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Visit our new Design Center page and enter the Design Center Library. We have added 53 new design tip articles to our existing library. In addition, you can now search the library by subject or key word. Subscribe and get updated design ideas
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2/3/2012
Mouser Electronics, Inc., regarded as a top design engineering resource and global distributor for semiconductors and electronic components, today announced it is stocking components in support of the Wireless Power Consortium’s Qi (pronounced “chee”) global standards for interoperability between wireless
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1/23/2012
MIPS Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq:MIPS), a leading provider of industry-standard processor architectures and cores for digital home, networking and mobile applications, announced today that it has joined the Renesas Electronics SoC Partner Program. Renesas Electronics Corporation, a leading global provider
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1/18/2012
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Enabling designers to cost-effectively incorporate intelligence and remote connectivity into LED lighting designs and get to market faster, Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (NASDAQ: TXN) today announced its new 32-bit TMS320C2000™ Piccolo™ microcontroller (MCU) AC LED Lighting and Communications
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1/18/2012
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Vincotech, a supplier of module-based solutions for power electronics, today announced the release of the latest video clip showcasing flowIPM 1B – the new innovative IPM solution for small power motion control applications. The clip shows the compact design and sophisticated thermal management of this
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1/16/2012
Chroma Systems Solutions, Inc. (CSS) announced today the acquisition of primary assets of Massachusetts-based QuadTech, Inc., an industry-leading provider of electrical safety equipment and systems. CSS, located in Southern California, is a complete solutions provider of power electronics testing instrumentation
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Date:
1/6/2012
Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS), a world leader in software and IP used in the design, verification and manufacture of electronic components and systems, today announced that IC Compiler-Advanced Geometry (AG) drove silicon success for GLOBALFOUNDRIES’ first major 20 nanometer (nm) chip. Recently announced,
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Date:
12/16/2011
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Avnet Electronics Marketing, an operating group of Avnet, Inc. (NYSE: AVT), announced today the launch of their latest development platform for designers implementing motor control systems, the Spartan®-6 FPGA Motor Control Development Kit. Designed in collaboration with Xilinx, Inc., the Spartan-6
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Date:
12/16/2011
I had the great pleasure to meet with Jon Harper, Fairchild’s Market Development Manager. Jon took me through the technology behind the company’s latest innovation which addresses the continuing pressure on manufacturers to reduce standby power in their products. Fairchild is a company known for
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Date:
11/29/2011
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Lattice Semiconductor redefined the low cost, low power mid-range FPGA market with its announcement of the next generation LatticeECP4™ FPGA family, with 6 Gbps SERDES in low cost wire-bond packages, powerful DSP Blocks and hard IP-based Communication Engines for cost- and power-sensitive wireless,
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11/28/2011
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Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (NYSE: TXN) today introduced an integrated circuit (IC) that simplifies the design and programming of spatially-enhanced audio systems for multi-speaker portable products, including laptops, tablets, sound bars and sound docking stations. The National LM48901 quad
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Date:
11/16/2011
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With the challenges and pressures to deliver on time and within spec first time; a scenario that all designers now find themselves in, it is imperative that a high quality design reference is close at hand.
Dr Ray Ridley is an industry Guru and has trained and advised new and seasoned engineers
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Date:
11/15/2011
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Designers facing the challenge of designing a flyback circuit for their applications’ power supply just had their job made easier. Fairchild Semiconductor (NYSE: FCS), a leading global supplier of high performance power and mobile products, has launched Power Supply WebDesigner (PSW) – an easy to use,
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Date:
11/5/2011
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MAX17047 measures Li+ battery SOC with higher accuracy than traditional coulomb counters
Maxim Integrated Products (NASDAQ: MXIM) introduces the MAX17047 fuel gauge for single-cell Li+ battery packs. Featuring the company's new ModelGauge™ m3 algorithm, the MAX17047 is the industry's only coulomb-counting fuel gauge that does not suffer from the abrupt corrections that occur with traditional
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Date:
10/30/2011
Mouser Electronics, Inc., regarded as a top design engineering resource and global distributor for semiconductors and electronic components, today announced a partnership with SEGGER to deliver embedded development tools to design engineers worldwide.
