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2020-04 Optoelectronics ams

[Apr 6 2020] In the next few years, virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) applications will become more widespread. In games and many other areas, they already play an important role. Many users around the world already use this technology for training, or frequently for other daily workflows. As these apps become more integrated into our daily lives, some users experience discomfort and dizziness w ...

2020-04 Power Maxim Integrated

[Apr 6 2020] Maxim Integrated announced the launch of the DS28C40 DeepCover Automotive-grade Security Certifier to help designers enhance security, confidentiality and data integrity in connected vehicles. As the industry's first and only AEC-Q100 compliant Level 1 automotive system solution, the safety certification IC reduces design complexity and software safety hazards in current solutions, ensuring that ...

2020-04 Power Renesas Electronics America

[Apr 5 2020] Renesas Electronics Corporation announced the launch of the newly named RE product family, which covers the company's full line of energy-harvesting embedded controllers. The RE family of products is based on Renesas' unique SOTB (Silicon on Thin Buried Oxide) process, which significantly reduces operating and standby power consumption without the need for battery replacement or recharging. With ...

2020-04 Sensors Melexis Technologies NV

[Apr 5 2020] Melexis has announced the introduction of the relative pressure sensor IC MLX90821, designed to measure extremely low pressures in automotive applications. Using the latest MEMS technology, the MLX90821 is a system-level package solution tightly integrated with analog signal chain and digital signal processing technology in the same package for measuring fuel vapor pressures from as low as 50 mba ...

2020-04 Semiconductors NXP

[Apr 4 2020] NXP Semiconductors has announced that the life-saving RoadLINK V2X communication solution will be available as standard in the next generation of Volkswagen Golf models. The recently announced 8th-generation Golf is the first production vehicle in Europe to be equipped with V2X, and it greatly advances the deployment of the technology on European roads and in other parts of the world. The technol ...

2020-04 Power TDK

[Apr 4 2020] TDK Corporation has expanded its product lineup of ultra-thin PiezoListen speakers with the introduction of a new loudspeaker that enables a wider dynamic range and higher sound pressure level (SPL) even at low voltage of 24VP-P or lower. The PiezoListen series of piezoelectric speakers now includes PHUA 6630* wide dynamic range speakers that operate in the frequency range of 400 Hz to 20 kHz. Th ...

2020-04 Sensors Infineon Technologies

[Apr 3 2020] Infineon's new XENSIV TLI4971 is a coreless open-loop current sensor for accurate and stable current measurement in industrial applications. The sensor has a measurement range of ±25A to ±120A and provides great design flexibility with individually programmable parameters such as current range, overcurrent threshold, and output mode. The XENSIV TLI4971 sensor uses differential measurement princip ...

2020-04 Semiconductors Toshiba Semiconductor and Storage

[Apr 3 2020] Toshiba Electronic Components & Storage Corporation announced the introduction of the "TC78B027FTG" three-phase brushless motor control predrive IC, which uses Intelligent Phase Control (InPAC) technology to achieve optimal operating efficiency in a wide range of applications such as high-speed server fans, blowers and pumps. In recent years, the capacity and performance of servers have increased ...

2020-04 Connectors Microchip Technology

[Apr 2 2020] As the industry adopts the latest generation of PoE technology to manage data and power over a single Ethernet line, users need to work with pre-standard power receiving devices within their existing Ethernet infrastructure alongside new IEEE 802.3bt-2018 compliant power receiving devices. To adapt to this change, Microchip Technology has introduced PoE suppliers and mid-span devices that comply ...

2020-04 Sensors ams

[Apr 2 2020] Ams has introduced a new sensor solution, the TCS3408, to help mobile phone rear cameras with rolling shutter image sensors eliminate effects such as banding and other image artifacts caused by blinking artificial light sources. With the widespread use of leds, mobile phone photography is increasingly plagued by flickering light sources. ams' new TCS3408 color sensor offers increased accuracy and ...

2020-04 Semiconductors Maxim Integrated

[Apr 1 2020] Maxim Integrated Products announced the launch of the MAX17853 battery Monitor IC, a single-chip solution for automotive applications that enables safer, more productive battery management systems through ASIL-D certification. The MAX17853 optimizes the design of medium and large battery packs for electric and hybrid vehicles, and uses Maxim's unique Flexpack flexible architecture, enabling custo ...

2020-04 Power Semtech

[Apr 1 2020] Semtech, a leading provider of high-performance analog and mixed-signal semiconductor products and advanced algorithms, announced: As a leading provider of end-to-end automation solutions for smart gas, water and electricity meters, Hanbit has developed a new ultrasonic water meter (UWM) solution based on Semtech's LoRa devices and the LoRaWAN protocol. Hanbit's ultrasonic water meter products ut ...