Applications
2.3 A Devices Help Protect Automotive Infotainment Peripherals
April 1, 2008 7:23 am | Product Releases | CommentsTyco Electronics' 2.3 A PolyZen devices feature a higher hold current designed to help protect circuits in GPS, smart phones, game consoles, PMPs, and other video-based peripherals that can be charged in the car. The devices incorporate a stable Zener diode for precise voltage clamping and a resistively non-linear, PPTC layer that responds to either diode heating or overcurrent events by transitioning from a low to high resistance state....
Getting Around the Technical Issues with Battery-assisted UHF RFID Tags
March 11, 2008 12:19 pm | Product Releases | CommentsSimon Müller, EM Microelectronic Marin SA One way to overcome the read sensitivity limitation of passive tags is to add a battery to supply the IC. The RF signal is now only used to carry the information not to supply the IC. Of particular interest are the so-called battery-assisted passive (BAP) tags, also known as semi-passive tags....
Microcontrollers Migrate Between Low-End and High Performance Designs
March 11, 2008 8:05 am | Product Releases | CommentsMouser Electronics, Inc. is stocking the Flexis Microcontroller Series from Freescale Semiconductor. The QE devices offer pin-for-pin, development tool and peripheral set compatibility between 8-bit and 32-bit, and they include 64- and 80-pin versions of 8- and 32-bit microcontrollers that make the design process limitless....
Compact Power Supply for Medical and ITE Applications
March 11, 2008 8:05 am | Product Releases | CommentsPower Sources Unlimited announces its NXT-225 series of ultra small AC/DC power supplies with 225W of power in a 10W/ inches 3 power density, fitting into 1U high OEM applications or any application where space is critical. The series features a power factor corrected, universal 90 to 264 VAC input....
Flash Data Memory is Added to Baseline Microcontrollers
March 11, 2008 8:03 am | Product Releases | CommentsMicrochip Technology, Inc. announces its PIC12F519 and PIC16F526 Baseline 8-bit Flash PIC microcontrollers with non-volatile Flash Data Memory (FDM) in 8- and 14-pin packages. With the availability of 64 bytes of data memory, combined with an 8 MHz internal oscillator, a device reset timer (DRT), up to three channels of 8-bit analog-to-digital conversion (ADC) and up to two comparators, users have a diverse feature set to select from when i...
IC Integrates Power Management and Audio Functions
March 11, 2008 7:50 am | Product Releases | Commentsaustriamicrosystems announces its AS3654 power management IC ultra-flexible, highly integrated smart power management unit that includes high performance voltage regulators, a lighting management unit, step-down battery charger, stereo audio DAC, housekeeping functions and an audio amplifier featuring ground noise cancellation to improve sound quality in the car....
Automotive Grade MOSFET Controllers with Commutation Logic
March 11, 2008 7:50 am | Product Releases | CommentsAllegro MicroSystems, Inc. introduces its A3930 and A3931 automotive grade (temperature and voltage rated) three-phase BLDC motor controller integrated circuits. These control ICs simplify the system design and lower system cost by integrating the commutation logic on-board, which lessons the burden on the system microprocessor....
Wireless HDMI Technology Achieves Consumer Electronics Control Functionality
March 11, 2008 7:29 am | Product Releases | CommentsRadiospire Networks recently announced that it has successfully implemented the consumer electronics control (CEC) functionality into its AirHook™ wireless HDMI technology. AirHook technology, a high bandwidth wireless HD connectivity solution, will now offer automatic control through the CEC, the first wireless high-definition connectivity solution to offer this feature....
Sneak Preview of the Electronica Automotive Conference 2008
February 28, 2008 11:17 am | Product Releases | CommentsThe electronica automotive conference 2008 will be an international gathering of automobile manufacturers and associated companies to discuss current issues related to automotive design. Automotive is considered to be the most important growth market represented at electronica 2008 because of the extensive safety and consumer electronic systems being integrated into worldwide automobiles....
Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) Platform Benefit Consumers and Utilities
January 22, 2008 6:08 am | Product Releases | CommentsEmber, a provider of ZigBee networking systems, and Itron have teamed up to help electric utilities reduce peak load demand and home owners conserve energy by using ZigBee-enabled wireless technology. OpenWay CENTRON smart meters serve as a gateway for Home Area Networks (HANs) of wireless devices such as ZigBee thermostats, load control devices, in-home displays, and smart appliances....
Current Sensors Provide Precise Sensing Solutions for Automotive Applications
January 22, 2008 5:53 am | Product Releases | CommentsLow-offset Linear Hall Sensor Circuit Copper conduction Survives up to 5X over current conditions Allegro® announces two new current sensors engineered to provide economical and precise sensing solutions for AC and DC currents in automotive applications. The ACS714 and ACS715 devices are designed and tested to meet the stringent requirements of automotive applications....
Digital Signal Controllers Feature up to 32 Kbytes Flash Memory
January 22, 2008 5:53 am | Product Releases | CommentsIncreased memory options 16 or 32 Kbytes of flash memory On-chip ADC Three dsPIC33F General Purpose Family members and three dsPIC33F Motor Control/Power Conversion Family DSCs have been added to Microchip’s low pin-count, 16-bit digital signal controller (DSC) product line. The General Purpose DSCs feature 16 or 32 Kbytes of Flash memory with 28- or 44-pin packages and provide a pin- and code-compatible migration path for PIC24 microcont...
