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Wide 5.5-60V input synchronous buck converter is suitable for hot swapping
Wide 5.5-60V input synchronous buck converter is suitable for hot swapping
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Richtek Technology has introduced a 0.5A, 60V input, 350 kHz synchronous step-down DC/DC converter for hot swapping battery, consumer and…
Another semiconductor industry mega-deal; Qualcomm to acquire NXP
Another semiconductor industry mega-deal; Qualcomm to acquire NXP
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Qualcomm and NXP Semiconductors have announced an agreement, approved by the boards of directors of both companies, under which Qualcomm…
Analog Devices acquires Innovasic for advanced Ethernet
Analog Devices acquires Innovasic for advanced Ethernet
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Analog Devices has announced the acquisition of Innovasic, specialist semiconductor and IP vendor of deterministic Ethernet semiconductor and software solutions.
Online prototyping with A/D simulation, in Infineon Designer
Online prototyping with A/D simulation, in Infineon Designer
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Infineon Technologies' Infineon Designer, introduced at the 2016 electronica trade fair, is presented as the first online prototyping engine combining…

Xilinx flags addition of PUF security to Zynq devices
Xilinx flags addition of PUF security to Zynq devices
Technology News |
This week, 26-28 October 2016, Xilinx held a meeting of its Security Working Group, the fifth annual meeting of the group; included in the deliberations was discussion of Physically Unclonable…
Smart meter wireless chip has worldwide RF compatibility
Smart meter wireless chip has worldwide RF compatibility
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Rohm Group company Lapis Semiconductor has announced a sub-GHz wireless communication LSI optimized for applications requiring low power consumption over relatively long distances, such as smart-agriculture, gas/fire alarms, smart meters,…
12A ultrathin µModule regulators mount on PCB underside
12A ultrathin µModule regulators mount on PCB underside
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Configurable as quad, triple, dual or single output, the LTM4643 quad output step-down µModule [micromodule] (power module) regulator deliver, respectively, 12A, 6A & 6A or 9A & 3A, or 4…
50 Mbps photocouplers for high-speed industrial links
50 Mbps photocouplers for high-speed industrial links
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Toshiba's range of opto/photocouplers now includes a component with creepage and clearance distance of 8 mm and an isolation thickness of 0.4 mm for reinforced isolation; TLP2767 and TLP2367, for…
Semtech delivers public wireless charging with LinkCharge CT
Semtech delivers public wireless charging with LinkCharge CT
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The LinkCharge-CT concept is framed to help accelerate wireless charging adoption by public enterprises and venues, as the only device with dual mode standards compliance and compatibility with faster charging…
Intelligent battery charger for automotive and industrial applications
Intelligent battery charger for automotive and industrial applications
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As part of its offering for the industrial and automotive sectors, Powerbox has introduced the Smart DC/DC ENA200-Charger, designed as an advanced, intelligent embedded battery charger.
Monitoring & Switching Power in Automobiles
Monitoring & Switching Power in Automobiles
Technology News |
The discrepancy between driving range and the availability of charging stations makes exact monitoring of the available battery capacity a necessity. This article details the circuitry necessary.
NW-LED fills the green-yellow gap in white light
NW-LED fills the green-yellow gap in white light
Technology News |
An international team of researchers from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) and King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) have come up with a novel way…
Eye-catching Chronocam grabs $15 million Series B
Eye-catching Chronocam grabs $15 million Series B
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Chronocam AS (Paris, France) is a startup company that develops vision sensors and systems for machine vision based on an asynchronous pixel sensor technology, has obtained $15 million in Series…
Apple win lifts Goertek up MEMS microphone ranks
Apple win lifts Goertek up MEMS microphone ranks
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Chinese acoustic components company Goertek (Shangdong, China) has gained market share at the expense of US-based and European rivals such as Knowles and STMicroelectronics and risen to second position in…
Laser-pulse lidar startup wins funds
Laser-pulse lidar startup wins funds
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Startup Oryx Vision Ltd. (Petach Tikva, Israel) has raised $17 million in Series A funding to help commercialize a nano-antennas used for depth sensing using infrared laser light.
