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2016-02 Semiconductors ON Semiconductor

[Feb 2 2016] ON Semiconductor announced that it has partnered with Studio One Media Inc. AfterMaster HD Audio Labs, Inc. Launch of BelaSigna 300® AM. AfterMaster HD Audio Labs, Inc. Headquartered in Hollywood, California, it is the industry's leading audio technology company. The new BelaSigna 300 AM digital signal processing (DSP) chip embedded with AfterMaster technology is a breakthrough audio solution tha ...

2016-02 Connectors STMicroelectronics

[Feb 1 2016] STMicroelectronics introduces a new multi-core microcontroller designed to significantly improve vehicle safety. The new product is the first automotive microcontroller to use ST's unique 40nm embedded flash manufacturing process. The new microcontroller for vehicles has built-in data security encryption technology that complies with the most stringent automotive safety standards, and further inc ...

2016-02 Connectors Cypress Semiconductor

[Feb 1 2016] Cypress Semiconductor Corporation announced the launch of a series of 4Mb serial ferroelectric random access memory (F-RAM™), the industry's largest serial F-RAM. The 4Mb serial F-RAM features a 40-Mhz serial peripheral interface (SPI) operating voltage range from 2.0 to 3.6V in an industry-standard RoHS-compliant package. All of Cypress's F-Rams provide 100 trillion read/write lives, with data r ...

2016-01 Connectors Microchip Technology

[Jan 31 2016] Microchip Technology announced the introduction of its new MEC14XX family of embedded controllers, a highly configurable, low-power product designed to meet the needs of designers developing notebook and tablet platforms based on x86 architecture. The MEC14XX family of extendable devices is one of the first to support both Intel's new Enhanced Serial Peripheral Interface (eSPI) and the existing L ...

2016-01 Connectors Microchip Technology

[Jan 31 2016] Microchip Technology releases the industry's first MOST150 coaxial transceiver. The new OS82150 device integrates a coaxial cable driver and a coaxial cable receiver in a compact 4x4 mm QFN package, extending the use of coaxial cable to powerful in-vehicle infotainment networks based on the latest MOST150 standard. "The introduction of the OS82150 coaxial transceiver adds to Microchip's portfolio ...

2016-01 Connectors Microsemi

[Jan 30 2016] Microsemi Corporation has announced the availability of the RTG4 FPGA development tool suite. The suite is a first-of-its-kind platform that enables space application designers to evaluate and develop applications based on Microsemi Corporation RTG4 high-speed signal processing radiation-resistant field programmable gate array (FPGA) devices, including data transmission, serial connectivity, bus ...

2016-01 Connectors United Chemi-Con

[Jan 30 2016] U-blox, a global leader in wireless and positioning modules and chips, announced the launch of the world's first 4G LTE Cat 4 module, TOBY-L201, with 3G WCDMA downcompatibility and operating on AT&T and Verizon networks. Without loading new firmware, the TOBY-L201 switches to AT&T or Verizon networks automatically or via AT commands. Depending on the carrier to which the SIM card is inserted, TOB ...

2016-01 Power Molex

[Jan 29 2016] Molex now operates clean rooms that are fully ISO 146441-1:1999 certified, meeting the strictly specified levels of particulate contamination required by ISO. With fewer than 100,000 (30.5mm) particles per cubic foot of air, the Thailand-based facility manufactures a wide range of ISO 13485-compliant medical and surgical cables for use in operating rooms, hospitals, laboratories and clinics. Its ...

2016-01 Connectors Diodes Incorporated

[Jan 29 2016] Diodes Incorporated introduces the AL1678 series of LED drivers suitable for driving non-dimming LED modified bulbs in general lighting products that do not require a power factor higher than 0.7. These 500V buck converter LED drivers deliver up to 15W of output power across all bus voltages for A variety of LED lighting applications such as A/B/P lamps and GU10 lamps, reducing total circuit mate ...

2016-01 Sensors Microsemi

[Jan 28 2016] Microsemi Corporation announced the introduction of the LX3301A, the first device in a new family of sensor interface integrated circuits (ics) based on inductive sensing technology, which is the first induction sensor IC on the market to utilize a linear variable differential transformer (LVDT) architecture on a printed circuit board (PCB). Designed for automotive and industrial market range app ...

2016-01 Connectors Silicon Labs

[Jan 28 2016] Silicon Labs has announced the latest addition to its EFM8 8-bit MCU portfolio, designed to meet the demand for ultra-low power consumption, small size packages, and capacitive touch sensing in IoT applications. The new EFM8SB1 Sleepy Bee MCU is the industry's smallest MCU and supports a 1.78mm×1.66mm wafer-level chip size package (WLCSP), a quarter of the traditional 8-bit MCUQFN package size. T ...

2016-01 Connectors Microsemi

[Jan 27 2016] Microsemi Corporation has announced the availability of the smallest radio module the company has ever produced. Measuring just 5.5mm x 4.5mm x 1.5mm, the ZL70323 is optimized for implantable medical devices such as pacemakers, cardiac defibrillators and neurostimulators. The new radio module replaces the company's ZL70321 device and works with the ZL70120 radio module for external device control ...