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.
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…
STMicroelectronics has added a QML-V qualified 7A Point-of-Load (PoL) DC/DC converter to its portfolio of radiation-hardened (rad-hard) integrated power products that deliver high power efficiency to satisfy the most demanding space applications.
The RHRPMPOL01 is a complete PoL converter, including an N-channel power MOSFET and…
To help automotive designers meet the rising need of increased bandwidth and flexible data, Microchip Technology has come up with the PIC18-Q84 family of 8-bit MCUs designed for automotive interface and smart sensor networks. Accompanied by an extensive array of Core Independent Peripherals (CIPs) that handle a variety of tasks without requiring CPU intervention, these…
The recently unveiled MAX17320 from Maxim Integrated is a high accuracy fuel gauge and protector IC for 2 to 4 series Lithium-ion (Li+) cells (2S-4S). Equipped with Maxim Integrated’s patented ModelGauge m5 EZ algorithm, the new fuel-gauge and protection circuit delivers 40% more accurate state-of-charge (SOC) readings than competitive ICs available in the market…
VL53L5 from STMicroelectronics is the 64-zone multi-zone Time-of-Flight (ToF) laser-ranging sensor that breaks a scene into separate areas to help an imaging system build the most detailed spatial understanding of a scene. The new sensor comprises a 940 nm Vertical Cavity Surface Emission Laser (VCSEL) light source, a System-on-Chip sensor integrating a VCSEL…
