Technology Articles

2018-02 Connectors Analog Devices

[Feb 21 2018] Analog Devices announced the LTC7821 from Power by Linear, the industry's first hybrid step-down synchronous controller, which combines a switching capacitor circuit with a step-down synchronous controller. Reduces the size of DC/DC converter solutions by up to 50% compared to traditional buck solutions. This improvement was achieved by tripling the switching frequency (without sacrificing effici ...

2018-02 Sensors NXP

[Feb 20 2018] NXP Semiconductors has announced another addition to its industry-leading 77GHz radar portfolio. The NXP MR3003 radar transceiver used by the world's top automotive manufacturer is targeted at autonomous driving applications requiring high resolution and long range capabilities, and was developed specifically for forward and Angle radar. With the new NXP family of system components, automakers ca ...

2018-02 Semiconductors NXP

[Feb 19 2018] NXP Semiconductors announced the introduction of NXP Automated Drive Kit, a software-powered development and testing platform for autonomous vehicle applications. The suite enables automakers and suppliers to rapidly develop, test and deploy autonomous driving algorithms and applications on an open and flexible platform with an ever-expanding ecosystem of partners. Developing autonomous driving a ...

2018-02 Power Semtech

[Feb 18 2018] Semtech Corporation announced the introduction of a new generation of LoRa® devices and Radio frequency (RF) technology (LoRa) chipsets that will enable customers to develop more innovative low-power wide-area network (LPWAN) application paradigms. By addressing the diverse needs for cost-effective and reliable sensor-to-cloud connectivity in any type of radio frequency environment, the new capab ...

2018-02 Semiconductors Allegro MicroSystems, LLC

[Feb 17 2018] Allegro MicroSystems, LLC announced the introduction of a new power management IC, the ARG82800, that integrates a step-down or step-down/boost preregulator, four Ldos, and four floating gate drivers. By using the step-down or step-down/step-up topology architecture, the pre-regulator can efficiently convert the automotive battery voltage into a tightly controlled intermediate voltage, and has th ...

2018-02 Semiconductors ON Semiconductor

[Feb 16 2018] Driving energy efficient innovation, ON Semiconductor will be showcasing integrated semiconduct-based systems for industrial, automotive and consumer applications at EmbeddedWorld next week in Nuremberg, Germany, with a focus on the Internet of Things (loT) and Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) or Industry 4.0, as well as image sensing and power management solutions for automotive applications ...

2018-02 Semiconductors ON Semiconductor

[Feb 15 2018] Driving energy efficient innovation, On Semiconductor announced the launch of the latest USB-C(Type-C) family of devices that are fully compliant with the newly revised 1.3 specification, making it easy for design engineers to integrate into USB-C systems. The new device, which includes two controllers and a switch, is specifically targeted at applications such as smartphones, tablets and laptops ...

2018-02 Power Storm Interface

[Feb 14 2018] As a leading supplier of advanced gas and liquid sensing technologies, SST continues to expand its portfolio of high-precision oxygen sensing devices. The company's threaded zirconia oxygen sensor provides engineers with an easy-to-implement basis for a solution in which only the sensor head is exposed to the sample gas environment and all supporting electronics are removed from potential sources ...

2018-02 Power Texas Instruments

[Feb 13 2018] With the rapid development of science and technology, the world is becoming more and more complex, the demand for efficiency is also increasing, in order to maintain and improve their competitiveness, engineering students must learn and understand the engineering concepts of different disciplines and products. To help these future engineers master the basics of system design, Texas Instruments (T ...

2018-02 Passive Components KEMET

[Feb 12 2018] KEMET announces the launch of a new range of automotive grade metallized polypropylene film capacitors. F863 Class X2 miniature capacitors are specifically designed to provide stable performance for safety applications in harsh environments and harsh environmental conditions. This new class of devices is suitable for automotive and industrial applications. It provides cross-line electromagnetic i ...

2018-02 Power STMicroelectronics

[Feb 11 2018] STMicroelectronics and MACOM announced a co-development agreement for gallium nitride GaN on silicon. Under the agreement, ST manufactures gallium nitride radio frequency wafers on silicon for MACOM. In addition to expanding MACOM's sourcing, the agreement gives ST the right to manufacture and sell gallium nitride products on silicon in the RF market beyond mobile phones, wireless base stations a ...

2018-02 Power Rosenberger

[Feb 10 2018] R&S is the first company to release 5G new air port downlink analysis firmware. The firmware option is used in R&SFSW signal and spectrum analyzers to verify base station signals and 5G power amplifiers. As the first user to use the software, R&S can now provide firmware options to support customers' 5G products to market prior to their official release upon request. This is the first firmware op ...