Semiconductors


Development modules provide hardware feature support for microcontrollers with extensive range of connectivity options

The MM900EV development modules, available from RS Components, provide full hardware feature support for the FT90x series of 32-bit microcontrollers in a variety of form factors. The series provides an extensive range of connectivity option

RS Components | 28-04-2016

Integrated high-voltage GaN FET and driver solution enables twice the power density and half the power loss

Texas Instruments announced the availability of 600V gallium nitride (GaN) 70mohm field-effect transistor (FET) power-stage engineering samples. They say they are the first and only semiconductor manufacturer to publicly offer a high-volta

Texas Instruments | 27-04-2016

Automotive bus controlled 16-channel LED sink driver

The TLC59116-Q1, from Texas Instruments, is an I2C-Bus controlled 16-channel LED driver that is optimized for red/green/blue/amber (RGBA) colour mixing and backlight application. Each LED output has its own 8-bit resolution (256 steps) fixe

Texas Instruments | 26-04-2016

Buck converter achieves the high power density and small footprint

Texas Instruments’ TPS54202 is a 4.5V to 28V input voltage range, 2A synchronous buck converter. The device includes two integrated switching FETs, internal loop compensation and 5ms internal soft start to reduce component count. By inte

Texas Instruments | 25-04-2016

Dual asymmetric logic level device optimized for high performance buck converters

Infineon BSG0811ND N-channel OptiMOS 5 MOSFET, available from Mouser, is a dual asymmetric, 4.5V-rated logic level device optimized for high performance buck converters. The device is qualified according to JEDEC1 for target applications. T

Mouser Electronics | 25-04-2016

Fixed-point digital signal processor product family designed for low-power applications

These devices are members of Texas Instruments’ C5000 fixed-point digital signal processor (DSP) product family and are designed for low-power applications. The fixed-point DSP is based on the TMS320C55x DSP generation CPU processor core

Texas Instruments | 21-04-2016

Latest FPGAs offer 35 percent increase in LUTs and 15 percent more I/Os

Lattice Semiconductor has announced the expansion of its award-winning MachXO3 family of FPGAs with the addition of the MachXO3L-9400 and MachXO3LF-9400 devices available in multiple packages. Built in response to customer demand, the ne

Lattice | 21-04-2016

Ultra-low-power microcontrollers combine exceptional energy efficiency and ease-of-use

Mouser is now stocking the KL8x family of Kinetis L Series microcontrollers from NXP. These ultra-low-power microcontrollers combine the exceptional energy efficiency and ease-of-use of the ARM Cortex-M0+ core with the performance, peripher

Mouser Electronics | 20-04-2016

Passive NFC interface designed for home automation and consumer applications

The NXP NT3H2x11 NTAG I2C Plus Connected NFC TAG Solutions, from Mouser, combine a passive NFC interface with a contact I²C interface. They are designed for home automation, consumer applications and are a fast and less expensive solution t

Mouser Electronics | 19-04-2016

IOs with hardware monitoring capabilities and enhanced security features

Microchip Technology SCH332x LPC IOs, available from Mouser, are a product family that have 3.3V operation with an LPC interface that supports 19-33MHz. These IOs include hardware monitoring capabilities, enhanced security features, power c

Mouser Electronics | 19-04-2016

Low power loss, high efficiency surface mount Schottky barrier rectifiers

Diodes Incorporated B1x0Q 1.0A surface mount schottky barrier rectifiers, available from Mouser, are AEC-Q101 qualified, ‘Green’ devices (halogen and antimony free). They feature a guard ring die construction for transient protection and a

Mouser Electronics | 19-04-2016

Compact IGBT gate driver IC with wide input voltage operating range

Available now from Mouser, the Infineon 1EDI EiceDRIVER compact IGBT gate driver IC is a galvanically isolated single channel driver housed in a PG-DSO-8-51 package. The IC provides minimum output currents up to 6A at separated output pins.

Mouser Electronics | 18-04-2016

Low-power battery-operated microcontroller with a robust instruction set

Available from Mouser, the Intel Quark D2000 Microcontroller is a low-power, battery-operated, 32-bit microcontroller with a more robust instruction set than other entry-level devices. It also increases input/output options over other entry

Mouser Electronics | 18-04-2016

High performance current mode LED controller

Available from Mouser, the STMicroelectronics HVLED002 high performance current mode LED controller provides the required features to implement off-line or DC-DC fixed frequency current mode control schemes for LED drivers. Internally imple

Mouser Electronics | 15-04-2016

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