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The new analog (1ED34xx) and digital (1ED38xx) EiceDRIVER X3 Enhanced gate driver ICs from Infineon Technologies can increase design flexibility, reduce hardware complexity, and shorten evaluation time in various industrial applications. These devices provide a typical 3A, 6A, and 9A output current; short-circuit detection, a Miller clamp, and soft turn-off. The 1ED34xx…
Microchip Technology has announced its low-Power Radiation Tolerant FPGAs (PolarFire RTPF500T) in engineering silicon to be available for the designers working on space-qualified hardware prototypes. The company is qualifying its RT PolarFire FPGAs to Mil-Std 883 Class B, QML Class Q, and QML Class V, which is the highest qualification and screening standard for…
The new 32-bit RA2L1 from Renesas Electronics is a series of Arm Cortex-M23-based ultra-low-power MCUs with advanced capacitive touch sensing for cost-effective and energy-efficient IoT node HMI applications. These general-purpose MCUs operate up to 48 MHz and come with several integrated features to lower BOM costs, including capacitive touch sensing, embedded flash memory…
Renesas Electronics has released a high-performance ISL73141SEH single-chip 14-Bit, 1-MSPS successive-approximation-register (SAR) analog-to-digital converter (ADC) to support telemetry, tracking, and control payloads in radiation-hardened (rad-hard) space applications. This new analog-to-digital converter delivers high dynamic and static performance including…
The Gen 3 MLX81330 (0.5 A motor drive) and MLX81332 (1.0 A motor drive) smart LIN drivers from Melexis are the fully integrated single-chip LIN motor driver that reduce BoM and simplify the design of motor-controlled flaps and valves, and small fans and pumps. Suitable for automotive mechatronic applications at up to 10W, these third-gen drivers are based…
UnitedSiC has launched four new devices under its UJ4C SiC FET series based on advanced Gen 4 technology. These 750V SiC FETs enable new performance levels, improve cost-effectiveness, heat efficiency, and design headroom. The new FETs are suitable to be used in high-growth power applications across automotive, industrial charging, telecom rectifiers, datacenter PFC, and DC-…
Octonion SA, a deep tech software company specializing in Artificial Intelligence (AI) at the Edge for industrial-equipment diagnosis, announced a STM32Cube expansion package optimized for STM32L4+ microcontroller-based industrial-application development boards. The solution enables industrial-equipment vendors to quickly evaluate Octonion’s embedded AI models, running…
To address the most common needs of security in cost-sensitive IoT devices, Espressif has released a low power, cost-effective, single-core, 32-bit RISC-V-based ESP32-C3 microcontroller. This new ESP32-C3 MCU with 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi and Bluetooth LE 5.0 connectivity can be used for simple and secure IoT applications. It’s 400KB SRAM is capable of running at 160MHz and…
With the aim to deliver enhanced power rail stabilization in space-constrained designs, Toshiba Electronics has released a series of low noise ultra-compact low dropout (LDO) voltage regulators with a high ripple rejection ratio. The new TCR3RM series comprises of 32 product variants that come in compact plastic DFN4C package and measures only 1.00 mm x 1.00 mm x 0.38…
Trinamic (part of Maxim Integrated) has announced the new PD42-1-1243-IOLINK intelligent actuator that could enable modern smart factories to quickly and remotely adjust an actuator’s electrical characteristics, to help factories minimize downtime and maximize throughput. This new actuator can reduce power by more than 50 percent and drive size by 2.6x, and also boost…
To enable smart-tire features in heavy-duty vehicles, Melexis has introduced a new smart tire pressure sensor named MLX91805 that can not only measure tire pressure but also monitor tire status and loading. This compact sensor comes in a 4 mm x 5 mm wettable flanks DFN-14 package and integrates an 800g XZ-axis accelerometer that can sense up to 10,000 samples per second, a…
Toshiba has developed a prototype for a new type of rechargeable lithium-ion battery that uses water as the aqueous electrolyte. This new battery does not have any flammable organic solvents allowing it to operate at low temperatures of even -30°C and demonstrate a low risk over long term usage, even in the event of a fire. It also delivers high durability of 2,000 charge…
