Medical, Healthcare & Wellness

    August 2016
    Power MOSFETs have become the preferred choice as the main switching device within power supplies for a wide range of consumer and industrial electronics equipment. Because it has become more important to improve overall power supply efficiency to meet energy saving requirements from governmental and industry st
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    Date:
    08/29/2016
    Novel lithium-oxygen battery design greatly improves energy efficiency, longevity

    Nanolithia cathode battery

    Lithium-air batteries are considered highly promising technologies for electric cars and portable electronic devices because of their potential for delivering a high energy output in proportion to their weight. But such batteries have some pretty serious drawbacks: They waste much of the injected energy as heat an
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    Date:
    08/25/2016
    Microchip’s cost-effective, low-power PIC32MM MCUs now at Mouser

    PIC32MM Microcontrollers

    Mouser Electronics is now stocking PIC32MM microcontrollers, the lowest power and most cost-effective family of 32-bit PIC32 microcontrollers from Microchip Technology. The PIC32MM family bridges the gap between Microchip’s popular PIC24F XLP and PIC32MX families, and is the first PIC32 to feature core independent pe
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    Date:
    08/10/2016
    SL Power's ME40 supply ensures patient safety

    40-watt ac/dc external power supply

    SL Power Electronics, an industry leader in the design and manufacturing of rugged, highly reliable power supplies, announced its newest addition to its family of medical-grade external power supplies, the ME40 Series. The new 40-watt ac/dc external power supply is specifically designed to meet the unique power req
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    Date:
    08/09/2016
    STMicro reveals ultra-tiny low-dropout regulator in breakthrough bumpless chipscale package

    LDBL20’s bumpless STSTAMP package

    STMicroelectronics has introduced the LDBL20, a 200mA Low-Dropout (LDO) regulator in a minuscule 0.47mm x 0.47mm x 0.2mm chip-scale package that is ideal for wearable and portable devices and for flexible electronics such as multifunction connected smart cards. The LDBL20’s bumpless STSTAMP package breaks
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    Date:
    08/03/2016
    TDKand Tronics Microsystems jointly announced that TDK’s wholly-owned subsidiary EPCOS, a leading manufacturer of electronic components, modules, and systems based in Munich, Germany, and Tronics have signed a tender offer agreement pursuant to which EPCOS will launch a public tender offer for all publicly-held sh
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    Date:
    08/01/2016
    STMicroelectronics, a semiconductor leader serving customers across the spectrum of electronic applications, announced that it has acquired ams’ assets related to NFC and RFID reader business. ST has acquired intellectual property, technologies, products and business highly complementary to its secure microcontroller so
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    Date:
    08/01/2016
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