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Motor Driver from Diodes Incorporated Makes Smarter Cooling Systems

June 12, 2014

Plano, Texas – June 12th 2014 – By enabling the speed of fans, blowers and extractors to be simultaneously controlled by both PWM and thermistor input signals, the AM4964 motor driver helps create more responsive cooling systems for PCs, servers and industrial instrumentation.

A single-phase, full-wave, brushless DC motor driver, the AM4964 operates from a 12V supply and delivers a peak motor current of up to 1A. Motor speed is varied between low and high temperature set-points in response to ambient temperature and PWM input … Read More → "Motor Driver from Diodes Incorporated Makes Smarter Cooling Systems"

Battery Chargers Get Faster and Smaller with Patented Diode Technology from STMicroelectronics

June 11, 2014

Geneva, June 10, 2014 – STMicroelectronics’ new family of Field-Effect Rectifier diodes (FERD) offers a unique trade-off between low forward voltage drop (V_F) and low leakage current (I_R) that allows designers of equipment such as battery chargers and notebook adaptors to meet the most stringent energy-efficiency standard requirements without the expense of using synchronous rectification techniques.

Standards such as Energy Star 6.0 test the limit of what can be achieved with conventional Schottky diodes in … Read More → "Battery Chargers Get Faster and Smaller with Patented Diode Technology from STMicroelectronics"

Microchip Expands SPI Serial Flash Memory Portfolio With New 1.8V Low-Power Devices

June 11, 2014

CHANDLER, Ariz., June 10, 2014 [NASDAQ: MCHP] — Microchip Technology Inc., a leading provider of microcontroller, mixed-signal, analog and Flash-IP solutions, today announced an expansion to its SPI Serial Flash Memory portfolio, with the introduction of theSST25WF020A, SST25WF040B and SST25WF080B devices. These devices offer 2-, 4- and 8-Mbit of memory and are manufactured with Microchip’s high-performance SuperFlash®technology and NOR Flash cell architecture for superior quality … Read More → "Microchip Expands SPI Serial Flash Memory Portfolio With New 1.8V Low-Power Devices"

Imec Reports Record ADC for Next-Generation Software Defined Radio

June 11, 2014

Honolulu (Hawaii) — June 10, 2014 — Nanoelectronics research centre imec will present at this week’s VLSI circuits symposium 2014 (Honolulu, June 13) a low power pipelined SAR (successive-approximation register) ADC (analog to digital converter) in 28nm digital CMOS with record resolution, speed and power performance. The novel ADC targets wireless receivers for next-generation software defined radio, including wireless standards such as LTE-advanced and the emerging generation of Wi-Fi (IEEE802.11ac).
In a software defined radio, the ADC needs high speed, high resolution and high power efficiency in a dynamic solution, supporting high, as well as low bandwidth standards. The … Read More → "Imec Reports Record ADC for Next-Generation Software Defined Radio"

Icon Labs Joins EDGE® Innovation Network

June 11, 2014

West Des Moines, Iowa, June 11, 2014 – Icon Labs (www.iconlabs.com), a leading provider of embedded networking and security technology, today announced that it has joined the EDGE® Innovation Network.

The EDGE Innovation Network is a collaborative, open-environment enabling industry and academia, with government input, to work together to enhance the delivery cycle of new technologies and innovative capabilities to military personnel, law enforcement and first responders. The EDGE network creates and maintains this open environment where members and customers can characterize, develop and deliver new and … Read More → "Icon Labs Joins EDGE® Innovation Network"

1.8V STM32 Microcontrollers from STMicroelectronics Bridge Mobile-Platform Subsystems

June 11, 2014

Geneva, June 11, 2014 – The latest STM32 microcontrollers from STMicroelectronics are specific low-voltage devices that help overcome the challenges designers face when adding a companion chip to a low-voltage host processor. These focused low-voltage microcontrollers connect to the same digital power domain as the host, such as a 1.8V power supply, while allowing on-chip peripherals to operate from higher voltages such as 3.3V, giving freedom from the usual performance trade-offs that come with lower supply voltages.

The STM32F038/48/58/78 and Read More → "1.8V STM32 Microcontrollers from STMicroelectronics Bridge Mobile-Platform Subsystems"

Chassis mount supply provides programmable voltage and current down to zero

June 11, 2014

XP Power today announced the HDS3000 series of 3000 Watt programmable AC/DC power supplies. The series compliments the existing 800 Watt and 1500 Watt versions and comprises seven single output models providing all the popular nominal output voltages from + 12 to + 60 VDC. These highly efficient supplies, up to 93%, allow the output voltage or output current to be programmed from 0 to 105% of nominal output by a variety of means. Digital communication can be made via I2C or RS232 serial interfaces and analog controls include using a 0 to +5 VDC input voltage or by using an external resistor.

Anritsu Company Partners with Elliptika to Create Microwave Teaching Kit for Engineering Students

June 11, 2014

Morgan Hill, CA – June 2, 2014 – Anritsu Company, a global leader in microwave and RF test solutions, announces a partnership with Elliptika to create Eductika, an original and innovative microwave teaching kit for students at colleges and universities. Anritsu’s VNA Master™ series of handheld vector network analyzers is part of the complete turnkey solution that can be used by professors to teach the fundamentals of RF and microwave technologies.

“The explosion of RF and microwave technologies due to the multiplication of wireless services places a great deal of importance on engineering students understanding what happens when … Read More → "Anritsu Company Partners with Elliptika to Create Microwave Teaching Kit for Engineering Students"

Blu Wireless Technology and Bristol University demonstrate millimetre wave at Small Cells World Summit

June 10, 2014

Wireless data connections that exploit millimetre wave radio spectrum (30GHz to 300GHz) are expected to be used in worldwide 5G networks from 2020. Bristol start-up Blu Wireless Technology (BWT) has partnered with The University of Bristol’s Communication Systems and Networks research group to develop this technology and they will demonstrate their innovative work at the Small Cells World Summit in London this week [10-12 June].

Millimetre wave radios use much higher carrier frequencies than those in current systems, such as 4G and … Read More → "Blu Wireless Technology and Bristol University demonstrate millimetre wave at Small Cells World Summit"

Create a power supply board layout in minutes with TI’s WEBENCH® PCB Export

June 10, 2014

DALLAS (June 9, 2014) – Texas Instruments (TI) (NASDAQ: TXN) today unveiled WEBENCH^® PCB Export, a new feature in TI’s online WEBENCH Power Designer tool that engineers can use to quickly create a power supply printed circuit board (PCB) layout and export it to industry-leading computer-aided design (CAD) development platforms. For more information or to start a design, visit www.ti.com/webenchpcb-pr.

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