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2015-12 Optoelectronics Diodes Incorporated

[Dec 7 2015] Diodes Corporation, a leading global manufacturer and supplier of high quality application-specific standard products to the broad discrete, logic and analog semiconductor markets, introduces the BCR420U and BCR421U. These constant-current regulators (CCRS) provide an easy way to drive low-power linear strips. Target applications are those that benefit from the improved efficiency, flexibility an ...

2015-12 Semiconductors Dialog Semiconductor GmbH

[Dec 6 2015] Dialog Semiconductor, a supplier of integrated power management, AC/DC power conversion, solid-state lighting (SSL) and Bluetooth Smart (Bluetooth Smart) technologies (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: DLG recently released Dialog's WeChat Software Development Kit (WeChat SDK), which began to support the wechat communication protocol. The toolkit helps developers quickly add efficient Bluetooth connectiv ...

2015-12 Connectors STMicroelectronics

[Dec 5 2015] ST's new 600V smart power module improves the energy efficiency and reliability of motor drive circuits for air compressors, pumps, fans and other appliances and industrial appliances. By locking in hard switching circuit drivers up to 20kHz, ST's smart power modules offer significant energy efficiency gains for a wide range of motor drive applications with output power from 300 watts to 3000 wat ...

2015-12 Connectors Silicon Labs

[Dec 4 2015] Silicon Labs has announced the release of a free software tool that enables engineers to quickly and easily calculate PCI Express (PCIe) clock jitter results from oscilloscope data files in a few simple clicks, making it easy to verify PCIe specification compatibility and reduce system development time. Silicon Labs' Clock jitter Calculation tool is the industry's first standard jitter calculator ...

2015-12 Connectors Diodes Incorporated

[Dec 3 2015] Diodes Incorporated's new high-voltage rectifier family includes the S1MSWFQ standard rectifier and the RS1MSWFQ Fast rectifier, both AEC-Q101-compliant devices designed to provide robust rectification, blocking and reverse battery protection for automotive electronic control units. The compact and highly heat-dissipating SOD123F package ensures that the S1MSWFQ standard rectifier and the RS1MSWF ...

2015-12 Power STMicroelectronics

[Dec 2 2015] ST launches the industry's best-resourced iot development ecosystem, as well as smart-building solutions developed using that ecosystem, as well as a variety of advanced embedded system solutions. STMicroelectronics' iot development ecosystem is based on the STM32 ARM® Cortex-M microcontroller, enabling the development of intelligent modules that integrate computing, detection, connectivity, powe ...

2015-12 Power Xilinx

[Dec 1 2015] Xilinx announced the HLx version of the Vivado design Suite, which offers a new approach to ultra-productive design for All Programmable SoCs and FPGas and for building reusable platforms. The new HLx includes the HL System version, HL Design version, and HL WebPACK™ version. All HLx releases include Vivado High-Level Synthesis (HLS) with C/C++ libraries, Vivado IP Integrator (IPI), LogicCORE IP ...

2015-11 Connectors IDT, Integrated Device Technology

[Nov 16 2015] IDT Corporation announced the launch of a new multichannel power management IC (PMIC) optimized for enterprise solid State Drives (ESSDs) and designed to accelerate time to market and revenue. The P8300 is a flexible and highly programmable power management IC that is ideal for a wide range of data center, enterprise, and high-performance computing applications. The P8300 enables power management ...

2015-11 Connectors Knowles

[Nov 15 2015] Knowles has launched VoiceIQ, the world's first "real-time listening" smart microphone product. The product automatically adjusts its performance according to the surrounding acoustic environment, enabling voice interaction on the phone and significantly reducing the phone's power consumption. There is an increasing demand for "real-time" features such as voice digital assistants and hands-free i ...

2015-11 Connectors Silicon Labs

[Nov 14 2015] Silicon Labs has announced a new family of microcontrollers (MCUS) offering the highest analog performance and peripheral integration in the 8-bit market. The new EFM8LB1 Laser Bee MCU is the latest addition to the Silicon LabsEFM8 MCU portfolio. It integrates a high-speed analog-to-digital converter (ADC), a multi-digital-to-analog converter (DAC), a high-precision temperature sensor, two compar ...

2015-11 Passive Components Vishay

[Nov 13 2015] Vishay Intertechnology has announced the launch of the new high power UV LED- VLMU5200-385-140 - with a new ceramic substrate with silicone lenses. The Vishay Semiconductors VLMU5200-385-140 is a stable, energy efficient alternative to mercury lamps with a very long service life and is available in a 5.2mm x 5.2mm x 3.1mm surface mount package for medical, industrial and printing applications. Th ...

2015-11 Semiconductors STMicroelectronics

[Nov 12 2015] ST launches a new power management chip that meets the international zero standby power consumption standard, taking the lead in providing intelligent management of wake-up functions for white good, lighting and industrial equipment. It also means that power vampires (devices that consume power even when they are turned off or idle) will no longer exist. Minimizing the standby power consumption o ...