With this agreement in place, design engineers
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Date:
10/23/2011
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SemiSouth Laboratories, Inc., the leading manufacturer of silicon carbide (SiC) transistor technology for high-power, high-efficiency, harsh-environment power management and conversion applications, has announced the SGDR2500P2, a dual-output, two-stage, opto-isolated gate driver board intended for
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Date:
10/21/2011
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International Rectifier has expanded its online design tool for the SupIRBuck® family of integrated point-of-load voltage regulators to include new devices utilizing hysteretic constant on-time (COT) control designed to offer improved light load efficiency.
The user friendly, interactive, web-based
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Date:
10/20/2011
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Linear's HQ in Milpitas, California
I had the great pleasure to talk with Bob Dobkin, Vice President, Engineering, Chief Technical Officer and Co-Founder of Linear Technology. Founded 30 years ago, the company commemorated three decades of innovation in analog integrated circuits.
At the time of its formation, it was the dawn of
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Date:
10/5/2011
Rogers Corporation’s (NYSE:ROG) Advanced Circuit Materials Division (ACMD) will display its high-performance circuit-material solutions October 11-13 at the 2011 European Microwave Week exhibition in Manchester, UK. Rogers will also take part in the technical conference, as Rogers ACMD’s Market Development
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Date:
10/3/2011
American Lighting, an innovative manufacturer and distributor of lighting technologies for residential, commercial and specialty markets, announced today its American Lighting Partner Program, a comprehensive set of hands-on educational tools available to American Lighting distributors and resellers.
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Date:
10/3/2011
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ZMD AG (ZMDI), a global supplier of energy-efficient analog and mixed-signal solutions for automotive, information technology, industrial, and medical applications enters the smart power management market with the launch of a configurable true-digital, high-performance PWM controller for non-isolated
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Date:
9/29/2011
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Powervation Ltd., the pioneer in adaptive digital power management IC solutions that increase system efficiency, improve field reliability, and accelerate time to market, has joined forces with Murata Power Solutions to co-develop a new reference design for Murata Power Solution’s 45 A Power Block.
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Date:
9/29/2011
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Continuing to empower developers with leading ARM®-based embedded processing solutions, Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (NYSE: TXN) today announced the new low power, floating-point Stellaris® Cortex™-M4F microcontroller generation.
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Date:
9/29/2011
Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS), a world leader in software and IP used in the design, verification and manufacture of electronic components and systems, today announced advances in its Galaxy™ Implementation Platform with the availability of its unified solution for mixed-signal designs. The new unified
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Date:
9/29/2011
Atmel® Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML) today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Advanced Digital Design, S.A. ("ADD Semiconductor"), a privately held company based in Zaragoza, Spain that develops power line communication solutions. The transaction is subject to customary closing
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Date:
9/29/2011
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Intersil Corporation (NASDAQ Global Select: ISIL) today expanded its portfolio of industry leading multi-phase DC/DC controllers by introducing the ISL95835 and ISL95837. Both controllers provide a complete low cost solution for CPU and GPU core power while delivering best-in-class transient response
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Date:
9/22/2011
Avnet Electronics Marketing Americas, a business region of Avnet, Inc. (NYSE: AVT), announces today that it will distribute Carling Technology, one of the world’s largest manufacturers of mechanical rocker and toggle switches, within the Americas. Strengthening Avnet’s interconnect, passive and electromechanical
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Date:
9/16/2011
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Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (NYSE: TXN) today expanded its 1.8-V, rail-to-rail input and output, general purpose operational amplifier (op amp) portfolio with the first in a new line of op amps for low-voltage, battery-powered, cost-sensitive industrial, consumer and medical applications. The
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Date:
9/13/2011
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Efficient Power Conversion Corporation (EPC) introduces the EPC9006 development board to make it easier for engineers to start designing with a 100 V enhancement-mode gallium nitride (eGaN) field effect transistor (FET) in applications such as high-speed DC-DC power supplies, point-of-load converters,
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Date:
9/13/2011
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Lattice Semiconductor Corporation (NASDAQ: LSCC) today announced that, following the publication and widespread adoption of its Power 2 You guide to power management, Lattice is launching the worldwide Power 2 You Seminar Series in October 2011. The seminar will include comprehensive practical and
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Date:
9/13/2011
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Future Electronics is pleased to announce its newly designed website, launched on Saturday, August 20th, after months of design changes and software improvements.
