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Touch Pad Controllers
July 18, 2007 11:52 am | Product Releases | CommentsFreescale Semiconductor is meeting the demand for touch-sensitive control with the introduction of two sensitive touch pad controllers. Freescale’s MPR081 and MPR082 proximity capacitive touch sensor controllers are designed to detect touch by measuring capacitance. Touch sensors are becoming essential for any interface with buttons....
LISTED UNDER: Power, ControllersMicrocontrollers Outperform FPGAs
July 17, 2007 10:57 am | Product Releases | CommentsAtmel® Corporation’s new line of customizable microcontrollers deliver as much as 8X the performance for DSP algorithms that are frequently implemented in FPGAs, with substantially reduced power consumption and unit IC costs that are 30% to 50% lower. The AT91CAP MCUs include an Atmel processor core, a variety of peripherals and multiple high-speed busses....
LISTED UNDER: Power, ControllersLi-Ion/Li-Polymer Charge-management Controllers
June 22, 2007 6:30 am | Product Releases | CommentsMicrochip Technology Inc announces the MCP73811 and MCP73812 (MCP7381X) Li-Ion/Li-Polymer charge-management controllers. These simple, single-cell devices provide fully integrated charge-management functions and selectable or programmable charge currents up to 500 mA in a 5-pin SOT-23 package. They are USB compatible and come with integrated current sense, pass transistor and reverse battery protection onboard to enable smaller, more cost-e...
LISTED UNDER: Power, ControllersWireless Security Controllers
February 9, 2007 5:02 am | Product Releases | CommentsFortress Technologies announces its FC-X Series of security controllers that are capable of processing throughputs up to 1.9 Gb/s per second, offering government customers a controller that meets the requirements for high-performance wireless optics links, as well as agency-wide wireless networking deployments....
LISTED UNDER: Power, ControllersEnabling Next Generation Base Stations: Fulfilling the 3G Promise
January 3, 2007 7:36 am | Articles | CommentsCharge-management Controllers
December 27, 2006 11:10 am | Product Releases | CommentsMicrochip Technology Inc. announces the MCP73833 and MCP73834 (MCP73833/4) single-cell, high current (1 A), Li-Ion/Li-Polymer linear charge-management controllers. These fully integrated charge-management controllers combine several key, standard charge-management and safety features in a single chip for reliable charging of high-capacity Li-Ion and Li-Polymer batteries....
LISTED UNDER: Power, ControllersDigital Signal Controllers
August 14, 2006 6:48 am | Product Releases | CommentsMicrochip Technology Inc. introduces a family of 16-bit dsPIC® Digital Signal Controllers (DSCs) for common, multi-loop switch-mode power supplies (SMPSs) and other power-conversion applications. The dsPIC30F1010 and dsPIC30F2020/2023 (dsPIC30F202X) DSCs have a high-speed, one nanosecond resolution PWM, two million sample per second (MSPS) and 10-bit A/D converter onboard for low latency and high-resolution control....
LISTED UNDER: Power, ControllersBias Controllers
May 8, 2006 12:08 pm | Product Releases | CommentsMaxim Integrated Products introduces the AX11014/MAX11015 ICs that set and control bias conditions for dual MESFET power devices found in point-to-point communication and other microwave base stations. The MAX11014 integrates closed-loop drain-current control for class A MESFET amplifier operation, while the MAX11015 sets the MESFET gate voltage for class AB operation....
LISTED UNDER: Power, ControllersAVR Microcontrollers
February 2, 2006 9:20 am | Product Releases | CommentsAtmel® Corporation announces three 14-pin tinyAVR® products, which have been added to the AVR family of flash microcontrollers. All three devices are pin compatible, differing only in the size of flash, EEPROM and SRAM memory. ATtiny24 has 2 kB of self-programmable flash memory, whereas ATtiny44 and ATtiny84 have 4 kB and 8 kB, respectively....
LISTED UNDER: Power, ControllersLow-end Microcontrollers for Wi-Fi Clients
November 1, 2005 9:57 am | by Ajay Jadhav | Product Releases | CommentsThe market for low-end processors in Wi-Fi client stations is a target of opportunity as standards solidify and points of presence become conveniently accessible. Glossary of Acronyms AP — Access Point BSS — Basic Service Set ESS — Extended Service Set GPIO — General-Purpose Input/Output ...
LISTED UNDER: Power, ControllersTriple Output Controllers
February 25, 2005 9:12 am | Product Releases | CommentsSemtech announces the SC2441, a very low input voltage, two-phase synchronous step-down controller with an integrated step-up converter. The dual-phase, step-down controller can be configured to supply two individually controlled and regulated 20 A outputs, 180 degrees out-of-phase or, alternatively, the two phases can be interleaved into one low-ripple 40 A output....
LISTED UNDER: Power, ControllersSecurity Engine Controllers
December 23, 2004 7:57 am | Product Releases | CommentsInterpeak announced the integration of their IPsec solution and Freescale Semiconductor's ColdFire and PowerQUICC hardware security engine controllers (SEC). IPsec is the IETF standard for secure IP communication over the Internet, and comprises a set of protocols that encrypt and authenticate all IP packets....
LISTED UNDER: Power, ControllersDC/DC Controllers
January 21, 2004 10:48 am | Product Releases | CommentsMaxim introduces the MAX8553/MAX8554 DC-DC step-down controllers that ensure balanced current sourcing and sinking capability of ± 25 A. The MAX8553 generates 1/2 reference input voltage for VTT and VTTR voltages in DDR and RDRAM memory applications. The VTT and VTTR tracking voltages are maintained within 1% of 1/2 reference input voltage....
LISTED UNDER: Power, ControllersMicrocontrollers
October 28, 2003 10:16 am | Product Releases | CommentsSTMicroelectronics introduces the Turbo μPSD3300 series of its μPSD family of 8051-class embedded Flash microcontrollers. The Turbo μPSD3300 series increases performance to 10 MIPS peak and adds a peripheral set to form an SoC for embedded control applications. A few of the enhancements for the Turbo µPSD3300 series include a 16-bit programmable counter array (PCA), 10-bit resolution ADC channels, SPI and IrDA interfaces....
LISTED UNDER: Power, ControllersControllers
January 27, 2003 9:34 am | Product Releases | CommentsThe LTC4214 is a negative Hot Swap™ controller in a MSOP package. The device allows a board with a low voltage negative supply to be safely inserted and removed from a live backplane. Output current is controlled by three stages of current limiting: a timed circuit breaker, active current limiting, and a fast feed forward path that limits peak current under worst-case catastrophic fault....
LISTED UNDER: Power, Controllers
