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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. 

 

Strengthening the RF portfolio for traditional macro base transceiver stations (BTS), Renesas Electronics Corporation has released 4 new quad-channel TX VGA RF devices to deliver high performance, high reliability, flexibility, and smaller form factor in 5G Macro BTS systems. The expanded RF lineup includes F4482/1 TX variable gain amplifiers (VGA), the F011x family of…

STMicroelectronics is offering a solution to accelerate the market of Bluetooth LE and 802.15.4 based IoT devices with a miniature, ready-to-use STM32 wireless microcontroller (MCU) module.

The 7mm x 11.3mm STM32WB5MMG module lets product teams build connected devices without needing wireless-design skills.…

Renesas Electronics Corporation has come up with three new general-purpose 64-bit RZ/G2L microprocessors with the latest Arm Cortex-A55 technology for improved AI processing. These new processors, namely RZ/G2L, RZ/G2LC, and RZ/G2UL along with the existing mid-to-high-end RZ/G2E, RZ/G2N, RZ/G2M, and RZ/G2H MPUs provide scalability from entry-level to high-end design.

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Showcased at CES 2021, the all-new miniature near-range Lidar sensor, Nova from Cepton Technologies is designed to provide extra safety in next-generation advanced driver assistant systems (ADAS), autonomous vehicles (AVs), and autonomous ground vehicles (AGVs). This new sensor addresses major gaps in proximity detection of objects with current sensor technologies in high…

Valencell, the Photoplethysmography (PPG) sensor maker has introduced a new sensor that can measure blood pressure with a simple touch. This state-of-the-art ultra-miniaturized PPG sensor module is small enough to fit within an audio earbud, smartwatch, hearing aid, or other wearable devices. The PPG sensor module includes an optical emitter, an optical detector, specialized…

Toshiba Electronics has made new additions to its TXZ+ family of microcontrollers. The new Arm Cortex-M4 core-based M4K, M4M, M4G, and M4N groups and Arm Cortex-M3core-based-M3H group of microcontrollers offer low power consumption and are suitable for a wide variety of applications such as home appliances, industrial devices, office automation, and audiovisual devices,…

Designers can now enhance safety, security, and data integrity for vehicle systems while reducing both complexity and code development by authenticating genuine components with the DS28E40 DeepCover automotive secure authenticator from Maxim Integrated Products. As the newest addition to Maxim Integrated’s line of AEC-Q100 Grade 1 solutions for automotive systems, the…

Nexperia has released a family of space- and cost-saving 80-V resistor-equipped transistors (RETs) or digital transistors to handle spikes and pulses in 48-V automotive board net (mild hybrids and electric vehicles) and other higher voltage circuits.

These new RETs can save space and reduce manufacturing costs by combining the bias resistor and bias…

To help server OEMs and cloud operators deliver high performance in designing storage platforms for next-generation data centers, Microchip has released two Smart Storage PCIe Gen 4 Tri-Mode SmartROC (RAID-on-Chip) 3200 and SmartIOC (I/O Controller) 2200 storage controllers. These smart storage stack management tools can deliver up to three times higher performance compared…

The world’s largest LoRaWAN event goes virtual from Jan 25 to 29, 2021. Join the global, week-long virtual LoRaWAN conference to level-up your skillset, get access to top-notch LoRaWAN products and services, and have thousands of professional connections at your fingertips.

We’ve come a long way since the market inception of LoRaWAN in February 2015…

MAX20361 is a single-/multi-cell solar harvester with maximum power point tracking (MPPT) from Maxim Integrated. This new solution enables designers working on space-constrained wearable and IoT applications to increase runtime and reduce the solution size by half. With fewer, small-sized external components required, this fully integrated solar…

NXP Semiconductors has introduced a new safe Automotive High-Performance Compute (AHPC) development platform, BlueBox 3.0 to meet the new vehicle architecture demands by accelerating system development cycles and speed time-to-market. Embedded with NXP Layerscape LX2160A processor, S32G processors and Kalray’s MPPA processor-based PCIe cards, this new platform has been…