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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

Three-row 25Gbs board-to-board connector deals with more data throughput

ERNI, a leading supplier of connectors and value added services, has expanded its 1mm pitch MicroSpeed high-speed connector system to include a new three-row version. The MicroSpeed connector system features SMT terminals that provide a

ERNI Components | Products | 21-04-2015

AEC-Q200 compliant surface-mount precision current-sense resistors

Stackpole's CSS Series surface-mount precision current sense all metal construction resistors are now AEC-Q200 qualification for all sizes. The established series is known for outstandingly low TCR down to ±25 ppm, tolerances down to ±0

Stackpole | Products | 21-04-2015

High-resolution temperature sensors feature I²C and SMBus

NXP's PCT2202 temperature sensors are now available from Mouser stock. They feature an I²C and SMBus and are capable of reading temperatures at 12-bit resolution (0.0625C) with an accuracy of ±0.5C from 0C to 85C. The PCT2202 is availab

Mouser Electronics | Products | 21-04-2015

Full series of silicon-controlled rectifiers in standard TO-220A packages

America Semiconductor has introduced the ASCT625A Series of silicon-controlled rectifiers (SCRs). The 25A, single-phase SCRs are provided in a standard TO-220A package, and feature a high ability to withstand the shock loading of large

America Semiconductor | Products | 21-04-2015

Industries lowest-current temperature-compensated I2C RTC module

The Micro Crystal RV-8803-C7 is the first temperature-compensated RTC optimized for ultra-low power consumption to replace expensive batteries and super caps with low-cost MLCC capacitors for battery backup operation, says the company. T

Micro Crystal | New Technologies | 21-04-2015