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R&D project targets fully adaptive automotive lighting
R&D project targets fully adaptive automotive lighting
Technology News |
A perfect illumination is a major safety factor in road traffic. An R&D project in Germany aims at developing a…
Wireless power transfer technique stimulates ‘electroceutical’ medical advances
Wireless power transfer technique stimulates ‘electroceutical’ medical advances
Technology News |
A Stanford University electrical engineer has invented a way to wirelessly transfer power deep inside the body to run pacemakers,…
MEMS, image sensors market growing in mobile
MEMS, image sensors market growing in mobile
Market news |
The market for MEMS and sensors sold into cellular handsets and tablet computers grew by 36 percent in 2013 to…
Apps move into IoT design
Apps move into IoT design
Technology News |
Imagination Technologies is placing apps at the heart of its push to get the MIPS architecture adopted for the Internet…

200°C automotive grade silicon capacitors come in die size
200°C automotive grade silicon capacitors come in die size
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3D silicon passive components integrator IPDiA has developed a new range of capacitors called ATSC dedicated to 'under the hood' applications.
Terahertz scanner identifies hidden explosives, drugs
Terahertz scanner identifies hidden explosives, drugs
Technology News |
Mails items to government agencies sometimes contain explosives or toxic materials - like the parcel delivered to the office of the German President, Mr. Gauck, about a year ago. The…
BERTScope addresses 100G optical receiver tests
BERTScope addresses 100G optical receiver tests
New Products |
Receiver testing has become increasing important in 100G electrical systems and silicon testing. With the advent of sophisticated silicon receiver equalization, higher levels of jitter tolerance must be tested, debugged…
Re-programmable 2-wire Hall switches simplify system design
Re-programmable 2-wire Hall switches simplify system design
New Products |
Melexis Technologies’ MLX92242 Hall effect switch/latches are highly integrated devices containing a voltage regulator (supporting a wide operating voltage range), as well as Hall sensing element and a current sink-configured…
Efficient smart power modules drive sub-100-W motors
Efficient smart power modules drive sub-100-W motors
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Fairchild's FSB70xxx series of advanced Motion SPM 7 modules is intended for driving small power motors under 100 W, with light-load efficiency up to 44% better than the alternative products,…
Isolated Σ-Δ modulator boosts motor-drive efficiency
Isolated Σ-Δ modulator boosts motor-drive efficiency
New Products |
The AD7403 from Analod Devices is an isolated sigma-delta modulator that achieves the most-accurate-available current and voltage measurements; you can use it instead of Hall Effect sensors in higher DC-bus…
Interactive packaging to display contextual messages
Interactive packaging to display contextual messages
Technology News |
In retail stores, presentation and packaging design are often key to lure customers into buying products. It is the product's skin on the shelves, and it is only at a…
Novelda has second-generation CMOS radar chip
Novelda has second-generation CMOS radar chip
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Novelda AS (Kviteseid, Norway), has announced the development of a second generation of its XeThru pulsed microwave radar sensor technology.
Are your LEDs electrically overstressed? Part III
Are your LEDs electrically overstressed? Part III
Technology News |
Yankun Fu continues to look at the conditions that can induce electrical overstress (EOS) and focuses on the different type of failure mechanisms.
Silicon carbide MOSFET from Cree rated 1200V/25 mΩ, in TO-247
Silicon carbide MOSFET from Cree rated 1200V/25 mΩ, in TO-247
Cree has lowered available on-resistance figures of traditional 1200V MOSFET technology with a commercially available silicon carbide (SiC) 1200V MOSFET with an RDS(ON) of 25 mΩ in an industry standard…
Integrated bidirectional 3.4-MHz isolator for I2C features 7 channels
Integrated bidirectional 3.4-MHz isolator for I2C features 7 channels
New Products |
Akros is a fabless semiconductor supplier that specialises in Power-over-Ethernet. It has taken the signal isolation technology it developed for the control channels of PoE and packaged it as a…
Isolated LED-Driver ICs deliver more lighting output power with greater accuracy
Isolated LED-Driver ICs deliver more lighting output power with greater accuracy
New Products |
Power Integrations' LYTSwitch-2 family of isolated LED drivers delivers up to 12W of accurately controlled output power, reduces component count, and enables simpler, smaller, more reliable LED lighting designs.