The new site achieves a number of goals, the first and highest of which is a significant increase in speed with search results returning
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Date:
9/12/2011
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RS Components (RS) the world's leading high service distributor of electronics and maintenance products and the trading brand of Electrocomponents plc (LSE:ECM), has established a new 'Connectivity Hub' portal on its website to provide electronics design engineers, technical managers and students with
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Date:
9/11/2011
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Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (NYSE: TXN) today introduced the industry’s smallest single-wire I/O expander with self-timed, single-wire (STSW) technology from Texas Instruments. The TCA5405 allows system designers to control and expand outputs to as many as five, using a single processor general
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Date:
9/10/2011
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Semtech Corp. (Nasdaq: SMTC), a leading supplier of analog and mixed-signal semiconductors, today launched the first device in its innovative platform of phase-shifted boost LED drivers. The new SC5010 is an 8-channel white LED driver with an innovative PWM phase-shift dimming control that uses very
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Date:
9/8/2011
Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS), a world leader in software and IP used in the design, verification and manufacture of electronic components and systems, and Achronix Semiconductor, builder of high density and ultra-fast field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), today announced a multi-year extension of
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Date:
9/6/2011
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SEMIKRON, global leader in power electronic systems, goes live with its new power electronics knowledge platform. The knowledge platform www.powerelectronics-base.com excerpts, in both German and English, from the Power Electronics Application Manual, a valuable power electronics reference for amateurs
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Date:
9/5/2011
Mouser Electronics, Inc., regarded as a top design engineering resource and global distributor for semiconductors and electronic components, today announced that it has partnered with MikroElektronika to help grow MikroElektronika’s North American market and bring their line of development systems and
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Date:
9/5/2011
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TDK-EPC, a group company of the TDK Corporation, presents the comprehensive EPCOS Data Book for SIOV Metal Oxide Varistors (2011 edition) with many product innovations. Detailed and clearly presented technical information helps developers select the right varistors for almost any application. In addition
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Date:
9/1/2011
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Microchip Technology Inc., a leading provider of microcontroller, analog and Flash-IP solutions, today announced the MCP1754/MCP1754S low dropout regulators (LDOs). The devices feature a high PSRR of 70 dB at 1 kHz (typical), and a maximum output current of 150 mA at +125 degrees Celsius junction temperature.
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Date:
9/1/2011
Microsemi Corporation (Nasdaq: MSCC), a leading provider of semiconductor solutions differentiated by power, security, reliability and performance, today announced the availability of its cost-optimised SmartFusion® customisable system-on-chip (cSoC) device. The A2F060, available in commercial and industrial
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Date:
9/1/2011
Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (NYSE: TXN), the industry leader in highly integrated wireless connectivity solutions, today launched ten Bluetooth® low energy technology (Bluetooth v4.0) profiles with associated sample applications to boost market development of Bluetooth low energy-compliant sensor
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Date:
8/31/2011
Mouser Electronics, Inc., regarded as a top design engineering resource and global distributor for semiconductors and electronic components, today announced the release of a new Product Knowledge Center (PKC) technology training site devoted to the communication bus technology USB 3.0 SuperSpeed, its
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Date:
8/30/2011
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Newnes, an imprint of Elsevier Science & Technology Books, has published an eagerly awaited “bible” of analog electronic engineering and design by two industry leaders.
