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2017-06 Passive Components Littelfuse

[Jun 18 2017] Littelfuse announced the introduction of the first sealed surface-mount fuse designed specifically for the intrinsic safety of equipment intended for use in or near hazardous sites and explosive environments and certified to the UL 913 standard. Under overcurrent and short circuit conditions, the PICO 304 series surface-mount fuse body with a 1 mm seal will minimize the heat generated and contain ...

2017-06 Power Silicon Labs

[Jun 17 2017] Silicon Labs has further expanded its Wireless Gecko system-on-chip (SoC) product line with the release of a new multi-band SoC that supports full Bluetooth 5 connectivity and more storage capacity options. Silicon Labs' new EFR32xG13 SoC provides developers with significant design flexibility and additional functionality, making it ideal for multi-protocol solutions that use a single wireless pr ...

2017-06 Connectors Maxim Integrated

[Jun 16 2017] Maxim announced the launch of the MAX20078 synchronous buck, high-brightness LED controller, the industry's only device that provides both fast response and low electromagnetic interference (EMI), ideal for external LED lighting and advanced security products. The LED controller is ideal for matrix lighting design, providing designers with a high-performance solution, easy design, and significant ...

2017-06 Optoelectronics ams

[Jun 15 2017] Ams introduces the AS7221 Intelligent Lighting Manager with all-white light and sunshine capture capabilities. A new addition to AMS 'smart Lighting Manager family, the Sensing Lighting ™ family, the AS7220 combines a precisely calibrated color sensor with an intelligent sensing lighting engine to maintain the output of warm and cold white LED strings in a closed loop. This allows the light sourc ...

2017-06 Power MaxLinear, Inc.

[Jun 14 2017] MACOM Technology Solutions has announced the launch of a development kit designed to help commercial Oems quickly and easily adapt their product designs to incorporate gallium nitride-based RF energy sources into a variety of applications such as cooking, lighting, industrial heating/drying, medical/pharmaceutical, and automotive ignition systems. Commercial Oems use solid-state RF energy as an e ...

2017-06 Power Maxim Integrated

[Jun 13 2017] Maxim announces the MAX14819 dual-channel IO-Link host transceiver to help Industry 4.0 applications achieve reliable communication with 50% lower power consumption. Modern fan-less programmable logic controllers (PLCS) and IO-link gateway systems both consume a lot of power, depending on the different IO configurations (IO-Link, digital input/output, analog input/output). With the migration of t ...

2017-06 Connectors Cypress Semiconductor

[Jun 12 2017] Cypress Semiconductor, a leader in the USB-C market, announced a new USB-C controller optimized for power transfer (PD) for Thunderbolt™ notebook, desktop and docking applications. The EZ-PD™ CCG5 is the industry's first dual-port USB-C controller to support the Thunderbolt alternate mode feature of Intel Thunderbolt 3 (Alpine Ridge) controller. The EZ-PD CCG5 solution improves the USB-C plug and ...

2017-06 Power Lattice Semiconductor Corporation

[Jun 11 2017] Lattice Semiconductor Corporation, a leading provider of customized intelligent interconnect solutions to the market, announced that its ECP5 FPGA solution has been used in intelligent monitoring and embedded vision applications at the network edge in the automotive sector. Lattice continues to strengthen its investment in the industrial and automotive markets, and the low-power, small-size ECP5 ...

2017-06 Power Renesas Electronics America

[Jun 10 2017] Renesas Electronics announced the new R9J02G012 USB Power Delivery (USB PD) controller for a wide range of USB PD products using direct current (DC) power, including AC adapters, PCS, smartphones, and other consumer and office devices and toys. The R9J02G012 is the industry's first monolithic solution to support USB Power Delivery 3.0(USB PD 3.0) and USB Type-C™ certification 1.0 (Note 1) for dev ...

2017-06 Semiconductors Cypress Semiconductor

[Jun 9 2017] Cypress Semiconductor, a leader in wireless connectivity solutions for the Internet of Things (IoT), has announced the launch of a new wireless solution. The solution combines high performance 802.11ac Wi-Fi®, Bluetooth ® and Bluetooth Low Power (BLE) technologies for iot applications with excellent coexistence features. Cypress's latest highly integrated CYW4373 solution has a built-in USB 2.0hu ...

2017-06 Semiconductors NXP

[Jun 8 2017] NXP Semiconductors introduces the industry's first 12V smart audio amplifier, the TFA9892. This audio amplifier combines power and compact form factor with high output power, high efficiency, and excellent drum elasticity to achieve deeper, full bass, delivering exceptional sound quality to a wide range of electronic devices such as smartphones, netbooks, and bar speakers. The TFA9892 is the indu ...

2017-06 Connectors Microchip Technology

[Jun 7 2017] Microchip Technology, the world's leading provider of integrated microcontroller, mixed-signal, emulator and flash memory patented solutions, has introduced a new family of low-power microcontroller (MCU) products for driving liquid crystal displays (LCDS), integrating kern-independent peripherals (CIP) and intelligent simulation. The PIC16F19197 family of nine devices includes a battery-friendly ...