Product News

December 2010
IRs MOSFETs in New Patented SMD0.2 Package Drastically Reduce System Size and Weight in HiRel Space Applications
International Rectifier launched a family of hermetic radiation hardened (RAD-Hard™) 100V MOSFETs in a new compact, surface mount SMD0.2 package for space applications such as satellite bus power
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12/17/2010
Foster Transformer Unveils Three EMI Filters with Optional Surge Suppression
Foster Transformer now offers three models of EMI Filters with optional surge suppression that can be mounted with ¼" quick connect terminals. This allows them to be mounted wherever needed (including
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12/17/2010
Cree Introduces Industry's First Lighting-Class LED Arrays to Accelerate Indoor LED Lighting
Cree, Inc. announces the industry's first lighting-class LED array. The XLamp® CXA20 LED array is the first lighting-class array aimed at accelerating the LED lighting revolution and can enable a
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12/17/2010
CISSOID introduces MARS High Temperature 30V Small-Signal P-Channel MOSFET
CISSOID, the leader in high temperature semiconductor solutions, introduced a new product in their PLANET family of high temperature transistors and switches. MARS is a High Temperature 30V Small-Signal
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12/17/2010
BEI Kimco Magnetics' New Linear Voice Coil Actuator Features Fully Sealed Housing for Highly Contaminated Environments
BEI Kimco Magnetics, a company of Custom Sensors & Technologies (CST), Inc., has introduced the LA13-13 Linear Voice Coil Actuator featuring an IP64 fully sealed package impervious to water splashes
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12/17/2010
Avagos Industry-First Optical Module Enables Multimode 40-Gbps Ethernet Uplink Applications
Avago Technologies has announced availability of a four-channel parallel optic QSFP+ transceiver module for 40 Gigabit Ethernet applications, here at the Super Computing 2010 conference. The new AFBR-79E4Z
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12/17/2010
Allegros Linear Hall-effect Current Sensor IC
The new ACS711 from Allegro MicroSystems Europe is a Hall-effect linear current sensor IC with a built-in overcurrent fault output that provides economical and precise AC or DC current sensing in
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12/17/2010
Stacos FirstLine P is Ideal for Network Closets, Computer Rooms, and Data Centers
Staco Energy Products Company introduces the FirstLine® P - a parallelable three-phase Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) for 80-125kVA applications. These units boast efficiencies of up to 98%,
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12/17/2010
STMicroelectronics Takes Pressure Sensors to New Heights
From 750m below ground to the top of Mount Everest, smart phones and other portable devices will soon be able to pinpoint their height variation relative to sea level to better than one meter, thanks
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12/17/2010
Positronics Unibody Design: Next Generation Environmental D-Subminiature Connector
Positronic introduced the WD and WDD series environmental D-Subminiature connectors to the industry over 15 years ago. This product has been a popular choice for applications requiring a sealed I/O
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12/17/2010
NXP Unveils 30V MOSFET with Industrys Lowest RDSon
NXP Semiconductors NV unveiled the first MOSFET in the NextPower range with a 30V Power-SO8 MOSFET, featuring the industry's lowest RDSon of 1.4mOhm at 4.5V. The new MOSFET, PSMN1R0-30YLC, is optimized
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12/17/2010
National Semiconductor Debuts MYPVDATA SOC Web Interface; Advanced Analytics Improve Solar Energy Harvest
National Semiconductor Corp. has announced the release of SolarMagic™ MYPVDATA™ Solar Operations Center (SOC). Whereas solar systems today are underperforming due to various conditions, MYPVDATA
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12/17/2010
Murata Power Solutions Introduces Small Footprint Surface-Mount Inductors
The new 2200RM series of bobbin wound inductors from Murata Power Solutions provides a surface mount alternative to the company's well established through-hole 2200R series. Suitable for use in a
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12/17/2010
Maxims 4A, Synchronous DC-DC Regulators with Integrated MOSFETs Achieve 96% Efficiency in 4mm Package
Maxim Integrated Products introduces the MAX15050/MAX15051, low-voltage (2.9V to 5.5V), 4A, synchronous DC-DC regulators in a 2mm x 2mm wafer-level package (WLP). These tiny step-down regulators integrate
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12/17/2010
Linears Power and Speed-Performance Products