Analog Circuit Design by Bob Dobkin & Jim Williams is a comprehensive source book of circuit design solutions that will aid systems
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Date:
8/29/2011
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Power Integrations Releases Compact 25-Watt LED Lighting Ballast Reference Design Sized for T8 Tubes
Power Integrations (Nasdaq: POWI), the world leader in LED driver ICs for general lighting applications, today published a new reference design for a 25-watt LED T8 tube ballast power supply. Notable for industry-leading efficiency of greater than 91%, the design (DER-287) also meets commercial requirements
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Date:
8/29/2011
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Maxim Integrated Products (NASDAQ: MXIM) introduces the MAX13256, an H-bridge transformer driver with a wide input-voltage range for isolated power supplies. Using this simple solution, engineers can quickly design a highly efficient (up to 90%)
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Date:
8/29/2011
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Ericsson Power Modules has launched a new application, or ‘app’, for Android smartphones that delivers easy access to real-time strategic information on the latest advanced power technologies available from the company.
The new Power Modules app has been designed to keep Power Modules’ customers informed,
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Date:
8/29/2011
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Efficient Power Conversion Corporation (www.epc-co.com) announces the introduction of the EPC2014 as the newest member of EPC’s second-generation enhanced performance eGaN FET family. The EPC2014 is environmentally friendly; being lead free, RoHS-compliant (Restriction of Hazardous Substances), and
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Date:
8/27/2011
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Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (NYSE:TXN) today announced the availability of its mobile app for the Apple iPhone® and AndroidTM-powered smartphones, making it the first semiconductor supplier to offer both a mobile app and a mobile-optimized website for designers to explore the company’s portfolio
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Date:
8/19/2011
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Nuvation Engineering, a leading provider of electronic product development services, has recently moved into a new product design center in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. The new facility features a larger design and development lab that enhances Nuvation's engineering capabilities and increases its electronics
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Date:
8/18/2011
Mouser Electronics, Inc., regarded as a top design engineering resource and global distributor for tools and test equipment, today publicized its new international distribution agreement with LeCroy, a leading provider of oscilloscopes, protocol analyzers and related test and measurement products.
Adding
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Date:
8/18/2011
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Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (NYSE: TXN) today introduced the industry’s first zero-drift, 36-V operational amplifier (op amp). Compared to the competition, the dual-channel OPA2188 provides a 4x improvement in offset voltage drift, 60 percent improvement in initial offset voltage and twice the
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Date:
8/17/2011
Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (NYSE:TXN) today introduced its PowerLab library, the industry’s most extensive collection of tested power management reference designs. The PowerLab library helps designers select from more than 300 power management reference designs for a wide range of applications
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8/13/2011
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RS Components (RS) the world's leading high service distributor of electronics and maintenance products and the trading brand of Electrocomponents plc (LSE:ECM), has celebrated the first anniversary of its online DesignSpark electronics design community and resource centre, and its free DesignSpark
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Date:
7/29/2011
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TDK-EPC, a group company of the TDK Corporation, has intensified its support of STMicroelectronics, one of the world’s largest semiconductor companies, in the creation of tested energy-saving solutions for their customers’ applications. ST just recently completed the development of the 50th joint reference
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Date:
7/29/2011
Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS), a world leader in software and IP for semiconductor design, verification and manufacturing, today announced the availability of enhancements to its LightTools® illumination design and analysis software, acquired as part of Synopsys’ acquisition of Optical Research Associates
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Date:
7/28/2011
Microsemi Corporation (Nasdaq: MSCC), a leading provider of semiconductor solutions differentiated by power, security, reliability and performance, today announced its award-winning SmartFusion® customizable system-on-chip (cSoC) devices are now supported by FreeRTOSTM (www.freertos.org), a scale-able
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7/27/2011
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Integrated Device Technology, Inc. (IDT®; NASDAQ: IDTI), the Analog and Digital Company™ delivering essential mixed-signal semiconductor solutions, today announced that it has developed a power savings and performance enhancement architecture for high frequency voltage regulator designs targeted at
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7/26/2011
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Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (NYSE:TXN) today introduced a 3-MHz, 100-mA synchronous step-down DC/DC converter, which integrates a bypass switch and a unique DCS-Control technology. The new device extends battery run-time by 20 percent in low-power wireless and MSP430™ MCU-based applications,
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Date:
7/26/2011
The Call for Papers PCIM Europe 2012 is now open. The deadline for abstract submissions (previously unpublished presentations only) is 14 October 2011. The event is Europe’s number one meeting place for all fields of Power Electronics, Intelligent Motion and Power Quality/Energy Management.
