS timing solutions for aerospace and defense applications such as field and satellite communications, precision GNSS, avionics, and space. The Endura products are engineered to offer unmatched performance in harsh conditions – such as severe shock, vibration, and extreme temperature – that are routinely…
The MAX31341B nanoPower real-time clock (RTC) from Maxim Integrated enables designers of space-constrained systems such as wearables, medical monitors, point-of-sale (POS) equipment and portable terminals to extend battery life as well as save power and space. More than 35 percent smaller than the tiniest RTC alternatives available today, this nanoPower RTC, which operates…
Renesas Electronics Corporation released three new 15 Mbps photocouplers designed to withstand the harsh operating environments of industrial and factory automation equipment. The photocouplers will fulfil the need of smaller ICs with lower power consumption in higher voltage and compact systems. The RV1S9x60A photocoupler family comes in best-in-class low threshold input…
Vishay Intertechnology launched a small Automotive Grade IHLP low profile, high current inductors with the 3.3 mm by 3.3 mm 1212 case size to save space in next-generation ADAS and sensor applications. The new Vishay Dale IHLP-1212AZ-A1 and IHLP-1212AB-A1 combine operating temperatures of +125 °C with extremely low profiles down to 1.0 mm, while the IHLP-1212AB-5A features…
Mouser Electronics is now stocking the QPA2308 MMIC power amplifier from Qorvo. Engineered for commercial and military applications, the QPA2308 provides high-power density and power-added efficiency for 5 to 6 GHz radio frequency (RF)-based designs. Fabricated on Qorvo’s production 0.25 um gallium nitride-on-silicon carbide (GaN-on-SiC) process, this monolithic…
Infineon Technologies has launched hybrid SiC and IGBT power module EasyPACK 2B in the 1200 V family utilizes the ANPC topology. The ANPC topology used in the power module supports an even loss distribution between semiconductor devices compared with traditional 3-level neutral-point-clamped topologies. The power module features increased power density and a switching…
Mouser Electronics is now stocking the LMG1210 200 V half-bridge MOSFET and GaN FET driver from Texas Instruments (TI). Part of TI’s industry-leading gallium nitride (GaN) power portfolio family, the LMG1210 enables higher efficiency, increased power density, and lower overall system size over traditional silicon-based alternatives, and are optimized specifically for…
Congatec launched 10 new COM Express Type 6 modules featuring the best and latest Intel embedded processor technology. The four Intel Xeon, three Intel Core, two Intel Celeron and one Intel Pentium processors are all based on the same Intel microarchitecture (codenamed Coffee Lake H). This enables Congatec to provide all 10 new processors on one COM…
Designers of high-performance automotive lighting applications now have a simpler, more efficient method for driving high-brightness LEDs (HBLEDs) with the MAX25610A and MAX25610B LED drivers from Maxim Integrated. The synchronous buck, buck-boost LED drivers/DC-DC converters offer a complete solution that features industry-leading EMI performance, without compromising on…
Texas Instruments (TI) today launched an ultra-low-power switching regulator TPS62840 with the lowest possible operating quiescent current (IQ) at 60 nA. The TPS62840 synchronous step-down converter delivers very high light-load efficiency of 80% at 1-µA load enabling designers to extend the battery life of their systems, or use fewer or smaller batteries to shrink their…
XP Power released PBR500 and PBR650 series, two new ranges of AC-DC power supplies that provide BF class insulation for healthcare applications where EMC performance is a key requirement. The PBR500 and PBR650 series feature power levels up to 500W and 650W respectively and accept wide, universal input range of 80VAC – 264VAC at 47Hz to 63Hz offering a total of eight single…
