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December 2015
Energy Dept awards $10.5M for next-gen marine energy
The Energy Department announced six organizations selected to receive up to $10.5 million to support the design and operation of innovative marine and hydrokinetic (MHK) systems through survivability and reliability-related improvements. As part of its MHK technology research and development efforts, the Energy De
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12/29/2015
Everlight introduces low-power color sensor for display apps

CLS-16D17-34-DF6 sensor

Everlight introduces low-power color sensor for display apps
Everlight Electronics, a leading player in the LED and optoelectronics industry, announced the introduction of the company’s first RGB integrated color sensor. Based on CMOS technology and therefore able to operate at a minimum supply voltage of 1.7 volts, the CLS-16D17-34-DF6 adjusts the brightness of
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12/23/2015
IDT teams up with Digi-Key for contest to create wirelessly powered devices
Integrated Device Technology and Digi-Key Electronics announced a new contest that seeks the most innovative use of IDT’s wireless power technology. The contest asks electronics experts and tinkerers alike to proffer creative ways to incorporate wireless charging capabilities into products by using IDT’s 5W kit
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12/23/2015
KOA Speer introduces high-power 0612-size low-ohm resistor

WU73 1-Watt wide-terminal low-ohm chip resistor

KOA Speer introduces high-power 0612-size low-ohm resistor
KOA Speer Electronics introduced the WU73 1-Watt wide-terminal low-ohm chip resistor in an 0612 package. The WU73 is a precision resistor offering resistance values from 10mΩ to 100mΩ with a standard tolerance of ±1%. The WU73 chip resistor features wide side electrodes which provide better heat dissipati
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12/22/2015
SiTime’s MEMS-based timing solutions now at Ineltro Halmer Electronics
Ineltro Halmer Electronics, the largest privately owned electronic components distributor in Austria, announced the signing of a distribution agreement with SiTime Corporation, a MEMS and analog semiconductor company and a wholly owned subsidiary of MegaChips. Under this agreement, Ineltro Halmer Electronics wi
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12/21/2015
STMicros’ latest digital power amplifiers for car audio simplify system design

FDA801/FDA801B 4-channel class-D[1] amplifier

STMicros’ latest digital power amplifiers for car audio simplify system design
STMicroelectronics, a semiconductor leader serving customers across the spectrum of electronics applications, is extending its lead in digital automotive-audio technologies by launching a second generation of power amplifiers that simplify design for car-radio system suppliers and deliver better listening experiences to
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12/21/2015
Microchip claims first LoRa Alliance Certification
Microchip Technology, a leading provider of microcontroller, mixed-signal, analog and Flash-IP solutions, announced that its RN2483 LoRa module is the world’s first to pass the LoRa Alliance’s LoRaWAN Certification Program. The RN2483 module was independently tested by Espotel’s accredited test laboratory to
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12/18/2015
Linear's latest 6A synchronous step-down converter enables ±25% margining with 0.1% resolution

LTC3815 6A monolithic synchronous step-down DC/DC converter

Linear's latest 6A synchronous step-down converter enables ±25% margining with 0.1% resolution
Linear Technology announced the LTC3815, a high efficiency 6A monolithic synchronous step-down DC/DC converter with an I²C-based PMBus interface for digital power system management (PSM). The LTC3815’s simplified and intuitive PMBus “Lite” command set makes it simple to use. The digital interface provides pro
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12/18/2015
OSU-Cascades earns nation’s fourth accredited energy systems engineering degree
The rapidly expanding energy systems engineering degree at Oregon State University – Cascades has become only the fourth of its kind in the nation to receive full accreditation from ABET, the body that accredits college and university programs in applied science, computing, engineering and engineering technology. Accreditation recognize
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12/17/2015
ZigBee and EnOcean Alliances collaborate to advance next-generation IoT
The ZigBee Alliance, a non-profit association of organizations creating open, global standards that define the Internet of Things (IoT) for use in consumer, commercial and industrial applications, today announced with the EnOcean Alliance, a leading consortium for battery-less, wireless smart buildings and smart ho
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12/17/2015
Intersil's high-efficiency, highly-integrated 8A and 3A synchronous buck regulators target point-of-load apps

