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.
Pico Technology released fully supported software package for the popular and inexpensive single-board computer, the Raspberry Pi. The latest software package is optimised and tested on the new Raspberry Pi 4 along with the current 3B and 3B+ on Raspbian Stretch. The new PicoLog 6 data logging software package offers a visual and easy-to-use interface allowing users to…
Quectel Wireless Solutions released a compact dual-band GNSS module LC79D with support of L1 and L5 bands for satellites which will greatly improve positioning accuracy. The LC79D features concurrent multi-constellation GNSS receivers on dual GNSS bands and can work on L1 and L5 bands for GPS, Galileo and QZSS satellites, L1 band for GLONASS and BeiDou satellites as well as…
AlgoBuilder is a graphical design tool from STMicroelectronics that allows engineers to develop and test complex algorithms using a graphical interface without having to write any code. The tool is aimed to be used with STM32 Microcontroller series and the MEMS sensors from ST Microelectronics. It is capable of getting real time data from the sensors (connected through…
Mouser Electronics is now stocking the OPA855 decompensated amplifier from Texas Instruments (TI). Designed as a wideband, low-noise, bipolar-input operational amplifier, the OPA855 excels in high bandwidth transimpedance and voltage amplifier applications. The 8-GHz gain-bandwidth product (GBWP) of the OPA855 enables high-gain configurations while maintaining wide closed-…
STMicroelectronics has integrated machine-learning technology into its advanced inertial sensors to improve activity-tracking performance and battery life in mobiles and wearables.
The LSM6DSOX iNEMO™ sensor contains a machine-learning core to classify motion data based on known patterns. Relieving…
Infineon Technologies launched the new LED driver IC ILD8150/E features an innovative hybrid dimming mode technology for achieving 0.5 percent of the target current. The driver IC gives a high safety voltage margin for applications operating close to safe extra-low voltage (SELV) limits with its supply voltage ranging from 8 VDC up to 80 VDC. The ILD8150/E buck LED driver IC…
Nexperia has released the new family of high temperature, high-performance, general-purpose transistors and switching diodes which can operate in temperature conditions up to 175°C. The family comprises of BAS16/21 high-speed switching diodes series and BC807/817 general purpose transistors series. The 175°C switching diodes and transistors also offer a 25% higher Ptot…
Diodes Incorporated released the AL5814Q an automotive-compliant linear LED driver-controller with low dropout voltage and open LED detection for automotive linear-driven LED lamps. The led driver is ideal for automotive applications where specific change control is required. The device is AEC-Q100 qualified, PPAP capable, manufactured in IATF16949:2016 certified facilities…
TT Electronics released the HM79M family of power inductors which are surface mount power inductors with ferrite core for industrial applications including automation systems, DC-DC converters, and EMI filters. The series HM79M series are low cost medium power surface mount power inductors that offer system designers low DC resistance and high saturation current with an…
Microchip has released three new maXTouch touchscreen controllers to address electromagnetic interference (EMI) and electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) challenges faced by developers of automotive touchscreens. The new TD family of touch controllers comes with new differential mutual signal acquisition method that significantly increases the Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR). This…
Vishay Intertechnology released a new series of VDR metal oxide varistors (MOV) certified for operation up to +125 °C in accordance with UL 1449 edition 4, VDE/IEC 61051-1/2. The Vishay BCcomponents VDRUS series offers 30 % higher surge current capability than previous-generation devices and it is designed to provide overvoltage and transient voltage protection in consumer…
The Raspberry pi 4 is out and it's an absolute delight for the Raspberry Pi Fans! Ever since the release of the first Raspberry Pi 1 Model B in 2012, the Raspberry Pi foundation has continually sort to improve on it releasing one version after the other, each carrying improvements over the previous release, from improvements on storage, to processing speed, to communication…
