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2021-03 Connectors STMicroelectronics

[Mar 22 2021] STMicroelectronics expands its market-unique STM32WL Long Range SubGHz wireless system-on-chip (SoC) product line with new products that offer flexible configuration and packaging options for a diverse range of mass market applications. As the only system chip on the market that can connect to LoRa Low power Wide Area Network (LPWAN), the STM32WL series enables users to create energy-efficient an ...

2021-03 Power ams

[Mar 21 2021] Ams has announced the pre-release of one of the industry's smallest and lightest 100,000 megapixel image sensors to deliver digital video output for mobile or wearable consumer devices such as virtual reality (VR) headsets. It supports GDPR compatibility, is flexible to connect to interfaces, supports various types of visual sensing, and is inexpensive for disposable applications in consumer elec ...

2021-03 Sensors ams

[Mar 21 2021] Ams Semiconductor, the world's leading provider of high-performance sensor solutions, has introduced a demonstration model of a driver Condition Monitoring System (DMS) based on 3D recognition and eye tracking technology for detecting driver fatigue and distraction. Automotive manufacturers can use this demonstration model to create proof-of-concept designs. Driver fatigue and distraction monitor ...

2021-03 Connectors STMicroelectronics

[Mar 20 2021] A QML-V certified 7A Point of Load (PoL) DC/DC converter has been added to ST's expanding portfolio of radiation-hardened (rad-hard) integrated power products. St's radiation-hardened power products are highly energy efficient and suitable for very demanding space applications. The RHRPMPOL01 is a fully functional PoL current converter with N-channel Power MOSFETs and bootstrap diodes for undervo ...

2021-03 Semiconductors Toshiba Semiconductor and Storage

[Mar 20 2021] Toshiba Electronic Components & Storage Corporation announced the launch of two DC brush motor driver ics for automotive applications such as electronic throttle valves - "TB9054FTG" and "TB9053FTG". The "TB9054FTG" adopts wettable wing VQFN package, and the "TB9053FTG" adopts power QFN package. Samples of TB9054FTG are now available and mass production is expected to begin in March 2022. Samples ...

2021-03 Passive Components Vishay

[Mar 19 2021] Vishay Intertechnology's Optoelectronics Group has introduced the industry's first four-quadrant silicon PIN photodiode in a standard surface-mount package for automotive applications. The Vishay Semiconductors K857PE combines high light sensitivity with low 0.1% crosstalk and virtually no tolerance between segments to provide a wide range of sensor and control applications for the automotive, co ...

2021-03 Semiconductors Lattice Semiconductor Corporation

[Mar 19 2021] Lattice Semiconductor Corporation, a leader in low-power programmable solutions, announced the launch of the second generation of its highly successful security control field programmable gate array (FPGA) family: the Lattice Mach-NX FPGA family. Mach-NX FPgas build on the capabilities of Lattice's MachXO3D family, announced in 2019, providing enhanced security features and fast, energy-efficient ...

2021-03 Passive Components Nexperia

[Mar 18 2021] Nexperia has announced a new pin-free ESD protection device for CAN-FD applications. The device is in a pin-free package with wettable tin-soldable side pads that support the use of AOI tools. The PESD2CANFDx family of components is fully AEC-Q101 compliant while providing industry-leading ESD and RF performance, saving PCB space. The DFN1412D-3 and DFN1110D-3 packages for automotive and industri ...

2021-03 Connectors Silicon Labs

[Mar 18 2021] Silicon Labs has announced a new family of small size, high performance crystal oscillators (XOs) and voltage controlled crystal oscillators (VCXOs) for low jitter and frequency flexible clock synthesis. The Si54x/6x Ultra Series XO/VCXO offers jitter performance down to 80 femtoseconds (fs) for integer and decimal frequencies throughout its operating range, providing excellent jitter margins for ...

2021-03 Sensors Signal Transformer

[Mar 17 2021] ScioSense has announced the introduction of its new indoor air quality sensor, ENS160, which uses a sophisticated sensor fusion algorithm to calculate measurement output for more natural air purification than any other sensor on the market. ScioSense, a manufacturer of integrated environmental and flow sensors, used four separate, highly integrated MEMS micro-heating substrates to create a new mu ...

2021-03 Connectors Maxim Integrated

[Mar 17 2021] The new MAX78000 chip from Maxim Integrated. Based on a dual-core MCU, the MAX78000 combines ultra-low power deep neural network accelerators to provide the computing power needed for high-performance artificial intelligence (AI) applications, making it ideal for applications such as machine vision, facial recognition, object detection and classification, timing data processing, and audio process ...

2021-03 Power Renesas Electronics America

[Mar 16 2021] Renesas Electronics, a global semiconductor solutions provider, announced the launch of a new 32-bit RA4M3 microcontroller (MCU) product group, expanding its RA4 MCU product family. The RA4M3 MCU uses the Arm® Cortex®-M33 core based on the Armv8-M architecture to increase operating speeds up to 100MHz. The RA4M3 portfolio features high performance, Arm TrustZone technology, Renesas secure encrypt ...