Current Sense Chip Resistors for Automotive Applications
November 15, 2007 7:48 am | Product Releases | CommentsTT electronics IRC Advanced Film Division offers its LRF3W series 3 W surface mount chip resistors that are offered in a package size traditionally rated at 1 W. Because of its high power rating in a space-saving package, the series’ resistors are suitable for high current-sensing automotive applications including fuel-gauging and over-current detection, AC/DC power supplies and VRMs, motorized seats, power windows, seat heaters and automot...
Managed Industrial Ethernet Switches
November 15, 2007 7:48 am | Product Releases | CommentsAdvantech introduces its EKI-7659C family of managed industrial Ethernet switches. This compact and industrially hardened switch offers advanced traffic control for optimum network performance and security along with rapid self-healing fiber optic ring capabilities to ensure network uptime in adverse environments....
COTS Controllers for LCDs in Harsh Environments
November 15, 2007 7:48 am | Product Releases | CommentsDigital View introduces its HE-1400 and HE-1600 series of COTS LCD controllers that are designed to comply with the standards required for the harsh environments encountered in military and rugged industrial applications. Both controllers feature wide tolerance power supplies (12 VDC ± 25 percent), locking connectors and low-mass tantalum capacitors for maximum tolerance to shock and vibration, Mil-spec silicon resin conformal coatings,...
Battery-free Wireless Communication Technology for Sense and Control Applications
November 15, 2007 6:56 am | Product Releases | CommentsGreenPeak Technologies announces open standard, easy-to-install wireless communications devices for sensor applications that can operate without power cabling or a battery. These new wireless communication devices leverage three key technologies that enable it to operate in a battery-free environment without cabling....
EMC Filters for Medical Applications
October 17, 2007 6:36 am | Product Releases | CommentsEPCOS’ SIFI-F (B84111FM) compact two-line filters are available in a medical version for applications where low leakage current is a critical factor. They have a low maximum leakage current of 2 mA, and they offer desirable suppression of symmetrical and asymmetrical interference. The SIFI-F, along with the larger SIFI-G and SIFI-H, is designed for the climate category of 㪱°C up to +100°C....
Universities Receive Large Donation to Fund Medical Technology Research
October 17, 2007 6:31 am | Product Releases | CommentsTexas Instruments Incorporated announces that the company is allocating a total of $15 million to fund medical technology research at selected universities worldwide. The funding will support research and development of key emerging medical technologies, over a period of several years, in areas such as personal medical devices, implantables, medical imaging, wireless healthcare systems and biosensor technology....
Kit Makes Designing Medical Telemetry Systems a Snap!
October 10, 2007 8:22 am | Product Releases | CommentsZarlink Semiconductor Inc. has made available a development kit that enables faster design and evaluation of wireless telemetry systems linking implanted medical devices with monitoring and programming equipment. The ZLE70101 Application Development Kit (ADK) demonstrates the high data rate, ultra low-power supported by the company’s ZL70101 transceiver....
Wide-Bandwidth Video Switch Matrix/Drivers and Transmission Technology in Consumer Electronics
September 27, 2007 6:32 am | Product Releases | CommentsA new transmission scheme for digital video signals paired with current transfer logic (CTL™) will help meet the market requirement for multiple display needs. By Jeff Ju, Fairchild Semiconductor With the strong demand ramping in the automotive accessory market, traditional car DVDs with a single CVBS and mono audio signal output to a single display will be unable to meet the market requirement for multiple display needs (drivers ...
Using Customizable Microcontrollers to Beef up Performance and Cut Power Drain
September 27, 2007 6:21 am | Product Releases | CommentsMPCF technology is being used in existing MCUs with SoC-level integration to create a customizable SoC platform, with the same low unit prices of cell-based ASICs. Tim Kubitschek and Jay Johnson, Atmel Corporation The year-long design cycle for a custom ASIC is often longer than the life of the end-product, which may be as short as six months....
Overvoltage-Protection Controllers with Integrated nFET
September 26, 2007 8:17 am | Product Releases | CommentsMaxim Integrated Products introduces the MAX4943-MAX4946/MAX4949 overvoltage-protection (OVP) controllers with an integrated nFET. These devices provide OVP up to +28 V. They provide overvoltage trip levels from 4.56 V to 8.9 V and undervoltage trip levels from 2.45 V to 4.15 V. Integrating the nFET switch into the devices' 2 mmࡨ mm microDFN package reduces the overall external system component count and required board space....
Low Noise Block Satellite Controllers
September 26, 2007 8:17 am | Product Releases | CommentsZetex Semiconductors announces its ZXNB low noise block (LNB) satellite controllers that integrate all bias, control and power management functions into a single chip, achieving LNB size reductions of up to 30 percent. They minimize PCB size, routing complexity, component counts and aluminum housing size....
Plastic Circular Connectors Meet Demanding Medical Device Requirements
September 25, 2007 11:26 am | Product Releases | CommentsHypertronics Corporation has expanded their patent pending HyperGrip product line. The product line now offers more configurations, including connectors with 20 (HG3), 34 (HG4), or 85 (HG6) pin positions to complement the growing 12-pin position connector (HG2). Designed specifically for the medical industry, HyperGrip is a user-configurable circular connector which is color-coded and customer key-able for accurate and quick connections on ...
