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Automotive SMD power inductors for powertrain components, focusing on traceability

TAIYO YUDEN has developed an automotive SMD power inductors with an operating temperature of up to 150C. The company has announced the AEC-Q200-compliant SMD power inductor EST1060 with a footprint of 10.1mm x 10mm x 6mm. This product i

Taiyo Yuden | 04-04-2017

Highly integrated synchronous buck regulators offer high efficiency and reliable performance

Intersil has introduced five synchronous buck regulators that step-down 12V rails to point-of load inputs as low as 0.6V for MCUs, FPGAs, memory and peripheral I/Os. The newest members of the ISL850xx family consist of the ISL85014, ISL8501

Intersil | Products | 04-04-2017

SAR ADC offers a new and enabling approach for precision measurement applications

Linear Technology has announced the LTC2500-32, an ultra-high precision 32-bit SAR ADC. The device is a new and enabling approach for precision measurement applications, blending the high accuracy and speed of the company’s proprietary SAR

Linear | Products | 04-04-2017

Next generation of battery gauge determines the amount of charge remaining

Mouser offers the MAX17055 1-cell battery fuel gauge from Maxim Integrated. The ultra-low-power, standalone IC monitors a single-cell lithium battery pack and offers programmable alert functions for voltage, temperature, current, and state

Mouser Electronics | Products | 03-04-2017

RS Components – Free PCB tool used at more than 200 educational institutions worldwide

RS Components has recorded 100,000 users of the educational network licence for the company’s free-for-download DesignSpark PCB design tool. Since the introduction of DesignSpark PCB in 2011, launched simultaneously with the DesignSpark

RS Components | Distributors | 03-04-2017

ESD protection device for automotive high-speed interfaces such as USB 2.0

Texas Instruments’ TPD2S703-Q1 is a two-channel data line short-to-battery, short-to-VBUS, and IEC61000-4-2 ESD protection device for automotive high-speed interfaces like USB 2.0. The TPD2S703-Q1 contains two data line nFET switches which

Texas Instruments | Products | 03-04-2017

Industry and medical approved convection cooled power supplies feature PMBus communication

Excelsys Technologies’ revolutionary CoolX600 Series of 600W convection-cooled modular power supplies is now available with the option of PMBus communication. PMBus offers system builders a standard way to communicate with power convert

Excelsys | Products | 03-04-2017

New accelerometer offers excellent performance and value in a single package

Kionix has released the KXTJ3, a new three-axis accelerometer offering unprecedented value while providing the performance of much a more expensive accelerometer in a tiny, 2mm x 2mm x 0.9mm form factor. CEO of Kionix Inc, Nader Sadrzad

Kionix | Products | 03-04-2017

PMIC reduces solution size by 50% for wearable medical and fitness applications

Designers of primary cell wearable medical and fitness applications can now significantly reduce solution size by 50% and extend battery life with the Maxim Integrated MAX20310 ultra-low quiescent current (IQ) power management integrated ci

Maxim | Products | 03-04-2017

Enhanced power cycling thermoelectric modules provide one million temperature cycles

Laird has improved its advanced PC Series Power Cycling thermoelectric module (TEM) for applications that require high reliability and high volume thermal cycling between multiple temperature set points. The enhanced PC Series is now proven

Laird | Products | 03-04-2017

Complete family of UL 1449 certified power conditioners now available

Crestron is now shipping a complete family of professional-grade UL 1449 certified power conditioners. Rack-mountable, the Type 3 Listed PC-100, PC-200, and PC-300 deliver much more than typical power conditioners. In addition to 120VAC pow

Creston | Products | 03-04-2017

LEDs combine good efficacy and a wide viewing angle in a compact package

Available now from Mouser, the OSRAM DURIS E 2835 LEDs combine good efficacy and a wide viewing angle into a compact 2.8mm x 3.5mm Plastic Leaded Chip Carrier (PLCC) package. The industry-standard footprint of these LEDs makes them ideal fo

Mouser Electronics | Products | 31-03-2017

Closed-loop Class-D amplifier offers optimal mix of thermal performance and cost

The Texas Instruments TAS5782M device is a high-performance, stereo closed-loop Class-D amplifier with integrated audio processor with up to 96kHz architecture. To convert from digital to analog, the device uses a high performance DAC with

Texas Instruments | Products | 31-03-2017

New straight crimp connector housing meets Glow Wire compliancy requirements

Available now from RS Components, the TE Connectivity Universal MATE-N-LOK connector housings are designed to perform to the latest Glow Wire test (GWT) requirement according to IEC 60335-1 and to meet the requirements of UL 94 V-0. These c

RS Components | Products | 31-03-2017