Intersil's DC/DC converters step-down 5V rails to point-of-load

Intersil's high-efficiency, highly-integrated 8A and 3A synchronous buck regulators target point-of-load apps
Intersil, a leading provider of innovative power management and precision analog solutions, announced five new highly integrated synchronous buck regulators that step-down 5V rails to point-of-load (POL) inputs as low as 0.6V for FPGAs, DSPs and microprocessors. The feature-rich ISL8018 delivers up to 8A of co
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12/16/2015
AVX partners with Mouser to empower autonomous vehicle innovation

Empowering Innovation Together program

AVX partners with Mouser to empower autonomous vehicle innovation
AVX, a leading manufacturer of passive components and interconnect solutions, has teamed up with Mouser Electronics, celebrity engineer Grant Imahara, and several other visionaries within the global electronics industry to launch a Driverless Cars Series for Mouser’s award-winning Empowering Innovation Together pr
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12/15/2015
Semtech and STMicro collaborate to scale LoRa technology

LoRa ecosystem

Semtech and STMicro collaborate to scale LoRa technology
Semtech, a leading supplier of analog and mixed-signal semiconductors, and STMicroelectronics, a global semiconductor leader serving customers across the spectrum of electronics applications, today announced an agreement on Semtech’s LoRa long-range wireless RF technology. ST intends to use the technology to
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12/14/2015
Paper Battery's PowerResponder hybrid supercapacitor meets highest environmental and product-safety standards

PowerResponder hybrid super capacitors are available in sizes from 90F to 9000F

Paper Battery's PowerResponder hybrid supercapacitor meets highest environmental and product-safety standards
Paper Battery Company, developer of an innovative supercapacitor-based energy storage and battery enhancement technology, announced the completion of UL certification for its PowerResponder product line. PowerResponder is a line of new hybrid supercapacitors with technology enhancements that aim to replace traditional li
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12/14/2015
Microsemi joins OpenPOWER Foundation
Microsemi, a leading provider of semiconductor solutions differentiated by power, security, reliability and performance, announced the company has joined the OpenPOWER Foundation, an open technical membership organization based on IBM’s POWER microprocessor architecture founded in 2013 to enable data centers to
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12/14/2015
Phihong releases its smallest PoE midspans

15W single port PoE midspan

Phihong releases its smallest PoE midspans
Phihong USA, a leader in the development of Power over Ethernet (PoE) technology solutions, has released a new series of volumetrically compact 15W single port PoE midspans designed to power IEEE802.3af compliant applications, including: IP telephones, wireless network access points, and security cameras. Currently av
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12/14/2015
The impending boom in automotive IoT
Alex Tan, Marvell

The past 15 years have seen a massive shift in the way consumers communicate, not only with each other, but with the devices around them. There has been a vast array of wireless technologies introduced that aimed to connect devices and people. These connections ultimately became the foundation for the ever-evolving In
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12/13/2015
Core loss modeling part III
Dr. Ray Ridley, Ridley Engineering

The first two parts of this article showed how the core losses for real waveforms could be modeled better. In the first part, a continuous expression was used to model a wide range of excitations. In the second part, the effect of duty cycle on the loss of the core material was included in a single equation. In
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12/13/2015
Stuck in a car

Alix Paultre, Editorial Director, PSD

Stuck in a car
Alix Paultre, Editorial Director, PSD

Almost all of us have spent a large amount of their lives in a car. From being ferried from the hospital at both, to school as a child, or to work (and if you are lucky, vacation) as an adult. (You could say that the car made moot the riddle of the Sphinx.) People have been conceived, born, and died in cars si
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12/13/2015
ByteSnap Design’s top electronics predictions for 2016
Ranbir Sahota

