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2015-10 Connectors Microchip Technology

[Oct 11 2015] Microchip Technology announced the expansion of its high-performance PIC32MZ family of 32-bit microcontroller (MCU) products. The new family of devices integrates a hardware floating-point unit (FPU) to enable both high performance and lower latency for intensive single - and double-precision computing applications. The PIC32MZ EF series features 48 new devices, each with a 12-bit 18-msps analog- ...

2015-10 Power Broadcom

[Oct 11 2015] Broadcom Corporation, a global innovation leader in semiconductor solutions for wired and wireless communications, announced a new Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) chip, Internet of Things (IOT) and wearables. Advanced chips enable devices such as fitness bands to provide precise location while consuming minimal power while in some cases eliminating the need for a separate MCU. The Broad ...

2015-10 Semiconductors NXP

[Oct 5 2015] NXP introduces its new Mantra RF portfolio, a line of high-performance transceivers and receivers for secure automotive theft prevention and vehicle management. The chip family provides long-distance, bidirectional RF links, enabling stable and reliable bidirectional communication between car keys and the car at distances of several hundred meters. Mantra's car keys allow users to easily check fu ...

2015-10 Passive Components Vishay

[Oct 5 2015] Vishay introduces the first three devices in its VOR family of hybrid solid-state relays that provide high reliability and noise-free switching for communications, industrial, security systems and medical devices. The new Vishay Semiconductors 1 Form A VOR1142A6, VOR1142B6 and VOR1142M4 offer high input/output isolation, current limit protection and lower power consumption to replace traditional ...

2015-10 Optoelectronics Diodes Incorporated

[Oct 4 2015] Diodes Corporation, a leading global manufacturer and supplier of high quality application-specific standard products and products for a wide range of discrete, logic and analog semiconductor markets, today announced the introduction of the AL1791/2/3/4 LED driver. These single, double, triple, and four-channel DC-constant current (DC-CC) LED driver ics provide analog and PWM dimming control and ...

2015-10 Connectors Infineon Technologies

[Oct 4 2015] Infineon says the device, part of its gallium nitride product family, allows mobile base station manufacturers to build smaller, more powerful and flexible transmitters. With higher efficiency, improved power density, and more bandwidth than existing RF power transistors, the new devices improve the infrastructure built to support the economics of current cellular networks, the company claims. Th ...

2015-10 Sensors Melexis Technologies NV

[Oct 3 2015] Melexis has added a new device to its series of programmable Hall-effect current sensors, the MLX91208, with a new high current version. The new MLX91208CAV is optimized for very high magnetic fields in applications such as hybrid and electric vehicles (HEV) and can handle primary currents of up to 1000A. The device is an effective complement to the existing MLX91208 series, which covers both low ...

2015-10 Power Microsemi

[Oct 3 2015] Microsemi's announcement of the availability of its PD-9001GI and PD-9501GI Powered Power over Ethernet (PoE) mid-span injectors expands the company's industry-leading PoE product portfolio into new industrial and outdoor applications. The PD-9001GI and PD-9501GI Industrial PoE mid-span devices are targeted for applications including physical security, WLAN infrastructure, mobile communications i ...

2015-10 Connectors Microchip Technology

[Oct 2 2015] Microchip Technology announced the MCP9600, the world's first thermocouple conditioning integrated circuit, which integrates precision instrumentation, a precise temperature sensor, a high-precision and high-resolution digital-to-analog converter (ADC), and a mathematical engine with pre-programmed firmware. The mathematical engine supports a wide range of standard thermocouple models (K, J, T, N ...

2015-10 Connectors Silicon Labs

[Oct 2 2015] Silicon Labs announced the launch of an isolated electro-fluometric amplifier with reliable isolation, the industry's highest bandwidth, and the lowest signal transmission latency. Silicon Labs' new Si8920 isolation amplifier provides the ideal current shunt measurement solution for power control systems operating in harsh environments, such as industrial motor drives, solar inverters, high-volta ...

2015-10 Power Microchip Technology

[Oct 1 2015] 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 mmQFN 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 ...

2015-10 Passive Components Molex

[Oct 1 2015] MACOM, a leading provider of high-performance analog RF, microwave and optical semiconductor products, announced the new MAGX-100027-100C0P, a broadband transistor optimized for DC-2.7GHz operation with a proprietary fourth-generation gallium nitride process that uses built-in (gallium nitride on silicon) silicon to begin offering samples. This gallium nitride HEMT silicon D-mode transistor is id ...