Vicor adds ChiP-based DCM DC/DC modules at 75.9 W/cm3 power density
Vicor adds ChiP-based DCM DC/DC modules at 75.9 W/cm3 power density
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Using the company's highly-integrated ChiP packaging, Vicor has introduced a range of isolated, regulated DC/DC converter modules that deliver up to 2X the power density of conventional DC/DC converters.
100V, normally-off, GaN transistors in low inductance, thermally-efficient packaging
100V, normally-off, GaN transistors in low inductance, thermally-efficient packaging
Feature articles |
GaN Systems has announced a family of normally-off 100V GaN transistors that spans 20-80A with very low on resistance and total gate charge. The company contends that GaN represents such…
IR offers alternate low-power-motor-drive integrated module packaging in DIP
IR offers alternate low-power-motor-drive integrated module packaging in DIP
Feature articles |
International Rectifier has introduced the µIPM-DIP family of highly integrated, compact Integrated Power Modules (IPM) for low power motor drive applications including fans, pumps, air purifiers and refrigerator compressor drives.
Silicon carbide MOSFET from Cree rated 1200V/25 mΩ, in TO-247
Silicon carbide MOSFET from Cree rated 1200V/25 mΩ, in TO-247
Feature articles |
Cree has lowered available on-resistance figures of traditional 1200V MOSFET technology with a commercially available silicon carbide (SiC) 1200V MOSFET with an RDS(ON) of 25 mΩ in an industry standard…
Low-cost EDA/PCB entry-point software package from Mentor & Digi-Key
Low-cost EDA/PCB entry-point software package from Mentor & Digi-Key
Feature articles |
Distributor Digi-Key, and Mentor Graphics, have configured a design tool, described as “concept-to-prototype”, aimed at individual designers and intended to support “green-field” projects before transition to production. A Beta version…
AMS wins magnetic sensor patent ruling against Melexis
AMS wins magnetic sensor patent ruling against Melexis
Business news |
In a patent dispute between Melexis and AMS, the European patent court has ruled that the latter's patent on magnetic field position sensor technologies is valid. Nevertheless, the dispute will…
Sync 2 again with Microsoft O/S
Sync 2 again with Microsoft O/S
Technology News |
At the Auto Mobil International show in Leipzig, Ford shows the second generation of its Sync infotainment system. Sync 2 comes with voice control and touch screen - and, contrary…
ChiP-based DCM DC/DC modules deliver 2x power density
ChiP-based DCM DC/DC modules deliver 2x power density
New Products |
Using the company's highly-integrated ChiP packaging, Vicor has introduced a range of isolated, regulated DC/DC converter modules that deliver up to 2X the power density of conventional DC/DC converters.
3rd-generation SiC MOSFETs with trench gate structure
3rd-generation SiC MOSFETs with trench gate structure
New Products |
Rohm Semiconductor's 3rd Gen SiC MOSFETs, based on Trench Gate structure technology, mark – says the company – another milestone in the development of SiC MOSFET which the company started…
100V GaN transistors in low inductance, thermally-efficient packaging
100V GaN transistors in low inductance, thermally-efficient packaging
New Products |
GaN Systems has announced a family of normally-off 100V GaN transistors that spans 20-80A with low on resistance and total gate charge.
Low-power-motor-drive integrated module offers DIP format solution
Low-power-motor-drive integrated module offers DIP format solution
New Products |
International Rectifier has introduced the µIPM-DIP family of highly integrated, compact Integrated Power Modules (IPM) for low power motor drive applications including fans, pumps, air purifiers and refrigerator compressor drives.
Silicon carbide MOSFET rated 1200V/25-mOhms in TO-247
Silicon carbide MOSFET rated 1200V/25-mOhms in TO-247
New Products |
Cree has lowered available on-resistance figures of traditional 1200V MOSFET technology with a commercially available silicon carbide (SiC) 1200V MOSFET with an RDS(ON) of 25 mΩ in an industry standard…


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