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New 40V regulator family simplifies industrial system design

Adding to its popular PowerBlox family of DC-DC converter products, Exar has introduced a new line of 40V switching regulators. The XR76203, XR76205 and XR76208 are synchronous step-down regulators supporting point-of-load (POL) supplies

EXAR Europe | Products | 23-04-2015

Snap-in aluminium power capacitors in compact packages down to 20mm x 25mm

A new series of miniaturized snap-in power aluminium capacitors has been introduced by Vishay. The range offer high capacitance from 820µF to 47,000µF in compact cases down to 20mm by 25mm. Designed for audio, industrial, and general powe

Vishay | Products | 23-04-2015

Most highly-integrated power management ICs for ultrabooks and tablets

Intersil has introduced a pair of highly-integrated power management ICs (PMICs) that enable the industry’s first credit card-size motherboards for high-end ultrabook and tablet computers powered by 2-cell Li-ion batteries. The single-ch

Intersil | New Technologies | 23-04-2015

New RF analysers offer high performance for spectrum monitoring

Narda Safety Test Solutions has expanded its NRA series of compact rack-mount RF analysers with the introduction of two new ‘RX’ models. Specifically designed for spectrum-monitoring applications they are now available from Link Microtek

Link Microtek | Products | 23-04-2015

New COM R2.1 Type 6 compact CPU module with 5th-generation Intel Core processors

Advantech has released its new COM Express R2.1 Compact Module in Type 6 pin-out module board format. The SOM-6896 is equipped with the latest 5th generation Intel Core Processor on a compact size 95x95mm COM Express, resulting in low powe

Advantech | Products | 23-04-2015

World's first continuous diabetic monitoring solution uses Bluetooth Smart technology

Nordic Semiconductor has announced that leading U.S. blood glucose monitoring giant, Dexcom, is now shipping what Dexcom claims is the world's first commercially-available continuous diabetic monitoring solution with continuous (24x7) remot

Nordic | 23-04-2015

High-current synchronous buck converter for high-efficiency systems

Designed as a high-efficiency voltage-mode synchronous buck converter operating from 4.5V to 21V input and generating output voltages down to 0.6V at up to 15A, ON Semiconductor's high-current NCP3232N synchronous buck converter is now a

Mouser Electronics | Products | 21-04-2015

Tiny piezoelectric sounders suit thin high-density electronic equipment designs

Taking advantage of extensive acoustic and mechanical design technology and high performance ceramics, Murata has developed the smallest lightweight surface-mount piezoelectric sounder family. Now available from TTI stock, s the tiny s

TTI Europe | Products | 21-04-2015

GP module includes all hardware and software needed to evaluate the C5517 DSP

The Texas Instruments (TI) TMDSEVM5517 is a general-purpose evaluation module which includes all the hardware and software needed to evaluate the C5517 DSP, a highly-integrated device in a simple package designed to reduce cost and devel

Texas Instruments | Products | 21-04-2015

Point-of-load DC-DC converters offers output current up to 0.5A

Available now from Farnell element14, Traco Power's range of non-isolated step down point-of-load (POL) DC-DC converters provides devices with output current up to 0.5A. As a result of their high efficiency they do not require heat sin

Farnell element14 | Products | 21-04-2015

Raspberry Pi model A+ board with lower power consumption and more performance

Available now from RS Components, the Raspberry Pi Model A+ is a tiny computer board that's up and running when a keyboard, mouse, display, PSU and MicroSD card with installed OS are added. It is a miniature ARM-based PC which can run

RS Components | Products | 21-04-2015

Non-amplified photo-microsensors feature a compact optical sensor

Now available from Digi-Key, Omron's compact photo-microsensor detects objects or object positions with an optical beam. The transmissive photo-microsensor and reflective photo-microsensor devices are routinely built into machines and eq

Digikey | Products | 21-04-2015

Digital relative humidity sensor in a reflowable compact DFN package

Mouser now stocks the Measurement Specialties HTU21D, a compact digital relative humidity sensor in a reflow solderable dual flat no leads (DFN) package with a 3mm x 3mm foot print and 1mm height. The device provides calibrated, lineari

Mouser Electronics | Products | 21-04-2015

New 1.27mm pitch SM connectors available on tape-and-reel for easy manufacturing

Harwin has announced a quick turn around sample service on its Archer range of 1.27mm pitch M50 and M52 fine pitch board-to-board and cable-to-board connectors which are available on tape and reel packaging for easy PCB assembly. The

Harwin | Products | 21-04-2015