Technology Articles

2020-02 Connectors Spectra Symbol

[Feb 11 2020] Spectrum Instruments has announced the launch of an arbitrary waveform generator (AWG) compliant with the LXI instrument standard, a boon for engineers and scientists who need to test 16 simultaneous precise electronic signals. The product is small and compact for automated testing or remote control applications. With the release of six new products, users can freely choose different configuratio ...

2020-02 Connectors Silicon Motion, Inc.

[Feb 11 2020] With AMD's Ryzen 3000 series chips already supporting PCIe 4.0, new, faster SSDS are rushing to compete. Silicon Motion showcased a number of products that have been well received over the past few years thanks to strategic partnerships with numerous popular SSD vendors, and the company has multiple turnkey solutions. In the consumer category, SMI has two new PCIe 4.0 SSD controllers coming next ...

2020-02 Connectors TE Connectivity

[Feb 10 2020] TT Electronics announced the launch of the Photologic V OPB9000 reflective optical sensor for industrial and medical applications, which provides reliable edge and presence detection of reflective media under a wide range of ambient light conditions. OPB9000 devices, under the OPTEK brand, are suitable for a wide range of applications, including industrial printing, dispensing, manufacturing auto ...

2020-02 Power Packet Digital LLC

[Feb 10 2020] Pasternack, Inc., a brand of Infinite Electronics and a leading supplier of RF, microwave and millimeter wave products, has expanded its line of broadband high-power coaxial limiter products designed to better protect sensitive components in receiver circuits and other microwave circuits operating near high-power signals. Typical applications of this series of RF limiter include electronic warfar ...

2020-02 Semiconductors Vishay

[Feb 9 2020] Vishay Intertechnology today announced the introduction of a new 60 V TrenchFET fourth-generation N-channel power MOSFET-SISS22DN, the industry's first device for standard gate drive circuits, reducing the maximum on-resistance to 4 m at 10 V . Available in a heat-enhanced 3.3mm x 3.3mm PowerPAK 1212-8S package. Vishay SiliconixSiSS22DN is specifically designed to improve the efficiency and power ...

2020-02 Sensors IDT, Integrated Device Technology

[Feb 9 2020] Integrated Device Technology, a leading provider of mixed-signal semiconductor solutions with advanced analog and digital technologies, announced the launch of a new family of precision temperature sensors for ultra-low power solid-state drive applications. The new device family minimizes power consumption, optimizes bill of materials (BOM), and remains compatible with existing standards for high ...

2020-02 Connectors TE Connectivity

[Feb 8 2020] TE introduces ELCON Micro's expanded portfolio of wire-to-board products. The portfolio comes in a generic 3.0mm industrial package that delivers current up to 12.5A with a single pin and features a custom cable assembly and cable plug solution that extends the ELCON Micro connector released by TE last year for increased design flexibility. The ELCON Micro product family offers a high current den ...

2020-02 Connectors Microchip Technology

[Feb 8 2020] Microchip announced its entry into the memory infrastructure market with the industry's first commercial serial memory controller, expanding its data center portfolio. The SMC 1000 8 x 25G enables cpus and other compute-centric SOCs to use quadruple memory channels connected in parallel with DDR4 DRAM in the same package size. Microchip's serial memory controllers not only provide higher memory b ...

2020-02 Connectors Harwin Inc.

[Feb 7 2020] In order to provide customers with simple plug and play solutions, Harwin has now launched a range of off-the-shelf cable assemblies for use with the popular Datamate series of high-reliability connectors. Available in single-ended or double-ended formats with set cable lengths of 150 mm (6 inches), these time-saving components are destined to have considerable market potential. These components ...

2020-02 Semiconductors Renesas Electronics America

[Feb 7 2020] Renesas Electronics Corporation announced the launch of the fourth-generation lithium-ion (Li-ion) battery management IC that offers high accuracy and lifetime. The ISL78714 provides accurate battery voltage and temperature measurements, battery equalization, and extensive system diagnostics to protect 14 lithium battery packs and maximize battery life and range for hybrid and electric vehicles ( ...

2020-02 Semiconductors Xilinx

[Feb 6 2020] Xilinx announced the launch of the Alveo U50, further expanding its Alveo data center accelerator card portfolio. The Alveo U50 card is the industry's first lightweight adaptive compute acceleration card that supports fourth-generation PCIe Gen 4 and is specifically designed to scale a variety of critical compute, network, and storage workloads, all on the same reconfigurable FPGA platform. Alveo ...

2020-02 Semiconductors Toshiba Semiconductor and Storage

[Feb 5 2020] Toshiba has introduced a new design for NVMe SSDS that are small enough to replace soldable BGA SSDS. The new XFMEXPRESS form factor allows for two or four PCIe lanes while taking up much less space than the smallest M.2 22x30mm card size. The XFMEXPRESS card measures 18x14x1.4mm, making it larger and thicker than a microSD card. The floor area is up to 22.2x17.75x2.2mm. In comparison, BGA SSDS c ...