Connected home of the future approaches - slowly The Internet of Things (IoT) push will continue for manufacturers – in 2016, this will still be a technology push rather than a consumer pull. However we’re witnessing an increasing interest in home automation; our electronics design team has been involved in
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12/11/2015
element14 launches Music Tech Design Challenge
element14, a leading electronic design community, has launched its latest Design Challenge – the Music Tech Challenge. Sponsored by BeagleBoard.org Foundation and CadSoft, element14 challenges Community members to build a musical device that can enable and extend the ability to manipulate audio. “With a topic a
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12/10/2015
PCIM Europe 2016 to extend a special newcomer welcome
There will be a new highlight for first-time exhibitors at PCIM Europe 2016: The “Newcomer Pavilion”, providing a cost-efficient way for first-time exhibitors to present themselves at the international leading exhibition and conference for power electronics, intelligent motion, renewable energy and energy ma
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12/10/2015
Imec boosts performance of beyond-silicon devices

TEM of complete gate-all-around InGaAs Nanowire FET and HRTEM of the gatestack

Imec boosts performance of beyond-silicon devices
 International Electron Devices Meeting 2015 (IEDM) – Dec. 9, 2015—At this week’s IEEE IEDM conference, nano-electronics research center imec demonstrates record enhancement of novel InGaAs Gate-All-Around (GAA) channel devices integrated on 300mm Silicon and explores emerging tunnel devices based on
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12/10/2015
Rutronik and Toshiba expand distribution agreement

Klaus Michel, General Manager at Toshiba (left)
Thomas Ulinski, Marketing Director Semiconductors at Rutronik (right)

Rutronik and Toshiba expand distribution agreement
Rutronik Elektronische Bauelemente and Toshiba Electronics Europe have expanded their pan-European distribution agreement to the entire Toshiba Semiconductor and Storage portfolio. Embedded NAND flash memory, discrete semiconductors and system LSI as well as Bluetooth and TransferJet solutions from Toshiba will be
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12/09/2015
Renesas' on-chip SRAM enables real-time imaging in autonomous cars

The new SRAM is optimized for use as video buffer memory in automotive infotainment SoCs

Renesas' on-chip SRAM enables real-time imaging in autonomous cars
Renesas Electronics, a premier supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, announced its successful development of a new dual-port on-chip static random access memory (SRAM) for in-vehicle infotainment system-on-chips (SoCs) in the 16 nanometer (nm) and later generations. The new SRAM is optimized for use as
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12/09/2015
French researchers develop sodium-ion battery prototype

Prototype of a sodium-ion battery

French researchers develop sodium-ion battery prototype
Laure Cailloce

A prototype of a sodium-ion battery has just been revealed by the RS2E, a French network bringing together researchers and industrial actors. This technology, inspired by the lithium-ion batteries already used in portable computers and electric vehicles, could lead to the mass storage of intermittent renewable en
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12/09/2015
TI unveils industry's first industrial drive control SoC at SPS-IPC Drives 2015 (PSDtv)
In this episode of PSDtv Texas Instruments explains their latest industrial drive control solution for Power Systems Design at SPS-IPC Drives 2015. Presented as the industry's first on-chip solution supporting both analog and digital position sensors, the new TMS320F28379D and TMS320F28379S microcontrollers (M
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12/08/2015
Leti's local-strain techniques in FD-SOI fabrication to improve next-gen performance & energy use

Stress profile from 2D Raman extractions for Si MESAs after BOX creep process with 50 nm thick SiN

Leti's local-strain techniques in FD-SOI fabrication to improve next-gen performance & energy use
CEA-Leti announced it has developed two techniques to induce local strain in FD-SOI processes for next-generation FD-SOI circuits that will produce more speed at the same, or lower, power consumption, and improve performance. The local-strain solutions are dual-strained technologies: compressive SiGe for PF
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12/08/2015
A blink replaces the double-click for mobile eye tracking devices

