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Find the latest electronics industry news covering new electronics components releases in various electronics domains such as embedded, power electronics, analog, digital, IoT and Automotive industries. 

 

STMicroelectronics' 800V 8H Triacs operate at full rated current up to the maximum junction temperature of 150°C, allowing heatsinks in drives for AC loads to be up to 50% smaller to combine compact dimensions with high reliability.

Suited to industrial, personal care, smart-home, and smart-building applications, the new Triacs leverage ST’s…

Renesas Electronics has introduced a new magnet-free inductive position sensor, IPS2550 that delivers high accuracy, easy customization, and smaller weight and size with total stray field immunity for automotive applications. This new device is ideal for use as an absolute position sensor for high-speed motor commutation in passenger cars, heavy-duty commercial and off-road…

Exploring new approaches to extend the ease and accuracy of IMC-Hall technology into high-current measurement for emerging automotive applications, Melexis has come up with a new MLX91216 XHF high-speed current sensor IC. This 250 kHz IMC-Hall current sensor is capable of measuring current to beyond 2000 A and helps in redundant monitoring of battery-management systems (BMS…

Global connectivity and electronics solutions provider, Molex has created a family of Noise Cancellation Sensors with A2B technology that when paired with sensing elements capture sound waves leads to the reduction of road-based noise produced by the combustion engine. The new Noise Cancellation Sensors can combat unwanted road, wind, and HVAC car noise while reducing low-…

SX1303 from Semtech Corporation is a new generation LoRa baseband processor that provides worldwide LoRaWAN network coverage and capabilities in several vertical industries including asset tracking, building, home, agriculture, metering, factory automation, and IoT applications. This new chipset enables the network-centric geolocation of LoRa devices without the inclusion of…

Renesas Electronics has announced the release of 48 new RA2E1 Group microcontrollers for cost-sensitive and space-constrained applications. Based on the 48-MHz Arm Cortex-M23 core, these new entry-line single-chip devices offer 16-KB SRAM memory, 128-KB code flash, and support a wide operating voltage range of 1.6V to 5.5V and a large selection of packages viz. LQFP, QFN,…

EiceDRIVER 2ED24427N01F from Infineon Technologies is a newly introduced 24 V dual-channel low-side non-inverting gate driver that enables higher power and faster switching frequencies in multiple applications with a reduced PCB footprint and increased reliability by simplifying high power density system design. Available in a DSO-8 package with a thermally efficient and…

Digi-Key Electronics announced that it has launched a new video series focused on smart agriculture, sponsored by Supplyframe and Amphenol RF. The video series, titled “Farm Different” is a three-part series focused on the people, technology, and challenges of modern agriculture.

“We’re excited to share these important perspectives and insights from…

Building upon the advantages of the STMicroelectronics MasterGaN platform, MasterGaN2 is the first in the new family to contain two asymmetric gallium-nitride (GaN) transistors, delivering an integrated GaN solution suited to soft-switching and active-rectification converter topologies.

The 650V normally-off …

The new ultra-miniature W Series of embedded Wi-Fi antennas from AVX Corporation can provide maximum design flexibility, easy implementation, quicker time-to-market, and reliable, well-matched performance for exceptional network coverage and high-speed data rates in wireless applications across the agricultural, commercial, consumer, computing, industrial, medical, and…

Nuvoton has launched NuMicro ML56, a new series of low-power microcontrollers, based on 1T 8051 core, embedded 64 KB flash and 4 KB SRAM, built-in capacitive touch key, and LCD driver, running up to 24 MHz. These new microcontrollers run less than 100 µA/MHz in normal run mode, and the power-down current is below 2 µA with LCD panel display on.

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The Raspberry Pi Foundation has announced the launch of its new development board, the Raspberry Pi Pico. Being one of the first microcontroller-class products from Raspberry Pi, this compact and low-cost board is built on a brand-new chip called RP2040 which was developed by the Raspberry Pi Foundation itself. The RP2040 is a Dual-core Cortex-M0+ processor with 2MB…