Lectures
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Date:
7/25/2011
Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS), a world leader in software and IP for semiconductor design, verification and manufacturing, today announced that Ricoh Company Ltd., a global leader in imaging devices and industry products, has adopted Processor Designer for custom digital signal processor (DSP) design.
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7/23/2011
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International Rectifier, IR® (NYSE: IRF), a world leader in power management technology, today announced the availability of a CD-based Microelectronic Relay (MER) Designers Manual featuring a selection guide, application notes, datasheets and design tips on the company’s extensive portfolio of MER
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Date:
7/23/2011
Digi-Key Corporation, recognized by design engineers as having the industry’s broadest selection of electronic components available for immediate shipment, offers electronic engineers and procurement professionals the most comprehensive user experience on the World Wide Web.
“Ensuring a positive
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7/22/2011
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National Semiconductor Corp. (NYSE:NSM) introduced a family of analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) that are the industry’s first to directly sample RF signals beyond 2.7 GHz, with third-order intermodulation distortion (IMD3) up to -71 dBc and sampling at up to 3.6 Giga-samples per second (GSPS). Watch
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7/13/2011
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Microchip announces the 60 MIPS 16-bit dsPIC® Digital Signal Controllers (DSCs) and PIC24 microcontrollers (MCUs). Based on the next-generation core, the 60 MIPS dsPIC33 and PIC24 ‘E' devices introduce more memory and higher integration compared to dsPIC DSCs and PIC24 MCUs with the previous-generation
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Date:
7/8/2011
TDK and EPCOS presented Mouser with this prominent award in recognition of the highest percentage sales growth for 2011 fiscal year. This is the continuation of an impressive trend of growth over the last several years for the rapidly growing, design-fulfillment distributor.
“We are honored to receive
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Date:
7/6/2011
Mouser Electronics, Inc., a top design engineering resource and global distributor for semiconductors and electronic components, today announced a partnership agreement with LEDiL, a leader in innovative LED lighting optics for high-power and lighting-class LEDs.
Mouser will provide direct access
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Date:
7/6/2011
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I had the pleasure to talk with Parviz Ghaffaripour, President & CEO of California-based Akros Silicon. The company provides leading edge, intelligent energy management ICs. Akros’ disruptive silicon technology makes it possible to integrate multiple ICs, high-voltage isolation and discrete components
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Date:
7/3/2011
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Microchip announces a new series of 16-bit PIC® microcontrollers (MCUs) and dsPIC® Digital Signal Controllers (DSCs) that bring advanced control to cost-sensitive general purpose and motor-control designs. The new devices enable low-cost, sensor-less motor control designs, with support for a wide range
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Date:
6/30/2011
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The 16-bit XC2000 devices for low-end and ultra-low-cost automotive applications enable 32-bit equivalent performance at 8-bit costs i.e. in body control modules (with XC2200), in low-cost airbags (with XC2300) and in low-end engine management designs (with XC2700).