The Synios IRED from Osram

A blink replaces the double-click for mobile eye tracking devices
The new super low-profile Synios IRED from Osram Opto Semiconductors sets a new standard for eye tracking in mobile devices. Currently the most compact infrared LED (IRED) in the high-power class, its low height is of particular benefit in smartphones and tablets because its high optical output of 1200 mW (typ.) an
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12/08/2015
Texas Instruments explains their Industry 4.0 Gateway Demo at SPS-IPC 2015 (PSDtv)
In this episode of PSDtv Texas Instruments explains their Industry 4.0 Gateway Demo at SPS-IPC 2015 for Power Systems Design. TI's Programmable-Realtime Unit Industrial Communications Subsystem (PRU-ICSS) enables the integration of real-time industrial communications protocols on-chip and eliminates the need for an ex
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12/07/2015
Renesas erklärt ihre industrielle Anti-Fälschung Technologie auf der SPS - IPC Drives 2015 (German Language PSDtv)
In diesem Video erklärt Renesas ihre neuesten Lösungen, um ihre Kunden zu gewährleisten, dass sie original und garantierte Teile bekommen hat auf der SPS - IPC Drives 2015 für Power Systems Design. Es enthält Trusted Service Manager (TSM) Technologie von G & D und spezielle Chip- Aktivierungstechnol
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12/07/2015
Ideal Power's latest battery chargers handle a wide range of chemistries

The major battery types supported by Ideal Power chargers include Lithium-ion (Li-on), Nickel-Metal Hydride (NiMH), Nickel-Cadmium (NiCad), Lead-Acid and Lead-Crystal

Ideal Power's latest battery chargers handle a wide range of chemistries
Power conversion specialists Ideal Power offer a wide and versatile range of battery chargers for the most popular battery chemistries used in industrial applications and consumer products. The major battery types supported by Ideal Power chargers include Lithium-ion (Li-on), Nickel-Metal Hydride (NiMH), Nickel-Cadmium (N
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12/07/2015
Electrolytic capacitor lifetime in power supplies
Gary Bocock, Technical Director, XP Power

Electrolytic capacitors are an essential ingredient in AC/DC power supplies, providing high Capacitance x Voltage (CV) and low Equivalent Series Resistance (ESR) in low-volume packages that simply cannot be achieved cost-effectively using alternative parts. With power density demands increasing and as the only com
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12/07/2015
LED Back Lighting Dominates Automotive Displays
Tony Armstrong, Linear Technology

Some of the key applications which drove the explosive growth of LEDs used to backlight thin film transistor (TFT) liquid-crystal displays (LCDs) included high definition (HD) TVs, portable tablet PCs, automotive infotainment displays and the myriad of handheld communication devices. However, in order to maintain th
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12/07/2015
Meeting PC Power Titanium specifications at light load
Zhihong Yu, Monolithic Power Systems

For AC/DC power supplies, there is by nature phase differences and distortion between input currents and voltages due to the existence of holding capacitors and various load features. Here, only the instantaneous product of current and voltage produces power that can actually be used by the appliance, and the pow
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12/05/2015
Infineon demonstrates their latest industrial automation security solution (PSDtv)
In this episode of PSDtv Infineon demonstrates their latest industrial automation security solution for Power Systems Design, with a demo running a system using two PLCs and two I/Os, with the system performing security verification and update maintenance at SPS-IPC Drives 2015. Infineon is also a leading fo
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12/04/2015
TI erklärt ihre Industrie 4.0 Gateway - Demonstrator beim SPS-IPC Drives 2015 (German Language PSDtv)
In diesem Video erklärt TI ihrer Industrie 4.0 Gateway-Lösung und die Kompatibilität des Systems mit den neuesten PROFINET und EtherCAT -Protokoll zum Power Systems Design at SPS-IPC Drives 2015. Texas Instruments
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12/04/2015
Assessing next-generation discretes Part II*
Dr. Thomas Barbieri, Wolfspeed, A Cree Company