Dual 26.5VIN, 8A DC/DC μModule Regulator

Linear Technology Corporation introduces the LTM4628, μModule® regulator containing two step-down 8A DC/DC converter circuits with the inductors, MOSFETs and other necessary components in a 15mm x
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12/17/2010
Dimmable, High Voltage EL Driver from Supertex Ideal for Backlighting Laptop Keyboards
Supertex, Inc. introduced the HV816, a dimmable, low noise, electroluminescent (EL) lamp driver designed to drive large area EL lamps used in backlighting keyboards of notebooks, netbooks, and electronic
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12/16/2010
External 48 & 60 Watt Power Supply Series Meets Latest Energy Standards
XP Power announced the launch of the highly efficient single output AFM series of 48 and 60 Watt external AC-DC power supplies designed for a wide range of IT and medical equipment. The ranges offer
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12/10/2010
Toshiba Electronics launches ultra-compact photocoupler for industrial applications operating to 125C
Toshiba Electronics Europe has announced an ultra-compact photocoupler that will help engineers to address MOSFET and IGBT gate drive requirements in inverters, induction heating designs and other
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12/10/2010
TIs New Motor Driver Evaluation Platform Spins Brushed DC Stepper Motors
Texas Instruments Incorporated introduced the first in a new line of scalable evaluation platforms for spinning motors. The DRV8412 evaluation kit (DRV8412-C2-KIT) includes all of the hardware and
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12/10/2010
Stackpole Provides Low Cost High Voltage Solution in More Case Sizes
Stackpole's RVC Series has expanded to include 0402 size chips with a working voltage of 100 volts, twice that of standard thick film chip resistors. This expansion provides a low cost solution for
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12/10/2010
STMicroelectronics Customizable Modular Motion Control
STMicroelectronics announced an industry first with the unveiling of a customizable high-end motor-control module that is small enough to mount directly on the motor, in addition to providing connection
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12/10/2010
Semtech Delivers Industrys First Smart Current Sink LED Backlighting Platform
Semtech Corp. announced the industry's first smart current sink LED backlighting platform with on-chip digital lighting effects for high-end handheld displays. This new platform incorporates Semtech's
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12/10/2010
Rutronik Stocks Infineons 40V OptiMOS-T2 Product Family in Advanced Trench Technology
The latest 40V OptiMOS™-T2 product family from Infineon offers best-in-class RDS(on) (max. 0,98m at 10Vgs) and highest package current capability up to 100A in TO252-3, and up to 180A in TO263-7 for
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12/10/2010
Premos New Current Sensor Series
After successful introduction of the highest precision and linear current sensors in the industry, the DCT Fluxgate family, Premo is increasing its current sensors product portfolio with as many as
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12/10/2010
Powercast Debuts RF Energy Harvesting Kit for Wireless Battery Charging
Powercast Corporation, a leader in RF-based wireless power and energy harvesting technology, today announced its Lifetime Power® Energy Harvesting Development Kit for Battery Charging. The kit features
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12/10/2010
National Introduces LED Driver with Industrys Best Dimming Performance
National Semiconductor Corp. has introduced a new LED driver with the industry's best phase-based dimming performance for high-brightness light-emitting diode (LED) applications. The LM3450 LED driver
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12/10/2010
Maxims Lowest Cost System Solution for Precision Sensor Measurements in Automotive and Industrial Applications
Maxim Integrated Products extends its line of MAXQ® mixed-signal microcontrollers with the MAXQ7670A, a complete system-on-chip (SoC), mixed-signal microcontroller that integrates all the functions
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12/10/2010
Linears Lowest Power, 16-Bit 125Msps ADCs Reduce Power to 185mW