Giving the medium-sized and compact car category access to the safety and convenience applications of the premium segment and enabling their compliance with the strictest fuel consumption and pollutant emission requirements, Infineon Technologies AG (FSE: IFX / OTCQX: IFNNY) today announced the cost-optimized
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Date:
6/25/2011
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STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM), a global semiconductor leader serving customers across the spectrum of electronics applications, has unveiled new resources for customers that will simplify design and speed up development of energy-saving intelligent motor drives for applications such as white goods,
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Date:
6/24/2011
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Enhanced performance, Energy management, and End-user value are the key design objectives of Ericsson's 3E range of digitally-controlled dc-dc converters. The newly-expanded product family comprises two intermediate-bus converters that source up to 240 and 396 W to power a choice of complementary 3E
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6/23/2011
Microsemi Corporation (Nasdaq:MSCC), a leading provider of semiconductor solutions differentiated by power, security, reliability and performance, today announced a design guide for developing next-generation high-voltage, high-power systems based on the company's unique digital radio frequency (DRF)
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6/22/2011
Mouser Electronics, Inc., regarded as a top design engineering resource and global distributor for semiconductors and electronic components, is partnering with Anaren, Inc. to stock its new family of FCC-, IC- and ETSI- compliant Integrated Radio (AIR) modules.
Anaren’s AIR product family incorporates
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6/21/2011
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Atmel® Corporation (NASDAQ: ATML), a leader in microcontroller and touch solutions, today announced the new Atmel JTAGICE3 mid-range in-circuit debugger and programmer to support all Atmel AVR® 8- and 32-bit microcontrollers (MCUs). This new debugger is smaller, faster, and more robust than the previous
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Date:
6/21/2011
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Bernhard Huber, ZMDI business line manager for standard components
ZMD AG (ZMDI), a global supplier of energy-efficient analog and mixed-signal solutions for automotive, industrial, and medical applications, and Power-One, a leading provider of renewable energy and energy-efficient power conversion and power management solutions, entered into a non-exclusive, worldwide,
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6/20/2011
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IDT, the Analog and Digital Company™ delivering essential mixed-signal semiconductor solutions, has announced that Future Electronics is the winner of its EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) Distributor of the Year Award 2010/11.
The award was presented to the Managing Director of Future Electronics
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Date:
6/20/2011
Synopsys Custom Design Solution Enables Moortec Semiconductor to Tape Out High-performance Analog IP
Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS), a world leader in software and IP for semiconductor design, verification and manufacturing, today announced that Moortec Semiconductor Ltd., a mixed-signal IP and semiconductor integrated circuit (IC) provider, has taped out its high-performance analog IP on TSMC’s 40LP
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6/18/2011
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Announced today by Tecate Group, A leading global supplier of capacitors and ultracapacitors, is the availability of custom and standard ultracapacitor cells and modules specifically engineered for today's Automatic Meter Reading (AMR) and smart grid applications. Parts are members of Tecate's UL 810
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Date:
6/17/2011
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VACUUMSCHMELZE GmbH & Co. KG (Hanau) now offers a new Sample Kit comprising a broad selection of their most widely used high-precision current sensors for accurate measurement of DC and AC current. The convenient and easily portable case contains current sensors with integrated electronics for both
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6/16/2011
Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS), a world leader in software and IP for semiconductor design, verification and manufacturing, today announced that it is delivering comprehensive design enablement for TSMC’s 28-nm process technology, integrated manufacturing compliance and an advanced system-level prototyping
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5/27/2011
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Microchip announces its first 30V-input buck switching regulator. The MCP16301 combines a wide input voltage range of 4V to 30V, and a 600mA output across a voltage range of 2V to 15V, with up to 95 percent efficiency. With a high-side switch integrated into the small 6-pin SOT-23 package, the MCP16301
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5/26/2011
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Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (NYSE:TXN) today expanded its DRV8x motor driver family with eight new devices supporting up to 5 A for higher-current bipolar stepper and brushed DC motors. The new DRV8x motor drivers provide RDSon as low as 100 milliohms, more than 60 percent less than the previous
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5/25/2011
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At the Microchip press conference in Munich, Germany, I was fortunate to meet with Vince Sheard, Microchip's MPLAB IDE Software Manager and to see first hand Microchip demonstrate its next-generation, open-source Integrated Development Environment (IDE) with cross-platform support for Linux, Mac
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5/23/2011
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IR’s IRS2548D LED Control IC Increases Efficiency, Simplifies Design and Reduces Overall System Cost
International Rectifier has introduced the IRS2548D Switched Mode Power Supply (SMPS) control IC for energy efficient applications for high power Light Emitting Diode (LED) illumination including LED street lighting, stadium lighting and theatrical lighting.