In Part 1 of this discussion, we explored the functionality of a series-connected avalanche transistor pulser, specifically for the purpose of evaluating dV/dt ruggedness of SiC Schottky diodes. In this issue, the diodes are tested with the new pulser design. SiC Schottky diode dV/dt ruggedness testing With a
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12/04/2015
Texas Instruments zeigt ihre neuesten auf der SPS - IPC Drives 2015 (German Language PSDtv)
In diesem Video Texas Instruments zeigt ihre aktuellen Angebote in Power Managment auf der SPS - IPC Drives 2015 für Power Systems Design. Die Demonstrationen gehören ein High-Power- Smart- 2 kW Batterieladesystem und ihre neuesten Low-Power- Board-Level- DC / DC -Wandler. Texas Instruments
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12/03/2015
Renesas shows an advanced motion-control solution at SPS-IPC Drives 2015 (PSDtv)
In this episode of PSDtv  Renesas shows their latest motion control solution to Power Systems Design at SPS-IPC Drives 2015 using their RZ/A1 Group of embedded microprocessor (MPU) solutions (with subcategories RZ/A1H, RZ/A1M, and RZ/A1L) for creating sophisticated human-machine interface (HMI) implementations.
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12/03/2015
IAR Systems supports Ambiq Micro’s Apollo MCUs targeted for wearables and IoT
IAR Systems announces that the latest version of the complete embedded development toolchain IAR Embedded Workbench for ARM supports the Apollo family of ARM Cortex-M4F microcontrollers from the semiconductor company Ambiq Micro. Since the start in 1983, IAR Systems has been building and expanding a strong
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12/03/2015
FTDI Kickstarter Project NerO provides Arduino UNO R3 compatibility & enhancements

The objective of NerO is to deal with the fundamental drawbacks of the widely-used Arduino UNO R3

FTDI Kickstarter Project NerO provides Arduino UNO R3 compatibility & enhancements
FTDI Chip has always looked for imaginative ways to solve today’s electronics engineering problems. Now it is also experimenting with how to bring new solutions to market - with it latest product, NerO, being introduced on KickStarter. The objective of NerO is to deal with the fundamental drawbacks of the wi
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12/03/2015
Safe at any speed
There is a growing debate on the issue of autonomous, or self-driving cars (let’s call them “autocars”), as people and society begin to re-evaluate and further develop the concept of what the next generation of personal mobility technology should be. Cars are on the cusp of change, as next-generation energy, dr
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12/03/2015
STMicro demonstrates their latest IPM technology at SPS IPC Drives 2015 (PSDtv)
In this episode of PSDtv STMicroelectronics explains their latest generation of IGBT modules and Intelligent Power Modules (IPM) for Power Systems DFesign at SPS IPC Drives 2015. Among the solutions shown, ST’s SLLIMM family of small low-loss intelligent molded modules enhances the efficiency of home app
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12/01/2015
Linear's 5W AutoResonant wireless power transmitter offers foreign object detection

5W AutoResonant Wireless Power Transmitter

Linear's 5W AutoResonant wireless power transmitter offers foreign object detection
Linear Technology introduced the LTC4125, a wireless power transmitter, complementing their wireless receiver ICs for the wireless charging market. The LTC4125 is a simple, high performance monolithic full bridge resonant driver, capable of delivering up to 5W of power wirelessly to a companion receiver. It fu
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12/01/2015
UltraSoC launches Bare Metal Security

Bare Metal Security functionality uses the UltraSoC monitors to watch for unexpected behaviors such as suspicious memory accesses or processor activity

UltraSoC launches Bare Metal Security
UltraSoC today announces Bare Metal Security capabilities, extending its industry-leading on-chip monitoring and analytics to deliver security functionality required in a broad range of embedded products, from Internet of Things (IoT) appliances to enterprise systems. Bare Metal Security features are implemented as
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12/01/2015
Microchip’s MCP9600 integrated thermocouple EMF-to-temp converter now at Mouser

MCP9600 thermocouple EMF-to-temperature converter

Microchip’s MCP9600 integrated thermocouple EMF-to-temp converter now at Mouser
Mouser Electronics is now stocking the MCP9600 thermocouple EMF-to-temperature converter from Microchip Technology. The MCP9600 is presented as the first thermocouple-conditioning integrated circuit to combine precision instrumentation, a precision temperature sensor and a precision, high-resolution analog-to-digital co
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12/01/2015
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