Semiconductors


TVS array thwarts malicious and accidental USB killer attacks

ProTek Devices has launched a TVS array able to guard against malicious or unsuspecting USB Killer attacks that are shown to be extremely costly to organisations in equipment and data loss. The new component allows circuit protection agains

Protek | 29-07-2020

Ultra-low-power MCU with BLE for IoT shrinks BOM costs by up to 33%

Designers of wirelessly connected, coin cell-operated IoT products can now reduce BOM costs by a third while also saving space and battery life with the MAX32666 MCU from Maxim Integrated Products. This ultra-low-power dual Arm Cortex-M4 MC

Maxim | 27-07-2020

Secure and scalable edge-connected platforms accelerate IoT product development

NXP Semiconductors has announced that its Wi-Fi and Wi-Fi/Bluetooth combos and i.MX RT MCU crossover processors are now supported within its MCUXpresso software, which significantly eases product development. With this new level of integrat

NXP | 24-07-2020

Sigma-delta ADC provides precision performance

The Analog Devices AD4115 is a low power, low noise, 24-bit, sigma-delta ADC integrating an AFE for fully differential or single-ended, high impedance (≥1MOhm), bipolar, ±10V voltage inputs. The device combines key analog and digital sig

Analog Devices | 23-07-2020

Wideband RF synthesiser attains low in-band noise and integrated jitter

The Texas Instruments LMX2820 is a high-performance, wideband synthesiser that can generate any frequency in the range of 43.75MHz to 22.4GHz. The high-performance PLL with a figure of merit of –236dBc/Hz and high phase detector frequency i

Texas Instruments | 22-07-2020

Simple to use ADC has an internal oscillator for conversion processes

Texas Instruments ADS7138 12-Bit ADC is an easy-to-use, eight-channel, multiplexed, 12-bit, successive approximation register SAR ADC. The eight channels are able to be configured independently as either analog inputs, digital inputs, or di

Texas Instruments | 21-07-2020

Analog-to-digital converter is an easy-to-use SAR ADC

Texas Instruments ADS7028 12-Bit Analog-to-Digital Converter is an easy-to-use, eight-channel, multiplexed, 12-bit, 1MSPS, successive approximation register analog-to-digital converter. The eight channels can be independently configured as

Texas Instruments | 17-07-2020

Precision comparator provides low-power and high-accuracy

Texas Instruments TLV4011 Precision Comparator is a high-accuracy and low-power comparator with a precision integrated reference. Two external resistors are able to be connected to the input to produce an adjustable voltage threshold down t

Texas Instruments | 16-07-2020

Low-power differential SAR ADCs offer high accuracy and high speed

The devices are high-accuracy, high-speed, low-power ADCs with Easy Drive features that decrease signal chain complexity and power consumption while allowing higher channel density. The SPI-compatible serial user interface is compatible wit

Analog Devices | 13-07-2020

Dual comparator with integrated reference

The Texas Instruments TLV4062 and TLV4082 are a family of high-accuracy, dual-channel comparators providing low power and small solution size. The IN1 and IN2 inputs comprise hysteresis to reject brief glitches, thus ensuring stable output

Texas Instruments | 09-07-2020

Ultra-low-power embedded controller for IoT sensor applications

Renesas Electronics Corporation has increased its RE family lineup of embedded controllers with a new ultra-low-power consumption member based on the company’s breakthrough silicon-on-thin-buried-oxide ( SOTB) process technology and develop

Renesas | 09-07-2020

RS-485 transceiver for power line communication

Texas Instruments THVD8000 is an RS-485 transceiver with on-off keying (OOK) modulation and demodulation built-in for power line communication. Modulating data onto existing power lines enables power delivery and data communication to share

Texas Instruments | 02-07-2020

High-speed communications photocouplers can reduce component count

Toshiba Electronics Europe offers what is claimed to be the industry’s first high-speed communications photocouplers that can work with a supply voltage as low as 2.2V. The devices are ideal for a wide range of applications including PLCs,

Toshiba | 02-07-2020

New low power FPGA in small form factor packages

Lattice Semiconductor Corporation has launched the new Lattice Certus-NX family of FPGAs. The devices lead the general-purpose FPGA market in I/O density, giving up to twice the I/O density per mm2 when compared to similar competing FPGAs,

Lattice Semiconductor Ltd | 02-07-2020

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