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Digi-Key Electronics, which offers the world's largest selection of electronic components in stock for immediate shipment, announced that it has secured a global distribution partnership with ArkX Laboratories to offer their Advanced Far-field Voice Capture AFE module and development kit for voice-enabled IoT products.

The Advanced Far-…

With the aim to contribute to the future of high-voltage systems of hybrid and electric vehicles (xEV), TDK Corporation has released a new hall-effect sensor, CUR 4000. This device with Cursens technology offers non-intrusive, galvanic isolated contactless current sensing and highly accurate current measurements in automotive and industrial applications.

The ISO 26262 ASIL-B ready and…

The XRF8™ Xilinx RFSoC Gen 3 system-on-module is now available from Avnet. The XRF8 module and Avalon™ software suite enable production-ready system development using the Xilinx ZynqUltraScale+ RFSoC Gen3 for RF applications demanding small footprint, high-speed serial connectivity and real-time processing. It is capable of RF direct conversion of signals with…

STMicroelectronics has introduced L6981 synchronous step-down regulators, extending the family of high-efficiency converters that simplify the power-supply design by integrating power elements, feedback circuitry, and safety features on-chip.

Rated to deliver up to 1.5A, with 90% typical efficiency at full load, the L6981 converters are…

The new PESD4USBx series of high-performing 4-channel ESD protection devices by Nexperia offer ideal signal integrity for automotive multimedia and video link applications. There are a total of 12 ESD protection devices in the series that aim to protect the ever-increasing number of high-speed interfaces found in automotive applications, especially the in…

Maxim Integrated Products and Aizip Inc, a company focused on artificial intelligence (AI) for applications in the Internet of Things (IoT), today announced that Maxim Integrated’s MAX78000 neural-network microcontroller detects people in an image using Aizip’s Visual Wake Words (VWW) model at just 0.7 millijoules (mJ) of energy per inference. This is 100 times lower than…

VA1200 from Vesper is the piezoelectric MEMS voice accelerometer that enables high-fidelity Voice Pickup (VPU) in earbuds, TWS (True Wireless Stereo), VR (Virtual Reality), AR (Augmented Reality), smart-frames, and smart-glasses. Easily integrated into in-ear hearable products, this disruptive, low-power bone conduction vibration sensor reduces design time and design…

Infineon Technologies introduced XENSIV IM67D130A to address the need for high-performance, low-noise MEMS microphones for automotive applications. This new device in the PG-LLGA-5-4 package is fully qualified for the AEC-Q103-003 standard for automotive applications and can help simplify the design-in efforts for the industry and reduce the risk of…

The AOZ2263VQI-01 and AOZ2263VQI-02 application-specific EZBuck regulators from Alpha and Omega Semiconductors come with adjustable output voltage using 2-bit VID provides the high power density solution for Intel rocket lake CPU VCCIO rails. The new devices come in QFN 4x4 packages and offer the compact footprint to support VCCIO rails in Intel Rocket Lake platforms used in…

The new Open Source Power Delivery Software Framework (PSF) from Microchip Technology helps designers to easily modify and own the IP in their USB-C PD systems. This new PSF solution gives designers the flexibility for creating differentiated product offerings while choosing from a wide variety of Microchip SmartHubs, microcontrollers (MCUs), and standalone PD solutions…

Digi-Key Electronics has deployed a robust, safe distancing solution for all employees in their product distribution center (PDC) with more than 2,500 active employee badges online in the first two weeks of the solution deployment. The Safe Distancing solution works through a badge that each individual employee is issued. The badges interact wirelessly with one another…

With the release of a new 16-bit general-purpose RL78/G23 microcontroller (MCU), Renesas Electronics Corporation has strengthened its RL78 family of low-power microcontrollers. Optimized for IoT endpoint applications, this new line of microcontrollers increases the on-chip flash memory capacity to 768 KB and expands on-chip peripheral functions, which extend functionality…