Complete Family of 16-bit Parallel and Serial Interface ADCs

Linear Technology Corporation introduces three families of low power 16-bit, 25Msps to 125Msps analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) that dissipate approximately half the power of competing 16-bit solutions.
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12/10/2010
MOSFETs in New Patented SMD0.2 Package Drastically Reduce System Size and Weight in HiRel Space Applications
International Rectifier has introduced a family of hermetic radiation hardened (RAD-Hard™) 100V MOSFETs in a new compact, surface mount SMD0.2 package for space applications such as satellite bus
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12/10/2010
IQD's MEMS Oscillators in 1MHz to 800MHz Frequency Range Reduce Lead-Time
IQD has announced immediate availability of a newly developed high frequency MEMS Oscillator. The new IQMS-900 series MEMS (Micro Electro Mechanical Systems) oscillator is available in an exceptionally
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12/10/2010
Ericsson's 100W 1/4 Brick DC/DC Converter Shortens Time-to-Market for Power Radio Applications
Reducing cost and improving efficiency, the topology used in Ericsson Power Modules' PKM4116ND quarter brick DC/DC converter has been highly optimized to lower the number of components while simultaneously
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12/10/2010
Emerson Network Power Extends Modular Chloride MP-NET UPS System
Already offering modular flexibility and scalability, the 98 percent efficient Chloride MP-NET now provides 50 percent more power for the same footprint size. Emerson Network Power, a business
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12/10/2010
ALPS Commences Mass Production of
ALPS ELECTRIC has completed development of its new "EC18A Series", an insulated shaft type encoder for use in dial control knobs of appliances such as washing machines and microwaves. Mass production
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12/10/2010
Analog Devices, Inc. introduces the ADM6305 and ADM6306 dual-voltage supervisors that provide high-voltage threshold accuracy of 1.2 percent for monitoring low-voltage core rails. These new supervisory
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12/10/2010
TI Introduces Integrated USB Charging Port Power Switch
Intelligent host-mode charging power IC provides interoperable, standards-compliant solution to reduce charging time for mobile devices from a USB port Texas Instruments Incorporated introduced
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12/03/2010
Semtech Single-Cell LED and Motor Timer-Controllers Simplify Design of AA/AAA Battery-Operated Electronic Appliances
Semtech Corp. announced the newest devices in its sub-1V mixed-signal LED and motor timer-controller platform for easy, fast and cost-effective design of small, light weight, ultra-low power, battery-operated
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12/03/2010
Rochester Electronics Expands QML Inventory to Include Fairchild Advanced Schottky Technology (FAST) Semiconductor Devices
Rochester Electronics, the world's largest authorized manufacturer and distributor of end-of-life and mature semiconductors, has expanded its inventory and continuing manufacturing services to include
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12/03/2010
Nextreme's New eTEG HV37 Advances Energy Harvesting for Self-powered Distributed Sensors and Sensor Networks
Nextreme Thermal Solutions, the leader in microscale thermal and power management products for the electronics industry, today announced the availability of the new eTEGTM HV37 thermoelectric power
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Date:
12/03/2010
Linears High Efficiency and Transient Protection

2.5A, 15V Synchronous Buck Boost DC/DC Converter Enables a Multitude of Input Sources

Linear Technology announces the LTC3112, a synchronous buck-boost converter that delivers up to 2.5A of output current from a wide range of power sources, including single or multiple cell batteries,
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12/03/2010
IQD Launches Smallest & Lightest Crystal
The latest addition to IQD's comprehensive frequency product range, the CX-18, is believed to be the smallest and lightest surface-mount crystal in the world. Housed in a hermetically sealed ceramic
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12/03/2010
Fairchilds USB-Compliant Li-Ion Battery Switching Charger Shortens Charge Time and Reduces Heat
When charging a single-cell or parallel-cell Lithium Ion (Li-Ion) battery through a USB port or AC/DC adaptor, designers need a solution that provides faster charge times and overcomes the thermal
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12/03/2010
CISSOID Unveils Driver Chipset for Silicon Carbide Switches
CISSOID, the leader in high-temperature and high reliability semiconductor solutions, unveils THEMIS and ATLAS, their power transistor driver chipset meant for high efficiency motor drives and power
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12/03/2010
ALPS Develops
ALPS ELECTRIC has completed development of its new "RS08 Series", a compact slide potentiometer for use in mobile devices for volume or screen brightness adjustment. Mass production commences in November
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12/03/2010
ZMDI Launches Cost-Effective High-Voltage Line Driver with IO-Link Functionality for Factory Automation Applications
ZMDI AG has announced a cost-effective line driver and level shifter IC with a high-voltage I/O channel that meets the physical layer requirements of sensor and actuator systems used in factory automation
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Date:
12/01/2010
External 48 & 60 Watt Power Supply Series Meets Latest Energy Standards
XP Power announced the launch of the highly efficient single output AFM series of 48 & 60 Watt external AC-DC power supplies designed for a wide range of IT and medical equipment. The ranges offer
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Date:
12/01/2010
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