5G technology making inroads into mmWave, automotive and IoT
5G technology making inroads into mmWave, automotive and IoT
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As advances are made towards 5G technology, operators and technology companies are not waiting for the eventual standards – either working to influence or second guess them.
Silicon Labs wireless modules to be in Samsung IoT edge nodes
Silicon Labs wireless modules to be in Samsung IoT edge nodes
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Silicon Labs (Austin, TX) has disclosed a collaboration with Samsung Electronics (Suwon, South Korea) to deliver wireless modules targeting battery-powered edge nodes for the IoT. The Samsung Artik 0 module…
Industrial Li-Fi achieves latencies under one millisecond
Industrial Li-Fi achieves latencies under one millisecond
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Developers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Photonic Microsystems (IPMS) (Dresden, Germany) are convinced that Light Fidelity (Li-Fi) technology could soon supplement or even replace established wired or radio-based wireless transmission…
Wireless charging kit is out-of-the-box ready
Wireless charging kit is out-of-the-box ready
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Semtech's (Camarillo, CA) LinkCharge CT (countertop) is an out-of-box-ready wireless charging system for use in public, enterprise and consumer settings or anywhere that most wirelessly charging, standards-compliant mobile phones and…
Qualcomm’s NXP takeover will shake up automotive chip world
Qualcomm’s NXP takeover will shake up automotive chip world
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The deal is done: In a $47 billion transaction – so far the largest takeover in the semiconductor industry – Californian fabless semiconductor provider has agreed to take over NXP…
ToF sensor success lifts ST’s third quarter
ToF sensor success lifts ST’s third quarter
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STMicroelectronics NV has reported a profitable third quarter of 2016 on increased sales but showed slight year-on-year sales declines in all three of its major product groups.
Wireless charging kit operates out-of-the-box
Wireless charging kit operates out-of-the-box
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Semtech's LinkCharge CT (countertop) is an out-of-box-ready wireless charging system for use in public, enterprise and consumer settings or anywhere that most wirelessly charging, standards-compliant mobile phones and tablets are…
Secure processor cores added to Cortex-M range
Secure processor cores added to Cortex-M range
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Processor intellectual property licensor ARM Ltd. (Cambridge, England) has added two processor cores to its Cortex-M range aimed at microcontroller and embedded applications.
Latencies under one millisecond for industrial Li-Fi
Latencies under one millisecond for industrial Li-Fi
Technology News |
Developers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Photonic Microsystems (IPMS) in Dresden are convinced that Li-Fi technology could soon supplement or even replace established wired or radio-based wireless transmission technologies in…
Micro-OLED strips promise tunable white
Micro-OLED strips promise tunable white
Technology News |
Using a simple and up-scalable orthogonal photo-patterning technique they had demonstrated in prior research, a team of German researchers from Dresden's Integrated Center for Applied Physics and Photonic Materials (IAPP)…
Color-tunable white OLEDs raise luminous efficacy
Color-tunable white OLEDs raise luminous efficacy
Technology News |
Using a simple and up-scalable orthogonal photo-patterning technique they had demonstrated in prior research, a team of German researchers from Dresden's Integrated Center for Applied Physics and Photonic Materials (IAPP)…
Sigfox FCC-certified long-range RF transceiver from Microchip
Sigfox FCC-certified long-range RF transceiver from Microchip
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Microchip claims the first FCC-certified – certified also for use in Europe – fully integrated RF transceiver and kits for developing IoT solutions for use on the Sigfox network; the…
Design win; Silicon Labs’ Geckos in Samsung Artik IoT nodes
Design win; Silicon Labs’ Geckos in Samsung Artik IoT nodes
Market news |
Silicon Labs has disclosed a collaboration with Samsung Electronics to deliver wireless modules targeting battery-powered edge nodes for the IoT. The Samsung Artik 0 module family is based on Silicon…


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