The IRS2548D, which combines Power
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4/27/2011
Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS), a world leader in software and IP for semiconductor design, verification and manufacturing, today announced thatHiSilicon, a leading fabless semiconductor house supplying end-to-end ASIC solutions for communications networking and digital media markets, has reduced stand-by
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4/26/2011
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Infineon: First Semiconductor Supplier to Offer “80 PLUS® Platinum” Compliant Computing Silver Box Reference Design
Infineon Technologies has developed the first marketable silver box reference design that enables PC and server power supply units to achieve up to 92.35 percent efficiency, while significantly reducing the material costs. Infineon’s solution IFX90ATX300W is based on the latest generation of three ICs
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4/20/2011
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Enabling the world’s lowest power touch sense capabilities on all MSP430 devices, Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (NYSE: TXN) today announced the ultra-low-power MSP430 16-bit microcontroller capacitive touch portfolio. Building on TI's embedded processing expertise, the portfolio introduces new
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4/20/2011
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Analog Devices, Inc. (ADI) has introduced two new data converters designed to deliver the speed and performance at low power necessary for a range of communications and industrial applications. Now available, the AD9434, a low-power, 12-bit, 500-MSPS (mega samples per second) A/D converter reduces
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Date:
4/19/2011
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High Power Charge Controller Interfaces with Any Switching Regulator
I had the recent pleasure to talk with Tony Armstrong, Linear’s Director of Product Marketing for Power Products, about the company’s latest high voltage controller and power manager, the LTC4000, that converts virtually any externally compensated DC/DC power supply into a full-featured battery
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Date:
4/17/2011
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International Rectifier, a world leader in power management technology, today introduced the IR115x family of µPFC™ power factor correction (PFC) ICs for a wide variety of AC-DC applications including lighting, LCD/PDP TV and game console Switch Mode Power Supplies (SMPS), fans, air conditioners, and
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Date:
3/16/2011
Synopsys, Inc., a world leader in software and IP for semiconductor design, verification and manufacturing, today introduced Proteus LRC for lithography verification. Proteus LRC provides comprehensive, process-window-aware checking features to identify locations in a design that are sensitive to process
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Date:
3/10/2011
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Phil Davies, VP Global Sales & Marketing for Vicor
I had the great pleasure to talk with Phil Davies, VP Global Sales & Marketing for Vicor, who has recently joined the company. Vicor Corporation has long been the pioneer in the design, development, manufacture, and marketing of modular power components and complete power systems used by OEMs in
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Date:
3/4/2011
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TESEQ, a leading developer and provider of instrumentation and systems for EMC emission and immunity testing, has released Compliance 5 emission and immunity test software. Compliance 5 is a single, integrated test platform capable of performing all RF EMC testing needs.
The upgraded software
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Date:
2/26/2011
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Power Integrations, the leader in high-voltage integrated circuits for energy-efficient power conversion, today announced that PI Expert Suite Version 8, the latest upgrade to the company’s immensely popular power supply design software, is now available in simplified and traditional Chinese, Japanese,
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Date:
2/26/2011
Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) introduced two power management development kits, which help designers generate the cleanest possible positive and negative voltage rails to power today’s analog circuits. The new TPS54060 and TPS7A30/49 development kits remove switching noise and increase the performance
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Date:
2/25/2011
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National Semiconductor has announced that its award-winning WEBENCH® Designer tools are now available in the Russian language. Worldwide expert and novice electronic engineers as well as mechanical engineers have used WEBENCH to create over 1.5 million analog designs cost-free and quickly since its
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Date:
2/22/2011
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