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Digi-Key Electronics is now an official Raspberry Pi authorized distributor and will carry the full line of Raspberry Pi products. With more than 36 million platforms sold, Raspberry Pi has become a go-to solution for everything from rapid prototyping to production ready designs.

Raspberry Pi's full line of products includes low-cost, high…

To tackle the ever-increasing need for more computational power, researchers from Yokohama National University, Japan have successfully developed a 4-bit AQFP prototype microprocessor named MANA (Monolithic Adiabatic iNtegration Architecture). This new microprocessor is developed using superconductors that are about 80 times more energy-efficient than the ones found in…

Nuvoton Technology, the Taiwan-based semiconductor manufacturer, has today announced the launch of its new series of ARM Cortex-M0, 32-bit Microcontrollers that features a dual-mode for Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE5.0) and 2.4GHz Proprietary. These new NuMicro M031BT microcontrollers can operate between 1.8V to 3.6V at a frequency of 47MHz and provides up to 128KB Flash memory…

With Electric Vehicles becoming increasingly common and affordable, companies across the world have begun turning their attention towards setting up EV charging infrastructure and developing newer, faster, and efficient methods to charges these EVs. Lately, Volkswagen has given us a first glimpse of the prototypes of its ‘mobile charging robot’ that can be used for fully…

According to the IC Insights report - A Complete Analysis and Forecast of the Integrated Circuit Industry, Fabless Company's share of worldwide IC sales will set a new all-time record at 32.9%. There is a 22% jump expected in the company sales this year, led by a forecasted $2.8 billion sales increase by AMD as compared to only a 6% IC sales increase forecast for the IDMs.…

Tomu family of USB devices has come up with a new compact QuickLogic EOS S3 SoC named Qomu that can fit inside any USB port with ease. Integrating an Arm Cortex-M4F MCU and an embedded FPGA (eFPGA) in a thumbnail-sized package, this compact SoC comes with 100% vendor-supported open source tools and FPGA tools. The board has two dedicated multipliers that can be used to…

Delivering 60 TOPS with low power consumption for deep learning processing and up to 96K DMIPS, the R-Car V3U from Renesas Electronics is a new open, scalable ASIL D System on Chip (SoC) built to meet performance, safety, and scalability (up and down) demands of ADAS and automated driving (AD) systems. This new device achieves ASIL D metrics for the majority of the SoC…

To meet the rising demand of small footprint, easy to use drivers, Infineon Technologies has released a new generation single-channel EiceDRIVER X3 compact 1ED31xx isolated gate driver in DSO-8 300 mil package. The new device offers a separate sink and source output, accurate and stable timing, active shutdown for silicon carbide (SiC) MOSFET 0 V turn off in…

Renesas Electronics Corporation has introduced the ZMOD4410, a software configurable Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) sensor platform with IP67 qualified waterproof option. The unique hermetically sealed package protects the device from water and dust with the help of the hydrophobic and oleophobic material that is permeable to humidity and volatile organic compounds (VOCs) at the…

TDKCorporation has introduced a new compact and efficient i7A series of 33A 500W rated non-isolated DC/DC converters in a 1/16th brick pinout package for industrial and battery-powered applications. These new converters come with an output adjustment of 3.3V to 24V and can accept a wide range input voltage of 18 to 60V. The devices can be used to derive additional high-power…

The latest addition to the VIPerPlus series, the VIPer31 compact high-voltage converter IC from STMicroelectronics enables robust power-converter solutions that deliver excellent reliability and meet energy-saving eco-design norms while saving bill-of-materials (BoM) costs.

VIPer31 is optimized for commonly used offline AC/DC…

Toshiba Electronics has introduced two new brushed DC motor driver ICs - TB9054FTG and TB9053FTG to meet the rising demand for system miniaturization and cost reduction in automotive applications. Housed in 6.0 mm x 6.0 mm small QFN packages, these new motor drivers will help downsize automotive electronic control units (ECUs). Both TB9054FTG and TB9053FTG ICs are AEC-…