Electronics and Semiconductor News

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. 

 

Vishay Intertechnology has launched a new series of Inductors with an inductance value ranging from 0.33uH to 75.0uH. The inductors feature high efficiency with a typical DCR value from 1.05mΩ to 204.0mΩ and can handle a maximum current of upto 36A. These are automotive grade inductors, suitable for under the hood applications and can withstand a maximum temperature of up to…

Designers of always-on wearable and internet of things (IoT) devices now have an easier way to extend battery runtime while shrinking form factor with the latest tiny, highly integrated power-management IC (PMIC) from Maxim Integrated.  The ultra-low-power MAX20345 integrates a lithium charger and debuts a unique architecture that optimizes the sensitivity of optical…

Diodes Incorporated announced the AP63200/AP63201/AP63203/AP63205 2A synchronous DC-DC buck converters, delivering class-leading EMI performance across a range of input and output voltages. These devices are well-suited for a number of applications, including home appliances and industrial electronics, as well as telecommunications, power tools, office equipment…

Mouser Electronics is now stocking the G.hn Wave-2 networking chipset from MaxLinear, featuring the G.hn digital baseband and G.hn analog front ends. Offering physical data rates up to 2 Gbits per second (Gbps) across a variety of physical media, the Wave-2 networking G.hn processors deliver reliable connectivity and reduced congestion in smart grid, security, broadband,…

The 32-bit RX66T Microcontroller from Renesas is commonly used for motor control applications since it can simultaneously control up to four motors with a maximum operating frequency of 160MHz. Today Renesas has announced another built-in feature called the e-AI which enables failure detection of home appliances that have a motor inside like, Washing machines, Air…

Mouser Electronics is now stocking the DRV835x three-phase smart gate drivers from Texas Instruments. These highly integrated gate drivers are designed for three-phase BLDC motor applications, including field-oriented control (FOC), sinusoidal current control, and trapezoidal current control.

 

TI's DRV835x…

The 400mA low-dropout linear regulator LDO40L from STMicroelectronics provides quiet and efficient power for always-on automotive modules and noise-sensitive loads. 

 

With 45µA quiescent current, the AEC-Q100 qualified LDO40L reduces the demand on vehicle batteries to run various body and interior functions that…

Vishay Intertechnology announced that it has extended the Vishay Cera-Mite 715CxxKT series of ceramic screw-mounting disc capacitors with higher voltages to 50 kVDC (34 kVRMS).

 

With low AC and DC coefficients and a negligible piezoelectric / electrostrictive effect, 715CxxKT series capacitors are…

United Electronic Industries (UEI) today announced the UEIPAC series of standalone embedded controllers now offers an optional 8347E CPU. This version includes IEEE-1588 synchronization, solid-state hard drives up to 32 Gigabyte, hardware-based Ethernet encryption plus twice the RAM, and 32 times as much FLASH memory.

 

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The STMicroelectronics STR485LV 3.3V transceiver for RS485 applications, enhances design flexibility by providing an external pin to select 20Mbps or 250kbps communication and interfacing directly with low-voltage logic down to 1.8V.

 

The user-selectable data rate allows designers to specify the same device…

The rapid expansion of wireless capabilities, such as Wi-Fi and Bluetooth-enabled applications, is increasing high-frequency noise in our livable space and work environments. To allow designers to provide improved performance while more easily managing an increasingly difficult environment, Microchip announced the MCP6V51 zero-drift operational amplifier. The new device…

STMicroelectronics announced extended support for Amazon FreeRTOS with new starter kits for the STM32, ST’s popular family of 32-bit Arm® Cortex®-M microcontrollers. 

 

ST is leveraging AWS to boost designers’ efforts to create easily connectable Internet of Things (IoT) nodes with the combination of ST’s…